1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana

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1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana
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  1928 November 8, 1932 [1] 1936  

All 10 Louisiana votes to the Electoral College
  FDR in 1933 (3x4).jpg President Hoover portrait (cropped).jpg
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York California
Running mate John Nance Garner Charles Curtis
Electoral vote100
Popular vote249,41818,853
Percentage92.79%7.01%

Louisiana Presidential Election Results 1932.svg
Parish Results
Roosevelt
  70-80%
  80-90%
  90-100%

The 1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Louisiana voters chose ten [2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Ever since the passage of a new constitution in 1898, Louisiana had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party became moribund due to the disenfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as Louisiana completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession. [3] Despite this absolute single-party dominance, non-partisan tendencies remained strong among wealthy sugar planters in Acadiana and within the business elite of New Orleans. [4]

Until the rise of Huey P. Long, post-disenfranchisement Louisiana politics was dominated by the New Orleans-based “Choctaw Club”, [5] which overcame Socialist, Wobbly, and Progressive challenges from the outlying upcountry, Imperial Calcasieu and Acadiana regions between the late 1900s and early 1920s. [6] The three presidential elections between 1916 and 1924 saw a rebellion in Acadiana over sugar tariffs and Woodrow Wilson’s foreign and domestic policies; however, the nomination of Catholic Al Smith in 1928 rapidly restored their Democratic loyalty without causing significant upheaval in the remainder of the state, which was too focused on control of black labor to worry about Smith’s Catholicism. [7] The effects of the Great Depression were extremely severe in the South, [8] which had the highest unemployment rate in the nation. Many Southerners blamed this on the North and on Wall Street, rejecting Hoover’s claim that the Depression’s causes were exogenous, [9] and this ensured that the previous decades Acadiana revolts would not be repeated.

Louisiana was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (DNew York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 92.79 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (RCalifornia), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 7.01 percent of the popular vote. [10] [11]

By percentage of the popular vote won, Louisiana was Roosevelt's third-best state, behind only South Carolina and Mississippi.

Results

1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt 249,418 92.79%
Republican Herbert Hoover (inc.)18,8537.01%
Write-ins 5330.20%
Total votes268,804 100%

Results by parish

1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parish [12]
ParishFranklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic
Herbert Clark Hoover
Republican
Various candidates
Write-ins
MarginTotal votes cast
#%#%#%#%
Acadia 3,58391.08%3518.92%3,23282.16%3,934
Allen 2,07593.93%1305.89%40.18%1,94588.05%2,209
Ascension 1,80086.58%27913.42%1,52173.16%2,079
Assumption 1,53879.94%38620.06%1,15259.88%1,924
Avoyelles 3,14896.03%1303.97%3,01892.07%3,278
Beauregard 2,31994.08%1465.92%2,17388.15%2,465
Bienville 2,67198.45%411.51%10.04%2,63096.94%2,713
Bossier 2,19197.51%562.49%2,13595.02%2,247
Caddo 12,15989.71%1,3099.66%850.63%10,85080.06%13,553
Calcasieu 6,10589.71%6789.96%220.32%5,42779.75%6,805
Caldwell 1,44893.96%865.58%70.45%1,36288.38%1,541
Cameron 93898.95%101.05%92897.89%948
Catahoula 1,34097.88%292.12%1,31195.76%1,369
Claiborne 2,76597.84%612.16%2,70495.68%2,826
Concordia 99998.04%201.96%97996.07%1,019
De Soto 2,41696.45%873.47%20.08%2,32992.97%2,505
East Baton Rouge 6,36385.51%1,04514.04%330.44%5,31871.47%7,441
East Carroll 75196.90%243.10%72793.81%775
East Feliciana 1,17894.77%655.23%1,11389.54%1,243
Evangeline 3,11598.36%521.64%3,06396.72%3,167
Franklin 2,93097.34%782.59%20.07%2,85294.75%3,010
Grant 1,96696.00%813.96%10.05%1,88592.04%2,048
Iberia 2,41275.14%79824.86%1,61450.28%3,210
Iberville 1,30875.26%43024.74%87850.52%1,738
Jackson 1,74898.09%341.91%1,71496.18%1,782
Jefferson 7,39593.90%4665.92%140.18%6,92987.99%7,875
Jefferson Davis 2,30881.73%51218.13%40.14%1,79663.60%2,824
Lafayette 4,01993.21%2916.75%20.05%3,72886.46%4,312
Lafourche 2,62387.78%36412.18%10.03%2,25975.60%2,988
LaSalle 1,73893.64%1176.30%10.05%1,62187.34%1,856
Lincoln 1,90892.13%1637.87%1,74584.26%2,071
Livingston 1,95395.64%894.36%1,86491.28%2,042
Madison 54889.11%6710.89%48178.21%615
Morehouse 2,01496.04%833.96%1,93192.08%2,097
Natchitoches 3,45895.18%1734.76%20.06%3,28590.42%3,633
Orleans 85,28893.87%5,4075.95%1650.18%79,88187.92%90,860
Ouachita 5,96892.86%4236.58%360.56%5,54586.28%6,427
Plaquemines 1,91898.06%381.94%1,88096.11%1,956
Pointe Coupee 1,02794.05%655.95%96288.10%1,092
Rapides 7,57891.77%6808.23%6,89883.53%8,258
Red River 1,66198.34%241.42%40.24%1,63796.92%1,689
Richland 1,77397.42%462.53%10.05%1,72794.89%1,820
Sabine 3,00896.16%1103.52%100.32%2,89892.65%3,128
Saint Bernard 1,52593.50%1066.50%1,41987.00%1,631
Saint Charles 1,42994.08%865.66%40.26%1,34388.41%1,519
Saint Helena 96297.37%262.63%93694.74%988
Saint James 1,71587.72%24012.28%1,47575.45%1,955
Saint John the Baptist 79979.58%17617.53%292.89%62362.05%1,004
Saint Landry 3,76692.69%2977.31%3,46985.38%4,063
Saint Martin 1,42092.99%1077.01%1,31385.99%1,527
Saint Mary 2,07281.41%47318.59%1,59962.83%2,545
Saint Tammany 3,20694.60%1785.25%50.15%3,02889.35%3,389
Tangipahoa 4,40490.58%4559.36%30.06%3,94981.22%4,862
Tensas 63595.49%294.36%10.15%60691.13%665
Terrebonne 2,12690.82%2159.18%1,91181.63%2,341
Union 2,28597.52%582.48%2,22795.05%2,343
Vermilion 2,94591.63%2698.37%2,67683.26%3,214
Vernon 2,86896.60%461.55%551.85%2,82295.05%2,969
Washington 3,99793.37%2836.61%10.02%3,71486.76%4,281
Webster 3,02097.64%732.36%2,94795.28%3,093
West Baton Rouge 59386.07%9613.93%49772.13%689
West Carroll 1,47197.94%312.06%1,44095.87%1,502
West Feliciana 55791.91%498.09%50883.83%606
Winn 2,17296.71%361.60%381.69%2,13695.10%2,246
Totals249,41892.79%18,8537.01%5330.20%230,56585.77%268,804

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