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Beginning the day after his 1931 inauguration for a second term as Governor of New York, Roosevelt allowed his aides Louis Howe and James Farley to float his name as a potential candidate for president in 1932. [3] An early test of Roosevelt's strength came when Democratic National Committee chairman John Jakob Raskob floated a proposal to have ...
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1932. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York and the vice presidential nominee of the 1920 presidential election.
Presidential election year: Election day: November 8: Incumbent president: Herbert Hoover (Republican) Next Congress: 73rd: Presidential election; Partisan control: Democratic gain: Popular vote margin: Democratic +17.8%: Electoral vote: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) 472: Herbert Hoover (R) 59: 1932 presidential election results.
The 1932 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 8 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Roosevelt became the first Democrat to win a majority of North Dakota's vote in a presidential election, a feat he emulated in 1936 but which has otherwise only been achieved by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. [12] This was also Roosevelt's strongest performance in any state outside of the Solid South. His 69.59 percent of the vote is the best ...
With the economy hurting badly after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, many Democrats hoped that the 1932 elections would see the election of the first Democratic president since 1916. Roosevelt's 1930 gubernatorial re-election victory in New York established him as the front-runner for the nomination.
Roosevelt's 12.74% victory margin over Hoover was the widest victory margin ever for a Democratic presidential candidate in New York State up to that point, although it would be surpassed just 4 years later by Roosevelt's own 20-point re-election victory in 1936. Roosevelt's support in the state did not appear spontaneously in 1932; his winning ...
The 1932 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 8, 1932. All contemporary forty-eight states were part of the 1932 United States presidential election . State voters chose three electors to represent them in the Electoral College , which voted for President and Vice President .