1932 United States presidential election in New York

none June 2025 September 2023 1932 United States presidential election 1932 United States presidential election in New York New York Flag of New York (1909–2020).svg presidential no 1928 United States presidential election in New York 1928 1936 United States presidential election in New York 1936 66.1%Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072. 2.2 pp November 8, 1932 x200px FDR in 1933 (3x4).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York John Nance Garner 47 2,534,959 54.07% President Hoover portrait (cropped).jpg Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) California Charles Curtis 0 1,937,963 41.33% 400px 440px County results Roosevelt #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% Hoover #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% President Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1932 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 8, 1932. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 47 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New York was won by Democratic Governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was challenging embattled incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt ran with Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas, and Hoover ran with incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas. With the incumbent Republican president greatly weakened by his failures to adequately address the Great Depression, the New York Governor easily carried his home state amid a nationwide Democratic landslide. Franklin Roosevelt took 54.07% of the vote in New York State versus Herbert Hoover's 41.33%, a margin of 12.74%. Socialist candidate Norman Thomas finished a distant third, with 3.78%. Despite being Roosevelt's home state – and although he won the state comfortably – in the context of the 1932 nationwide Democratic landslide, New York weighed in for this election as 5% more Republican than the national average.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1932&fips=36&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1932 Presidential General Election Results – New York Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2013-07-25 1932 was the first time a Democrat had won New York's electoral votes since 1912, when Republican vote-splitting for the third party candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt had allowed Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win the state with a plurality of only 41% of the vote. Franklin Roosevelt's 54.07% made him the first Democratic presidential candidate to win an absolute majority of the vote in New York State since Samuel J. Tilden in 1876. Roosevelt's 12.74% victory margin over Hoover was the widest victory margin ever for a Democratic presidential candidate in New York State up to that point, although it would be surpassed just 4 years later by Roosevelt's own 20-point re-election victory in 1936. Roosevelt's support in the state did not appear spontaneously in 1932; his winning strategy in New York State was primarily to build upon the Democratic coalition fellow New Yorker Al Smith had organized behind him in the 1928 election. Smith had narrowly lost the state amid a nationwide Republican landslide, but had dramatically improved upon how Democrats before him had done, and laid the groundwork for turning the state Democratic in 1932 and beyond. In 1920 and 1924, Republicans had swept every county in New York State and Democrats took less than 30% of the vote. In 1928, Smith came within 2 points of winning the state by sweeping all five boroughs of heavily populated New York City, winning Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, along with neighboring Rensselaer County, and winning two counties in northern New York along the Saint Lawrence River, Clinton County and Franklin County. FDR turned a 2-point statewide Democratic defeat in 1928 into a 13-point victory in 1932 primarily by pushing up turnout and victory margins in Smith's 1928 counties, as the county map remained almost entirely the same. Only one county in New York State changed hands from Hoover in 1928 to Roosevelt in 1932, rural Sullivan County, which voted Democratic for the first time since 1912. Results 1932 United States presidential election in New YorkPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt 2,534,959 54.07% 47 Republican Herbert Hoover (incumbent) 1,937,963 41.33% 0 Socialist Norman Thomas 177,397 3.78% 0 Communist William Z. Foster 27,956 0.60% 0 Socialist Labor Verne L. Reynolds 10,339 0.22% 0 Totals 4,688,614 100.0% 47 New York City results 1932 Presidential Election in New York CityManhattanThe BronxBrooklynQueens Staten IslandTotal DemocraticFranklin D. Roosevelt378,077281,330514,172244,74036,8571,455,17666.37%66.89%70.35%66.86%61.47%61.08% RepublicanHerbert Hoover157,01476,587192,536136,64121,278584,05626.64%27.78%19.15%25.04%34.32%35.26% SocialistNorman Thomas23,94631,24750,50914,8542,009122,5655.59%4.24%7.81%6.57%3.73%3.33% CommunistWilliam Z. Foster4,8438,8299,2871,14311224,2141.10%0.86%2.21%1.21%0.29%0.19% Socialist LaborVerne L. Reynolds1,3251,9262,504763896,6070.30%0.23%0.48%0.33%0.19%0.15%TOTAL565,205399,919769,008398,14160,3452,192,618100.00% Results by county County Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic Herbert HooverRepublican Norman M. ThomasSocialist William Z. Fosterhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2929 NY US President Race, November 08, 1932 Our CampaignsCommunist Verne L. ReynoldsSocialist Labor Margin Total votescastNew York, ‘Vote, New York State, By Counties, November 8, 1932 For President and Vice President,’ The New York Red Book 1933 (Albany, 1933) # % # % # % # % # % # % Albany 73,194 60.61% 46,244 38.29% 1,181 0.98%480.04% 92 0.08% 26,950 22.32% 120,759 Allegany 4,961 27.91% 12,348 69.46% 427 2.40%120.07% 29 0.16% -7,387 -41.55% 17,777 Bronx 281,330 70.35% 76,587 19.15% 31,247 7.81%8,8292.21% 1,926 0.48% 204,743 51.20% 399,919 Broome 22,802 40.36% 32,751 57.97% 673 1.19%2150.38% 53 0.09% -9,949 -17.61% 56,494 Cattaraugus 11,467 37.25% 18,071 58.70% 1,176 3.82%150.05% 57 0.19% -6,604 -21.45% 30,786 Cayuga 12,989 41.84% 17,280 55.66% 713 2.30%310.10% 30 0.10% -4,291 -13.82% 31,043 Chautauqua 16,914 33.64% 30,479 60.62% 2,385 4.74%2420.48% 255 0.51% -13,565 -26.98% 50,275 Chemung 13,825 39.78% 20,152 57.99% 740 2.13%210.06% 12 0.03% -6,327 -18.21% 34,750 Chenango 5,953 33.60% 11,566 65.27% 185 1.04%50.03% 10 0.06% -5,613 -31.68% 17,719 Clinton 11,027 56.94% 8,263 42.67% 68 0.35%20.01% 5 0.03% 2,764 14.27% 19,365 Columbia 9,083 43.39% 11,667 55.74% 155 0.74%240.11% 2 0.01% -2,584 -12.35% 20,931 Cortland 4,425 30.34% 9,859 67.60% 284 1.95%40.03% 13 0.09% -5,434 -37.26% 14,585 Delaware 6,723 33.65% 13,050 65.32% 194 0.97%60.03% 7 0.04% -6,327 -31.67% 19,980 Dutchess 20,374 43.47% 25,757 54.95% 634 1.35%590.13% 47 0.10% -5,383 -11.48% 46,871 Erie 131,012 46.31% 141,059 49.86% 9,485 3.35%6770.24% 697 0.25% -10,047 -3.55% 282,930 Essex 5,597 35.46% 10,062 63.74% 113 0.72%40.03% 10 0.06% -4,465 -28.28% 15,786 Franklin 10,318 51.96% 9,422 47.45% 106 0.53%20.01% 9 0.05% 896 4.51% 19,857 Fulton 5,678 27.05% 14,984 71.39% 249 1.19%410.20% 36 0.17% -9,306 -44.34% 20,988 Genesee 6,152 33.55% 11,881 64.80% 280 1.53%110.06% 11 0.06% -5,729 -31.25% 18,335 Greene 6,794 47.64% 7,334 51.43% 123 0.86%50.04% 5 0.04% -540 -3.79% 14,261 Hamilton 1,107 40.58% 1,603 58.76% 18 0.66%00.00% 0 0.00% -496 -18.18% 2,728 Herkimer 11,194 41.78% 15,158 56.58% 394 1.47%220.08% 22 0.08% -3,964 -14.80% 26,790 Jefferson 13,478 36.70% 22,760 61.98% 451 1.23%70.02% 28 0.08% -9,282 -25.28% 36,724 Kings 514,172 66.86% 192,536 25.04% 50,509 6.57%9,2871.21% 2,504 0.33% 321,636 41.82% 769,008 Lewis 4,086 39.20% 6,258 60.03% 70 0.67%60.06% 4 0.04% -2,172 -20.84% 10,424 Livingston 6,529 36.50% 11,114 62.13% 226 1.26%50.03% 14 0.08% -4,585 -25.63% 17,888 Madison 6,896 35.78% 11,931 61.91% 413 2.14%80.04% 24 0.12% -5,035 -26.13% 19,272 Monroe 83,208 44.75% 95,964 51.60% 5,950 3.20%6510.35% 187 0.10% -12,756 -6.86% 185,960 Montgomery 11,700 44.87% 14,104 54.09% 131 0.50%250.10% 116 0.44% -2,404 -9.22% 26,076 Nassau 61,752 42.85% 78,544 54.51% 3,521 2.44%1810.13% 102 0.07% -16,792 -11.65% 144,100 New York 378,077 66.89% 157,014 27.78% 23,946 4.24%4,8430.86% 1,325 0.23% 221,063 39.11% 565,205 Niagara 20,765 39.26% 30,852 58.33% 1,117 2.11%750.14% 82 0.16% -10,087 -19.07% 52,891 Oneida 38,413 47.34% 41,193 50.76% 1,318 1.62%620.08% 162 0.20% -2,780 -3.43% 81,148 Onondaga 62,227 46.71% 66,363 49.81% 4,158 3.12%2130.16% 258 0.19% -4,136 -3.10% 133,219 Ontario 9,273 36.62% 15,624 61.71% 398 1.57%90.04% 16 0.06% -6,351 -25.08% 25,320 Orange 22,971 42.21% 30,687 56.39% 703 1.29%280.05% 34 0.06% -7,716 -14.18% 54,423 Orleans 4,303 30.05% 9,735 67.98% 222 1.55%50.03% 56 0.39% -5,432 -37.93% 14,321 Oswego 13,314 41.35% 18,322 56.90% 520 1.61%180.06% 27 0.08% -5,008 -15.55% 32,201 Otsego 8,114 34.88% 14,904 64.06% 233 1.00%20.01% 12 0.05% -6,790 -29.19% 23,265 Putnam 3,730 43.82% 4,633 54.43% 137 1.61%60.07% 6 0.07% -903 -10.61% 8,512 Queens 244,740 61.47% 136,641 34.32% 14,854 3.73%1,1430.29% 763 0.19% 108,099 27.15% 398,141 Rensselaer 32,783 51.05% 30,606 47.66% 662 1.03%610.09% 105 0.16% 2,177 3.39% 64,217 Richmond 36,857 61.08% 21,278 35.26% 2,009 3.33%1120.19% 89 0.15% 15,579 25.82% 60,345 Rockland 13,347 47.70% 13,963 49.90% 599 2.14%340.12% 39 0.14% -616 -2.20% 27,982 Saratoga 13,053 41.34% 17,990 56.97% 488 1.55%160.05% 31 0.10% -4,937 -15.63% 31,578 Schenectady 22,230 41.65% 28,187 52.81% 2,630 4.93%1400.26% 184 0.34% -5,957 -11.16% 53,371 Schoharie 4,684 45.40% 5,513 53.43% 109 1.06%40.04% 8 0.08% -829 -8.03% 10,318 Schuyler 2,255 32.77% 4,491 65.27% 81 1.18%180.26% 36 0.52% -2,236 -32.50% 6,881 Seneca 4,764 41.48% 6,502 56.61% 167 1.45%120.10% 41 0.36% -1,738 -15.13% 11,486 St. Lawrence 12,687 35.56% 22,650 63.48% 204 0.57%390.11% 100 0.28% -9,963 -27.92% 35,680 Steuben 13,219 35.77% 22,986 62.19% 687 1.86%120.03% 55 0.15% -9,767 -26.43% 36,959 Suffolk 30,799 42.46% 40,247 55.49% 1,365 1.88%690.10% 48 0.07% -9,448 -13.03% 72,528 Sullivan 9,656 52.15% 8,294 44.79% 435 2.35%1100.59% 22 0.12% 1,362 7.36% 18,517 Tioga 4,067 32.99% 8,047 65.27% 181 1.47%160.13% 17 0.14% -3,980 -32.28% 12,328 Tompkins 6,180 32.67% 12,185 64.42% 496 2.62%320.17% 23 0.12% -6,005 -31.75% 18,916 Ulster 18,092 45.55% 21,002 52.87% 566 1.42%380.10% 23 0.06% -2,910 -7.33% 39,721 Warren 6,661 36.22% 11,585 62.99% 133 0.72%40.02% 9 0.05% -4,924 -26.77% 18,392 Washington 7,512 33.86% 14,478 65.26% 144 0.65%60.03% 44 0.20% -6,966 -31.40% 22,184 Wayne 7,122 31.41% 15,031 66.29% 341 1.50%280.12% 153 0.67% -7,909 -34.88% 22,675 Westchester 101,435 45.94% 112,747 51.07% 6,023 2.73%3520.16% 231 0.10% -11,312 -5.12% 220,788 Wyoming 4,490 31.76% 9,377 66.33% 255 1.80%30.02% 12 0.08% -4,887 -34.57% 14,137 Yates 2,399 27.95% 6,048 70.46% 115 1.34%10.01% 21 0.24% -3,649 -42.51% 8,584Totals2,534,95954.07%1,937,96341.33%177,3973.78%27,9560.60%10,3390.22%596,99612.73%4,688,614 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Sullivan Analysis The most vital component to Roosevelt's victory in New York State was his overwhelming landslide in the massively populated 5 boroughs of New York City. Roosevelt took over 70% of the vote in the Bronx, and over 60% in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Up to this point, 1932 was the strongest victory ever for a Democrat in the city, although Roosevelt would outperform himself with an even stronger performance in the city in 1936. FDR built on the urban, ethnic coalition that had delivered the city to Al Smith 4 years earlier, and with the rise of the New Deal Coalition, New York would be solidified as one of the most Democratic cities in the United States. Just as Al Smith's 1928 counties remained loyal to the Democrats in 1932, most of upstate New York which had gone Republican in 1928 remained loyal to Herbert Hoover in 1932, albeit with reduced margins. Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, provided Roosevelt's strongest victory outside of New York City, giving him over 60% of the vote. This was the second of three straight elections in which Democrats swept all five boroughs of New York City. Hoover only received at least forty percent of the vote in seven of the state assembly districts within New York City and only won a majority of the vote in one, the 15th district. His vote total in New York City declined from 36.71% in 1928, to 26.62% in 1932. Rensselaer County would not vote Democratic again until 1964.Mann Arthur 1965 La Guardia Comes To Power 1933 J. B. Lippincott & Co. Roosevelt received 387,000 votes from Jews in New York City while Hoover received 95,000-105,000 votes and Thomas received 50,000-60,000 votes, which accounted for half of Thomas' 122,565 votes from New York City. See also United States presidential elections in New York Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt Timeline of the Great Depression References expanded New York 1932 Category:1932 New York (state) elections