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Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932
This is the electoral history of
Franklin D. Roosevelt , who served as the 32nd
president of the United States (1933–1945) and the 44th
governor of New York (1929–1932).
A member of the
Democratic Party , Roosevelt was first elected to the
New York State Senate in 1910, representing the
26th district . He won re-election in 1912 before resigning shortly after starting his second term to accept the position of
Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President
Woodrow Wilson . He served throughout
World War I , then resigned in 1920 to run for
Vice President of the United States as a part of
James M. Cox 's campaign. They would lose in a landslide to the
Republican ticket of
Warren G. Harding and
Calvin Coolidge . After a break from electoral politics following his
polio diagnosis, Roosevelt made his political comeback when he was narrowly elected Governor of New York in the
1928 election . His handling of the
Great Depression in the state allowed him to win re-election by a much wider margin in
1930 .
Roosevelt re-entered national politics when he announced his bid for the presidency in the
1932 election . After securing the Democratic nomination, he unseated incumbent President
Herbert Hoover , becoming the first Democrat to win an outright majority of the popular vote since
Samuel J. Tilden in
1876 and effectively jumpstarting the
Fifth Party System . His
re-election in 1936 was the greatest electoral landslide since the largely uncontested
1820 election , receiving the
highest percentage of the electoral vote won by any candidate since then. He became the first and only president to win an unprecedented third and fourth terms in
1940 and
1944 , in which he continued to enjoy relatively comfortable margins of victory due to his favorable handling of
World War II and the persisting popularity of the
New Deal . Roosevelt would die in office less than three months into his fourth term, being succeeded by Vice President
Harry S. Truman .
New York State Senate elections (1910–1912)
1910
1912
United States Senate election (1914)
Primary election
Vice presidential campaign (1920)
Nomination
General election
Electoral College map of the 1920 presidential election
1920 United States presidential election Candidate Running mate Party Popular vote Electoral vote Votes % Votes %
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Republican 16,144,093 60.32 404 76.08
James M. Cox Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic 9,139,661 34.15 127 23.92
Eugene V. Debs
Seymour Stedman
Socialist 913,693 3.41
Parley P. Christensen
Max S. Hayes
Farmer–Labor 265,398 0.99
Aaron S. Watkins
D. Leigh Colvin
Prohibition 188,787 0.71
James E. Ferguson William J. Hough
American 47,968 0.18
William Wesley Cox
August Gillhaus
Socialist Labor 31,084 0.12 Others 34,496 0.13 Total 26,765,180 100.00 531 100.00 Source:
Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
New York gubernatorial elections (1928–1930)
1928
County results of the 1928 gubernatorial election
1930
County results of the 1930 gubernatorial election
Presidential elections (1932–1944)
1932
Primary elections
1932 Democratic Party presidential primaries
[7]
Candidate
Votes
%
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1,464,607
49.44
J. Hamilton Lewis
590,130
19.92
Al Smith
415,795
14.04
John Nance Garner
249,816
8.43
William H. Murray
226,392
7.64
Leo J. Chassee
7,372
0.25
Gus H. Howard
5,541
0.19
Others
2,972
0.10
Total votes
2,962,625
100.00
Nomination
General election
Electoral College map of the 1932 presidential election
1932 United States presidential election Candidate Running mate Party Popular vote Electoral vote Votes % Votes % Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Nance Garner
Democratic 22,821,277 57.41 472 88.89
Herbert Hoover (inc.)
Charles Curtis (inc.)
Republican 15,761,254 39.65 59 11.11
Norman Thomas
James H. Maurer
Socialist 884,885 2.23
William Z. Foster
James W. Ford
Communist 103,307 0.26
William David Upshaw
Frank S. Regan
Prohibition 81,905 0.21
William Hope Harvey Frank Hemenway
Liberty 53,425 0.13 Others 45,845 0.12 Total 39,751,898 100.00 531 100.00 Source:
Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
1936
Primary elections
Nomination
General election
Electoral College map of the 1936 presidential election
1936 United States presidential election Candidate Running mate Party Popular vote Electoral vote Votes % Votes % Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.)
John Nance Garner (inc.)
Democratic 27,752,648 60.80 523 98.49
Alf Landon
Frank Knox
Republican 16,681,862 36.54 8 1.51
William Lemke
Thomas C. O'Brien
Union 892,378 1.95
Norman Thomas
George A. Nelson
Socialist 187,910 0.41
Earl Browder
James W. Ford
Communist 79,315 0.17 Others 53,586 0.12 Total 45,647,699 100.00 531 100.00 Source:
Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
1940
Primary elections
1940 Democratic Party presidential primaries
[10]
Candidate
Votes
%
Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent)
3,250,555
72.16
John Nance Garner
426,641
9.47
Charles W. Sawyer
283,952
6.30
William B. Bankhead
196,508
4.36
H. C. Allen
102,729
2.28
Willis Allen
90,718
2.01
James Farley
76,919
1.71
Ellis E. Patterson
48,337
1.07
Unpledged
27,636
0.61
Others
636
0.01
Total votes
4,504,631
100.00
Nomination
First place finished by convention roll call
General election
Electoral College map of the 1940 presidential election
1940 United States presidential election Candidate Running mate Party Popular vote Electoral vote Votes % Votes % Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.)
Henry A. Wallace
Democratic 27,313,945 54.74 449 84.56
Wendell Willkie
Charles L. McNary
Republican 22,347,744 44.78 82 15.44
Norman Thomas
Maynard C. Krueger
Socialist 116,599 0.23
Roger Babson Edgar Moorman
Prohibition 57,903 0.12
Earl Browder
James W. Ford
Communist 48,557 0.10 Others 17,365 0.03 Total 49,902,113 100.00 531 100.00 Source:
Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
1944
Primary elections
1944 Democratic Party presidential primaries
[12]
Candidate
Votes
%
Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent)
1,566,218
79.24
Joseph T. Ferguson
164,915
8.34
Harry F. Byrd
109,000
5.51
Claude R. Linger
59,282
3.00
Unpledged
57,299
2.90
Fred H. Hildebrandt
7,414
0.38
A. W. Powell
6,727
0.34
Others
5,754
0.29
Total votes
1,976,609
100.00
Nomination
General election
Electoral College map of the 1944 presidential election
1944 United States presidential election Candidate Running mate Party Popular vote Electoral vote Votes % Votes % Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.)
Harry S. Truman
Democratic 25,612,916 53.38 432 81.36
Thomas E. Dewey
John W. Bricker
Republican 22,017,929 45.89 99 18.64
Unpledged
Unpledged
Texas Regulars 143,238 0.30
Norman Thomas
Darlington Hoopes
Socialist 79,017 0.16
Claude A. Watson
Andrew N. Johnson
Prohibition 74,758 0.16 Others 57,004 0.12 Total 47,984,862 100.00 531 100.00 Source:
Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
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