The 1932 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the
1932 United States presidential election
The 1932 United States presidential election was the 37th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1932. The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover w ...
which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the
Electoral College, who voted for
president and
vice president.
Connecticut voted for the
Republican nominee, incumbent
President Herbert Hoover of
California, over the
Democratic
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nominee,
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of
New York
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. Hoover's running mate was incumbent
Vice President Charles Curtis of
Kansas, while Roosevelt ran with incumbent
Speaker of the House
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of
Texas.
Hoover won Connecticut by a very narrow margin of 1.14%. Connecticut was one of only six states (the other five being
Delaware,
Maine,
New Hampshire,
Pennsylvania and
Vermont), four of them in
New England, which voted to re-elect the embattled Republican incumbent Hoover, who was widely unpopular over his failure to adequately address the
Great Depression
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.
Despite the massive nationwide shift towards Democrats, Hoover managed to flip the town of
Marlborough
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, which voted for Democrats
Al Smith
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in
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J ...
and
John W. Davis in
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
, both of whom lost by landslide margins. Marlborough was the only town in Connecticut and one of only a few places in the nation to flip from Democratic to Republican in 1932.
This was the first occasion since
1852
Events
January–March
* January 14 – President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic.
* January 15 – Nine men representing various Jewish charitable organizations come tog ...
that Windham County voted Democratic. This is the last time a Democrat won without Hartford County. As of 2020, this is the most recent election where Connecticut voted more Republican than
Kansas.
Results
By county
See also
*
United States presidential elections in Connecticut
References
Connecticut
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
1932 Connecticut elections
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