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United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1920, in 35 states, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election, on November 2, 1920. Elections took place on September 13 in Maine. In Massachusetts, the governor was elected to a two-year term for the first time, instead of a one-year term. Every governorship ...
Since being admitted to the Union in 1850, California has participated in 43 presidential elections. A bellwether from 1888 to 1996, voting for the losing candidates only three times in that span, California has become a reliable state for Democratic presidential candidates since 1992.
The 1920 United States elections was held on November 2. In the aftermath of World War I , the Republican Party re-established the dominant position it lost in the 1910 and 1912 elections. This was the first election after the ratification of the 19th Amendment , which granted women the constitutional right to vote.
No two elections are alike. But there can be striking similarities, like the parallels between a bitterly fought California governor's race and the Biden-Trump rematch. History says not to count ...
Harding became the first of only two presidential nominees to sweep all of California's counties; the only other one was Franklin D. Roosevelt, the losing 1920 vice-presidential candidate, sixteen years later. Harding's 66.20 percent of the vote was the largest fraction for any presidential candidate in California until Roosevelt won with 66.95 ...
He received the largest number of popular votes ever received by a Socialist Party candidate in the United States, although not the largest percentage of the popular vote. Debs received double this percentage in the election of 1912. [7] The 1920 election was Debs's fifth and last attempt to become president. [8]
The wide-open race to succeed Gavin Newsom as California governor has already attracted a large and diverse field of candidates. ... the 2026 California governor’s race. The election may be a ...
Contests won Hiram Johnson: U.S. Senator from California (1917–1945) Governor of California (1911–1917) California: Defeated at convention: June 12, 1920 [data missing] Leonard Wood: Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1910–1914) Governor of Moro Province (1911–1917) Governor of Cuba (1911–1917) Massachusetts: Defeated at ...