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1920 Illinois gubernatorial election

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The 1920 Illinois gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1920.

Incumbent first-term Republican Governor Frank Orren Lowden declined to stand for re-election. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. President at the 1920 Republican National Convention.

Republican nominee Len Small defeated Democratic nominee James Hamilton Lewis with 58.78% of the vote.

Primary elections were held on September 15, 1920.

James Hamilton Lewis, former U.S. Senator
Barratt O'Hara, former Lieutenant Governor

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	153,717	85.14
	Democratic	26,827	14.86
180,544	100.00

Oscar E. Carlstrom, Mercer County state's attorney
John G. Oglesby, incumbent Lieutenant Governor
Len Small, former State Treasurer
Edward N. Woodruff, mayor of Peoria

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	377,005	46.49
	Republican	369,103	45.52
	Republican	34,506	4.26
	Republican	30,836	3.74
811,450	100.00

Andrew Lafin

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Socialist	1,859	100.00
1,859	100.00

Len Small, Republican
James Hamilton Lewis, Democratic
Harrison Parker, Co-operative, former president of the Chicago-American Newspaper Company
John H. Walker, Farmer-Labor, national Chairman of the Farmer-Labor Party
John Maynard Harlan, Harding-Coolidge Republican, Independent nominee for mayor of Chicago 1897 and Republican nominee for mayor of Chicago in 1905
Parke Longworth, Liberal
James H. Woertendyke, Prohibition, Prohibition nominee for U.S. House in 1904 from Illinois's 13th congressional district
Lewis D. Spaulding, Single Tax
Andrew Lafin, Socialist, Socialist nominee for U.S. House in 1916 from Illinois's 9th congressional district
John M. Francis, Socialist Labor, nominee for Governor in 1916

Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	1,243,148	58.87%
	Democratic	731,551	34.64%
	Socialist	58,998	2.79%
	Farmer–Labor	56,480	2.67%
	Prohibition	9,876	0.47%
	Independent Republican	5,985	0.28%
	Socialist Labor	3,020	0.14%
	Co-operative Party	1,260	0.06%
	Single Tax	930	0.04%
	Liberal	357	0.02%
		5	0.00%
511,597	24.23%
2,111,605	100.00%
	Republican hold

1920 Illinois lieutenant gubernatorial election
Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Meckler Books. ISBN 0-930466-17-9.
Compiled by Louis L. Emmerson, Secretary of State (1920). Official vote of the State of Illinois cast at the General Election, Nov. 2, 1920, &c., &c. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Journal Co., State Printers.

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