Election of 1928 – Lykens Valley Results

A colorized photograph of Charles Curtis and Herbert Hoover, taken after they received the nomination of the Republican Party for Vice President and President in the Election of 1928. (Original black & white photo from Library of Congress).

A portrait photograph (colorized) of Gov. Al Smith of New York, who received the nomination of the Democratic Party for President in the Election of 1928. (Original black & white photo from Library of Congress).

The election took place on November 6, 1928. The national result was that Hoover won in a landslide with 444 electoral votes to Smith’s 87. The popular vote was also a landslide, with the Republicans receiving 21,427,123 (58.2%) to the Democrats 15,015,464 (40.8%). Pennsylvania gave all 38 of its electoral votes to Hoover.

On November 8, 1928, the Elizabethville Echo published the vote tallies for Elizabethville and surrounding districts:

	Hoover	Smith
Elizabethville	463	59
Gratz Borough	299	2
Halifax Borough	273	69
Halifax Township	299	26
Jackson Township	180	35
Jefferson Township	42	7
Lykens Borough – East Ward	327	141
Lykens Borough – West Ward	773	124
Lykens Township	271	9
Mifflin Township	131	9
Millersburg Borough – 1st Ward	641	42
Millersburg Borough – 2ndWard	566	41
Rush Township	18	5
Uniontown Borough [Pillow]	138	3
Upper Paxton Township	568	35
Washington Township	290	42
Wayne Township	67	42
Wiconisco Township – 1st Precinct	465	31
Wiconisco Township – 2nd Precinct	395	75
Williamstown Borough – East Ward	573	230
Williamstown Borough – West Ward	464	126
Williams Township – East Precinct	109	46
Williams Township – West Precinct	381	18

There was also a brief explanation of the vote:

With more than four hundred forty electoral votes certain, Herbert Hoover is assured as the thirty-first President of the United States after a most bitterly fought campaign.  Governor Alfred E. Smith, despite this, polled the larges popular vote of any Democratic nominee during the last four presidential campaigns.  Never in American political history was so heavy a vote recorded.

On November 9, 1928, the Lykens Standard published its opinion of the election with the following banner headline and brief story:

HOOVER CHOICE OF MAJORITY

SMITH WORST DEFEATED CANDIDATE IN HISTORY;

RECORD VOTE IS POLLED THROUGHOUT NATION

With substantially more than 444 electoral votes and the greatest Republican victory in history, the people of the United States made their choice for the Presidency, Tuesday, by electing the Hoover-Curtis ticket….

 

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