1932 United States presidential election in Kansas

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Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) 1927 The 1932 United States presidential election in Kansas was held on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election held throughout all forty-eight contemporary states. State voters chose nine electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-president. Kansas had been a powerfully Republican state during the 1920s (as it had been during its first quarter-century of statehood), although it did not possess the isolationist sentiment found in Appalachia or the Upper Midwest.Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 420–426 978-0-691-16324-6 In 1928 large-scale anti-Catholic voting swept a state substantially part of the Ozark "Bible Belt", so that whereas Kansas had been less anti-Democratic than more northerly Plains states in 1920 and 1924, it became Herbert Hoover’s best state in the entire nation at the next election cycle. However, Hoover's first term saw disaster on two fronts for the Great Plains: the economic calamity of the Great Depression was combined with a major drought in the region from 1930 onwards. Consequently, agricultural states like Kansas, which had already been hit by declining prices during the 1920s, were severely affected by a wave of foreclosures and outmigration.Burns, James Macgregor; The Crosswinds of Freedom, 1932–1988; 1453245200 Roosevelt, despite the strong Republican bent of the state, saw a major opportunity in the Plains States, visiting Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota extensively during his campaign in September.Grant, Phillip A.; ‘Establishing a Two-Party System: The 1932 Presidential Election in South Dakota’; Presidential Studies Quarterly, volume 10, no. 1: “Politicizing the Presidency”, 1789–1980 (Winter, 1980), pp. 73–77 Outside the prosperous northeast,Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 44 Hoover's attempts at apologetics were a complete failure,Carcasson, Martin; ‘Herbert Hoover and the Presidential Campaign of 1932: The Failure of Apologia’, Presidential Studies Quarterly, volume 28, No. 2, “The Buck Stops Here: Decision Making in the Oval” (Spring, 1998), pp. 349–365 with the result that Roosevelt carried every state west of the Appalachians. Kansas – the home state of incumbent Vice-president Curtis – was Hoover's strongest state west of the Mississippi, but he still lost ninety-one counties and almost twenty-eight percent of the vote vis-à-vis his overwhelming triumph against Smith in 1928. This remains the only occasion ever in which the Democratic presidential nominee has carried Chautauqua County.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868–2004, pp. 199–206 0786422173 2020 11 As of the 2024 presidential election, this also remains the last time that the following counties have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Clay, Coffey, Dickinson, Elk, Jackson, Jefferson, Jewell, Linn, Logan, Marshall, Norton, Phillips, Pottawatomie, Republic, Smith, Wabaunsee,Independent Ross Perot did gain a plurality of the Wabaunsee County vote in the 1992 election. Wallace, Washington, Wilson and Woodson.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 This was also the Democratic Party's best performance (in terms of margin) in Kansas to date, thereby making Kansas the solitary state in which no Democrat has ever won by double digits. This is also the last time a non-incumbent Democrat carried the state. Results Franklin D. Roosevelt Democrat 424,204 New York 53.56% 9 John Nance Garner Texas Herbert Hoover (incumbent) Republican 349,498 California 44.13% 0 Charles Curtis (incumbent) Kansas Norman Thomas Socialist 18,276 New York 2.31% 0 James H. Maurer Pennsylvania 791,978 100.00% 9 266 Results by county 1932 United States presidential election in Kansas by countyScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920–1964; pp. 165–166 0405077114County Franklin Delano RooseveltDemocratic Herbert Clark HooverRepublican Norman Mattoon ThomasSocialist Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Allen 4,249 47.55% 4,510 50.47% 177 1.98% -261 -2.92% 8,936 Anderson 3,580 58.92% 2,408 39.63% 88 1.45% 1,172 19.29% 6,076 Atchison 5,640 53.33% 4,778 45.18% 157 1.48% 862 8.15% 10,575 Barber 2,321 56.78% 1,671 40.88% 96 2.35% 650 15.90% 4,088 Barton 4,776 57.98% 3,365 40.85% 97 1.18% 1,411 17.13% 8,238 Bourbon 5,577 55.58% 4,277 42.62% 181 1.80% 1,300 12.95% 10,035 Brown 3,604 41.57% 5,005 57.73% 60 0.69% -1,401 -16.16% 8,669 Butler 7,447 53.22% 6,116 43.70% 431 3.08% 1,331 9.51% 13,994 Chase 1,703 52.71% 1,485 45.96% 43 1.33% 218 6.75% 3,231 Chautauqua 2,263 51.90% 1,893 43.42% 204 4.68% 370 8.49% 4,360 Cherokee 7,442 62.64% 4,045 34.05% 393 3.31% 3,397 28.59% 11,880 Cheyenne 1,716 60.66% 979 34.61% 134 4.74% 737 26.05% 2,829 Clark 1,152 54.70% 938 44.54% 16 0.76% 214 10.16% 2,106 Clay 3,289 49.90% 3,115 47.26% 187 2.84% 174 2.64% 6,591 Cloud 4,457 57.05% 3,120 39.94% 235 3.01% 1,337 17.11% 7,812 Coffey 3,389 54.80% 2,707 43.77% 88 1.42% 682 11.03% 6,184 Comanche 1,175 54.60% 945 43.91% 32 1.49% 230 10.69% 2,152 Cowley 8,681 50.69% 7,657 44.71% 788 4.60% 1,024 5.98% 17,126 Crawford 10,994 59.75% 6,884 37.41% 523 2.84% 4,110 22.34% 18,401 Decatur 2,422 61.02% 1,439 36.26% 108 2.72% 983 24.77% 3,969 Dickinson 5,339 49.21% 5,320 49.04% 190 1.75% 19 0.18% 10,849 Doniphan 2,532 47.34% 2,748 51.37% 69 1.29% -216 -4.04% 5,349 Douglas 4,833 38.60% 7,346 58.67% 342 2.73% -2,513 -20.07% 12,521 Edwards 1,693 52.94% 1,420 44.40% 85 2.66% 273 8.54% 3,198 Elk 2,239 55.19% 1,746 43.04% 72 1.77% 493 12.15% 4,057 Ellis 4,449 74.52% 1,465 24.54% 56 0.94% 2,984 49.98% 5,970 Ellsworth 2,928 63.68% 1,607 34.95% 63 1.37% 1,321 28.73% 4,598 Finney 2,300 51.11% 2,116 47.02% 84 1.87% 184 4.09% 4,500 Ford 4,442 55.42% 3,335 41.61% 238 2.97% 1,107 13.81% 8,015 Franklin 4,690 48.14% 4,887 50.16% 165 1.69% -197 -2.02% 9,742 Geary 2,705 56.55% 1,957 40.92% 121 2.53% 748 15.64% 4,783 Gove 1,186 52.02% 1,043 45.75% 51 2.24% 143 6.27% 2,280 Graham 2,082 60.10% 1,284 37.07% 98 2.83% 798 23.04% 3,464 Grant 737 62.88% 395 33.70% 40 3.41% 342 29.18% 1,172 Gray 1,348 58.18% 910 39.27% 59 2.55% 438 18.90% 2,317 Greeley 440 52.26% 359 42.64% 43 5.11% 81 9.62% 842 Greenwood 4,002 51.66% 3,592 46.37% 153 1.97% 410 5.29% 7,747 Hamilton 1,021 57.52% 651 36.68% 103 5.80% 370 20.85% 1,775 Harper 2,860 55.59% 2,116 41.13% 169 3.28% 744 14.46% 5,145 Harvey 4,091 48.09% 4,192 49.28% 224 2.63% -101 -1.19% 8,507 Haskell 639 56.75% 456 40.50% 31 2.75% 183 16.25% 1,126 Hodgeman 988 53.15% 847 45.56% 24 1.29% 141 7.58% 1,859 Jackson 3,442 50.63% 3,271 48.11% 86 1.26% 171 2.52% 6,799 Jefferson 3,185 50.79% 2,974 47.42% 112 1.79% 211 3.36% 6,271 Jewell 3,367 48.83% 3,324 48.20% 205 2.97% 43 0.62% 6,896 Johnson 6,485 49.52% 6,487 49.53% 124 0.95% -2 -0.02% 13,096 Kearny 771 56.73% 529 38.93% 59 4.34% 242 17.81% 1,359 Kingman 3,050 60.22% 1,923 37.97% 92 1.82% 1,127 22.25% 5,065 Kiowa 1,159 46.36% 1,306 52.24% 35 1.40% -147 -5.88% 2,500 Labette 7,667 55.74% 5,794 42.12% 294 2.14% 1,873 13.62% 13,755 Lane 866 55.26% 672 42.88% 29 1.85% 194 12.38% 1,567 Leavenworth 9,507 59.00% 6,484 40.24% 123 0.76% 3,023 18.76% 16,114 Lincoln 2,297 56.70% 1,653 40.80% 101 2.49% 644 15.90% 4,051 Linn 3,216 54.02% 2,647 44.46% 90 1.51% 569 9.56% 5,953 Logan 1,025 52.32% 867 44.26% 67 3.42% 158 8.07% 1,959 Lyon 6,365 49.90% 6,044 47.38% 347 2.72% 321 2.52% 12,756 Marion 4,366 56.59% 3,220 41.74% 129 1.67% 1,146 14.85% 7,715 Marshall 5,970 56.62% 4,455 42.25% 119 1.13% 1,515 14.37% 10,544 McPherson 5,003 53.35% 4,098 43.70% 276 2.94% 905 9.65% 9,377 Meade 1,231 48.83% 1,248 49.50% 42 1.67% -17 -0.67% 2,521 Miami 4,739 55.62% 3,667 43.04% 114 1.34% 1,072 12.58% 8,520 Mitchell 3,176 54.21% 2,502 42.70% 181 3.09% 674 11.50% 5,859 Montgomery 9,941 48.88% 9,958 48.96% 440 2.16% -17 -0.08% 20,339 Morris 2,452 47.48% 2,566 49.69% 146 2.83% -114 -2.21% 5,164 Morton 1,093 60.96% 621 34.63% 79 4.41% 472 26.32% 1,793 Nemaha 4,578 58.69% 3,167 40.60% 55 0.71% 1,411 18.09% 7,800 Neosho 5,616 56.36% 4,212 42.27% 137 1.37% 1,404 14.09% 9,965 Ness 1,772 53.63% 1,409 42.65% 123 3.72% 363 10.99% 3,304 Norton 2,705 52.58% 2,272 44.16% 168 3.27% 433 8.42% 5,145 Osage 4,199 51.43% 3,707 45.40% 259 3.17% 492 6.03% 8,165 Osborne 2,231 45.35% 2,555 51.94% 133 2.70% -324 -6.59% 4,919 Ottawa 2,505 54.95% 1,884 41.32% 170 3.73% 621 13.62% 4,559 Pawnee 2,451 55.17% 1,889 42.52% 103 2.32% 562 12.65% 4,443 Phillips 3,007 56.45% 2,165 40.64% 155 2.91% 842 15.81% 5,327 Pottawatomie 3,910 53.23% 3,339 45.45% 97 1.32% 571 7.77% 7,346 Pratt 3,109 57.61% 2,167 40.15% 121 2.24% 942 17.45% 5,397 Rawlins 2,245 65.59% 1,064 31.08% 114 3.33% 1,181 34.50% 3,423 Reno 9,351 49.29% 8,972 47.30% 647 3.41% 379 2.00% 18,970 Republic 4,105 59.61% 2,655 38.55% 127 1.84% 1,450 21.05% 6,887 Rice 3,037 48.22% 3,107 49.33% 154 2.45% -70 -1.11% 6,298 Riley 4,101 42.00% 5,337 54.65% 327 3.35% -1,236 -12.66% 9,765 Rooks 2,229 51.57% 2,005 46.39% 88 2.04% 224 5.18% 4,322 Rush 2,275 60.28% 1,433 37.97% 66 1.75% 842 22.31% 3,774 Russell 2,723 58.80% 1,805 38.98% 103 2.22% 918 19.82% 4,631 Saline 7,118 55.73% 5,265 41.22% 389 3.05% 1,853 14.51% 12,772 Scott 1,092 62.47% 595 34.04% 61 3.49% 497 28.43% 1,748 Sedgwick 29,344 55.79% 21,815 41.48% 1,435 2.73% 7,529 14.32% 52,594 Seward 1,576 53.03% 1,297 43.64% 99 3.33% 279 9.39% 2,972 Shawnee 16,471 44.35% 19,847 53.44% 823 2.22% -3,376 -9.09% 37,141 Sheridan 1,773 65.50% 878 32.43% 56 2.07% 895 33.06% 2,707 Sherman 2,110 61.09% 1,112 32.19% 232 6.72% 998 28.89% 3,454 Smith 3,155 51.14% 2,870 46.52% 144 2.33% 285 4.62% 6,169 Stafford 2,651 56.19% 1,945 41.23% 122 2.59% 706 14.96% 4,718 Stanton 598 58.40% 412 40.23% 14 1.37% 186 18.16% 1,024 Stevens 1,225 65.86% 578 31.08% 57 3.06% 647 34.78% 1,860 Sumner 6,353 54.68% 4,926 42.40% 340 2.93% 1,427 12.28% 11,619 Thomas 2,103 61.17% 1,158 33.68% 177 5.15% 945 27.49% 3,438 Trego 1,751 64.40% 918 33.76% 50 1.84% 833 30.64% 2,719 Wabaunsee 2,465 50.70% 2,304 47.39% 93 1.91% 161 3.31% 4,862 Wallace 761 54.63% 561 40.27% 71 5.10% 200 14.36% 1,393 Washington 4,234 55.32% 3,324 43.43% 95 1.24% 910 11.89% 7,653 Wichita 732 64.27% 375 32.92% 32 2.81% 357 31.34% 1,139 Wilson 4,001 52.53% 3,422 44.93% 193 2.53% 579 7.60% 7,616 Woodson 2,119 51.96% 1,842 45.17% 117 2.87% 277 6.79% 4,078 Wyandotte 32,629 55.47% 25,471 43.30% 721 1.23% 7,158 12.17% 58,821Totals424,20453.56%349,49844.13%18,2762.31%74,7069.43%791,978 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic 16em Anderson Atchison Barber Barton Bourbon Butler Chase Chautauqua Cherokee Cheyenne Clark Clay Cloud Coffey Comanche Cowley Crawford Decatur Dickinson Edwards Elk Ellsworth Finney Ford Geary Gove Graham Grant Gray Greeley Greenwood Hamilton Harper Harvey Haskell Hodgeman Jackson Jefferson Jewell Kearny Kingman Kiowa Labette Lane Leavenworth Lincoln Linn Logan Lyon Marion Marshall McPherson Meade Miami Mitchell Morris Morton Nemaha Neosho Ness Norton Osage Ottawa Pawnee Phillips Pottawatomie Pratt Rawlins Republic Reno Rice Rooks Rush Russell Saline Scott Sedgwick Seward Shawnee Sheridan Sherman Smith Stafford Stanton Stevens Sumner Thomas Trego Wabaunsee Wallace Washington Wichita Wilson Woodson Wyandotte See also United States presidential elections in Kansas Notes References 2 expanded 1932 Kansas