1932 United States elections

The 1932 United States elections were held on November 8, during the Great Depression. The presidential election coincided with U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and gubernatorial elections in several states.[2][3] The election marked the end of the Fourth Party System and the start of the Fifth Party System. The election is widely considered to be a realigning election, and the newly established Democratic New Deal coalition experienced much more success than their predecessors had in the Fourth Party System.[4]

1932 United States elections
1930          1931          1932          1933          1934
Presidential election year
Election dayNovember 8
Incumbent presidentHerbert Hoover (Republican)
Next Congress73rd
Presidential election
Partisan controlDemocratic gain
Popular vote marginDemocratic +17.8%
Electoral vote
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)472
Herbert Hoover (R)59
1932 United States presidential election in California1932 United States presidential election in Oregon1932 United States presidential election in Washington (state)1932 United States presidential election in Idaho1932 United States presidential election in Nevada1932 United States presidential election in Utah1932 United States presidential election in Arizona1932 United States presidential election in Montana1932 United States presidential election in Wyoming1932 United States presidential election in Colorado1932 United States presidential election in New Mexico1932 United States presidential election in North Dakota1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota1932 United States presidential election in Nebraska1932 United States presidential election in Kansas1932 United States presidential election in Oklahoma1932 United States presidential election in Texas1932 United States presidential election in Minnesota1932 United States presidential election in Iowa1932 United States presidential election in Missouri1932 United States presidential election in Arkansas1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana1932 United States presidential election in Wisconsin1932 United States presidential election in Illinois1932 United States presidential election in Michigan1932 United States presidential election in Indiana1932 United States presidential election in Ohio1932 United States presidential election in Kentucky1932 United States presidential election in Tennessee1932 United States presidential election in Mississippi1932 United States presidential election in Alabama1932 United States presidential election in Georgia1932 United States presidential election in Florida1932 United States presidential election in South Carolina1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina1932 United States presidential election in Virginia1932 United States presidential election in West Virginia1932 United States presidential election in Maryland1932 United States presidential election in Delaware1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey1932 United States presidential election in New York1932 United States presidential election in Connecticut1932 United States presidential election in Rhode Island1932 United States presidential election in Vermont1932 United States presidential election in New Hampshire1932 United States presidential election in Maine1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts1932 United States presidential election in Maryland1932 United States presidential election in Delaware1932 United States presidential election in New Jersey1932 United States presidential election in Connecticut1932 United States presidential election in Rhode Island1932 United States presidential election in Massachusetts1932 United States presidential election in Vermont1932 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
1932 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Hoover, blue denotes states won by Roosevelt. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate.
Senate elections
Overall controlDemocratic gain
Seats contested34 of 96 seats
(32 Class 3 seats + 5 special elections)[1]
Net seat changeDemocratic +12
1932 Senate results

  Democratic gain   Democratic hold

  Republican gain   Republican hold
House elections
Overall controlDemocratic hold
Seats contestedAll 435 voting members
Net seat changeDemocratic +97
1932 House of Representatives results

  Democratic gain   Democratic hold
  Republican gain   Republican hold

  Third party gain   Third party hold
Gubernatorial elections
Seats contested35
Net seat changeDemocratic +11
1932 Rhode Island gubernatorial election1932 Illinois gubernatorial election1932 Wisconsin gubernatorial election1932 Iowa gubernatorial election1932 Arkansas gubernatorial election1932 Kansas gubernatorial election1932 Texas gubernatorial election1932 New Mexico gubernatorial election1932 Arizona gubernatorial election1932 Florida gubernatorial election1932 Massachusetts gubernatorial election1932 Michigan gubernatorial election1932 Nebraska gubernatorial election1932 South Dakota gubernatorial election1932 Minnesota gubernatorial election1932 Maine gubernatorial election1932 Colorado gubernatorial election1932 Ohio gubernatorial election1932 Tennessee gubernatorial election1932 Connecticut gubernatorial election1932 Idaho gubernatorial election1932 Georgia gubernatorial election1932 New York gubernatorial election1932 Wyoming gubernatorial election1932 Delaware gubernatorial election1932 Indiana gubernatorial election1932 Missouri gubernatorial election1932 Montana gubernatorial election1932 New Hampshire gubernatorial election1932 North Carolina gubernatorial election1932 North Dakota gubernatorial election1932 Utah gubernatorial election1932 Vermont gubernatorial election1932 Washington gubernatorial election1932 West Virginia gubernatorial election
1932 gubernatorial election results

  Democratic gain   Democratic hold
  Republican gain   Republican hold

  Farmer–Labor hold

Democratic New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent president Herbert Hoover in a landslide, with Hoover winning only six Northeastern states. Roosevelt's victory was the first by a Democratic candidate since Woodrow Wilson won re-election in 1916. Roosevelt took his party's nomination on the fourth ballot, defeating 1928 nominee Al Smith and Speaker of the House John Nance Garner.

In addition to Hoover's defeat, the Republicans also suffered crushing defeats in both congressional chambers: they lost 101 seats in the House of Representatives, with the Democrats expanding their House majority to a supermajority, and also lost twelve seats in the Senate, [3] with Democrats winning control of the chamber for the first time since 1918.[5] This would be the last time that an incumbent president lost re-election and his party lost control of both chambers of Congress in a single term until 2020.[6][7]

The election took place after the 1930 United States census and the subsequent congressional re-apportionment. The Reapportionment Act of 1929 provided a permanent method of apportioning 435 House seats; previously, Congress had had to pass apportionment legislation after each census.

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  1. ^ Three Class 3 seats held both a regularly-scheduled election and a special election in 1932. These seats are not double-counted for the total number of seats contested.
  2. ^ "1932 Presidential Election". The American Presidency Project. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 8, 1932" (PDF). U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  4. ^ Reichley, A. James (2000). The Life of the Parties (Paperback ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 8–12.
  5. ^ "Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present". United States Senate. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  6. ^ Enten, Harry (January 10, 2021). "How Trump led Republicans to historic losses". CNN. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
  7. ^ Liasson, Mara (January 15, 2021). "Examining The Fault Lines Of The Republican Party". National Public Radio (NPR). Retrieved February 11, 2021.