1932 United States presidential election in Oregon

1932 United States presidential election in Oregon
All 5 Oregon votes to the Electoral College
Roosevelt 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80%	Hoover 50-60%
President before election; Herbert Hoover ; Republican	Elected President; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Democratic

Last updated October 19, 2023

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

Oregon was essentially a one-party Republican state during the Fourth Party System from 1896 to 1928, with the party winning almost every statewide election during the period. Apart from Woodrow Wilson’s two elections, during the first of which the GOP was severely divided, no Democrat had carried a single county in the state since William Jennings Bryan in 1900.

However, since the 1928 election when Oregon had been won against Al Smith by 30.04%, the United States had fallen into the Great Depression, which had been particularly severe in the rural western parts of the nation.^[3] The New Deal was especially popular in the Pacific States,^[4] and as a result, Roosevelt was assured of carrying the state.

Oregon was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 57.99% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 36.88% of the popular vote.^[5] Roosevelt flipped every county in Oregon except arch-Yankee Benton. This election marked the first-ever Democratic victory in the northern coastal counties of Clatsop, Tillamook, and Lincoln as well as the first Democratic victory in the Portland Metro-rooted county of Washington, the inland wheat-growing county of Wheeler, and the Central Oregon county of Deschutes.^[6] It was also just the second Democratic victory in the historically Republican counties of Clackamas, Gilliam, Marion, Multnomah, Sherman and Yamhill.^[6]

Results

1932 United States presidential election in Oregon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt	213,871	57.99%
	Republican	Herbert Hoover (inc.)	136,019	36.88%
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	15,450	4.19%
	Socialist Labor	Verne L. Reynolds	1,730	0.47%
	Communist	William Z. Foster	1,681	0.46%
	Write-in		57	0.02%
Total votes			368,808	100%

Results by county

County	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic		Herbert Clark Hoover Republican		Norman Mattoon Thomas^[7] Socialist		Verne L. Reynolds^[7] Socialist Labor		Various candidates^[7] Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast^[8]
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast^[8]
Baker	4,420	66.23%	2,097	31.42%	136	2.04%	13	0.19%	8	0.12%	2,323	34.81%	6,674
Benton	3,121	42.00%	4,068	54.74%	219	2.95%	15	0.20%	10	0.13%	-947	-12.74%	7,431
Clackamas	11,575	62.20%	5,964	32.05%	916	4.92%	89	0.48%	64	0.34%	5,611	30.15%	18,608
Clatsop	4,473	59.98%	2,570	34.46%	183	2.45%	63	0.84%	168	2.25%	1,903	25.52%	7,457
Columbia	3,643	61.36%	1,975	33.27%	231	3.89%	49	0.83%	39	0.66%	1,668	28.09%	5,937
Coos	5,504	59.21%	3,299	35.49%	376	4.04%	52	0.56%	65	0.70%	2,205	23.72%	9,296
Crook	990	59.78%	626	37.80%	30	1.81%	8	0.48%	2	0.12%	364	21.98%	1,656
Curry	971	68.00%	395	27.66%	54	3.78%	6	0.42%	2	0.14%	576	40.34%	1,428
Deschutes	2,962	58.60%	1,697	33.57%	246	4.87%	117	2.31%	33	0.65%	1,265	25.02%	5,055
Douglas	4,638	51.23%	4,046	44.69%	283	3.13%	47	0.52%	40	0.44%	592	6.54%	9,054
Gilliam	854	63.59%	470	35.00%	12	0.89%	2	0.15%	5	0.37%	384	28.59%	1,343
Grant	1,496	64.34%	733	31.53%	78	3.35%	17	0.73%	1	0.04%	763	32.82%	2,325
Harney	1,276	61.73%	687	33.24%	80	3.87%	21	1.02%	4	0.19%	589	28.50%	2,067
Hood River	1,685	51.75%	1,387	42.60%	141	4.33%	24	0.74%	19	0.58%	298	9.15%	3,256
Jackson	7,519	55.13%	5,459	40.02%	582	4.27%	61	0.45%	18	0.13%	2,060	15.10%	13,639
Jefferson	477	62.27%	253	33.03%	31	4.05%	3	0.39%	2	0.26%	224	29.24%	766
Josephine	3,060	58.90%	1,757	33.82%	314	6.04%	53	1.02%	14	0.27%	1,303	25.08%	5,195
Klamath	6,772	62.97%	3,483	32.38%	400	3.72%	61	0.57%	39	0.36%	3,289	30.58%	10,755
Lake	1,199	57.53%	839	40.26%	30	1.44%	14	0.67%	2	0.10%	360	17.27%	2,084
Lane	11,073	45.88%	10,547	43.70%	2,345	9.72%	124	0.51%	48	0.20%	526	2.18%	24,137
Lincoln	2,376	59.49%	1,415	35.43%	156	3.90%	26	0.65%	25	0.63%	961	24.06%	3,994
Linn	5,366	53.49%	4,106	40.93%	496	4.94%	43	0.43%	20	0.20%	1,260	12.56%	10,031
Malheur	2,025	53.94%	1,589	42.33%	104	2.77%	25	0.67%	11	0.29%	436	11.61%	3,754
Marion	12,572	56.84%	8,633	39.03%	760	3.43%	92	0.42%	74	0.33%	3,939	17.81%	22,118
Morrow	929	58.03%	579	36.16%	78	4.87%	6	0.37%	9	0.56%	350	21.86%	1,601
Multnomah	78,898	59.44%	47,201	35.56%	5,348	4.03%	432	0.33%	864	0.65%	31,697	23.88%	132,743
Polk	3,705	56.88%	2,548	39.12%	205	3.15%	40	0.61%	16	0.25%	1,157	17.76%	6,514
Sherman	665	59.80%	423	38.04%	19	1.71%	5	0.45%	0	0.00%	242	21.76%	1,112
Tillamook	2,726	57.51%	1,722	36.33%	245	5.15%	34	0.72%	28	0.59%	1,004	21.18%	4,740
Umatilla	5,631	63.43%	2,930	33.01%	283	3.19%	28	0.32%	5	0.06%	2,701	30.43%	8,877
Union	4,450	70.08%	1,705	26.85%	159	2.50%	29	0.46%	7	0.11%	2,745	43.23%	6,350
Wallowa	1,790	67.50%	772	29.11%	75	2.83%	13	0.49%	2	0.08%	1,018	38.39%	2,652
Wasco	2,776	59.52%	1,740	37.31%	127	2.72%	13	0.28%	8	0.17%	1,036	22.21%	4,664
Washington	6,824	59.06%	4,201	36.36%	444	3.84%	56	0.48%	48	0.41%	2,623	22.70%	11,554
Wheeler	632	54.25%	519	44.55%	10	0.86%	4	0.34%	0	0.00%	113	9.70%	1,165
Yamhill	4,798	55.03%	3,584	41.11%	254	2.91%	45	0.52%	38	0.44%	1,214	13.92%	8,719
Totals	213,871	58.00%	136,019	36.89%	15,450	4.19%	1,730	0.47%	1,738	0.47%	77,852	21.11%	368,751

Related Research Articles

The 1932 United States presidential election was the 37th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1932. The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression. The incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York and the vice presidential nominee of the 1920 presidential election. Roosevelt was the first Democrat in 80 years to simultaneously win an outright majority of the electoral college and popular vote, a feat last accomplished by Franklin Pierce in 1852, as well as the first Democrat in 56 years to win a majority of the popular vote, which was last done by Samuel J. Tilden in 1876. Roosevelt was the last sitting governor to be elected president until Bill Clinton in 1992. Hoover became the first incumbent president to lose an election to another term since William Howard Taft in 1912, and the last to do so until Gerald Ford lost 44 years later. The election marked the effective end of the Fourth Party System, which had been dominated by Republicans. It was the first time since 1916 that a Democrat was elected president.

The 1936 United States presidential election was the 38th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. Roosevelt won the highest share of the popular vote (60.3%) and the electoral vote since the largely uncontested 1820 election. The sweeping victory consolidated the New Deal Coalition in control of the Fifth Party System.

The 1936 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 3, 1936. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1936 United States presidential election. Voters chose 47 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New York was won by incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who was running against Republican Governor of Kansas Alf Landon. Roosevelt ran with incumbent Vice President John Nance Garner of Texas, and Landon ran with newspaper publisher Frank Knox of Illinois.

The 1932 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 8, 1932. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 47 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

The 1928 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 6, 1928. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1928 United States presidential election. State voters chose 45 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

The 1912 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 5, 1912. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1912 United States presidential election. Voters chose 45 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

The 1940 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 17 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

The 1912 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 18 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

The 1932 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

The 1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 8, 1932. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

The 1920 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 2, 1920. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1920 United States presidential election. Voters chose 14 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

The 1948 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

The 1932 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and state voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

The 1912 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 5, 1912, as part of the 1912 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Maine was won by the Democratic nominees, New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson and Indiana Governor Thomas R. Marshall. Wilson and Marshall defeated incumbent President William Howard Taft, and his running mate Vice President James S. Sherman and Progressive Party candidates, former President Theodore Roosevelt and his running mate California Governor Hiram Johnson.

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

The 1936 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

The 1940 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

The 1936 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

The 1936 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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

References

↑ "United States Presidential election of 1932 - Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved January 30, 2019.
↑ "1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37)" . Retrieved January 30, 2019.
↑ Davies, Richard O.; ‘The Politics of Desperation: William A. Hirth and the Presidential Election of 1932’; Agricultural History, vol. 38, no. 4 (October 1964), pp. 226-234
↑ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 485 ISBN 9780691163246
↑ "1932 Presidential General Election Results - Oregon" . Retrieved January 30, 2019.
1 2 Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 284-285 ISBN 0786422173
1 2 3 Our Campaigns; OR US President, November 08, 1932
↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 371 ISBN 9780804716963

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] "United States Presidential election of 1932 - Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved January 30, 2019.

[2] "1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37)" . Retrieved January 30, 2019.

[3] Davies, Richard O.; ‘The Politics of Desperation: William A. Hirth and the Presidential Election of 1932’; Agricultural History, vol. 38, no. 4 (October 1964), pp. 226-234

[4] Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 485 ISBN 9780691163246

[5] "1932 Presidential General Election Results - Oregon" . Retrieved January 30, 2019.

[Geography-6] 1 2 Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 284-285 ISBN 0786422173

[Our-7] 1 2 3 Our Campaigns; OR US President, November 08, 1932

[8] Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 371 ISBN 9780804716963

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

1932 United States presidential election in Oregon

Contents

Results

Results by county

See also

Related Research Articles

References