This is not the sort of book you sit down and read cover to cover, but for serious scholars it is a useful reference, and for amateur political junkies like me it is fascinating to dip into. I can look up specific showings by specific candidates --how did James D. Cox do in Ohio in 1918, a win that positioned him to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 1920?
Or I can just notice interesting points --the relatively respectable showings by many minor parties, for example .If there is a weakness, it is that it does not include primary results --this is especially noticeable in southern states where all it gives in the general election result between the Democratic primary winner and a nominal Republican, as with Huey Long in Louisiana in 1928. However, it may not be fair to expect inclusion of another body of data which would have roughly doubled the book's size. ( )

For those of you who love to crunch election numbers, this second in a series of books chronicling US elections for state governors is measurably helpful. The results are compiled county-by-county (with a summary of each state total in the front), and lists all candidates on the ballot in each location, not just the two big parties.

I wish there had been a little more context than the four paragraphs of the preface, but the book is intended to deliver names and numbers. It succeeds.

Many thanks to the publisher and the Early Reviewers program for the opportunity to read and review the book. ( )

After I made my notes on my review of Michael J. Dubin's United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1912-1931: The Official Results by State and County, I saw that many reviews have stated similar impressions. In particular, I don't think I am alone in concluding the existence of this book is wholly unnecessary(!) Don't get me wrong; there is nothing offensive or at all unsettling about this book's existence. It just seems to have been a wasted effort. The author admits some of his best sources were records that he accessed via the Internet.

The book offers no insight on the factual data presented; it consists of lists of data. The Internet seems the best forum by far for such information presentation, to my mind. The introduction written by the author is an embarrassment to introductions to non-fiction works everywhere. It's shockingly short, and worse yet it gives short shrift to its subject. It's totally bare bones stuff -- the insights provided by the author into the material presented in the body of the book I could count on one hand.

Compounding the futile nature of printing simple data in a book rather than simply making it available electronically is this book's utterly boring visual presentation. The data is listed in text form; nothing interesting in terms of graphics, layout, or color is attempted, which I find striking in a book published this year! Moreover, the text itself is tall and unwieldy; this is no handy pocket-guide by any means.

In conclusion, this book is pointless in its entirety according to this reader's best judgment. Please be advised I received a copy of this book through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. ( )

I love books of data. A main reason I have collected almanacs through the years is to have data on Presidential nominees every four years. The World Alamanc presents a full set of data for the most recent presidential election and the one four years previous.

This book is a record of the election of every governor in the United States. There were 48 states for the entire period 1912 to 1931, however some states still were electing governors every two years, so there is a lot of data. Actually, there is no data for Georgia, as the record of voting for governor was never published despite records for the presidential election in the same year.

One can brush through data and see things we never think about. How closely the Republican and Democrat votes for governor in Arizona were. Now solidly Republicn the easternmost counties in Tennessee were. The tremendous effect the split of the Republican party in 1912 into a Progressive wing headed by former President Theodore Roosevelt. The appearance of Socialist candidates on many ballots. Tennessee was an exception in the solid Democrat South by electing a Republican governor in 1912 and 1920 (but not 1918), as was Kentucky in 1919 and 1927. California elected a Progressive as governor in 1914, and Florida a Prohibition candidate in 1915. Massachusetts managed to elect Democrat governors in 1912, 1913, and 1914, based on a Democrat majority in only one county (Suffolk, where Boston is located).

Every time I look, I see somehting else more interesting. We don't get the stories beind the statistics, but my appetite is whetted. ( )

This book is only good for people who are researching this particular topic. If that is you then this is a great book. Since I am not I didn't really understand this book at all. ( )