1932 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
November 8, 1932[1]
All 8 Washington votes to the Electoral College
 
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York California
Running mate John Nance Garner Charles Curtis
Electoral vote 8 0
Popular vote 353,260 208,645
Percentage 57.46% 33.94%
County Results
Roosevelt
  40-50%
  50-60%
  60-70%
  70-80%

President before election

Herbert Hoover
Republican

 Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The 1932 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Outside a few Presidential and gubernatorial elections, Washington was a virtually one-party Republican state during the “System of 1896”,[3] where the only competition was via Republican primaries.[4] Apart from Woodrow Wilson’s two elections, during the first of which the GOP was severely divided, no Democrat after William Jennings Bryan in 1900 carried a single county in the state until Al Smith won German Catholic Ferry County in 1928.

However, since the 1928 election when Washington state had been won by more than 36 percentage points, the United States had fallen into the Great Depression, which had been particularly severe in the rural western parts of the nation.[5] The New Deal was especially popular in the Pacific States,[6] and as a result Roosevelt was assured of carrying the state.

Washington state was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 57.46 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 33.94 percent of the popular vote.[7] Roosevelt flipped every county won by his rival Hoover in 1928, becoming the first Democrat to sweep every county in Washington state – a feat he would repeat in 1936 but which has never been emulated since. He was the first-ever Democratic victor in the southwestern logging counties of Klickitat, Lewis and Pacific,[8] and also in inland Benton County and Chelan County.[8]

Results

Presidential Candidate Running Mate Party Electoral Vote (EV) Popular Vote (PV)[7]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York John Nance Garner Democratic 8 353,260 57.46%
Herbert Hoover Charles Curtis Republican 0 208,645 33.94%
William Hope Harvey Frank Hemenway Liberty 0 30,308 4.93%
Norman Thomas James H. Maurer Socialist 0 17,080 2.78%
William Z. Foster James W. Ford Communist 0 2,972 0.48%
William Upshaw Frank Regan Prohibition 0 1,540 0.25%
Verne L. Reynolds John W. Aiken Socialist Labor 0 1,009 0.16%

Results by county

County Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic		 Herbert Clark Hoover
Republican		 William Hope Harvey[9]
Liberty		 Norman Mattoon Thomas[9]
Socialist		 Various candidates
Other parties		 Margin Total votes cast[10]
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Adams 1,504 61.89% 867 35.68% 8 0.33% 43 1.77% 8 0.33% 637 26.21% 2,430
Asotin 1,994 65.33% 960 31.45% 16 0.52% 58 1.90% 24 0.79% 1,034 33.88% 3,052
Benton 2,633 57.28% 1,694 36.85% 143 3.11% 89 1.94% 38 0.83% 939 20.43% 4,597
Chelan 7,316 52.79% 5,584 40.29% 808 5.83% 109 0.79% 42 0.30% 1,732 12.50% 13,859
Clallam 3,954 52.46% 1,870 24.81% 1,542 20.46% 92 1.22% 79 1.05% 2,084 27.65% 7,537
Clark 9,104 60.05% 4,901 32.33% 727 4.80% 302 1.99% 126 0.83% 4,203 27.72% 15,160
Columbia 1,491 64.88% 714 31.07% 4 0.17% 63 2.74% 26 1.13% 777 33.81% 2,298
Cowlitz 5,443 48.98% 3,767 33.90% 1,666 14.99% 167 1.50% 70 0.63% 1,676 15.08% 11,113
Douglas 1,941 57.73% 1,179 35.07% 165 4.91% 66 1.96% 11 0.33% 762 22.67% 3,362
Ferry 1,035 71.63% 322 22.28% 37 2.56% 44 3.04% 7 0.48% 713 49.34% 1,445
Franklin 1,540 62.27% 838 33.89% 12 0.49% 72 2.91% 11 0.44% 702 28.39% 2,473
Garfield 818 54.32% 669 44.42% 10 0.66% 1 0.07% 8 0.53% 149 9.89% 1,506
Grant 1,376 57.10% 840 34.85% 111 4.61% 71 2.95% 12 0.50% 536 22.24% 2,410
Grays Harbor 10,310 55.92% 5,141 27.89% 2,579 13.99% 136 0.74% 270 1.46% 5,169 28.04% 18,436
Island 1,517 56.99% 803 30.17% 270 10.14% 49 1.84% 23 0.86% 714 26.82% 2,662
Jefferson 1,994 61.03% 952 29.14% 266 8.14% 39 1.19% 16 0.49% 1,042 31.89% 3,267
King 108,738 59.09% 63,346 34.42% 4,004 2.18% 6,547 3.56% 1,396 0.76% 45,392 24.67% 184,031
Kitsap 10,002 70.57% 3,465 24.45% 361 2.55% 237 1.67% 108 0.76% 6,537 46.12% 14,173
Kittitas 4,266 63.82% 1,963 29.37% 281 4.20% 97 1.45% 77 1.15% 2,303 34.46% 6,684
Klickitat 2,155 59.15% 1,335 36.65% 29 0.80% 71 1.95% 53 1.45% 820 22.51% 3,643
Lewis 8,454 54.21% 4,647 29.80% 2,305 14.78% 87 0.56% 101 0.65% 3,807 24.41% 15,594
Lincoln 2,725 59.30% 1,748 38.04% 23 0.50% 79 1.72% 20 0.44% 977 21.26% 4,595
Mason 2,181 55.89% 995 25.50% 675 17.30% 39 1.00% 12 0.31% 1,186 30.39% 3,902
Okanogan 3,969 57.13% 2,277 32.78% 578 8.32% 89 1.28% 34 0.49% 1,692 24.36% 6,947
Pacific 3,099 55.46% 1,737 31.08% 612 10.95% 65 1.16% 75 1.34% 1,362 24.37% 5,588
Pend Oreille 1,772 64.18% 855 30.97% 8 0.29% 113 4.09% 13 0.47% 917 33.21% 2,761
Pierce 38,451 58.86% 19,006 29.09% 5,183 7.93% 2,084 3.19% 603 0.92% 19,445 29.77% 65,327
San Juan 786 52.37% 607 40.44% 90 6.00% 12 0.80% 6 0.40% 179 11.93% 1,501
Skagit 8,395 60.45% 4,246 30.57% 592 4.26% 163 1.17% 492 3.54% 4,149 29.87% 13,888
Skamania 934 63.89% 444 30.37% 20 1.37% 53 3.63% 11 0.75% 490 33.52% 1,462
Snohomish 18,352 59.27% 9,310 30.07% 1,936 6.25% 1,052 3.40% 313 1.01% 9,042 29.20% 30,963
Spokane 36,953 56.74% 24,848 38.15% 268 0.41% 2,610 4.01% 446 0.68% 12,105 18.59% 65,125
Stevens 4,262 60.94% 2,247 32.13% 93 1.33% 331 4.73% 61 0.87% 2,015 28.81% 6,994
Thurston 6,308 45.97% 4,241 30.91% 2,876 20.96% 132 0.96% 165 1.20% 2,067 15.06% 13,722
Wahkiakum 730 53.52% 442 32.40% 161 11.80% 14 1.03% 17 1.25% 288 21.11% 1,364
Walla Walla 5,578 52.75% 4,653 44.00% 15 0.14% 275 2.60% 54 0.51% 925 8.75% 10,575
Whatcom 11,355 50.44% 9,254 41.11% 414 1.84% 1,015 4.51% 473 2.10% 2,101 9.33% 22,511
Whitman 5,945 53.99% 4,727 42.93% 18 0.16% 261 2.37% 60 0.54% 1,218 11.06% 11,011
Yakima 13,880 51.70% 11,151 41.54% 1,402 5.22% 253 0.94% 160 0.60% 2,729 10.17% 26,846
Totals353,26057.46%208,64533.94%30,3084.93%17,0802.78%5,5210.90%144,61523.52%614,814

See also

References

  1. ↑ "United States Presidential election of 1932 – Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ "1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37)". Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ Burnham, Walter Dean; ‘The System of 1896’, in Kleppner, Paul (editor), The Evolution of American Electoral Systems, pp. 176-179 ISBN 0313213798
  4. ↑ Murray, Keith; ‘Issues and Personalities of Pacific Northwest Politics, 1889-1950’, The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3 (July 1950), pp. 213-233
  5. ↑ Davies, Richard O.; ‘The Politics of Desperation: William A. Hirth and the Presidential Election of 1932’; Agricultural History, vol. 38, no. 4 (October 1964), pp. 226-234
  6. ↑ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 485 ISBN 9780691163246
  7. 1 2 "1932 Presidential General Election Results – Washington". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
  8. 1 2 Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 332 ISBN 0786422173
  9. 1 2 Géoelections; 1932 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15 on request)
  10. ↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 488 ISBN 0405077114
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