1920 Republican Party presidential primaries

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1920 Republican Party presidential primaries

← 1916 March 9 to June 5, 1920 1924 →
940 delegates to the 1920 Republican National Convention 471 (majority) votes needed to win
Candidate Leonard Wood Frank Orren Lowden Hiram Johnson Home state Massachusetts Illinois California Delegate count 287.5 211.5 133.5 Contests won 8 1 7 Popular vote 710,863 389,127 965,651 Percentage 22.3% 12.2% 30.3%
First place by first-instance vote First place by convention roll call      Wood      Lowden      Johnson      Harding      Poindexter      Various[a]
Previous Republican nominee Charles Evans Hughes Republican nominee Warren G. Harding

From March 9 to June 5, 1920, voters of the Republican Party elected delegates to the 1920 Republican National Convention for the purpose of choosing the party's nominee for president in the 1920 election.

The delegates were largely contested between Governor Hiram Johnson of California, a progressive who had been the running mate of Theodore Roosevelt eight years prior; General Leonard Wood, one of Roosevelt's closest friends; and Frank O. Lowden, the Governor of Illinois.

After a series of primary elections and caucuses, no candidate had emerged with a clear majority of the delegates. At the 1920 Republican National Convention, held from June 8 to June 12, in Chicago, Illinois,^[1] the delegations of the leading candidates deadlocked and Warren G. Harding was nominated as a dark horse candidate, although he had only won a few delegates entering the convention.

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