Highest percent in your state

[memphis]

What presidential candidate got thie highest percent of the vote ever in your state? Tennessee has not been prone to landslides, but FDR took 68.85% in TN in 1936.

[Verily]

The largest percentage ever was 67.65% for Harding in 1920. The largest percentage in recent times was 65.61% for Johnson in 1964.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

1936:

Presidential Candidate	Vice Presidential Candidate	Political Party	Popular Vote	Percentage
Franklin Roosevelt	John Garner	Democrat	113,791	98.57%
Alfred Landon	Frank Knox	Republican	1,646	1.43%

[King]

FDR got 66.95% in 36, Warren Harding 66.2% in 20, and Herbert Hoover 64.29% in 28.  Those are three biggest in California history.

[Bacon King]

75.04% for Nixon in 1972 is the biggest recent one.

Jackson carried the state with some 96.79% back in 1828.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

John Quincy Adams got to 80.99% in Massachusetts.

Within the last century, LBJ got 76.19% to Barry Goldwater's 23.44%.

[bgwah]

Teddy Roosevelt got 69.95% in WA in 1904.

[Kevinstat]

Maine liked Ike im 1956, when he received 70.87% of the vote.

Data doesn't exist on this site before 1856 but I have read that Ike's 1956 showing set a Maine record for Presidential elections, and it was only a two-way race so it couldn't have set a percentage margin record without setting a percentage record, and I doubt any credible author would call a largerer percentage margin 100+ years before as a smaller margin because the raw vote margin was lower when there were less than as many voters back then.  See https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=2004&fips=23&f=0&off=0&elect=0&type=state for more info, although it might not show up properly if you're not a member.

[memphis]

Maine liked Ike im 1956, when he received 70.87% of the vote.

Data doesn't exist on this site before 1856 but I have read that Ike's 1956 showing set a Maine record for Presidential elections, and it was only a two-way race so it couldn't have set a percentage margin record without setting a percentage record, and I doubt any credible author would call a largerer percentage margin 100+ years before as a smaller margin because the raw vote margin was lower when there were less than as many voters back then.  See https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=2004&fips=23&f=0&off=0&elect=0&type=state for more info, although it might not show up properly if you're not a member.

Your link shows Maine voting 72.03% for Coolidge in 1924.

[Padfoot]

Hebert Hoover took 64.89% in 1928.

The most recent candidate to break 60% in Ohio was LBJ in 1964 when he took 62.94%.  LBJ also holds the record for highest vote margin and is the only winner ever to acheive victory by over 1 million votes. 

Both Nixon('72) and Regan('84) also came very close to breaking 60% with 59.63% and 58.90% respectively.

[nclib]

In the past century...

FDR (1940) 74.0%

[RBH]

Lincoln won 69% in 1864.

Granted, a portion of the Democratic base was busy fighting the Union Army at the time.

[War on Want]

William Jennnings Bryan-78%
William McKinley- 21%

[Nym90]

For Michigan, Coolidge in 1924 had 75.37 percent. Johnson in 1964 took 66.70 percent.

[DWPerry]

Alabama - highest candidate per party

Dem - 1936 FDR 86.38%
Rep - 1972 Nixon 72.43%
IND/3rd - 1948 Thurmond 79.75% (ballot listed as Democrat)
                1968 Wallace 65.86% (ballot listed as Democrat)
                1860 Breckenridge 54.00% (ballot listed as Southern Democrat)

[Erc]

New York:
1964, Johnson (D): 68.56%
1920, Harding (R): 64.56%
1956, Eisenhower (R): 61.19%
2000, Gore (D): 60.21%

2000 is the only non-landslide election in which New York cracked 60% for one candidate or the other.

The best showing for any candidate pre-1920 is McKinley's 57.6% in 1896, followed by favorite son Van Buren's 1836 showing of 54.6%.  (New York was a swing state extraordinaire way back in the day).

[wdecker1]

For my birth state Pennsylvania, the top 5 are:
1. Andrew Jackson 1824, 75.92%
2. Teddy Roosevelt 1904, 68.0%
3. Andrew Jackson 1828, 66.65%
4. Warren Harding 1920, 65.76%
5. Calvin Coolidge 1924, 65.34%

[Kevinstat]

Maine liked Ike im 1956, when he received 70.87% of the vote.

Data doesn't exist on this site before 1856 but I have read that Ike's 1956 showing set a Maine record for Presidential elections, and it was only a two-way race so it couldn't have set a percentage margin record without setting a percentage record, and I doubt any credible author would call a largerer percentage margin 100+ years before as a smaller margin because the raw vote margin was lower when there were less than as many voters back then.  See https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=2004&fips=23&f=0&off=0&elect=0&type=state for more info, although it might not show up properly if you're not a member.

Your link shows Maine voting 72.03% for Coolidge in 1924.

Oops, you're right Memphis.  Too bad, as I liked Eisenhower a lot better than Coolidge (not that I was alive when either was president, or alive even).

[Lief 🗽]

1932
Franklin Roosevelt: 88.06%
Herbert Hoover: 11.35%

1936
Franklin Roosevelt: 87.08%
Alf Landon: 12.31%

1916
Woodrow Wilson: 76.92%
Charles Hughes: 17.45%
Allan Benson: 5.09%

[gorkay]

William Jennnings Bryan-78%
William McKinley- 21%

Wow... what do you think the chances are of a Democrat ever getting 78% of the vote in Idaho again.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Virginia:

1936: Roosevelt 70.23
1932: Roosevelt 68.46
1940: Roosevelt 68.08
1972: Nixon 67.84
1916: Wilson 66.99