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Show BALLOT TOTALS MADE PUBLIC Popular Vote Cast in 1920 Was 26,759,-708, 26,759,-708, Compared With 18,515,340 in 1916. New York. Interesting comparisons of the popular vote for president in 1920 and 1916 are made possible by official figures of various state election elec-tion canvassing boards, just made public. pub-lic. They show a total popular vote of 20,759,708 for the candidates of seven parties as compared with a total popular vote of 18,515,340 for the candidates of five parties in 191G. The returns from Tennessee alone are unofficial. un-official. The foregoing figures do not include the soldier and sailor vote in New Y'ork state. The total for New York with that vote included would be, Harding, 1,871,167; Cox, 781,238. Harding's plurality over Cox was 7,001,763. Four years ago President Wilson's plurality over Charles Evans Hughes was 591,385. New Y'ork state gave Harding a vote of 1,868,411, his Inrgest return in any one state, as compared with 780,744 for Cox. Ohio, the state of both the llepublican and Democratic candidates, gave Harding 1.1S2.022 and Cox 780,037. Illinois gave litem, respectively, 1,420,480 and 534,-394, 534,-394, and Pennsylvania 1,218,215 and 503,202. The 1920 vote for Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candidate, was 914,869, while in 1916 Benson polled only 585,113. Dr. Aaron Watkins, nominee of the Prohibitionists, polled a total of 187,-. 470, a decrease of 33,036 from the party vote of 1916. The total vote polled by Parley Cliristeusen, Farmer-Labor nominee, was 252,433, all cast in eighteen states. |