1936 United States presidential election in Minnesota

none June 2025 September 2023 1936 United States presidential election 1936 United States presidential election in Minnesota Minnesota 1893 presidential no 1932 United States presidential election in Minnesota 1932 1940 United States presidential election in Minnesota 1940 November 3, 1936 x160px Franklin D. Roosevelt 1936 june (3x4 cropped) (B&W).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party New York John Nance Garner 11 698,811 61.84% LandonPortr (cropped).jpg Alf Landon Republican Party (United States) Kansas Frank Knox 0 350,461 31.01% File:Representative William Lemke (3x4 crop, black and white).jpg William Lemke Union Party (United States) North Dakota Thomas C. O'Brien 0 74,296 6.58% 1936 United States presidential election in Minnesota results map by county.svg 350px County results Roosevelt #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% Landon #f2b3be 40–50% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1936 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Minnesota was won by the Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt won the state over Kansas governor Alf Landon by a margin of 348,350 votes, or 30.83%—nearly doubling Landon's overall share of the state's vote. Nationally, Roosevelt was soundly re-elected, with 523 electoral votes and a landslide 24.26% lead over Landon in the popular vote. Landon carried only two states: Maine and Vermont, whilst in Minnesota Landon won just three counties: Otter Tail County in the rural west, Carver County outside the Twin Cities, and Fillmore County in the southeast of the state; of these, only Fillmore has ever voted Democratic in a presidential election since.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 Only five presidential nominees have ever won a greater percentage of the vote in Minnesota than Roosevelt did in 1936: Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 (74%), Warren G. Harding in 1920 (70.6%), Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 (63.8%), Abraham Lincoln in 1860 (63.5%), and James A. Garfield in 1880 (62.3%)—every one of them going on to win the election nationally. As of the 2024 election, this is the last election in which either major party candidate exceeded 80% of the vote in any Minnesota county, with Roosevelt doing so in Lake County (ironically, the only county in the state that Roosevelt did not win in 1932, due to a strong showing by Socialist Norman Thomas). Roosevelt's 30.8% margin of victory over Landon remains the widest margin by which any Democrat has ever carried Minnesota in a presidential election. Results 1936 United States presidential election in Minnesotahttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1936&fips=27&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 2016-10-05 1936 Presidential Election Results, 1936 Dave Leip's U.S. Election AtlasPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) 698,811 61.84% 11 Republican Alf Landon 350,461 31.01% 0 Union William Lemke 74,296 6.58% 0 Socialist Norman Thomas 2,872 0.25% 0 Communist Earl Browder 2,574 0.23% 0 Socialist Labor John W. Aiken 961 0.09% 0 Totals 1,129,975 100.00% 11 Results by county County Franklin Delano RooseveltDemocratic Alfred Mossman LandonRepublican William Frederick LemkeGéoelections; 1936 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15 on request)Union Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes castScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 234-235 0405077114 # % # % # % # % # % Aitkin 3,806 57.57% 2,466 37.30% 229 3.46% 110 1.66% 1,340 20.27% 6,611 Anoka 4,501 56.91% 2,586 32.70% 788 9.96% 34 0.43% 1,915 24.21% 7,909 Becker 6,473 68.38% 2,683 28.34% 249 2.63% 61 0.64% 3,790 40.04% 9,466 Beltrami 6,507 72.65% 2,182 24.36% 157 1.75% 111 1.24% 4,325 48.29% 8,957 Benton 3,111 53.52% 1,783 30.67% 905 15.57% 14 0.24% 1,328 22.85% 5,813 Big Stone 2,648 66.22% 1,116 27.91% 221 5.53% 14 0.35% 1,532 38.31% 3,999 Blue Earth 8,255 55.89% 5,550 37.58% 921 6.24% 43 0.29% 2,705 18.32% 14,769 Brown 6,637 64.64% 2,679 26.09% 899 8.76% 52 0.51% 3,958 38.55% 10,267 Carlton 7,136 75.29% 2,163 22.82% 81 0.85% 98 1.03% 4,973 52.47% 9,478 Carver 2,814 38.59% 3,095 42.44% 1,366 18.73% 17 0.23% -281 -3.85% 7,292 Cass 4,440 60.54% 2,634 35.91% 229 3.12% 31 0.42% 1,806 24.63% 7,334 Chippewa 4,027 61.40% 2,223 33.89% 268 4.09% 41 0.63% 1,804 27.50% 6,559 Chisago 3,360 55.26% 2,462 40.49% 229 3.77% 29 0.48% 898 14.77% 6,080 Clay 6,282 65.29% 2,880 29.93% 416 4.32% 43 0.45% 3,402 35.36% 9,621 Clearwater 3,208 75.34% 939 22.05% 92 2.16% 19 0.45% 2,269 53.29% 4,258 Cook 793 65.86% 387 32.14% 18 1.50% 6 0.50% 406 33.72% 1,204 Cottonwood 3,929 59.32% 2,509 37.88% 171 2.58% 14 0.21% 1,420 21.44% 6,623 Crow Wing 6,561 61.47% 3,611 33.83% 431 4.04% 70 0.66% 2,950 27.64% 10,673 Dakota 8,890 57.73% 4,043 26.26% 2,407 15.63% 58 0.38% 4,847 31.48% 15,398 Dodge 2,812 54.73% 2,138 41.61% 176 3.43% 12 0.23% 674 13.12% 5,138 Douglas 4,186 56.84% 2,681 36.41% 474 6.44% 23 0.31% 1,505 20.44% 7,364 Faribault 5,603 56.90% 3,773 38.32% 451 4.58% 20 0.20% 1,830 18.58% 9,847 Fillmore 4,764 45.79% 5,054 48.58% 559 5.37% 27 0.26% -290 -2.79% 10,404 Freeborn 7,378 59.96% 4,653 37.81% 245 1.99% 29 0.24% 2,725 22.15% 12,305 Goodhue 8,257 57.50% 5,682 39.57% 364 2.53% 58 0.40% 2,575 17.93% 14,361 Grant 2,358 57.87% 1,566 38.43% 121 2.97% 30 0.74% 792 19.44% 4,075 Hennepin 144,289 58.78% 81,206 33.08% 18,468 7.52% 1,517 0.62% 63,083 25.70% 245,480 Houston 3,156 51.74% 2,701 44.28% 221 3.62% 22 0.36% 455 7.46% 6,100 Hubbard 2,312 56.92% 1,618 39.83% 106 2.61% 26 0.64% 694 17.09% 4,062 Isanti 3,442 67.19% 1,437 28.05% 201 3.92% 43 0.84% 2,005 39.14% 5,123 Itasca 8,896 69.41% 3,592 28.03% 190 1.48% 139 1.08% 5,304 41.38% 12,817 Jackson 5,187 72.09% 1,676 23.29% 311 4.32% 21 0.29% 3,511 48.80% 7,195 Kanabec 2,579 63.09% 1,350 33.02% 133 3.25% 26 0.64% 1,229 30.06% 4,088 Kandiyohi 6,595 69.25% 2,500 26.25% 352 3.70% 77 0.81% 4,095 43.00% 9,524 Kittson 3,127 73.25% 1,080 25.30% 31 0.73% 31 0.73% 2,047 47.95% 4,269 Koochiching 5,065 77.77% 1,316 20.21% 84 1.29% 48 0.74% 3,749 57.56% 6,513 Lac qui Parle 3,243 54.09% 2,066 34.46% 679 11.32% 8 0.13% 1,177 19.63% 5,996 Lake 2,717 80.15% 617 18.20% 30 0.88% 26 0.77% 2,100 61.95% 3,390 Lake of the Woods 1,566 76.32% 385 18.76% 73 3.56% 28 1.36% 1,181 57.55% 2,052 Le Sueur 5,077 57.27% 2,849 32.14% 920 10.38% 19 0.21% 2,228 25.13% 8,865 Lincoln 2,662 61.42% 1,199 27.66% 448 10.34% 25 0.58% 1,463 33.76% 4,334 Lyon 5,163 61.29% 2,551 30.28% 695 8.25% 15 0.18% 2,612 31.01% 8,424 McLeod 4,449 55.21% 2,941 36.50% 635 7.88% 33 0.41% 1,508 18.71% 8,058 Mahnomen 2,025 76.88% 474 18.00% 120 4.56% 15 0.57% 1,551 58.88% 2,634 Marshall 4,802 70.08% 1,904 27.79% 116 1.69% 30 0.44% 2,898 42.29% 6,852 Martin 6,492 66.08% 3,090 31.45% 215 2.19% 28 0.28% 3,402 34.63% 9,825 Meeker 4,242 56.25% 2,479 32.87% 797 10.57% 24 0.32% 1,763 23.38% 7,542 Mille Lacs 3,767 60.56% 2,091 33.62% 333 5.35% 29 0.47% 1,676 26.95% 6,220 Morrison 6,112 62.06% 2,682 27.23% 1,022 10.38% 32 0.32% 3,430 34.83% 9,848 Mower 8,228 61.01% 4,743 35.17% 467 3.46% 49 0.36% 3,485 25.84% 13,487 Murray 3,926 67.05% 1,601 27.34% 316 5.40% 12 0.20% 2,325 39.71% 5,855 Nicollet 4,136 59.06% 2,360 33.70% 488 6.97% 19 0.27% 1,776 25.36% 7,003 Nobles 4,919 60.94% 2,601 32.22% 531 6.58% 21 0.26% 2,318 28.72% 8,072 Norman 3,778 68.67% 1,570 28.54% 89 1.62% 65 1.18% 2,208 40.13% 5,502 Olmsted 8,958 60.04% 5,316 35.63% 583 3.91% 62 0.42% 3,642 24.41% 14,919 Otter Tail 8,642 47.72% 8,899 49.14% 438 2.42% 131 0.72% -257 -1.42% 18,110 Pennington 3,736 72.47% 1,258 24.40% 100 1.94% 61 1.18% 2,478 48.07% 5,155 Pine 5,797 67.11% 2,452 28.39% 309 3.58% 80 0.93% 3,345 38.72% 8,638 Pipestone 3,026 58.53% 1,881 36.38% 250 4.84% 13 0.25% 1,145 22.15% 5,170 Polk 11,337 73.44% 3,751 24.30% 245 1.59% 104 0.67% 7,586 49.14% 15,437 Pope 3,200 61.05% 1,869 35.65% 159 3.03% 14 0.27% 1,331 25.39% 5,242 Ramsey 86,286 66.00% 30,553 23.37% 13,200 10.10% 689 0.53% 55,733 42.63% 130,728 Red Lake 2,057 77.53% 487 18.36% 89 3.35% 20 0.75% 1,570 59.18% 2,653 Redwood 4,965 55.34% 3,286 36.63% 691 7.70% 30 0.33% 1,679 18.71% 8,972 Renville 5,344 56.53% 3,049 32.25% 1,021 10.80% 39 0.41% 2,295 24.28% 9,453 Rice 5,928 48.09% 4,888 39.65% 1,473 11.95% 38 0.31% 1,040 8.44% 12,327 Rock 2,910 60.15% 1,752 36.21% 163 3.37% 13 0.27% 1,158 23.94% 4,838 Roseau 3,761 71.42% 1,326 25.18% 124 2.35% 55 1.04% 2,435 46.24% 5,266 Saint Louis 69,365 74.18% 22,332 23.88% 709 0.76% 1,104 1.18% 47,033 50.30% 93,510 Scott 3,861 58.87% 1,528 23.30% 1,153 17.58% 17 0.26% 2,333 35.57% 6,559 Sherburne 1,881 50.33% 1,623 43.43% 223 5.97% 10 0.27% 258 6.90% 3,737 Sibley 4,140 61.47% 2,184 32.43% 388 5.76% 23 0.34% 1,956 29.04% 6,735 Stearns 12,760 56.51% 5,262 23.30% 4,485 19.86% 73 0.32% 7,498 33.21% 22,580 Steele 4,481 54.49% 3,373 41.01% 362 4.40% 8 0.10% 1,108 13.47% 8,224 Stevens 2,352 59.42% 1,431 36.15% 167 4.22% 8 0.20% 921 23.27% 3,958 Swift 3,749 62.63% 1,618 27.03% 610 10.19% 9 0.15% 2,131 35.60% 5,986 Todd 5,627 56.26% 3,780 37.79% 575 5.75% 20 0.20% 1,847 18.47% 10,002 Traverse 2,297 73.06% 761 24.20% 82 2.61% 4 0.13% 1,536 48.85% 3,144 Wabasha 4,122 53.55% 2,663 34.60% 893 11.60% 19 0.25% 1,459 18.96% 7,697 Wadena 2,605 56.03% 1,898 40.83% 117 2.52% 29 0.62% 707 15.21% 4,649 Waseca 3,520 55.45% 2,482 39.10% 330 5.20% 16 0.25% 1,038 16.35% 6,348 Washington 6,768 57.80% 3,863 32.99% 1,030 8.80% 49 0.42% 2,905 24.81% 11,710 Watonwan 3,668 63.55% 1,930 33.44% 160 2.77% 14 0.24% 1,738 30.11% 5,772 Wilkin 2,428 61.66% 1,278 32.45% 220 5.59% 12 0.30% 1,150 29.20% 3,938 Winona 9,268 59.60% 5,353 34.42% 850 5.47% 80 0.51% 3,915 25.18% 15,551 Wright 5,363 47.25% 4,087 36.01% 1,842 16.23% 59 0.52% 1,276 11.24% 11,351 Yellow Medicine 3,921 58.71% 2,029 30.38% 717 10.74% 12 0.18% 1,892 28.33% 6,679Totals698,81161.84%350,45931.01%74,2966.58%6,4070.57%348,35230.83%1,129,973 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Carver Fillmore Otter Tail Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Lake See also United States presidential elections in Minnesota References expanded 1936 Min Category:1936 Minnesota elections