The American Vote
Candidate

Robert M. La Follette

Progressive

Elections
1
Won
0
Electoral votes, all elections
13
Years
1924

Record

Robert M. La Follette: result of each presidential election
YearElectoral votesPopular voteResult
1924
13
of 531
Not computed
minor-party votes not named in every state
Lost

Popular vote is the sum of the sourced state counts, shown only where every state that held a popular vote has one; sums from county returns (1868–1972) can run a few tenths of a point below national totals published elsewhere.

Electoral votesNational Archives, Electoral College results: 1924 (public domain, read 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

Election by election

1924Progressive · Lost

States carried · 1 of 48
Closest states won
  1. Wisconsinby 142,064 · 16.9 pts
Closest states lost
  1. North DakotaCoolidge by 5,009 · 2.5 pts
  2. MontanaCoolidge by 8,262 · 4.7 pts
  3. NevadaCoolidge by 1,474 · 5.5 pts

Margins computed for 48 of 48 states: those with a sourced popular vote that names Follette.

SourceStatistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 4, 1924 (Public domain: a work of the United States government (17 U.S.C. 105), retrieved 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

From the National Archives

Progressive Party candidate LaFollette received 4,822,856 popular votes for President.

National Archives, Electoral College results for 1924, archives.gov, read October 3, 2026. Quoted as published.