1936 United States presidential election in California

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1936 United States presidential election in California
Flag of California (1924-1953).png
  1932 November 3, 1936 1940  
Turnout83.36% (of registered voters) Increase2.svg 2.71 pp
70.56% (of eligible voters) Increase2.svg 5.34 pp [1]
  FDR in 1933 (cropped).jpg LandonPortr (cropped).jpg
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Alf Landon
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Kansas
Running mate John N. Garner Frank Knox
Electoral vote220
Popular vote1,766,836836,431
Percentage66.95%31.70%

California Presidential Election Results 1936.svg
County Results
Roosevelt
  40-50%
  50-60%
  60-70%
  70-80%

The 1936 United States presidential election in California was held on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose twenty-two electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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California voted for the Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, in a landslide over the Republican challenger, Kansas Governor Alfred Mossman Landon, carrying every county and nearly sixty-seven percent of the vote to Landon’s 31.7%. Roosevelt’s percentage of the vote is the highest of any presidential candidate in California history, besting Warren G. Harding’s 66.2% in 1920. [2] While his 35.25-percentage point margin of victory over Landon is the largest for any Democratic candidate, it is the second largest overall behind Harding’s 41.92% in 1920 and ahead of his cousin Theodore Roosevelt’s 34.9% in 1904.

As of the 2020 presidential election , this is the last time that a presidential candidate from either political party completely swept all of California’s counties in an election. The only other candidate to manage this was Harding in his landslide 1920 victory. [2]

Roosevelt was the last Democrat until Hillary Clinton in 2016 to carry Orange County in a presidential election, and the last until John Kerry in 2004 to carry Alpine County. Also, this was the only one of FDR’s four presidential campaigns where he carried Riverside County, which had never previously voted Democratic since its first election in 1896 [3] and would not do so again until Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. It would also be the first election in the state’s history where the Democratic Party won the state in two consecutive presidential elections.

This was the last election in California where presidential electors were chosen directly by the voters. Starting in 1940, the state adopted the modern "short ballot" where voters could only choose between the actual candidates' names, with the understanding that a vote for a candidate was a vote for their party's entire slate of electors.

Results

General Election Results [4]
PartyPledged toElectorVotes
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltMrs. Hancock Banning1,766,836
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltO. K. Cushing1,766,013
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltLeo J. Smith1,765,958
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltDaniel C. Murphy1,765,919
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltCharles L. Culbert1,765,843
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltMrs. George J. Knox1,765,807
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltW. R. Jacob1,765,739
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltGeorge F. Irvine1,765,680
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltArgyll Campbell1,765,652
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltStephen P. Galvin1,765,651
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltH. H. Whitting1,765,634
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltDoris McAdoo1,765,598
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltLloyd Sheldon1,765,528
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltDaniel Green1,765,429
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltArchibald W. Livingston1,765,340
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltJohn H. Burke1,765,319
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltStanley S. Anderson1,765,295
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltJohn Baumgartner1,765,287
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltC. M. Brown1,765,262
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltJames B. Ogg1,765,253
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltCharles W. McQuarrie1,765,193
Democratic Party Franklin D. RooseveltE. O. Busenburg1,764,603
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonJoseph Scott836,431
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonTallant Tubbs836,060
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonJames G. Anderson835,954
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonA. E. Goddard835,822
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonThomas M. Carlson835,796
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonCharles H. Segerstrom835,787
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonThomas C. Meagher835,767
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonAlbert A. Rosenshine835,761
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonCecil B. DeMille835,748
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonRaymond Smith835,745
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonRuth Comfort Mitchell Young835,734
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonWalter H. Duval835,713
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonWalter S. Hunsaker835,713
Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Louis B. Mayer 835,701
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonMrs. Newton Cleveland835,689
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonFrank J. Buckley835,683
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonRuth Buchanan835,651
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonCharlotta A. Bass835,618
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonA. E. Henning835,618
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonGladys O'Donnell835,586
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonCharles E. Brouse835,535
Republican Party Alfred M. LandonCharles B. Wincote835,392
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinW. P. Fassett12,917
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinMinnie Goldthwaite12,839
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinJoseph Fusch12,835
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinH. A. Johnson12,831
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinNellie S. Harriss12,828
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinEthel Hubler12,812
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinFrank G. H. Stevens12,809
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinW. H. Easterling12,799
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinJames P. M. Jensen12,795
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinJohn C. Bell12,794
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinB. C. Johnson12,794
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinRussell S. Dingley12,793
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinM. Len Hutchins12,790
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinPercy F. Adams12,789
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinVirgil G. Hinshaw12,789
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinFlorence Jeffs12,779
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinWilliam I. Hull12,778
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinC. B. Griffin12,775
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinLucius D. Dale12,774
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinErrol O. Shour12,770
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinO. U. Hull12,759
Prohibition Party D. Leigh ColvinL. B. Steward12,753
Socialist Party Norman ThomasRalph W. Musson11,331
Socialist Party Norman ThomasJoseph A. Plecarpo11,325
Socialist Party Norman ThomasEva Randall11,318
Socialist Party Norman ThomasWillard F. Smith11,318
Socialist Party Norman ThomasMillie Shapiro11,311
Socialist Party Norman ThomasHerbert L. Coggins11,310
Socialist Party Norman ThomasSybren Cornelius Zondervon11,310
Socialist Party Norman ThomasRaymond H. Henderson11,300
Socialist Party Norman ThomasErnest Norback11,300
Socialist Party Norman ThomasEdward V. Peterson11,294
Socialist Party Norman ThomasGlen Trimble11,290
Socialist Party Norman ThomasMilen Dempster11,289
Socialist Party Norman ThomasB. A. Zaremba11,287
Socialist Party Norman ThomasClarence Rust11,285
Socialist Party Norman ThomasCatherine McCauley11,284
Socialist Party Norman ThomasLillian Elstein11,283
Socialist Party Norman ThomasA. Dutkiewicz11,282
Socialist Party Norman ThomasLyle Loomis11,275
Socialist Party Norman ThomasFrank O. Rear11,274
Socialist Party Norman ThomasTrelfa Lund11,270
Socialist Party Norman ThomasP. Manisculo11,270
Socialist Party Norman ThomasGeorge A. Garrett11,267
Communist Party Earl BrowderWilliam Schneiderman10,877
Communist Party Earl BrowderLouis Rosser10,842
Communist Party Earl BrowderPettis Perry10,841
Communist Party Earl BrowderGeorge Maurer10,839
Communist Party Earl BrowderPeter J. Garrison10,827
Communist Party Earl BrowderThomas Cooney10,825
Communist Party Earl BrowderJames Tormey10,823
Communist Party Earl BrowderCarroll Barnes10,820
Communist Party Earl BrowderWilliam J. Prater10,820
Communist Party Earl BrowderBessie Keckler10,818
Communist Party Earl BrowderE. L. Patterson10,818
Communist Party Earl BrowderMini Carson10,816
Communist Party Earl BrowderSam Jaye10,816
Communist Party Earl BrowderD. L. Saunders10,812
Communist Party Earl BrowderHerbert S. Elstein10,810
Communist Party Earl BrowderEleanor McLauchlan10,810
Communist Party Earl BrowderLeon Vannier10,810
Communist Party Earl BrowderHenry J. Rainer10,809
Communist Party Earl BrowderHarry Schneider10,809
Communist Party Earl BrowderAlex Noral10,808
Communist Party Earl BrowderWilliam A. Standridge10,806
Communist Party Earl BrowderAtanasio E. Torres10,793
Write-in Scattering490
Votes cast [lower-alpha 1] 2,638,882

Results by county

County Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic
Alf Landon
Republican
D. Leigh Colvin
Prohibition
Norman Thomas
Socialist
Earl Browder
Communist
Scattering
Write-in
MarginTotal votes cast [lower-alpha 2]
# %# %# %# %# %# %# %
Alameda 149,32363.63%82,35235.09%7250.31%1,1780.50%1,1080.47%00.00%66,97128.54%234,686
Alpine 8553.46%7446.54%00.00%00.00%00.00%00.00%116.92%159
Amador 2,50675.41%77723.38%140.42%200.60%60.18%00.00%1,72952.03%3,323
Butte 10,49065.86%5,10332.04%1080.68%1300.82%970.61%00.00%5,38733.82%15,928
Calaveras 2,52071.31%96027.16%170.48%260.74%110.31%00.00%1,56044.14%3,534
Colusa 2,96570.38%1,18628.15%340.81%240.57%40.09%00.00%1,77942.23%4,213
Contra Costa 26,00772.29%9,60426.70%890.25%1780.49%970.27%00.00%16,40345.60%35,975
Del Norte 1,29259.43%85339.24%40.18%180.83%70.32%00.00%43920.19%2,174
El Dorado 4,01975.66%1,22823.12%180.34%390.73%80.15%00.00%2,79152.54%5,312
Fresno 42,85977.75%11,54520.94%3340.61%2550.46%1330.24%00.00%31,31456.80%55,126
Glenn 3,28865.97%1,62032.50%390.78%320.64%50.10%00.00%1,66833.47%4,984
Humboldt 11,90962.93%6,80835.97%670.35%930.49%480.25%00.00%5,10126.95%18,925
Imperial 7,56060.75%4,77138.34%490.39%260.21%380.31%00.00%2,78922.41%12,444
Inyo 1,56062.38%91236.47%60.24%200.80%30.12%00.00%64825.91%2,501
Kern 25,72674.61%8,34524.20%1460.42%2190.64%430.12%00.00%17,38150.41%34,479
Kings 7,06275.10%2,22623.67%760.81%350.37%50.05%00.00%4,83651.42%9,404
Lake 1,83749.82%1,79748.74%220.60%240.65%70.19%00.00%401.08%3,687
Lassen 4,19379.47%1,03519.62%180.34%130.25%170.32%00.00%3,15859.86%5,276
Los Angeles 757,35167.00%357,40131.62%5,8270.52%4,1590.37%5,2170.46%4600.04%399,95035.38%1,130,415
Madera 4,64675.74%1,38722.61%430.70%360.59%220.36%00.00%3,25953.13%6,134
Marin 12,15265.43%6,21133.44%390.21%850.46%850.46%00.00%5,94131.99%18,572
Mariposa 1,90774.40%62124.23%100.39%220.86%30.12%00.00%1,28650.18%2,563
Mendocino 6,43262.65%3,67035.75%330.32%680.66%630.61%00.00%2,76226.90%10,266
Merced 9,20872.69%3,23025.50%1080.85%910.72%310.24%00.00%5,97847.19%12,668
Modoc 1,82864.57%96834.19%160.57%70.25%120.42%00.00%86030.38%2,831
Mono 45864.78%24134.09%00.00%60.85%20.28%00.00%21730.69%707
Monterey 12,26761.13%7,56537.70%790.39%1010.50%550.27%00.00%4,70223.43%20,067
Napa 6,27060.35%3,97338.24%520.50%780.75%170.16%00.00%2,29722.11%10,390
Nevada 5,12871.91%1,91326.83%160.22%590.83%150.21%00.00%3,21545.08%7,131
Orange 29,83655.00%23,49443.31%5350.99%2370.44%1490.27%00.00%6,34211.69%54,251
Placer 7,95976.62%2,32122.34%350.34%520.50%210.20%00.00%5,63854.27%10,388
Plumas 2,70778.81%68019.80%140.41%140.41%200.58%00.00%2,02759.01%3,435
Riverside 17,01149.88%16,67448.89%2000.59%1810.53%410.12%00.00%3370.99%34,107
Sacramento 47,26578.53%12,11920.14%2410.40%3030.50%2470.41%90.01%35,14658.40%60,184
San Benito 2,56561.93%1,51536.58%120.29%310.75%190.46%00.00%1,05025.35%4,142
San Bernardino 33,95559.55%22,21938.97%4610.81%2120.37%1690.30%00.00%11,73620.58%57,016
San Diego 64,62863.45%35,68635.04%5790.57%5240.51%4370.43%00.00%28,94228.42%101,854
San Francisco 196,19774.04%65,43624.69%1,2270.46%7570.29%1,3660.52%180.01%130,76149.34%265,001
San Joaquin 29,07873.20%10,17225.61%1590.40%2100.53%1040.26%00.00%18,90647.59%39,723
San Luis Obispo 7,88961.13%4,81237.28%900.70%750.58%400.31%00.00%3,07723.84%12,906
San Mateo 27,08765.67%13,65033.09%810.20%2530.61%1770.43%00.00%13,43732.58%41,248
Santa Barbara 15,92361.14%9,72837.35%910.35%1640.63%1380.53%10.00%6,19523.79%26,045
Santa Clara 38,34658.48%26,49840.41%1600.24%3990.61%1730.26%00.00%11,84818.07%65,576
Santa Cruz 9,32652.08%8,26046.12%820.46%1200.67%1200.67%00.00%1,0665.95%17,908
Shasta 5,23669.72%2,15928.75%420.56%350.47%380.51%00.00%3,07740.97%7,510
Sierra 1,15276.44%34022.56%60.40%40.27%50.33%00.00%81253.88%1,507
Siskiyou 6,86569.28%2,91929.46%420.42%500.50%330.33%00.00%3,94639.82%9,909
Solano 13,45978.05%3,60320.89%660.38%690.40%470.27%00.00%9,85657.16%17,244
Sonoma 17,27360.17%11,18538.96%650.23%830.29%1000.35%00.00%6,08821.21%28,706
Stanislaus 15,34163.13%8,61335.44%1900.78%800.33%780.32%00.00%6,72827.68%24,302
Sutter 4,01970.04%1,61328.11%350.61%560.98%150.26%00.00%2,40641.93%5,738
Tehama 3,68759.68%2,37638.46%641.04%430.70%80.13%00.00%1,31121.22%6,178
Trinity 1,42467.11%65530.87%130.61%70.33%231.08%00.00%76936.24%2,122
Tulare 18,95667.66%8,62430.78%2650.95%1150.41%550.20%00.00%10,33236.88%28,015
Tuolumne 3,30372.72%1,19926.40%50.11%280.62%70.15%00.00%2,10446.32%4,542
Ventura 13,38463.14%7,57935.75%970.46%940.44%420.20%20.01%5,80527.38%21,198
Yolo 5,99268.94%2,59429.84%440.51%470.54%150.17%00.00%3,39839.09%8,692
Yuba 4,12574.18%1,33223.95%270.49%460.83%310.56%00.00%2,79350.22%5,561
Total1,766,83666.95%836,43131.70%12,9170.49%11,3310.43%10,8770.41%4900.02%930,40535.26%2,638,882

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Notes

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

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