1936 United States presidential election in Connecticut

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1936 United States presidential election in Connecticut
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  1932 November 3, 1936 1940  
  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 Nance Garner Frank Knox
Electoral vote80
Popular vote382,129278,685
Percentage55.32%40.35%

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President before election

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The 1936 United States presidential election in Connecticut was held on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. The state voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Connecticut voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won the state by a margin of 14.97%.

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As of 2020, this remains the last election in which Connecticut voted to the left of neighboring Rhode Island or to the right of Nebraska. Roosevelt was the first Democrat to carry the state since 1912, the first to carry it with a majority of the popular vote since Grover Cleveland in 1892, and the first to carry Tolland County since 1852.

Results

1936 United States presidential election in Connecticut [1]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Democratic Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York John Nance Garner of Texas 382,12955.32%8100.00%
Republican Alf Landon of Kansas Frank Knox of Illinois 278,68540.35%00.00%
Union William Lemke of North Dakota Thomas C. O'Brien of Massachusetts 21,8053.16%00.00%
Socialist Norman Thomas of New York George A. Nelson of Wisconsin 5,6830.82%00.00%
Socialist Labor John W. Aiken of Connecticut Emil F. Teichert of New York 1,2280.18%00.00%
Communist Earl Russell Browder of Kansas James W. Ford of New York 1,1930.17%00.00%
Total 690,723100.00%8100.00%

By county

1936 United States presidential election in Connecticut (by county) [2]
CountyRoosevelt %Roosevelt #Landon %Landon #Others %Others #Total #
Fairfield 54.7%87,32942.5%67,8462.8%4,446159,621
Hartford 59.1%103,45037.5%65,6523.3%5,812174,914
Litchfield 47.2%17,46850.9%18,8501.9%68823,455
Middlesex 52.4%12,29446.6%10,9251.0%23623,455
New Haven 57.9%117,30837.8%76,6144.2%8,524202,446
New London 52.8%24,99945.1%21,3672.1%99247,358
Tolland 51.2%6,67645.8%5,9653.0%39013,031
Windham 50.9%12,60546.3%11,4662.9%71724,788

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References

  1. "1936 Presidential General Election Results - Connecticut". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  2. "1936 Statement of Vote" (PDF). CT.gov - Connecticut's Official State Website. p. 13. Retrieved January 8, 2023.