1936 United States presidential election in Massachusetts

none June 2025 September 2023 1936 United States presidential election 1936 United States presidential election in Massachusetts Massachusetts 1908 presidential no 1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts 1932 1940 United States presidential election in Massachusetts 1940 75.9%Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072. 6.4 pp November 3, 1936 x160px Franklin D. Roosevelt 1936 june (3x4 cropped) (B&W).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York John Nance Garner 17 942,716 51.22% LandonPortr (cropped).jpg Alf Landon Republican Party (United States) Kansas Frank Knox 0 768,613 41.76% Representative William Lemke (3x4 crop, black and white).jpg William Lemke Union Party (United States) North Dakota Thomas C. O'Brien 0 118,639 6.45% 350px County results 350px| Municipality results 1 350px Roosevelt #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% Landon #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1936 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 17 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Massachusetts voted for the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, over the Republican nominee, Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. Roosevelt ran with incumbent Vice President John Nance Garner of Texas, while Landon's running mate was newspaper publisher Frank Knox of Illinois. Also running that year was William Lemke of the short-lived Union Party, and his running mate Thomas C. O'Brien. Roosevelt carried the state with 51.22% of the vote to Landon's 41.76%, a Democratic victory margin of 9.46%. Lemke came in third, with 6.45%, while in a distant fourth was Socialist Norman Thomas with only 0.28%. Massachusetts weighed in as about 14.8% more Republican than the nation. In the Jacksonian era, Massachusetts had been a typically Whig state, and after the founding of the Republican Party, it transitioned to being a bastion of Yankee Republicanism. In 1928, with Al Smith heading the Democratic ticket, a coalition of Irish Catholic and other ethnic immigrant voters primarily based in urban areas flipped Massachusetts and neighboring Rhode Island Democratic for the first time since before the Civil War (or, in Massachusetts' case, ever), leaving aside Wilson's low plurality wins in these states in the three-way race of 1912.Gamm, Gerald H.; The Making of the New Deal Democrats: Voting Behavior and Realignment in Boston, 1920-1940, pp. 81-84 0226280616 However, Massachusetts trended hard towards Hoover in 1932, giving Roosevelt only a four-point win despite having voted for Smith four years earlier, displaying something of a 'snapback'Sabato Larry J. Kerry Can Win Virginia…But Will He? – Sabato's Crystal Ball https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/ljs2004060301/ 2021-07-06 en-US to its traditional New England Republican roots. As Roosevelt was re-elected nationally in a massive landslide, Massachusetts remained well to the right of the nation overall. Whereas pre-New Deal Republicans from south and west of the Hudson showed very little loyalty to their old party following the Depression, in New England, Republicans became galvanized to slow FDR's expansion of the public sector.Gimpel, James G. and Schuknecht Jason E.; Patchwork Nation: Sectionalism and Political Change in American Politics, p. 232 0472022911 A contributing factor to Roosevelt's relative weakness in Massachusetts was the strong showing of William Lemke in the state. Lemke and his Union Party ran on a populist platform that appealed to many working-class voters who might otherwise have been natural members of Roosevelt's New Deal coalition. While Lemke finished with only 1.95 percent nationally, in Massachusetts, Lemke received 6.45 percent of the vote, making Massachusetts his third strongest state in the nation. Lemke fared particularly well in poor Catholic precincts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, where he even outpolled Landon in all Irish neighborhoods save Brighton. In the poorest Irish neighborhoods,Sheppard, Si; The Buying of the Presidency?: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Election of 1936 (Praeger Series on American Political Culture) , p. 208 1440831068 Lemke reached over 16 percent of the vote; in contrast he received less than his national average in Boston's richest precincts. This is the last election in which the towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott voted in a presidential election as they were disincorporated in 1938 due to the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir and all their territory was absorbed into surrounding towns Results 1936 United States presidential election in Massachusettshttp://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1936&fips=25&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1936 Presidential General Election Results - Massachusetts 2013-02-07 Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential ElectionsPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) 942,716 51.22% 17 Republican Alf Landon 768,613 41.76% 0 Union William Lemke 118,639 6.45% 0 Socialist Norman Thomas 5,111 0.28% 0 Communist Earl Browder 2,930 0.16% 0 Socialist Labor John W. Aiken 1,305 0.07% 0 Prohibition D. Leigh Colvin 1,032 0.06% 0 Write-ins Write-ins 11 0.00% 0 Totals 1,840,357 100.00% 17 Results by county County Franklin D RooseveltDemocratic Alf LandonRepublican William LemkeUnion Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes castScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 214 0405077114 # % # % # % # % # % Barnstable 4,751 28.82% 11,337 68.77% 310 1.88% 87 0.53% -6,586 -39.95% 16,485 Berkshire 29,087 54.30% 22,607 42.20% 1,571 2.93% 303 0.57% 6,480 12.10% 53,568 Bristol 80,805 57.25% 49,754 35.25% 9,765 6.92% 821 0.58% 31,051 22.00% 141,145 Dukes 931 35.60% 1,655 63.29% 19 0.73% 10 0.38% -724 -27.69% 2,615 Essex 106,078 47.57% 97,310 43.64% 18,176 8.15% 1,435 0.64% 8,768 3.93% 222,999 Franklin 9,324 39.31% 13,756 57.99% 515 2.17% 126 0.53% -4,432 -18.68% 23,721 Hampden 80,164 57.19% 51,288 36.59% 7,929 5.66% 799 0.57% 28,876 20.60% 140,180 Hampshire 15,412 49.87% 14,012 45.34% 1,131 3.66% 351 1.14% 1,400 4.53% 30,906 Middlesex 189,512 45.17% 199,704 47.60% 28,386 6.77% 1,918 0.46% -10,192 -2.43% 419,520 Nantucket 548 35.49% 969 62.76% 25 1.62% 2 0.13% -421 -27.27% 1,544 Norfolk 57,770 38.80% 82,545 55.44% 7,732 5.19% 843 0.57% -24,775 -16.64% 148,890 Plymouth 30,466 39.05% 41,942 53.76% 5,096 6.53% 506 0.65% -11,476 -14.71% 78,010 Suffolk 223,732 63.92% 96,418 27.55% 27,799 7.94% 2,061 0.59% 127,314 36.37% 350,010 Worcester 114,136 54.15% 85,316 40.48% 10,185 4.83% 1,127 0.53% 28,820 13.67% 210,764Totals 942,71651.22%768,61341.76%118,6396.45%10,3890.56%174,1039.46%1,840,357 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Essex Hampshire Worcester Analysis Roosevelt and Landon would split the state's 14 counties, winning 7 counties each. Roosevelt and Landon both did well in some of the Bay State's population centers, with Roosevelt carrying Suffolk, Worcester, and Hampden Counties (home to Boston, Worcester, and Springfield, respectively), and Landon carrying the suburban counties of Middlesex and Norfolk. This was the last election that the former towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott participated in, as these staunchly Republican towns ceased to exist in 1938 when they were flooded to construct the Quabbin Reservoir. All four towns voted for Landon. See also United States presidential elections in Massachusetts References expanded Massachusetts 1936 Category:1936 Massachusetts elections