1936 United States presidential election in Arkansas
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The 1936 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (running with Vice President John Nance Garner of Texas) carried Arkansas in a landslide, taking 81.8% of the state's vote to Republican Alf Landon's 17.86%.[2] Even amidst a national Democratic landslide โ in which Roosevelt carried every state except Vermont and Maine and earned more than 60% of the national popular vote โ Arkansas weighed in as nearly 40% more Democratic than the nation at-large.
This was typical of the time; with the exception of the
The 1920s did see a minor change in this, as increased voting by poor Ozark whites as a protest against Woodrow Wilson's internationalist foreign policy meant that
The following years saw Arkansas plunge into the Great Depression, followed almost immediately by a major drought from the summer of 1930s until the winter of 1931/1932.[6] This came on top of a long depression in agriculture, which was still the dominant player in Arkansasโ economy and was backed up by the โGreat Migrationโ of the state's agricultural labor force to northeastern and midwestern cities.[7] Arkansas gave extremely heavy support to Democrat Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, when he garnered more than 86% of ballots and swept every county in the state,[8] becoming the first Democrat to win Searcy County since before the Civil War and only the second to win adjacent Newton County.[9]
Throughout his first term as President, Roosevelt was extremely popular in the โSolid Southโ[10] and despite embryonic concerns over loss of Southern control of the national party due to abolition of the โtwo-thirdsโ rule[11] and some hostility to FDR's repeal of Prohibition[12] he was overwhelmingly and in many places almost unanimously supported by Arkansasโ limited electorate. Ozark Republican Landon did regain the two Unionist and Prohibitionist Ozark counties, but topped 40% in only two of the remaining seventy-three. Nonetheless, the 1936 results in Arkansas were about 10% less Democratic than that of 1932, despite the nation as a whole shifting somewhat to the left. As of 2020, this remains the last time that a presidential candidate has won more than 80% of the vote in Arkansas.
Results
Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
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Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic | New York | 146,765 | 81.80% | 9 | John Nance Garner | Texas | 9 |
Alf Landon | Republican | Kansas | 32,039 | 17.86% | 0 | Frank Knox | Illinois | 0 |
Norman Thomas | Socialist | New York | 446 | 0.25% | 0 | George A. Nelson | Wisconsin | 0 |
Earl Browder | Communist | Kansas | 169 | 0.09% | 0 | James W. Ford | Alabama | 0 |
William Lemke | Write-in | North Dakota | 4 | 0.00% | 0 | Thomas C. O'Brien | Massachusetts | 0 |
Total | 179,423 | 100% | 9 | 9 | ||||
Needed to win | 266 | 266 |
Results by county
County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic |
Alfred Mossman Landon Republican |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Arkansas | 2,008 | 85.19% | 341 | 14.47% | 8 | 0.34% | 1,667 | 70.73% | 2,357 |
Ashley | 1,382 | 93.57% | 95 | 6.43% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,287 | 87.14% | 1,477 |
Baxter | 773 | 66.93% | 375 | 32.47% | 7 | 0.61% | 398 | 34.46% | 1,155 |
Benton | 2,418 | 58.77% | 1,672 | 40.64% | 24 | 0.58% | 746 | 18.13% | 4,114 |
Boone | 2,386 | 69.20% | 1,052 | 30.51% | 10 | 0.29% | 1,334 | 38.69% | 3,448 |
Bradley | 1,571 | 95.97% | 65 | 3.97% | 1 | 0.06% | 1,506 | 92.00% | 1,637 |
Calhoun | 704 | 95.78% | 30 | 4.08% | 1 | 0.14% | 674 | 91.70% | 735 |
Carroll | 1,649 | 63.55% | 940 | 36.22% | 6 | 0.23% | 709 | 27.32% | 2,595 |
Chicot | 1,145 | 93.78% | 75 | 6.14% | 1 | 0.08% | 1,070 | 87.63% | 1,221 |
Clark | 1,962 | 90.71% | 193 | 8.92% | 8 | 0.37% | 1,769 | 81.78% | 2,163 |
Clay | 1,778 | 68.94% | 795 | 30.83% | 6 | 0.23% | 983 | 38.12% | 2,579 |
Cleburne | 927 | 72.93% | 336 | 26.44% | 8 | 0.63% | 591 | 46.50% | 1,271 |
Cleveland | 1,088 | 95.77% | 45 | 3.96% | 3 | 0.26% | 1,043 | 91.81% | 1,136 |
Columbia | 1,847 | 96.65% | 64 | 3.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,783 | 93.30% | 1,911 |
Conway | 2,013 | 86.77% | 305 | 13.15% | 2 | 0.09% | 1,708 | 73.62% | 2,320 |
Craighead | 3,335 | 82.02% | 710 | 17.46% | 21 | 0.52% | 2,625 | 64.56% | 4,066 |
Crawford | 1,963 | 73.47% | 697 | 26.09% | 12 | 0.45% | 1,266 | 47.38% | 2,672 |
Crittenden | 1,858 | 98.83% | 22 | 1.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,836 | 97.66% | 1,880 |
Cross | 1,644 | 91.49% | 133 | 7.40% | 20 | 1.11% | 1,511 | 84.08% | 1,797 |
Dallas | 1,433 | 93.29% | 103 | 6.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,330 | 86.59% | 1,536 |
Desha | 1,411 | 96.12% | 55 | 3.75% | 2 | 0.14% | 1,356 | 92.37% | 1,468 |
Drew | 1,229 | 94.47% | 70 | 5.38% | 2 | 0.15% | 1,159 | 89.09% | 1,301 |
Faulkner | 2,521 | 82.82% | 511 | 16.79% | 12 | 0.39% | 2,010 | 66.03% | 3,044 |
Franklin | 1,890 | 84.11% | 345 | 15.35% | 12 | 0.53% | 1,545 | 68.76% | 2,247 |
Fulton | 946 | 68.25% | 437 | 31.53% | 3 | 0.22% | 509 | 36.72% | 1,386 |
Garland | 2,931 | 70.07% | 1,217 | 29.09% | 35 | 0.84% | 1,714 | 40.98% | 4,183 |
Grant | 978 | 86.86% | 147 | 13.06% | 1 | 0.09% | 831 | 73.80% | 1,126 |
Greene | 1,811 | 81.25% | 412 | 18.48% | 6 | 0.27% | 1,399 | 62.76% | 2,229 |
Hempstead | 2,431 | 92.68% | 190 | 7.24% | 2 | 0.08% | 2,241 | 85.44% | 2,623 |
Hot Spring | 1,581 | 77.77% | 444 | 21.84% | 8 | 0.39% | 1,137 | 55.93% | 2,033 |
Howard | 1,437 | 83.69% | 275 | 16.02% | 5 | 0.29% | 1,162 | 67.68% | 1,717 |
Independence | 2,101 | 75.25% | 685 | 24.53% | 6 | 0.21% | 1,416 | 50.72% | 2,792 |
Izard | 1,350 | 76.44% | 416 | 23.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 934 | 52.89% | 1,766 |
Jackson | 2,151 | 86.77% | 327 | 13.19% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,824 | 73.58% | 2,479 |
Jefferson | 3,414 | 93.66% | 224 | 6.15% | 7 | 0.19% | 3,190 | 87.52% | 3,645 |
Johnson | 1,432 | 80.81% | 318 | 17.95% | 22 | 1.24% | 1,114 | 62.87% | 1,772 |
Lafayette | 1,279 | 92.55% | 100 | 7.24% | 3 | 0.22% | 1,179 | 85.31% | 1,382 |
Lawrence | 2,230 | 82.50% | 457 | 16.91% | 16 | 0.59% | 1,773 | 65.59% | 2,703 |
Lee | 1,257 | 94.87% | 66 | 4.98% | 2 | 0.15% | 1,191 | 89.89% | 1,325 |
Lincoln | 913 | 95.90% | 39 | 4.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 874 | 91.81% | 952 |
Little River | 1,056 | 84.14% | 192 | 15.30% | 7 | 0.56% | 864 | 68.84% | 1,255 |
Logan | 2,663 | 77.41% | 770 | 22.38% | 7 | 0.20% | 1,893 | 55.03% | 3,440 |
Lonoke | 2,735 | 89.76% | 310 | 10.17% | 2 | 0.07% | 2,425 | 79.59% | 3,047 |
Madison | 1,679 | 53.02% | 1,484 | 46.86% | 4 | 0.13% | 195 | 6.16% | 3,167 |
Marion | 989 | 68.68% | 435 | 30.21% | 16 | 1.11% | 554 | 38.47% | 1,440 |
Miller | 2,689 | 89.01% | 323 | 10.69% | 9 | 0.30% | 2,366 | 78.32% | 3,021 |
Mississippi | 4,835 | 93.94% | 303 | 5.89% | 9 | 0.17% | 4,532 | 88.05% | 5,147 |
Monroe | 1,102 | 92.84% | 82 | 6.91% | 3 | 0.25% | 1,020 | 85.93% | 1,187 |
Montgomery | 1,034 | 68.07% | 465 | 30.61% | 20 | 1.32% | 569 | 37.46% | 1,519 |
Nevada | 1,252 | 85.69% | 204 | 13.96% | 5 | 0.34% | 1,048 | 71.73% | 1,461 |
Newton | 938 | 47.11% | 1,053 | 52.89% | 0 | 0.00% | -115 | -5.78% | 1,991 |
Ouachita | 2,808 | 91.47% | 262 | 8.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,546 | 82.93% | 3,070 |
Perry | 899 | 78.31% | 249 | 21.69% | 0 | 0.00% | 650 | 56.62% | 1,148 |
Phillips | 2,259 | 95.60% | 94 | 3.98% | 10 | 0.42% | 2,165 | 91.62% | 2,363 |
Pike | 994 | 77.78% | 283 | 22.14% | 1 | 0.08% | 711 | 55.63% | 1,278 |
Poinsett | 3,457 | 85.38% | 563 | 13.90% | 29 | 0.72% | 2,894 | 71.47% | 4,049 |
Polk | 1,170 | 67.44% | 537 | 30.95% | 28 | 1.61% | 633 | 36.48% | 1,735 |
Pope | 2,678 | 88.38% | 348 | 11.49% | 4 | 0.13% | 2,330 | 76.90% | 3,030 |
Prairie | 1,321 | 82.25% | 282 | 17.56% | 3 | 0.19% | 1,039 | 64.69% | 1,606 |
Pulaski | 11,482 | 89.49% | 1,320 | 10.29% | 28 | 0.22% | 10,162 | 79.20% | 12,830 |
Randolph | 1,693 | 80.24% | 414 | 19.62% | 3 | 0.14% | 1,279 | 60.62% | 2,110 |
St. Francis | 1,938 | 94.72% | 94 | 4.59% | 14 | 0.68% | 1,844 | 90.13% | 2,046 |
Saline | 1,520 | 79.87% | 359 | 18.86% | 24 | 1.26% | 1,161 | 61.01% | 1,903 |
Scott | 1,137 | 75.70% | 363 | 24.17% | 2 | 0.13% | 774 | 51.53% | 1,502 |
Searcy | 767 | 43.14% | 1,010 | 56.81% | 1 | 0.06% | -243 | -13.67% | 1,778 |
Sebastian | 4,539 | 79.35% | 1,161 | 20.30% | 20 | 0.35% | 3,378 | 59.06% | 5,720 |
Sevier | 1,200 | 80.00% | 289 | 19.27% | 11 | 0.73% | 911 | 60.73% | 1,500 |
Sharp | 934 | 75.63% | 289 | 23.40% | 12 | 0.97% | 645 | 52.23% | 1,235 |
Stone | 521 | 67.49% | 248 | 32.12% | 3 | 0.39% | 273 | 35.36% | 772 |
Union | 4,141 | 93.94% | 254 | 5.76% | 13 | 0.29% | 3,887 | 88.18% | 4,408 |
Van Buren | 1,422 | 72.22% | 541 | 27.48% | 6 | 0.30% | 881 | 44.74% | 1,969 |
Washington | 3,378 | 67.87% | 1,579 | 31.73% | 20 | 0.40% | 1,799 | 36.15% | 4,977 |
White | 2,503 | 82.20% | 535 | 17.57% | 7 | 0.23% | 1,968 | 64.63% | 3,045 |
Woodruff | 1,473 | 84.70% | 253 | 14.55% | 13 | 0.75% | 1,220 | 70.16% | 1,739 |
Yell | 2,382 | 88.22% | 318 | 11.78% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,064 | 76.44% | 2,700 |
Totals | 146,765 | 81.79% | 32,049 | 17.86% | 617 | 0.34% | 114,716 | 63.93% | 179,431 |
See also
References
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1936 โ Encyclopรฆdia Britannica". Retrieved November 23, 2017.
- ^ "1936 Presidential General Election Results โ Arkansas".
- ISBN 1557282005.
- ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6.
- ISBN 168226016X.
- ISBN 155728993X.
- ^ Whayne, DeBlack, Sabo and Arnold. Arkansas, pp. 313-316
- ISBN 0813148723.
- ISBN 0786422173.
- ISBN 0807151424.
- ISBN 0807849103.
- ^ Menendez. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, p. 64
- ISBN 0405077114