United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1932

United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1932
Minnesota
November 8, 1932

 
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York California
Running mate John Nance Garner Charles Curtis
Electoral vote 11 0
Popular vote 600,806 363,959
Percentage 59.9% 36.3%

County Results

President before election

Herbert Hoover
Republican

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The 1932 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 8, 1932 in Minnesota as part of the 1932 United States presidential election.

The Democratic candidate, New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt won the state over incumbent President Herbert Hoover by a margin of 236,847 votes, or 23.62%. Nationally, Roosevelt won the election, with 472 electoral votes and a landslide 17.76% lead over Hoover in the popular vote.

The election of 1932, the first held since the Wall Street Crash of 1929, was a realigning election which marked the effective end of the Republican-dominated Fourth Party System, and the beginning of the Fifth Party System, which led to the dominance of the New Deal Coalition in presidential politics until 1968. In Minnesota, a state in which Republicans had always previously been dominant, early warning of the Republicans' poor prospects for 1932 was given in the 1930 gubernatorial election, in which Farmer-Labor candidate Floyd B. Olson won the governorship by a landslide margin. Throughout most of the 1930s, Roosevelt would dominate presidential politics in Minnesota, while Olson and the Farmer-Laborites tended to dominate state politics. The eventual cooperation between the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic Party, fostered by Olson and Roosevelt, would lead to the establishment of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in 1944.

Results

United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1932[1]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt 600,806 59.91% 11
Republican Herbert Hoover (incumbent) 363,959 36.29% 0
Socialist Norman Thomas 25,476 2.54% 0
Communist William Z. Foster 6,101 0.61% 0
Farmer-Labor Jacob Coxey 5,731 0.57% 0
Socialist Labor Verne L. Reynolds 770 0.08% 0
Totals 1,002,843 100.00% 11

References

  1. "1932 Presidential Election Results, 1932". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
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