1932 United States presidential election in Washington (state)

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1932 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
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  1928 November 8, 1932 [1] 1936  

All 8 Washington 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 vote80
Popular vote353,260208,645
Percentage57.46%33.94%

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County results
Roosevelt
  40–50%
  50–60%
  60–70%
  70–80%

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 [2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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Outside a few Presidential and gubernatorial elections, Washington was a virtually one-party Republican state during the “System of 1896”, [3] where the only competition was via Republican primaries. [4] Apart from Woodrow Wilson’s two elections, during the first of which the GOP was severely divided, no Democrat after William Jennings Bryan in 1900 carried a single county in the state until Al Smith won German Catholic Ferry County in 1928.

However, since the 1928 election when Washington state had been won by more than 36 percentage points, the United States had fallen into the Great Depression, which had been particularly severe in the rural western parts of the nation. [5] The New Deal was especially popular in the Pacific States, [6] and as a result Roosevelt was assured of carrying the state.

Washington state was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (DNew York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 57.46 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (RCalifornia), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 33.94 percent of the popular vote. Roosevelt flipped every county won by his rival Hoover in 1928, becoming the first Democrat to sweep every county in Washington state – a feat he would repeat in 1936 but which has never been emulated since. He was the first-ever Democratic victor in the southwestern logging counties of Klickitat, Lewis and Pacific, [7] and also in inland Benton County and Chelan County. [7] Roosevelt was also the first Democrat since William Jennings Bryan in 1896, and only the second overall, to carry the state with an outright majority.

This was the last election in Washington in which voters chose presidential electors directly. The state adopted the modern "short ballot" starting with the 1936 election.

Results

General Election Results [8]
PartyPledged toElectorVotes
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltWilliam J. Lindberg353,260
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltEldrige Wheeler352,463
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltPaul A. Newman352,449
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltHenry S. Volkmar352,192
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltH. C. Davis352,179
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltNella W. Hurd351,891
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltBen Spear351,458
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltD. N. Judson350,730
Republican Party Herbert HooverReno Odlin208,645
Republican Party Herbert HooverAlex Polson208,479
Republican Party Herbert HooverE. L. French208,476
Republican Party Herbert HooverCharles E. Myers208,449
Republican Party Herbert HooverIone C. Earp208,296
Republican Party Herbert HooverPeter Henning208,285
Republican Party Herbert HooverWilliam L. McCormick208,238
Republican Party Herbert HooverBruce E. McGregor207,767
Liberty Party William Hope HarveyCharles W. Baum30,308
Liberty Party William Hope HarveyRoy Thomas30,240
Liberty Party William Hope HarveyEdith Kathrens30,194
Liberty Party William Hope HarveyR. A. Henderson30,193
Liberty Party William Hope HarveyDoreen Eggleton30,186
Liberty Party William Hope HarveyP. H. Thomson30,178
Liberty Party William Hope HarveyGeorge Cyre30,172
Liberty Party William Hope HarveyA. V. Wallis30,047
Socialist Party Norman M. ThomasGeorge W. Scott17,080
Socialist Party Norman M. ThomasA. R. Klein16,844
Socialist Party Norman M. ThomasW. Hitchcock16,818
Socialist Party Norman M. ThomasH. O. Fuhrberg16,814
Socialist Party Norman M. ThomasJ. Richard Brown16,776
Socialist Party Norman M. ThomasJ. L. Newlun16,672
Socialist Party Norman M. ThomasC. H. Bungay16,619
Socialist Party Norman M. ThomasStella K. Garrison16,502
Communist Party William Z. FosterFloyd E. Nell2,972
Communist Party William Z. FosterMrs. C. H. Harter2,950
Communist Party William Z. FosterJoe Scott2,946
Communist Party William Z. FosterW. F. Wilson2,944
Communist Party William Z. FosterG. W. Westbloom2,943
Communist Party William Z. FosterCharles Goold2,931
Communist Party William Z. FosterH. G. Price2,930
Communist Party William Z. FosterAlton E. Casler2,928
Prohibition Party William D. UpshawCharles L. Haggard1,540
Prohibition Party William D. UpshawLouis Ludwig Anderson1,517
Prohibition Party William D. UpshawAlice B. Bacon1,508
Prohibition Party William D. UpshawCanlipe Smith1,503
Prohibition Party William D. UpshawAsenath B. Weakley1,502
Prohibition Party William D. UpshawWilliam E. Haycox1,500
Prohibition Party William D. UpshawMary Dixon1,490
Prohibition Party William D. UpshawAlva T. Whig1,484
Socialist Labor Party Verne L. ReynoldsLyle Clark1,009
Socialist Labor Party Verne L. ReynoldsWilliam Klaunig996
Socialist Labor Party Verne L. ReynoldsWarren Joseph Chamberlain980
Socialist Labor Party Verne L. ReynoldsFred Herrick980
Socialist Labor Party Verne L. ReynoldsHenry Genies976
Socialist Labor Party Verne L. ReynoldsPaul Swanson976
Socialist Labor Party Verne L. ReynoldsU. G. Stark972
Socialist Labor Party Verne L. ReynoldsPaul K. Tipton967
Votes cast [a] 614,814

Results by county

County [8] Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic
Herbert Hoover
Republican
William Hope Harvey
Liberty
Norman M. Thomas
Socialist
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast [b]
#%#%#%#%#%#%
Adams 1,50461.89%86735.68%80.33%431.77%80.33%63726.21%2,430
Asotin 1,99465.33%96031.45%160.52%581.90%240.79%1,03433.88%3,052
Benton 2,63357.28%1,69436.85%1433.11%891.94%380.83%93920.43%4,597
Chelan 7,31652.79%5,58440.29%8085.83%1090.79%420.30%1,73212.50%13,859
Clallam 3,95452.46%1,87024.81%1,54220.46%921.22%791.05%2,08427.65%7,537
Clark 9,10460.05%4,90132.33%7274.80%3021.99%1260.83%4,20327.72%15,160
Columbia 1,49164.88%71431.07%40.17%632.74%261.13%77733.81%2,298
Cowlitz 5,44348.98%3,76733.90%1,66614.99%1671.50%700.63%1,67615.08%11,113
Douglas 1,94157.73%1,17935.07%1654.91%661.96%110.33%76222.67%3,362
Ferry 1,03571.63%32222.28%372.56%443.04%70.48%71349.34%1,445
Franklin 1,54062.27%83833.89%120.49%722.91%110.44%70228.39%2,473
Garfield 81854.32%66944.42%100.66%10.07%80.53%1499.89%1,506
Grant 1,37657.10%84034.85%1114.61%712.95%120.50%53622.24%2,410
Grays Harbor 10,31055.92%5,14127.89%2,57913.99%1360.74%2701.46%5,16928.04%18,436
Island 1,51756.99%80330.17%27010.14%491.84%230.86%71426.82%2,662
Jefferson 1,99461.03%95229.14%2668.14%391.19%160.49%1,04231.89%3,267
King 108,73859.09%63,34634.42%4,0042.18%6,5473.56%1,3960.76%45,39224.67%184,031
Kitsap 10,00270.57%3,46524.45%3612.55%2371.67%1080.76%6,53746.12%14,173
Kittitas 4,26663.82%1,96329.37%2814.20%971.45%771.15%2,30334.46%6,684
Klickitat 2,15559.15%1,33536.65%290.80%711.95%531.45%82022.51%3,643
Lewis 8,45454.21%4,64729.80%2,30514.78%870.56%1010.65%3,80724.41%15,594
Lincoln 2,72559.30%1,74838.04%230.50%791.72%200.44%97721.26%4,595
Mason 2,18155.89%99525.50%67517.30%391.00%120.31%1,18630.39%3,902
Okanogan 3,96957.13%2,27732.78%5788.32%891.28%340.49%1,69224.36%6,947
Pacific 3,09955.46%1,73731.08%61210.95%651.16%751.34%1,36224.37%5,588
Pend Oreille 1,77264.18%85530.97%80.29%1134.09%130.47%91733.21%2,761
Pierce 38,45158.86%19,00629.09%5,1837.93%2,0843.19%6030.92%19,44529.77%65,327
San Juan 78652.37%60740.44%906.00%120.80%60.40%17911.93%1,501
Skagit 8,39560.45%4,24630.57%5924.26%1631.17%4923.54%4,14929.87%13,888
Skamania 93463.89%44430.37%201.37%533.63%110.75%49033.52%1,462
Snohomish 18,35259.27%9,31030.07%1,9366.25%1,0523.40%3131.01%9,04229.20%30,963
Spokane 36,95356.74%24,84838.15%2680.41%2,6104.01%4460.68%12,10518.59%65,125
Stevens 4,26260.94%2,24732.13%931.33%3314.73%610.87%2,01528.81%6,994
Thurston 6,30845.97%4,24130.91%2,87620.96%1320.96%1651.20%2,06715.06%13,722
Wahkiakum 73053.52%44232.40%16111.80%141.03%171.25%28821.11%1,364
Walla Walla 5,57852.75%4,65344.00%150.14%2752.60%540.51%9258.75%10,575
Whatcom 11,35550.44%9,25441.11%4141.84%1,0154.51%4732.10%2,1019.33%22,511
Whitman 5,94553.99%4,72742.93%180.16%2612.37%600.54%1,21811.06%11,011
Yakima 13,88051.70%11,15141.54%1,4025.22%2530.94%1600.60%2,72910.17%26,846
Totals353,26057.46%208,64533.94%30,3084.93%17,0802.78%5,5210.90%144,61523.52%614,814

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

Notes

  1. Based on totals for highest elector on each ticket
  2. Based on highest elector on each ticket

References

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  8. 1 2 Washington Secretary of State. "Presidential Electors". Abstract of Votes Polled in the State of Washington at the General Election held November 8, 1932. Olympia, Washington. pp. 5–11.