1932 United States presidential election in Tennessee

none June 2025 September 2023 1932 United States presidential election 1932 United States presidential election in Tennessee Tennessee presidential no 1928 United States presidential election in Tennessee 1928 1936 United States presidential election in Tennessee 1936 All 11 Tennessee votes to the Electoral College November 8, 1932https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1932 United States Presidential election of 1932 – Encyclopædia Britannica March 5, 2019 x200px FDR in 1933 (3x4).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York John Nance Garner 11 259,473 66.49% President Hoover portrait (cropped).jpg Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) California Charles Curtis 0 126,752 32.48% 350px County results Roosevelt #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Hoover #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% President Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1932 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 11https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1929_1941.html#1932 1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37) March 5, 2019 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. For over a century after the Civil War, Tennessee was divided according to political loyalties established in that war. Unionist regions covering almost all of East Tennessee, Kentucky Pennyroyal-allied Macon County, and the five West Tennessee Highland Rim counties of Carroll, Henderson, McNairy, Hardin and WayneWright, John K.; 'Voting Habits in the United States: A Note on Two Maps'; Geographical Review, vol. 22, no. 4 (October 1932), pp. 666-672 voted Republican – generally by landslide margins – as they saw the Democratic Party as the "war party" who had forced them into a war they did not wish to fight.Key (Jr.), Valdimer Orlando; Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York, 1949), pp. 282-283 Contrariwise, the rest of Middle and West Tennessee who had supported and driven the state's secession was equally fiercely Democratic as it associated the Republicans with Reconstruction.Lyons, William; Scheb (II), John M. and Stair Billy; Government and Politics in Tennessee, pp. 183-184 1572331410 After the disfranchisement of the state's African-American population by a poll tax was largely complete in the 1890s,Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 9780691163246 the Democratic Party was certain of winning statewide elections if united,Grantham, Dewey W.; 'Tennessee and Twentieth-Century American Politics'; Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Fall 1995), pp. 210-229 although unlike the Deep South Republicans would almost always gain thirty to forty percent of the statewide vote from mountain and Highland Rim support. The 1920 elections saw a significant but not radical change, whereby by moving into a small number of traditionally Democratic areas in Middle TennesseeReichard, Gary W.; 'The Aberration of 1920: An Analysis of Harding's Victory in Tennessee'; The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 36, No. 1 (February 1970), pp. 33-49 and expanding turnout due to the Nineteenth Amendment and powerful isolationist sentiment,Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 211 the Republican Party was able to capture Tennessee's presidential electoral votes and win the governorship and take three congressional seats in addition to the rock-ribbed GOP First and Second Districts. In 1922 and 1924, with the ebbing of isolationist sympathy and a consequent decline in turnout,Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 287 the Democratic Party regained Tennessee's governorship and presidential electoral votes; however, in 1928 anti-Catholicism against Democratic nominee Al Smith in this powerfully fundamentalist stateLarson Edward J. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion October 3, 2006 Basic Books 9780465075102 meant that Herbert Hoover improved upon Harding's performance, although he failed to gain the down-ballot coattails of 1920. The Great Depression and the absence of anti-Catholic issues meant that it was universally expected Tennessee would return to Democratic ranks in 1932.November 6, 1932 Dixie Voters Will Again Cast Ballots as Solid South: G.O.P. Hoping to Hold Some Gains; Reunited Democrats Planning to Deliver Intact Block to Party Nominee The Birmingham News 8 Birmingham, Alabama This was especially true because, despite a dispute over the Democratic gubernatorial primary that saw runner-up Lewis Pope make a third-party run in the general election, both Pope and primary winner Hill McAlister strongly backed Roosevelt. On polling day, the campaign managers for Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner were confident that the Democratic Party would carry the state by at least one hundred thousand votes.Rain — and Votes — To Pour in County Today – All Governorship Candidates Confident; Shofner Predicts victories for Hoover and McCall over Tennessee The Knoxville Journal Knoxville, Tennessee November 8, 1932 1, 5 Although the campaign managers for incumbent President Hoover were confident he could retain the state, ultimately Roosevelt's campaigns were conservative in their estimation. Tennessee would be won by the Democrat with 66.49 percent of the popular vote, and Hoover would lose with only 32.48 percent.http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=47&year=1932 1932 Presidential General Election Results – Tennessee March 5, 2019 Despite this, the crest of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains would be the region that was most resistant to Roosevelt's appeal in the entire nation: Hoover's 84.51 percent of the vote in Johnson County, although less than the Republican percentage in the previous four elections, would be the highest he received in any county nationwide,Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas 1932 Presidential Election Statistics https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1932&f=0&off=0&elect=0 whilst Sevier County and Carter County would be Hoover's fifth- and sixth-best nationally. Results 1932 United States presidential election in Tennessee Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) 259,473 66.49% Herbert Hoover (inc.) Republican Party (United States) 126,752 32.48% William David Upshaw Prohibition Party 1,998 0.51% Norman Thomas Socialist Party of America 1,796 0.46% William Z. Foster Communist Party USA 237 0.06% 390,256 100% Results by county 1932 United States presidential election in Tennessee by countyOur Campaigns https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2939 TN US President, November 08, 1932 County Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic Herbert HooverRepublican William D. UpshawProhibition Norman ThomasSocialist William Z. FosterCommunist Margin Total votescast # % # % # % # % # % # %Anderson1,08140.08%1,60559.51%90.33%20.07%00.00%-524-19.43%2,697Bedford2,26478.12%63021.74%20.07%20.07%00.00%1,63456.38%2,898Benton1,54076.20%45522.51%140.69%90.45%30.15%1,08553.69%2,021Bledsoe1,03451.86%96048.14%00.00%00.00%00.00%743.71%1,994Blount1,51531.13%3,27567.29%611.25%140.29%20.04%-1,760-36.16%4,867Bradley1,29544.62%1,57054.10%240.83%90.31%40.14%-275-9.48%2,902Campbell1,83439.79%2,73559.34%220.48%180.39%00.00%-901-19.55%4,609Cannon1,20776.63%36022.86%50.32%30.19%00.00%84753.78%1,575Carroll2,60350.48%2,50548.58%250.48%150.29%80.16%981.90%5,156Carter1,57423.74%5,05576.26%00.00%00.00%00.00%-3,481-52.51%6,629Cheatham1,37087.71%18011.52%30.19%70.45%20.13%1,19076.18%1,562Chester98572.59%35626.23%100.74%40.29%20.15%62946.35%1,357Claiborne3,51866.82%1,72532.76%160.30%50.09%10.02%1,79334.06%5,265Clay81968.48%36130.18%60.50%100.84%00.00%45838.29%1,196Cocke1,55739.77%2,32459.36%230.59%70.18%40.10%-767-19.59%3,915Coffee1,95081.25%43017.92%130.54%50.21%20.08%1,52063.33%2,400Crockett1,93478.39%51320.79%100.41%100.41%00.00%1,42157.60%2,467Cumberland99650.71%95748.73%110.56%00.00%00.00%391.99%1,964Davidson21,23374.07%7,00424.43%1050.37%3001.05%240.08%14,22949.64%28,666Decatur1,02062.08%60136.58%100.61%60.37%60.37%41925.50%1,643DeKalb2,32360.29%1,53039.71%00.00%00.00%00.00%79320.58%3,853Dickson2,00784.33%36915.50%40.17%00.00%00.00%1,63868.82%2,380Dyer3,80590.12%3899.21%270.64%10.02%00.00%3,41680.91%4,222Fayette1,28795.62%423.12%120.89%50.37%00.00%1,24592.50%1,346Fentress96139.13%1,38356.31%70.29%1034.19%20.08%-422-17.18%2,456Franklin3,02988.65%36010.54%200.59%60.18%20.06%2,66978.11%3,417Gibson3,97284.42%70414.96%190.40%90.19%10.02%3,26869.46%4,705Giles2,77381.15%61918.12%90.26%120.35%40.12%2,15463.04%3,417Grainger99542.29%1,32556.31%220.93%60.25%50.21%-330-14.02%2,353Greene4,26456.61%3,22342.79%350.46%100.13%00.00%1,04113.82%7,532Grundy97882.12%19816.62%20.17%100.84%30.25%78065.49%1,191Hamblen2,03257.69%1,45841.40%320.91%00.00%00.00%57416.30%3,522Hamilton11,46960.56%7,09037.44%1320.70%2251.19%210.11%4,37923.12%18,937Hancock55133.60%1,08966.40%00.00%00.00%00.00%-538-32.80%1,640Hardeman2,37788.69%28110.49%160.60%30.11%30.11%2,09678.21%2,680Hardin80643.54%1,03655.97%50.27%40.22%00.00%-230-12.43%1,851Hawkins2,39145.10%2,89054.51%160.30%50.09%00.00%-499-9.41%5,302Haywood1,78895.01%774.09%160.85%10.05%00.00%1,71190.91%1,882Henderson95847.22%1,05852.14%50.25%60.30%20.10%-100-4.93%2,029Henry2,86788.08%34010.45%361.11%110.34%10.03%2,52777.63%3,255Hickman1,81282.18%38517.46%80.36%00.00%00.00%1,42764.72%2,205Houston75086.51%11212.92%30.35%20.23%00.00%63873.59%867Humphreys1,45585.44%23113.56%50.29%80.47%40.23%1,22471.87%1,703Jackson1,72686.91%25612.89%30.15%10.05%00.00%1,47074.02%1,986Jefferson97529.39%2,27568.59%551.66%120.36%00.00%-1,300-39.19%3,317Johnson42514.96%2,40084.51%140.49%10.04%00.00%-1,975-69.54%2,840Knox10,75551.39%9,77446.71%2271.08%1710.82%00.00%9814.69%20,927Lake1,82495.90%784.10%00.00%00.00%00.00%1,74691.80%1,902Lauderdale2,13790.94%1747.40%180.77%190.81%20.09%1,96383.53%2,350Lawrence3,24065.48%1,68434.03%190.38%50.10%00.00%1,55631.45%4,948Lewis79985.36%13714.64%00.00%00.00%00.00%66270.73%936Lincoln3,09590.26%2888.40%381.11%70.20%10.03%2,80781.86%3,429Loudon1,62946.50%1,81751.87%190.54%310.88%70.20%-188-5.37%3,503Macon88543.86%1,12355.65%70.35%30.15%00.00%-238-11.79%2,018Madison4,81379.83%1,12418.64%651.08%270.45%00.00%3,68961.19%6,029Marion2,21261.14%1,40638.86%00.00%00.00%00.00%80622.28%3,618Marshall2,16787.73%28311.46%200.81%00.00%00.00%1,88476.28%2,470Maury3,39285.83%53513.54%190.48%30.08%30.08%2,85772.29%3,952McMinn2,63047.86%2,79050.77%380.69%350.64%20.04%-160-2.91%5,495McNairy1,96159.01%1,35040.63%120.36%00.00%00.00%61118.39%3,323Meigs84059.66%56440.06%40.28%00.00%00.00%27619.60%1,408Monroe2,95465.97%1,50433.59%90.20%90.20%20.04%1,45032.38%4,478Montgomery2,74777.47%79922.53%00.00%00.00%00.00%1,94854.94%3,546Moore92392.67%656.53%70.70%10.10%00.00%85886.14%996Morgan98344.99%1,18454.19%90.41%90.41%00.00%-201-9.20%2,185Obion3,18389.18%3349.36%401.12%120.34%00.00%2,84979.83%3,569Overton2,23176.80%66122.75%70.24%40.14%20.07%1,57054.04%2,905Perry70578.95%18220.38%30.34%20.22%10.11%52358.57%893Pickett71250.28%68148.09%140.99%80.56%10.07%312.19%1,416Polk2,54060.74%1,64239.26%00.00%00.00%00.00%89821.47%4,182Putnam2,91169.08%1,28130.40%100.24%70.17%50.12%1,63038.68%4,214Rhea1,55051.05%1,44847.69%230.76%100.33%50.16%1023.36%3,036Roane1,62543.81%2,03654.89%481.29%00.00%00.00%-411-11.08%3,709Robertson2,75290.71%2528.31%190.63%90.30%20.07%2,50082.40%3,034Rutherford3,92486.24%60613.32%110.24%90.20%00.00%3,31872.92%4,550Scott1,02534.86%1,89064.29%50.17%180.61%20.07%-865-29.42%2,940Sequatchie77772.21%28926.86%100.93%00.00%00.00%48845.35%1,076Sevier88722.21%3,07577.01%220.55%90.23%00.00%-2,188-54.80%3,993Shelby38,32084.76%6,33214.01%960.21%4170.92%440.10%31,98870.76%45,209Smith2,05777.10%59522.30%90.34%70.26%00.00%1,46254.80%2,668Stewart1,54888.76%18410.55%70.40%50.29%00.00%1,36478.21%1,744Sullivan5,32263.04%2,99935.52%1121.33%20.02%70.08%2,32327.52%8,442Sumner3,89390.47%3828.88%200.46%70.16%10.02%3,51181.59%4,303Tipton2,89294.23%1545.02%160.52%40.13%30.10%2,73889.21%3,069Trousdale83592.78%647.11%10.11%00.00%00.00%77185.67%900Unicoi85033.13%1,71666.87%00.00%00.00%00.00%-866-33.75%2,566Union80240.44%1,16958.95%120.61%00.00%00.00%-367-18.51%1,983Van Buren61373.59%19623.53%202.40%10.12%30.36%41750.06%833Warren2,32584.09%41014.83%210.76%70.25%20.07%1,91569.26%2,765Washington3,34546.86%3,69151.71%710.99%310.43%00.00%-346-4.85%7,138Wayne54333.13%1,08266.02%60.37%40.24%40.24%-539-32.89%1,639Weakley3,77782.52%78317.11%130.28%30.07%10.02%2,99465.41%4,577White1,93882.79%39016.66%90.38%40.17%00.00%1,54866.13%2,341Williamson2,77789.96%2618.45%230.75%190.62%70.23%2,51681.50%3,087Wilson2,71382.26%56717.19%150.45%30.09%00.00%2,14665.07%3,298Totals259,47366.48%126,75232.48%1,9980.51%1,7960.46%2540.07%132,72134.01%390,273 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic 20em Bledsoe Campbell Carroll Claiborne Cumberland Davison DeKalb Greene Hamblen Hamilton Houston Knox Lawrence Marion McNairy Meigs Monroe Overton Pickett Polk Rhea Sullivan See also 1932 Tennessee gubernatorial election References Category:1932 Tennessee elections Tennessee 1932