Arlington County Election Results The following information has been compiled from Electoral Board records and historical news sources. Much of the information from the earlier part of the period is incomplete, especially vote tallies. Data is arranged chronologically by election date and office from 1920, when Alexandria County was renamed to Arlington County, up to the present day. Vote tallies given are votes cast in Arlington County only, except if noted otherwise. The Arlington County Electoral Board and Office of Voter Registration welcomes any known additions or corrections to the listing below. The Electoral Board has sample ballots available from 1950, when we first started using voting machines, onward. Complete election results by precinct are available from 1971 onward, with some tallies available for earlier years. The rest of the information was obtained from newspaper archives and other historical records. When known, political party affilliation is indicated, although it did not appear on the ballot until 2001, and then only for federal and state offices. Year Election Date Office/Question Candidate/Selection Votes Rcd. 1920 November 2 President Harding (R) 996 Cox (D) 835 U.S. Senate Glass (D) 1,021 Pollard (R) 230 House of Representaives R. Walton Moore (D,inc.) 1,468 Brooks (R) 740 1921 November 8 Governor E. Lee Trinkle (D) 882 Henry W. Anderson (R) 604 House of Delegates Charles Henry Smith (R) 906 Mary Lockwood (D) 617 1922 November 7 U.S. Senate Claude A. Swanson (D,inc.) 1,153 J.W. McGavock (R) 205 M.N. Lewis 40 Last Updated: 11/21/2019 Arlington County Electoral Board Page 1 of 118 Year Election Date Office/Question Candidate/Selection Votes Rcd. House of Representatives, 8th District R. Walton Moore (D) 1,098 John Sidney Wiley (R) 326 1923 November 6 Sheriff Howard B. Fields (won) 1,835 A.C. Clements 1,678 Spencer Roberts W.H. Payne C.H. Wibert (No other vote totals printed in Washington Star, Washington Post or Alexandria Gazette) Virginia Senate Frank L. Ball (D) (won) John G. Dudley (R) House of Delegates Charles T. Jesse (D) (won) Thomas D. Bailie (R) Board of Supervisors Washington District: E.C. Thornburke (inc.) Arlington District: W. J. Ingram (inc.) Jefferson District: Edward Duncan Commissioner of Revenue Harry K. Green (won) Herbert Bowbeer Treasurer E. Wade Ball (won) Harry H. Mason Stuart F. Thompson Commonwealth’s Attorney William C. Gloth (won) Clarence R. Ahalt George D. Lee Last Updated: 11/21/2019 Arlington County Electoral Board Page 2 of 118 Year Election Date Office/Question Candidate/Selection Votes Rcd. State Corporation Commission J. Cloyd Byars Alexandra Foward 1924 November 4 President Calvin Coolidge 1,307 John W. Davis 1,229 Robert M. LaFollette 400 U.S. Senate J. Carter Glass 1,917 Doak 800 Riker 198 House of Representatives, 8th District E. Walton Moore 2,140 John G. Dudley 950 1925 November 3 Governor Harry F. Byrd (D) 1,271 S. Harry Hoge (R) 711 Lieutenant Governor West (D) 857 Carl A. Marshall (R)(Arlington resident) 994 House of Delegates Charles T. Jesse (D,inc.) 988 Edgar W. Pumphrey (R) 732 Dr. Frank T. Stone(I) 246 1926 November 2 House of Representatives, 8th District J. Walton Moore (D) 1,117 J.W. Leedy (R) 104 1927 November 8 Virginia Senate Frank L. Ball (D) 4,765 M.G. Ely (R) 986 House of Delegates Hugh Reid (D) 3,045 Will W. Douglass (I) 1,616 Louis A. MacMahon (R) 1,038 Last Updated: 11/21/2019 Arlington County Electoral Board Page 3 of 118 Year Election Date Office/Question Candidate/Selection Votes Rcd. Sheriff Howard B. Fields 2,595 A.C. Clements 2,402 Drisvoll 373 Roberts 80 Commonwealth’s Attorney William C. Gloth 2,064 Walter U. Varney 1,731 Amos C. Crounse 1,378 Edgar W. Pumphrey 645 County Clerk William H. Duncan 3,990 C.R. Taylor 1,404 Thomas D. Bailie 467 Treasurer E. Wade Ball 4,562 Laurence Michael 1,296 Commissioner of Revenue Harry K. Green 4,790 C. Eugene Doyle 1,050 Supervisor Jefferson District: Edward Duncan 790 Kleysteuber 348 Bechtel 55 Supervisor Washington District: E.C. Thornburke 484 Donaldson 234 Fellows 400 1928 November 6 President Herbert Hoover (R) 4,272 Al Smith (D) 1,439 1929 November 7 Governor Dr. William Moseley Brown (Coalition) 2,062 John Garland Pollard (D) 1,902 Last Updated: 11/21/2019 Arlington County Electoral Board Page 4 of 118 Year Election Date Office/Question Candidate/Selection Votes Rcd. Lieutenant Governor James H. Price (D) 2,331 Calhoun B. Jones (R) 2,040 Attorney General John R. Saunders (D) 2,756 Charles C. Berkeley (R) 2,097 House of Delegates Hugh Reid (D) 2,391 Louis A. MacMahon (R) 2,030 1930 November 4 House of Representative, 8th District Howard W. Smith (D) 2,282 Dr. F.M. Brooks (R) 636 John M. Daniel (I) 104 Virginia Senate Carter Glass (D, inc.) 1,948 J. Cloyd Byars (I) (Arlington resident) 836 Joe C. Morgan (Socialist) 181 1931 November 3 County Board Candidates Candidates: 51 - see article in Arlington Historical Magazine (Volume I, Number 2, Oct. 1958), pages 66-67 of article by Robert Nelson Anderson, “Arlington adopts the County Manager Form of Government” pp.52-67. [Listing attached] Harry A. Fellows John C. Gall - died in office Fred A. Gosnell Mrs. Elizabeth B. Magruder Lyman M. Kelley Commonwealth’s Attorney Lawrence W. Douglas 2,964 William C. Gloth 1,924 Clarence R. Ahalt (R) 1,557 Emery N. Hosmer 317 Amos C. Crounse 217 Last Updated: 11/21/2019 Arlington County Electoral Board Page 5 of 118 Year Election Date Office/Question Candidate/Selection Votes Rcd. Sheriff Howard B. Fields 3,738 A.C. Clements 2,258 Z.O. Kines 112 Carl A. Schultze 78 ? (no name) 468 Justice/County Court B.M. Hedrick (R) 2,177 Walter U. Varney 1,782 J. Hammond Brewer, Jr. 971 Bryan Gordon 911 H.W. Dudley 306 Melvin G. Ely 177 Hugh M. McCaffrey 95 House of Delegates Hugh Reid 4,571 J. Foster Hagan 2,090 Commissioner of Revenue Harry K. Green (D) 5,490 C.W. Clever (R) 636 Treasurer (2 Precincts missing) E. Wade Ball 5,756 (unopposed) Virginia Senate (no numbers found) John W. Rust (D) W.L. Norford (R) Julia Morgan Jones (Soc) Landon C. Painter (I) County Board Fred A. Gosnell (R) (won) 2,088 Harry A. Fellows (won) 1,832 Elizabeth B. Magruder (won) 1,640 John C. Gall (won) 1,567 Lyman M. Kelly (won) 1,456 William A.E. McShea 1,177 (others not mentioned) Last Updated: 11/21/2019 Arlington County Electoral Board Page 6 of 118 Year Election Date Office/Question Candidate/Selection Votes Rcd. 1932 November 8 President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) 3,275 Herbert Hoover (R) 2,806 House of Representatives Howard W. Smith (D) 3,332 (at-large election) A. Willis Robertson 3,037 Andrew Jackson 3,063 P.H. Drewry 3,007 T.G. Burch 3,132 Clifton A. Woodrum 3,249 John W. Flannagan, Jr. 3,069 S. Otis Bland 3,054 Colgate W. Darden 2,971 Menalkus Lanford 2,032 Henry A. Wise (R) 1,917 George Cole Scott (R) 1,895 Fred W. McWane (R) 1,898 J.A. Garber (R) 1,981 Roland K. Chase (R) 1,860 J.E. Spaulding (R) 923 A.J. Danning (Prohibition) 1,091 William Mosely Brown (I) 1,091 R. Lindsay Gordon (I) 380 Charles C. Berkeley 947 1933 November 7 Virginia Senate Harry F. Byrd (D) 2,028 Maj. Henry C. Wise 893 John M. Daniel 35 Elizabeth Lewis Otey 28 Newman H. Raymond 9 Last Updated: 11/21/2019 Arlington County Electoral Board Page 7 of 118 Year Election Date Office/Question Candidate/Selection Votes Rcd. Governor George C. Peery (D) 2,041 Fred W. McWane (R) 845 White 33 Dumming 17 Rowe 5 Robinson 20 Lieutenant Governor James H. Price (D) 2,080 J. Powell Royall 819 Kibler 86 Attorney General John R. Saunders (D,inc.) 1,826 Clarence R. Ahalt (R) (Arlington Resident) 1,130 Ansell 57 House of Delegates William D. Medley (D) 1,900 John Locke Green (R) 1,118 1934 November 6 House of Representatives John Locke Green (R) 975 Howard W. Smith (D) 2,376 F.A. Shelton (Soc.) 30 U.S. Senate Harry Flood Byrd (D) 2,557 Lawrence Page (R) 632 Herman R. Ansell (Soc.) 33 Alexander Wright (Com.) 20 J.L. Lite (I) 8 John G. Bowman (Pro.) 31 Newman H. Raymond (I) 25 1935 Arlington County Library does not have newspapers covering this period. The Sun began in Dec. 1935. Candidates for election could be researched in the October issues of Post or Star at DC Public (Martin Luther King Washingtoniana). The following was remembered by Ed Campbell: Last Updated: 11/21/2019 Arlington County Electoral Board Page 8 of 118 Year Election Date Office/Question Candidate/Selection Votes Rcd. County Board Christopher Garnett Benjamin M. Smith, conservative Lyman Kelly - removed for conflict of interest, Judge McCarthy appointed Edmund Campbell Freeland Chew *Elizabeth B. Magruder (holdover) *George M. Yeatman, chairman *W.R. Ames (Rep.), new *F. Freeland Chew, new *William A. E. McShea, (holdover) (The new board composition is from The Sun, 1/2/36) November 5 County Police Court Judge Benjamin M. Hendrick (R) 3,332 Walter M. Varney (D) 3,137 Clerk of Court (incomplete data) Benjamin Laycock(D) (won by 1,385 majority) John A. Petty (I) 677 John M. Stewart (I) 661 Joseph May Treasurer Col. Charles T. Jesse 4,321 F.