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1936 United States presidential election in California

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1936 United States presidential election in California

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FieldValue
election_name1936 United States presidential election in California
countryCalifornia
flag_imageFlag of California (1924–1953).pngborder
typepresidential
ongoingno
previous_election1932 United States presidential election in California
previous_year1932
next_election1940 United States presidential election in California
next_year1940
turnout83.36% (of registered voters) 2.71 pp
70.56% (of eligible voters) 5.34 pp
election_dateNovember 3, 1936
image_sizex200px
image1FDR in 1933 (cropped).jpg
nominee1**Franklin D. Roosevelt**
party1Democratic Party (United States)
home_state1New York
running_mate1**John N. Garner**
electoral_vote1**22**
popular_vote1**1,766,836**
percentage1**66.95%**
image2LandonPortr (cropped).jpg
nominee2Alf Landon
party2Republican Party (United States)
home_state2Kansas
running_mate2Frank Knox
electoral_vote20
popular_vote2836,431
percentage231.70%
map_image325px
map_size400px
map_captionCounty Results
titlePresident
before_electionFranklin D. Roosevelt
before_partyDemocratic Party (United States)
after_electionFranklin D. Roosevelt
after_partyDemocratic Party (United States)

Main article: 1936 United States presidential election

70.56% (of eligible voters) 5.34 pp Roosevelt

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. 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.

, 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.

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 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

PartyPledged toElectorVotesVotes cast2,638,882
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltMrs. Hancock Banning1,766,836
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltO. K. Cushing1,766,013
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltLeo J. Smith1,765,958
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltDaniel C. Murphy1,765,919
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltCharles L. Culbert1,765,843
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltMrs. George J. Knox1,765,807
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltW. R. Jacob1,765,739
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltGeorge F. Irvine1,765,680
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltArgyll Campbell1,765,652
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltStephen P. Galvin1,765,651
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltH. H. Whitting1,765,634
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltDoris McAdoo1,765,598
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltLloyd Sheldon1,765,528
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltDaniel Green1,765,429
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltArchibald W. Livingston1,765,340
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltJohn H. Burke1,765,319
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltStanley S. Anderson1,765,295
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltJohn Baumgartner1,765,287
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltC. M. Brown1,765,262
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltJames B. Ogg1,765,253
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltCharles W. McQuarrie1,765,193
Democratic Party (United States)}}Democratic PartyFranklin D. RooseveltE. O. Busenburg1,764,603
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonJoseph Scott836,431
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonTallant Tubbs836,060
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonJames G. Anderson835,954
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonA. E. Goddard835,822
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonThomas M. Carlson835,796
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonCharles H. Segerstrom835,787
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonThomas C. Meagher835,767
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonAlbert A. Rosenshine835,761
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonCecil B. DeMille835,748
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonRaymond Smith835,745
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonRuth Comfort Mitchell Young835,734
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonWalter H. Duval835,713
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonWalter S. Hunsaker835,713
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonLouis B. Mayer835,701
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonMrs. Newton Cleveland835,689
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonFrank J. Buckley835,683
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonRuth Buchanan835,651
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonCharlotta A. Bass835,618
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonA. E. Henning835,618
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonGladys O'Donnell835,586
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonCharles E. Brouse835,535
Republican Party (United States)}}"Republican PartyAlfred M. LandonCharles B. Wincote835,392
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinW. P. Fassett12,917
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinMinnie Goldthwaite12,839
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinJoseph Fusch12,835
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinH. A. Johnson12,831
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinNellie S. Harriss12,828
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinEthel Hubler12,812
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinFrank G. H. Stevens12,809
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinW. H. Easterling12,799
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinJames P. M. Jensen12,795
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinJohn C. Bell12,794
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinB. C. Johnson12,794
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinRussell S. Dingley12,793
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinM. Len Hutchins12,790
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinPercy F. Adams12,789
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinVirgil G. Hinshaw12,789
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinFlorence Jeffs12,779
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinWilliam I. Hull12,778
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinC. B. Griffin12,775
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinLucius D. Dale12,774
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinErrol O. Shour12,770
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinO. U. Hull12,759
Prohibition Party}}Prohibition PartyD. Leigh ColvinL. B. Steward12,753
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasRalph W. Musson11,331
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasJoseph A. Plecarpo11,325
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasEva Randall11,318
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasWillard F. Smith11,318
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasMillie Shapiro11,311
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasHerbert L. Coggins11,310
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasSybren Cornelius Zondervon11,310
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasRaymond H. Henderson11,300
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasErnest Norback11,300
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasEdward V. Peterson11,294
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasGlen Trimble11,290
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasMilen Dempster11,289
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasB. A. Zaremba11,287
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasClarence Rust11,285
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasCatherine McCauley11,284
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasLillian Elstein11,283
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasA. Dutkiewicz11,282
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasLyle Loomis11,275
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasFrank O. Rear11,274
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasTrelfa Lund11,270
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasP. Manisculo11,270
Socialist Party USA}}Socialist PartyNorman ThomasGeorge A. Garrett11,267
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderWilliam Schneiderman10,877
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderLouis Rosser10,842
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderPettis Perry10,841
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderGeorge Maurer10,839
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderPeter J. Garrison10,827
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderThomas Cooney10,825
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderJames Tormey10,823
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderCarroll Barnes10,820
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderWilliam J. Prater10,820
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderBessie Keckler10,818
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderE. L. Patterson10,818
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderMini Carson10,816
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderSam Jaye10,816
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderD. L. Saunders10,812
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderHerbert S. Elstein10,810
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderEleanor McLauchlan10,810
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderLeon Vannier10,810
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderHenry J. Rainer10,809
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderHarry Schneider10,809
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderAlex Noral10,808
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderWilliam A. Standridge10,806
Communist Party USA}}Communist PartyEarl BrowderAtanasio E. Torres10,793
Independent}}"Write-inScattering490

Results by county

CountyFranklin D. Roosevelt
DemocraticAlf Landon
RepublicanD. Leigh Colvin
ProhibitionNorman Thomas
SocialistEarl Browder
CommunistScattering
Write-inMarginTotal votes cast#%#%#%#%#%#%#%Total1,766,83666.95%836,43131.70%12,9170.49%11,3310.43%10,8770.41%4900.02%930,40535.26%2,638,882
Alameda149,32363.63%82,35235.09%7250.31%1,1780.50%1,1080.47%00.00%66,97128.54%234,686
Alpine8553.46%7446.54%00.00%00.00%00.00%00.00%116.92%159
Amador2,50675.41%77723.38%140.42%200.60%60.18%00.00%1,72952.03%3,323
Butte10,49065.86%5,10332.04%1080.68%1300.82%970.61%00.00%5,38733.82%15,928
Calaveras2,52071.31%96027.16%170.48%260.74%110.31%00.00%1,56044.14%3,534
Colusa2,96570.38%1,18628.15%340.81%240.57%40.09%00.00%1,77942.23%4,213
Contra Costa26,00772.29%9,60426.70%890.25%1780.49%970.27%00.00%16,40345.60%35,975
Del Norte1,29259.43%85339.24%40.18%180.83%70.32%00.00%43920.19%2,174
El Dorado4,01975.66%1,22823.12%180.34%390.73%80.15%00.00%2,79152.54%5,312
Fresno42,85977.75%11,54520.94%3340.61%2550.46%1330.24%00.00%31,31456.80%55,126
Glenn3,28865.97%1,62032.50%390.78%320.64%50.10%00.00%1,66833.47%4,984
Humboldt11,90962.93%6,80835.97%670.35%930.49%480.25%00.00%5,10126.95%18,925
Imperial7,56060.75%4,77138.34%490.39%260.21%380.31%00.00%2,78922.41%12,444
Inyo1,56062.38%91236.47%60.24%200.80%30.12%00.00%64825.91%2,501
Kern25,72674.61%8,34524.20%1460.42%2190.64%430.12%00.00%17,38150.41%34,479
Kings7,06275.10%2,22623.67%760.81%350.37%50.05%00.00%4,83651.42%9,404
Lake1,83749.82%1,79748.74%220.60%240.65%70.19%00.00%401.08%3,687
Lassen4,19379.47%1,03519.62%180.34%130.25%170.32%00.00%3,15859.86%5,276
Los Angeles757,35167.00%357,40131.62%5,8270.52%4,1590.37%5,2170.46%4600.04%399,95035.38%1,130,415
Madera4,64675.74%1,38722.61%430.70%360.59%220.36%00.00%3,25953.13%6,134
Marin12,15265.43%6,21133.44%390.21%850.46%850.46%00.00%5,94131.99%18,572
Mariposa1,90774.40%62124.23%100.39%220.86%30.12%00.00%1,28650.18%2,563
Mendocino6,43262.65%3,67035.75%330.32%680.66%630.61%00.00%2,76226.90%10,266
Merced9,20872.69%3,23025.50%1080.85%910.72%310.24%00.00%5,97847.19%12,668
Modoc1,82864.57%96834.19%160.57%70.25%120.42%00.00%86030.38%2,831
Mono45864.78%24134.09%00.00%60.85%20.28%00.00%21730.69%707
Monterey12,26761.13%7,56537.70%790.39%1010.50%550.27%00.00%4,70223.43%20,067
Napa6,27060.35%3,97338.24%520.50%780.75%170.16%00.00%2,29722.11%10,390
Nevada5,12871.91%1,91326.83%160.22%590.83%150.21%00.00%3,21545.08%7,131
Orange29,83655.00%23,49443.31%5350.99%2370.44%1490.27%00.00%6,34211.69%54,251
Placer7,95976.62%2,32122.34%350.34%520.50%210.20%00.00%5,63854.27%10,388
Plumas2,70778.81%68019.80%140.41%140.41%200.58%00.00%2,02759.01%3,435
Riverside17,01149.88%16,67448.89%2000.59%1810.53%410.12%00.00%3370.99%34,107
Sacramento47,26578.53%12,11920.14%2410.40%3030.50%2470.41%90.01%35,14658.40%60,184
San Benito2,56561.93%1,51536.58%120.29%310.75%190.46%00.00%1,05025.35%4,142
San Bernardino33,95559.55%22,21938.97%4610.81%2120.37%1690.30%00.00%11,73620.58%57,016
San Diego64,62863.45%35,68635.04%5790.57%5240.51%4370.43%00.00%28,94228.42%101,854
San Francisco196,19774.04%65,43624.69%1,2270.46%7570.29%1,3660.52%180.01%130,76149.34%265,001
San Joaquin29,07873.20%10,17225.61%1590.40%2100.53%1040.26%00.00%18,90647.59%39,723
San Luis Obispo7,88961.13%4,81237.28%900.70%750.58%400.31%00.00%3,07723.84%12,906
San Mateo27,08765.67%13,65033.09%810.20%2530.61%1770.43%00.00%13,43732.58%41,248
Santa Barbara15,92361.14%9,72837.35%910.35%1640.63%1380.53%10.00%6,19523.79%26,045
Santa Clara38,34658.48%26,49840.41%1600.24%3990.61%1730.26%00.00%11,84818.07%65,576
Santa Cruz9,32652.08%8,26046.12%820.46%1200.67%1200.67%00.00%1,0665.95%17,908
Shasta5,23669.72%2,15928.75%420.56%350.47%380.51%00.00%3,07740.97%7,510
Sierra1,15276.44%34022.56%60.40%40.27%50.33%00.00%81253.88%1,507
Siskiyou6,86569.28%2,91929.46%420.42%500.50%330.33%00.00%3,94639.82%9,909
Solano13,45978.05%3,60320.89%660.38%690.40%470.27%00.00%9,85657.16%17,244
Sonoma17,27360.17%11,18538.96%650.23%830.29%1000.35%00.00%6,08821.21%28,706
Stanislaus15,34163.13%8,61335.44%1900.78%800.33%780.32%00.00%6,72827.68%24,302
Sutter4,01970.04%1,61328.11%350.61%560.98%150.26%00.00%2,40641.93%5,738
Tehama3,68759.68%2,37638.46%641.04%430.70%80.13%00.00%1,31121.22%6,178
Trinity1,42467.11%65530.87%130.61%70.33%231.08%00.00%76936.24%2,122
Tulare18,95667.66%8,62430.78%2650.95%1150.41%550.20%00.00%10,33236.88%28,015
Tuolumne3,30372.72%1,19926.40%50.11%280.62%70.15%00.00%2,10446.32%4,542
Ventura13,38463.14%7,57935.75%970.46%940.44%420.20%20.01%5,80527.38%21,198
Yolo5,99268.94%2,59429.84%440.51%470.54%150.17%00.00%3,39839.09%8,692
Yuba4,12574.18%1,33223.95%270.49%460.83%310.56%00.00%2,79350.22%5,561
County flips from 1932: {{col-begin}}

Democratic ]]

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

  • Riverside

Notes

References

References

  1. "Historical Voter Registration and Participation in Statewide General Elections 1910-2018".
  2. Thomas, G. Scott; The Pursuit of the White House: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics and History, p. 421 {{ISBN. 0313257957
  3. Menendez, Albert J.; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States'', 1868-2004, pp. 152-155 {{ISBN. 0786422173
  4. California Secretary of State. "Statement of Vote at General Election Held On November 3, 1936 in the State of California". State Printing Office.
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