1932 United States presidential election in Nebraska
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The 1932 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Nebraska was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 62.98% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 35.29% of the popular vote.[3]
As of 2020, this election marks the best ever Democratic presidential performance in Nebraska and the only time the state has given more than sixty percent of its vote to a Democrat in a presidential election.[4] 1932 also constitutes the last occasion that the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Antelope, Arthur, Brown, Furnas, Garden, Garfield, Hamilton, Hooker, Loup, McPherson, Rock, Valley, or York.[5][6] This was the last time that Nebraska voted more Democratic than the nation overall.
Results[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 359,082 | 62.98% | |
Republican | Herbert Hoover (inc.) | 201,177 | 35.29% | |
Socialist | Norman Thomas | 9,876 | 1.73% | |
Write-in | 2[a] | 0.00% | ||
Total votes | 570,137 | 100% |
Results by county[]
County[7] | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic |
Herbert Clark Hoover Republican |
Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adams | 5,611 | 56.48% | 3,915 | 39.41% | 408 | 4.11% | 1,696 | 17.07% | 9,934 |
Antelope | 4,053 | 63.17% | 2,270 | 35.38% | 93 | 1.45% | 1,783 | 27.79% | 6,416 |
Arthur | 338 | 56.71% | 237 | 39.77% | 21 | 3.52% | 101 | 16.95% | 596 |
Banner | 357 | 54.84% | 285 | 43.78% | 9 | 1.38% | 72 | 11.06% | 651 |
Blaine | 431 | 62.55% | 244 | 35.41% | 14 | 2.03% | 187 | 27.14% | 689 |
Boone | 4,360 | 69.31% | 1,862 | 29.60% | 69 | 1.10% | 2,498 | 39.71% | 6,291 |
Box Butte | 2,688 | 59.40% | 1,772 | 39.16% | 65 | 1.44% | 916 | 20.24% | 4,525 |
Boyd | 2,098 | 70.95% | 808 | 27.32% | 51 | 1.72% | 1,290 | 43.63% | 2,957 |
Brown | 1,565 | 56.91% | 1,174 | 42.69% | 11 | 0.40% | 391 | 14.22% | 2,750 |
Buffalo | 5,872 | 59.18% | 3,773 | 38.02% | 278 | 2.80% | 2,099 | 21.15% | 9,923 |
Burt | 3,734 | 66.02% | 1,857 | 32.83% | 65 | 1.15% | 1,877 | 33.19% | 5,656 |
Butler | 4,456 | 71.84% | 1,712 | 27.60% | 35 | 0.56% | 2,744 | 44.24% | 6,203 |
Cass | 5,155 | 63.86% | 2,756 | 34.14% | 161 | 1.99% | 2,399 | 29.72% | 8,072 |
Cedar | 4,981 | 73.99% | 1,696 | 25.19% | 55 | 0.82% | 3,285 | 48.80% | 6,732 |
Chase | 1,408 | 57.35% | 948 | 38.62% | 99 | 4.03% | 460 | 18.74% | 2,455 |
Cherry | 2,912 | 61.92% | 1,754 | 37.30% | 37 | 0.79% | 1,158 | 24.62% | 4,703 |
Cheyenne | 3,068 | 68.71% | 1,285 | 28.78% | 112 | 2.51% | 1,783 | 39.93% | 4,465 |
Clay | 3,878 | 60.82% | 2,320 | 36.39% | 178 | 2.79% | 1,558 | 24.44% | 6,376 |
Colfax | 4,076 | 85.29% | 648 | 13.56% | 55 | 1.15% | 3,428 | 71.73% | 4,779 |
Cuming | 4,391 | 77.87% | 1,191 | 21.12% | 57 | 1.01% | 3,200 | 56.75% | 5,639 |
Custer | 6,844 | 61.74% | 3,953 | 35.66% | 289 | 2.61% | 2,891 | 26.08% | 11,086 |
Dakota | 3,044 | 77.32% | 863 | 21.92% | 30 | 0.76% | 2,181 | 55.40% | 3,937 |
Dawes | 2,457 | 52.59% | 2,095 | 44.84% | 120 | 2.57% | 362 | 7.75% | 4,672 |
Dawson | 4,513 | 60.13% | 2,859 | 38.09% | 133 | 1.77% | 1,654 | 22.04% | 7,505 |
Deuel | 1,093 | 61.93% | 630 | 35.69% | 42 | 2.38% | 463 | 26.23% | 1,765 |
Dixon | 2,953 | 63.46% | 1,620 | 34.82% | 80 | 1.72% | 1,333 | 28.65% | 4,653 |
Dodge | 7,247 | 66.76% | 3,489 | 32.14% | 119 | 1.10% | 3,758 | 34.62% | 10,855 |
Douglas | 59,347 | 62.62% | 33,938 | 35.81% | 1,483 | 1.56% | 25,409 | 26.81% | 94,768 |
Dundy | 1,344 | 57.09% | 974 | 41.38% | 36 | 1.53% | 370 | 15.72% | 2,354 |
Fillmore | 3,655 | 62.15% | 2,178 | 37.03% | 48 | 0.82% | 1,477 | 25.11% | 5,881 |
Franklin | 2,633 | 64.36% | 1,404 | 34.32% | 54 | 1.32% | 1,229 | 30.04% | 4,091 |
Frontier | 2,188 | 60.86% | 1,353 | 37.64% | 54 | 1.50% | 835 | 23.23% | 3,595 |
Furnas | 3,303 | 60.31% | 2,087 | 38.10% | 87 | 1.59% | 1,216 | 22.20% | 5,477 |
Gage | 7,036 | 60.73% | 4,315 | 37.25% | 234 | 2.02% | 2,721 | 23.49% | 11,585 |
Garden | 1,204 | 59.90% | 768 | 38.21% | 38 | 1.89% | 436 | 21.69% | 2,010 |
Garfield | 775 | 54.69% | 622 | 43.90% | 20 | 1.41% | 153 | 10.80% | 1,417 |
Gosper | 1,263 | 71.84% | 477 | 27.13% | 18 | 1.02% | 786 | 44.71% | 1,758 |
Grant | 395 | 58.87% | 251 | 37.41% | 25 | 3.73% | 144 | 21.46% | 671 |
Greeley | 2,832 | 75.66% | 817 | 21.83% | 94 | 2.51% | 2,015 | 53.83% | 3,743 |
Hall | 6,266 | 59.72% | 3,743 | 35.67% | 483 | 4.60% | 2,523 | 24.05% | 10,492 |
Hamilton | 2,969 | 58.78% | 2,003 | 39.66% | 79 | 1.56% | 966 | 19.12% | 5,051 |
Harlan | 2,486 | 64.09% | 1,272 | 32.79% | 121 | 3.12% | 1,214 | 31.30% | 3,879 |
Hayes | 962 | 63.79% | 506 | 33.55% | 40 | 2.65% | 456 | 30.24% | 1,508 |
Hitchcock | 1,772 | 59.40% | 1,168 | 39.16% | 43 | 1.44% | 604 | 20.25% | 2,983 |
Holt | 4,761 | 66.13% | 2,375 | 32.99% | 64 | 0.89% | 2,386 | 33.14% | 7,200 |
Hooker | 342 | 66.93% | 162 | 31.70% | 7 | 1.37% | 180 | 35.23% | 511 |
Howard | 3,409 | 79.17% | 734 | 17.05% | 163 | 3.79% | 2,675 | 62.12% | 4,306 |
Jefferson | 4,819 | 65.10% | 2,453 | 33.14% | 130 | 1.76% | 2,366 | 31.96% | 7,402 |
Johnson | 2,505 | 59.91% | 1,644 | 39.32% | 32 | 0.77% | 861 | 20.59% | 4,181 |
Kearney | 2,367 | 66.32% | 1,129 | 31.63% | 73 | 2.05% | 1,238 | 34.69% | 3,569 |
Keith | 2,009 | 67.17% | 946 | 31.63% | 36 | 1.20% | 1,063 | 35.54% | 2,991 |
Keya Paha | 645 | 48.28% | 675 | 50.52% | 16 | 1.20% | -30 | -2.25% | 1,336 |
Kimball | 1,268 | 60.09% | 793 | 37.58% | 49 | 2.32% | 475 | 22.51% | 2,110 |
Knox | 5,229 | 73.36% | 1,830 | 25.67% | 69 | 0.97% | 3,399 | 47.69% | 7,128 |
Lancaster | 18,190 | 45.79% | 20,772 | 52.29% | 761 | 1.92% | -2,582 | -6.50% | 39,723 |
Lincoln | 6,047 | 64.12% | 3,082 | 32.68% | 302 | 3.20% | 2,965 | 31.44% | 9,431 |
Logan | 564 | 60.84% | 346 | 37.32% | 17 | 1.83% | 218 | 23.52% | 927 |
Loup | 389 | 55.33% | 287 | 40.83% | 27 | 3.84% | 102 | 14.51% | 703 |
Madison | 7,366 | 67.24% | 3,489 | 31.85% | 99 | 0.90% | 3,877 | 35.39% | 10,954 |
McPherson | 367 | 54.86% | 291 | 43.50% | 11 | 1.64% | 76 | 11.36% | 669 |
Merrick | 2,881 | 61.35% | 1,698 | 36.16% | 117 | 2.49% | 1,183 | 25.19% | 4,696 |
Morrill | 2,008 | 57.77% | 1,406 | 40.45% | 62 | 1.78% | 602 | 17.32% | 3,476 |
Nance | 2,479 | 67.71% | 1,156 | 31.58% | 26 | 0.71% | 1,323 | 36.14% | 3,661 |
Nemaha | 3,593 | 62.94% | 2,075 | 36.35% | 41 | 0.72% | 1,518 | 26.59% | 5,709 |
Nuckolls | 3,420 | 64.13% | 1,812 | 33.98% | 101 | 1.89% | 1,608 | 30.15% | 5,333 |
Otoe | 4,752 | 59.71% | 3,119 | 39.19% | 88 | 1.11% | 1,633 | 20.52% | 7,959 |
Pawnee | 2,641 | 62.16% | 1,568 | 36.90% | 40 | 0.94% | 1,073 | 25.25% | 4,249 |
Perkins | 1,669 | 69.60% | 674 | 28.11% | 55 | 2.29% | 995 | 41.49% | 2,398 |
Phelps | 2,589 | 59.22% | 1,709 | 39.09% | 74 | 1.69% | 880 | 20.13% | 4,372 |
Pierce | 2,980 | 71.93% | 1,128 | 27.23% | 35 | 0.84% | 1,852 | 44.70% | 4,143 |
Platte | 6,691 | 77.56% | 1,864 | 21.61% | 72 | 0.83% | 4,827 | 55.95% | 8,627 |
Polk | 2,939 | 63.50% | 1,636 | 35.35% | 53 | 1.15% | 1,303 | 28.15% | 4,628 |
Red Willow | 3,479 | 62.21% | 1,972 | 35.26% | 141 | 2.52% | 1,507 | 26.95% | 5,592 |
Richardson | 5,383 | 65.26% | 2,802 | 33.97% | 64 | 0.78% | 2,581 | 31.29% | 8,249 |
Rock | 810 | 56.06% | 613 | 42.42% | 22 | 1.52% | 197 | 13.63% | 1,445 |
Saline | 5,831 | 73.85% | 1,993 | 25.24% | 72 | 0.91% | 3,838 | 48.61% | 7,896 |
Sarpy | 3,112 | 71.89% | 1,148 | 26.52% | 69 | 1.59% | 1,964 | 45.37% | 4,329 |
Saunders | 6,134 | 67.16% | 2,772 | 30.35% | 228 | 2.50% | 3,362 | 36.81% | 9,134 |
Scotts Bluff | 4,792 | 53.18% | 4,108 | 45.59% | 111 | 1.23% | 684 | 7.59% | 9,011 |
Seward | 4,208 | 64.04% | 2,298 | 34.97% | 65 | 0.99% | 1,910 | 29.07% | 6,571 |
Sheridan | 2,945 | 60.53% | 1,820 | 37.41% | 100 | 2.06% | 1,125 | 23.12% | 4,865 |
Sherman | 2,670 | 72.32% | 952 | 25.79% | 70 | 1.90% | 1,718 | 46.53% | 3,692 |
Sioux | 1,006 | 59.04% | 667 | 39.14% | 31 | 1.82% | 339 | 19.89% | 1,704 |
Stanton | 2,302 | 79.96% | 568 | 19.73% | 9 | 0.31% | 1,734 | 60.23% | 2,879 |
Thayer | 3,841 | 66.12% | 1,878 | 32.33% | 90 | 1.55% | 1,963 | 33.79% | 5,809 |
Thomas | 437 | 60.61% | 262 | 36.34% | 22 | 3.05% | 175 | 24.27% | 721 |
Thurston | 3,273 | 80.70% | 739 | 18.22% | 44 | 1.08% | 2,534 | 62.48% | 4,056 |
Valley | 2,400 | 59.16% | 1,584 | 39.04% | 73 | 1.80% | 816 | 20.11% | 4,057 |
Washington | 3,709 | 71.92% | 1,382 | 26.80% | 66 | 1.28% | 2,327 | 45.12% | 5,157 |
Wayne | 2,608 | 62.78% | 1,455 | 35.03% | 91 | 2.19% | 1,153 | 27.76% | 4,154 |
Webster | 2,632 | 59.97% | 1,627 | 37.07% | 130 | 2.96% | 1,005 | 22.90% | 4,389 |
Wheeler | 658 | 72.63% | 219 | 24.17% | 29 | 3.20% | 439 | 48.45% | 906 |
York | 3,920 | 51.72% | 3,573 | 47.14% | 86 | 1.13% | 347 | 4.58% | 7,579 |
Totals | 359,082 | 62.98% | 201,177 | 35.29% | 9,876 | 1.73% | 157,905 | 27.70% | 570,137 |
See also[]
- United States presidential elections in Nebraska
Notes[]
References[]
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1932 – Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved January 25, 2019.
- ^ "1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37)". Retrieved January 25, 2019.
- ^ "1932 Presidential General Election Results – Nebraska". Retrieved January 25, 2019.
- ^ "Presidential General Election Results Comparison – Nebraska". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ 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. 252-255 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ a b "NE US President Race, November 08, 1932". Our Campaigns.
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