1932 United States Senate election in Illinois

The 1932 United States Senate election in Illinois took place on November 8, 1932.[1] Incumbent Republican Otis F. Glenn was unseated by Democrat William H. Dieterich.

1932 United States Senate election in Illinois
November 8, 1932
 
Nominee William H. Dieterich Otis F. Glenn
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote 1,670,466 1,471,841
Percentage 52.23% 46.02%
U.S. senator before election

Otis F. Glenn
Republican

 Elected U.S. senator

William H. Dieterich
Democratic

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Election information

The primaries and general election coincided with those for federal elections (president and House) and those for state elections.[1] Primaries were held April 12, 1932.[1]

Background

The economic downturn that was the Great Depression was raging through the nation since the 1929 Wall Street crash. Many voters laid blame for the downturn and its impacts on Republican president Herbert Hoover.

The 1930 election for Illinois' other U.S. Senate seat saw the first instance after the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (adopted in 1912) went into effect (instituting popular elections for U.S. senate) that a Republican lost a U.S. Senate race in Illinois, with Democrat J. Hamilton Lewis winning that election.[2]

Democratic primary

Candidates

Results
Democratic primary[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic William H. Dieterich 342,360 51.04
Democratic Scott W. Lucas 144,028 21.47
Democratic Clarence H. Kavanaugh 38,055 5.67
Democratic Thomas F. O'Donnell 34,330 5.12
Democratic Edward Sullivan 33,242 4.96
Democratic John B. Monroe 21,411 3.19
Democratic Emmet Kennedy 20,677 3.08
Democratic William Young 20,462 3.05
Democratic Thomas A. Cummings 16,213 2.42
Total votes 670,778 100

Republican primary

Candidates

Results
Republican primary[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Otis F. Glenn (incumbent) 572,382 53.62
Republican Newton Jenkins 405,387 37.98
Republican T.B. Wright 89,677 8.40
Total votes 1,067,446 100

General election
1932 United States Senate election in Illinois[1][4]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic William H. Dieterich 1,670,466 52.23%
Republican Otis F. Glenn (incumbent) 1,471,841 46.02%
Socialist Charles Pogorelec 37,922 1.19%
Communist William E. Browder 13,318 0.42%
Socialist Labor G. A. Jenning 3,379 0.11%
Independent William. J. Baker 1,209 0.04%
None Scattering 16 0.00%
Majority 198,625 6.21%
Turnout 3,198,151
Democratic gain from Republican

See also

References
  1. "OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CAST AT THE GENERAL ELECTION, November 8, 1932 JUDICIAL ELECTIONS, 1931-1932 PRIMARY ELECTIONS GENERAL PRIMARY, April 12, 1932 PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE, APRIL 12, 1932" (PDF). Illinois State Board of Elections. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  2. Miller, Kristie (1988). "Ruth Hanna McCormick and the Senatorial Election of 1930". Illinois Historical Journal. 81 (3): 191–210. ISSN 0748-8149.
  3. Ryan, James G.; Leonard Schlup (2006). Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
  4. "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 8, 1932" (PDF). Clerk.house.gov. Retrieved August 4, 2019.
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