United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1936

United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1936

November 3, 1936

Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Alf Landon William Lemke Party Democratic Republican Union Home state New York Kansas North Dakota Running mate John Nance Garner Frank Knox Thomas C. O'Brien Electoral vote 11 0 0 Popular vote 698,811 350,461 74,296 Percentage 61.8% 31.0% 6.6%

County Results

President before election Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic

The 1936 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 3, 1936 in Minnesota as part of the 1936 United States presidential election.

The Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt won the state over Kansas governor Alf Landon by a margin of 348,350 votes, or 30.83%—nearly double Landon's overall share of the state's vote. Nationally, Roosevelt was soundly re-elected, with 523 electoral votes and a landslide 24.26% lead over Landon in the popular vote. Landon carried only two states: Maine and Vermont.

Only five presidential nominees have ever won a greater percentage of the vote in Minnesota than Roosevelt did in 1936: Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 (74%), Warren G. Harding in 1920 (70.6%), Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 (63.8%), Abraham Lincoln in 1860 (63.5%), and James A. Garfield in 1880 (62.3%)—every one of them going on to win the election nationally.

Results

United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1936[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent)	698,811	61.84%	11
	Republican	Alf Landon	350,461	31.01%	0
	Union	William Lemke	74,296	6.58%	0
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	2,872	0.25%	0
	Communist	Earl Browder	2,574	0.23%	0
	Socialist Labor	John W. Aiken	961	0.09%	0
Totals			1,129,975	100.00%	11

References

1. "1936 Presidential Election Results, 1936". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 2016-10-05.