The 1936 United States presidential election in California was held on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose twenty-two electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for

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and

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voted for the Democratic candidate,

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President

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of New York, in a landslide over the

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challenger,

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Alfred Mossman Landon, carrying every county and nearly sixty-seven percent of the vote to Landon’s 31.7%. Roosevelt’s percentage of the vote is the highest of any presidential candidate in California history, besting

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’s 66.2% in 1920.Thomas, G. Scott; The Pursuit of the White House: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics and History, p. 421 While his 35.25-percentage point margin of victory over Landon is the largest for any Democratic candidate, it is the second largest overall behind Harding’s 41.92% in 1920 and ahead of

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’s 34.9% in 1904. , this is the last time that a presidential candidate from either political party completely swept all of California’s counties in an election. The only other candidate to manage this has been Harding in his landslide 1920 victory. Roosevelt was the last Democrat until

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in 2016 to carry

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in a presidential election, and the last until

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in 2004 to carry

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. Also, this was the only one of FDR’s four presidential campaigns where he carried

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, which had never previously voted Democratic since its first election in 1896Menendez, Albert J.; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States'', 1868-2004, pp. 152-155 and would not do so again until

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in 1964.

Results

Results by county

References

{{State Results of the 1936 U.S. presidential election 1936 California elections

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