1932 United States presidential election in Washington (state)

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1932 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
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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 (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 57.46 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 33.94 percent of the popular vote. [7] 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, [8] and also in inland Benton County and Chelan County. [8]

Results

Presidential Candidate Running Mate PartyElectoral Vote (EV)Popular Vote (PV) [7]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York John Nance Garner Democratic 8353,26057.46%
Herbert Hoover Charles Curtis Republican 0208,64533.94%
William Hope Harvey Frank Hemenway Liberty 030,3084.93%
Norman Thomas James H. Maurer Socialist 017,0802.78%
William Z. Foster James W. Ford Communist 02,9720.48%
William Upshaw Frank Regan Prohibition 01,5400.25%
Verne L. Reynolds John W. Aiken Socialist Labor 01,0090.16%

Results by county

CountyFranklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic		Herbert Clark Hoover
Republican		William Hope Harvey [9]
Liberty		Norman Mattoon Thomas [9]
Socialist		Various candidates
Other parties		MarginTotal votes cast [10]
#%#%#%#%#%#%
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

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