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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican governor Alf Landon of Kansas in a landslide victory.
From March 10 to May 19, 1936, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1936 United States presidential election.The nominee was selected through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1936 Republican National Convention held from June 9 to June 12, 1936, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Election day: November 3: Incumbent president: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) Next Congress: 75th: Presidential election; Partisan control: Democratic hold: Popular vote margin: Democratic +24.3%: Electoral vote: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) 523: Alf Landon (R) 8: 1936 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Landon, blue denotes
The Great Depression-era President won the 1936 election, defeating Republican candidate Alf Landon. Bettmann - Getty Images 1941: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR's 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal is a 2022 popular history book about the 1936 United States presidential election written by David Pietrusza and published by Diversion Books. [1]
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As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the only election since 1856 in which Lebanon County has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. [1] Roosevelt became the first Democrat since Franklin Pierce in 1852 to win Armstrong County and the first since 1856 to win Blair County, Dauphin County, and Philadelphia County. Mifflin County ...
Roosevelt took 64.42% of the popular vote to Landon's 29.64%, in what remains the strongest Democratic presidential performance in Oregon history. Oregon was essentially a one-party Republican state during the Fourth Party System from 1896 to 1928, with the party winning almost every statewide election during the period.