1932 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination
Speaker of the House John Nance Garner and former New York Governor Al Smith were the next two leading candidates behind Roosevelt, and while they did not have nearly as much support as he did, it was the hope of Roosevelt's opponents that he would be unable to obtain the two-thirds majority and that they could gain votes on later ballots or coalesce behind a dark horse candidate.


1932 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination
The convention was held in Chicago between June 27 and July 2. The first vote was taken at 4:28 on the morning of July 2, after ten hours of speeches that had begun at 5:00 on the previous afternoon. After three ballots, although Roosevelt had received far more delegates than any other candidate each time, he still did not have a two-thirds majority. The delegates retired to get some rest, and over the next several hours, two major events occurred that shifted the results in Roosevelt's favor.


1932 United States presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Party nomination
First, newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, who had previously supported Garner, decided to support Roosevelt instead. Then, Roosevelt's campaign managers, James Farley and Louis McHenry Howe, struck a deal with Garner: Garner would drop out of the race and support Roosevelt, and in return Roosevelt would name Garner as his running mate. With this agreement, Garner's supporters in California and Texas voted for Roosevelt on the fourth ballot, giving the governor a two-thirds majority and with it the presidential nomination.


1932 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination
As the year 1932 began, the Republican Party believed Hoover's protectionism and aggressive fiscal policies would solve the depression. Whether they were successful or not, President Herbert Hoover controlled the party and had little trouble securing a re-nomination. Little-known former United States Senator Joseph I. France ran against Hoover in the primaries, but Hoover was often unopposed. France's primary wins were tempered by his defeat to Hoover in his home state of Maryland and the fact that few delegates to the national convention were chosen in the primaries.


1932 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination
Hoover's managers at the Republican National Convention, which met in Chicago between June 14 and 16, ran a tight ship, not allowing expressions of concern for the direction of the nation. He was nominated on the first ballot with 98% of the delegate vote.


1932 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party nomination
Both rural Republicans and hard-money Republicans (the latter hoping to nominate former President Calvin Coolidge) balked at the floor managers and voted against the renomination of Vice-President Charles Curtis, who won with just 55% of the delegate votes.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
After making an airplane trip to the Democratic convention, Roosevelt accepted the nomination in person. In his speech, he stated, "ours must be a party of liberal thought, of planned action, of the enlightened international outlook, and of the greatest good to the greatest number of our citizens." Roosevelt's trip to Chicago was the first of several successful, precedent-making moves designed to make him appear to be the candidate of change in the election. Large crowds greeted Roosevelt as he traveled around the nation; his campaign song "Happy Days Are Here Again" became one of the most popular in American political history – and, indeed, the unofficial anthem of the Democratic Party.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
After their divisive convention, Democrats united around Roosevelt, who was able to draw more universal support than Al Smith had in 1928. Roosevelt's Protestant background prevented the anti-Catholic attacks Smith faced in 1928, and The Depression seemed to be of much greater concern among the American public than previous cultural battles. Prohibition was increasingly unpopular, and wets offered the argument that states and localities needed the tax money. Hoover proposed a new constitutional amendment that was vague on particulars and satisfied neither side. Roosevelt's platform promised repeal of the 18th Amendment.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
In contrast, Hoover was not supported by many of the more prominent Republicans and violently opposed by others, in particular by a number of senators who had fought him throughout his administration and whose national reputation made their opposition of considerable importance. Many prominent Republicans even went so far as to espouse the cause of the Democratic candidate openly.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
Making matters worse for Hoover was the fact that many Americans blamed him for the Great Depression. The outrage caused by the deaths of veterans in the Bonus Army incident in the summer of 1932, combined with the catastrophic economic effects of Hoover's domestic policies, reduced his chances of a second term from slim to none. His attempts to campaign in public were a disaster, as he often had objects thrown at him or his vehicle as he rode through city streets. Hoover's unpopularity resulted in Roosevelt adopting a cautious campaign strategy, focused on minimizing gaffes and keeping public attention directed towards his opponent.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
As Governor of New York, Roosevelt had garnered a reputation for promoting government help for the impoverished, providing a welcome contrast for many who saw Hoover as a do-nothing president. Roosevelt emphasized working collectively through an expanded federal government to confront the economic crisis, a contrast to Hoover's emphasis on individualism. During the campaign, Roosevelt ran on many of the programs that would later become part of the New Deal during his presidency. It was said that "even a vaguely talented dog-catcher could have been elected president against the Republicans." Hoover even received a letter from an Illinois man that advised, "Vote for Roosevelt and make it unanimous."


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign
Roosevelt employed the radio to great effect during the campaign. He was able to outline his platform while also improving the perception of his personality. In March, 1932, The New York Times quoted radio producer John Carlile, who said that Roosevelt had a "tone of perfect sincerity," while for Hoover, "the microphone betrays deliberate effort in his radio voice." The technology not only allowed Roosevelt to reach far more voters than he could via in-person campaigning, but also drew attention away from his paralysis due to polio. Roosevelt took great pains to hide the effects of the disease from voters, instituting a "gentleman's agreement" with the press that he not be photographed in ways that would highlight his disability.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
This was the first election since 1916 (16 years earlier) in which the Democratic candidate won.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
Although the "other" vote (the combined vote total for candidates other than the nominees of the two major parties) of 1932 was three times that of 1928, it was considerably less than what had been recorded in 1920, the time of the greatest "other" vote, with the exception of the unusual conditions prevailing in 1912 and 1924.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
Roosevelt, the Democratic candidate, received 22,817,883 votes (57.41%), the largest vote ever cast for a candidate for the Presidency up until that time, and over 1,425,000 more than that cast for Hoover four years earlier.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
While Hoover had won a greater percentage of the vote in 1928 (as did Harding in 1920), the national swing of 17.59% to the Democrats impressed all who considered the distribution of the vote: more than one-sixth of the electorate had switched from supporting the Republicans to the Democrats. Only once before had there been a comparable shift, in 1920, when there was a 14.65% swing to the Republicans (while there had been a swing to the Democrats of 13.6% in 1912, this was from a three-candidate election).


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
As of 2021, the swing for the Democrats from Smith in 1928 to Roosevelt remains the largest national swing of the electorate between presidential elections in the history of the United States. The largest swing since came for the Democrats in 1976, when the swing from George McGovern in 1972 to Jimmy Carter was 12.61%.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
1932 was a political realignment election: not only did Roosevelt win a sweeping victory over Hoover, but Democrats significantly extended their control over the U.S. House, gaining 101 seats, and also gained 12 seats in the U.S. Senate to gain control of the chamber. Twelve years of Republican leadership came to an end, and 20 consecutive years of Democratic control of the White House began.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
Until 1932, the Republicans had controlled the Presidency for 52 of the previous 72 years, dating back to Abraham Lincoln being elected president in 1860. After 1932, Democrats would control the Presidency for 28 of the next 36 years.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
Roosevelt led the poll in 2,722 counties, the greatest number ever carried by a candidate up until that time. Of these, 282 had never before been Democratic. Only 374 remained loyally Republican. However, that half of the total vote of the nation was cast in just eight states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin) and that in these states, Hoover polled 8,592,163 votes. In one section (West South Central), the Republican percentage sank to 16.21%, but in no other section did the party poll less than 30% of the vote cast. However, the relative appeal of the two candidates in 1932 and the decline of the appeal of Hoover as compared with 1928 are shown in the fact that the Republican vote increased in 1932 in only 87 counties, while the Democratic vote increased in 3,003 counties.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
The vote cast for Hoover, and the fact that in only one section of the nation (West South Central) did he have less than 500,000 votes and in only three states outside of the South less than 50,000 votes, made it clear that the nation remained a two-party electorate, and that everywhere, despite the overwhelming triumph of the Democrats, there was a party membership devoted to neither the new administration nor the proposals of the Socialist candidate who had polled 75% of the "other" vote (as well as the highest raw vote total of his campaigns).


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
This election marks the last time as of 2021 that a Republican presidential candidate won a majority of black and African-American votes: as New Deal policies took effect, the strong support of black voters for these programs began a transition from their traditional support for Republicans to providing solid majorities for Democrats.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
The Roosevelt ticket swept every region of the country except the Northeast, and carried many reliable Republican states that had not been carried by the Democrats since their electoral landslide of 1912, when the Republican vote was split in two.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
Michigan voted Democratic for the first time since the emergence of the Republican Party in 1854, and Minnesota was carried by a Democrat for the first time since its admission to statehood in 1858, leaving Vermont as the only remaining state never to be carried by a Democratic candidate (which it would not be until 1964).


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
In contrast to the state's solid support of Republicans prior to this election, Minnesota has continued supporting Democrats in every presidential election but three since 1932 (the exceptions were in 1952, 1956, and 1972).


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
Roosevelt's victory with 472 electoral votes stood until the 1964 victory of Lyndon B. Johnson, who won 486 electoral votes in 1964, as the most ever won by a first-time contestant in a presidential election. Roosevelt also bettered the national record of 444 electoral votes set by Hoover only four years earlier, but would shatter his own record when he was re-elected in 1936 with 523 votes.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Results
This was the last election in which Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania voted Republican until 1948.


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Geography of results
Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote


1932 United States presidential election, General election, Close states
Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (64 electoral votes):


1932 United States presidential election in Alabama
The 1932 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the nationwide presidential election. Alabama voters chose eleven representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Alabama
Alabama was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 84.74% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 14.13% of the popular vote. This is also the last time any presidential candidate has won every single county in the state.


1932 United States presidential election in Arizona
The 1932 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Arizona
Arizona was won by Governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker of the House John Nance Garner, with 67.03% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis, with 30.53% of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in Arkansas
The 1932 United States presidential election in Arkansas was held on November 8, 1932 as part of the concurrent 1932 United States presidential election held throughout all forty-eight contemporary states. State voters chose nine electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.


1932 United States presidential election in Arkansas, Background
Except for the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state. Disfranchisement of effectively all African-Americans and most poor whites had meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections.


1932 United States presidential election in Arkansas, Background
The 1920s did see a minor change in this, as increased voting by poor Ozark whites as a protest against Woodrow Wilson’s internationalist foreign policy meant that Warren G. Harding was able to win almost forty percent of the statewide vote in 1920; however despite his national landslide Calvin Coolidge in 1924 could not do any more than win the two traditional Unionist GOP counties. 1928 saw the rest of the Outer South and North Alabama bolt the anti-Prohibition Catholic Al Smith, but the presence of Arkansas Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson as running mate meant that within Arkansas only the most northwesterly counties with ordinarily substantial Republican votes would suffer the same fate.


1932 United States presidential election in Arkansas, Background
The following years saw Arkansas plunge into the Great Depression, followed almost immediately by a major drought from the summer of 1930s until the winter of 1931/1932. This came on top of a long depression in agriculture, which was still the dominant player in Arkansas’ economy and was backed up by the “Great Migration” of the state’s agricultural labor force to northeastern and midwestern cities.


1932 United States presidential election in Arkansas, Vote
With the Depression not improving, Arkansas gave extremely heavy support to Democrat Franklin Roosevelt in the 1932 election. Roosevelt won every county in the state, becoming the first Democrat to win Searcy County since before the Civil War and only the second to win adjacent Newton County.


1932 United States presidential election in California
The 1932 United States presidential election in California took place on November 8, 1932 as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose 22 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in California
California voted for the Democratic challenger, New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt, in a landslide over the Republican incumbent, Herbert Hoover, carrying every county except Riverside.


1932 United States presidential election in California
Roosevelt became the first Democrat to gain an absolute majority of the vote in California since James Buchanan in 1856, and in winning all but one county he broke numerous long streaks of Republican dominance. Alpine and Orange Counties had never voted Democratic before this election, Alameda County had last voted for a Democrat in 1856, Humboldt County had never been Democratic since Stephen Douglas carried it in 1860, San Bernardino and Santa Clara Counties had not voted Democratic since Horatio Seymour in 1868, and Los Angeles County previously supported a Democrat with Samuel J. Tilden in 1876.


1932 United States presidential election in Colorado
The 1932 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose six representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Colorado
Colorado was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 54.81 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 41.43% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion when Elbert County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.


1932 United States presidential election in Connecticut
The 1932 United States presidential election in Connecticut 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 eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Connecticut
Connecticut voted for the Republican nominee, incumbent President Herbert Hoover of California, over the Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Hoover's running mate was incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas, while Roosevelt ran with incumbent Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas.


1932 United States presidential election in Connecticut
Hoover won Connecticut by a very narrow margin of 1.14%. Connecticut was 1 of only 6 states, 4 of them in New England, which voted to re-elect the embattled Republican incumbent Hoover, who was widely unpopular over his failure to adequately address the Great Depression.


1932 United States presidential election in Delaware
The 1932 United States presidential election in Delaware 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 three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Delaware
Delaware voted for the Republican nominee, incumbent President Herbert Hoover of California, over the Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Hoover's running mate was incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas, while Roosevelt ran with incumbent Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas.


1932 United States presidential election in Delaware
Hoover won the state by a narrow margin of 2.44%, making Delaware 1 of the only 6 states which voted to re-elect the embattled Republican incumbent president, who was widely unpopular over his failure to adequately address the Great Depression.


1932 United States presidential election in Delaware
With 50.55% of the popular vote. it was his fourth strongest state in the nation after Vermont, Maine and neighboring Pennsylvania.


1932 United States presidential election in Florida
The 1932 United States presidential election in Florida was held on November 8, 1932, as part of the concurrent United States presidential election held in all forty-eight contemporary states. Florida voters chose seven electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Florida, Background
Ever since the disfranchisement of blacks at the beginning of the 1890s, Florida had been a one-party state ruled by the Democratic Party. The disfranchisement of blacks and poor whites by poll taxes in 1889 had left the Republican Party – between 1872 and 1888 dependent upon black votes – virtually extinct.


1932 United States presidential election in Florida, Background
With the single exception of William Howard Taft's win in Calhoun County in 1908 the Democratic Party won every county in Florida in every presidential election from 1892 until 1916. Only twice – and never for more than one term – did any Republican serve in either house of the state legislature between 1896 and 1928.


1932 United States presidential election in Florida, Background
Despite this Democratic dominance and the restrictions on the franchise of the poorer classes due to the poll tax, significant socialist movements were to develop and persist in Tampa and to a lesser extent over other parts of the state, especially against the powerful Ku Klux Klan. There was also a powerful Prohibitionist movements in older North Florida, which saw the Prohibition Party even win the governorship for one term under the notorious anti-Catholic minister Sidney J. Catts.


1932 United States presidential election in Florida, Background
The 1920, aided by a growing "Presidential Republican" vote from migrants from the northern states in southern Florida, saw the GOP increase its vote totals above those from traditional Unionists (which Florida entirely lacked) in Texas, Arkansas, Alabama or Georgia. In 1928, Florida, especially the western Panhandle pineywoods, turned dramatically away from the Democratic Party due to the nomination of Catholic Al Smith, with the result that Herbert Hoover became the first Republican to win a statewide election since the end of Reconstruction.


1932 United States presidential election in Florida, Vote
The influence of the Great Depression completely reversed the Republican trend in Florida Presidential elections of the 1920s. Absent the religious issue that controlled the 1928 election, Florida resumed typical "Solid South" voting behaviour, although the urban Republican trend of the 1920s was not wholly reversed, as seen in Hoover gaining over forty percent of the ballots in the growing urban counties of Orange (Orlando) and Pinellas (St. Petersburg). Franklin D. Roosevelt won against Herbert Hoover by 137,137 votes or by 49.64% and received all 7 of the electoral votes.


1932 United States presidential election in Georgia
The 1932 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background and vote
With the exception of a handful of historically Unionist North Georgia counties – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns – Georgia since the 1880s had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. Disfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and most poor whites had made the Republican Party virtually nonexistent outside of local governments in those few hill counties, and the national Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction. The only competitive elections were Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.


1932 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background and vote
The previous election of 1928 had seen many Protestant ministers in this state stand strongly opposed to Catholic Democratic nominee Al Smith, with the result that Republican candidate Herbert Hoover was able to gain considerable support in the largely white but secessionist upcountry. However, unlike in Alabama, where Hoover nearly carried the state due to Thomas Heflin supporting him over Smith, in Georgia no local Democrats supported Hoover.


1932 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background and vote
The onset of the Great Depression completely destroyed any hope of building on the gains from anti-Catholicism and growing urban middle class presidential Republican voting which had been seen since 1920. In fact, Hoover fell far below typical Republican percentages from before the 1920s, and Roosevelt won more than ninety percent of ballots in Georgia as a whole and in all but twenty-two of the state’s 159 counties. His performance is the best in Georgia by any presidential candidates since Andrew Jackson won the state uncontested exactly a century previously.


1932 United States presidential election in Idaho
The 1932 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Idaho
Idaho was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 58.66 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 38.27 percent of the popular vote. This is the only occasion when Clark County has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.


1932 United States presidential election in Illinois
The 1932 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose 29 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Illinois
Illinois was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 55.23% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 42.04% of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in Illinois
This is the only occasion since at least the American Civil War that any Democratic Presidential candidate has ever carried Ford County or Stark County. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is also the last occasion when Livingston County and Washington County have voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate.


1932 United States presidential election in Illinois, Election information
The primaries and general elections coincided with those for other federal offices (Senate and House), as well as those for state offices.


1932 United States presidential election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout
The total vote in the state-run primary elections (Democratic and Republican) was 939,189.


1932 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries
Both major parties held non-binding state-run preferential primaries on April 12.


1932 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Democratic
The 1932 Illinois Democratic presidential primary was held on April 12, 1932 in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Democratic Party's state primaries ahead of the 1932 presidential election.


1932 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Democratic
The popular vote was a non-binding "beauty contest". Delegates were instead elected by direct votes by congressional district on delegate candidates.


1932 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Democratic
The popular vote was near unanimously won by the only name on the ballot, U.S. Senator from Illinois J. Hamilton Lewis, who ran as a favorite son.


1932 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Republican
The 1932 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on April 12, 1932 in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 1932 presidential election.


1932 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Republican
The preference vote was a "beauty contest". Delegates were instead selected by direct-vote in each congressional districts on delegate candidates.


1932 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Republican
The popular vote was near unanimously won by the only name on the ballot, former U.S. Senator from Maryland Joseph I. France.


1932 United States presidential election in Indiana
The 1932 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose 14 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Indiana
Indiana was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 54.67% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 42.94% of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in Indiana
This is the only occasion since the Civil War that Steuben County has voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate, and as of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election when Fulton County, Jasper County, Kosciusko County, Morgan County and Newton County backed a Democrat for President.


1932 United States presidential election in Iowa
The 1932 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Iowa voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Iowa
Iowa was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 57.69% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 39.98% of the popular vote. This is the only occasion since the Civil War when Cass County and Page County have voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate.


1932 United States presidential election in Iowa
As a result of his win, Roosevelt became the first Democratic presidential candidate since Woodrow Wilson in 1912 to win Iowa and the first since Franklin Pierce in 1852 to win the state with a majority of the popular vote (Wilson had won Iowa in 1912, but only with a plurality of 39.30% of the popular vote).


1932 United States presidential election in Kansas
The 1932 United States presidential election in Kansas was held on November 8, 1932 as part of the concurrent United States presidential election held throughout all forty-eight contemporary states. Kansas voters chose nine electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.


1932 United States presidential election in Kansas, Background
Kansas had been a powerfully Republican state during the 1920s (as it had been during its first quarter-century of statehood), although it did not possess the isolationist sentiment found in Appalachia or the Upper Midwest. In 1928 large-scale anti-Catholic voting swept a state substantially part of the Ozark “Bible Belt”, so that whereas Kansas had been less anti-Democratic than more northerly Plains states in 1920 and 1924, it became Herbert Hoover’s best state in the entire nation at the next election cycle.


1932 United States presidential election in Kansas, Background
However, Hoover’s first term saw disaster on two fronts for the Great Plains: the economic calamity of the Great Depression was combined with a major drought in the region from 1930 onwards. Consequently, agricultural states like Kansas, which had already been hit by declining prices during the 1920s, were severely affected by a wave of foreclosures and outmigration. Roosevelt, despite the strong Republican bent of the state, saw a major opportunity in the Plains States, visiting Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota extensively during his campaign in September.


1932 United States presidential election in Kansas, Background
Outside of the prosperous Northeast, Hoover’s attempts at apologetics were a complete failure, with the result that Roosevelt carried every state west of the Appalachians. Kansas – the home state of incumbent Vice-President Curtis – was Hoover’s strongest state west of the Mississippi, but he still lost ninety-one counties and almost twenty-eight percent of the vote vis-à-vis his overwhelming triumph against Smith in 1928.


1932 United States presidential election in Kansas, Background
This is the only occasion any Democratic Presidential candidate has ever carried Chautauqua County. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is also the last occasion the following counties have voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate: Clay, Coffey, Dickinson, Elk, Jackson, Jewell, Linn, Logan, Norton, Phillips, Republic, Smith, Wabaunsee, Wallace, Washington, Wilson and Woodson.


1932 United States presidential election in Kentucky
The 1932 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Kentucky
Kentucky was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 59.06 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 40.15 percent of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion when Adair County and Grayson County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.


1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana
The 1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Louisiana voters chose ten representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Louisiana was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 92.79 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 7.01 percent of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana
By percentage of the popular vote won, Louisiana was Roosevelt's third-best state, behind only South Carolina and Mississippi.


1932 United States presidential election in Maine
The 1932 United States presidential election in Maine 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 five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Maine
Maine voted for the Republican nominee, incumbent President Herbert Hoover of California, over the Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Hoover's running mate was incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas, while Roosevelt ran with incumbent Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas.


1932 United States presidential election in Maine
Hoover won Maine by a margin of 12.64%, and with 55.83% of the popular vote, it would be his second strongest state in the nation after nearby Vermont. The state was also one of only six states, four of them in New England, which voted to re-elect the embattled Republican incumbent Hoover, who was widely unpopular over his failure to adequately address the Great Depression. Maine would also be one of the only two states in the nation (the other being nearby Vermont) to not vote for Roosevelt in all of his four election campaigns.


1932 United States presidential election in Maryland
The 1932 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Maryland
Maryland was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 61.50% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 36.04% of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
The 1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts 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 17 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Massachusetts voted for the Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, over the Republican nominee, incumbent President Herbert Hoover of California. Roosevelt ran with Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas, and Hoover ran with incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas.


1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Roosevelt carried the state with 50.64% of the vote to Hoover’s 46.64%, a Democratic victory margin of 4.00%. Socialist candidate Norman Thomas came in a distant third, with 2.17%.


1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Massachusetts had once been a typical Yankee Republican bastion in the wake of the Civil War, voting Republican in every election from 1856 until 1924, except in 1912, when former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt had run as a third party candidate against incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft, splitting the Republican vote and allowing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win Massachusetts with a plurality of only 35.53% of the vote.


1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
In 1920 and 1924, Republicans had carried Massachusetts by landslide margins, sweeping every county in the state, including a GOP victory in the city of Boston.


1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
However, in 1928, a coalition of Irish Catholic and other ethnic immigrant voters primarily based in urban areas turned out massively for Catholic Democrat Al Smith, making Massachusetts and neighboring Rhode Island the only states outside of the Solid South to vote Democratic that year, as Herbert Hoover won a third consecutive Republican landslide nationally. After 1912, 1928 was only the second time in history that Massachusetts had voted Democratic, and with 50.24% of the vote, Al Smith became the first Democratic presidential candidate ever to win a majority of the vote in Massachusetts.


1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Although Roosevelt was not a Catholic, the key to his victory in Massachusetts in 1932 was building on Smith’s winning coalition, and bringing ethnic Catholic voters into the broader Democratic coalition. With the embattled incumbent President Hoover failing to adequately address the Great Depression, economic issues would motivate 1928 Smith voters to remain loyal to the Democrats in 1932.


1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
However the state was still closely divided between the newly emerging Democratic majority coalition, and its traditional New England Republican roots, and consequently Massachusetts was one of FDR’s weakest victories. New England as a whole was Hoover's most favorable region, as 4 of Hoover's six state victories came from New England. So although FDR performed much more strongly than Smith nationwide, he only slightly outperformed Smith in Massachusetts. Thus as Roosevelt was elected nationally in a landslide, Massachusetts weighed in as about 14% more Republican than the national average.


1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
As Roosevelt won the state with the same coalition that had propelled Al Smith to victory four years earlier, the county map in 1932 remained exactly the same as it was in 1928, with only percentages, margins, and turnout shifting. Roosevelt won the state despite carrying only 4 of the state’s 14 counties. The most vital component to Roosevelt’s victory was the Democratic dominance in Suffolk County, home to the state's capital and largest city, Boston. Like Smith, Roosevelt took over 60% of the vote in Suffolk County. Another crucial victory for Roosevelt was in Hampden County, home to the city of Springfield. The remaining two counties that went to FDR were Bristol County, south of the Boston area, and rural Berkshire County in the far west of the state.


1932 United States presidential election in Michigan
The 1932 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 19 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Michigan
Michigan was won by the Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, who defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover, receiving 52.36% of the popular vote and the states 19 electoral votes.


1932 United States presidential election in Michigan
As a result of his victory, Roosevelt became the first Democratic presidential candidate since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to get electoral votes from Michigan as well as the first since Franklin Pierce in 1852 to win the state entirely.


1932 United States presidential election in Michigan
This was the first time since the creation of the Republican party that a Democrat won Michigan.


1932 United States presidential election in Minnesota
The 1932 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 8, 1932 as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Minnesota
Minnesota was won by 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.


1932 United States presidential election in Minnesota
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.


1932 United States presidential election in Minnesota
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.


1932 United States presidential election in Minnesota
This is also the first time Minnesota voted for the Democrats in a presidential election since it gained statehood in 1858, and only the second time it did not support the Republican candidate, after Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, and would vote for the Democratic candidates every time after, except the presidential elections of 1952, 1956, and 1972. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Lake County voted for a Republican presidential candidate (incidentally it was the only county to vote Republican in this election) and the last election in which Carver County and Otter Tail County voted for a Democratic candidate.


1932 United States presidential election in Mississippi
The 1932 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Mississippi
Mississippi was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 95.98% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 3.55% of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in Mississippi
By percentage of the popular vote won, Mississippi was Roosevelt's second-best state; the only state in which he performed better was South Carolina, where he won 98.03% of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in Missouri
The 1932 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Missouri
Missouri was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 63.39% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 35.08% of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in Missouri
This is the last election in which Cedar County, Dade County, Miller County, and Wright County have voted for a Democratic presidential nominee, and the only election since the Civil War when Unionist Ozark Camden County, Christian County and Stone County did so.


1932 United States presidential election in Montana
The 1932 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 8, 1932 as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Montana
Montana overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, over the Republican nominee, President Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt won Montana by a landslide margin of 22.73%.


1932 United States presidential election in Nebraska
The 1932 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Nebraska was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 62.98% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 35.29% of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in Nebraska
As of 2020, this election marks the best ever Democratic presidential performance in Nebraska and the only time the state has given more than sixty percent of its vote to a Democrat in a presidential election. 1932 also constitutes the last occasion that the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Antelope, Arthur, Brown, Furnas, Garden, Garfield, Hamilton, Hooker, Loup, McPherson, Rock, Valley, or York. This was the last time that Nebraska voted more Democratic than the nation overall.


1932 United States presidential election in Nevada
The 1932 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Nevada
Nevada was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 69.41% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 30.59% of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
The 1932 United States presidential election in New Hampshire 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 four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
New Hampshire voted for the Republican nominee, incumbent President Herbert Hoover of California, over the Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Hoover's running mate was incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas, while Roosevelt ran with incumbent Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas.


1932 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
Hoover won New Hampshire by a narrow margin of 1.43%. With 50.42% of the popular vote, it was Hoover’s fifth strongest state in the nation behind Vermont, Maine, Pennsylvania and Delaware.


1932 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
New Hampshire was 1 of only 6 states, four of them in New England, which voted to re-elect the embattled Republican incumbent Hoover, who was widely unpopular over his failure to adequately address the Great Depression.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
The 1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 8, 1932. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
New Jersey was won by the Democratic nominees, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas. Roosevelt and Garner defeated the Republican nominees, incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover of California and incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Roosevelt narrowly carried New Jersey with a plurality of 49.48 percent of the vote to Hoover's 47.59 percent, a victory margin of 1.89%.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas finished in third in New Jersey with 2.64%, more than the 2.23 percent he received nationally. Reflecting a nationwide left-wing backlash against the conservative policies that had been perceived to have culminated in the Great Depression in 1929, Thomas in 1932 received more than 8 times the 0.32 percent he had received in 1928. Combined, socialist parties received 2.89 percent of the vote in New Jersey in 1932, nearly seven times the 0.43 percent of 1928.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
This left-wing backlash was also evident in Roosevelt's own victory in the state. His 1932 victory, although narrow, represented a nearly 22 point swing in favor of the Democratic Party from the results of 1928, in a state that had long been a Republican stronghold. In 1920 and 1924, the state had voted over 68 percent and over 62 percent Republican respectively, with GOP victory margins over the Democrats of nearly 40 points.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
On the county level map, reflecting the closeness of the race, Roosevelt managed to narrowly win the state despite carrying only 4 of the state's 21 counties.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
The most important component to Roosevelt's victory was his overwhelming victory in heavily populated Hudson County, part of the New York City metro area, and populated by many urban ethnic immigrant communities. Like NYC, the county- along with the state as a whole- had begun trending Democratic in the 1928 election, when the Democrats had nominated Al Smith, a New York City native, and Roman Catholic of Irish, Italian and German immigrant heritage who appealed strongly to ethnic immigrant communities primarily concentrated in urban areas.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
While Smith in 1928 lost the state overall by a 39.79%–59.77% margin, this still represented a dramatic gain from just four years earlier: in 1924, southern Democrat John W. Davis had received only 27% of the vote in New Jersey. Besides Hudson County, Smith had also made dramatic Democratic gains in other urban parts of North Jersey, including Essex County, home to Newark, along with Middlesex County, Passaic County, Union County, Bergen County, and Mercer County.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Nevertheless, despite losing nationally in a 58–41 GOP landslide, Smith's Democratic gains in urban areas across America, laying the groundwork for a new urban Democratic coalition, were nowhere more evident than in the New York City metro area. After two Republican sweeps of all five boroughs of New York City in 1920 and 1924, Smith won a commanding victory in all five boroughs of NYC in 1928. In New Jersey this urban popularity in the New York City area spilled over into nearby Hudson County, New Jersey. Despite losing every other county in the state, many by large margins, Smith carried Hudson County with over sixty percent of the vote.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
In 1932, with embattled incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover being perceived as failing to adequately address the Great Depression, many urban ethnic working-class voters swung even more strongly to the Democratic Party, and Franklin Roosevelt would receive over seventy percent of the vote in Hudson County, providing much of the raw vote margin by which he managed to eke out a narrow statewide win.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Besides his landslide win in Hudson County, FDR also won majorities in heavily populated Middlesex County and rural Warren County, and won a plurality in fairly populated Passaic County, in the last of which he was the first Democratic victor since James Buchanan in 1856.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
However Hoover kept the race close statewide by winning majorities in 17 of the state's 21 counties, although all of them by relatively close margins, failing to break sixty percent in a single county.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Overall, the Northeast was Roosevelt's weakest region in 1932, with all 6 of Hoover's state victories coming from this region in the midst of a nationwide Democratic landslide. However the overwhelming urban vote in FDR's favor in 1932 helped to narrowly tip New Jersey into the Democratic column, even as much of the state's geographic area remained Republican. A similar pattern was seen in neighboring New York State, which FDR won comfortably despite winning only ten of the state's 62 counties, the overwhelming majority of his victory margin there being provided by landslide wins in the five boroughs of massively populated New York City.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Like most Northeastern states, New Jersey in the early decades of the 20th century had been a reliably Republican state; the state had not given a majority of the vote to a Democratic presidential candidate since 1892. (In 1912, Woodrow Wilson, then the sitting Governor of New Jersey, won the state's electoral votes, but with a plurality of only 41 percent in a 3-way race against a split Republican field, with former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt running as a third party candidate against incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Wilson lost the state to the GOP by a decisive 12-point margin in a head-to-head match-up in 1916.) The state's strong Republican lean was still evident in FDR's 1932 election campaign: although he narrowly won the state with a 49.5-47.6 plurality over Herbert Hoover, in the midst of his nationwide landslide, that still made the state almost 16 points more Republican than the nation.


1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey
By 1936, with the emergence of the New Deal Coalition, FDR would make dramatic gains for the Democratic Party in New Jersey that would endure and transform it into a closely divided swing state with only a slight Republican lean, a pattern that would endure for much of the 20th century until New Jersey ultimately became a solid Democratic state in the 1990s.


1932 United States presidential election in New Mexico
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.


1932 United States presidential election in New Mexico
New Mexico was won by New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in a 27-point landslide against incumbent president Herbert Hoover, who failed to gain reelection. He won every county save Valencia and San Miguel.


1932 United States presidential election in New York
The 1932 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 8, 1932. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 47 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in New York
New York was won by Democratic Governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was challenging embattled incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt ran with Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas, and Hoover ran with incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas.


1932 United States presidential election in New York, Context and strategy
With the incumbent Republican president greatly weakened by his failures to adequately address the Great Depression, the New York Governor easily carried his home state in the midst of a nationwide Democratic landslide. Franklin Roosevelt took 54.07% of the vote in New York State versus Herbert Hoover's 41.33%, a margin of 12.73%. Socialist candidate Norman Thomas finished a distant third, with 3.78%.


1932 United States presidential election in New York, Context and strategy
Despite being Roosevelt's home state – and although he won the state comfortably – in the context of the 1932 nationwide Democratic landslide, New York weighed in for this election as 5% more Republican than the national average.


1932 United States presidential election in New York, Context and strategy
The presidential election of 1932 was a partisan election, with more than 95.4% of the electorate casting votes for either the Democratic Party or the Republican.


1932 United States presidential election in New York, Context and strategy
1932 was the first time a Democrat had won New York's electoral votes in 20 years; in 1912, Republican vote-splitting for the third party candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt had allowed Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win the state with a plurality of only 41% of the vote. Franklin Roosevelt's 54.07% made him the first Democratic presidential candidate to win an absolute majority of the vote in New York State since Samuel Tilden in 1876. Roosevelt's 12.73% 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.


1932 United States presidential election in New York, Context and strategy
Roosevelt's support in the state did not appear spontaneously in 1932; his winning strategy in New York State was primarily to build upon the Democratic coalition fellow New Yorker Al Smith had organized behind him in the 1928 election. Smith had narrowly lost the state in the midst of a nationwide Republican landslide, but had dramatically improved upon how Democrats before him had done, and laid the groundwork for turning the state Democratic in 1932 and beyond. In 1920 and 1924, Republicans had swept every county in New York State and Democrats took less than 30% of the vote.


1932 United States presidential election in New York, Context and strategy
In 1928, Smith came within 2 points of winning the state by sweeping all five boroughs of heavily populated New York City, winning the state capital of Albany in Albany County along with neighboring Rensselaer County, and winning two counties in northern New York along the Saint Lawrence River, Clinton County and Franklin County. In 1932, FDR turned a 2-point statewide Democratic defeat into a 13-point victory primarily by pushing up turnout and victory margins in Smith 1928 counties, as the county map remained almost entirely the same. Only one county in New York State actually changed hands from Hoover in 1928 to Roosevelt in 1932, rural Sullivan County.


1932 United States presidential election in New York, Context and strategy
The most vital component to Roosevelt's victory in New York State was his overwhelming landslide in the massively populated 5 boroughs of New York City. Roosevelt took over 70% of the vote in the Bronx, and over 60% in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Up to this point, 1932 was the strongest victory ever for a Democrat in NYC, although Roosevelt would outperform himself with an even stronger performance in the city in 1936. FDR built on the urban, ethnic coalition that had delivered the city to Al Smith 4 years earlier, and with the rise of the New Deal Coalition, New York would be solidified as one of the most Democratic cities in the United States.


1932 United States presidential election in New York, Context and strategy
Just as Al Smith's 1928 counties remained loyal to the Democrats in 1932, most of upstate New York which had gone Republican in 1928 remained loyal to Herbert Hoover in 1932. This included even counties like Erie County and Monroe County, respectively home to the cities of Buffalo and Rochester, which would not go Democratic until 1936. Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, provided FDR's strongest victory outside of New York City, giving him over 60% of the vote.


1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina
The 1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. North Carolina voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina
North Carolina was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 69.93 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 29.28 percent of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in North Dakota
The 1932 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in North Dakota, Background
Ever since statehood, North Dakota had been overwhelmingly Republican at state level and in many presidential elections, although progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson was able to carry the state in both his campaigns, in the second due to his anti-war platform. In the following three elections, the state’s voting would be shaped by its extreme isolationism in the aftermath of President Wilson’s pushing of the nation into World War I and his “League of Nations” proposal, to which the Russian-Germans who dominated North Dakota’s populace were vehemently opposed.


1932 United States presidential election in North Dakota, Background
The Peace Garden State thus shifted markedly from voting four-to-one for Warren G. Harding against the pro-League James M. Cox, to being the second-strongest state for Robert La Follette under the Nonpartisan League banner in 1924, to strong pro-Catholic and anti-Prohibition voting for Al Smith in 1928 that made the state 7 points more Democratic than the nation at-large.


1932 United States presidential election in North Dakota, Background
During the 1910s, North Dakota had been one of the major centres of Socialist and farmer radicalism. With the coming of the Depression, this radicalism returned, although unlike with the Socialist Party and later with La Follette, there was sharp division over whom to support in the ensuing presidential election, with some supporting veteran Populist and free silver advocate  “Coin” Harvey and other supporting the Socialist or Communist Parties. Nonetheless, grievances of farmers against the Republicans had existed before incumbent Herbert Hoover’s election in 1928.


1932 United States presidential election in North Dakota, Background
Democratic nominee and New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt was himself well-equipped to cater for this issue. After he had won the state’s primary against Oklahoma populist “Alfalfa Bill” Murray, Roosevelt cultivated favor with North Dakota congressmen William Lemke, Lynn J. Frazier and Gerald P. Nye, and as Smith had in 1928, gained the support of former Senator Henry C. Hansbrough. Roosevelt’s proposal to lessen the Smoot-Hawley Tariff to increase farmers’ foreign purchasing power, and to reduce acreage to increase prices for farmers further added to his support in this most agrarian state. Late proposals by Hoover to offer relief failed to make any impression, especially as the President had refused to support the bankruptcy and refinance bills advocated by Senator Frazier.


1932 United States presidential election in North Dakota, Vote
The earlier straw poll in the state, at the end of the third week of October, had Roosevelt leading by about seven-to-four over Hoover, and this poll had been taken amongst voters who had given Hoover a larger margin over Al Smith than North Dakota as a whole had. By the weekend preceding the poll, further polls seemed to confirm Hoover’s hopes of carrying the state as forlorn, and as it turned out Roosevelt carried the state by a larger margin than even the latest polls expected. With the farming areas decimated by drought, Hoover support held up best in the cities of the Red River valley, but FDR still carried all 53 counties by double-digit majorities.


1932 United States presidential election in North Dakota, Vote
Roosevelt became the first Democrat to win a majority of North Dakota’s vote in the presidential election, a feat he emulated in 1936 but which has otherwise only been achieved by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. His 69.59 percent of the vote is by ten percent the best Democratic performance in North Dakota presidential election history.


1932 United States presidential election in Ohio
The 1932 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 8, 1932 as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose 26 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Ohio
Ohio was narrowly won by the Democratic Party candidate, Franklin D. Roosevelt, with 49.88% of the popular vote. The Republican Party candidate, President Herbert Hoover, garnered 47.03% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the only election since the Civil War in which Fulton County has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, and the last when Union County has done so.


1932 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
The 1932 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
Oklahoma was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 73.30 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 26.70 percent of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the only presidential election in which Major County voted for the Democratic candidate. This is also the best Democratic performance in Oklahoma history, and the only election in which the Democratic candidate won every single one of Oklahoma's Counties.


1932 United States presidential election in Oregon
The 1932 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Oregon, Background and results
Outside a few Presidential and gubernatorial elections, Oregon was a virtually one-party Republican state during the “System of 1896”, where the only competition was via Republican primaries. Apart from Woodrow Wilson’s two elections, during the first of which the GOP was severely divided, no Democrat had carried a single county in the state since William Jennings Bryan in 1900.


1932 United States presidential election in Oregon, Background and results
However, since the 1928 election when Oregon had been won against Al Smith by 30.04%, the United States had fallen into the Great Depression, which had been particularly severe in the rural western parts of the nation. The New Deal was especially popular in the Pacific States, and as a result Roosevelt was assured of carrying the state.


1932 United States presidential election in Oregon, Background and results
Oregon was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 57.99% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 36.88% of the popular vote. Roosevelt flipped every county in Oregon except arch-Yankee Benton, and was the first-ever Democratic victor in the northern coastal counties of Clatsop, Lincoln and Tillamook, and also in inland wheat-growing Gilliam County and Wheeler County.


1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
The 1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 8, 1932 as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania voted for the Republican nominee, President Herbert Hoover, over the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hoover won Pennsylvania by a margin of 5.51%.


1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
With 50.84% of the popular vote, Pennsylvania would be Hoover's third strongest state in the nation after Vermont and Maine.


1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
This is the last election where the Republican candidate carried Philadelphia County in a presidential election. This was also the third most recent election in which Pennsylvania did not vote the same as neighboring New York, a phenomenon that has only been repeated twice since, in 1988 and 2016.


1932 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
The 1932 United States presidential election in Rhode Island 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 four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
Rhode Island voted for the Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, over Republican nominee, incumbent President Herbert Hoover of California. Roosevelt running mate was incumbent Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas, while Hoover's running mate was incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas.


1932 United States presidential election in South Carolina
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.


1932 United States presidential election in South Carolina
South Carolina voted for the Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, over the Republican nominee, incumbent President Herbert Hoover of California. Roosevelt ran with incumbent Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas, while Hoover's running mate was incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas.


1932 United States presidential election in South Carolina
Roosevelt won South Carolina by a landslide margin of 96.14%, carrying every county in the state. It proved to be his strongest state in this election.


1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota
The 1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota
South Dakota was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 63.62 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 34.40 percent of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota
As a result of his win in the state, Roosevelt became only the second Democratic presidential candidate to win South Dakota as well as the first one since William Jennings Bryan in 1896 to win the state.


1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota
This is the only occasion since South Dakota’s statehood when Campbell County, Hutchinson County, Sully County and Turner County have voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate, and the last occasion when Butte County and McPherson County have done so.


1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota
This election constitutes the most raw votes a Democrat has ever received in South Dakota. Along with North Dakota in the same year, this is the longest standing such record. It is one of just seven states where a candidate other than Joe Biden in 2020 or Barack Obama in either of his runs holds the record for most raw votes ever received by a Democrat. The others are Rhode Island and West Virginia (Lyndon Johnson), Louisiana and Arkansas (Bill Clinton), and Oklahoma (Jimmy Carter).


1932 United States presidential election in Tennessee
The 1932 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Tennessee
Tennessee was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 66.49% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 32.48% of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in Texas
The 1932 United States presidential election in Texas 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 23 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Texas
Texas voted for the Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, over the Republican nominee, incumbent President Herbert Hoover of California. Roosevelt ran with Speaker of the House John Nance Garner, a Texas native while Hoover ran with incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas.


1932 United States presidential election in Texas
Roosevelt defeated Hoover in the Lone Star State by a landslide margin of 76.71%. To date, this is the largest blowout victory by any major party presidential nominee in the state, and marks the only time following the GOP's creation that Kendall County failed to back their candidate. This is the only time that any presidential candidate has won every single county in the state.


1932 United States presidential election in Texas
With 88.06%, Texas would prove to be Roosevelt's fifth strongest state in popular vote percentage after South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Kendall County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.


1932 United States presidential election in Utah
The 1932 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 8, 1932 as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and state voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Utah
Utah, like every state west of the Appalachian Mountains, voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt over Herbert Hoover by a substantial margin, giving the first Democratic victory in the state since 1916 when anti-war sentiment had shifted the state to Woodrow Wilson. Utah's swing to the Democrats was 23.19 percentage points, much smaller than the national swing of 35.18 percentage points, as the anti-Catholicism which marred the preceding election was less prevalent among the LDS hierarchy than in the South or the Pacific Northwest.


1932 United States presidential election in Utah
Consequently, for this election Utah voted more Republican than the nation at-large for the first time in twenty years, by a margin of 2.29 points on a two-party basis. Hoover managed to retain pluralities in seven of Utah's twenty-nine counties, although in San Juan County Hoover won by only a solitary vote and in sparsely populated Daggett County by just eleven. This was nonetheless equal with Missouri and behind only Kansas as the most counties in one state west of the Mississippi – in all of which Hoover retained only forty-six counties out of 1,161 – remaining Republican.


1932 United States presidential election in Utah
Herbert Hoover, who had been elected in a third consecutive Republican landslide in 1928, was to become extremely unpopular by the time he was up for re-election in 1932, owing to unemployment rising to a whopping twenty-five percent and Hoover's Smoot-Hawley Tariff (proposed by long-serving Beehive State Senator Reed Smoot) had cut severely into exports due to retaliatory tariffs from foreign governments.


1932 United States presidential election in Utah
The Mountain States, including Utah, were even more severely hit by the economic downturn than the national average: Utah's lost consumption between the 1929 crash and the election was about one standard deviation above the national mean. There was also extreme concern over the falling price of silver, of which Utah was a major producer.


1932 United States presidential election in Utah, Polls
In a poll conducted by the Literary Digest, Hoover was far behind Roosevelt in all western states, whose electoral votes the Republican Party had monopolized during the three preceding elections. Paul Mallon in his "National Whirlgig" two weeks before the election suggested Roosevelt had a "degree of chance" in Utah, but that the Democrats were certain of victory in the nation as a whole.


1932 United States presidential election in Vermont
The 1932 United States presidential election in Vermont 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 three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont voted for the Republican nominee, incumbent President Herbert Hoover of California, over the Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Hoover's running mate was incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas, while Roosevelt ran with incumbent Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas.


1932 United States presidential election in Vermont
Hoover took 57.66% of the vote to Roosevelt’s 41.08%, a margin of 16.58%.


1932 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont historically was a bastion of liberal Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1932 the Green Mountain State had gone Republican in every presidential election since the founding of the Republican Party. From 1856 to 1928, Vermont had had the longest streak of voting Republican of any state, having never voted Democratic before, and this tradition continued even in the midst of a nationwide Democratic landslide in 1932.


1932 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont was 1 of only 6 states, four of them in New England, which voted to re-elect the embattled Republican incumbent Hoover, who was widely unpopular over his failure to adequately address the Great Depression. Vermont would ultimately be one of only two states (along with nearby Maine) that would reject FDR in all four of his presidential campaigns.


1932 United States presidential election in Vermont
In terms of both vote share and margin, Vermont was the most Republican state in the nation. Vermont would weigh in as a whopping 34% more Republican than the national average in the 1932 election.


1932 United States presidential election in Vermont
Hoover carried eleven of the state’s 14 counties, breaking sixty percent in seven. However, the three northwestern counties of Vermont would become New Deal Democratic enclaves in an otherwise Republican state. In 1928, Al Smith had become the first ever Democrat to win Chittenden County, the state’s most populous county and home to its largest city, Burlington. In 1932, Roosevelt would carry Chittenden County for the Democrats as Smith did in 1928, but also flip Franklin County and Grand Isle County into the Democratic column. All three counties would remain loyally Democratic in the elections that followed until Dwight Eisenhower’s Republican landslide of 1952.


1932 United States presidential election in Virginia
The 1932 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 8, 1932. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Virginia
Virginia voted for the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, over the Republican nominee, incumbent President Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt ultimately won the national election with 57.41% of the vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Carroll County, Highland County, and Shenandoah County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.


1932 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
The 1932 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Washington (state), Background
Outside a few Presidential and gubernatorial elections, Washington was a virtually one-party Republican state during the “System of 1896”, where the only competition was via Republican primaries. Apart from Woodrow Wilson’s two elections, during the first of which the GOP was severely divided, no Democrat after William Jennings Bryan in 1900 carried a single county in the state until Al Smith won German Catholic Ferry County in 1928.


1932 United States presidential election in Washington (state), Background
However, since the 1928 election when Washington state had been won by more than 36 percentage points, the United States had fallen into the Great Depression, which had been particularly severe in the rural western parts of the nation. The New Deal was especially popular in the Pacific States, and as a result Roosevelt was assured of carrying the state.


1932 United States presidential election in Washington (state), Background
Washington state was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 57.46 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 33.94 percent of the popular vote. Roosevelt flipped every county won by his rival Hoover in 1928, becoming the first Democrat to sweep every county in Washington state – a feat he would repeat in 1936 but which has never been emulated since. He was the first-ever Democratic victor in the southwestern logging counties of Klickitat, Lewis and Pacific, and also in inland Benton County and Chelan County.


1932 United States presidential election in West Virginia
The 1932 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose eight representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in West Virginia
West Virginia was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 54.47% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 44.4% of the popular vote.


1932 United States presidential election in West Virginia
This election marked the beginning of West Virginia's transition to a strongly Democratic-leaning state during the 20th century. It voted Democratic in every election from 1932 through 1996 save the national Republican landslides of 1956, 1972, and 1984; it did not vote for a Republican in a close election until 2000 or for a losing Republican until 2008.


1932 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
The 1932 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 8, 1932 as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background
Wisconsin had since the decline of the Populist movement been substantially a one-party state dominated by the Republican Party. The Democratic Party became entirely uncompetitive outside certain German Catholic counties adjoining Lake Michigan as the upper classes, along with the majority of workers who followed them, completely fled from William Jennings Bryan's agrarian and free silver sympathies. As Democratic strength weakened severely after 1894 – although the state did develop a strong Socialist Party to provide opposition to the GOP – Wisconsin developed the direct Republican primary in 1903 and this ultimately created competition between the "League" under Robert M. La Follette, and the conservative "Regular" faction.


1932 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background
The beginning of the 1910s would see a minor Democratic revival as many La Follette progressives endorsed Woodrow Wilson, but this flirtation would not be long-lasting as Wilson's "Anglophile" foreign policies were severely opposed by Wisconsin's largely German- and Scandinavian-American populace. Subsequent federal elections saw the Midwest desert the Democratic Party even more completely due to supposed preferential treatment of Southern farmers, and in Wisconsin there were never more than three Democrats in the state legislature (and none in the State Senate) between 1921 and 1929.


1932 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background
The Great Depression, apart from providing a revitalized Socialist Party and small Democratic gains – did not affect the state's politics, which continued to be dominated by the La Follette family, substantially. Nonetheless, given that that family had never endorsed incumbent GOP President Herbert Hoover, the national Republican Party was pleased when a conservative, Walter J. Kohler Sr., won the gubernatorial nomination.


1932 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Vote
Interviews at the beginning of October said that with the aid of La Follette forces Roosevelt would carry the state, and a poll a week into that month had Democratic nominee and New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt ahead of incumbent President Hoover by more than two-to-one. When the Progressive leader Robert M. La Follette, Jr. announced his support for Roosevelt and the state Democratic ticket, and said Hoover was a "reactionary" and "wrong on every issue".


1932 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Vote
Later polls in October only served to increase Roosevelt's advantage, and in the end he carried Wisconsin by more than two-to-one despite a strong vote for Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas, who won over twelve percent in Milwaukee County. Wisconsin would prove Thomas' strongest state, although he did not receive half the percentage gained by Eugene V. Debs in 1920.


1932 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Vote
Roosevelt won every county except the two Yankee strongholds of Rock and Walworth, which had been Calvin Coolidge's best counties when Robert M. La Follette, Sr. carried his home state in 1924.


1932 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Vote
With his win in Wisconsin, Roosevelt became the first Democratic presidential candidate since Woodrow Wilson in 1912 to carry the state and the first since Franklin Pierce in 1852 to win the state with a majority of the popular vote (Wilson's win and Grover Cleveland's in 1892 were only pluralities).


1932 United States presidential election in Wyoming
The 1932 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1932 United States presidential election in Wyoming
Wyoming was won by the 44nd Governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York (state)), running with the 39th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives John Nance Garner, with 56.07 percent of the popular vote, against the 31st President of the United States Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with 31st Vice President of the United States Charles Curtis, with 40.82 percent of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Johnson County and Crook County have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.


1932 Uruguayan National Administration Council election
National Administration Council elections were held in Uruguay on 27 November 1932. The various factions of the Colorado Party received almost two-thirds of the vote.


1932 Uruguayan Primera División
The Uruguayan Championship 1929 was the 29th season of Uruguay's top-flight football league.


1932 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
The tournament consisted of a two-wheel championship of all against all. It involved fourteen teams, and the champion was Peñarol.


1932 Utah State Aggies football team
The 1932 Utah State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah State Agricultural College in the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1932 college football season. In their 14th season under head coach Dick Romney, the Aggies compiled a 4–4 record (3–3 against RMC opponents), finished seventh in the conference, and outscored all opponents by a total of 123 to 105. The team won all four of its home games by a combined score of 110 to 12.


1932 Utah Utes football team
The 1932 Utah Utes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah in the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1932 college football season. In their eighth season under head coach Ike Armstrong, the Utes compiled a 6–1–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 162 to 47.


1932 Utah gubernatorial election
The 1932 Utah gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1932. Democratic nominee Henry H. Blood defeated Republican nominee William W. Seegmiller with 56.39% of the vote.


1932 VFA season
The 1932 Victorian Football Association season was the 54th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Northcote Football Club, after it defeated Coburg by 26 points in the Final on 24 September. It was the club's second VFA premiership, and the first in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1932 until 1934.


1932 VFA season, Premiership
The home-and-home season was played over twenty matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.


1932 VFL Grand Final
The 1932 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and Carlton Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 1 October 1932. It was the 36th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1932 VFL season. The match, attended by 69,724 spectators, was won by Richmond by a margin of 9 points. Richmond were competing in their fifth Grand Final in six years, and after losing the previous four, finally claimed their third VFL/AFL premiership victory.


1932 VFL season
The 1932 Victorian Football League season was the 36th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.


1932 VFL season, Premiership season
In 1932, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.


1932 VFL season, Premiership season
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.


1932 VFL season, Premiership season
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1932 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system.


1932 VFL season, Grand final
Richmond defeated Carlton 13.14 (92) to 12.11 (83), in front of a crowd of 69,724 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).


1932 VPI Gobblers football team
The 1932 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1932 Southern Conference football season. The team was led by their head coach Henry Redd and finished with a record of eight wins and one loss (8–1).


1932 VPI Gobblers football team, Players
The following players were members of the 1932 football team according to the roster published in the 1933 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.


1932 VPI Gobblers football team, Season summary, Georgia
VPI Captain Bill Grinus blocked the tying extra point in the upset over Georgia.