United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1936

United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1936
Minnesota
November 3, 1936

 
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Alf Landon William Lemke
Party Democratic Republican Union
Home state New York Kansas North Dakota
Running mate John Nance Garner Frank Knox Thomas C. O'Brien
Electoral vote 11 0 0
Popular vote 698,811 350,461 74,296
Percentage 61.8% 31.0% 6.6%

County Results

President before election

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The 1936 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 3, 1936 in Minnesota as part of the 1936 United States presidential election.

The Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt won the state over Kansas governor Alf Landon by a margin of 348,350 votes, or 30.83%—nearly double Landon's overall share of the state's vote. Nationally, Roosevelt was soundly re-elected, with 523 electoral votes and a landslide 24.26% lead over Landon in the popular vote. Landon carried only two states: Maine and Vermont.

Only five presidential nominees have ever won a greater percentage of the vote in Minnesota than Roosevelt did in 1936: Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 (74%), Warren G. Harding in 1920 (70.6%), Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 (63.8%), Abraham Lincoln in 1860 (63.5%), and James A. Garfield in 1880 (62.3%)—every one of them going on to win the election nationally.

Results

United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1936[1]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) 698,811 61.84% 11
Republican Alf Landon 350,461 31.01% 0
Union William Lemke 74,296 6.58% 0
Socialist Norman Thomas 2,872 0.25% 0
Communist Earl Browder 2,574 0.23% 0
Socialist Labor John W. Aiken 961 0.09% 0
Totals 1,129,975 100.00% 11

References

  1. "1936 Presidential Election Results, 1936". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
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