The 1936 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the
1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the
Electoral College, who voted for
president
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.
Wyoming
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was won by the
Democratic candidate, incumbent President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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, running with
John Nance Garner
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, who was the
39th and incumbent Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, with 60.58 percent of the popular vote, against the Republican candidate,
Alf Landon
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, who was the Governor of
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, running with future
Secretary of the Navy
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Frank Knox
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, with 37.47 percent of the popular vote.
Despite Landon losing by over 23 percent, Wyoming was nonetheless his strongest state West of the
Great Plains
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and voted overall 0.93 percent more Republican than the nation at large, perhaps a sign of the strong Republican state it would become in future elections. Roosevelt won Wyoming by 23 points, outperforming his victory in
1932 by 8 points.
, this is the best ever performance by a Democratic presidential nominee in Wyoming, and the last election in which a Democrat has carried the following counties:
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,
Niobrara,
Sublette,
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and
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, as even
Lyndon B. Johnson
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failed to carry them when he won Wyoming by 13 points against Republican
Barry Goldwater in
1964.
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Roosevelt flipped
Big Horn County, which had narrowly backed
Herbert Hoover
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in 1932, winning it by a landslide margin of 22 points, just slightly worse than his statewide margin. Despite losing by more than Hoover, Landon flipped
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and
Johnson counties, both of which had narrowly backed Roosevelt in 1932, and hadn't voted Republican since
1928. This would mark the beginning of a streak of Republican victories in these two counties, as no Democrat has carried them on the Presidential level since. Big Horn County would not vote for a Democratic Presidential candidate again until it narrowly backed Johnson over Goldwater in
1964, and no Democrat has won it since. This would be the last time any candidate won Wyoming by double digits until Republican
Dwight Eisenhower in
1952, and the last for a Democrat until 1964.
Roosevelt's victory was a reflection of a nationwide reconsolidation for the Democratic Party that took place throughout the 1930s, as Republicans were seen as out of touch with the middle class, instead serving big businesses, while Democratic policies such as
The New Deal
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were popular with voters attributed to easing
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.
4 years earlier, Democrats had flipped the governorship, and in the
1934 midterms, Democrats flipped the Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent Of Public Instruction offices. Along with Roosevelt's landslide reelection in the state, Democrat
Harry Schwartz defeated incumbent Republican Senator
Robert D. Carey in the
concurrent Senate race, thus giving Democrats full control of all statewide offices.
Results
Results by county
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
*
Big Horn
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
*
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Crook
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See also
*
United States presidential elections in Wyoming
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Wyoming, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1890, Wyoming has participated in every U.S. presidential election. Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refer ...
References
{{State Results of the 1936 U.S. presidential election
Wyoming
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1936
1936 Wyoming elections