1936 United States presidential election in Utah

none June 2025 January 2025 1936 United States presidential election 1936 United States presidential election in Utah Utah 1922 presidential no 1932 United States presidential election in Utah 1932 1940 United States presidential election in Utah 1940 November 3, 1936 x200px Franklin D. Roosevelt 1936 june (3x4 cropped) (B&W).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York John N. Garner 4 150,246 69.34% LandonPortr (cropped).jpg Alf Landon Republican Party (United States) Kansas Frank Knox 0 64,555 29.79% 1936 United States presidential election in Utah results map by county.svg 250px County results Roosevelt #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% Landon #e27f90 50–60% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1936 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. All contemporary forty-eight states took part in the national election, and Utah voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Since its landslide endorsement of William Jennings Bryan's "free silver" in its inaugural 1896 election, Utah had been a swing state apart from its support for embattled President William Howard Taft in 1912. Woodrow Wilson had carried the state easily in 1916 due to strong anti-war sentiment,Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 47 0786422173 but James M. Cox, John W. Davis and Robert M. La Follette did not win a single county between them in the 1920 and 1924 Republican landslides. Vis-à-vis the rest of the nation, Utah had shown only a small anti-Hoover trend in 1932. During Landon's summer campaigning, Utah was targeted strongly as a state the GOP needed to carry to have a chance at the presidency.Sheppard, Si; The Buying of the Presidency?: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Election of 1936 (Praeger Series on American Political Culture) , pp. 52-53 144083105X However, FDR's western public works programs, most notably Boulder Dam,Wrobel, David M.; America's West: A History, 1890–1950, p. 139 0521150132 had made him exceptionally popular in the rugged, arid West.Murrin, John; Johnson, Paul; McPherson, James; Fahs, Alice and Gerstle, Gary; Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People (Enhanced Concise Edition), p. 151 9780495565987 Along with the potent campaigning of James Farley meant that, by the last week of October the Republicans were showing no interest in Utah,Sheppard; The Buying of the Presidency, pp. 191-192 and this despite the opposition of the leadership of Utah's dominant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Roosevelt's candidacy and policies, chiefly regarding the church's desire to remove Mormons from welfare rolls.Cannon, Brian Q. and Embry, Jessie L. (editors); Utah in the Twentieth Century, pp. 167-169 087421744X Utah, like every other state west of the Appalachian Mountains, voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt over Alf Landon by a substantial margin, making FDR the first (and only) Democrat to win the state more than once. Roosevelt won Utah by a landslide with 69.34 percent of the vote, which remains the second best Democratic result from the state behind William Jennings Bryan in the state's inaugural election of 1896. Like Bryan, FDR won every county in the state except strongly Republican Kane County in the far south, which has only voted Democratic for Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Kane County was the westernmost county in the nation to vote for Landon, and one of only three west of the Continental Divide to do so.The others were Clark County, Idaho and Rio Blanco County, Colorado 2020 11 As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which Iron County, Sanpete County, Sevier County, San Juan County, and Garfield County have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 Results + General Election ResultsUtah State Archives, Abstract of the Returns of an Election held in the State of Utah, Tuesday, November 3rd, A.D. 1936 for Presidential Electors, for Representatives in the Seventy-fifth Congress of the United States, for State Officers in Districts comprising more than one county, and for the Adoption or Rejection of Six Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the State of Utah.Party Pledged to Elector Votes Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt E. A. Britsch150,246 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt J. E. Wilson150,002 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Margaret G. Larsen149,949 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Mrs. Francis G. Callahan149,932 Republican Party Alf Landon James A. Ivers64,555 Republican Party Alf Landon Charles W. Morse64,511 Republican Party Alf Landon Mrs. Sherman Christenson64,440 Republican Party Alf Landon Mrs. G. D. Rutledge64,369 Union Party William Lemke Ellen A. DeWitt1,121 Union Party William Lemke Wesley Jacques1,120 Union Party William Lemke James V. Leonard1,119 Union Party William Lemke Frank E. Stark1,112 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Vern Bullough432 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Bert Westover429 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Darwin Condie423 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Otto E. Parson422 Communist Party Earl Browder Dan Black280 Communist Party Earl Browder Theodore Houston280 Communist Party Earl Browder C. W. Matson278 Communist Party Earl Browder Howard Brown277 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Anna Flewelling43 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin C. E. Smith43 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Julius Sheppard42 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Leota K. Hutsinpillar42Votes cast"highest" Based on highest elector on each ticket 216,677 Results by county Countyhttps://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1936&fips=49&f=0&off=0&elect=0 2025-12-29 1936 Presidential Election Results – Utah Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential ElectionsScammon Richard M. America at the Polls: A Handbook of American Presidential Election Statistics, 1920-1964 1965 University of Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh 459 https://archive.org/details/americaatpolls0000rich/page/458/mode/2up 29 December 2025 Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic Alf LandonRepublican William LemkeUnion Norman ThomasSocialist Earl BrowderCommunist D. Leigh ColvinProhibition Margin Total votes cast"highest" # % # % # % # % # % # % # %Beaver 1,33759.13%91340.38%100.44%10.04%00.00%00.00%42418.75%2,261Box Elder 5,00169.16%2,18030.15%440.61%50.07%10.01%00.00%2,82139.01%7,231Cache 8,60671.97%3,25827.25%740.62%130.11%50.04%10.01%5,34844.73%11,957Carbon 5,04077.42%1,34820.71%590.91%260.40%350.54%20.03%3,69256.71%6,510Daggett 12861.54%7837.50%20.96%00.00%00.00%00.00%5024.04%208Davis 3,92067.80%1,84131.84%140.24%40.07%20.03%10.02%2,07935.96%5,782Duchesne 1,97063.86%1,07034.68%351.13%90.29%00.00%10.03%90029.17%3,085Emery 1,90966.54%93832.69%110.38%90.31%00.00%20.07%97133.84%2,869Garfield 92852.37%84247.52%00.00%20.11%00.00%00.00%864.85%1,772Grand 52164.40%27233.62%121.48%40.49%00.00%00.00%24930.78%809Iron 1,84456.07%1,39642.44%120.36%371.12%00.00%00.00%44813.62%3,289Juab 2,31968.67%1,02730.41%170.50%130.38%10.03%00.00%1,29238.26%3,377Kane 39543.03%51956.54%20.22%20.22%00.00%00.00%-124-13.51%918Millard 2,31360.34%1,46638.25%421.10%120.31%00.00%00.00%84722.10%3,833Morgan 73960.18%48339.33%60.49%00.00%00.00%00.00%25620.85%1,228Piute 61164.25%33935.65%00.00%10.11%00.00%00.00%27228.60%951Rich 48855.45%38844.09%40.45%00.00%00.00%00.00%10011.36%880Salt Lake 62,38671.77%23,81927.40%3820.44%1550.18%1770.20%100.01%38,56744.37%86,929San Juan 52054.11%43244.95%50.52%30.31%10.10%00.00%889.16%961Sanpete 3,95958.67%2,73840.57%390.58%90.13%00.00%30.04%1,22118.09%6,748Sevier 2,81659.07%1,89939.84%340.71%100.21%80.17%00.00%91719.24%4,767Summit 2,34461.95%1,42237.58%70.18%70.18%40.11%00.00%92224.37%3,784Tooele 2,36169.46%1,02930.27%50.15%20.06%20.06%00.00%1,33239.19%3,399Uintah 1,98660.96%1,19336.62%712.18%80.25%00.00%00.00%79324.34%3,258Utah 14,38769.52%6,17329.83%620.30%440.21%240.12%50.02%8,21439.69%20,695Wasatch 1,29955.66%1,02944.09%10.04%40.17%00.00%10.04%27011.57%2,334Washington 2,00563.37%1,14536.19%90.28%40.13%10.03%00.00%86027.18%3,164Wayne 52261.12%32938.52%20.23%00.00%00.00%10.12%19322.60%854Weber 17,59477.08%4,98921.86%1600.70%480.21%190.08%160.07%12,60555.22%22,826Total150,246There is a slight discrepancy with the county results for Democratic elector Britsch; the results by county add up to 150,248 rather than the stated 150,246.69.34%64,55529.79%1,1210.52%4320.20%2800.13%430.02%85,69139.55%216,677 thumb|400px|Utah county flips 1932-36: Democratic #92c5de Hold #0671b0 Gain from Republican Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Daggett Garfield Iron Millard Piute San Juan See also United States presidential elections in Utah Notes References 2 Utah 1936