1932 Georgia gubernatorial election

none related races 1932 United States gubernatorial elections January 2025 September 2023 1932 Georgia Democratic gubernatorial primary Georgia (U.S. state) 1920 Presidential no 1930 Georgia gubernatorial election 1930 1934 Georgia gubernatorial election 1934 September 14, 1932 Eugene Talmadge circa 1935.jpg Eugene Talmadge Democratic Party (United States) 264 116,381 42.02% Hosea Abit Nix.png Hosea Abit Nix 94 Democratic Party (United States) 78,588 28.38% Senator Thomas Hardwick.jpg Thomas W. Hardwick 30 Democratic Party (United States) 35,252 12.73% John N. Holder.jpg John N. Holder 10 Democratic Party (United States) 19,697 7.11% File:1932 Georgia gubernatorial Democratic primary election results map by county.svg 250px County resultsTalmadge: #dae9ff 20–30% #bdd3ff 30–40% #a5b0ff 40–50% #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90%Nix: #f1e9c5 30–40% #e9ddaf 40–50% #d3bc5f 50–60% #c8ab37 60–70% #a0892c 70–80% #786721 80–90%Hardwick: #ffe9ff 30–40% #ffd4ff 40–50% #ffbce3 50–60%Holder: #b4ffe5 30–40% #47cc9d 50–60%Edwards: #FEE5D5 30–40% #FF9955 60–70%Kelley: #c64c4b 50–60% Governor Richard Russell Jr. Democratic Party (United States) Eugene Talmadge Democratic Party (United States) 410 county unit votes 206 unit The 1932 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 1932, in order to elect the governor of Georgia. Incumbent Democratic governor Richard Russell Jr. did not run for re-election to a second term, but instead ran for the U.S. Senate. As was common at the time, the Democratic candidate ran unopposed in the general election so therefore the Democratic primary was the real contest, and winning the primary was considered tantamount to election. Democratic primary The Democratic primary election was held on September 14, 1932. As Talmadge won a majority of county unit votes, there was no run-off. County unit system From 1917 until 1962, the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Georgia used a voting system called the county unit system to determine victors in statewide primary elections.http://www.georgiacca.com/unit.cfm County Unit System Georgia County Clerks Association 8 June 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20080531162547/http://www.georgiacca.com/unit.cfm 31 May 2008 dead The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, but in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties.http://testaae.greenwood.com/doc_print.aspx?fileID=GR4181&chapterID=GR4181-6373&path=encyclopedias/greenwood Eugene Talmadge The Jim Crow Encyclopedia The African American Experience 12 August 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20150123030046/http://testaae.greenwood.com/doc_print.aspx?fileID=GR4181&chapterID=GR4181-6373&path=encyclopedias%2Fgreenwood 23 January 2015 dead https://rbrl.blogspot.com/2011/10/county-unit-system-eh.html County Unit System, eh? 6 October 2011 Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies 8 June 2020 Under the county unit system, the 159 counties in Georgia were divided by population into three categories. The largest eight counties were classified as "Urban", the next-largest 30 counties were classified as "Town", and the remaining 121 counties were classified as "Rural". Urban counties were given 6 unit votes, Town counties were given 4 unit votes, and Rural counties were given 2 unit votes, for a total of 410 available unit votes. Each county's unit votes were awarded on a winner-take-all basis. Candidates were required to obtain a majority of unit votes (not necessarily a majority of the popular vote), or 206 total unit votes, to win the election. If no candidate received a majority in the initial primary, a runoff election was held between the top two candidates to determine a winner.https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/county-unit-system County Unit System Buchanan Scott 13 June 2017 New Georgia Encyclopedia 8 June 2020 Candidates H. B. Edwards Thomas W. Hardwick, former governor John N. Holder, former chairman of the State Highway Commission History of Highway Construction in the State of Georgia and of the State Highway Board, 1916-1939 https://www.dot.ga.gov/AboutGeorgia/CentennialHome/Documents/Historical%20Documents/History%20of%20Highway%20Construction%20in%20the%20State%20of%20Georgia%20and%20of%20the%20State%20Highway%20Board%201916-1939.pdf Prepared by Division of Highway Planning of the State Highway Board of Georgia 16 1939 and unsuccessful candidate for Democratic nomination for governor in 1920 and 1926 John I. Kelley Hosea Abit Nix, attorney Lankford trails Dean https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1932-09-15/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1932&index=2&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Nix+Talmadge&proxdistance=5&date2=1932&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=&andtext=talmadge+nix&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 Evening Star Washington, D.C. 15 September 1932 1 13 June 2020 Hoke O'Kelley, businessmanhttp://emoryhistory.emory.edu/facts-figures/places/names/oxford/okelley-library.html Hoke O'Kelley Memorial Library Emory University: History and Traditions 13 June 2020 F. B. Summers Eugene Talmadge, incumbent State Commissioner of AgricultureSaye Albert B. 1948 A Constitutional History of Georgia, 1732-1945 https://books.google.com/books?id=kwD3PrldCfUC&pg=PA379 Athens, GA University of Georgia Press 379 0-8203-3554-1 Results Popular vote County unit vote Eugene Talmadge 116381 264 Hosea Abit Nix 78588 94 Thomas W. Hardwick 35252 30 John N. Holder 19697 10 H. B. Edwards 12897 8 John I. Kelley 12115 4 Hoke O'Kelley 1823 F. B. Summers 197 Congressional Quarterly 1998 107https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=378443 GA Governor, 1932 - D Primary Our Campaigns 13 June 2020Georgia Register 1937 542-545 General election In the general election, Talmadge ran unopposed. Results 1932 Georgia gubernatorial electionCongressional Quarterly 1998 48https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262942 GA Governor, 1932 Our Campaigns 13 June 2020Glashan 1979 68-69Georgia Register 1937 657 Democratic Party (United States) Eugene Talmadge 240,242 100.00% 240,242 100.00% Democratic Party (United States) References Bibliography Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998 1-56802-396-0 Congressional Quarterly 1998 Glashan Roy R. American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 Meckler Books 1979 0-930466-17-9 Compiled by Mrs. J.E. Hays, State Historian and Director 1937 Georgia's Official Register, 1933-1935-1937 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statreg-images/pdfs/1933.pdf Atlanta, GA State of Georgia, Department of Archives and History Georgia Register 1937 1932 Georgia Gubernatorial Category:November 1932 in the United States Category:Single-candidate gubernatorial elections in Georgia