1936 United States presidential election in Indiana
November 3, 1936
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County Results
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A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the incumbent president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt and the vice president of the United States John Nance Garner defeated the Republican ticket of the governor of Kansas Alf Landon and the publisher of the Chicago Daily News Frank Knox. Roosevelt defeated Langdon in the national election with 523 electoral votes.[2]
This was the first presidential election held in Indiana in which the members of the Electoral College were elected as a block, rather than individually, following passage of a 1933 law. The legislation specified that the names of the national party nominees for president and vice president be listed on the ballot in place of the names of the candidates for electors; under the new system, a vote for a party's national ticket would count as a vote for the list of electors nominated by that party.[3]
General election
Statistics
As of 2024, this is the most recent presidential election in which the Democratic ticket carried Boone, Rush, Union and Wayne counties.[4]
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt John Nance Garner |
934,974 | 56.63 | 1.96 | |
| Republican | Alf Landon Frank Knox |
691,570 | 41.89 | 1.05 | |
| Union | William Lemke Thomas C. O'Brien |
19,407 | 1.18 | 1.18 | |
| Socialist | Norman Thomas George A. Nelson |
3,856 | 0.23 | 1.13 | |
| Communist | Earl Browder James W. Ford |
1,090 | 0.07 | 0.07 | |
| Total votes | 1,650,897 | 100.00 | |||
Results by county
| County | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic |
Alf Landon Republican |
William Lemke Union |
Norman Thomas Socialist |
Earl Browder Communist |
Margin | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| Adams | 5,822 | 63.23% | 3,249 | 35.28% | 119 | 1.29% | 15 | 0.16% | 3 | 0.03% | 2,573 | 27.94% | 9,208 |
| Allen | 39,151 | 59.19% | 24,765 | 37.44% | 2,056 | 3.11% | 136 | 0.21% | 38 | 0.06% | 14,386 | 21.75% | 66,146 |
| Bartholomew | 8,536 | 56.50% | 6,484 | 42.92% | 50 | 0.33% | 34 | 0.23% | 3 | 0.02% | 2,052 | 13.58% | 15,107 |
| Benton | 3,211 | 50.72% | 2,989 | 47.21% | 125 | 1.97% | 6 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 222 | 3.51% | 6,331 |
| Blackford | 4,217 | 59.02% | 2,845 | 39.82% | 68 | 0.95% | 15 | 0.21% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,372 | 19.20% | 7,145 |
| Boone | 6,775 | 53.80% | 5,739 | 45.57% | 65 | 0.52% | 13 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,036 | 8.23% | 12,593 |
| Brown | 1,585 | 55.73% | 1,244 | 43.74% | 8 | 0.28% | 5 | 0.18% | 2 | 0.07% | 341 | 11.99% | 2,844 |
| Carroll | 4,676 | 51.01% | 4,426 | 48.28% | 60 | 0.65% | 1 | 0.01% | 4 | 0.04% | 250 | 2.73% | 9,167 |
| Cass | 10,475 | 53.93% | 8,528 | 43.91% | 384 | 1.98% | 31 | 0.16% | 4 | 0.02% | 1,947 | 10.02% | 19,422 |
| Clark | 10,116 | 63.64% | 5,536 | 34.83% | 213 | 1.34% | 29 | 0.18% | 2 | 0.01% | 4,580 | 28.81% | 15,896 |
| Clay | 8,235 | 56.09% | 6,335 | 43.15% | 51 | 0.35% | 54 | 0.37% | 8 | 0.05% | 1,900 | 12.94% | 14,683 |
| Clinton | 8,340 | 53.02% | 7,265 | 46.19% | 92 | 0.58% | 22 | 0.14% | 11 | 0.07% | 1,075 | 6.83% | 15,730 |
| Crawford | 2,919 | 52.89% | 2,589 | 46.91% | 5 | 0.09% | 5 | 0.09% | 1 | 0.02% | 330 | 5.98% | 5,519 |
| Daviess | 6,848 | 50.84% | 6,459 | 47.95% | 123 | 0.91% | 37 | 0.27% | 3 | 0.02% | 389 | 2.89% | 13,470 |
| Dearborn | 6,366 | 56.56% | 4,669 | 41.48% | 193 | 1.71% | 25 | 0.22% | 3 | 0.03% | 1,697 | 15.08% | 11,256 |
| Decatur | 4,887 | 48.35% | 5,126 | 50.72% | 76 | 0.75% | 15 | 0.15% | 3 | 0.03% | -239 | -2.36% | 10,107 |
| DeKalb | 6,970 | 53.50% | 5,848 | 44.89% | 182 | 1.40% | 25 | 0.19% | 2 | 0.02% | 1,122 | 8.61% | 13,027 |
| Delaware | 19,048 | 56.81% | 14,207 | 42.37% | 187 | 0.56% | 69 | 0.21% | 16 | 0.05% | 4,841 | 14.44% | 33,527 |
| Dubois | 6,927 | 66.87% | 3,011 | 29.07% | 393 | 3.79% | 27 | 0.26% | 1 | 0.01% | 3,916 | 37.80% | 10,359 |
| Elkhart | 14,473 | 47.65% | 14,896 | 49.05% | 875 | 2.88% | 100 | 0.33% | 27 | 0.09% | -423 | -1.39% | 30,371 |
| Fayette | 5,756 | 52.70% | 5,067 | 46.39% | 75 | 0.69% | 21 | 0.19% | 3 | 0.03% | 689 | 6.31% | 10,922 |
| Floyd | 10,654 | 58.79% | 6,976 | 38.50% | 425 | 2.35% | 63 | 0.35% | 3 | 0.02% | 3,678 | 20.30% | 18,121 |
| Fountain | 5,617 | 54.45% | 4,663 | 45.20% | 26 | 0.25% | 9 | 0.09% | 1 | 0.01% | 954 | 9.25% | 10,316 |
| Franklin | 3,891 | 54.31% | 2,952 | 41.21% | 311 | 4.34% | 9 | 0.13% | 1 | 0.01% | 939 | 13.11% | 7,164 |
| Fulton | 4,322 | 48.00% | 4,541 | 50.43% | 125 | 1.39% | 13 | 0.14% | 3 | 0.03% | -219 | -2.43% | 9,004 |
| Gibson | 9,392 | 56.21% | 7,078 | 42.36% | 172 | 1.03% | 43 | 0.26% | 25 | 0.15% | 2,314 | 13.85% | 16,710 |
| Grant | 13,655 | 52.00% | 11,774 | 44.84% | 722 | 2.75% | 87 | 0.33% | 22 | 0.08% | 1,881 | 7.16% | 26,260 |
| Greene | 9,730 | 56.10% | 7,460 | 43.01% | 50 | 0.29% | 73 | 0.42% | 31 | 0.18% | 2,270 | 13.09% | 17,344 |
| Hamilton | 5,396 | 41.93% | 7,323 | 56.90% | 139 | 1.08% | 12 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,927 | -14.97% | 12,870 |
| Hancock | 5,962 | 58.57% | 4,174 | 41.00% | 33 | 0.32% | 11 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,788 | 17.56% | 10,180 |
| Harrison | 5,025 | 55.92% | 3,885 | 43.23% | 64 | 0.71% | 10 | 0.11% | 2 | 0.02% | 1,140 | 12.69% | 8,986 |
| Hendricks | 5,237 | 47.19% | 5,776 | 52.05% | 63 | 0.57% | 20 | 0.18% | 1 | 0.01% | -539 | -4.86% | 11,097 |
| Henry | 10,172 | 52.38% | 9,099 | 46.85% | 99 | 0.51% | 44 | 0.23% | 6 | 0.03% | 1,073 | 5.53% | 19,420 |
| Howard | 12,288 | 54.99% | 9,534 | 42.67% | 425 | 1.90% | 86 | 0.38% | 13 | 0.06% | 2,754 | 12.32% | 22,346 |
| Huntington | 8,361 | 53.26% | 7,024 | 44.75% | 275 | 1.75% | 34 | 0.22% | 3 | 0.02% | 1,337 | 8.52% | 15,697 |
| Jackson | 8,018 | 61.50% | 4,951 | 37.98% | 34 | 0.26% | 33 | 0.25% | 1 | 0.01% | 3,067 | 23.53% | 13,037 |
| Jasper | 3,109 | 46.26% | 3,540 | 52.67% | 59 | 0.88% | 10 | 0.15% | 3 | 0.04% | -431 | -6.41% | 6,721 |
| Jay | 6,535 | 54.61% | 5,233 | 43.73% | 178 | 1.49% | 18 | 0.15% | 3 | 0.03% | 1,302 | 10.88% | 11,967 |
| Jefferson | 4,805 | 47.08% | 5,320 | 52.12% | 69 | 0.68% | 12 | 0.12% | 1 | 0.01% | -515 | -5.05% | 10,207 |
| Jennings | 3,157 | 46.27% | 3,594 | 52.67% | 63 | 0.92% | 6 | 0.09% | 3 | 0.04% | -437 | -6.40% | 6,823 |
| Johnson | 6,934 | 56.24% | 5,315 | 43.11% | 66 | 0.54% | 13 | 0.11% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,619 | 13.13% | 12,329 |
| Knox | 13,669 | 61.02% | 8,589 | 38.34% | 53 | 0.24% | 62 | 0.28% | 27 | 0.12% | 5,080 | 22.68% | 22,400 |
| Kosciusko | 6,890 | 45.39% | 8,182 | 53.90% | 94 | 0.62% | 11 | 0.07% | 2 | 0.01% | -1,292 | -8.51% | 15,179 |
| LaGrange | 2,821 | 46.69% | 3,125 | 51.72% | 85 | 1.41% | 9 | 0.15% | 2 | 0.03% | -304 | -5.03% | 6,042 |
| Lake | 68,551 | 66.07% | 33,689 | 32.47% | 1,064 | 1.03% | 244 | 0.24% | 202 | 0.19% | 34,862 | 33.60% | 103,750 |
| LaPorte | 15,359 | 56.07% | 11,722 | 42.79% | 238 | 0.87% | 63 | 0.23% | 10 | 0.04% | 3,637 | 13.28% | 27,392 |
| Lawrence | 8,062 | 44.35% | 9,982 | 54.91% | 111 | 0.61% | 22 | 0.12% | 1 | 0.01% | -1,920 | -10.56% | 18,178 |
| Madison | 27,347 | 61.46% | 16,644 | 37.41% | 391 | 0.88% | 88 | 0.20% | 25 | 0.06% | 10,703 | 24.05% | 44,495 |
| Marion | 124,961 | 57.71% | 87,798 | 40.54% | 2,953 | 1.36% | 669 | 0.31% | 169 | 0.08% | 37,163 | 17.16% | 216,550 |
| Marshall | 6,651 | 51.28% | 6,118 | 47.17% | 182 | 1.40% | 19 | 0.15% | 1 | 0.01% | 533 | 4.11% | 12,971 |
| Martin | 2,923 | 52.70% | 2,583 | 46.57% | 32 | 0.58% | 7 | 0.13% | 1 | 0.02% | 340 | 6.13% | 5,546 |
| Miami | 8,173 | 54.05% | 6,747 | 44.62% | 133 | 0.88% | 61 | 0.40% | 8 | 0.05% | 1,426 | 9.43% | 15,122 |
| Monroe | 9,220 | 50.91% | 8,842 | 48.82% | 24 | 0.13% | 19 | 0.10% | 5 | 0.03% | 378 | 2.09% | 18,110 |
| Montgomery | 8,053 | 51.79% | 7,369 | 47.39% | 59 | 0.38% | 59 | 0.38% | 9 | 0.06% | 684 | 4.40% | 15,549 |
| Morgan | 5,451 | 48.12% | 5,793 | 51.14% | 63 | 0.56% | 18 | 0.16% | 3 | 0.03% | -342 | -3.02% | 11,328 |
| Newton | 2,430 | 44.93% | 2,937 | 54.31% | 18 | 0.33% | 21 | 0.39% | 2 | 0.04% | -507 | -9.37% | 5,408 |
| Noble | 5,990 | 50.18% | 5,760 | 48.26% | 165 | 1.38% | 16 | 0.13% | 5 | 0.04% | 230 | 1.93% | 11,936 |
| Ohio | 1,362 | 57.13% | 1,022 | 42.87% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 340 | 14.26% | 2,384 |
| Orange | 4,549 | 46.94% | 5,106 | 52.68% | 31 | 0.32% | 6 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | -557 | -5.75% | 9,692 |
| Owen | 3,498 | 52.62% | 3,091 | 46.50% | 40 | 0.60% | 15 | 0.23% | 4 | 0.06% | 407 | 6.12% | 6,648 |
| Parke | 4,811 | 50.42% | 4,665 | 48.89% | 21 | 0.22% | 37 | 0.39% | 8 | 0.08% | 146 | 1.53% | 9,542 |
| Perry | 4,752 | 55.13% | 3,619 | 41.99% | 228 | 2.65% | 19 | 0.22% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,133 | 13.15% | 8,619 |
| Pike | 4,952 | 55.75% | 3,885 | 43.74% | 31 | 0.35% | 13 | 0.15% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,067 | 12.01% | 8,882 |
| Porter | 5,560 | 46.58% | 6,278 | 52.60% | 68 | 0.57% | 28 | 0.23% | 2 | 0.02% | -718 | -6.02% | 11,936 |
| Posey | 5,630 | 63.34% | 3,088 | 34.74% | 152 | 1.71% | 12 | 0.14% | 6 | 0.07% | 2,542 | 28.60% | 8,888 |
| Pulaski | 3,274 | 53.50% | 2,780 | 45.42% | 31 | 0.51% | 35 | 0.57% | 0 | 0.00% | 494 | 8.07% | 6,120 |
| Putnam | 6,177 | 55.12% | 4,961 | 44.27% | 24 | 0.21% | 41 | 0.37% | 4 | 0.04% | 1,216 | 10.85% | 11,207 |
| Randolph | 6,487 | 48.84% | 6,682 | 50.30% | 91 | 0.69% | 20 | 0.15% | 3 | 0.02% | -195 | -1.47% | 13,283 |
| Ripley | 5,546 | 51.84% | 4,919 | 45.98% | 205 | 1.92% | 24 | 0.22% | 4 | 0.04% | 627 | 5.86% | 10,698 |
| Rush | 5,999 | 52.17% | 5,457 | 47.45% | 34 | 0.30% | 8 | 0.07% | 2 | 0.02% | 542 | 4.71% | 11,500 |
| St. Joseph | 43,131 | 61.32% | 25,807 | 36.69% | 1,135 | 1.61% | 4 | 0.08% | 2 | 0.04% | 17,324 | 24.63% | 70,339 |
| Scott | 2,696 | 56.81% | 2,034 | 42.86% | 10 | 0.21% | 14 | 0.10% | 1 | 0.01% | 662 | 13.95% | 4,746 |
| Shelby | 8,552 | 58.11% | 6,026 | 40.95% | 124 | 0.84% | 15 | 0.16% | 4 | 0.04% | 2,526 | 17.16% | 14,717 |
| Spencer | 4,966 | 51.32% | 4,567 | 47.20% | 124 | 1.28% | 154 | 0.22% | 112 | 0.16% | 399 | 4.12% | 9,676 |
| Starke | 3,143 | 52.11% | 2,846 | 47.18% | 23 | 0.38% | 14 | 0.23% | 6 | 0.10% | 297 | 4.92% | 6,032 |
| Steuben | 3,402 | 45.09% | 3,998 | 52.99% | 133 | 1.76% | 11 | 0.15% | 1 | 0.01% | -596 | -7.90% | 7,545 |
| Sullivan | 10,203 | 67.33% | 4,685 | 30.92% | 79 | 0.52% | 161 | 1.06% | 26 | 0.17% | 5,518 | 36.41% | 15,154 |
| Switzerland | 2,840 | 56.06% | 2,212 | 43.66% | 8 | 0.16% | 6 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 628 | 12.40% | 5,066 |
| Tippecanoe | 12,732 | 48.74% | 13,081 | 50.08% | 249 | 0.95% | 54 | 0.21% | 6 | 0.02% | -349 | -1.34% | 26,122 |
| Tipton | 4,796 | 54.88% | 3,842 | 43.96% | 88 | 1.01% | 12 | 0.14% | 1 | 0.01% | 954 | 10.92% | 8,739 |
| Union | 1,662 | 50.17% | 1,630 | 49.20% | 21 | 0.63% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 32 | 0.97% | 3,313 |
| Vanderburgh | 41,490 | 72.68% | 14,725 | 25.79% | 655 | 1.15% | 174 | 0.30% | 41 | 0.07% | 26,765 | 46.89% | 57,085 |
| Vermillion | 7,188 | 61.78% | 4,320 | 37.13% | 56 | 0.48% | 42 | 0.36% | 29 | 0.25% | 2,868 | 24.65% | 11,635 |
| Vigo | 33,018 | 65.08% | 17,278 | 34.05% | 239 | 0.47% | 139 | 0.27% | 64 | 0.13% | 15,740 | 31.02% | 50,738 |
| Wabash | 6,200 | 45.51% | 7,223 | 53.02% | 171 | 1.26% | 20 | 0.15% | 9 | 0.07% | -1,023 | -7.51% | 13,623 |
| Warren | 2,242 | 44.44% | 2,780 | 55.10% | 13 | 0.26% | 9 | 0.18% | 1 | 0.02% | -538 | -10.66% | 5,045 |
| Warrick | 5,343 | 56.67% | 3,968 | 42.08% | 107 | 1.13% | 10 | 0.11% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,375 | 14.58% | 9,429 |
| Washington | 4,766 | 56.19% | 3,690 | 43.50% | 22 | 0.26% | 3 | 0.04% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,076 | 12.69% | 8,482 |
| Wayne | 13,696 | 51.93% | 12,126 | 45.98% | 489 | 1.85% | 45 | 0.17% | 17 | 0.06% | 1,570 | 5.95% | 26,373 |
| Wells | 6,189 | 62.81% | 3,606 | 36.59% | 48 | 0.49% | 9 | 0.09% | 2 | 0.02% | 2,583 | 26.21% | 9,854 |
| White | 4,863 | 52.57% | 4,245 | 45.89% | 132 | 1.43% | 10 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 618 | 6.68% | 9,250 |
| Whitley | 5,115 | 55.90% | 3,959 | 43.27% | 62 | 0.68% | 13 | 0.14% | 1 | 0.01% | 1,156 | 12.63% | 9,150 |
| TOTAL | 934,974 | 56.63% | 691,570 | 41.89% | 19,407 | 1.18% | 3,856 | 0.23% | 1,090 | 0.07% | 243,404 | 14.74% | 1,650,897 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
See also
Notes
- ^ Total number of votes divided by the number of registered voters.[1]
References
- ^ Indiana 1937, pp. 930, 996.
- ^ Petersen 1963, p. 94.
- ^ Spencer & Gause 1936, p. 46.
- ^ Sullivan 2016.
- ^ a b Indiana 1937, pp. 929–30.
Bibliography
- Indiana (1937). Year Book of the State of Indiana for the Year 1936. Fort Wayne: Division of Accounting and Statistics.
- Petersen, Svend (1963). A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company. LCCN 62-21786.
- Spencer, William W.; Gause, Fred C., eds. (1936). Election Laws of Indiana and 1936 Political Calendar. Fort Wayne: State Board of Election Commissioners.
- Sullivan, Robert David (June 29, 2016). "How the Red and Blue Map Evolved over the Past Century". America.