The 1932 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose five[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Oregon was essentially a one-party Republican state during the Fourth Party System from 1896 to 1928, with the party winning almost every statewide election during the period. Apart from Woodrow Wilson’s two elections, during the first of which the GOP was severely divided, no Democrat had carried a single county in the state since William Jennings Bryan in 1900.
However, since the 1928 election when Oregon had been won against Al Smith by 30.04%, the United States had fallen into the Great Depression, which had been particularly severe in the rural western parts of the nation.[3] The New Deal was especially popular in the Pacific States,[4] and as a result, Roosevelt was assured of carrying the state.
Oregon was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 57.99% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 36.88% of the popular vote.[5] Roosevelt flipped every county in Oregon except arch-Yankee Benton. This election marked the first-ever Democratic victory in the northern coastal counties of Clatsop, Tillamook, and Lincoln as well as the first Democratic victory in the Portland Metro-rooted county of Washington, the inland wheat-growing county of Wheeler, and the Central Oregon county of Deschutes.[6] It was also just the second Democratic victory in the historically Republican counties of Clackamas, Gilliam, Marion, Multnomah, Sherman and Yamhill.[6]
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 213,871 | 57.99% | |
| Republican | Herbert Hoover (inc.) | 136,019 | 36.88% | |
| Socialist | Norman Thomas | 15,450 | 4.19% | |
| Socialist Labor | Verne L. Reynolds | 1,730 | 0.47% | |
| Communist | William Z. Foster | 1,681 | 0.46% | |
| Write-in | 57 | 0.02% | ||
| Total votes | 368,808 | 100% | ||
Results by county
edit| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic |
Herbert Clark Hoover Republican |
Norman Mattoon Thomas[7] Socialist |
Verne L. Reynolds[7] Socialist Labor |
Various candidates[7] Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast[8] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Baker | 4,420 | 66.23% | 2,097 | 31.42% | 136 | 2.04% | 13 | 0.19% | 8 | 0.12% | 2,323 | 34.81% | 6,674 |
| Benton | 3,121 | 42.00% | 4,068 | 54.74% | 219 | 2.95% | 15 | 0.20% | 10 | 0.13% | -947 | -12.74% | 7,431 |
| Clackamas | 11,575 | 62.20% | 5,964 | 32.05% | 916 | 4.92% | 89 | 0.48% | 64 | 0.34% | 5,611 | 30.15% | 18,608 |
| Clatsop | 4,473 | 59.98% | 2,570 | 34.46% | 183 | 2.45% | 63 | 0.84% | 168 | 2.25% | 1,903 | 25.52% | 7,457 |
| Columbia | 3,643 | 61.36% | 1,975 | 33.27% | 231 | 3.89% | 49 | 0.83% | 39 | 0.66% | 1,668 | 28.09% | 5,937 |
| Coos | 5,504 | 59.21% | 3,299 | 35.49% | 376 | 4.04% | 52 | 0.56% | 65 | 0.70% | 2,205 | 23.72% | 9,296 |
| Crook | 990 | 59.78% | 626 | 37.80% | 30 | 1.81% | 8 | 0.48% | 2 | 0.12% | 364 | 21.98% | 1,656 |
| Curry | 971 | 68.00% | 395 | 27.66% | 54 | 3.78% | 6 | 0.42% | 2 | 0.14% | 576 | 40.34% | 1,428 |
| Deschutes | 2,962 | 58.60% | 1,697 | 33.57% | 246 | 4.87% | 117 | 2.31% | 33 | 0.65% | 1,265 | 25.02% | 5,055 |
| Douglas | 4,638 | 51.23% | 4,046 | 44.69% | 283 | 3.13% | 47 | 0.52% | 40 | 0.44% | 592 | 6.54% | 9,054 |
| Gilliam | 854 | 63.59% | 470 | 35.00% | 12 | 0.89% | 2 | 0.15% | 5 | 0.37% | 384 | 28.59% | 1,343 |
| Grant | 1,496 | 64.34% | 733 | 31.53% | 78 | 3.35% | 17 | 0.73% | 1 | 0.04% | 763 | 32.82% | 2,325 |
| Harney | 1,276 | 61.73% | 687 | 33.24% | 80 | 3.87% | 21 | 1.02% | 4 | 0.19% | 589 | 28.50% | 2,067 |
| Hood River | 1,685 | 51.75% | 1,387 | 42.60% | 141 | 4.33% | 24 | 0.74% | 19 | 0.58% | 298 | 9.15% | 3,256 |
| Jackson | 7,519 | 55.13% | 5,459 | 40.02% | 582 | 4.27% | 61 | 0.45% | 18 | 0.13% | 2,060 | 15.10% | 13,639 |
| Jefferson | 477 | 62.27% | 253 | 33.03% | 31 | 4.05% | 3 | 0.39% | 2 | 0.26% | 224 | 29.24% | 766 |
| Josephine | 3,060 | 58.90% | 1,757 | 33.82% | 314 | 6.04% | 53 | 1.02% | 14 | 0.27% | 1,303 | 25.08% | 5,195 |
| Klamath | 6,772 | 62.97% | 3,483 | 32.38% | 400 | 3.72% | 61 | 0.57% | 39 | 0.36% | 3,289 | 30.58% | 10,755 |
| Lake | 1,199 | 57.53% | 839 | 40.26% | 30 | 1.44% | 14 | 0.67% | 2 | 0.10% | 360 | 17.27% | 2,084 |
| Lane | 11,073 | 45.88% | 10,547 | 43.70% | 2,345 | 9.72% | 124 | 0.51% | 48 | 0.20% | 526 | 2.18% | 24,137 |
| Lincoln | 2,376 | 59.49% | 1,415 | 35.43% | 156 | 3.90% | 26 | 0.65% | 25 | 0.63% | 961 | 24.06% | 3,994 |
| Linn | 5,366 | 53.49% | 4,106 | 40.93% | 496 | 4.94% | 43 | 0.43% | 20 | 0.20% | 1,260 | 12.56% | 10,031 |
| Malheur | 2,025 | 53.94% | 1,589 | 42.33% | 104 | 2.77% | 25 | 0.67% | 11 | 0.29% | 436 | 11.61% | 3,754 |
| Marion | 12,572 | 56.84% | 8,633 | 39.03% | 760 | 3.43% | 92 | 0.42% | 74 | 0.33% | 3,939 | 17.81% | 22,118 |
| Morrow | 929 | 58.03% | 579 | 36.16% | 78 | 4.87% | 6 | 0.37% | 9 | 0.56% | 350 | 21.86% | 1,601 |
| Multnomah | 78,898 | 59.44% | 47,201 | 35.56% | 5,348 | 4.03% | 432 | 0.33% | 864 | 0.65% | 31,697 | 23.88% | 132,743 |
| Polk | 3,705 | 56.88% | 2,548 | 39.12% | 205 | 3.15% | 40 | 0.61% | 16 | 0.25% | 1,157 | 17.76% | 6,514 |
| Sherman | 665 | 59.80% | 423 | 38.04% | 19 | 1.71% | 5 | 0.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 242 | 21.76% | 1,112 |
| Tillamook | 2,726 | 57.51% | 1,722 | 36.33% | 245 | 5.15% | 34 | 0.72% | 28 | 0.59% | 1,004 | 21.18% | 4,740 |
| Umatilla | 5,631 | 63.43% | 2,930 | 33.01% | 283 | 3.19% | 28 | 0.32% | 5 | 0.06% | 2,701 | 30.43% | 8,877 |
| Union | 4,450 | 70.08% | 1,705 | 26.85% | 159 | 2.50% | 29 | 0.46% | 7 | 0.11% | 2,745 | 43.23% | 6,350 |
| Wallowa | 1,790 | 67.50% | 772 | 29.11% | 75 | 2.83% | 13 | 0.49% | 2 | 0.08% | 1,018 | 38.39% | 2,652 |
| Wasco | 2,776 | 59.52% | 1,740 | 37.31% | 127 | 2.72% | 13 | 0.28% | 8 | 0.17% | 1,036 | 22.21% | 4,664 |
| Washington | 6,824 | 59.06% | 4,201 | 36.36% | 444 | 3.84% | 56 | 0.48% | 48 | 0.41% | 2,623 | 22.70% | 11,554 |
| Wheeler | 632 | 54.25% | 519 | 44.55% | 10 | 0.86% | 4 | 0.34% | 0 | 0.00% | 113 | 9.70% | 1,165 |
| Yamhill | 4,798 | 55.03% | 3,584 | 41.11% | 254 | 2.91% | 45 | 0.52% | 38 | 0.44% | 1,214 | 13.92% | 8,719 |
| Totals | 213,871 | 58.00% | 136,019 | 36.89% | 15,450 | 4.19% | 1,730 | 0.47% | 1,738 | 0.47% | 77,852 | 21.11% | 368,751 |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1932 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved January 30, 2019.
- ^ "1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37)". Retrieved January 30, 2019.
- ^ Davies, Richard O.; ‘The Politics of Desperation: William A. Hirth and the Presidential Election of 1932’; Agricultural History, vol. 38, no. 4 (October 1964), pp. 226-234
- ^ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 485 ISBN 9780691163246
- ^ "1932 Presidential General Election Results - Oregon". Retrieved January 30, 2019.
- ^ a b Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 284-285 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ a b c Our Campaigns; OR US President, November 08, 1932
- ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 371 ISBN 9780804716963