1932 United States presidential election in Oregon

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1932 United States presidential election in Oregon

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All 5 Oregon votes to the Electoral College
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover Party Democratic Republican Home state New York California Running mate John Nance Garner Charles Curtis Electoral vote 5 0 Popular vote 213,871 136,019 Percentage 57.99% 36.88%
County results Roosevelt   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Hoover   50–60%
President before election Herbert Hoover Republican Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic

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]
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
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

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• Baker
• Clackamas
• Coos
• Crook
• Curry
• Douglas
• Deschutes
• Grant
• Gilliam
• Harney
• Jefferson
• Josephine
• Klamath
• Lake
• Linn
• Morrow
• Jackson
• Marion
• Polk
• Sherman
• Umatilla
• Union
• Wallowa
• Wasco
• Washington
• Wheeler
• Yamhill
• Baker
• Clatsop
• Columbia
• Tillamook
• Multnomah
• Hood River
• Lincoln
• Malheur
• Lane

See also

• United States presidential elections in Oregon

References

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