1936 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
The 1936 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 3, 1936 as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Pennsylvania voted for the Democratic nominee, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, over the Republican nominee, Kansas Governor Alf Landon. Roosevelt was the first Democrat to win Pennsylvania since native son James Buchanan in 1856. Roosevelt won Pennsylvania by a large margin of 16.04%.
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the only election since 1856 in which Lebanon County has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[1] FDR became the first Democrat since Franklin Pierce in 1852 to win Armstrong County and the first since 1856 to win Blair County and Dauphin County.[2] In addition to that, this election would be the most recent election in which Lebanon County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.
Results
| 1936 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[3] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 2,353,987 | 56.88% | 36 | |
| Republican | Alf Landon | 1,690,200 | 40.84% | 0 | |
| Royal Oak | William Lemke | 67,468 | 1.63% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Norman Thomas | 14,599 | 0.35% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | D. Leigh Colvin | 6,687 | 0.16% | 0 | |
| Communist | Earl Browder | 4,061 | 0.10% | 0 | |
| Industrial Labor | John Aiken | 1,424 | 0.03% | 0 | |
| Totals | 4,138,426 | 100.00% | 36 | ||
Results by county
| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic |
Alfred Mossman Landon Republican |
William Frederick Lemke[4] Royal Oak |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast[5] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 8,336 | 47.88% | 8,313 | 47.75% | 712 | 4.09% | 49 | 0.28% | 23 | 0.13% | 17,410 |
| Allegheny | 366,593 | 65.21% | 176,224 | 31.35% | 16,182 | 2.88% | 3,177 | 0.57% | 190,369 | 33.86% | 562,176 |
| Armstrong | 15,955 | 52.42% | 14,198 | 46.65% | 103 | 0.34% | 178 | 0.58% | 1,757 | 5.77% | 30,434 |
| Beaver | 37,205 | 63.80% | 20,223 | 34.68% | 511 | 0.88% | 373 | 0.64% | 16,982 | 29.12% | 58,312 |
| Bedford | 8,937 | 49.15% | 9,014 | 49.58% | 110 | 0.60% | 121 | 0.67% | -77 | -0.42% | 18,182 |
| Berks | 56,907 | 64.43% | 26,699 | 30.23% | 1,879 | 2.13% | 2,842 | 3.22% | 30,208 | 34.20% | 88,327 |
| Blair | 27,038 | 51.41% | 24,711 | 46.98% | 612 | 1.16% | 236 | 0.45% | 2,327 | 4.42% | 52,597 |
| Bradford | 8,078 | 32.39% | 16,643 | 66.74% | 102 | 0.41% | 113 | 0.45% | -8,565 | -34.35% | 24,936 |
| Bucks | 24,159 | 49.41% | 23,860 | 48.80% | 551 | 1.13% | 325 | 0.66% | 299 | 0.61% | 48,895 |
| Butler | 16,008 | 48.06% | 16,772 | 50.35% | 288 | 0.86% | 241 | 0.72% | -764 | -2.29% | 33,309 |
| Cambria | 46,687 | 64.57% | 24,378 | 33.72% | 958 | 1.32% | 281 | 0.39% | 22,309 | 30.85% | 72,304 |
| Cameron | 1,538 | 45.44% | 1,801 | 53.21% | 26 | 0.77% | 20 | 0.59% | -263 | -7.77% | 3,385 |
| Carbon | 14,179 | 54.93% | 11,298 | 43.77% | 234 | 0.91% | 100 | 0.39% | 2,881 | 11.16% | 25,811 |
| Centre | 11,734 | 53.79% | 9,869 | 45.24% | 65 | 0.30% | 146 | 0.67% | 1,865 | 8.55% | 21,814 |
| Chester | 26,676 | 47.11% | 29,340 | 51.81% | 385 | 0.68% | 228 | 0.40% | -2,664 | -4.70% | 56,629 |
| Clarion | 8,412 | 48.94% | 8,477 | 49.32% | 184 | 1.07% | 116 | 0.67% | -65 | -0.38% | 17,189 |
| Clearfield | 20,799 | 57.69% | 14,531 | 40.31% | 345 | 0.96% | 375 | 1.04% | 6,268 | 17.39% | 36,050 |
| Clinton | 8,351 | 55.79% | 6,479 | 43.28% | 59 | 0.39% | 80 | 0.53% | 1,872 | 12.51% | 14,969 |
| Columbia | 14,141 | 58.66% | 9,674 | 40.13% | 87 | 0.36% | 206 | 0.85% | 4,467 | 18.53% | 24,108 |
| Crawford | 12,788 | 45.37% | 14,463 | 51.31% | 700 | 2.48% | 238 | 0.84% | -1,675 | -5.94% | 28,189 |
| Cumberland | 18,850 | 55.41% | 14,912 | 43.83% | 67 | 0.20% | 192 | 0.56% | 3,938 | 11.58% | 34,021 |
| Dauphin | 43,256 | 51.80% | 39,598 | 47.42% | 281 | 0.34% | 365 | 0.44% | 3,658 | 4.38% | 83,500 |
| Delaware | 65,117 | 45.53% | 74,899 | 52.37% | 2,140 | 1.50% | 857 | 0.60% | -9,782 | -6.84% | 143,013 |
| Elk | 9,035 | 57.80% | 5,489 | 35.12% | 1,039 | 6.65% | 68 | 0.44% | 3,546 | 22.69% | 15,631 |
| Erie | 33,042 | 50.57% | 25,607 | 39.19% | 6,144 | 9.40% | 552 | 0.84% | 7,435 | 11.38% | 65,345 |
| Fayette | 48,291 | 67.88% | 21,984 | 30.90% | 376 | 0.53% | 493 | 0.69% | 26,307 | 36.98% | 71,144 |
| Forest | 1,157 | 39.18% | 1,757 | 59.50% | 23 | 0.78% | 16 | 0.54% | -600 | -20.32% | 2,953 |
| Franklin | 15,632 | 53.15% | 13,616 | 46.29% | 61 | 0.21% | 104 | 0.35% | 2,016 | 6.85% | 29,413 |
| Fulton | 2,431 | 53.65% | 2,085 | 46.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 15 | 0.33% | 346 | 7.64% | 4,531 |
| Greene | 12,006 | 64.99% | 6,359 | 34.42% | 43 | 0.23% | 66 | 0.36% | 5,647 | 30.57% | 18,474 |
| Huntingdon | 7,429 | 42.72% | 9,815 | 56.43% | 46 | 0.26% | 102 | 0.59% | -2,386 | -13.72% | 17,392 |
| Indiana | 15,353 | 47.71% | 16,530 | 51.37% | 75 | 0.23% | 219 | 0.68% | -1,177 | -3.66% | 32,177 |
| Jefferson | 11,080 | 47.54% | 11,943 | 51.24% | 102 | 0.44% | 181 | 0.78% | -863 | -3.70% | 23,306 |
| Juniata | 3,782 | 51.06% | 3,576 | 48.28% | 7 | 0.09% | 42 | 0.57% | 206 | 2.78% | 7,407 |
| Lackawanna | 80,585 | 60.23% | 51,186 | 38.26% | 1,358 | 1.01% | 672 | 0.50% | 29,399 | 21.97% | 133,801 |
| Lancaster | 38,454 | 46.74% | 42,272 | 51.38% | 1,054 | 1.28% | 493 | 0.60% | -3,818 | -4.64% | 82,273 |
| Lawrence | 21,994 | 57.74% | 15,458 | 40.58% | 310 | 0.81% | 328 | 0.86% | 6,536 | 17.16% | 38,090 |
| Lebanon | 13,800 | 50.23% | 13,213 | 48.09% | 160 | 0.58% | 303 | 1.10% | 587 | 2.14% | 27,476 |
| Lehigh | 35,325 | 56.41% | 25,841 | 41.27% | 931 | 1.49% | 524 | 0.84% | 9,484 | 15.15% | 62,621 |
| Luzerne | 104,809 | 55.61% | 81,672 | 43.33% | 1,136 | 0.60% | 862 | 0.46% | 23,137 | 12.28% | 188,479 |
| Lycoming | 19,376 | 50.62% | 18,315 | 47.84% | 246 | 0.64% | 343 | 0.90% | 1,061 | 2.77% | 38,280 |
| McKean | 9,733 | 43.88% | 11,837 | 53.37% | 445 | 2.01% | 166 | 0.75% | -2,104 | -9.49% | 22,181 |
| Mercer | 20,879 | 51.79% | 18,493 | 45.88% | 552 | 1.37% | 387 | 0.96% | 2,386 | 5.92% | 40,311 |
| Mifflin | 9,581 | 57.98% | 6,867 | 41.56% | 26 | 0.16% | 51 | 0.31% | 2,714 | 16.42% | 16,525 |
| Monroe | 8,212 | 58.33% | 5,778 | 41.04% | 47 | 0.33% | 42 | 0.30% | 2,434 | 17.29% | 14,079 |
| Montgomery | 57,870 | 45.74% | 66,442 | 52.52% | 1,565 | 1.24% | 629 | 0.50% | -8,572 | -6.78% | 126,506 |
| Montour | 3,534 | 59.76% | 2,350 | 39.74% | 20 | 0.34% | 10 | 0.17% | 1,184 | 20.02% | 5,914 |
| Northampton | 36,871 | 60.31% | 22,827 | 37.34% | 1,020 | 1.67% | 418 | 0.68% | 14,044 | 22.97% | 61,136 |
| Northumberland | 31,849 | 58.63% | 21,758 | 40.06% | 459 | 0.85% | 252 | 0.46% | 10,091 | 18.58% | 54,318 |
| Perry | 5,780 | 49.83% | 5,759 | 49.65% | 9 | 0.08% | 52 | 0.45% | 21 | 0.18% | 11,600 |
| Philadelphia | 539,757 | 60.46% | 329,881 | 36.95% | 18,266 | 2.05% | 4,846 | 0.54% | 209,876 | 23.51% | 892,750 |
| Pike | 2,396 | 50.54% | 2,304 | 48.60% | 17 | 0.36% | 24 | 0.51% | 92 | 1.94% | 4,741 |
| Potter | 3,553 | 39.81% | 5,172 | 57.94% | 106 | 1.19% | 95 | 1.06% | -1,619 | -18.14% | 8,926 |
| Schuylkill | 55,183 | 54.68% | 44,353 | 43.95% | 999 | 0.99% | 386 | 0.38% | 10,830 | 10.73% | 100,921 |
| Snyder | 2,999 | 34.88% | 5,550 | 64.55% | 21 | 0.24% | 28 | 0.33% | -2,551 | -29.67% | 8,598 |
| Somerset | 16,184 | 47.97% | 17,375 | 51.50% | 72 | 0.21% | 110 | 0.33% | -1,191 | -3.53% | 33,741 |
| Sullivan | 1,740 | 44.37% | 2,121 | 54.08% | 28 | 0.71% | 33 | 0.84% | -381 | -9.71% | 3,922 |
| Susquehanna | 6,520 | 39.43% | 9,745 | 58.94% | 196 | 1.19% | 73 | 0.44% | -3,225 | -19.51% | 16,534 |
| Tioga | 5,442 | 30.05% | 12,567 | 69.40% | 34 | 0.19% | 65 | 0.36% | -7,125 | -39.35% | 18,108 |
| Union | 2,946 | 34.25% | 5,589 | 64.97% | 17 | 0.20% | 50 | 0.58% | -2,643 | -30.73% | 8,602 |
| Venango | 9,212 | 33.42% | 17,676 | 64.13% | 233 | 0.85% | 442 | 1.60% | -8,464 | -30.71% | 27,563 |
| Warren | 8,495 | 45.27% | 9,440 | 50.30% | 564 | 3.01% | 268 | 1.43% | -945 | -5.04% | 18,767 |
| Washington | 52,878 | 68.52% | 23,342 | 30.25% | 603 | 0.78% | 345 | 0.45% | 29,536 | 38.27% | 77,168 |
| Wayne | 4,864 | 33.82% | 9,347 | 65.00% | 100 | 0.70% | 69 | 0.48% | -4,483 | -31.18% | 14,380 |
| Westmoreland | 73,574 | 65.73% | 36,079 | 32.23% | 1,436 | 1.28% | 848 | 0.76% | 37,495 | 33.50% | 111,937 |
| Wyoming | 3,269 | 37.63% | 5,321 | 61.25% | 36 | 0.41% | 61 | 0.70% | -2,052 | -23.62% | 8,687 |
| York | 45,142 | 59.53% | 29,233 | 38.55% | 915 | 1.21% | 547 | 0.72% | 15,909 | 20.98% | 75,837 |
| Totals | 2,353,788 | 56.88% | 1,690,300 | 40.85% | 67,478 | 1.63% | 26,539 | 0.64% | 663,488 | 16.03% | 4,138,105 |
References
- Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 287-290 ISBN 0786422173
- David Leip. "1936 Presidential General Election Results – Pennsylvania". Dave Leip’s U.S Election Atlas. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
- Géoelections; 1936 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)
- Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 381-382 ISBN 0405077114
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