1936 United States presidential election in Iowa
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All 11 Iowa votes to the Electoral College
 
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Alf Landon
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Kansas
Running mate John Nance Garner Frank Knox
Electoral vote 11 0
Popular vote 621,756 487,977
Percentage 54.41% 42.70%
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The 1936 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. Iowa voters chose 11[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Iowa was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Vice President John Nance Garner, with 54.41% of the popular vote, against Governor Alf Landon (R–Kansas), running with Frank Knox, with 42.70% of the popular vote.[3][4] As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion when Sioux County, Lyon County and O'Brien County have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[5][6] Iowa would not vote Democratic in a presidential election again until 1948.

Results

1936 United States presidential election in Iowa
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) 621,756 54.41%
Republican Alf Landon 487,977 42.70%
Union William Lemke 29,687 2.60%
Socialist Norman Thomas 1,373 0.12%
Prohibition D. Leigh Colvin 1,182 0.10%
Communist Earl R. Browder 506 0.04%
Socialist Labor John W. Aiken 252 0.02%
Total votes 1,142,733 100%

Results by county

County[7] Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic 		Alfred Mossmann Landon
Republican 		William Frederick Lemke
Union 		Various candidates
Other parties 		Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # %
Adair 3,243 47.95% 3,436 50.81% 77 1.14% 7 0.10% -193 -2.85% 6,763
Adams 2,249 42.69% 2,953 56.06% 61 1.16% 5 0.09% -704 -13.36% 5,268
Allamakee 4,327 49.38% 4,053 46.25% 370 4.22% 13 0.15% 274 3.13% 8,763
Appanoose 6,599 54.08% 5,511 45.16% 39 0.32% 54 0.44% 1,088 8.92% 12,203
Audubon 3,448 59.05% 2,344 40.14% 42 0.72% 5 0.09% 1,104 18.91% 5,839
Benton 5,606 56.43% 4,144 41.72% 145 1.46% 39 0.39% 1,462 14.72% 9,934
Black Hawk 16,793 53.01% 13,666 43.14% 1,133 3.58% 89 0.28% 3,127 9.87% 31,681
Boone 7,080 60.88% 4,110 35.34% 354 3.04% 85 0.73% 2,970 25.54% 11,629
Bremer 5,058 59.72% 3,220 38.02% 178 2.10% 14 0.17% 1,838 21.70% 8,470
Buchanan 5,025 50.79% 4,734 47.85% 127 1.28% 8 0.08% 291 2.94% 9,894
Buena Vista 5,287 60.18% 3,334 37.95% 129 1.47% 35 0.40% 1,953 22.23% 8,785
Butler 3,786 50.14% 3,604 47.73% 149 1.97% 12 0.16% 182 2.41% 7,551
Calhoun 4,544 59.02% 3,027 39.32% 93 1.21% 35 0.45% 1,517 19.70% 7,699
Carroll 6,285 59.84% 3,259 31.03% 948 9.03% 11 0.10% 3,026 28.81% 10,503
Cass 4,284 43.00% 5,622 56.43% 44 0.44% 12 0.12% -1,338 -13.43% 9,962
Cedar 4,385 53.25% 3,686 44.76% 153 1.86% 11 0.13% 699 8.49% 8,235
Cerro Gordo 9,694 54.48% 7,599 42.71% 470 2.64% 31 0.17% 2,095 11.77% 17,794
Cherokee 4,716 60.11% 2,902 36.99% 213 2.72% 14 0.18% 1,814 23.12% 7,845
Chickasaw 4,458 56.67% 3,143 39.96% 242 3.08% 23 0.29% 1,315 16.72% 7,866
Clarke 2,613 49.65% 2,571 48.85% 52 0.99% 27 0.51% 42 0.80% 5,263
Clay 4,691 61.84% 2,774 36.57% 104 1.37% 17 0.22% 1,917 25.27% 7,586
Clayton 6,731 55.01% 5,017 41.00% 475 3.88% 13 0.11% 1,714 14.01% 12,236
Clinton 12,269 53.25% 10,016 43.47% 729 3.16% 28 0.12% 2,253 9.78% 23,042
Crawford 5,720 60.20% 3,514 36.98% 231 2.43% 37 0.39% 2,206 23.22% 9,502
Dallas 6,341 52.96% 5,442 45.45% 159 1.33% 31 0.26% 899 7.51% 11,973
Davis 3,463 54.86% 2,815 44.59% 26 0.41% 9 0.14% 648 10.26% 6,313
Decatur 4,131 55.12% 3,327 44.40% 26 0.35% 10 0.13% 804 10.73% 7,494
Delaware 4,350 48.09% 4,483 49.56% 195 2.16% 18 0.20% -133 -1.47% 9,046
Des Moines 7,011 44.64% 6,763 43.06% 1,808 11.51% 123 0.78% 248 1.58% 15,705
Dickinson 3,399 58.69% 2,322 40.10% 54 0.93% 16 0.28% 1,077 18.60% 5,791
Dubuque 16,291 59.50% 8,275 30.22% 2,739 10.00% 73 0.27% 8,016 29.28% 27,378
Emmet 3,158 55.94% 2,362 41.84% 111 1.97% 14 0.25% 796 14.10% 5,645
Fayette 7,210 53.82% 5,891 43.97% 260 1.94% 36 0.27% 1,319 9.85% 13,397
Floyd 4,242 46.97% 4,267 47.25% 489 5.41% 33 0.37% -25 -0.28% 9,031
Franklin 3,993 59.55% 2,530 37.73% 159 2.37% 23 0.34% 1,463 21.82% 6,705
Fremont 4,301 56.47% 3,291 43.21% 13 0.17% 12 0.16% 1,010 13.26% 7,617
Greene 3,961 52.40% 3,384 44.77% 199 2.63% 15 0.20% 577 7.63% 7,559
Grundy 3,918 58.45% 2,656 39.62% 123 1.83% 6 0.09% 1,262 18.83% 6,703
Guthrie 3,619 44.30% 4,155 50.86% 377 4.61% 19 0.23% -536 -6.56% 8,170
Hamilton 5,432 62.02% 3,174 36.24% 119 1.36% 33 0.38% 2,258 25.78% 8,758
Hancock 3,930 59.28% 2,585 39.00% 103 1.55% 11 0.17% 1,345 20.29% 6,629
Hardin 5,429 54.66% 4,306 43.35% 154 1.55% 44 0.44% 1,123 11.31% 9,933
Harrison 6,206 53.14% 5,314 45.50% 151 1.29% 7 0.06% 892 7.64% 11,678
Henry 3,542 42.82% 4,480 54.17% 223 2.70% 26 0.31% -938 -11.34% 8,271
Howard 3,861 54.40% 2,947 41.52% 275 3.87% 15 0.21% 914 12.88% 7,098
Humboldt 3,420 59.00% 2,262 39.02% 98 1.69% 17 0.29% 1,158 19.98% 5,797
Ida 3,397 63.70% 1,834 34.39% 77 1.44% 25 0.47% 1,563 29.31% 5,333
Iowa 4,163 53.98% 3,360 43.57% 159 2.06% 30 0.39% 803 10.41% 7,712
Jackson 4,889 55.41% 3,581 40.59% 335 3.80% 18 0.20% 1,308 14.82% 8,823
Jasper 8,315 57.76% 5,875 40.81% 166 1.15% 39 0.27% 2,440 16.95% 14,395
Jefferson 3,690 46.47% 4,037 50.84% 189 2.38% 25 0.31% -347 -4.37% 7,941
Johnson 8,794 59.65% 5,629 38.18% 262 1.78% 58 0.39% 3,165 21.47% 14,743
Jones 5,052 54.00% 4,141 44.26% 156 1.67% 7 0.07% 911 9.74% 9,356
Keokuk 5,162 52.26% 4,491 45.46% 203 2.06% 22 0.22% 671 6.79% 9,878
Kossuth 8,071 68.04% 3,569 30.09% 209 1.76% 14 0.12% 4,502 37.95% 11,863
Lee 9,630 49.85% 8,955 46.36% 687 3.56% 45 0.23% 675 3.49% 19,317
Linn 19,724 49.55% 19,129 48.06% 867 2.18% 86 0.22% 595 1.49% 39,806
Louisa 2,859 50.92% 2,655 47.28% 93 1.66% 8 0.14% 204 3.63% 5,615
Lucas 3,773 51.11% 3,414 46.25% 158 2.14% 37 0.50% 359 4.86% 7,382
Lyon 3,590 60.40% 2,264 38.09% 83 1.40% 7 0.12% 1,326 22.31% 5,944
Madison 3,365 44.22% 4,188 55.04% 45 0.59% 11 0.14% -823 -10.82% 7,609
Mahaska 6,094 51.97% 5,270 44.94% 289 2.46% 73 0.62% 824 7.03% 11,726
Marion 6,745 56.27% 4,975 41.51% 243 2.03% 23 0.19% 1,770 14.77% 11,986
Marshall 6,297 44.95% 7,377 52.66% 283 2.02% 51 0.36% -1,080 -7.71% 14,008
Mills 3,610 51.02% 3,424 48.40% 30 0.42% 11 0.16% 186 2.63% 7,075
Mitchell 3,610 54.67% 2,765 41.87% 215 3.26% 13 0.20% 845 12.80% 6,603
Monona 5,346 62.89% 3,008 35.39% 134 1.58% 12 0.14% 2,338 27.51% 8,500
Monroe 4,205 56.36% 3,001 40.22% 213 2.85% 42 0.56% 1,204 16.14% 7,461
Montgomery 3,920 46.77% 4,395 52.43% 48 0.57% 19 0.23% -475 -5.67% 8,382
Muscatine 6,593 49.52% 6,332 47.56% 328 2.46% 60 0.45% 261 1.96% 13,313
O'Brien 5,139 59.67% 3,350 38.90% 112 1.30% 11 0.13% 1,789 20.77% 8,612
Osceola 2,812 63.15% 1,539 34.56% 90 2.02% 12 0.27% 1,273 28.59% 4,453
Page 4,646 41.03% 6,624 58.50% 22 0.19% 31 0.27% -1,978 -17.47% 11,323
Palo Alto 4,515 61.57% 2,613 35.63% 189 2.58% 16 0.22% 1,902 25.94% 7,333
Plymouth 5,994 52.37% 4,133 36.11% 1,297 11.33% 21 0.18% 1,861 16.26% 11,445
Pocahontas 4,357 63.89% 2,277 33.39% 171 2.51% 14 0.21% 2,080 30.50% 6,819
Polk 44,274 55.72% 33,819 42.56% 1,010 1.27% 357 0.45% 10,455 13.16% 79,460
Pottawattamie 16,259 56.23% 12,223 42.28% 371 1.28% 60 0.21% 4,036 13.96% 28,913
Poweshiek 4,745 52.75% 4,037 44.88% 178 1.98% 36 0.40% 708 7.87% 8,996
Ringgold 2,615 43.62% 3,316 55.31% 51 0.85% 13 0.22% -701 -11.69% 5,995
Sac 4,472 55.74% 3,437 42.84% 102 1.27% 12 0.15% 1,035 12.90% 8,023
Scott 20,737 60.73% 12,691 37.17% 616 1.80% 101 0.30% 8,046 23.56% 34,145
Shelby 4,264 51.80% 3,490 42.40% 469 5.70% 8 0.10% 774 9.40% 8,231
Sioux 5,553 52.05% 4,543 42.58% 564 5.29% 9 0.08% 1,010 9.47% 10,669
Story 6,933 51.02% 6,358 46.79% 186 1.37% 111 0.82% 575 4.23% 13,588
Tama 6,625 57.50% 4,737 41.11% 141 1.22% 19 0.16% 1,888 16.39% 11,522
Taylor 3,337 44.23% 4,145 54.94% 44 0.58% 19 0.25% -808 -10.71% 7,545
Union 3,938 45.27% 4,647 53.42% 100 1.15% 14 0.16% -709 -8.15% 8,699
Van Buren 2,804 43.66% 3,535 55.05% 55 0.86% 28 0.44% -731 -11.38% 6,422
Wapello 10,578 57.14% 7,647 41.31% 217 1.17% 70 0.38% 2,931 15.83% 18,512
Warren 4,011 45.55% 4,642 52.72% 109 1.24% 43 0.49% -631 -7.17% 8,805
Washington 4,379 48.03% 4,619 50.66% 103 1.13% 17 0.19% -240 -2.63% 9,118
Wayne 3,778 50.70% 3,609 48.43% 39 0.52% 26 0.35% 169 2.27% 7,452
Webster 9,885 57.56% 6,494 37.81% 738 4.30% 57 0.33% 3,391 19.74% 17,174
Winnebago 3,133 52.86% 2,592 43.73% 182 3.07% 20 0.34% 541 9.13% 5,927
Winneshiek 5,980 53.48% 4,489 40.15% 682 6.10% 30 0.27% 1,491 13.34% 11,181
Woodbury 26,847 62.43% 14,157 32.92% 1,814 4.22% 184 0.43% 12,690 29.51% 43,002
Worth 2,976 59.71% 1,964 39.41% 37 0.74% 7 0.14% 1,012 20.30% 4,984
Wright 5,177 59.44% 3,311 38.01% 207 2.38% 15 0.17% 1,866 21.42% 8,710
Totals 621,756 54.41% 487,977 42.70% 29,687 2.60% 3,293 0.29% 133,779 11.71% 1,142,713

See also

References

  1. ^ "United States Presidential election of 1936 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  2. ^ "1936 Election for the Thirty-eighth Term (1937-41)". Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  3. ^ "1936 Presidential General Election Results - Iowa". Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  4. ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1936". Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  5. ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 196-199 ISBN 0786422173
  6. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  7. ^ "IA US President Race, November 03, 1936". Our Campaigns.
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