1936 United States presidential election in Nebraska

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1936 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Flag of Nebraska.svg
  1932 November 3, 1936 1940  

All 7 Nebraska votes to the Electoral College
  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 Nance Garner Frank Knox
Electoral vote70
Popular vote347,445247,731
Percentage57.14%40.74%

Nebraska Presidential Election Results 1936.svg
County Results

President before election

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The 1936 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven [1] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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Nebraska was won by the incumbent Democratic President, Franklin Roosevelt from New York, running with Vice President John Nance Garner, with 57.14% of the popular vote, against the Republican nominee, Governor of Kansas Alf Landon, running with Frank Knox, with 40.74% of the popular vote. [2] [3] Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 16.4%, a significantly reduced margin from his 27.7% victory over Herbert Hoover just 4 years earlier in 1932, thus making Nebraska one of the sole states to trend Republican in 1936, an election that would otherwise represent a sea of blue, with Roosevelt winning one of the largest landslides in American history and the largest ever for a Democrat. With its 7 electoral votes, Nebraska would weigh in as 7.9% more Republican than the rest of the nation.

Key to Roosevelt's victory were his margins in the rural counties, where he ran up massive margins among farmers, as his New Deal programs were popular among voters who believed they were responsible for easing The Great Depression. Additionally, Nebraska had been hard hit by the Dust Bowl, a period of severe dust storms and droughts that greatly damaged the agriculture economy in the state. Indeed, Roosevelt's margins in these counties have been unmatched by any Democrat presidential nominee since.

However, even with his sizable victory, cracks in Roosevelt's favorability in rural communities were evident, as Nebraska trended to the right by 11.3%, an unusually large shift given the heavily Democratic national environment, with Roosevelt increasing his victory margin and Democrats expanding their supermajorities in Congress. This can likely be attributed to controversial parts of The New Deal which required farmers to destroy extra parts of their food supply if they overproduced, oftentimes causing food shortages and forcing America to import food from other countries, raising prices. [4]

As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last time in which Nebraska's 3rd congressional district selected the Democratic nominee for president. This is also the last occasion when the following counties have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Boyd, Burt, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne, Cuming, Custer, Dawes, Dawson, Deuel, Dodge, Dundy, Frontier, Gosper, Grant, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Holt, Keith, Kimball, Knox, Madison, Merrick, Morrill, Pawnee, Perkins, Phelps, Pierce, Red Willow, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, Sioux, Stanton, Thomas and Wayne. [5] [6]

Results

1936 United States presidential election in Nebraska
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) 347,445 57.14%
Republican Alf Landon 247,73140.74%
Union William Lemke 12,8472.11%
Total votes608,023 100%

Results by county

County [7] Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic
Alfred Mossman Landon
Republican
William Frederick Lemke
Union
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %
Adams 6,12657.68%4,09438.55%4013.78%2,03219.13%10,621
Antelope 3,16547.44%3,30449.52%2033.04%-139-2.08%6,672
Arthur 23542.73%31256.73%30.55%-77-14.00%550
Banner 36756.46%27742.62%60.92%9013.85%650
Blaine 36550.98%34247.77%91.26%233.21%716
Boone 3,09551.37%2,72845.28%2023.35%3676.09%6,025
Box Butte 2,90062.19%1,71136.69%521.12%1,18925.50%4,663
Boyd 1,55553.62%1,29044.48%551.90%2659.14%2,900
Brown 1,18845.03%1,41953.79%311.18%-231-8.76%2,638
Buffalo 6,00254.70%4,59541.88%3753.42%1,40712.82%10,972
Burt 3,12052.87%2,71045.92%711.20%4106.95%5,901
Butler 4,36062.95%2,44235.26%1241.79%1,91827.69%6,926
Cass 4,92256.93%3,66942.44%540.62%1,25314.49%8,645
Cedar 3,78155.66%2,39435.24%6189.10%1,38720.42%6,793
Chase 1,49357.71%1,03139.85%632.44%46217.86%2,587
Cherry 2,01051.03%1,87447.58%551.40%1363.45%3,939
Cheyenne 2,95066.41%1,37430.93%1182.66%1,57635.48%4,442
Clay 2,93249.54%2,85648.26%1302.20%761.28%5,918
Colfax 3,21063.25%1,64432.39%2214.35%1,56630.86%5,075
Cuming 3,11453.32%2,27538.96%4517.72%83914.37%5,840
Custer 5,90751.39%5,25045.67%3382.94%6575.72%11,495
Dakota 2,74164.01%1,26429.52%2776.47%1,47734.49%4,282
Dawes 2,78454.35%2,08340.67%2554.98%70113.69%5,122
Dawson 4,02152.21%3,57346.39%1081.40%4485.82%7,702
Deuel 1,02056.42%74741.32%412.27%27315.10%1,808
Dixon 2,64054.21%2,10843.29%1222.51%53210.92%4,870
Dodge 6,31755.71%4,56140.22%4614.07%1,75615.49%11,339
Douglas 70,24565.60%35,34933.01%1,4821.38%34,89632.59%107,076
Dundy 1,32855.15%1,05443.77%261.08%27411.38%2,408
Fillmore 3,15452.03%2,85847.15%500.82%2964.88%6,062
Franklin 2,35056.42%1,68540.46%1303.12%66515.97%4,165
Frontier 1,88353.66%1,57644.91%501.42%3078.75%3,509
Furnas 2,48245.76%2,84252.40%1001.84%-360-6.64%5,424
Gage 7,22756.70%5,29141.51%2271.78%1,93615.19%12,745
Garden 98649.13%99649.63%251.25%-10-0.50%2,007
Garfield 69747.22%74450.41%352.37%-47-3.18%1,476
Gosper 1,11862.70%64736.29%181.01%47126.42%1,783
Grant 32154.41%26745.25%20.34%549.15%590
Greeley 1,98856.40%1,10731.40%43012.20%88124.99%3,525
Hall 6,29553.30%5,14643.57%3693.12%1,1499.73%11,810
Hamilton 2,65348.69%2,74850.43%480.88%-95-1.74%5,449
Harlan 2,08454.64%1,69244.36%381.00%39210.28%3,814
Hayes 81855.20%65444.13%100.67%16411.07%1,482
Hitchcock 1,73857.08%1,28542.20%220.72%45314.88%3,045
Holt 3,90250.26%3,71447.84%1481.91%1882.42%7,764
Hooker 19139.63%28859.75%30.62%-97-20.12%482
Howard 3,14870.05%1,22327.21%1232.74%1,92542.83%4,494
Jefferson 4,52659.37%3,04839.98%500.66%1,47819.39%7,624
Johnson 2,35952.13%2,12646.98%400.88%2335.15%4,525
Kearney 2,44565.89%1,21432.71%521.40%1,23133.17%3,711
Keith 2,00063.45%1,09434.71%581.84%90628.74%3,152
Keya Paha 55639.91%83059.58%70.50%-274-19.67%1,393
Kimball 1,13755.95%84241.44%532.61%29514.52%2,032
Knox 4,44958.67%2,94938.89%1852.44%1,50019.78%7,583
Lancaster 22,36650.71%20,90247.39%8381.90%1,4643.32%44,106
Lincoln 6,74262.45%3,85735.73%1971.82%2,88526.72%10,796
Logan 45652.17%41046.91%80.92%465.26%874
Loup 33542.57%43855.65%141.78%-103-13.09%787
Madison 6,04453.30%5,14945.41%1471.30%8957.89%11,340
McPherson 25042.81%32655.82%81.37%-76-13.01%584
Merrick 2,40149.13%2,36748.43%1192.44%340.70%4,887
Morrill 1,99958.73%1,35439.78%511.50%64518.95%3,404
Nance 2,01252.52%1,77046.20%491.28%2426.32%3,831
Nemaha 3,45955.77%2,72043.86%230.37%73911.92%6,202
Nuckolls 2,77853.72%2,31744.81%761.47%4618.92%5,171
Otoe 4,17348.33%4,39950.95%620.72%-226-2.62%8,634
Pawnee 2,29752.16%2,07447.09%330.75%2235.06%4,404
Perkins 1,58464.39%86135.00%150.61%72329.39%2,460
Phelps 2,58757.62%1,88441.96%190.42%70315.66%4,490
Pierce 2,35752.44%2,01644.85%1222.71%3417.59%4,495
Platte 6,24965.70%2,85029.96%4134.34%3,39935.73%9,512
Polk 2,51952.23%2,25646.78%481.00%2635.45%4,823
Red Willow 3,44560.52%2,07836.51%1692.97%1,36724.02%5,692
Richardson 5,81359.57%3,90840.05%370.38%1,90519.52%9,758
Rock 71042.46%94456.46%181.08%-234-14.00%1,672
Saline 5,48066.78%2,63732.14%891.08%2,84334.65%8,206
Sarpy 3,03065.18%1,56933.75%501.08%1,46131.43%4,649
Saunders 5,51457.52%3,77339.36%3003.13%1,74118.16%9,587
Scotts Bluff 5,76857.70%4,05140.53%1771.77%1,71717.18%9,996
Seward 3,86654.92%3,12344.37%500.71%74310.56%7,039
Sheridan 2,42854.14%1,90742.52%1503.34%52111.62%4,485
Sherman 2,70166.81%1,29432.01%481.19%1,40734.80%4,043
Sioux 95657.66%67440.65%281.69%28217.01%1,658
Stanton 1,91759.94%1,16936.55%1123.50%74823.39%3,198
Thayer 3,41855.80%2,62842.91%791.29%79012.90%6,125
Thomas 37449.67%36648.61%131.73%81.06%753
Thurston 2,67665.88%1,19529.42%1914.70%1,48136.46%4,062
Valley 1,96047.86%2,03349.65%1022.49%-73-1.78%4,095
Washington 3,42659.75%2,26339.47%450.78%1,16320.28%5,734
Wayne 2,32251.07%2,14947.26%761.67%1733.80%4,547
Webster 2,40855.13%1,91243.77%481.10%49611.36%4,368
Wheeler 48452.61%35838.91%788.48%12613.70%920
York 3,74144.46%4,55454.12%1201.43%-813-9.66%8,415
Totals347,44557.14%247,73140.74%12,8472.11%99,71416.40%!608,023

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

References

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  2. "1936 Presidential General Election Results - Nebraska" . Retrieved December 25, 2018.
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