1932 United States presidential election in Indiana

none June 2025 September 2023 1932 United States presidential election in Indiana Indiana presidential no 1928 United States presidential election in Indiana 1928 1936 United States presidential election in Indiana 1936 November 8, 1932 78.9%Madison 1986 330 4.0 pp 200x200px FDR in 1933 (3x4).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York John Nance Garner 14 862,054 54.67% President Hoover portrait (cropped).jpg Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) California Charles Curtis 0 677,184 42.94% 1932 United States presidential election in Indiana results map by county.svg 180px County results Roosevelt #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% Hoover #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% President Herbert Hoover Republican Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt and the speaker of the United States House of Representatives John Nance Garner defeated the Republican ticket of the incumbent president of the United States Herbert Hoover and the vice president of the United States Charles Curtis. Roosevelt defeated Hoover in the national election with 472 electoral votes.Petersen 1963 91 General election Statistics Roosevelt became the only Democratic presidential candidate to carry Steuben County, Indiana.Menendez 2009 190 2024 11 As of the 2024, this remains the most recent presidential election in which the Democratic ticket carried Fulton, Jasper, Kosciusko, Morgan and Newton counties.Sullivan 2016 Summary Indiana chose 14 electors on a statewide general ticket. State law required voters to elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group.Gause Spencer 1928 53 This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party.Petersen 1963 vii The following table quotes the official returns published by the secretary of state of Indiana, which list the votes for the first elector on each ticket.Indiana 1933 1,469–70 1932 United States presidential election in IndianaIndiana 1933 1,469–70 Franklin D. RooseveltJohn Nance Garner Democratic Party (United States) 862,054 54.67 15.08 Herbert HooverCharles Curtis Republican Party (United States) 677,184 42.94 16.74 Norman ThomasJames H. Maurer Socialist Party of America 21,388 1.36 1.09 William D. UpshawFrank S. Regan Prohibition Party 10,399 0.66 0.27 William Z. FosterJames W. Ford Communist Party USA 2,187 0.14 0.12 Verne L. ReynoldsJohn W. Aiken Socialist Labor Party of America 2,070 0.13 0.08 John ZahndReplacing George I. Wilson.Nationalists Again Name John Zahnd https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=IPT19320709-02.1.8 Indianapolis Times July 9, 1932Florence Garvin National Greenback Party 1,615 0.10 0.10 1,576,927 100.00 Results + 1932 United States presidential election in IndianaIndiana 1933 1,471 Ticket Electors for Candidate Votes Democratic John W. Spencer 862,054 Democratic LeRoy J. Keach 854,024 Democratic Sol Henoch 853,880 Democratic Ned Phelps 853,316 Democratic Charles W. Anglin 853,182 Democratic Edward Logan 853,123 Democratic John Gubbins 853,030 Democratic Ernest R. Stewart 853,013 Democratic Frank Finney 852,937 Democratic Evans Woollen 852,845 Democratic Herbert Leffel 852,777 Democratic Albert P. Lesniak 852,739 Democratic Ethel Cummings 852,576 Democratic Albert Gisler 852,516 Republican Oscar George Foellinger 677,184 Republican Benjamin Franklin Huffman 673,453 Republican Horace Singer Norton 672,014 Republican Christian Christensen 671,877 Republican James R. Spivey 671,712 Republican George Freese 671,541 Republican Claud H. Stratton 671,527 Republican E. Vernon Knight 671,509 Republican Phillip Warrington McAbee 671,509 Republican James Lindley Tucker 671,343 Republican Robert H. Carpenter 671,325 Republican Elza O. Rogers 671,258 Republican Maude Irene Briles 671,231 Republican William D. Bain 671,022 Socialist Arlington L. Binford 21,388 Socialist Manuel C. Turpin 20,930 Socialist Joseph Gray 20,780 Socialist Frank Barker 20,753 Socialist Edward G. Nix 20,745 Socialist Joseph E. Showalter 20,745 Socialist Louis Freedman 20,739 Socialist Michael Hasenstab 20,732 Socialist Jacob E. Schrader 20,732 Socialist Charles Stastney 20,731 Socialist Joseph M. Coffman 20,723 Socialist Chester Y. Edkins 20,702 Socialist John H. Wilson 20,683 Socialist William H. Tice 20,624 Prohibition Basil L. Allen 10,399 Prohibition Henry S. Bonsib 9,847 Prohibition Luella Swisher 9,724 Prohibition John Skedler 9,708 Prohibition A. Lee Hanson 9,690 Prohibition Allen Bowman 9,687 Prohibition Walter Ward 9,685 Prohibition John E. Thompson 9,671 Prohibition Thomas F. White 9,662 Prohibition Julia M. Nance 9,660 Prohibition Thomas R. Woodard 9,660 Prohibition Lucy Green 9,655 Prohibition Curtis B. Hardesty 9,653 Prohibition Albert Stanley 9,647 Communist John Babrick 2,187 Communist Arthur Osborn 2,157 Communist Samuel Luther 2,155 Communist Leo Vancuren 2,152 Communist Floyd McCoy 2,151 Communist Clarence Strange 2,151 Communist Zilba A. Shook 2,150 Communist Garfield Mimms 2,148 Communist James N. Swain 2,148 Communist James H. Snider 2,145 Communist Sam Langford 2,144 Communist Joseph Chelich 2,143 Communist James E. Ewing 2,143 Communist David Howell 2,138 Socialist Labor Charles Ginsberg 2,070 Socialist Labor William P. Harnishfeger 1,982 Socialist Labor Stanko Jukich 1,966 Socialist Labor Orville Laughlin 1,966 Socialist Labor Ivan Nelson Ballinger 1,956 Socialist Labor Earl A. McCracken 1,915 National Ivan Richards 1,645 National Elizabeth Decker 1,644 National Kenneth E. Friend 1,644 National Lawrence Hammill 1,643 National Joe F. Green 1,642 National Charles L. Baxter 1,641 National Gilbert A. Dingman 1,639 National Charles A. Minor 1,637 National Charles Underwood 1,636 National Anna Ahlborn 1,635 National Henry O. Shaw 1,635 National Charles H. McManama 1,627 National Chauncey B. Reddick 1,621 National Henry J. Zahnd 1,615 Total votes ≈1,576,927 Results by county County Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic Herbert HooverRepublican Norman ThomasSocialist Others Margin Total Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Adams 5,892 66.11% 2,910 32.65% 0 0.00% 111 1.25% 2,982 33.46% 8,913 Allen 38,447 57.76% 27,065 40.66% 463 0.70% 587 0.88% 11,382 17.10% 66,562 Bartholomew 7,533 54.05% 6,015 43.16% 270 1.94% 120 0.86% 1,518 10.89% 13,938 Benton 3,496 58.43% 2,433 40.67% 17 0.28% 37 0.62% 1,063 17.77% 5,983 Blackford 4,088 57.34% 2,890 40.53% 45 0.63% 107 1.50% 1,198 16.80% 7,130 Boone 6,900 55.47% 5,309 42.68% 121 0.97% 110 0.88% 1,591 12.79% 12,440 Brown 1,676 66.32% 790 31.26% 32 1.27% 29 1.15% 886 35.06% 2,527 Carroll 4,866 55.30% 3,853 43.79% 15 0.17% 65 0.74% 1,013 11.51% 8,799 Cass 10,987 57.08% 7,980 41.46% 137 0.71% 144 0.75% 3,007 15.62% 19,248 Clark 9,501 61.21% 5,881 37.89% 81 0.52% 59 0.38% 3,620 23.32% 15,522 Clay 8,151 58.99% 5,343 38.67% 190 1.38% 134 0.97% 2,808 20.32% 13,818 Clinton 8,314 56.27% 6,288 42.56% 44 0.30% 130 0.88% 2,026 13.71% 14,776 Crawford 3,272 59.19% 2,175 39.35% 22 0.40% 59 1.07% 1,097 19.84% 5,528 Daviess 6,772 52.54% 5,838 45.29% 168 1.30% 111 0.86% 934 7.25% 12,889 Dearborn 6,429 57.02% 4,716 41.83% 92 0.82% 38 0.34% 1,713 15.19% 11,275 Decatur 5,437 53.31% 4,646 45.56% 37 0.36% 78 0.76% 791 7.76% 10,198 DeKalb 7,235 55.74% 5,590 43.06% 61 0.47% 95 0.73% 1,645 12.67% 12,981 Delaware 14,346 45.91% 16,012 51.25% 583 1.87% 304 0.97% -1,666 -5.33% 31,245 Dubois 7,547 75.50% 2,357 23.58% 73 0.73% 19 0.19% 5,190 51.92% 9,996 Elkhart 14,885 50.34% 13,826 46.76% 501 1.69% 354 1.20% 1,059 3.58% 29,566 Fayette 5,148 50.70% 4,867 47.93% 86 0.85% 53 0.52% 281 2.77% 10,154 Floyd 10,497 57.83% 7,333 40.40% 210 1.16% 113 0.62% 3,164 17.43% 18,153 Fountain 5,665 56.93% 4,162 41.83% 65 0.65% 58 0.58% 1,503 15.11% 9,950 Franklin 4,704 63.06% 2,687 36.02% 27 0.36% 41 0.55% 2,017 27.04% 7,459 Fulton 4,794 54.96% 3,787 43.42% 42 0.48% 99 1.14% 1,007 11.55% 8,722 Gibson 9,162 57.76% 6,237 39.32% 167 1.05% 297 1.87% 2,925 18.44% 15,863 Grant 13,390 51.58% 11,398 43.90% 735 2.83% 438 1.69% 1,992 7.67% 25,961 Greene 8,845 55.51% 6,397 40.15% 514 3.23% 177 1.11% 2,448 15.36% 15,933 Hamilton 5,999 44.85% 7,100 53.08% 96 0.72% 181 1.35% -1,101 -8.23% 13,376 Hancock 5,836 57.89% 4,055 40.22% 52 0.52% 138 1.37% 1,781 17.67% 10,081 Harrison 5,128 58.25% 3,553 40.36% 21 0.24% 102 1.16% 1,575 17.89% 8,804 Hendricks 5,293 48.93% 5,317 49.15% 99 0.92% 108 1.00% -24 -0.22% 10,817 Henry 8,255 47.66% 8,430 48.67% 225 1.30% 409 2.36% -175 -1.01% 17,319 Howard 10,541 50.81% 9,257 44.62% 607 2.93% 339 1.63% 1,284 6.19% 20,744 Huntington 8,697 54.97% 6,791 42.92% 133 0.84% 200 1.26% 1,906 12.05% 15,821 Jackson 7,882 65.22% 3,996 33.06% 114 0.94% 94 0.78% 3,886 32.15% 12,086 Jasper 3,538 54.40% 2,897 44.54% 21 0.32% 48 0.74% 641 9.86% 6,504 Jay 6,693 57.15% 5,018 42.85% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,675 14.30% 11,711 Jefferson 5,305 52.19% 4,670 45.95% 72 0.71% 117 1.15% 635 6.25% 10,164 Jennings 3,603 53.64% 3,020 44.96% 40 0.60% 54 0.80% 583 8.68% 6,717 Johnson 6,940 59.23% 4,593 39.20% 86 0.73% 99 0.84% 2,347 20.03% 11,718 Knox 14,084 66.62% 6,590 31.17% 240 1.14% 226 1.07% 7,494 35.45% 21,140 Kosciusko 7,475 50.54% 7,063 47.75% 85 0.57% 168 1.14% 412 2.79% 14,791 LaGrange 3,261 56.03% 2,461 42.29% 21 0.36% 77 1.32% 800 13.75% 5,820 Lake 46,060 50.34% 42,596 46.56% 1,474 1.61% 1,362 1.49% 3,464 3.79% 91,492 LaPorte 14,890 57.28% 10,739 41.31% 242 0.93% 124 0.48% 4,151 15.97% 25,995 Lawrence 8,215 49.07% 8,314 49.66% 121 0.72% 91 0.54% -99 -0.59% 16,741 Madison 22,069 52.72% 18,803 44.92% 600 1.43% 388 0.93% 3,266 7.80% 41,860 Marion 106,661 50.15% 98,256 46.20% 5,325 2.50% 2,422 1.14% 8,405 3.95% 212,664 Marshall 7,212 58.13% 4,943 39.84% 87 0.70% 165 1.33% 2,269 18.29% 12,407 Martin 3,072 58.79% 2,106 40.31% 14 0.27% 33 0.63% 966 18.49% 5,225 Miami 8,892 58.53% 5,987 39.41% 89 0.59% 223 1.47% 2,905 19.12% 15,191 Monroe 8,478 51.39% 7,759 47.03% 169 1.02% 91 0.55% 719 4.36% 16,497 Montgomery 8,077 54.93% 6,417 43.64% 80 0.54% 130 0.88% 1,660 11.29% 14,704 Morgan 5,775 53.50% 4,825 44.70% 98 0.91% 97 0.90% 950 8.80% 10,795 Newton 2,654 52.02% 2,380 46.65% 32 0.63% 36 0.71% 274 5.37% 5,102 Noble 6,538 54.63% 5,304 44.32% 55 0.46% 71 0.59% 1,234 10.31% 11,968 Ohio 1,288 55.88% 997 43.25% 6 0.26% 14 0.61% 291 12.62% 2,305 Orange 4,844 51.06% 4,561 48.08% 34 0.36% 48 0.51% 283 2.98% 9,487 Owen 3,639 58.35% 2,423 38.86% 108 1.73% 66 1.06% 1,216 19.50% 6,236 Parke 4,703 53.06% 3,926 44.29% 146 1.65% 89 1.00% 777 8.77% 8,864 Perry 5,053 60.46% 3,253 38.93% 33 0.39% 18 0.22% 1,800 21.54% 8,357 Pike 4,547 57.33% 3,193 40.26% 85 1.07% 106 1.34% 1,354 17.07% 7,931 Porter 5,542 48.69% 5,631 49.47% 157 1.38% 52 0.46% -89 -0.78% 11,382 Posey 5,641 65.26% 2,876 33.27% 55 0.64% 72 0.83% 2,765 31.99% 8,644 Pulaski 3,286 58.25% 2,226 39.46% 20 0.35% 109 1.93% 1,060 18.79% 5,641 Putnam 6,168 56.24% 4,438 40.46% 276 2.52% 86 0.78% 1,730 15.77% 10,968 Randolph 6,223 47.27% 6,509 49.44% 73 0.55% 361 2.74% -286 -2.17% 13,166 Ripley 5,987 57.86% 4,240 40.97% 57 0.55% 64 0.62% 1,747 16.88% 10,348 Rush 5,056 49.14% 5,094 49.50% 37 0.36% 103 1.00% -38 -0.37% 10,290 St. Joseph 38,026 55.46% 28,198 41.13% 1,798 2.62% 541 0.79% 9,828 14.33% 68,563 Scott 2,240 55.89% 1,722 42.96% 14 0.35% 32 0.80% 518 12.92% 4,008 Shelby 8,552 60.14% 5,410 38.05% 79 0.56% 178 1.25% 3,142 22.10% 14,219 Spencer 5,422 57.06% 4,014 42.24% 17 0.18% 50 0.53% 1,408 14.82% 9,503 Starke 3,420 56.91% 2,449 40.75% 75 1.25% 66 1.10% 971 16.16% 6,010 Steuben 3,717 50.04% 3,594 48.38% 37 0.50% 80 1.08% 123 1.66% 7,428 Sullivan 7,835 62.80% 3,667 29.39% 789 6.32% 186 1.49% 4,168 33.41% 12,477 Switzerland 2,981 59.21% 1,953 38.79% 28 0.56% 73 1.45% 1,028 20.42% 5,035 Tippecanoe 13,609 53.03% 11,818 46.05% 143 0.56% 93 0.36% 1,791 6.98% 25,663 Tipton 4,898 56.15% 3,680 42.19% 63 0.72% 82 0.94% 1,218 13.96% 8,723 Union 1,587 48.25% 1,658 50.41% 19 0.58% 25 0.76% -71 -2.16% 3,289 Vanderburgh 31,828 63.97% 16,873 33.91% 748 1.50% 303 0.61% 14,955 30.06% 49,752 Vermillion 6,390 58.77% 4,115 37.85% 235 2.16% 132 1.21% 2,275 20.93% 10,872 Vigo 25,886 57.29% 18,310 40.52% 557 1.23% 434 0.96% 7,576 16.77% 45,187 Wabash 6,553 48.63% 6,652 49.36% 81 0.60% 190 1.41% -99 -0.73% 13,476 Warren 2,256 49.65% 2,223 48.92% 22 0.48% 43 0.95% 33 0.73% 4,544 Warrick 5,409 59.53% 3,429 37.74% 67 0.74% 181 1.99% 1,980 21.79% 9,086 Washington 4,809 58.78% 3,316 40.53% 24 0.29% 32 0.39% 1,493 18.25% 8,181 Wayne 13,287 50.13% 12,683 47.85% 275 1.04% 261 0.98% 604 2.28% 26,506 Wells 6,236 65.45% 3,073 32.25% 37 0.39% 182 1.91% 3,163 33.20% 9,528 White 4,976 57.91% 3,484 40.55% 65 0.76% 67 0.78% 1,492 17.36% 8,592 Whitley 5,058 57.13% 3,471 39.21% 32 0.36% 292 3.30% 1,587 17.93% 8,853 TOTAL 862,054 54.67% 677,184 42.94% 21,388 1.36% 16,301 1.03% 184,870 11.72% 1,576,927 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic 10em Allen Bartholomew Benton Blackford Boone Carroll Cass Clark Clay Clinton Crawford Daviess Dearborn Decatur DeKalb Elkhart Fayette Floyd Fountain Fulton Gibson Grant Greene Hancock Harrison Henry Howard Huntington Jackson Jasper Jay Jefferson Jennings Johnson Knox Kosciusko LaGrange Lake LaPorte Lawrence Madison Marion Marshall Martin Martin Miami Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Noble Ohio Orange Owen Parke Pike Posey Pulaski Putnam Ripley Rush Scott Shelby Spencer St. Joseph Starke Steuben Sullivan Switerzland Tippecanoe Tipton Union Vanderburgh Vermillion Vigo Warren Warrick Washington Wayne White Whitley See also United States presidential elections in Indiana Notes References Bibliography Gause Fred C. Spencer William W. Election Law of Indiana with Instructions to Voters and Election Officers 1928 State Board of Election Commissioners Fort Wayne https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000047489152&seq=1 Indiana Year Book of the State of Indiana for the Year 1932 1933 Legislative Bureau Indianapolis https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015053633551&seq=1 Madison James H. The Indiana Way: A State History 1986 Indiana University Press Bloomington https://archive.org/details/indianawaystate00madi Menendez Albert J. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868–2004 2009 McFarland and Company Jefferson, NC https://archive.org/details/geographyofpresi0000mene Petersen Svend A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections 1963 Frederick Ungar Publishing Company New York 62-21786 https://archive.org/details/statisticalhisto00pete Sullivan Robert David How the Red and Blue Map Evolved over the Past Century https://www.americamagazine.org/unconventional-wisdom/2016/06/29/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century/ America June 29, 2016 Indiana 1932 Category:1932 Indiana elections