1932 United States presidential election in Kansas explained

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Election Name:	1932 United States presidential election in Kansas
Country:	Kansas
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1928 United States presidential election in Kansas
Previous Year:	1928
Next Election:	1936 United States presidential election in Kansas
Next Year:	1936
Election Date:	November 8, 1932
Image1:	FDR in 1933 (3x4).jpg
Nominee1:	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Party1:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1:	New York
Running Mate1:	John Nance Garner
Electoral Vote1:	9
Popular Vote1:	424,204
Percentage1:	53.56%
Nominee2:	Herbert Hoover
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:	California
Running Mate2:	Charles Curtis
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	349,498
Percentage2:	44.13%
Map Size:	300px
President
Before Election:	Herbert Hoover
Before Party:	Republican Party (United States)
After Election:	Franklin D. Roosevelt
After Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
Flag Year:	1927

The 1932 United States presidential election in Kansas was held on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election held throughout all forty-eight contemporary states. State voters chose nine electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-president.

Kansas had been a powerfully Republican state during the 1920s (as it had been during its first quarter-century of statehood), although it did not possess the isolationist sentiment found in Appalachia or the Upper Midwest.^[1] In 1928 large-scale anti-Catholic voting swept a state substantially part of the Ozark “Bible Belt”, so that whereas Kansas had been less anti-Democratic than more northerly Plains states in 1920 and 1924, it became Herbert Hoover’s best state in the entire nation at the next election cycle.

However, Hoover's first term saw disaster on two fronts for the Great Plains: the economic calamity of the Great Depression was combined with a major drought in the region from 1930 onwards. Consequently, agricultural states like Kansas, which had already been hit by declining prices during the 1920s, were severely affected by a wave of foreclosures and outmigration.^[2] Roosevelt, despite the strong Republican bent of the state, saw a major opportunity in the Plains States, visiting Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota extensively during his campaign in September.^[3] Outside of the prosperous Northeast,^[4] Hoover's attempts at apologetics were a complete failure,^[5] with the result that Roosevelt carried every state west of the Appalachians. Kansas – the home state of incumbent Vice-president Curtis – was Hoover's strongest state west of the Mississippi, but he still lost ninety-one counties and almost twenty-eight percent of the vote vis-à-vis his overwhelming triumph against Smith in 1928.

This remains the only occasion ever in which the Democratic presidential nominee has carried Chautauqua County.^[6], this also remains the last time that the following counties have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Jefferson, Clay, Coffey, Dickinson, Elk, Jackson, Jewell, Linn, Logan, Marshall, Norton, Phillips, Pottawatomie, Republic, Smith, Wabaunsee, Wallace, Washington, Wilson and Woodson.^[7]

Results

Results by county

1932 United States presidential election in Kansas by county^[8]
County	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic		Herbert Clark Hoover Republican		Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%
	Allen		4,249		47.55%		4,510		50.47%		177		1.98%		-261		-2.92%		8,936
	Anderson		3,580		58.92%		2,408		39.63%		88		1.45%		1,172		19.29%		6,076
	Atchison		5,640		53.33%		4,778		45.18%		157		1.48%		862		8.15%		10,575
	Barber		2,321		56.78%		1,671		40.88%		96		2.35%		650		15.90%		4,088
	Barton		4,776		57.98%		3,365		40.85%		97		1.18%		1,411		17.13%		8,238
	Bourbon		5,577		55.58%		4,277		42.62%		181		1.80%		1,300		12.95%		10,035
	Brown		3,604		41.57%		5,005		57.73%		60		0.69%		-1,401		-16.16%		8,669
	Butler		7,447		53.22%		6,116		43.70%		431		3.08%		1,331		9.51%		13,994
	Chase		1,703		52.71%		1,485		45.96%		43		1.33%		218		6.75%		3,231
	Chautauqua		2,263		51.90%		1,893		43.42%		204		4.68%		370		8.49%		4,360
	Cherokee		7,442		62.64%		4,045		34.05%		393		3.31%		3,397		28.59%		11,880
	Cheyenne		1,716		60.66%		979		34.61%		134		4.74%		737		26.05%		2,829
	Clark		1,152		54.70%		938		44.54%		16		0.76%		214		10.16%		2,106
	Clay		3,289		49.90%		3,115		47.26%		187		2.84%		174		2.64%		6,591
	Cloud		4,457		57.05%		3,120		39.94%		235		3.01%		1,337		17.11%		7,812
	Coffey		3,389		54.80%		2,707		43.77%		88		1.42%		682		11.03%		6,184
	Comanche		1,175		54.60%		945		43.91%		32		1.49%		230		10.69%		2,152
	Cowley		8,681		50.69%		7,657		44.71%		788		4.60%		1,024		5.98%		17,126
	Crawford		10,994		59.75%		6,884		37.41%		523		2.84%		4,110		22.34%		18,401
	Decatur		2,422		61.02%		1,439		36.26%		108		2.72%		983		24.77%		3,969
	Dickinson		5,339		49.21%		5,320		49.04%		190		1.75%		19		0.18%		10,849
	Doniphan		2,532		47.34%		2,748		51.37%		69		1.29%		-216		-4.04%		5,349
	Douglas		4,833		38.60%		7,346		58.67%		342		2.73%		-2,513		-20.07%		12,521
	Edwards		1,693		52.94%		1,420		44.40%		85		2.66%		273		8.54%		3,198
	Elk		2,239		55.19%		1,746		43.04%		72		1.77%		493		12.15%		4,057
	Ellis		4,449		74.52%		1,465		24.54%		56		0.94%		2,984		49.98%		5,970
	Ellsworth		2,928		63.68%		1,607		34.95%		63		1.37%		1,321		28.73%		4,598
	Finney		2,300		51.11%		2,116		47.02%		84		1.87%		184		4.09%		4,500
	Ford		4,442		55.42%		3,335		41.61%		238		2.97%		1,107		13.81%		8,015
	Franklin		4,690		48.14%		4,887		50.16%		165		1.69%		-197		-2.02%		9,742
	Geary		2,705		56.55%		1,957		40.92%		121		2.53%		748		15.64%		4,783
	Gove		1,186		52.02%		1,043		45.75%		51		2.24%		143		6.27%		2,280
	Graham		2,082		60.10%		1,284		37.07%		98		2.83%		798		23.04%		3,464
	Grant		737		62.88%		395		33.70%		40		3.41%		342		29.18%		1,172
	Gray		1,348		58.18%		910		39.27%		59		2.55%		438		18.90%		2,317
	Greeley		440		52.26%		359		42.64%		43		5.11%		81		9.62%		842
	Greenwood		4,002		51.66%		3,592		46.37%		153		1.97%		410		5.29%		7,747
	Hamilton		1,021		57.52%		651		36.68%		103		5.80%		370		20.85%		1,775
	Harper		2,860		55.59%		2,116		41.13%		169		3.28%		744		14.46%		5,145
	Harvey		4,091		48.09%		4,192		49.28%		224		2.63%		-101		-1.19%		8,507
	Haskell		639		56.75%		456		40.50%		31		2.75%		183		16.25%		1,126
	Hodgeman		988		53.15%		847		45.56%		24		1.29%		141		7.58%		1,859
	Jackson		3,442		50.63%		3,271		48.11%		86		1.26%		171		2.52%		6,799
	Jefferson		3,185		50.79%		2,974		47.42%		112		1.79%		211		3.36%		6,271
	Jewell		3,367		48.83%		3,324		48.20%		205		2.97%		43		0.62%		6,896
	Johnson		6,485		49.52%		6,487		49.53%		124		0.95%		-2		-0.02%		13,096
	Kearny		771		56.73%		529		38.93%		59		4.34%		242		17.81%		1,359
	Kingman		3,050		60.22%		1,923		37.97%		92		1.82%		1,127		22.25%		5,065
	Kiowa		1,159		46.36%		1,306		52.24%		35		1.40%		-147		-5.88%		2,500
	Labette		7,667		55.74%		5,794		42.12%		294		2.14%		1,873		13.62%		13,755
	Lane		866		55.26%		672		42.88%		29		1.85%		194		12.38%		1,567
	Leavenworth		9,507		59.00%		6,484		40.24%		123		0.76%		3,023		18.76%		16,114
	Lincoln		2,297		56.70%		1,653		40.80%		101		2.49%		644		15.90%		4,051
	Linn		3,216		54.02%		2,647		44.46%		90		1.51%		569		9.56%		5,953
	Logan		1,025		52.32%		867		44.26%		67		3.42%		158		8.07%		1,959
	Lyon		6,365		49.90%		6,044		47.38%		347		2.72%		321		2.52%		12,756
	Marion		4,366		56.59%		3,220		41.74%		129		1.67%		1,146		14.85%		7,715
	Marshall		5,970		56.62%		4,455		42.25%		119		1.13%		1,515		14.37%		10,544
	McPherson		5,003		53.35%		4,098		43.70%		276		2.94%		905		9.65%		9,377
	Meade		1,231		48.83%		1,248		49.50%		42		1.67%		-17		-0.67%		2,521
	Miami		4,739		55.62%		3,667		43.04%		114		1.34%		1,072		12.58%		8,520
	Mitchell		3,176		54.21%		2,502		42.70%		181		3.09%		674		11.50%		5,859
	Montgomery		9,941		48.88%		9,958		48.96%		440		2.16%		-17		-0.08%		20,339
	Morris		2,452		47.48%		2,566		49.69%		146		2.83%		-114		-2.21%		5,164
	Morton		1,093		60.96%		621		34.63%		79		4.41%		472		26.32%		1,793
	Nemaha		4,578		58.69%		3,167		40.60%		55		0.71%		1,411		18.09%		7,800
	Neosho		5,616		56.36%		4,212		42.27%		137		1.37%		1,404		14.09%		9,965
	Ness		1,772		53.63%		1,409		42.65%		123		3.72%		363		10.99%		3,304
	Norton		2,705		52.58%		2,272		44.16%		168		3.27%		433		8.42%		5,145
	Osage		4,199		51.43%		3,707		45.40%		259		3.17%		492		6.03%		8,165
	Osborne		2,231		45.35%		2,555		51.94%		133		2.70%		-324		-6.59%		4,919
	Ottawa		2,505		54.95%		1,884		41.32%		170		3.73%		621		13.62%		4,559
	Pawnee		2,451		55.17%		1,889		42.52%		103		2.32%		562		12.65%		4,443
	Phillips		3,007		56.45%		2,165		40.64%		155		2.91%		842		15.81%		5,327
	Pottawatomie		3,910		53.23%		3,339		45.45%		97		1.32%		571		7.77%		7,346
	Pratt		3,109		57.61%		2,167		40.15%		121		2.24%		942		17.45%		5,397
	Rawlins		2,245		65.59%		1,064		31.08%		114		3.33%		1,181		34.50%		3,423
	Reno		9,351		49.29%		8,972		47.30%		647		3.41%		379		2.00%		18,970
	Republic		4,105		59.61%		2,655		38.55%		127		1.84%		1,450		21.05%		6,887
	Rice		3,037		48.22%		3,107		49.33%		154		2.45%		-70		-1.11%		6,298
	Riley		4,101		42.00%		5,337		54.65%		327		3.35%		-1,236		-12.66%		9,765
	Rooks		2,229		51.57%		2,005		46.39%		88		2.04%		224		5.18%		4,322
	Rush		2,275		60.28%		1,433		37.97%		66		1.75%		842		22.31%		3,774
	Russell		2,723		58.80%		1,805		38.98%		103		2.22%		918		19.82%		4,631
	Saline		7,118		55.73%		5,265		41.22%		389		3.05%		1,853		14.51%		12,772
	Scott		1,092		62.47%		595		34.04%		61		3.49%		497		28.43%		1,748
	Sedgwick		29,344		55.79%		21,815		41.48%		1,435		2.73%		7,529		14.32%		52,594
	Seward		1,576		53.03%		1,297		43.64%		99		3.33%		279		9.39%		2,972
	Shawnee		16,471		44.35%		19,847		53.44%		823		2.22%		-3,376		-9.09%		37,141
	Sheridan		1,773		65.50%		878		32.43%		56		2.07%		895		33.06%		2,707
	Sherman		2,110		61.09%		1,112		32.19%		232		6.72%		998		28.89%		3,454
	Smith		3,155		51.14%		2,870		46.52%		144		2.33%		285		4.62%		6,169
	Stafford		2,651		56.19%		1,945		41.23%		122		2.59%		706		14.96%		4,718
	Stanton		598		58.40%		412		40.23%		14		1.37%		186		18.16%		1,024
	Stevens		1,225		65.86%		578		31.08%		57		3.06%		647		34.78%		1,860
	Sumner		6,353		54.68%		4,926		42.40%		340		2.93%		1,427		12.28%		11,619
	Thomas		2,103		61.17%		1,158		33.68%		177		5.15%		945		27.49%		3,438
	Trego		1,751		64.40%		918		33.76%		50		1.84%		833		30.64%		2,719
	Wabaunsee		2,465		50.70%		2,304		47.39%		93		1.91%		161		3.31%		4,862
	Wallace		761		54.63%		561		40.27%		71		5.10%		200		14.36%		1,393
	Washington		4,234		55.32%		3,324		43.43%		95		1.24%		910		11.89%		7,653
	Wichita		732		64.27%		375		32.92%		32		2.81%		357		31.34%		1,139
	Wilson		4,001		52.53%		3,422		44.93%		193		2.53%		579		7.60%		7,616
	Woodson		2,119		51.96%		1,842		45.17%		117		2.87%		277		6.79%		4,078
	Wyandotte		32,629		55.47%		25,471		43.30%		721		1.23%		7,158		12.17%		58,821
Totals	424,204	53.56%	349,498	44.13%	18,276	2.31%	74,706	9.43%	791,978

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• • Jefferson Greeley
• Jewell
• Wabaunsee
• Logan
• Washington
• Wallace
  • • • • • • • • • Smith Phillips Clay Dickinson Marshall Leavenworth Jackson Osage Miami Norton
    • Linn Woodson Wilson
  • Neosho Gove
  • Coffey Chautauqua
• Anderson
• Elk
  • Pottawatomie Republic
  • Atchison Barton
• Barber
  • Bourbon Butler
    • • Chase Cheyenne Cloud Cowley
• Comanche
• Decatur
• Edwards
• Wyandotte
• Ellsworth
  • Ford Finney
• Geary
• Grant
• Gray
• Graham
• Greenwood
• Harper
• Hamilton
• Haskell
• Harvey
• Hodgeman
• Kearny
• Kingman
• Kiowa
  • • • Labette Lane Lincoln Lyon
      • Marion McPherson Meade Mitchell
• Morris
• Morton
  • Nemaha Ness
• Ottawa
  • • • Pawnee Pratt Rawlins Rice
    • Reno Rooks Rush
• Russell
  • • • • • • • Saline Scott Seward Shawnee Sherman Sheridan Stafford Stanton
• Stevens
• Thomas
• Wichita
  • Trego Sumner
    • Crawford Cherokee Clark
• Sedgewick

See also

• United States presidential elections in Kansas

Notes and References

1. Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 420-426
2. Burns, James Macgregor; The Crosswinds of Freedom, 1932-1988;
3. Grant, Phillip A.; ‘Establishing a Two-Party System: The 1932 Presidential Election in South Dakota’; Presidential Studies Quarterly, volume 10, no. 1: “Politicizing the Presidency”, 1789-1980 (Winter, 1980), pp. 73-77
4. Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 44
5. Carcasson, Martin; ‘Herbert Hoover and the Presidential Campaign of 1932: The Failure of Apologia’, Presidential Studies Quarterly, volume 28, No. 2, “The Buck Stops Here: Decision Making in the Oval” (Spring, 1998), pp. 349-365
6. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 199-206
7. Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
8. Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 165-166