1936 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

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1936 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

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Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Alf Landon Party Democratic Republican Home state New York Kansas Running mate John Nance Garner Frank Knox Electoral vote 4 0 Popular vote 108,460 104,642 Percentage 49.73% 47.98%

County Results Roosevelt   50–60% Landon   50–60%   60–70%

President before election Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic

The 1936 United States presidential election in New Hampshire was held on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. The state voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

New Hampshire voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won the state by a narrow margin of 1.75%, after early reports showed Landon carrying the state. ^[1] With Roosevelt's victory in New Hampshire, he became the first Democratic candidate since President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 to carry the state. The state was also the closest in the election, and the only one to have a margin of less than 5 points.

While Landon lost the state, the 47.98% of the popular vote made New Hampshire his third strongest state after neighboring Vermont and Maine, which were the only two states Landon won in the election. ^[2]

Results

1936 United States presidential election in New Hampshire [3]
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Popular vote		Electoral vote
				Count	%	Count	%
	Democratic	Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York	John Nance Garner of Texas	108,460	49.73%	4	100.00%
	Republican	Alf Landon of Kansas	Frank Knox of Illinois	104,642	47.98%	0	0.00%
	Union	William Lemke of North Dakota	Thomas C. O'Brien of Massachusetts	4,819	2.21%	0	0.00%
	Communist	Earl Russell Browder of Kansas	James W. Ford of New York	193	0.09%	0	0.00%
Total				218,114	100.00%	4	100.00%

Results by county

County	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic		Alfred Mossman Landon Republican		William Frederick Lemke [4] Union		Earl Russell Browder Communist		Margin		Total votes cast [5]
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Belknap	5,150	44.70%	6,219	53.98%	145	1.26%	8	0.07%	-1,069	-9.28%	11,522
Carroll	2,769	33.26%	5,521	66.32%	32	0.38%	3	0.04%	-2,752	-33.06%	8,325
Cheshire	6,322	43.38%	8,052	55.25%	183	1.26%	17	0.12%	-1,730	-11.87%	14,574
Coös	8,737	55.67%	6,737	42.93%	196	1.25%	24	0.15%	2,000	12.74%	15,694
Grafton	8,520	42.57%	11,336	56.63%	142	0.71%	18	0.09%	-2,816	-14.06%	20,016
Hillsborough	34,992	57.20%	23,293	38.07%	2,841	4.64%	54	0.09%	11,699	19.13%	61,180
Merrimack	13,645	48.18%	14,456	51.05%	194	0.69%	24	0.08%	-811	-2.87%	28,319
Rockingham	12,207	43.21%	15,466	54.75%	559	1.98%	17	0.06%	-3,259	-11.54%	28,249
Strafford	11,005	55.87%	8,215	41.71%	464	2.36%	13	0.07%	2,790	14.16%	19,697
Sullivan	5,113	48.52%	5,347	50.74%	63	0.60%	15	0.14%	-234	-2.22%	10,538
Totals	108,460	49.73%	104,642	47.98%	4,819	2.21%	193	0.09%	3,818	1.75%	218,114

See also

• United States presidential elections in New Hampshire

References

1. ‘Roosevelt Goes in by Big Vote; Democratic Party Takes Electoral Vote of All but Two States – Congress Democratic; Democrats Elect Governors in Twenty-Three States, Republicans in Two’; Lawrence Daily Journal-World , November 4, 1936, p. 1
2. "1936 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
3. "1936 Presidential General Election Results - New Hampshire". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
4. "1936 Presidential Election Popular Vote". Géoelections.
5. Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 294 ISBN   0405077114