United States presidential election in New York, 1936
|Elections in New York|
The 1936 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 3, 1936. All contemporary 48 states were part of
United States presidential election in New York, 1936
|Elections in New York|
The 1936 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 3, 1936. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1936 United States presidential election. New York voters chose 47 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President.
New York was won by incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who was running against Republican Governor of Kansas Alf Landon. Roosevelt ran with incumbent Vice President John Nance Garner of Texas, and Landon ran with newspaper publisher Frank Knox of Illinois.
A former Governor of New York who had easily carried the state in his 1932 presidential campaign, Franklin Roosevelt won New York State in 1936 by an even more decisive margin. Roosevelt took 58.85% of the vote versus Alf Landon's 38.97%, a margin of 19.88%.
Despite being Roosevelt's home state- and although he won the state by nearly 20 points- in the context of the 1936 nationwide Democratic landslide, New York weighed in for this election as 4% more Republican than the national average.
Key to Roosevelt's victory was his dominance of the massively populated New York City area, performing even more strongly than he had in 1932. Roosevelt took over 70% of the vote in the b