1928 North Carolina gubernatorial election

1928 North Carolina gubernatorial election

← 1924 November 6, 1928 1932 →
 
Nominee O. Max Gardner Herbert F. Seawell
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 362,009 289,415
Percentage 55.6% 44.4%

County results
Gardner:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Seawell:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%

Governor before election

Angus Wilton McLean
Democratic

Elected Governor

Oliver Max Gardner
Democratic

The 1928 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1928. Democratic nominee O. Max Gardner defeated Republican nominee Herbert F. Seawell, with just over 55% of the vote. This was, relatively, a close election for the time in North Carolina, with Gardner receiving the smallest percentage of the vote that any Democratic gubernatorial nominee won between 1900 and 1956. The result came against the backdrop of divisions in the state Democratic Party over the controversial nomination of Alfred E. Smith for president. Gardner supported Smith, who lost the state to Herbert Hoover.[1]