1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
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The 1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 8, 1932 as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Pennsylvania voted for the Republican nominee, President Herbert Hoover, over the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hoover won Pennsylvania by a margin of 5.51%. With 50.84% of the popular vote, Pennsylvania would be Hoover's third strongest state in the nation after Vermont and Maine.[1]
Pennsylvania was one of only six states – along with Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont – which voted to re-elect the embattled Hoover, who was widely unpopular over his failure to adequately address the Great Depression.
This is the last election where the Republican candidate carried
1932 was the third most recent election in which Pennsylvania did not vote the same as neighboring New York,[3] a phenomenon that has only been repeated twice since in 1988 and 2016. It is also the third most recent election where Pennsylvania voted for a different candidate than Michigan, another phenomenon that has only been repeated twice since (in 1940 and 1976). This was the last time that the state would vote Republican while neighboring New Jersey voted Democratic until 2016.
Results
1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[4] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Republican | Herbert Hoover (incumbent) | 1,453,540 | 50.84% | 36 | |
Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1,295,948 | 45.33% | 0 | |
Socialist | Norman Thomas | 91,223 | 3.19% | 0 | |
Prohibition | William Upshaw
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11,369 | 0.40% | 0 | |
Communist | William Z. Foster | 5,659 | 0.20% | 0 | |
Jobless | James Cox | 726 | 0.03% | 0 | |
Industrialist | Verne L. Reynolds | 659 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Totals | 2,858,247 | 100.00% | 36 |
Results by county
County | Herbert Clark Hoover Republican |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic |
Norman Mattoon Thomas[5] Socialist |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast[6] | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adams | 6,084 | 45.09% | 7,185 | 53.25% | 158 | 1.17% | 67 | 0.50% | -1,101 | -8.16% | 13,494 |
Allegheny | 152,326 | 42.43% | 189,839 | 52.88% | 14,777 | 4.12% | 2,061 | 0.57% | -37,513 | -10.45% | 359,003 |
Armstrong | 10,884 | 52.10% | 9,230 | 44.18% | 483 | 2.31% | 293 | 1.40% | 1,654 | 7.92% | 20,890 |
Beaver | 19,751 | 47.87% | 19,805 | 48.00% | 1,325 | 3.21% | 379 | 0.92% | -54 | -0.13% | 41,260 |
Bedford | 6,597 | 54.29% | 5,075 | 41.76% | 350 | 2.88% | 130 | 1.07% | 1,522 | 12.52% | 12,152 |
Berks | 27,073 | 37.07% | 29,763 | 40.76% | 15,988 | 21.89% | 199 | 0.27% | -2,690 | -3.68% | 73,023 |
Blair | 19,553 | 56.95% | 13,709 | 39.93% | 840 | 2.45% | 232 | 0.68% | 5,844 | 17.02% | 34,334 |
Bradford | 11,521 | 63.34% | 5,970 | 32.82% | 562 | 3.09% | 135 | 0.74% | 5,551 | 30.52% | 18,188 |
Bucks | 22,331 | 59.07% | 14,135 | 37.39% | 1,203 | 3.18% | 138 | 0.37% | 8,196 | 21.68% | 37,807 |
Butler | 11,543 | 54.77% | 8,717 | 41.36% | 535 | 2.54% | 280 | 1.33% | 2,826 | 13.41% | 21,075 |
Cambria | 21,351 | 41.75% | 28,197 | 55.13% | 1,245 | 2.43% | 352 | 0.69% | -6,846 | -13.39% | 51,145 |
Cameron | 1,438 | 64.31% | 748 | 33.45% | 36 | 1.61% | 14 | 0.63% | 690 | 30.86% | 2,236 |
Carbon | 9,918 | 48.52% | 9,874 | 48.30% | 604 | 2.95% | 45 | 0.22% | 44 | 0.22% | 20,441 |
Centre | 8,264 | 52.55% | 7,053 | 44.85% | 244 | 1.55% | 165 | 1.05% | 1,211 | 7.70% | 15,726 |
Chester | 29,425 | 69.21% | 12,040 | 28.32% | 879 | 2.07% | 173 | 0.41% | 17,385 | 40.89% | 42,517 |
Clarion | 5,991 | 46.05% | 6,651 | 51.12% | 211 | 1.62% | 158 | 1.21% | -660 | -5.07% | 13,011 |
Clearfield | 10,500 | 46.84% | 11,029 | 49.20% | 675 | 3.01% | 213 | 0.95% | -529 | -2.36% | 22,417 |
Clinton | 4,851 | 54.54% | 3,741 | 42.06% | 244 | 2.74% | 58 | 0.65% | 1,110 | 12.48% | 8,894 |
Columbia | 8,791 | 44.43% | 10,640 | 53.77% | 186 | 0.94% | 170 | 0.86% | -1,849 | -9.34% | 19,787 |
Crawford | 10,918 | 51.72% | 9,382 | 44.44% | 505 | 2.39% | 306 | 1.45% | 1,536 | 7.28% | 21,111 |
Cumberland | 13,098 | 50.86% | 12,086 | 46.93% | 257 | 1.00% | 310 | 1.20% | 1,012 | 3.93% | 25,751 |
Dauphin | 36,278 | 60.31% | 22,412 | 37.26% | 1,098 | 1.83% | 364 | 0.61% | 13,866 | 23.05% | 60,152 |
Delaware | 75,291 | 68.19% | 32,413 | 29.36% | 2,372 | 2.15% | 333 | 0.30% | 42,878 | 38.84% | 110,409 |
Elk | 5,797 | 46.39% | 6,461 | 51.70% | 184 | 1.47% | 55 | 0.44% | -664 | -5.31% | 12,497 |
Erie | 18,371 | 45.43% | 19,592 | 48.44% | 2,027 | 5.01% | 452 | 1.12% | -1,221 | -3.02% | 40,442 |
Fayette | 15,903 | 35.26% | 27,662 | 61.33% | 1,222 | 2.71% | 319 | 0.71% | -11,759 | -26.07% | 45,106 |
Forest | 1,090 | 63.34% | 569 | 33.06% | 27 | 1.57% | 35 | 2.03% | 521 | 30.27% | 1,721 |
Franklin | 10,992 | 52.96% | 9,338 | 44.99% | 266 | 1.28% | 161 | 0.78% | 1,654 | 7.97% | 20,757 |
Fulton | 1,410 | 41.83% | 1,921 | 56.99% | 15 | 0.44% | 25 | 0.74% | -511 | -15.16% | 3,371 |
Greene | 4,808 | 33.41% | 9,322 | 64.77% | 111 | 0.77% | 152 | 1.06% | -4,514 | -31.36% | 14,393 |
Huntingdon | 7,371 | 66.39% | 3,426 | 30.86% | 181 | 1.63% | 125 | 1.13% | 3,945 | 35.53% | 11,103 |
Indiana | 12,727 | 57.24% | 8,606 | 38.70% | 625 | 2.81% | 277 | 1.25% | 4,121 | 18.53% | 22,235 |
Jefferson | 8,246 | 52.48% | 6,570 | 41.81% | 697 | 4.44% | 200 | 1.27% | 1,676 | 10.67% | 15,713 |
Juniata | 2,752 | 48.44% | 2,805 | 49.38% | 40 | 0.70% | 84 | 1.48% | -53 | -0.93% | 5,681 |
Lackawanna | 34,632 | 45.24% | 40,793 | 53.28% | 865 | 1.13% | 270 | 0.35% | -6,161 | -8.05% | 76,560 |
Lancaster | 34,502 | 56.54% | 24,406 | 40.00% | 1,757 | 2.88% | 354 | 0.58% | 10,096 | 16.55% | 61,019 |
Lawrence | 13,064 | 55.10% | 9,390 | 39.61% | 883 | 3.72% | 372 | 1.57% | 3,674 | 15.50% | 23,709 |
Lebanon | 10,487 | 58.97% | 5,924 | 33.31% | 1,256 | 7.06% | 117 | 0.66% | 4,563 | 25.66% | 17,784 |
Lehigh | 21,169 | 46.95% | 21,939 | 48.65% | 1,858 | 4.12% | 127 | 0.28% | -770 | -1.71% | 45,093 |
Luzerne | 52,672 | 45.44% | 60,975 | 52.60% | 1,943 | 1.68% | 338 | 0.29% | -8,303 | -7.16% | 115,928 |
Lycoming | 16,212 | 55.43% | 11,499 | 39.31% | 1,164 | 3.98% | 375 | 1.28% | 4,713 | 16.11% | 29,250 |
McKean | 9,970 | 65.01% | 4,661 | 30.39% | 607 | 3.96% | 97 | 0.63% | 5,309 | 34.62% | 15,335 |
Mercer | 14,057 | 53.53% | 10,961 | 41.74% | 827 | 3.15% | 413 | 1.57% | 3,096 | 11.79% | 26,258 |
Mifflin | 5,525 | 58.95% | 3,654 | 38.99% | 121 | 1.29% | 72 | 0.77% | 1,871 | 19.96% | 9,372 |
Monroe | 4,659 | 41.60% | 6,357 | 56.76% | 143 | 1.28% | 40 | 0.36% | -1,698 | -15.16% | 11,199 |
Montgomery | 64,619 | 64.00% | 32,971 | 32.66% | 3,168 | 3.14% | 203 | 0.20% | 31,648 | 31.35% | 100,961 |
Montour | 2,159 | 44.24% | 2,677 | 54.86% | 30 | 0.61% | 14 | 0.29% | -518 | -10.61% | 4,880 |
Northampton | 20,779 | 45.04% | 24,009 | 52.04% | 1,148 | 2.49% | 197 | 0.43% | -3,230 | -7.00% | 46,133 |
Northumberland | 17,982 | 42.35% | 23,114 | 54.43% | 1,265 | 2.98% | 103 | 0.24% | -5,132 | -12.09% | 42,464 |
Perry | 4,402 | 53.23% | 3,733 | 45.14% | 66 | 0.80% | 68 | 0.82% | 669 | 8.09% | 8,269 |
Philadelphia | 331,092 | 54.54% | 260,276 | 42.88% | 13,038 | 2.15% | 2,608 | 0.43% | 70,816 | 11.67% | 607,014 |
Pike | 1,649 | 46.36% | 1,844 | 51.84% | 57 | 1.60% | 7 | 0.20% | -195 | -5.48% | 3,557 |
Potter | 3,847 | 58.53% | 2,271 | 34.55% | 384 | 5.84% | 71 | 1.08% | 1,576 | 23.98% | 6,573 |
Schuylkill | 32,492 | 46.88% | 35,023 | 50.53% | 1,405 | 2.03% | 385 | 0.56% | -2,531 | -3.65% | 69,305 |
Snyder | 3,423 | 59.37% | 2,176 | 37.74% | 97 | 1.68% | 70 | 1.21% | 1,247 | 21.63% | 5,766 |
Somerset | 11,857 | 58.56% | 7,919 | 39.11% | 339 | 1.67% | 134 | 0.66% | 3,938 | 19.45% | 20,249 |
Sullivan | 1,457 | 46.77% | 1,602 | 51.42% | 35 | 1.12% | 21 | 0.67% | -145 | -4.65% | 3,115 |
Susquehanna | 6,884 | 55.99% | 5,171 | 42.06% | 168 | 1.37% | 72 | 0.59% | 1,713 | 13.93% | 12,295 |
Tioga | 9,583 | 75.00% | 3,004 | 23.51% | 119 | 0.93% | 72 | 0.56% | 6,579 | 51.49% | 12,778 |
Union | 3,534 | 61.63% | 1,948 | 33.97% | 187 | 3.26% | 65 | 1.13% | 1,586 | 27.66% | 5,734 |
Venango | 12,230 | 64.07% | 6,174 | 32.34% | 308 | 1.61% | 376 | 1.97% | 6,056 | 31.73% | 19,088 |
Warren | 7,872 | 57.24% | 5,254 | 38.20% | 476 | 3.46% | 151 | 1.10% | 2,618 | 19.04% | 13,753 |
Washington | 21,447 | 40.82% | 28,934 | 55.07% | 1,556 | 2.96% | 599 | 1.14% | -7,487 | -14.25% | 52,536 |
Wayne | 6,215 | 61.47% | 3,666 | 36.26% | 160 | 1.58% | 70 | 0.69% | 2,549 | 25.21% | 10,111 |
Westmoreland | 30,426 | 37.73% | 45,436 | 56.34% | 3,988 | 4.94% | 801 | 0.99% | -15,010 | -18.61% | 80,651 |
Wyoming | 3,968 | 58.00% | 2,728 | 39.88% | 84 | 1.23% | 61 | 0.89% | 1,240 | 18.13% | 6,841 |
York | 25,430 | 44.33% | 29,313 | 51.10% | 1,549 | 2.70% | 1,073 | 1.87% | -3,883 | -6.77% | 57,365 |
Totals | 1,464,533 | 51.24% | 1,284,235 | 44.93% | 91,223 | 3.19% | 18,256 | 0.64% | 180,298 | 6.31% | 2,858,247 |
See also
- List of United States presidential elections in Pennsylvania
References
- ^ "1932 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ "Historical Presidential Elections". 270toWin. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
- ^ David Leip. "1932 Presidential General Election Results – Pennsylvania". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- ^ Géoelections; 1932 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15 on request)
- ISBN 9780804716963