1936 United States presidential election in Iowa

1936 United States presidential election in Iowa
All 11 Iowa votes to the Electoral College
Roosevelt 40-50% 50-60% 60-70%	Landon 40-50% 50-60%
President before election; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Democratic	Elected President ; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Democratic

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]

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
County^[7]	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	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

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

References

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

[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

[How-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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