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Elections in Rhode Island |
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The 1936 United States presidential election in Rhode Island was held on November 3, 1936. The state voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Rhode Island voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won the state by a margin of 12.92%. Roosevelt was the first Democrat to ever win Newport County.
1936 United States presidential election in Rhode Island [1] | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
Count | % | Count | % | |||||
Democratic | Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York | John Nance Garner of Texas | 165,238 | 53.10% | 4 | 100.00% | ||
Republican | Alf Landon of Kansas | Frank Knox of Illinois | 125,031 | 40.18% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Union | William Lemke of North Dakota | Thomas C. O'Brien of Massachusetts | 19,569 | 6.29% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Socialist Labor | John W. Aiken of Connecticut | Emil F. Teichert of New York | 929 | 0.30% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Communist | Earl Russell Browder of Kansas | James W. Ford of New York | 411 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
Total | 311,178 | 100.00% | 4 | 100.00% |
1936 United States presidential election in Rhode Island (by county) [2] | ||||||||
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County | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | Alf Landon Republican | Other candidates Various parties | Total | ||||
% | # | % | # | % | # | # | ||
Bristol | 49.96% | 5,327 | 45.6% | 4,867 | 4.4% | 468 | 10,662 | |
Kent | 47.2% | 13,238 | 48.4% | 13,550 | 4.4% | 1,231 | 28,019 | |
Newport | 49.1% | 9,499 | 48.3% | 9,358 | 2.6% | 504 | 19,361 | |
Providence | 55.1% | 131,218 | 37.2% | 88,492 | 7.7% | 18,370 | 238,080 | |
Washington | 39.6% | 5,956 | 58.2% | 8,764 | 2.2% | 336 | 15,056 |
Rhode Island is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020; but it has grown at every decennial count since 1790 and is the second-most densely populated state, after New Jersey. The state takes its name from the eponymous island, though nearly all its land area is on the mainland. Providence is its capital and most populous city.
The 2010 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 2010. It was preceded by the primary election on September 14, 2010. Incumbent Republican Governor Donald Carcieri was term-limited in 2010. The non-partisan Cook Political Report, The New York Times and CQ Politics rated the gubernatorial election as a toss-up.
Since the Great Depression, Rhode Island politics have been dominated by the Rhode Island Democratic Party, and the state is considered part of the Democrats' "Blue Wall." Democrats have won all but four presidential elections since 1928, with the exceptions being 1952, 1956, 1972, and 1984. The Rhode Island Republican Party, although virtually non-existent in the Rhode Island General Assembly, has remained competitive in gubernatorial elections, having won one as recently as 2006. Until 2014, Democrats had not won a gubernatorial election in the state since 1992, and it was not until 2018 that they won one by double digits. The Rhode Island General Assembly has continuously been under Democratic control since 1959.
The 2012 United States Senate election in Rhode Island was on November 6, 2012, alongside the presidential election, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.
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