100 years ago on this day (1924): on Election Day, incumbent U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, a Republican, carried Kansas with 61.5% of the vote, well ahead of his Democratic challenger John W. Davis, a former congressman from West Virginia, who got 23.6% of the vote in Kansas. Coolidge received the 10 electoral votes from Kansas.
Kansas was among 35 states voting for Coolidge; Davis won a dozen states (all in the South), and Progressive Robert M. La Follette won his home state of Wisconsin.
Coolidge, the incumbent, was running on a booming economy and conservatism, during a time of peace. Davis supported poll taxes, opposed women's suffrage, and believed in strictly limited government with no expansion in non-military fields.
Coolidge taking 61% of the vote in Kansas was the seventh-highest state percentage for Coolidge in the nation.
President Coolidge got 57% of the vote on Sedgwick County; and Coolidge received 66% of the vote in McPherson County.
Coolidge replicated what Harding did in 1920 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, by sweeping all 105 counties in Kansas.
Harper County voted 30% for Davis, his third-highest total in Kansas, but he was still 22% behind Coolidge in that county's tally.
Coolidge became the second vice president to ascend to the presidency and then win a full term (the first was Theodore Roosevelt).