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Roaring TwentiesVT · 4 EV

1920

Vermont: Harding carries 4 EV.
Vermont cast its 4 electoral votes for Harding (Republican). National winner: Warren G. Harding (Republican) — Vermont voted with the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Vermont, 1920

In 1920, Vermont awarded its 4 electoral votes to Harding of the Republican party. Vermont ended up on the winning side — Warren G. Harding captured the White House that year.

It marked the 17th consecutive election in which Vermont backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1856. Vermont did not move alone — neighboring New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire broke the same way in 1920. Across the 59 presidential elections Vermont has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican party (33 times). The vote fell within the Roaring Twenties — Republican dominance to the Great Depression.

In the national count, Warren G. Harding took 404 of the 531 electoral votes, against James M. Cox's 127. Warren G. Harding led the national popular vote with 60.32% of the ballots cast.

The 1920 national map
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