1936 United States presidential election in California

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1936 United States presidential election in California
Flag of California (1924-1953).png
  1932 November 3, 1936 1940  
Turnout83.36% (of registered voters) Increase2.svg 2.71 pp
70.56% (of eligible voters) Increase2.svg 5.34 pp [1]
  FDR in 1933 (cropped).jpg LandonPortr (cropped).jpg
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Alf Landon
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Kansas
Running mate John N. Garner Frank Knox
Electoral vote220
Popular vote1,766,836836,431
Percentage66.95%31.70%

California Presidential Election Results 1936.svg
County Results
Roosevelt
  40-50%
  50-60%
  60-70%
  70-80%

The 1936 United States presidential election in California was held on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose twenty-two electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

California voted for the Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, in a landslide over the Republican challenger, Kansas Governor Alfred Mossman Landon, carrying every county and nearly sixty-seven percent of the vote to Landon’s 31.7%. Roosevelt’s percentage of the vote is the highest of any presidential candidate in California history, besting Warren G. Harding’s 66.2% in 1920. [2] While his 35.25-percentage point margin of victory over Landon is the largest for any Democratic candidate, it is the second largest overall behind Harding’s 41.92% in 1920 and ahead of his cousin Theodore Roosevelt’s 34.9% in 1904.

As of the 2020 presidential election , this is the last time that a presidential candidate from either political party completely swept all of California’s counties in an election. The only other candidate to manage this was Harding in his landslide 1920 victory. [2]

Roosevelt was the last Democrat until Hillary Clinton in 2016 to carry Orange County in a presidential election, and the last until John Kerry in 2004 to carry Alpine County. Also, this was the only one of FDR’s four presidential campaigns where he carried Riverside County, which had never previously voted Democratic since its first election in 1896 [3] and would not do so again until Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. It would also be the first election in the state’s history where the Democratic Party won the state in two consecutive presidential elections

Results

1936 United States presidential election in California [4]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent)1,766,83666.95%22
Republican Alfred Landon 836,43131.70%0
Prohibition D. Leigh Colvin 12,9170.49%0
Socialist Norman Thomas 11,3310.43%0
Communist Earl Russell Browder 10,8770.41%0
No party Write-ins 4900.02%0
Invalid or blank votes
Totals2,638,882100.00%22
Voter turnout

Results by county

County Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic
Alfred Mossman Landon
Republican
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin
 %# %# %# %#
Lassen 79.47%4,19319.62%1,0350.91%4859.86%3,158
Plumas 78.81%2,70719.80%6801.40%4859.01%2,027
Sacramento 78.53%47,26520.14%12,1191.33%80058.40%35,146
Solano 78.05%13,45920.89%3,6031.06%18257.16%9,856
Fresno 77.75%42,85920.94%11,5451.31%72256.80%31,314
Placer 76.62%7,95922.34%2,3211.04%10854.27%5,638
Sierra 76.44%1,15222.56%3401.00%1553.88%812
Madera 75.74%4,64622.61%1,3871.65%10153.13%3,259
El Dorado 75.66%4,01923.12%1,2281.22%6552.54%2,791
Amador 75.41%2,50623.38%7771.20%4052.03%1,729
Kings 75.10%7,06223.67%2,2261.23%11651.42%4,836
Kern 74.61%25,72624.20%8,3451.18%40850.41%17,381
Yuba 74.18%4,12523.95%1,3321.87%10450.22%2,793
Mariposa 74.40%1,90724.23%6211.37%3550.18%1,286
San Francisco 74.04%196,19724.69%65,4361.27%3,36849.34%130,761
San Joaquin 73.20%29,07825.61%10,1721.19%47347.59%18,906
Merced 72.69%9,20825.50%3,2301.82%23047.19%5,978
Tuolumne 72.72%3,30326.40%1,1990.88%4046.32%2,104
Contra Costa 72.29%26,00726.70%9,6041.01%36445.60%16,403
Nevada 71.91%5,12826.83%1,9131.26%9045.08%3,215
Calaveras 71.31%2,52027.16%9601.53%5444.14%1,560
Colusa 70.38%2,96528.15%1,1861.47%6242.23%1,779
Sutter 70.04%4,01928.11%1,6131.85%10641.93%2,406
Shasta 69.72%5,23628.75%2,1591.53%11540.97%3,077
Siskiyou 69.28%6,86529.46%2,9191.26%12539.82%3,946
Yolo 68.94%5,99229.84%2,5941.22%10639.09%3,398
Tulare 67.66%18,95630.78%8,6241.55%43536.88%10,332
Trinity 67.11%1,42430.87%6552.03%4336.24%769
Los Angeles 67.00%757,35131.62%357,4011.39%15,66335.38%399,950
Butte 65.86%10,49032.04%5,1032.10%33533.82%5,387
Glenn 65.97%3,28832.50%1,6201.52%7633.47%1,668
San Mateo 65.67%27,08733.09%13,6501.24%51132.58%13,437
Marin 65.43%12,15233.44%6,2111.13%20931.99%5,941
Mono 64.78%45834.09%2411.13%830.69%217
Modoc 64.57%1,82834.19%9681.24%3530.38%860
Alameda 63.63%149,32335.09%82,3521.28%3,01128.54%66,971
San Diego 63.45%64,62835.04%35,6861.51%1,54028.42%28,942
Stanislaus 63.13%15,34135.44%8,6131.43%34827.68%6,728
Ventura 63.14%13,38435.75%7,5791.11%23527.38%5,805
Humboldt 62.93%11,90935.97%6,8081.10%20826.95%5,101
Mendocino 62.65%6,43235.75%3,6701.60%16426.90%2,762
Inyo 62.38%1,56036.47%9121.16%2925.91%648
San Benito 61.93%2,56536.58%1,5151.50%6225.35%1,050
San Luis Obispo 61.13%7,88937.28%4,8121.59%20523.84%3,077
Santa Barbara 61.14%15,92337.35%9,7281.51%39423.79%6,195
Monterey 61.13%12,26737.70%7,5651.17%23523.43%4,702
Imperial 60.75%7,56038.34%4,7710.91%11322.41%2,789
Napa 60.35%6,27038.24%3,9731.41%14722.11%2,297
Tehama 59.68%3,68738.46%2,3761.86%11521.22%1,311
Sonoma 60.17%17,27338.96%11,1850.86%24821.21%6,088
San Bernardino 59.55%33,95538.97%22,2191.48%84220.58%11,736
Del Norte 59.43%1,29239.24%8531.33%2920.19%439
Santa Clara 58.48%38,34640.41%26,4981.12%73218.07%11,848
Orange 55.00%29,83643.31%23,4941.70%92111.69%6,342
Alpine 53.46%8546.54%740.00%06.92%11
Santa Cruz 52.08%9,32646.12%8,2601.80%3225.95%1,066
Lake 49.82%1,83748.74%1,7971.44%531.08%40
Riverside 49.88%17,01148.89%16,6741.24%4220.99%337

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