The 1936 US presidential election took place on November 3 during the Great Depression and on the eve of World War II . Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt still promoted his New Deal policy through Congress and the courts. However, he has already introduced a social insurance system and unemployment benefits , which have become very popular. The GOP candidate was a moderate politician, Kansas Governor Alfred Landon , who demanded the cancellation of the social insurance program as the central point of his election program [1] [2] . For the first time since the 1850s, when a two-party system was established in US politics. Roosevelt won the election with an overwhelming advantage in this system, receiving 523 out of 531 possible electoral votes.
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| US Presidential Election | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| November 3, 1936 | |||
| Voter turnout | 61.0% | ||
 |  | ||
| Candidate | Franklin Roosevelt | Alfred Landon | |
| The consignment | Democratic Party | Republican Party | |
| From | New York | Kansas | |
| Deputy | John Garner | Franklin Knox | |
| The number of votes of electors | 523 | eight | |
| Votes | 27,747,636 ( 60.8% ) | 12 679 543 (31.5%) | |
 Map of the results of the presidential election. The states that supported the Republicans are marked in red, the Democrats in blue. | |||
| Election result | Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected US President for a second term. | ||
Elections
Literary Digest magazine conducted public opinion polls before the presidential election in 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1932, as well as in 1936, and each time the forecast based on the survey turned out to be correct.
A survey conducted by the magazine in 1936 showed that a Republican candidate, Alfred Landon, is likely to win in most states and become the new president. This seemed quite possible, since shortly before the presidential election, Republicans won in several states in the election of governors and congressmen .
However, according to the election results, Landon received electoral votes from only 2 US states, in 46 states they preferred Roosevelt. Landon's electoral rating turned out to be minimal during the confrontation between the Democratic and Republican parties. The election results, due to radically inaccurate polls, led to the fact that soon, in 1938, the Literary Digest was closed [3]
| Candidate | The consignment | Voters | Electors | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| amount | % | |||
| Franklin Roosevelt | Democratic Party | 27 752 648 | 60.8% | 523 |
| Alfred Mossman Landon | Republican Party | 16 681 862 | 36.5% | eight |
| William Lemke | Unionist party | 892,378 | 2.0% | 0 |
| Norman Thomas | Socialist party | 187 910 | 0.4% | 0 |
| Earl Browder | Communist party | 79 315 | 0.2% | 0 |
| other | - | 53,586 | 0.1% | 0 |
| Total | 45 647 699 | 100 % | 531 | |
Links
- 1936 popular vote by counties
- How close was the 1936 election? - Michael Sheppard, Michigan State University