The 1936 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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 County Results
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Wyoming was won by the Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, running with John Nance Garner, who was the 39th and incumbent Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, with 60.58 percent of the popular vote, against the Republican candidate, Alf Landon, who was the Governor of Kansas, running with future Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, with 37.47 percent of the popular vote.[1] Despite Landon losing by over 23 percent, Wyoming was nonetheless his strongest state West of the Great Plains and voted overall 0.93 percent more Republican than the nation at large, perhaps a sign of the strong Republican state it would become in future elections. Roosevelt won Wyoming by 23 points, outperforming his victory in 1932 by 8 points.
As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the best ever performance by a Democratic presidential nominee in Wyoming, and the last election in which a Democrat has carried the following counties: Campbell, Converse, Niobrara, Sublette, Washakie and Weston, as even Lyndon B. Johnson failed to carry them when he won Wyoming by 13 points against Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964.[2]
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) | 62,624 | 60.58% | |
| Republican | Alfred Landon | 38,739 | 37.47% | |
| Union | William Lemke | 1,653 | 1.60% | |
| Socialist | Norman Thomas | 200 | 0.19% | |
| Communist | Earl Browder | 91 | 0.09% | |
| Prohibition | D. Leigh Colvin | 75 | 0.07% | |
| Total votes | 103,382 | 100.00% | ||
Results by county
edit| County[3] | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democrat |
Alf Landon Republican |
William Lemke Union |
All Others Various |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Albany | 3,685 | 66.53% | 1,777 | 32.08% | 49 | 0.88% | 28 | 0.51% | 1,908 | 34.45% | 5,539 |
| Big Horn | 3,156 | 60.28% | 1,996 | 38.12% | 73 | 1.39% | 11 | 0.21% | 1,160 | 22.15% | 5,236 |
| Campbell | 1,435 | 51.54% | 1,322 | 47.49% | 21 | 0.75% | 6 | 0.22% | 113 | 4.06% | 2,784 |
| Carbon | 3,257 | 60.62% | 2,041 | 37.99% | 51 | 0.95% | 24 | 0.45% | 1,216 | 22.63% | 5,373 |
| Converse | 1,639 | 50.42% | 1,556 | 47.86% | 34 | 1.05% | 22 | 0.68% | 83 | 2.55% | 3,251 |
| Crook | 1,088 | 46.30% | 1,218 | 51.83% | 38 | 1.62% | 6 | 0.26% | -130 | -5.53% | 2,350 |
| Fremont | 3,050 | 55.12% | 2,357 | 42.60% | 107 | 1.93% | 19 | 0.34% | 693 | 12.52% | 5,533 |
| Goshen | 2,639 | 55.55% | 2,047 | 43.09% | 47 | 0.99% | 18 | 0.38% | 592 | 12.46% | 4,751 |
| Hot Springs | 1,419 | 61.19% | 796 | 34.33% | 89 | 3.84% | 15 | 0.65% | 623 | 26.87% | 2,319 |
| Johnson | 949 | 40.68% | 1,266 | 54.26% | 109 | 4.67% | 9 | 0.39% | -317 | -13.59% | 2,333 |
| Laramie | 7,594 | 62.55% | 4,356 | 35.88% | 151 | 1.24% | 39 | 0.32% | 3,238 | 26.67% | 12,140 |
| Lincoln | 2,747 | 66.03% | 1,376 | 33.08% | 31 | 0.75% | 6 | 0.14% | 1,371 | 32.96% | 4,160 |
| Natrona | 7,819 | 65.67% | 3,810 | 32.00% | 241 | 2.02% | 37 | 0.31% | 4,009 | 33.67% | 11,907 |
| Niobrara | 1,124 | 50.07% | 1,086 | 48.37% | 28 | 1.25% | 7 | 0.31% | 38 | 1.69% | 2,245 |
| Park | 2,594 | 60.12% | 1,618 | 37.50% | 92 | 2.13% | 11 | 0.25% | 976 | 22.62% | 4,315 |
| Platte | 1,730 | 50.79% | 1,546 | 45.39% | 108 | 3.17% | 22 | 0.65% | 184 | 5.40% | 3,406 |
| Sheridan | 4,731 | 61.60% | 2,726 | 35.49% | 204 | 2.66% | 19 | 0.25% | 2,005 | 26.11% | 7,680 |
| Sublette | 667 | 49.85% | 638 | 47.68% | 27 | 2.02% | 6 | 0.45% | 29 | 2.17% | 1,338 |
| Sweetwater | 6,232 | 76.97% | 1,797 | 22.19% | 32 | 0.40% | 36 | 0.44% | 4,435 | 54.77% | 8,097 |
| Teton | 795 | 58.80% | 501 | 37.06% | 51 | 3.77% | 5 | 0.37% | 294 | 21.75% | 1,352 |
| Uinta | 1,972 | 65.41% | 1,015 | 33.67% | 21 | 0.70% | 7 | 0.23% | 957 | 31.74% | 3,015 |
| Washakie | 1,109 | 56.50% | 810 | 41.26% | 34 | 1.73% | 10 | 0.51% | 299 | 15.23% | 1,963 |
| Weston | 1,193 | 51.98% | 1,084 | 47.23% | 15 | 0.65% | 3 | 0.13% | 109 | 4.75% | 2,295 |
| Totals | 62,624 | 60.58% | 38,739 | 37.47% | 1,653 | 1.60% | 366 | 0.35% | 23,885 | 23.10% | 103,382 |
| Democratic Hold Gain from Republican | Republican Gain from Democratic |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
editCounties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "1936 Presidential Election Results Wyoming". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ a b Wyoming Secretary of State (1937). "Total Vote by Counties, General Election, November 3, 1936". 1937 Official Directory of Wyoming and Election Returns for 1936. pp. 60–61. Retrieved October 18, 2024.