1928 Presidential Election

70,993,000
Voting Age Population
51.9%
Turnout by VAP

Results of the presidential election of 1928, won by Herbert C. Hoover with 444 electoral votes.

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Herbert Hoover's Cabinet

President: Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)

Vice President: Charles Curtis (1929-1933)

Secretary of State: Henry L. Stimson (1929-1933)

Secretary of the Treasury: Andrew Mellon (1929-1932), Ogden L. Mills (1932-1933)

Secretary of War: Patrick J. Hurley (1929-1933)

Attorney General: William D. Mitchell (1929-1933)

Postmaster General: Walter Folger Brown (1929-1933)

Secretary of the Navy: Charles Francis Adams III (1929-1933)

Secretary of the Interior: Ray Lyman Wilbur (1929-1933)

Secretary of Agriculture: Arthur M. Hyde (1929-1933)

Secretary of Commerce: Robert P. Lamont (1929-1932), Roy D. Chapin (1932-1933)

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1928 Candidate Electoral Votes

267 to win
15,004,336 popular votes (40.8%)
Running Mate: Joseph T. Robinson
21,432,823 popular votes (58.2%)
Running Mate: Charles Curtis

The Republicans were identified with the booming economy of the 1920s, whereas Smith, a Roman Catholic, suffered politically from anti-Catholic prejudice, his anti-prohibitionist stance, and the legacy of corruption of Tammany Hall with which he was associated.

State Electoral Votes

Alabama

12

Alaska

Arizona

3

Arkansas

9

California

13

Colorado

6

Connecticut

7

Delaware

3

District of Columbia

Florida

6

Georgia

14

Hawaii

Idaho

4

Illinois

29

Indiana

15

Iowa

13

Kansas

10

Kentucky

13

Louisiana

10

Maine

6

Maryland

8

Massachusetts

18

Michigan

15

Minnesota

12

Mississippi

10

Missouri

18

Montana

4

Nebraska

8

Nevada

3

New Hampshire

4

New Jersey

14

New Mexico

3

New York

45

North Carolina

12

North Dakota

5

Ohio

24

Oklahoma

10

Oregon

5

Pennsylvania

38

Rhode Island

5

South Carolina

9

South Dakota

5

Tennessee

12

Texas

20

Utah

4

Vermont

4

Virginia

12

Washington

7

West Virginia

8

Wisconsin

13

Wyoming

3