1936 United States presidential election in Nebraska explained

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Election Name:1936 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Country:Nebraska
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:1932 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Previous Year:1932
Next Election:1940 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Next Year:1940
Votes For Election:All 7 Nebraska votes to the Electoral College
Election Date:November 3, 1936[1]
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 Vote1:7
Popular Vote1:347,445
Percentage1:57.14%
Nominee2:Alf Landon
Party2:Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:Kansas
Running Mate2:Frank Knox
Electoral Vote2:0
Popular Vote2:247,731
Percentage2:40.74%
Map Size:400px
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 Nebraska took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Nebraska was won by the incumbent Democratic President, Franklin Roosevelt from New York, running with Vice President John Nance Garner, with 57.14% of the popular vote, against the Republican nominee, Governor of Kansas Alf Landon, running with Frank Knox, with 40.74% of the popular vote.[3] [4] Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 16.4%, a significantly reduced margin from his 27.7% victory over Herbert Hoover just 4 years earlier in 1932, thus making Nebraska one of the sole states to trend Republican in 1936, an election that would otherwise represent a sea of blue, with Roosevelt winning one of the largest landslides in American history and the largest ever for a Democrat. With its 7 electoral votes, Nebraska would weigh in as 7.9% more Republican than the rest of the nation.

Key to Roosevelt's victory were his margins in the rural counties, where he ran up massive margins among farmers, as his New Deal programs were popular among voters who believed they were responsible for easing The Great Depression. Additionally, Nebraska had been hard hit by the Dust Bowl, a period of severe dust storms and droughts that greatly damaged the agriculture economy in the state. Indeed, Roosevelt's margins in these counties have been unmatched by any Democrat presidential nominee since.

However, even with his sizable victory, cracks in Roosevelt's favorability in rural communities were evident, as Nebraska trended to the right by 11.3%, an unusually large shift given the heavily Democratic national environment, with Roosevelt increasing his victory margin and Democrats expanding their supermajorities in Congress. This can likely be attributed to controversial parts of The New Deal which required farmers to destroy extra parts of their food supply if they overproduced, oftentimes causing food shortages and forcing America to import food from other countries, raising prices.[5] Most evident of Roosevelt's decreasing popularity in these parts of the state was that Landon flipped 13 counties that had voted Democratic in 1932, those being: Antelope, Arthur, Brown, Furnas, Garden, Garfield, Hamilton, Hooker, Loup, McPherson, Rock, Valley, and York. Roosevelt did, however, flip the urban Lancaster County, and his victory there would mark the last time the county would vote for the Democratic nominee until Lyndon Johnson's 1964 landslide.

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time in which Nebraska's 3rd congressional district selected the Democratic nominee for president. This is also the last occasion when the following counties have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Boyd, Burt, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne, Cuming, Custer, Dawes, Dawson, Deuel, Dodge, Dundy, Frontier, Gosper, Grant, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Holt, Keith, Kimball, Knox, Madison, Merrick, Morrill, Pawnee, Perkins, Phelps, Pierce, Red Willow, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, Sioux, Stanton, Thomas and Wayne.[6] [7]

Results

Results by county

County[8] Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic
Alfred Mossman Landon
Republican
William Frederick Lemke
Union
MarginTotal votes cast
data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%data-sort-type="number"data-sort-type="number"%
Adams6,12657.68%4,09438.55%4013.78%2,03219.13%10,621
Antelope3,16547.44%3,30449.52%2033.04%-139-2.08%6,672
Arthur23542.73%31256.73%30.55%-77-14.00%550
Banner36756.46%27742.62%60.92%9013.85%650
Blaine36550.98%34247.77%91.26%233.21%716
Boone3,09551.37%2,72845.28%2023.35%3676.09%6,025
Box Butte2,90062.19%1,71136.69%521.12%1,18925.50%4,663
Boyd1,55553.62%1,29044.48%551.90%2659.14%2,900
Brown1,18845.03%1,41953.79%311.18%-231-8.76%2,638
Buffalo6,00254.70%4,59541.88%3753.42%1,40712.82%10,972
Burt3,12052.87%2,71045.92%711.20%4106.95%5,901
Butler4,36062.95%2,44235.26%1241.79%1,91827.69%6,926
Cass4,92256.93%3,66942.44%540.62%1,25314.49%8,645
Cedar3,78155.66%2,39435.24%6189.10%1,38720.42%6,793
Chase1,49357.71%1,03139.85%632.44%46217.86%2,587
Cherry2,01051.03%1,87447.58%551.40%1363.45%3,939
Cheyenne2,95066.41%1,37430.93%1182.66%1,57635.48%4,442
Clay2,93249.54%2,85648.26%1302.20%761.28%5,918
Colfax3,21063.25%1,64432.39%2214.35%1,56630.86%5,075
Cuming3,11453.32%2,27538.96%4517.72%83914.37%5,840
Custer5,90751.39%5,25045.67%3382.94%6575.72%11,495
Dakota2,74164.01%1,26429.52%2776.47%1,47734.49%4,282
Dawes2,78454.35%2,08340.67%2554.98%70113.69%5,122
Dawson4,02152.21%3,57346.39%1081.40%4485.82%7,702
Deuel1,02056.42%74741.32%412.27%27315.10%1,808
Dixon2,64054.21%2,10843.29%1222.51%53210.92%4,870
Dodge6,31755.71%4,56140.22%4614.07%1,75615.49%11,339
Douglas70,24565.60%35,34933.01%1,4821.38%34,89632.59%107,076
Dundy1,32855.15%1,05443.77%261.08%27411.38%2,408
Fillmore3,15452.03%2,85847.15%500.82%2964.88%6,062
Franklin2,35056.42%1,68540.46%1303.12%66515.97%4,165
Frontier1,88353.66%1,57644.91%501.42%3078.75%3,509
Furnas2,48245.76%2,84252.40%1001.84%-360-6.64%5,424
Gage7,22756.70%5,29141.51%2271.78%1,93615.19%12,745
Garden98649.13%99649.63%251.25%-10-0.50%2,007
Garfield69747.22%74450.41%352.37%-47-3.18%1,476
Gosper1,11862.70%64736.29%181.01%47126.42%1,783
Grant32154.41%26745.25%20.34%549.15%590
Greeley1,98856.40%1,10731.40%43012.20%88124.99%3,525
Hall6,29553.30%5,14643.57%3693.12%1,1499.73%11,810
Hamilton2,65348.69%2,74850.43%480.88%-95-1.74%5,449
Harlan2,08454.64%1,69244.36%381.00%39210.28%3,814
Hayes81855.20%65444.13%100.67%16411.07%1,482
Hitchcock1,73857.08%1,28542.20%220.72%45314.88%3,045
Holt3,90250.26%3,71447.84%1481.91%1882.42%7,764
Hooker19139.63%28859.75%30.62%-97-20.12%482
Howard3,14870.05%1,22327.21%1232.74%1,92542.83%4,494
Jefferson4,52659.37%3,04839.98%500.66%1,47819.39%7,624
Johnson2,35952.13%2,12646.98%400.88%2335.15%4,525
Kearney2,44565.89%1,21432.71%521.40%1,23133.17%3,711
Keith2,00063.45%1,09434.71%581.84%90628.74%3,152
Keya Paha55639.91%83059.58%70.50%-274-19.67%1,393
Kimball1,13755.95%84241.44%532.61%29514.52%2,032
Knox4,44958.67%2,94938.89%1852.44%1,50019.78%7,583
Lancaster22,36650.71%20,90247.39%8381.90%1,4643.32%44,106
Lincoln6,74262.45%3,85735.73%1971.82%2,88526.72%10,796
Logan45652.17%41046.91%80.92%465.26%874
Loup33542.57%43855.65%141.78%-103-13.09%787
Madison6,04453.30%5,14945.41%1471.30%8957.89%11,340
McPherson25042.81%32655.82%81.37%-76-13.01%584
Merrick2,40149.13%2,36748.43%1192.44%340.70%4,887
Morrill1,99958.73%1,35439.78%511.50%64518.95%3,404
Nance2,01252.52%1,77046.20%491.28%2426.32%3,831
Nemaha3,45955.77%2,72043.86%230.37%73911.92%6,202
Nuckolls2,77853.72%2,31744.81%761.47%4618.92%5,171
Otoe4,17348.33%4,39950.95%620.72%-226-2.62%8,634
Pawnee2,29752.16%2,07447.09%330.75%2235.06%4,404
Perkins1,58464.39%86135.00%150.61%72329.39%2,460
Phelps2,58757.62%1,88441.96%190.42%70315.66%4,490
Pierce2,35752.44%2,01644.85%1222.71%3417.59%4,495
Platte6,24965.70%2,85029.96%4134.34%3,39935.73%9,512
Polk2,51952.23%2,25646.78%481.00%2635.45%4,823
Red Willow3,44560.52%2,07836.51%1692.97%1,36724.02%5,692
Richardson5,81359.57%3,90840.05%370.38%1,90519.52%9,758
Rock71042.46%94456.46%181.08%-234-14.00%1,672
Saline5,48066.78%2,63732.14%891.08%2,84334.65%8,206
Sarpy3,03065.18%1,56933.75%501.08%1,46131.43%4,649
Saunders5,51457.52%3,77339.36%3003.13%1,74118.16%9,587
Scotts Bluff5,76857.70%4,05140.53%1771.77%1,71717.18%9,996
Seward3,86654.92%3,12344.37%500.71%74310.56%7,039
Sheridan2,42854.14%1,90742.52%1503.34%52111.62%4,485
Sherman2,70166.81%1,29432.01%481.19%1,40734.80%4,043
Sioux95657.66%67440.65%281.69%28217.01%1,658
Stanton1,91759.94%1,16936.55%1123.50%74823.39%3,198
Thayer3,41855.80%2,62842.91%791.29%79012.90%6,125
Thomas37449.67%36648.61%131.73%81.06%753
Thurston2,67665.88%1,19529.42%1914.70%1,48136.46%4,062
Valley1,96047.86%2,03349.65%1022.49%-73-1.78%4,095
Washington3,42659.75%2,26339.47%450.78%1,16320.28%5,734
Wayne2,32251.07%2,14947.26%761.67%1733.80%4,547
Webster2,40855.13%1,91243.77%481.10%49611.36%4,368
Wheeler48452.61%35838.91%788.48%12613.70%920
York3,74144.46%4,55454.12%1201.43%-813-9.66%8,415
Totals347,44557.14%247,73140.74%12,8472.11%99,71416.40%!608,023

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: United States Presidential election of 1936 - Encyclopædia Britannica. December 25, 2018.
  2. Web site: 1936 Election for the Thirty-eighth Term (1937-41). December 25, 2018.
  3. Web site: 1936 Presidential General Election Results - Nebraska. December 25, 2018.
  4. Web site: The American Presidency Project - Election of 1936. December 25, 2018.
  5. Web site: F.D.R.'s Disastrous Experiment. www.nytimes.com. 7 May 2023.
  6. Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  7. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 252-255
  8. Web site: Our Campaigns. NE US President Race, November 03, 1936.