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Show BALLOT TOTALS MADE PUBLIC Popular Vote Cast in 1920 Vas 26,759,-708, 26,759,-708, Compared With 18,515,340 in 1916. New York. Interesting comparisons of the popular vote for president in 1020 and 1016 are made possible by official figures of various stale election elec-tion canvassing boards, just made public. pub-lic. They show a total popular vote of 20,750.708 for Ihe candidates of seven parties as compared with a total popular vote of 18.515,340 for the candidates of five parties in WIG. The returns from Tennessee alone are unofficial. un-official. The foregoing figures do not include the soldier and sailor vote in New York state. The total for New York with that vote included would be, Harding. 1.871.107; Cox, 781.238. Hard'ng's plurality over Cox was 7.001,70:5. Four years ago President Wilson's plurality over Charles Evans Hughes was 591.385. New York state gave Harding a vote of 1.S!S.411. his largest return in any one slate, as compared with 7S0.744 for Cox. Ohio, the state of both the Republican and Democratic candidates, gave Harding 1,182,022 and Cox 780.037. Illinois gave them, respectively, 1,420,480 and 534,-304, 534,-304, and Pennsylvania 1.21S.215 and 503,202. The 1020 vote for Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candidate, was 914 809 while :u WIG Benson polled only 585,11-3. Dr. Aaron Watkins. nominee of the Prohibitionists, polled a lotal of 187,-470, 187,-470, a decrease of 33.036 from the party vote of WIG. The total vote polled by Parley Christensen. Farmer-Labor nominee, was 252,433, all cast in eighteen slates. |