1936 United States presidential election in Delaware

Summary

The 1936 United States presidential election in Delaware was held on November 3, 1936. The state voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1936 United States presidential election in Delaware

← 1932 November 3, 1936 1940 →
 
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Alf Landon
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Kansas
Running mate John Nance Garner Frank Knox
Electoral vote 3 0
Popular vote 69,702 57,236
Percentage 54.62% 44.85%

County Results
Roosevelt
  50-60%


President before election

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Delaware voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who defeated Republican nominee, Kansas Governor Alf Landon. Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 9.77%, marking the first time since 1912 that the state voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, and the first time since 1888 that a Democrat carried the state with an outright majority.

While Landon lost the state, the 44.85% of the popular vote made Delaware his fifth strongest state in the 1936 election in terms of popular vote percentage after Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Kansas.[1]

This election marked Delaware's transition into a bellwether state: for the rest of the 20th century, it would vote for a losing candidate only once (in 1948). Once the century rolled around, it came to be regarded as a solidly blue state.

Results edit

1936 United States presidential election in Delaware[2]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Democratic Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York John Nance Garner of Texas 69,702 54.62% 3 100.00%
Republican Alf Landon of Kansas Frank Knox of Illinois 57,236 44.85% 0 0.00%
Union William Lemke of North Dakota Thomas C. O'Brien of Massachusetts 442 0.35% 0 0.00%
Socialist Norman Thomas of New York George A. Nelson of Wisconsin 172 0.13% 0 0.00%
Communist Earl Russell Browder of Kansas James W. Ford of New York 51 0.04% 0 0.00%
Total 127,603 100.00% 3 100.00%

Results by county edit

County Dem Rep Oth
Kent 9,588 6,936 481
New Castle 47,315 36,859 1,592
Sussex 12,799 10,219 1,814
STATEWIDE 69,702 54,014 3,887

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "1936 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  2. ^ "1936 Presidential General Election Results - Delaware". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.