1932 United States presidential election in Oregon
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The 1932 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose five[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Background and results[]
Outside a few Presidential and gubernatorial elections, Oregon was a virtually one-party Republican state during the “System of 1896”,[3] where the only competition was via Republican primaries.[4] Apart from Woodrow Wilson’s two elections, during the first of which the GOP was severely divided, no Democrat had carried a single county in the state since William Jennings Bryan in 1900.
However, since the 1928 election when Oregon had been won against Al Smith by 30.04%, the United States had fallen into the Great Depression, which had been particularly severe in the rural western parts of the nation.[5] The New Deal was especially popular in the Pacific States,[6] and as a result Roosevelt was assured of carrying the state.
Oregon was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 57.99% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 36.88% of the popular vote.[7] Roosevelt flipped every county in Oregon except arch-Yankee Benton, and was the first-ever Democratic victor in the northern coastal counties of Clatsop, Lincoln and Tillamook,[8] and also in inland wheat-growing Gilliam County and Wheeler County.[8]
Results[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 213,871 | 57.99% | |
Republican | Herbert Hoover (inc.) | 136,019 | 36.88% | |
Socialist | Norman Thomas | 15,450 | 4.19% | |
Socialist Labor | Verne L. Reynolds | 1,730 | 0.47% | |
Communist | William Z. Foster | 1,681 | 0.46% | |
Write-in | 57 | 0.02% | ||
Total votes | 368,808 | 100% |
Results by county[]
County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic |
Herbert Clark Hoover Republican |
Norman Mattoon Thomas[9] Socialist |
Verne L. Reynolds[9] Socialist Labor |
Various candidates[9] Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast[10] | ||||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Baker | 4,420 | 66.23% | 2,097 | 31.42% | 136 | 2.04% | 13 | 0.19% | 8 | 0.12% | 2,323 | 34.81% | 6,674 |
Benton | 3,121 | 42.00% | 4,068 | 54.74% | 219 | 2.95% | 15 | 0.20% | 10 | 0.13% | -947 | -12.74% | 7,431 |
Clackamas | 11,575 | 62.20% | 5,964 | 32.05% | 916 | 4.92% | 89 | 0.48% | 64 | 0.34% | 5,611 | 30.15% | 18,608 |
Clatsop | 4,473 | 59.98% | 2,570 | 34.46% | 183 | 2.45% | 63 | 0.84% | 168 | 2.25% | 1,903 | 25.52% | 7,457 |
Columbia | 3,643 | 61.36% | 1,975 | 33.27% | 231 | 3.89% | 49 | 0.83% | 39 | 0.66% | 1,668 | 28.09% | 5,937 |
Coos | 5,504 | 59.21% | 3,299 | 35.49% | 376 | 4.04% | 52 | 0.56% | 65 | 0.70% | 2,205 | 23.72% | 9,296 |
Crook | 990 | 59.78% | 626 | 37.80% | 30 | 1.81% | 8 | 0.48% | 2 | 0.12% | 364 | 21.98% | 1,656 |
Curry | 971 | 68.00% | 395 | 27.66% | 54 | 3.78% | 6 | 0.42% | 2 | 0.14% | 576 | 40.34% | 1,428 |
Deschutes | 2,962 | 58.60% | 1,697 | 33.57% | 246 | 4.87% | 117 | 2.31% | 33 | 0.65% | 1,265 | 25.02% | 5,055 |
Douglas | 4,638 | 51.23% | 4,046 | 44.69% | 283 | 3.13% | 47 | 0.52% | 40 | 0.44% | 592 | 6.54% | 9,054 |
Gilliam | 854 | 63.59% | 470 | 35.00% | 12 | 0.89% | 2 | 0.15% | 5 | 0.37% | 384 | 28.59% | 1,343 |
Grant | 1,496 | 64.34% | 733 | 31.53% | 78 | 3.35% | 17 | 0.73% | 1 | 0.04% | 763 | 32.82% | 2,325 |
Harney | 1,276 | 61.73% | 687 | 33.24% | 80 | 3.87% | 21 | 1.02% | 4 | 0.19% | 589 | 28.50% | 2,067 |
Hood River | 1,685 | 51.75% | 1,387 | 42.60% | 141 | 4.33% | 24 | 0.74% | 19 | 0.58% | 298 | 9.15% | 3,256 |
Jackson | 7,519 | 55.13% | 5,459 | 40.02% | 582 | 4.27% | 61 | 0.45% | 18 | 0.13% | 2,060 | 15.10% | 13,639 |
Jefferson | 477 | 62.27% | 253 | 33.03% | 31 | 4.05% | 3 | 0.39% | 2 | 0.26% | 224 | 29.24% | 766 |
Josephine | 3,060 | 58.90% | 1,757 | 33.82% | 314 | 6.04% | 53 | 1.02% | 14 | 0.27% | 1,303 | 25.08% | 5,195 |
Klamath | 6,772 | 62.97% | 3,483 | 32.38% | 400 | 3.72% | 61 | 0.57% | 39 | 0.36% | 3,289 | 30.58% | 10,755 |
Lake | 1,199 | 57.53% | 839 | 40.26% | 30 | 1.44% | 14 | 0.67% | 2 | 0.10% | 360 | 17.27% | 2,084 |
Lane | 11,073 | 45.88% | 10,547 | 43.70% | 2,345 | 9.72% | 124 | 0.51% | 48 | 0.20% | 526 | 2.18% | 24,137 |
Lincoln | 2,376 | 59.49% | 1,415 | 35.43% | 156 | 3.90% | 26 | 0.65% | 25 | 0.63% | 961 | 24.06% | 3,994 |
Linn | 5,366 | 53.49% | 4,106 | 40.93% | 496 | 4.94% | 43 | 0.43% | 20 | 0.20% | 1,260 | 12.56% | 10,031 |
Malheur | 2,025 | 53.94% | 1,589 | 42.33% | 104 | 2.77% | 25 | 0.67% | 11 | 0.29% | 436 | 11.61% | 3,754 |
Marion | 12,572 | 56.84% | 8,633 | 39.03% | 760 | 3.43% | 92 | 0.42% | 74 | 0.33% | 3,939 | 17.81% | 22,118 |
Morrow | 929 | 58.03% | 579 | 36.16% | 78 | 4.87% | 6 | 0.37% | 9 | 0.56% | 350 | 21.86% | 1,601 |
Multnomah | 78,898 | 59.44% | 47,201 | 35.56% | 5,348 | 4.03% | 432 | 0.33% | 864 | 0.65% | 31,697 | 23.88% | 132,743 |
Polk | 3,705 | 56.88% | 2,548 | 39.12% | 205 | 3.15% | 40 | 0.61% | 16 | 0.25% | 1,157 | 17.76% | 6,514 |
Sherman | 665 | 59.80% | 423 | 38.04% | 19 | 1.71% | 5 | 0.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 242 | 21.76% | 1,112 |
Tillamook | 2,726 | 57.51% | 1,722 | 36.33% | 245 | 5.15% | 34 | 0.72% | 28 | 0.59% | 1,004 | 21.18% | 4,740 |
Umatilla | 5,631 | 63.43% | 2,930 | 33.01% | 283 | 3.19% | 28 | 0.32% | 5 | 0.06% | 2,701 | 30.43% | 8,877 |
Union | 4,450 | 70.08% | 1,705 | 26.85% | 159 | 2.50% | 29 | 0.46% | 7 | 0.11% | 2,745 | 43.23% | 6,350 |
Wallowa | 1,790 | 67.50% | 772 | 29.11% | 75 | 2.83% | 13 | 0.49% | 2 | 0.08% | 1,018 | 38.39% | 2,652 |
Wasco | 2,776 | 59.52% | 1,740 | 37.31% | 127 | 2.72% | 13 | 0.28% | 8 | 0.17% | 1,036 | 22.21% | 4,664 |
Washington | 6,824 | 59.06% | 4,201 | 36.36% | 444 | 3.84% | 56 | 0.48% | 48 | 0.41% | 2,623 | 22.70% | 11,554 |
Wheeler | 632 | 54.25% | 519 | 44.55% | 10 | 0.86% | 4 | 0.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 113 | 9.70% | 1,165 |
Yamhill | 4,798 | 55.03% | 3,584 | 41.11% | 254 | 2.91% | 45 | 0.52% | 38 | 0.44% | 1,214 | 13.92% | 8,719 |
Totals | 213,871 | 58.00% | 136,019 | 36.89% | 15,450 | 4.19% | 1,730 | 0.47% | 1,738 | 0.47% | 77,852 | 21.11% | 368,751 |
References[]
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1932 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved January 30, 2019.
- ^ "1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37)". Retrieved January 30, 2019.
- ^ Burnham, Walter Dean; ‘The System of 1896’, in Kleppner, Paul (editor), The Evolution of American Electoral Systems, pp. 176-179 ISBN 0313213798
- ^ Murray, Keith; ‘Issues and Personalities of Pacific Northwest Politics, 1889-1950’, The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3 (July 1950), pp. 213-233
- ^ Davies, Richard O.; ‘The Politics of Desperation: William A. Hirth and the Presidential Election of 1932’; Agricultural History, vol. 38, no. 4 (October 1964), pp. 226-234
- ^ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 485 ISBN 9780691163246
- ^ "1932 Presidential General Election Results - Oregon". Retrieved January 30, 2019.
- ^ a b Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 284-285 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ a b c Our Campaigns; OR US President, November 08, 1932
- ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 371 ISBN 9780804716963
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