1936 United States presidential election in Wyoming

1936 United States presidential election in Wyoming
Roosevelt 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80%	Landon 50-60%
President before election; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Democratic	Elected President; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Democratic

Last updated December 25, 2023

The 1936 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Wyoming was won by the Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, running with John Nance Garner, who was the 39th and incumbent Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, with 60.58 percent of the popular vote, against the Republican candidate, Alf Landon, who was the Governor of Kansas, running with future Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, with 37.47 percent of the popular vote.^[1] Despite Landon losing by over 23 percent, Wyoming was nonetheless his strongest state West of the Great Plains and voted overall 0.93 percent more Republican than the nation at large, perhaps a sign of the strong Republican state it would become in future elections. Roosevelt won Wyoming by 23 points, outperforming his victory in 1932 by 8 points.

As of the 2020 presidential election ^[update], this is the best ever performance by a Democratic presidential nominee in Wyoming, and the last election in which a Democrat has carried the following counties: Campbell, Converse, Niobrara, Sublette, Washakie and Weston, as even Lyndon B. Johnson failed to carry them when he won Wyoming by 13 points against Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964.^[2]

Roosevelt flipped Big Horn County, which had narrowly backed Herbert Hoover in 1932, winning it by a landslide margin of 22 points, just slightly worse than his statewide margin. Despite losing by more than Hoover, Landon flipped Crook and Johnson counties, both of which had narrowly backed Roosevelt in 1932, and hadn't voted Republican since 1928. This would mark the beginning of a streak of Republican victories in these two counties, as no Democrat has carried them on the Presidential level since. Big Horn County would not vote for a Democratic Presidential candidate again until it narrowly backed Johnson over Goldwater in 1964, and no Democrat has won it since. This would be the last time any candidate won Wyoming by double digits until Republican Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, and the last for a Democrat until 1964.

Roosevelt's victory was a reflection of a nationwide reconsolidation for the Democratic Party that took place throughout the 1930s, as Republicans were seen as out of touch with the middle class, instead serving big businesses, while Democratic policies such as The New Deal were popular with voters attributed to easing The Great Depression.^[3] 4 years earlier, Democrats had flipped the governorship, and in the 1934 midterms, Democrats flipped the Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent Of Public Instruction offices. Along with Roosevelt's landslide reelection in the state, Democrat Harry Schwartz defeated incumbent Republican Senator Robert D. Carey in the concurrent Senate race, thus giving Democrats full control of all statewide offices.

Results

1936 United States presidential election in Wyoming^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent)	62,624	60.58%
	Republican	Alfred Landon	38,739	37.47%
	Union	William Lemke	1,653	1.60%
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	200	0.19%
	Communist	Earl Browder	91	0.09%
	Prohibition	D. Leigh Colvin	75	0.07%
Total votes			103,382	100.00%

Results by county

County	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic		Alfred Mossman Landon Republican		William Frederick Lemke^[4] Union		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast^[5]
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast^[5]
Albany	3,685	66.53%	1,777	32.08%	49	0.88%	28	0.51%	1,908	34.45%	5,539
Big Horn	3,156	60.28%	1,996	38.12%	73	1.39%	11	0.21%	1,160	22.15%	5,236
Campbell	1,435	51.54%	1,322	47.49%	21	0.75%	6	0.22%	113	4.06%	2,784
Carbon	3,257	60.62%	2,041	37.99%	51	0.95%	24	0.45%	1,216	22.63%	5,373
Converse	1,639	50.42%	1,556	47.86%	34	1.05%	22	0.68%	83	2.55%	3,251
Crook	1,088	46.30%	1,218	51.83%	38	1.62%	6	0.26%	-130	-5.53%	2,350
Fremont	3,050	55.12%	2,357	42.60%	107	1.93%	19	0.34%	693	12.52%	5,533
Goshen	2,639	55.55%	2,047	43.09%	47	0.99%	18	0.38%	592	12.46%	4,751
Hot Springs	1,419	61.19%	796	34.33%	89	3.84%	15	0.65%	623	26.87%	2,319
Johnson	949	40.68%	1,266	54.26%	109	4.67%	9	0.39%	-317	-13.59%	2,333
Laramie	7,594	62.55%	4,356	35.88%	151	1.24%	39	0.32%	3,238	26.67%	12,140
Lincoln	2,747	66.03%	1,376	33.08%	31	0.75%	6	0.14%	1,371	32.96%	4,160
Natrona	7,819	65.67%	3,810	32.00%	241	2.02%	37	0.31%	4,009	33.67%	11,907
Niobrara	1,124	50.07%	1,086	48.37%	28	1.25%	7	0.31%	38	1.69%	2,245
Park	2,594	60.12%	1,618	37.50%	92	2.13%	11	0.25%	976	22.62%	4,315
Platte	1,730	50.79%	1,546	45.39%	108	3.17%	22	0.65%	184	5.40%	3,406
Sheridan	4,731	61.60%	2,726	35.49%	204	2.66%	19	0.25%	2,005	26.11%	7,680
Sublette	667	49.85%	638	47.68%	27	2.02%	6	0.45%	29	2.17%	1,338
Sweetwater	6,232	76.97%	1,797	22.19%	32	0.40%	36	0.44%	4,435	54.77%	8,097
Teton	795	58.80%	501	37.06%	51	3.77%	5	0.37%	294	21.75%	1,352
Uinta	1,972	65.41%	1,015	33.67%	21	0.70%	7	0.23%	957	31.74%	3,015
Washakie	1,109	56.50%	810	41.26%	34	1.73%	10	0.51%	299	15.23%	1,963
Weston	1,193	51.98%	1,084	47.23%	15	0.65%	3	0.13%	109	4.75%	2,295
Totals	62,624	60.58%	38,739	37.47%	1,653	1.60%	366	0.35%	23,885	23.10%	103,382

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Big Horn

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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References

1 2 "1936 Presidential Election Results Wyoming". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
↑ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
↑ Larson, T. A. (1969). "The New Deal in Wyoming". Pacific Historical Review. 38 (3): 249–273. doi:10.2307/3636099. JSTOR 3636099.
↑ Géoelections; 1936 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15 on request)
↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 516 ISBN 0405077114

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[Leip-1] 1 2 "1936 Presidential Election Results Wyoming". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.

[how-2] Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016

[3] Larson, T. A. (1969). "The New Deal in Wyoming". Pacific Historical Review. 38 (3): 249–273. doi:10.2307/3636099. JSTOR 3636099.

[4] Géoelections; 1936 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15 on request)

[5] Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 516 ISBN 0405077114

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