1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana explained

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Election Name:1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Country:Louisiana
Flag Year:1912
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:1928 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Previous Year:1928
Next Election:1936 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Next Year:1936
Votes For Election:All 10 Louisiana votes to the Electoral College
Election Date:November 8, 1932[1]
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 Vote1:10
Popular Vote1:249,418
Percentage1:92.79%
Nominee2:Herbert Hoover
Party2:Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:California
Running Mate2:Charles Curtis
Electoral Vote2:0
Popular Vote2:18,853
Percentage2:7.01%
Map Size:350px
President
Before Election:Herbert Hoover
Before Party:Republican Party (United States)
After Election:Franklin D. Roosevelt
After Party:Democratic Party (United States)

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

Ever since the passage of a new constitution in 1898, Louisiana had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party became moribund due to the disenfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as Louisiana completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.[3] Despite this absolute single-party dominance, non-partisan tendencies remained strong among wealthy sugar planters in Acadiana and within the business elite of New Orleans.[4]

Until the rise of Huey P. Long, post-disenfranchisement Louisiana politics was dominated by the New Orleans-based “Choctaw Club”,[5] which overcame Socialist, Wobbly, and Progressive challenges from the outlying upcountry, Imperial Calcasieu and Acadiana regions between the late 1900s and early 1920s.[6] The three presidential elections between 1916 and 1924 saw a rebellion in Acadiana over sugar tariffs and Woodrow Wilson’s foreign and domestic policies; however, the nomination of Catholic Al Smith in 1928 rapidly restored their Democratic loyalty without causing significant upheaval in the remainder of the state, which was too focused on control of black labor to worry about Smith’s Catholicism.[7] The effects of the Great Depression were extremely severe in the South,[8] which had the highest unemployment rate in the nation. Many Southerners blamed this on the North and on Wall Street, rejecting Hoover’s claim that the Depression’s causes were exogenous,[9] and this ensured that the previous decades Acadiana revolts would not be repeated.

Louisiana was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 92.79 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 7.01 percent of the popular vote.[10] [11]

By percentage of the popular vote won, Louisiana was Roosevelt's third-best state, behind only South Carolina and Mississippi.

Results

Results by parish

1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parish[12] ! rowspan="2"
Parish
Democratic
Republican
Margin
data-sort-type="number" data-sort-type="number" %%%data-sort-type="number" data-sort-type="number" %
Acadia3,58391.08%3518.92%3,23282.16%3,934
Allen2,07593.93%1305.89%40.18%1,94588.05%2,209
Ascension1,80086.58%27913.42%1,52173.16%2,079
Assumption1,53879.94%38620.06%1,15259.88%1,924
Avoyelles3,14896.03%1303.97%3,01892.07%3,278
Beauregard2,31994.08%1465.92%2,17388.15%2,465
Bienville2,67198.45%411.51%10.04%2,63096.94%2,713
Bossier2,19197.51%562.49%2,13595.02%2,247
Caddo12,15989.71%1,3099.66%850.63%10,85080.06%13,553
Calcasieu6,10589.71%6789.96%220.32%5,42779.75%6,805
Caldwell1,44893.96%865.58%70.45%1,36288.38%1,541
Cameron93898.95%101.05%92897.89%948
Catahoula1,34097.88%292.12%1,31195.76%1,369
Claiborne2,76597.84%612.16%2,70495.68%2,826
Concordia99998.04%201.96%97996.07%1,019
2,41696.45%873.47%20.08%2,32992.97%2,505
6,36385.51%1,04514.04%330.44%5,31871.47%7,441
75196.90%243.10%72793.81%775
1,17894.77%655.23%1,11389.54%1,243
Evangeline3,11598.36%521.64%3,06396.72%3,167
Franklin2,93097.34%782.59%20.07%2,85294.75%3,010
Grant1,96696.00%813.96%10.05%1,88592.04%2,048
Iberia2,41275.14%79824.86%1,61450.28%3,210
Iberville1,30875.26%43024.74%87850.52%1,738
Jackson1,74898.09%341.91%1,71496.18%1,782
Jefferson7,39593.90%4665.92%140.18%6,92987.99%7,875
2,30881.73%51218.13%40.14%1,79663.60%2,824
Lafayette4,01993.21%2916.75%20.05%3,72886.46%4,312
Lafourche2,62387.78%36412.18%10.03%2,25975.60%2,988
LaSalle1,73893.64%1176.30%10.05%1,62187.34%1,856
Lincoln1,90892.13%1637.87%1,74584.26%2,071
Livingston1,95395.64%894.36%1,86491.28%2,042
Madison54889.11%6710.89%48178.21%615
Morehouse2,01496.04%833.96%1,93192.08%2,097
Natchitoches3,45895.18%1734.76%20.06%3,28590.42%3,633
Orleans85,28893.87%5,4075.95%1650.18%79,88187.92%90,860
Ouachita5,96892.86%4236.58%360.56%5,54586.28%6,427
Plaquemines1,91898.06%381.94%1,88096.11%1,956
1,02794.05%655.95%96288.10%1,092
Rapides7,57891.77%6808.23%6,89883.53%8,258
1,66198.34%241.42%40.24%1,63796.92%1,689
Richland1,77397.42%462.53%10.05%1,72794.89%1,820
Sabine3,00896.16%1103.52%100.32%2,89892.65%3,128
1,52593.50%1066.50%1,41987.00%1,631
1,42994.08%865.66%40.26%1,34388.41%1,519
96297.37%262.63%93694.74%988
1,71587.72%24012.28%1,47575.45%1,955
79979.58%17617.53%292.89%62362.05%1,004
3,76692.69%2977.31%3,46985.38%4,063
1,42092.99%1077.01%1,31385.99%1,527
2,07281.41%47318.59%1,59962.83%2,545
3,20694.60%1785.25%50.15%3,02889.35%3,389
Tangipahoa4,40490.58%4559.36%30.06%3,94981.22%4,862
Tensas63595.49%294.36%10.15%60691.13%665
Terrebonne2,12690.82%2159.18%1,91181.63%2,341
Union2,28597.52%582.48%2,22795.05%2,343
Vermilion2,94591.63%2698.37%2,67683.26%3,214
Vernon2,86896.60%461.55%551.85%2,82295.05%2,969
Washington3,99793.37%2836.61%10.02%3,71486.76%4,281
Webster3,02097.64%732.36%2,94795.28%3,093
59386.07%9613.93%49772.13%689
1,47197.94%312.06%1,44095.87%1,502
55791.91%498.09%50883.83%606
Winn2,17296.71%361.60%381.69%2,13695.10%2,246
Totals249,41892.79%18,8537.01%5330.20%230,56585.77%268,804

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: United States Presidential election of 1932 — Encyclopædia Britannica. January 20, 2019.
  2. Web site: 1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37). January 20, 2019.
  3. Book: [[Kevin Phillips (political commentator)|Phillips]], Kevin P.. The Emerging Republican Majority. 208, 210. 9780691163246.
  4. Schott. Matthew J.. Progressives against Democracy: Electoral Reform in Louisiana, 1894-1921. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 20. 3. Summer 1979. 247–260.
  5. Book: Wall. Bennett H.. Rodriguez. John C.. Louisiana: A History. 274–275. 1118619293.
  6. Collin. Richard H.. Theodore Roosevelt's Visit to New Orleans and the Progressive Campaign of 1914. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 12. 1. Winter 1971. 5–19.
  7. Barbara C.. Wingo. The 1928 Presidential Election in Louisiana. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 18. 4. Autumn 1977. 405–435. Louisiana Historical Association.
  8. Book: Lewinson, Paul. Race, class and party; a history of Negro suffrage and white politics in the South. 1965. 167–168.
  9. Book: Ritchie, Donald A.. Electing FDR: the New Deal campaign of 1932. 143. 2007. Lawrence, Kansas. University Press of Kansas. 070061687X.
  10. Web site: 1932 Presidential General Election Results — Louisiana. January 20, 2019.
  11. Web site: The American Presidency Project — Election of 1932. January 20, 2019.
  12. Web site: LA US President Race, November 08, 1932. Our Campaigns.

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