1936 United States presidential election in Arkansas

none June 2025 January 2025 1936 United States presidential election 1936 United States presidential election in Arkansas Arkansas 1924 presidential no 1932 United States presidential election in Arkansas 1932 1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas 1940 All nine Arkansas votes to the Electoral College November 3, 1936https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1936 United States Presidential election of 1936 — Encyclopædia Britannica November 23, 2017 x200px Franklin D. Roosevelt 1936 june (3x4 cropped) (B&W).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York John Nance Garner 9 146,765 81.80% LandonPortr (cropped).jpg Alf Landon Republican Party (United States) Kansas Frank Knox 0 32,039 17.86% 1936 United States presidential election in Arkansas results map by county.svg 300px County results Roosevelt #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Landon #e27f90 50–60% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1936 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (running with Vice President John Nance Garner of Texas) carried Arkansas in a landslide, taking 81.8% of the state's vote to Republican Alf Landon's 17.86%.http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=5&year=1936 1936 Presidential General Election Results — Arkansas Even amidst a national Democratic landslide – in which Roosevelt carried every state except Vermont and Maine and earned more than 60% of the national popular vote – Arkansas weighed in as nearly 40% more Democratic than the nation at-large. This was typical of the time; with the exception of the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state.See Urwin Cathy Kunzinger Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71 January 1991 32 University of Arkansas Press 1557282005 Disfranchisement of effectively all Negroes and most poor whites had meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections. The 1920s did see a minor change in this, as increased voting by poor Ozark whites as a protest against Woodrow Wilson's internationalist foreign policy meant that Warren G. Harding was able to win almost forty percent of the statewide vote in 1920;Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority 23 November 2014 211, 287 Princeton University Press 978-0-691-16324-6 however despite his national landslide Calvin Coolidge in 1924 could not do any more than win the two traditional Unionist GOP counties. 1928 saw the rest of the Outer South and North Alabama bolt the anti-Prohibition Catholic Al Smith, but the presence of Arkansas Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson as running mate meant that within Arkansas only the most northwesterly counties with ordinarily substantial Republican votes would suffer the same fate.Barnes Kenneth C. Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960 November 2016 164–165 University of Arkansas Press 978-1682260166 The following years saw Arkansas plunge into the Great Depression, followed almost immediately by a major drought from the summer of 1930s until the winter of 1931/1932.Whayne Jeannie M. DeBlack Thomas A. Sabo George Arnold Morris S. Arkansas: A Narrative History June 2013 341–342 University of Arkansas Press 978-1557289933 This came on top of a long depression in agriculture, which was still the dominant player in Arkansas’ economy and was backed up by the “Great Migration” of the state's agricultural labor force to northeastern and midwestern cities.Whayne, DeBlack, Sabo and Arnold. Arkansas, pp. 313-316 Arkansas gave extremely heavy support to Democrat Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, when he garnered more than 86% of ballots and swept every county in the state,Grantham Dewey W. The Life and Death of the Solid South: A Political History 11 July 2014 102 University Press of Kentucky 978-0813148724 becoming the first Democrat to win Searcy County since before the Civil War and only the second to win adjacent Newton County.Menendez Albert J. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004 87 2005 McFarland & Company Jefferson, North Carolina 0786422173 Throughout his first term as president, Roosevelt was extremely popular in the “Solid South”Leuchtenburg William E. The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson October 2005 51 LSU Press 0807151424 and despite embryonic concerns over loss of Southern control of the national party due to abolition of the “two-thirds” ruleFrederickson Kari A. The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 2001 24 Univ of North Carolina Press 0807849103 and some hostility to FDR's repeal of ProhibitionMenendez. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, p. 64 he was overwhelmingly and in many places almost unanimously supported by Arkansas’ limited electorate. Ozark Republican Landon did regain the two Unionist and Prohibitionist Ozark counties, but topped 40% in only two of the remaining seventy-three. Nonetheless, the 1936 results in Arkansas were about 10% less Democratic than that of 1932, despite the nation as a whole shifting somewhat to the left. As of 2020, this remains the last time that a presidential candidate has won more than 80% of the vote in Arkansas. Results Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 146,765 81.80% 9 New York John Nance Garner Texas Alf Landon Republican 32,039 17.86% 0 Kansas Frank Knox Illinois Norman Thomas Socialist 446 0.25% 0 New York George A. Nelson Wisconsin Earl Browder Communist 169 0.09% 0 Kansas James W. Ford Alabama William Lemke Write-in 4 0.00% 0 North Dakota Thomas C. O'Brien Massachusetts 179,423 100.00% 9 266 Results by county +1936 United States presidential election in Arkansas by countyScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 48-49 0405077114County Franklin Delano RooseveltDemocratic Alfred Mossman LandonRepublican Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Arkansas 2,008 85.19% 341 14.47% 8 0.34% 1,667 70.73% 2,357 Ashley 1,382 93.57% 95 6.43% 0 0.00% 1,287 87.14% 1,477 Baxter 773 66.93% 375 32.47% 7 0.61% 398 34.46% 1,155 Benton 2,418 58.77% 1,672 40.64% 24 0.58% 746 18.13% 4,114 Boone 2,386 69.20% 1,052 30.51% 10 0.29% 1,334 38.69% 3,448 Bradley 1,571 95.97% 65 3.97% 1 0.06% 1,506 92.00% 1,637 Calhoun 704 95.78% 30 4.08% 1 0.14% 674 91.70% 735 Carroll 1,649 63.55% 940 36.22% 6 0.23% 709 27.32% 2,595 Chicot 1,145 93.78% 75 6.14% 1 0.08% 1,070 87.63% 1,221 Clark 1,962 90.71% 193 8.92% 8 0.37% 1,769 81.78% 2,163 Clay 1,778 68.94% 795 30.83% 6 0.23% 983 38.12% 2,579 Cleburne 927 72.93% 336 26.44% 8 0.63% 591 46.50% 1,271 Cleveland 1,088 95.77% 45 3.96% 3 0.26% 1,043 91.81% 1,136 Columbia 1,847 96.65% 64 3.35% 0 0.00% 1,783 93.30% 1,911 Conway 2,013 86.77% 305 13.15% 2 0.09% 1,708 73.62% 2,320 Craighead 3,335 82.02% 710 17.46% 21 0.52% 2,625 64.56% 4,066 Crawford 1,963 73.47% 697 26.09% 12 0.45% 1,266 47.38% 2,672 Crittenden 1,858 98.83% 22 1.17% 0 0.00% 1,836 97.66% 1,880 Cross 1,644 91.49% 133 7.40% 20 1.11% 1,511 84.08% 1,797 Dallas 1,433 93.29% 103 6.71% 0 0.00% 1,330 86.59% 1,536 Desha 1,411 96.12% 55 3.75% 2 0.14% 1,356 92.37% 1,468 Drew 1,229 94.47% 70 5.38% 2 0.15% 1,159 89.09% 1,301 Faulkner 2,521 82.82% 511 16.79% 12 0.39% 2,010 66.03% 3,044 Franklin 1,890 84.11% 345 15.35% 12 0.53% 1,545 68.76% 2,247 Fulton 946 68.25% 437 31.53% 3 0.22% 509 36.72% 1,386 Garland 2,931 70.07% 1,217 29.09% 35 0.84% 1,714 40.98% 4,183 Grant 978 86.86% 147 13.06% 1 0.09% 831 73.80% 1,126 Greene 1,811 81.25% 412 18.48% 6 0.27% 1,399 62.76% 2,229 Hempstead 2,431 92.68% 190 7.24% 2 0.08% 2,241 85.44% 2,623 Hot Spring 1,581 77.77% 444 21.84% 8 0.39% 1,137 55.93% 2,033 Howard 1,437 83.69% 275 16.02% 5 0.29% 1,162 67.68% 1,717 Independence 2,101 75.25% 685 24.53% 6 0.21% 1,416 50.72% 2,792 Izard 1,350 76.44% 416 23.56% 0 0.00% 934 52.89% 1,766 Jackson 2,151 86.77% 327 13.19% 1 0.04% 1,824 73.58% 2,479 Jefferson 3,414 93.66% 224 6.15% 7 0.19% 3,190 87.52% 3,645 Johnson 1,432 80.81% 318 17.95% 22 1.24% 1,114 62.87% 1,772 Lafayette 1,279 92.55% 100 7.24% 3 0.22% 1,179 85.31% 1,382 Lawrence 2,230 82.50% 457 16.91% 16 0.59% 1,773 65.59% 2,703 Lee 1,257 94.87% 66 4.98% 2 0.15% 1,191 89.89% 1,325 Lincoln 913 95.90% 39 4.10% 0 0.00% 874 91.81% 952 Little River 1,056 84.14% 192 15.30% 7 0.56% 864 68.84% 1,255 Logan 2,663 77.41% 770 22.38% 7 0.20% 1,893 55.03% 3,440 Lonoke 2,735 89.76% 310 10.17% 2 0.07% 2,425 79.59% 3,047 Madison 1,679 53.02% 1,484 46.86% 4 0.13% 195 6.16% 3,167 Marion 989 68.68% 435 30.21% 16 1.11% 554 38.47% 1,440 Miller 2,689 89.01% 323 10.69% 9 0.30% 2,366 78.32% 3,021 Mississippi 4,835 93.94% 303 5.89% 9 0.17% 4,532 88.05% 5,147 Monroe 1,102 92.84% 82 6.91% 3 0.25% 1,020 85.93% 1,187 Montgomery 1,034 68.07% 465 30.61% 20 1.32% 569 37.46% 1,519 Nevada 1,252 85.69% 204 13.96% 5 0.34% 1,048 71.73% 1,461 Newton 938 47.11% 1,053 52.89% 0 0.00% -115 -5.78% 1,991 Ouachita 2,808 91.47% 262 8.53% 0 0.00% 2,546 82.93% 3,070 Perry 899 78.31% 249 21.69% 0 0.00% 650 56.62% 1,148 Phillips 2,259 95.60% 94 3.98% 10 0.42% 2,165 91.62% 2,363 Pike 994 77.78% 283 22.14% 1 0.08% 711 55.63% 1,278 Poinsett 3,457 85.38% 563 13.90% 29 0.72% 2,894 71.47% 4,049 Polk 1,170 67.44% 537 30.95% 28 1.61% 633 36.48% 1,735 Pope 2,678 88.38% 348 11.49% 4 0.13% 2,330 76.90% 3,030 Prairie 1,321 82.25% 282 17.56% 3 0.19% 1,039 64.69% 1,606 Pulaski 11,482 89.49% 1,320 10.29% 28 0.22% 10,162 79.20% 12,830 Randolph 1,693 80.24% 414 19.62% 3 0.14% 1,279 60.62% 2,110 St. Francis 1,938 94.72% 94 4.59% 14 0.68% 1,844 90.13% 2,046 Saline 1,520 79.87% 359 18.86% 24 1.26% 1,161 61.01% 1,903 Scott 1,137 75.70% 363 24.17% 2 0.13% 774 51.53% 1,502 Searcy 767 43.14% 1,010 56.81% 1 0.06% -243 -13.67% 1,778 Sebastian 4,539 79.35% 1,161 20.30% 20 0.35% 3,378 59.06% 5,720 Sevier 1,200 80.00% 289 19.27% 11 0.73% 911 60.73% 1,500 Sharp 934 75.63% 289 23.40% 12 0.97% 645 52.23% 1,235 Stone 521 67.49% 248 32.12% 3 0.39% 273 35.36% 772 Union 4,141 93.94% 254 5.76% 13 0.29% 3,887 88.18% 4,408 Van Buren 1,422 72.22% 541 27.48% 6 0.30% 881 44.74% 1,969 Washington 3,378 67.87% 1,579 31.73% 20 0.40% 1,799 36.15% 4,977 White 2,503 82.20% 535 17.57% 7 0.23% 1,968 64.63% 3,045 Woodruff 1,473 84.70% 253 14.55% 13 0.75% 1,220 70.16% 1,739 Yell 2,382 88.22% 318 11.78% 0 0.00% 2,064 76.44% 2,700Totals146,76581.79%32,04917.86%6170.34%114,71663.93%179,431 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Newton Searcy See also United States presidential elections in Arkansas References 2 Arkansas 1936