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| Election Name: | 1936 United States presidential election in Connecticut |
| Country: | Connecticut |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1932 United States presidential election in Connecticut |
| Previous Year: | 1932 |
| Next Election: | 1940 United States presidential election in Connecticut |
| Next Year: | 1940 |
| Election Date: | November 3, 1936 |
| Image1: | FDR in 1933 (cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | New York |
| Running Mate1: | John Nance Garner |
| Electoral Vote1: | 8 |
| Popular Vote1: | 382,129 |
| Percentage1: | 55.32% |
| Nominee2: | Alf Landon |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Kansas |
| Running Mate2: | Frank Knox |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 278,685 |
| Percentage2: | 40.35% |
| Map Size: | 250px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 1936 United States presidential election in Connecticut was held on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. The state voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Connecticut voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won the state by a margin of 14.97%.
As of 2020, this remains the last election in which Connecticut voted to the left of neighboring Rhode Island or to the right of Nebraska. Roosevelt was the first Democrat to carry the state since 1912, the first to carry it with a majority of the popular vote since Grover Cleveland in 1892, and the first to carry Tolland County since 1852.
| 1936 United States presidential election in Connecticut (by county) [1] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | Roosevelt % | Roosevelt # | Landon % | Landon # | Others % | Others # | Total # |
| Fairfield | 54.7% | 87,329 | 42.5% | 67,846 | 2.8% | 4,446 | 159,621 |
| Hartford | 59.1% | 103,450 | 37.5% | 65,652 | 3.3% | 5,812 | 174,914 |
| Litchfield | 47.2% | 17,468 | 50.9% | 18,850 | 1.9% | 688 | 37,006 |
| Middlesex | 52.4% | 12,294 | 46.6% | 10,925 | 1.0% | 236 | 23,455 |
| New Haven | 57.9% | 117,308 | 37.8% | 76,614 | 4.2% | 8,524 | 202,446 |
| New London | 52.8% | 24,999 | 45.1% | 21,367 | 2.1% | 992 | 47,358 |
| Tolland | 51.2% | 6,676 | 45.8% | 5,965 | 3.0% | 390 | 13,031 |
| Windham | 50.9% | 12,605 | 46.3% | 11,466 | 2.9% | 717 | 24,788 |