1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina

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

All 13 North Carolina 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 vote130
Popular vote497,566208,344
Percentage69.93%29.28%

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County Results

President before election

Herbert Hoover
Republican

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

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

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As a former Confederate state, North Carolina had a history of Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement of its African-American population and dominance of the Democratic Party in state politics. However, unlike the Deep South, the Republican Party had sufficient historic Unionist White support from the mountains and northwestern Piedmont to gain a stable one-third of the statewide vote total in most general elections, [3] where turnout was higher than elsewhere in the former Confederacy due substantially to the state's early abolition of the poll tax in 1920. [4] A rapid move following disenfranchisement to a completely “lily-white” state GOP also helped maintain Republican support amongst the state's voters. [5] Like Virginia, Tennessee and Oklahoma, the relative strength of Republican opposition meant that North Carolina did not have statewide white primaries, although certain counties did use the white primary. [6]

However, anti-Catholicism against 1928 Democratic nominee Al Smith in the fishing communities of the Outer Banks, alongside increasing middle-class Republican voting in such cities as Charlotte, Durham and Greensboro, [7] meant that Republican nominee Herbert Hoover would use the lily-white state party to win its electoral votes for the first time since the Reconstruction election of 1872. During Hoover's administration, North Carolina was the scene of a major controversy in the Supreme Court nomination of Fourth Circuit judge and 1920 Republican gubernatorial candidate John Johnston Parker. During that election, Parker had said that black North Carolinians no longer desire to participate in politics, and when he was nominated the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sent letters to senators requesting Parker's defeat. [8] The NAACP would ultimately succeed in defeating Parker, being helped by many Southern Democrats who feared that his nomination would strengthen a newly lily-white Republican Party in the South, by many Northern and Border State Republicans opposed to a lily-white GOP in the former Confederacy, and by the hostility of the American Federation of Labor to some of his rulings. [9] The Parker defeat put an end to Republican efforts to breach the “Solid South” for over two decades, and in North Carolina the two Republican Congressmen elected in 1928 would both be defeated in 1930.

Although North Carolina suffered the smallest relative income loss of any state as a result of the Depression, [10] many Southerners blamed the collapse on the North and on Wall Street. [11] it had extremely severe effects in the South, which had the highest unemployment rate in the nation, and many Southerners blamed this on the North and on Wall Street, rejecting Hoover's claim that the Depression's causes were exogenous. [11]

Neither Hoover nor Democratic nominees Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and Speaker John Nance Garner campaigned in North Carolina, which was universally expected to return to the “Solid South” with economic conditions as bad as they were. [12] Early polls in October would entirely omit the state, even those including Confederate states that had actually remained loyal to Al Smith. [13] The only poll taken in the state was taken very late in the campaign and had Roosevelt leading by three-to-one. [14]

North Carolina was won by Roosevelt with 69.93 percent of the popular vote, against Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis, with 29.28 percent of the popular vote. [15] Roosevelt won all but six loyally Unionist counties; although as in 1928 rock-ribbed Republican Avery County in the northwestern Blue Ridge Mountains was Hoover's tenth-best in the country. [16]

Results

1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt 497,566 69.93%
Republican Herbert Hoover (incumbent)208,34429.28%
Socialist Norman Thomas 5,5910.79%
Total votes711,501 100%

Results by county

1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina by county [17]
County Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic
Herbert Clark Hoover
Republican
Norman Mattoon Thomas
Socialist
Margin
 %# %# %# %#
Bertie 97.83%3,1542.02%650.16%595.81%3,089
Martin 97.37%3,7812.42%940.21%894.95%3,687
Pitt 96.55%7,7243.19%2550.26%2193.36%7,469
Hoke 96.22%1,7803.51%650.27%592.70%1,715
Greene 96.28%2,5103.61%940.12%392.67%2,416
Currituck 96.02%1,7593.77%690.22%492.25%1,690
Chowan 95.96%1,6393.75%640.29%592.21%1,575
Warren 95.82%2,6613.96%1100.22%691.86%2,551
Edgecombe 95.62%5,8724.04%2480.34%2191.58%5,624
Northampton 95.47%3,2434.33%1470.21%791.14%3,096
Franklin 95.34%4,2944.42%1990.24%1190.92%4,095
Hertford 95.08%1,8354.56%880.36%790.52%1,747
Halifax 94.98%6,4134.53%3060.49%3390.45%6,107
Anson 94.91%4,2524.98%2230.11%589.93%4,029
Granville 94.51%3,8085.26%2120.22%989.25%3,596
Nash 92.79%7,4726.61%5320.61%4986.18%6,940
Gates 93.01%1,1986.91%890.08%186.10%1,109
Lenoir 92.60%4,6776.93%3500.48%2485.67%4,327
Scotland 92.42%2,6087.37%2080.21%685.05%2,400
Vance 92.03%3,8337.64%3180.34%1484.39%3,515
Camden 92.05%9157.85%780.10%184.21%837
Wilson 91.55%6,1537.69%5170.76%5183.86%5,636
Jones 91.42%1,4498.33%1320.25%483.09%1,317
Caswell 91.39%1,8588.31%1690.30%683.08%1,689
Onslow 90.89%2,6158.79%2530.31%982.10%2,362
Robeson 90.48%7,8609.01%7830.51%4481.47%7,077
Craven 90.02%4,3759.59%4660.39%1980.43%3,909
Pasquotank 89.49%2,9469.96%3280.55%1879.53%2,618
Union 88.84%6,10310.33%7100.83%5778.50%5,393
Pender 87.64%1,99311.87%2700.48%1175.77%1,723
Hyde 87.43%1,05012.24%1470.33%475.19%903
Richmond 86.96%4,86212.39%6930.64%3674.57%4,169
Columbus 86.55%5,09812.55%7390.90%5374.01%4,359
Wake 86.02%14,86312.56%2,1701.42%24673.46%12,693
Beaufort 86.33%5,55213.05%8390.62%4073.29%4,713
Perquimans 84.94%1,28014.93%2250.13%270.01%1,055
Cumberland 83.77%5,01215.56%9310.67%4068.21%4,081
Lee 81.50%3,05818.15%6810.35%1363.35%2,377
Cleveland 80.60%8,01619.15%1,9040.25%2561.46%6,112
New Hanover 79.33%6,03018.81%1,4301.86%14160.52%4,600
Duplin 79.46%4,67419.94%1,1730.60%3559.52%3,501
Wayne 79.01%6,36520.25%1,6310.74%6058.76%4,734
Mecklenburg 77.90%18,16721.32%4,9730.78%18156.58%13,194
Person 77.80%2,37221.65%6600.56%1756.15%1,712
Tyrrell 76.78%87322.69%2580.53%654.09%615
Bladen 75.85%2,65123.12%8081.03%3652.73%1,843
Washington 72.71%1,68126.77%6190.52%1245.93%1,062
Rockingham 72.37%7,79526.89%2,8960.74%8045.48%4,899
Durham 70.78%7,55925.94%2,7703.29%35144.84%4,789
Orange 69.57%2,92426.50%1,1143.93%16543.06%1,810
Dare 71.16%1,24128.50%4970.34%642.66%744
Gaston 70.78%12,89028.36%5,1640.86%15742.42%7,726
Johnston 70.86%9,57428.77%3,8870.37%5042.09%5,687
Cabarrus 70.68%8,46528.76%3,4440.57%6841.92%5,021
Harnett 70.42%6,34629.04%2,6170.54%4941.38%3,729
Forsyth 69.73%14,01628.49%5,7271.78%35741.24%8,289
Alleghany 70.28%1,95129.18%8100.54%1541.10%1,141
Iredell 69.70%8,36729.85%3,5830.46%5539.85%4,784
Pamlico 67.34%1,52629.35%6653.31%7538.00%861
Haywood 68.54%6,79031.11%3,0820.34%3437.43%3,708
Rowan 67.81%9,78230.94%4,4641.25%18036.86%5,318
Buncombe 66.69%18,24131.97%8,7451.34%36734.72%9,496
Guilford 66.42%19,30131.88%9,2631.70%49534.54%10,038
Carteret 65.50%3,45533.46%1,7651.04%5532.04%1,690
McDowell 65.68%4,81033.84%2,4780.48%3531.84%2,332
Rutherford 64.93%8,33634.65%4,4480.42%5430.29%3,888
Alamance 63.97%8,24034.76%4,4781.27%16429.20%3,762
Moore 63.11%4,28736.20%2,4590.69%4726.91%1,828
Polk 62.48%2,40136.98%1,4210.55%2125.50%980
Surry 62.05%7,49037.37%4,5110.57%6924.68%2,979
Chatham 61.68%4,26337.47%2,5900.85%5924.20%1,673
Jackson 60.49%4,36039.03%2,8130.49%3521.46%1,547
Davidson 59.95%9,29239.04%6,0511.01%15720.91%3,241
Alexander 59.86%2,95339.57%1,9520.57%2820.29%1,001
Transylvania 59.84%2,52339.63%1,6710.52%2220.21%852
Caldwell 59.07%5,47940.43%3,7500.50%4618.64%1,729
Catawba 58.90%8,44640.56%5,8170.54%7718.33%2,629
Stanly 58.87%5,78540.63%3,9920.50%4918.25%1,793
Stokes 58.76%3,72140.69%2,5770.55%3518.06%1,144
Yancey 58.66%3,41241.19%2,3960.15%917.47%1,016
Macon 57.97%3,22341.49%2,3070.54%3016.47%916
Montgomery 57.41%2,92742.23%2,1530.35%1815.18%774
Swain 55.78%2,41243.78%1,8930.44%1912.00%519
Henderson 55.37%5,25543.96%4,1720.66%6311.41%1,083
Brunswick 55.30%2,24544.29%1,7980.42%1711.01%447
Lincoln 55.02%4,39944.56%3,5630.43%3410.46%836
Ashe 54.86%4,75144.70%3,8710.44%3810.16%880
Burke 54.64%5,86644.92%4,8230.44%479.71%1,043
Randolph 54.44%7,34545.00%6,0720.56%759.44%1,273
Sampson 53.66%4,91145.09%4,1271.25%1148.57%784
Graham 53.32%1,36446.25%1,1830.43%117.08%181
Watauga 51.76%3,41947.93%3,1660.32%213.83%253
Cherokee 51.48%3,34848.14%3,1310.38%253.34%217
Clay 51.30%1,34148.39%1,2650.31%82.91%76
Davie 48.64%2,38150.52%2,4730.84%41-1.88%-92
Wilkes 46.04%5,59853.64%6,5220.32%39-7.60%-924
Yadkin 44.68%2,78954.82%3,4220.50%31-10.14%-633
Madison 37.57%2,76961.76%4,5520.66%49-24.19%-1,783
Mitchell 31.77%1,77368.06%3,7980.16%9-36.29%-2,025
Avery 26.79%1,04572.64%2,8330.56%22-45.85%-1,788

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