1936 United States presidential election in Oregon
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Elections in Oregon |
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The 1936 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. Voters chose five[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Before the election, the primary focus was on power development in the water-rich and mountainous Pacific Northwest, especially the construction of major Federal dams[3] and whether power rates for all users should be uniform.[4] The Republican Party strongly supported private utilities, whilst Democrats generally supported at least some degree of public ownership and control of electric utilities.[5]
Oregon had been a virtually one-party Republican state outside a few Presidential and gubernatorial elections during the “System of 1896”; however, in 1932 under the influence of the Great Depression, Roosevelt had been the first Democrat since Horatio Seymour in 1868 to win a majority of the state's vote, although Woodrow Wilson won a plurality in 1912. In 1936, despite some popular reservations about public-owned power, the Beaver State was won in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Vice President John Nance Garner, with 64.42% of the popular vote, against Governor Alf Landon (R–Kansas), running with Frank Knox, with 29.64% of the popular vote.[6][7]
FDR's 64.42% result is the best ever achieved by a Democrat in Oregon, and he remains the only Democrat to sweep all Oregon's counties in a presidential election. Additionally, the 1936 election remains the last in which a Democratic presidential candidate won Josephine County.[8]
Results[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) | 266,733 | 64.42% | |
Republican | Alf Landon | 122,706 | 29.64% | |
Independent | William Lemke | 21,831 | 5.27% | |
Independent | Norman Thomas | 2,143 | 0.52% | |
Independent | John W. Aiken | 504 | 0.12% | |
Write-in | Earl Browder | 104 | 0.03% | |
Write-in | D. Leigh Colvin | 4 | 0.00% | |
Total votes | 414,021 | 100% |
Results by county[]
County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic |
Alfred Mossman Landon Republican |
William Frederick Lemke[9] Independent |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast[10] | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Baker | 4,991 | 69.79% | 1,768 | 24.72% | 362 | 5.06% | 30 | 0.42% | 3,223 | 45.07% | 7,151 |
Benton | 3,547 | 47.78% | 3,390 | 45.67% | 446 | 6.01% | 40 | 0.54% | 157 | 2.12% | 7,423 |
Clackamas | 14,203 | 66.67% | 5,830 | 27.37% | 1,114 | 5.23% | 156 | 0.73% | 8,373 | 39.30% | 21,303 |
Clatsop | 6,267 | 70.96% | 2,261 | 25.60% | 257 | 2.91% | 47 | 0.53% | 4,006 | 45.36% | 8,832 |
Columbia | 5,587 | 71.62% | 1,815 | 23.27% | 356 | 4.56% | 43 | 0.55% | 3,772 | 48.35% | 7,801 |
Coos | 7,167 | 67.42% | 2,576 | 24.23% | 834 | 7.85% | 53 | 0.50% | 4,591 | 43.19% | 10,630 |
Crook | 1,086 | 61.99% | 589 | 33.62% | 71 | 4.05% | 6 | 0.34% | 497 | 28.37% | 1,752 |
Curry | 913 | 54.35% | 497 | 29.58% | 247 | 14.70% | 23 | 1.37% | 416 | 24.76% | 1,680 |
Deschutes | 4,278 | 72.71% | 1,299 | 22.08% | 257 | 4.37% | 50 | 0.85% | 2,979 | 50.63% | 5,884 |
Douglas | 4,893 | 48.40% | 4,254 | 42.08% | 919 | 9.09% | 44 | 0.44% | 639 | 6.32% | 10,110 |
Gilliam | 983 | 69.67% | 362 | 25.66% | 65 | 4.61% | 1 | 0.07% | 621 | 44.01% | 1,411 |
Grant | 1,436 | 57.69% | 697 | 28.00% | 342 | 13.74% | 14 | 0.56% | 739 | 29.69% | 2,489 |
Harney | 1,262 | 65.05% | 546 | 28.14% | 122 | 6.29% | 10 | 0.52% | 716 | 36.91% | 1,940 |
Hood River | 2,759 | 65.77% | 1,249 | 29.77% | 155 | 3.69% | 32 | 0.76% | 1,510 | 36.00% | 4,195 |
Jackson | 7,520 | 54.05% | 4,866 | 34.97% | 1,449 | 10.41% | 79 | 0.57% | 2,654 | 19.07% | 13,914 |
Jefferson | 514 | 64.01% | 253 | 31.51% | 34 | 4.23% | 2 | 0.25% | 261 | 32.50% | 803 |
Josephine | 2,840 | 47.69% | 1,992 | 33.45% | 1,067 | 17.92% | 56 | 0.94% | 848 | 14.24% | 5,955 |
Klamath | 8,562 | 70.05% | 3,225 | 26.39% | 369 | 3.02% | 66 | 0.54% | 5,337 | 43.67% | 12,222 |
Lake | 1,274 | 56.55% | 725 | 32.18% | 247 | 10.96% | 7 | 0.31% | 549 | 24.37% | 2,253 |
Lane | 13,926 | 57.51% | 8,309 | 34.31% | 1,704 | 7.04% | 276 | 1.14% | 5,617 | 23.20% | 24,215 |
Lincoln | 3,024 | 59.98% | 1,585 | 31.44% | 401 | 7.95% | 32 | 0.63% | 1,439 | 28.54% | 5,042 |
Linn | 5,856 | 52.23% | 4,110 | 36.66% | 1,175 | 10.48% | 70 | 0.62% | 1,746 | 15.57% | 11,211 |
Malheur | 2,630 | 59.64% | 1,385 | 31.41% | 365 | 8.28% | 30 | 0.68% | 1,245 | 28.23% | 4,410 |
Marion | 15,536 | 59.59% | 8,595 | 32.97% | 1,710 | 6.56% | 230 | 0.88% | 6,941 | 26.62% | 26,071 |
Morrow | 1,181 | 63.02% | 518 | 27.64% | 161 | 8.59% | 14 | 0.75% | 663 | 35.38% | 1,874 |
Multnomah | 106,561 | 69.96% | 41,405 | 27.18% | 3,358 | 2.20% | 995 | 0.65% | 65,156 | 42.78% | 152,319 |
Polk | 3,694 | 56.85% | 2,246 | 34.56% | 514 | 7.91% | 44 | 0.68% | 1,448 | 22.28% | 6,498 |
Sherman | 823 | 67.85% | 337 | 27.78% | 50 | 4.12% | 3 | 0.25% | 486 | 40.07% | 1,213 |
Tillamook | 2,781 | 60.68% | 1,380 | 30.11% | 399 | 8.71% | 23 | 0.50% | 1,401 | 30.57% | 4,583 |
Umatilla | 5,753 | 61.13% | 2,943 | 31.27% | 676 | 7.18% | 39 | 0.41% | 2,810 | 29.86% | 9,411 |
Union | 4,643 | 69.17% | 1,517 | 22.60% | 520 | 7.75% | 32 | 0.48% | 3,126 | 46.57% | 6,712 |
Wallowa | 2,000 | 63.86% | 811 | 25.89% | 295 | 9.42% | 26 | 0.83% | 1,189 | 37.96% | 3,132 |
Wasco | 3,573 | 68.92% | 1,278 | 24.65% | 318 | 6.13% | 15 | 0.29% | 2,295 | 44.27% | 5,184 |
Washington | 8,641 | 63.48% | 4,148 | 30.47% | 721 | 5.30% | 102 | 0.75% | 4,493 | 33.01% | 13,612 |
Wheeler | 663 | 55.71% | 502 | 42.18% | 22 | 1.85% | 3 | 0.25% | 161 | 13.53% | 1,190 |
Yamhill | 5,366 | 55.92% | 3,443 | 35.88% | 729 | 7.60% | 58 | 0.60% | 1,923 | 20.04% | 9,596 |
Totals | 266,733 | 64.55% | 122,706 | 29.69% | 21,102 | 5.11% | 2,693 | 0.65% | 144,027 | 34.85% | 413,234 |
References[]
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1936 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved December 25, 2018.
- ^ "1936 Election for the Thirty-eighth Term (1937-41)". Retrieved December 25, 2018.
- ^ Tollefson, Gene; BPA and the Struggle for Power at Cost, p. 185 Published 1987 by Bonneville Power Association
- ^ Tollefson; BPA and the Struggle for Power at Cost, p. 127
- ^ Blumm, Michael C.; ‘The Northwest's Hydroelectric Heritage: Prologue to the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act’; Washington Law Review, volume 58|Issue 2 (April 1, 1983)
- ^ "1936 Presidential General Election Results - Oregon". Retrieved December 25, 2018.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1936". Retrieved December 25, 2018.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ 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; p. 372 ISBN 0405077114
- 1936 United States presidential election by state
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