New York City has not chosen a Republican president since Calvin Coolidge on November 4, 1924.
Coolidge of Massachusetts ran against Democratic Ambassador John W. Davis of West Virginia and Progressive Party Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin.
In those historic elections, Coolidge won with a decisive majority of 55.76% of the votes against Davis’s 29.13% and La Follette’s 14.55%, a margin of victory of 26.63%.
And New York figured for the Republican rush, as the election results showed that the Big Apple opted for the conservative flag even more than the national average.
Coolidge swept the city’s five boroughs and across the state.
In the 1920s, New York was a Republican-leaning state in part due to the economic boom under Republican leadership, however the 1924 election was influenced by the fact that the conservative Southern Democratic Davis was unattractive to the northern states. , who opposed the Ku Klux Klan and the policies of segregation.
While Coolidge won overwhelmingly in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island, and garnered a large majority of the vote in Queens, in the 1928 election the Big Apple opted for the Democrats, and that has been the tradition ever since.
The 1924 election was the last in which a Republican won New York City in its entirety and the second and last time a Republican presidential candidate won in every county in the state.
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