<P> Third - party support sank almost to the vanishing point, as the election of 1928 proved to be a two - party contest to a greater extent than any other in the Fourth Party System . Until the major split before the 1948 election in the Democratic Party between Southern Democrats and the more liberal Northern faction, no further significant third - party candidacies as seen in 1912 and 1924 were to occur . All "other" votes totaled only 1.08 percent of the national popular vote . The Socialist vote sank to 267,478, and in seven states there were no Socialist votes . </P> <P> This was the last election in which the Republicans won North Carolina until 1968, the last when they won Kentucky and West Virginia until 1956, the last when they won Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington until 1952, the last when they won Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon until 1948, the last when they won Ohio, Wisconsin, and Wyoming until 1944, and the last when they won Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota until 1940 . As of 2016 it remains the last election when the Republican candidate carried the three contiguous counties of Saint Louis County, Minnesota, Carlton County, Minnesota and Douglas County, Wisconsin, and the last until Donald Trump in 2016 when the Republicans carried neighboring Itasca County, Minnesota, Columbia County, Oregon or Grays Harbor County, Washington . It is also the last occasion when Wayne County, Michigan supported a Republican candidate and the only occasion since 1908 when Republicans have carried Orange County, North Carolina . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Presidential candidate </Th> <Th> Party </Th> <Th> Home state </Th> <Th_colspan="2"> Popular vote </Th> <Th> Electoral vote </Th> <Th_colspan="3"> Running mate </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Count </Th> <Th> Percentage </Th> <Th> Vice-presidential candidate </Th> <Th> Home state </Th> <Th> Electoral vote </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Herbert Hoover </Td> <Td> Republican </Td> <Td> California </Td> <Td> 21,427,123 </Td> <Td> 58.21% </Td> <Td> 444 </Td> <Td> Charles Curtis </Td> <Td> Kansas </Td> <Td> 444 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Al Smith </Td> <Td> Democratic </Td> <Td> New York </Td> <Td> 15,015,464 </Td> <Td> 40.80% </Td> <Td> 87 </Td> <Td> Joseph Taylor Robinson </Td> <Td> Arkansas </Td> <Td> 87 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Norman Thomas </Td> <Td> Socialist </Td> <Td> New York </Td> <Td> 267,478 </Td> <Td> 0.73% </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> <Td> James H. Maurer </Td> <Td> Pennsylvania </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William Z . Foster </Td> <Td> Communist </Td> <Td> Massachusetts </Td> <Td> 48,551 </Td> <Td> 0.13% </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> <Td> Benjamin Gitlow </Td> <Td> New York </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Verne L. Reynolds </Td> <Td> Socialist Labor </Td> <Td> Michigan </Td> <Td> 21,590 </Td> <Td> 0.06% </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> <Td> Jeremiah D. Crowley </Td> <Td> New York </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> William F. Varney </Td> <Td> Prohibition </Td> <Td> New York </Td> <Td> 20,095 </Td> <Td> 0.05% </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> <Td> James Edgerton </Td> <Td> Virginia </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Frank Webb </Td> <Td> Farmer - Labor </Td> <Td> California </Td> <Td> 6,390 </Td> <Td> 0.02% </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> <Td> LeRoy R. Tillman </Td> <Td> Georgia </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3"> Other </Td> <Td> 321 </Td> <Td> 0.00% </Td> <Td>--</Td> <Td_colspan="2"> Other </Td> <Td>--</Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="3"> Total </Th> <Td> 36,807,012 </Td> <Td> 100% </Td> <Td> 531 </Td> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> <Td> 531 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="5"> Needed to win </Th> <Td> 266 </Td> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> <Td> 266 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Presidential candidate </Th> <Th> Party </Th> <Th> Home state </Th> <Th_colspan="2"> Popular vote </Th> <Th> Electoral vote </Th> <Th_colspan="3"> Running mate </Th> </Tr>

Who ran in the presidential election of 1928