1932 United States presidential election in Utah

none June 2025 September 2023 1932 United States presidential election 1932 United States presidential election in Utah Utah 1922 presidential no 1928 United States presidential election in Utah 1928 1936 United States presidential election in Utah 1936 November 8, 1932 x200px FDR_in_1933 (3x4).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York John N. Garner 4 116,750 56.52% President Hoover portrait (cropped).jpg Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) California Charles Curtis 0 84,795 41.05% 1932 United States presidential election in Utah results map by county.svg 250px County results Roosevelt #B9D7FF 40–50% #86B6F2 50–60% #4389E3 60–70% 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 Utah took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and state voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Utah, like every state west of the Appalachian Mountains, voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt over Herbert Hoover by a substantial margin, giving the first Democratic victory in the state since 1916 when anti-war sentiment had shifted the state to Woodrow Wilson.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 47 0786422173 Utah's swing to the Democrats was 23.19 percentage points, much smaller than the national swing of 35.18 percentage points, as the anti-Catholicism which marred the preceding election was less prevalent among the LDS hierarchy than in the South or the Pacific Northwest. Consequently, for this election Utah voted more Republican than the nation at-large for the first time in twenty years, by a margin of 2.29 points on a two-party basis.Counting the Votes; Utah Hoover managed to retain pluralities in seven of Utah's twenty-nine counties, although in San Juan County Hoover won by only a solitary vote and in sparsely populated Daggett County by just eleven. This was nonetheless equal with MissouriIt might be noted that of the Missouri counties remaining Republican, Ozark, Taney, Gasconade and Putnam have never voted Democratic since the Civil War, Douglas not since 1896, whilst Warren and Hickory never voted Democratic between 1864 and 1988. and behind only KansasIn Kansas, Hoover retained thirteen of 104 counties, of which Doniphan has never voted for a Democrat, Brown not since 1912, and Osborne not since 1916 as the most counties in one state west of the Mississippi – in all of which Hoover retained only forty-six counties out of 1,161 – remaining Republican. Herbert Hoover, who had been elected in a third consecutive Republican landslide in 1928, was to become extremely unpopular by the time he was up for re-election in 1932, owing to unemployment rising to a whopping twenty-five percent and Hoover's Smoot-Hawley Tariff (proposed by long-serving Utah Senator Reed Smoot) had cut severely into exports due to retaliatory tariffs from foreign governments.Mann, Catherine L.; 'Protection and Retaliation: Changing the "Rules of the Game"'; Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1:1987); pp. 311-335 The Mountain States, including Utah, were even more severely hit by the economic downturn than the national average: Utah's lost consumption between the 1929 crash and the election was about one standard deviation above the national mean.Fishback, Price V., Horrace, William C. and Kantor, Shawn; 'Did New Deal Grant Programs Stimulate Local Economies? A Study of Federal Grants and Retail Sales During the Great Depression'; The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 65, No. 1 (March 2005), p. 41 There was also extreme concern over the falling price of silver,Friedman, Milton, 'Franklin D. Roosevelt, Silver and China', The Journal of Political Economy, Volume 100, No. 1 (February 1992); pp. 62-83 of which Utah was a major producer.Achen, Christopher H. and Bartels, Larry M.; ‘Partisan Hearts and Gall Bladders: Retrospection and Realignment in the Wake of the Great Depression’, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, April 7–9, 2005) In a poll conducted by the Literary Digest, Hoover was far behind Roosevelt in all western states,'Roosevelt Leads in 31 States with Nearly 2,000,000 Votes Tallied in "Literary Digest" Poll'; Victoria Advocate, October 16, 1932, p. 4 whose electoral votes the Republican Party had monopolized during the three preceding elections. Paul Mallon in his "National Whirlgig" two weeks before the election suggested Roosevelt had a "degree of chance" in Utah, but that the Democrats were certain of victory in the nation as a whole.'Why Roosevelt is Certain of Victory'; The Florence Times, October 25, 1932, p. 2 Results + General Election ResultsUtah State Archives, Abstract of the Returns of an Election held in the State of Utah, Tuesday, November 8th, A.D. 1932 for Presidential Electors, United States Senator, for Representatives in the Seventy-third Congress of the United States, for State Officers in Districts comprising more than one county, and for the Adoption or Rejection of the Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the State of Utah.U.S. Has Had No Election Yet Nor Will Have Until Jan. 4 https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=25366035 29 December 2025 The Deseret News 16 December 1932 Salt Lake City 15Party Pledged to Elector Votes Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Mrs. Clarence C. Neslen116,750 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt John E. Welch116,638 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Mrs. Frank A. Drury116,330 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Mrs. W. S. Greenwood116,292 Republican Party Herbert Hoover Robert D. Young84,795 Republican Party Herbert Hoover Fred Rich84,761 Republican Party Herbert Hoover M. O. Packard84,664 Republican Party Herbert Hoover Mrs. C. P. Overfield84,513 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Ruby L. Webber4,087 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Nathaniel Steimle4,081 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Ida Foster4,078 Socialist Party Norman Thomas A. W. Clemons4,077 Communist Party William Z. Foster George Johnson946 Communist Party William Z. Foster V. B. Austin934 Communist Party William Z. Foster Annie Brauning929 Communist Party William Z. Foster Enoch Wallgren929Votes cast"highest" Based on highest elector on each ticket 206,578 Results by county Countyhttps://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1932&fips=49&f=0&off=0&elect=0 2025-12-29 1932 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 458 https://archive.org/details/americaatpolls0000rich/page/458/mode/2up 29 December 2025 Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic Herbert HooverRepublican Norman ThomasSocialist William Z. FosterCommunist Margin Total votescast"highest" # % # % # % # % # % Beaver 1,218 55.34% 969 44.03% 14 0.64% 0 0.00% 249 11.31% 2,201 Box Elder 3,695 54.12% 3,048 44.65% 78 1.14% 6 0.09% 647 9.48% 6,827 Cache 6,522 56.99% 4,829 42.20% 80 0.70% 13 0.11% 1,693 14.79% 11,444 Carbon 4,239 69.26% 1,655 27.04% 215 3.51% 11 0.18% 2,584 42.22% 6,120 Daggett 79 46.47% 90 52.94% 1 0.59% 0 0.00% -11 -6.47% 170 Davis 3,006 53.51% 2,562 45.60% 41 0.73% 9 0.16% 444 7.90% 5,618 Duchesne 1,590 51.76% 1,333 43.39% 145 4.72% 4 0.13% 257 8.37% 3,072 Emery 1,613 56.64% 1,112 39.04% 120 4.21% 3 0.11% 501 17.59% 2,848 Garfield 493 29.99% 1,125 68.43% 26 1.58% 0 0.00% -632 -38.44% 1,644 Grand 506 62.86% 278 34.53% 21 2.61% 0 0.00% 228 28.32% 805 Iron 1,358 42.93% 1,599 50.55% 206 6.51% 0 0.00% -241 -7.62% 3,163 Juab 1,969 60.68% 1,220 37.60% 55 1.69% 1 0.03% 749 23.08% 3,245 Kane 229 26.63% 618 71.86% 13 1.51% 0 0.00% -389 -45.23% 860 Millard 1,881 48.79% 1,916 49.70% 57 1.48% 1 0.03% -35 -0.91% 3,855 Morgan 602 51.23% 568 48.34% 5 0.43% 0 0.00% 34 2.89% 1,175 Piute 403 47.19% 433 50.70% 18 2.11% 0 0.00% -30 -3.51% 854 Rich 469 54.09% 398 45.91% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 71 8.19% 867 Salt Lake 48,012 58.34% 32,224 39.16% 1,332 1.62% 724 0.88% 15,788 19.19% 82,292 San Juan 459 48.83% 460 48.94% 19 2.02% 2 0.21% -1 -0.11% 940 Sanpete 3,600 52.69% 3,147 46.06% 86 1.26% 0 0.00% 453 6.63% 6,833 Sevier 2,303 50.14% 2,225 48.44% 64 1.39% 1 0.02% 78 1.70% 4,593 Summit 2,028 57.35% 1,434 40.55% 72 2.04% 2 0.06% 594 16.80% 3,536 Tooele 1,865 56.12% 1,407 42.34% 48 1.44% 3 0.09% 458 13.78% 3,323 Uintah 1,778 55.74% 1,355 42.48% 51 1.60% 6 0.19% 423 13.26% 3,190 Utah 12,140 59.12% 7,953 38.73% 346 1.68% 97 0.47% 4,187 20.39% 20,536 Wasatch 1,103 50.99% 1,042 48.17% 18 0.83% 0 0.00% 61 2.82% 2,163 Washington 1,648 54.09% 1,378 45.22% 20 0.66% 1 0.03% 270 8.86% 3,047 Wayne 401 49.63% 398 49.26% 8 0.99% 1 0.12% 3 0.37% 808 Weber 11,541 56.16% 8,019 39.02% 928 4.52% 61 0.30% 3,522 17.14% 20,549Totals 116,75056.52%84,79541.05%4,0871.98%9460.46%31,95515.47%206,578 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic 20em Box Elder Beaver Cache Davis Duchesne Emery Grand Morgan Salt Lake Rich Sanpete Sevier Summit Tooele Utah Uintah Washington Wasatch Wayne Weber See also United States presidential elections in Utah Notes References 2 expanded Category:1932 Utah elections Utah 1932