The 1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania 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 ...

. Voters chose 36 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Pennsylvania voted for the Republican nominee, President Herbert Hoover, over the

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nominee, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hoover won Pennsylvania by a margin of 5.51%. With 50.84% of the popular vote, Pennsylvania would be Hoover's third strongest state in the nation after Vermont and Maine. Pennsylvania was one of only six states (the other five being Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont) which voted to re-elect the embattled Republican incumbent Hoover, who was widely unpopular over his failure to adequately address the

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. This is the last election where the Republican candidate carried Philadelphia County in a presidential election.Sullivan, Robert David
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''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016 1932 was the third most recent election in which Pennsylvania did not vote the same as neighboring

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, a phenomenon that has only been repeated twice since, in

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. It is also the third most recent election where Pennsylvania voted for a different candidate than neighboring Michigan, another phenomenon that has only been repeated twice since, in

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and

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. Until 2016, this was the last time that the state voted Republican and neighboring New Jersey voted Democratic.

Results

Results by county

References

{{State Results of the 1932 U.S. presidential election Pennsylvania

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1932 Pennsylvania elections

Results

Results by county

See also

References