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Elections in Iowa |
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The 1920 United States Senate election in Iowa was held on November 2, 1920. Incumbent Senator Albert B. Cummins was re-elected to a third term in office, defeating challenges from Smith W. Brookhart in the Republican primary and Claude R. Porter in the general election.
Albert B. Cummins was a progressive senator from an earlier generation who distrusted both corporate interests and trade unions. Brookhart campaigned against railroad regulations Cummins had co-authored, the Esch–Cummins Act, which Brookhart claimed did too little to wrest ownership and control of railroads away from Wall Street interests. [1] Brookhart attempted to register rank-and-file blue-collar workers as Republicans so that they could vote for him in the primary, [1] which prompted Cummins to associate Brookhart with radical workers movements such as "the Socialists, reds and Industrial Workers of the World." [2] Cummins was sidelined by illness in the weeks leading up to the primary but defeated Brookhart. [2] [3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Albert B. Cummins (incumbent) | 115,768 | 54.52% | |
Republican | Smith W. Brookhart | 96,563 | 45.48% | |
Total votes | 212,331 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Claude Porter | 38,515 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 38,515 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Albert B. Cummins (incumbent) | 528,499 | 61.42% | ||
Democratic | Claude Porter | 322,015 | 37.42% | ||
Farmer–Labor | H. W. Cowles | 9020 | 1.05% | ||
Socialist Labor | Arthur S. Dowler | 933 | 0.11% | ||
Republican hold | |||||
Total votes | 860,467 | 100.00% |
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Elections in Iowa |
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The 1920 United States Senate election in Iowa was held on November 2, 1920. Incumbent Senator Albert B. Cummins was re-elected to a third term in office, defeating challenges from Smith W. Brookhart in the Republican primary and Claude R. Porter in the general election.
Albert B. Cummins was a progressive senator from an earlier generation who distrusted both corporate interests and trade unions. Brookhart campaigned against railroad regulations Cummins had co-authored, the Esch–Cummins Act, which Brookhart claimed did too little to wrest ownership and control of railroads away from Wall Street interests. [1] Brookhart attempted to register rank-and-file blue-collar workers as Republicans so that they could vote for him in the primary, [1] which prompted Cummins to associate Brookhart with radical workers movements such as "the Socialists, reds and Industrial Workers of the World." [2] Cummins was sidelined by illness in the weeks leading up to the primary but defeated Brookhart. [2] [3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Albert B. Cummins (incumbent) | 115,768 | 54.52% | |
Republican | Smith W. Brookhart | 96,563 | 45.48% | |
Total votes | 212,331 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Claude Porter | 38,515 | 100.00% | |
Total votes | 38,515 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Albert B. Cummins (incumbent) | 528,499 | 61.42% | ||
Democratic | Claude Porter | 322,015 | 37.42% | ||
Farmer–Labor | H. W. Cowles | 9020 | 1.05% | ||
Socialist Labor | Arthur S. Dowler | 933 | 0.11% | ||
Republican hold | |||||
Total votes | 860,467 | 100.00% |