1932 United States presidential election in Alabama
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The 1932 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the nationwide presidential election. Alabama voters chose eleven representatives,[2] or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. In Alabama, voters voted for electors individually instead of as a slate, as in the other states.
Since the 1890s, Alabama had been effectively a one-party state ruled by the Democratic Party.
The 1920 election, aided by isolationism in Appalachia[7] and the whitening of the state GOP,[8] saw the Republicans gain their best presidential vote share in Alabama since 1884,[9] while the GOP even exceed forty percent in the House of Representatives races for the 4th, 7th and 10th congressional districts.[7] However, isolationist sentiment in Appalachia would ease after the election of Warren G. Harding[7] while funding issues meant the Republicans would not emulate their efforts in the rest of the decade.[10]
Then in 1928, a virtual “civil war” broke out in the state Democratic Party over the nomination of Al Smith,[11] as the hegemonic Democratic Party was placed in a quandary over the nomination of an urban, Catholic, racial liberal. The loyalists centred in the Black Belt supported Smith and the traditional Democratic Party as the best route to maintaining absolute white supremacy through encouraging capital investment, whereas the “Hoovercrats” led by former leaders of the Ku Klux Klan backed Republican Herbert Hoover and were intensely focused on nativism, Prohibition and Protestant fundamentalism.
After Smith narrowly carried the state, Hoovercrat leader
No campaigning was done in the state, and polls showed always that Democratic nominees Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and Speaker John Nance Garner would re-establish the large margins by which the state had been won before 1928. An early October poll showed Roosevelt leading incumbent President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis by a nine-to-two majority.[14] This poll underestimated the return of the Hoovercrats to the party, for Roosevelt won 84.74 percent of the vote to a mere 14.13 percent for Hoover.[15][16]
This remains the only time in history that any presidential candidate has won every single county in Alabama,[17] due to Roosevelt carrying Southern Unionist and reliably Republican Winston County by just a single vote.
Results
Results by county
County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic |
Herbert Clark Hoover Republican |
Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist |
William Zebulon Foster Communist |
William David Upshaw Prohibition |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Autauga | 1,322 | 89.81% | 138 | 9.38% | 11 | 0.75% | 1 | 0.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,184 | 80.43% | 1,472 |
Baldwin | 2,097 | 75.43% | 544 | 19.57% | 131 | 4.71% | 8 | 0.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,553 | 55.86% | 2,780 |
Barbour | 2,207 | 96.88% | 64 | 2.81% | 6 | 0.26% | 1 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,143 | 94.07% | 2,278 |
Bibb | 1,636 | 90.29% | 145 | 8.00% | 31 | 1.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,491 | 82.28% | 1,812 |
Blount | 2,232 | 77.99% | 582 | 20.34% | 43 | 1.50% | 5 | 0.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,650 | 57.65% | 2,862 |
Bullock | 1,004 | 98.72% | 12 | 1.18% | 1 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 992 | 97.54% | 1,017 |
Butler | 2,280 | 96.45% | 74 | 3.13% | 9 | 0.38% | 1 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,206 | 93.32% | 2,364 |
Calhoun | 4,392 | 85.98% | 685 | 13.41% | 28 | 0.55% | 3 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,707 | 72.57% | 5,108 |
Chambers | 2,552 | 87.85% | 342 | 11.77% | 7 | 0.24% | 4 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,210 | 76.08% | 2,905 |
Cherokee | 1,897 | 83.09% | 359 | 15.72% | 23 | 1.01% | 4 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,538 | 67.37% | 2,283 |
Chilton | 1,664 | 51.17% | 1,533 | 47.14% | 53 | 1.63% | 2 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 131 | 4.03% | 3,252 |
Choctaw | 1,533 | 96.90% | 48 | 3.03% | 1 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,485 | 93.87% | 1,582 |
Clarke | 2,408 | 97.69% | 53 | 2.15% | 3 | 0.12% | 1 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,355 | 95.54% | 2,465 |
Clay | 2,104 | 68.78% | 933 | 30.50% | 13 | 0.42% | 9 | 0.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,171 | 38.28% | 3,059 |
Cleburne | 1,403 | 77.43% | 405 | 22.35% | 2 | 0.11% | 2 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 998 | 55.08% | 1,812 |
Coffee | 2,868 | 96.73% | 95 | 3.20% | 1 | 0.03% | 1 | 0.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,773 | 93.52% | 2,965 |
Colbert | 2,908 | 89.64% | 312 | 9.62% | 24 | 0.74% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,596 | 80.02% | 3,244 |
Conecuh | 2,125 | 94.91% | 114 | 5.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,011 | 89.82% | 2,239 |
Coosa | 1,265 | 82.63% | 250 | 16.33% | 15 | 0.98% | 1 | 0.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,015 | 66.30% | 1,531 |
Covington | 3,855 | 97.15% | 99 | 2.49% | 10 | 0.25% | 4 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,756 | 94.66% | 3,968 |
Crenshaw | 2,248 | 93.20% | 127 | 5.27% | 3 | 0.12% | 30 | 1.24% | 4 | 0.17% | 2,121 | 87.94% | 2,412 |
Cullman | 2,910 | 73.78% | 956 | 24.24% | 71 | 1.80% | 7 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,954 | 49.54% | 3,944 |
Dale | 2,300 | 93.65% | 155 | 6.31% | 1 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,145 | 87.34% | 2,456 |
Dallas | 3,027 | 96.62% | 93 | 2.97% | 12 | 0.38% | 1 | 0.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,934 | 93.65% | 3,133 |
DeKalb | 4,217 | 54.13% | 3,496 | 44.88% | 73 | 0.94% | 4 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 721 | 9.26% | 7,790 |
Elmore | 3,197 | 87.88% | 159 | 4.37% | 7 | 0.19% | 275 | 7.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,922[a] | 80.32% | 3,638 |
Escambia | 2,024 | 92.67% | 157 | 7.19% | 3 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,867 | 85.49% | 2,184 |
Etowah | 5,167 | 82.08% | 1,066 | 16.93% | 62 | 0.98% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,101 | 65.15% | 6,295 |
Fayette | 2,013 | 72.70% | 733 | 26.47% | 19 | 0.69% | 4 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,280 | 46.23% | 2,769 |
Franklin | 2,876 | 64.53% | 1,547 | 34.71% | 34 | 0.76% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,329 | 29.82% | 4,457 |
Geneva | 2,559 | 90.33% | 270 | 9.53% | 1 | 0.04% | 3 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,289 | 80.80% | 2,833 |
Greene | 665 | 95.82% | 9 | 1.30% | 20 | 2.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 645[b] | 92.94% | 694 |
Hale | 1,276 | 94.59% | 70 | 5.19% | 1 | 0.07% | 2 | 0.15% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,206 | 89.40% | 1,349 |
Henry | 1,741 | 97.43% | 42 | 2.35% | 4 | 0.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,699 | 95.08% | 1,787 |
Houston | 3,863 | 95.83% | 157 | 3.89% | 7 | 0.17% | 2 | 0.05% | 2 | 0.05% | 3,706 | 91.94% | 4,031 |
Jackson | 3,112 | 76.69% | 938 | 23.11% | 8 | 0.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,174 | 53.57% | 4,058 |
Jefferson | 30,858 | 85.15% | 4,567 | 12.60% | 779 | 2.15% | 34 | 0.09% | 1 | 0.00% | 26,291 | 72.55% | 36,239 |
Lamar | 2,207 | 89.24% | 258 | 10.43% | 4 | 0.16% | 4 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,949 | 78.81% | 2,473 |
Lauderdale | 3,336 | 88.09% | 431 | 11.38% | 19 | 0.50% | 1 | 0.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,905 | 76.71% | 3,787 |
Lawrence | 1,920 | 86.53% | 299 | 13.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,621 | 73.05% | 2,219 |
Lee | 1,988 | 94.53% | 103 | 4.90% | 11 | 0.52% | 1 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,885 | 89.63% | 2,103 |
Limestone | 2,667 | 95.94% | 107 | 3.85% | 5 | 0.18% | 1 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,560 | 92.09% | 2,780 |
Lowndes | 1,073 | 98.35% | 18 | 1.65% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,055 | 96.70% | 1,091 |
Macon | 905 | 94.07% | 56 | 5.82% | 1 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 849 | 88.25% | 962 |
Madison | 4,795 | 88.76% | 559 | 10.35% | 45 | 0.83% | 3 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,236 | 78.42% | 5,402 |
Marengo | 2,097 | 95.45% | 50 | 2.28% | 50 | 2.28% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,047 | 93.17% | 2,197 |
Marion | 2,325 | 80.73% | 545 | 18.92% | 5 | 0.17% | 1 | 0.03% | 4 | 0.14% | 1,780 | 61.81% | 2,880 |
Marshall | 3,921 | 79.45% | 904 | 18.32% | 65 | 1.32% | 45 | 0.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,017 | 61.13% | 4,935 |
Mobile | 9,658 | 84.37% | 1,710 | 14.94% | 61 | 0.53% | 18 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 7,948 | 69.43% | 11,447 |
Monroe | 1,972 | 96.52% | 66 | 3.23% | 3 | 0.15% | 2 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,906 | 93.29% | 2,043 |
Montgomery | 10,066 | 95.57% | 441 | 4.19% | 18 | 0.17% | 8 | 0.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 9,625 | 91.38% | 10,533 |
Morgan | 4,896 | 86.62% | 656 | 11.61% | 31 | 0.55% | 69 | 1.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,240 | 75.02% | 5,652 |
Perry | 1,382 | 95.05% | 37 | 2.54% | 2 | 0.14% | 33 | 2.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,345 | 92.50% | 1,454 |
Pickens | 1,479 | 87.10% | 128 | 7.54% | 9 | 0.53% | 82 | 4.83% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,351 | 79.56% | 1,698 |
Pike | 2,545 | 97.92% | 52 | 2.00% | 1 | 0.04% | 1 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,493 | 95.92% | 2,599 |
Randolph | 2,227 | 74.09% | 767 | 25.52% | 10 | 0.33% | 2 | 0.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,460 | 48.57% | 3,006 |
Russell | 1,894 | 97.28% | 46 | 2.36% | 5 | 0.26% | 2 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,848 | 94.92% | 1,947 |
Shelby | 2,365 | 72.48% | 864 | 26.48% | 33 | 1.01% | 1 | 0.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,501 | 46.00% | 3,263 |
St. Clair | 2,185 | 59.46% | 1,449 | 39.43% | 38 | 1.03% | 3 | 0.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 736 | 20.03% | 3,675 |
Sumter | 1,293 | 98.03% | 26 | 1.97% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,267 | 96.06% | 1,319 |
Talladega | 3,353 | 84.33% | 617 | 15.52% | 4 | 0.10% | 2 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,736 | 68.81% | 3,976 |
Tallapoosa | 3,391 | 95.87% | 138 | 3.90% | 6 | 0.17% | 2 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,253 | 91.97% | 3,537 |
Tuscaloosa | 5,322 | 94.08% | 302 | 5.34% | 28 | 0.49% | 4 | 0.07% | 1 | 0.02% | 5,020 | 88.74% | 5,657 |
Walker | 4,734 | 74.31% | 1,583 | 24.85% | 44 | 0.69% | 10 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,151 | 49.46% | 6,371 |
Washington | 1,307 | 94.10% | 81 | 5.83% | 1 | 0.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,226 | 88.26% | 1,389 |
Wilcox | 1,358 | 98.33% | 23 | 1.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,335 | 96.67% | 1,381 |
Winston | 1,006 | 49.83% | 1,005 | 49.78% | 7 | 0.35% | 1 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.05% | 2,019 |
Totals | 207,910 | 84.76% | 34,675 | 14.14% | 2,030 | 0.83% | 675 | 0.28% | 13 | 0.01% | 173,235 | 70.62% | 245,303 |
See also
Notes
- ^ In this county where Foster ran second ahead of Hoover, margin given is Roosevelt vote minus Foster vote and percentage margin Roosevelt percentage minus Foster percentage.
- ^ In this county where Thomas ran second ahead of Hoover, margin given is Roosevelt vote minus Thomas vote and percentage margin Roosevelt percentage minus Thomas percentage.
References
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1932 — Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ^ "1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37)". Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ISBN 9780807849095.
- The Journal of Southern History. 59 (4): 707–736.
- ^ ISBN 9781107158436.
- ISBN 0817300481.
- ^ ISBN 0870000586.
- ^ Heersink and Jenkins, Republican Party Politics and the American South, p. 19
- ^ Leip, Dave. "Presidential General Election Results Comparison — Alabama". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ See "G.O.P. Funds Are Reported Short: Forces "Counted On" Disappoint Republican Political Managers". The Birmingham News. Birmingham, Alabama. August 19, 1922. p. 5.
- ISBN 9780817351342.
- ^ Lewinson, Paul (1965). Race, class and party; a history of Negro suffrage and white politics in the South. pp. 167–168.
- ISBN 070061687X.
- ^ "Roosevelt Takes Bigger Lead in Digest Ballot: Has Total to date of 404,992 to 325,845 for Hoover with twenty States Represented". Kennebec Journal. Augusta, Maine. October 7, 1932. p. 3.
- ^ "1932 Presidential General Election Results — Alabama". Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project — Election of 1932". Retrieved January 16, 2019.
- ISBN 0313257957.
- ^ Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1935. Wetumpka, Alabama: Wetumpka Printing Company. pp. 501–511.
- ^ "AL US President Race, November 08, 1932". Our Campaigns.