1936 United States presidential election in California

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1936 United States presidential election in California

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Turnout	83.36% (of registered voters) 2.71 pp 70.56% (of eligible voters) 5.34 pp [1]
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Alf Landon Party Democratic Republican Home state New York Kansas Running mate John N. Garner Frank Knox Electoral vote 22 0 Popular vote 1,766,836 836,431 Percentage 66.95% 31.70%
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. 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 [update] , 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] Party Pledged to Elector Votes Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Mrs. Hancock Banning 1,766,836 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt O. K. Cushing 1,766,013 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Leo J. Smith 1,765,958 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Daniel C. Murphy 1,765,919 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Charles L. Culbert 1,765,843 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Mrs. George J. Knox 1,765,807 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt W. R. Jacob 1,765,739 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt George F. Irvine 1,765,680 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Argyll Campbell 1,765,652 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Stephen P. Galvin 1,765,651 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt H. H. Whitting 1,765,634 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Doris McAdoo 1,765,598 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Lloyd Sheldon 1,765,528 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Daniel Green 1,765,429 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Archibald W. Livingston 1,765,340 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt John H. Burke 1,765,319 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Stanley S. Anderson 1,765,295 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt John Baumgartner 1,765,287 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt C. M. Brown 1,765,262 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt James B. Ogg 1,765,253 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Charles W. McQuarrie 1,765,193 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt E. O. Busenburg 1,764,603 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Joseph Scott 836,431 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Tallant Tubbs 836,060 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon James G. Anderson 835,954 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon A. E. Goddard 835,822 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Thomas M. Carlson 835,796 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Charles H. Segerstrom 835,787 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Thomas C. Meagher 835,767 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Albert A. Rosenshine 835,761 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Cecil B. DeMille 835,748 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Raymond Smith 835,745 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young 835,734 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Walter H. Duval 835,713 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Walter S. Hunsaker 835,713 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Louis B. Mayer 835,701 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Mrs. Newton Cleveland 835,689 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Frank J. Buckley 835,683 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Ruth Buchanan 835,651 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Charlotta A. Bass 835,618 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon A. E. Henning 835,618 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Gladys O'Donnell 835,586 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Charles E. Brouse 835,535 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Charles B. Wincote 835,392 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin W. P. Fassett 12,917 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Minnie Goldthwaite 12,839 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Joseph Fusch 12,835 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin H. A. Johnson 12,831 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Nellie S. Harriss 12,828 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Ethel Hubler 12,812 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Frank G. H. Stevens 12,809 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin W. H. Easterling 12,799 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin James P. M. Jensen 12,795 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin John C. Bell 12,794 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin B. C. Johnson 12,794 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Russell S. Dingley 12,793 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin M. Len Hutchins 12,790 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Percy F. Adams 12,789 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Virgil G. Hinshaw 12,789 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Florence Jeffs 12,779 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin William I. Hull 12,778 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin C. B. Griffin 12,775 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Lucius D. Dale 12,774 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Errol O. Shour 12,770 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin O. U. Hull 12,759 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin L. B. Steward 12,753 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Ralph W. Musson 11,331 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Joseph A. Plecarpo 11,325 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Eva Randall 11,318 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Willard F. Smith 11,318 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Millie Shapiro 11,311 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Herbert L. Coggins 11,310 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Sybren Cornelius Zondervon 11,310 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Raymond H. Henderson 11,300 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Ernest Norback 11,300 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Edward V. Peterson 11,294 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Glen Trimble 11,290 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Milen Dempster 11,289 Socialist Party Norman Thomas B. A. Zaremba 11,287 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Clarence Rust 11,285 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Catherine McCauley 11,284 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Lillian Elstein 11,283 Socialist Party Norman Thomas A. Dutkiewicz 11,282 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Lyle Loomis 11,275 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Frank O. Rear 11,274 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Trelfa Lund 11,270 Socialist Party Norman Thomas P. Manisculo 11,270 Socialist Party Norman Thomas George A. Garrett 11,267 Communist Party Earl Browder William Schneiderman 10,877 Communist Party Earl Browder Louis Rosser 10,842 Communist Party Earl Browder Pettis Perry 10,841 Communist Party Earl Browder George Maurer 10,839 Communist Party Earl Browder Peter J. Garrison 10,827 Communist Party Earl Browder Thomas Cooney 10,825 Communist Party Earl Browder James Tormey 10,823 Communist Party Earl Browder Carroll Barnes 10,820 Communist Party Earl Browder William J. Prater 10,820 Communist Party Earl Browder Bessie Keckler 10,818 Communist Party Earl Browder E. L. Patterson 10,818 Communist Party Earl Browder Mini Carson 10,816 Communist Party Earl Browder Sam Jaye 10,816 Communist Party Earl Browder D. L. Saunders 10,812 Communist Party Earl Browder Herbert S. Elstein 10,810 Communist Party Earl Browder Eleanor McLauchlan 10,810 Communist Party Earl Browder Leon Vannier 10,810 Communist Party Earl Browder Henry J. Rainer 10,809 Communist Party Earl Browder Harry Schneider 10,809 Communist Party Earl Browder Alex Noral 10,808 Communist Party Earl Browder William A. Standridge 10,806 Communist Party Earl Browder Atanasio E. Torres 10,793 Write-in Scattering 490 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 Margin Total votes cast [lower-alpha 2] #  % #  % #  % #  % #  % #  % #  % Alameda 149,323 63.63% 82,352 35.09% 725 0.31% 1,178 0.50% 1,108 0.47% 0 0.00% 66,971 28.54% 234,686 Alpine 85 53.46% 74 46.54% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 11 6.92% 159 Amador 2,506 75.41% 777 23.38% 14 0.42% 20 0.60% 6 0.18% 0 0.00% 1,729 52.03% 3,323 Butte 10,490 65.86% 5,103 32.04% 108 0.68% 130 0.82% 97 0.61% 0 0.00% 5,387 33.82% 15,928 Calaveras 2,520 71.31% 960 27.16% 17 0.48% 26 0.74% 11 0.31% 0 0.00% 1,560 44.14% 3,534 Colusa 2,965 70.38% 1,186 28.15% 34 0.81% 24 0.57% 4 0.09% 0 0.00% 1,779 42.23% 4,213 Contra Costa 26,007 72.29% 9,604 26.70% 89 0.25% 178 0.49% 97 0.27% 0 0.00% 16,403 45.60% 35,975 Del Norte 1,292 59.43% 853 39.24% 4 0.18% 18 0.83% 7 0.32% 0 0.00% 439 20.19% 2,174 El Dorado 4,019 75.66% 1,228 23.12% 18 0.34% 39 0.73% 8 0.15% 0 0.00% 2,791 52.54% 5,312 Fresno 42,859 77.75% 11,545 20.94% 334 0.61% 255 0.46% 133 0.24% 0 0.00% 31,314 56.80% 55,126 Glenn 3,288 65.97% 1,620 32.50% 39 0.78% 32 0.64% 5 0.10% 0 0.00% 1,668 33.47% 4,984 Humboldt 11,909 62.93% 6,808 35.97% 67 0.35% 93 0.49% 48 0.25% 0 0.00% 5,101 26.95% 18,925 Imperial 7,560 60.75% 4,771 38.34% 49 0.39% 26 0.21% 38 0.31% 0 0.00% 2,789 22.41% 12,444 Inyo 1,560 62.38% 912 36.47% 6 0.24% 20 0.80% 3 0.12% 0 0.00% 648 25.91% 2,501 Kern 25,726 74.61% 8,345 24.20% 146 0.42% 219 0.64% 43 0.12% 0 0.00% 17,381 50.41% 34,479 Kings 7,062 75.10% 2,226 23.67% 76 0.81% 35 0.37% 5 0.05% 0 0.00% 4,836 51.42% 9,404 Lake 1,837 49.82% 1,797 48.74% 22 0.60% 24 0.65% 7 0.19% 0 0.00% 40 1.08% 3,687 Lassen 4,193 79.47% 1,035 19.62% 18 0.34% 13 0.25% 17 0.32% 0 0.00% 3,158 59.86% 5,276 Los Angeles 757,351 67.00% 357,401 31.62% 5,827 0.52% 4,159 0.37% 5,217 0.46% 460 0.04% 399,950 35.38% 1,130,415 Madera 4,646 75.74% 1,387 22.61% 43 0.70% 36 0.59% 22 0.36% 0 0.00% 3,259 53.13% 6,134 Marin 12,152 65.43% 6,211 33.44% 39 0.21% 85 0.46% 85 0.46% 0 0.00% 5,941 31.99% 18,572 Mariposa 1,907 74.40% 621 24.23% 10 0.39% 22 0.86% 3 0.12% 0 0.00% 1,286 50.18% 2,563 Mendocino 6,432 62.65% 3,670 35.75% 33 0.32% 68 0.66% 63 0.61% 0 0.00% 2,762 26.90% 10,266 Merced 9,208 72.69% 3,230 25.50% 108 0.85% 91 0.72% 31 0.24% 0 0.00% 5,978 47.19% 12,668 Modoc 1,828 64.57% 968 34.19% 16 0.57% 7 0.25% 12 0.42% 0 0.00% 860 30.38% 2,831 Mono 458 64.78% 241 34.09% 0 0.00% 6 0.85% 2 0.28% 0 0.00% 217 30.69% 707 Monterey 12,267 61.13% 7,565 37.70% 79 0.39% 101 0.50% 55 0.27% 0 0.00% 4,702 23.43% 20,067 Napa 6,270 60.35% 3,973 38.24% 52 0.50% 78 0.75% 17 0.16% 0 0.00% 2,297 22.11% 10,390 Nevada 5,128 71.91% 1,913 26.83% 16 0.22% 59 0.83% 15 0.21% 0 0.00% 3,215 45.08% 7,131 Orange 29,836 55.00% 23,494 43.31% 535 0.99% 237 0.44% 149 0.27% 0 0.00% 6,342 11.69% 54,251 Placer 7,959 76.62% 2,321 22.34% 35 0.34% 52 0.50% 21 0.20% 0 0.00% 5,638 54.27% 10,388 Plumas 2,707 78.81% 680 19.80% 14 0.41% 14 0.41% 20 0.58% 0 0.00% 2,027 59.01% 3,435 Riverside 17,011 49.88% 16,674 48.89% 200 0.59% 181 0.53% 41 0.12% 0 0.00% 337 0.99% 34,107 Sacramento 47,265 78.53% 12,119 20.14% 241 0.40% 303 0.50% 247 0.41% 9 0.01% 35,146 58.40% 60,184 San Benito 2,565 61.93% 1,515 36.58% 12 0.29% 31 0.75% 19 0.46% 0 0.00% 1,050 25.35% 4,142 San Bernardino 33,955 59.55% 22,219 38.97% 461 0.81% 212 0.37% 169 0.30% 0 0.00% 11,736 20.58% 57,016 San Diego 64,628 63.45% 35,686 35.04% 579 0.57% 524 0.51% 437 0.43% 0 0.00% 28,942 28.42% 101,854 San Francisco 196,197 74.04% 65,436 24.69% 1,227 0.46% 757 0.29% 1,366 0.52% 18 0.01% 130,761 49.34% 265,001 San Joaquin 29,078 73.20% 10,172 25.61% 159 0.40% 210 0.53% 104 0.26% 0 0.00% 18,906 47.59% 39,723 San Luis Obispo 7,889 61.13% 4,812 37.28% 90 0.70% 75 0.58% 40 0.31% 0 0.00% 3,077 23.84% 12,906 San Mateo 27,087 65.67% 13,650 33.09% 81 0.20% 253 0.61% 177 0.43% 0 0.00% 13,437 32.58% 41,248 Santa Barbara 15,923 61.14% 9,728 37.35% 91 0.35% 164 0.63% 138 0.53% 1 0.00% 6,195 23.79% 26,045 Santa Clara 38,346 58.48% 26,498 40.41% 160 0.24% 399 0.61% 173 0.26% 0 0.00% 11,848 18.07% 65,576 Santa Cruz 9,326 52.08% 8,260 46.12% 82 0.46% 120 0.67% 120 0.67% 0 0.00% 1,066 5.95% 17,908 Shasta 5,236 69.72% 2,159 28.75% 42 0.56% 35 0.47% 38 0.51% 0 0.00% 3,077 40.97% 7,510 Sierra 1,152 76.44% 340 22.56% 6 0.40% 4 0.27% 5 0.33% 0 0.00% 812 53.88% 1,507 Siskiyou 6,865 69.28% 2,919 29.46% 42 0.42% 50 0.50% 33 0.33% 0 0.00% 3,946 39.82% 9,909 Solano 13,459 78.05% 3,603 20.89% 66 0.38% 69 0.40% 47 0.27% 0 0.00% 9,856 57.16% 17,244 Sonoma 17,273 60.17% 11,185 38.96% 65 0.23% 83 0.29% 100 0.35% 0 0.00% 6,088 21.21% 28,706 Stanislaus 15,341 63.13% 8,613 35.44% 190 0.78% 80 0.33% 78 0.32% 0 0.00% 6,728 27.68% 24,302 Sutter 4,019 70.04% 1,613 28.11% 35 0.61% 56 0.98% 15 0.26% 0 0.00% 2,406 41.93% 5,738 Tehama 3,687 59.68% 2,376 38.46% 64 1.04% 43 0.70% 8 0.13% 0 0.00% 1,311 21.22% 6,178 Trinity 1,424 67.11% 655 30.87% 13 0.61% 7 0.33% 23 1.08% 0 0.00% 769 36.24% 2,122 Tulare 18,956 67.66% 8,624 30.78% 265 0.95% 115 0.41% 55 0.20% 0 0.00% 10,332 36.88% 28,015 Tuolumne 3,303 72.72% 1,199 26.40% 5 0.11% 28 0.62% 7 0.15% 0 0.00% 2,104 46.32% 4,542 Ventura 13,384 63.14% 7,579 35.75% 97 0.46% 94 0.44% 42 0.20% 2 0.01% 5,805 27.38% 21,198 Yolo 5,992 68.94% 2,594 29.84% 44 0.51% 47 0.54% 15 0.17% 0 0.00% 3,398 39.09% 8,692 Yuba 4,125 74.18% 1,332 23.95% 27 0.49% 46 0.83% 31 0.56% 0 0.00% 2,793 50.22% 5,561 Total 1,766,836 66.95% 836,431 31.70% 12,917 0.49% 11,331 0.43% 10,877 0.41% 490 0.02% 930,405 35.26% 2,638,882 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Riverside Notes Based on totals for highest elector on each ticket Based on the highest elector on each ticket References "Historical Voter Registration and Participation in Statewide General Elections 1910-2018" (PDF). California Secretary of State. Retrieved May 5, 2022. Thomas, G. Scott; The Pursuit of the White House: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics and History, p. 421 ISBN   0313257957 Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 152-155 ISBN   0786422173 California Secretary of State. Statement of Vote at General Election Held On November 3, 1936 in the State of California. Sacramento, California: State Printing Office. pp. 4–23. Retrieved July 17, 2024. 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.