1936 United States presidential election in Wyoming
November 3, 1936
 
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Alf Landon
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York Kansas
Running mate John Nance Garner Frank Knox
Electoral vote 3 0
Popular vote 62,624 38,739
Percentage 60.58% 37.47%
County Results
President before election

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

 Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

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 and vice president.

Wyoming was won by the Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, running with John Nance Garner, 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, who was the Governor of Kansas, running with future Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, with 37.47 percent of the popular vote.[1] Despite Landon losing by over 23 percent, Wyoming was nonetheless his strongest state West of the Great Plains 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.

As of the 2020 presidential election, 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: Campbell, Converse, Niobrara, Sublette, Washakie and Weston, as even Lyndon B. Johnson failed to carry them when he won Wyoming by 13 points against Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964.[2]

Roosevelt flipped Big Horn County, which had narrowly backed Herbert Hoover 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 Crook 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 were popular with voters attributed to easing The Great Depression.[3] 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

1936 United States presidential election in Wyoming[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) 62,624 60.58%
Republican Alfred Landon 38,739 37.47%
Union William Lemke 1,653 1.60%
Socialist Norman Thomas 200 0.19%
Communist Earl Browder 91 0.09%
Prohibition D. Leigh Colvin 75 0.07%
Total votes 103,382 100.00%

Results by county

County Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic		 Alfred Mossman Landon
Republican		 William Frederick Lemke[4]
Union		 Various candidates
Other parties		 Margin Total votes cast[5]
#  % #  % #  % #  % #  %
Albany 3,685 66.53% 1,777 32.08% 49 0.88% 28 0.51% 1,908 34.45% 5,539
Big Horn 3,156 60.28% 1,996 38.12% 73 1.39% 11 0.21% 1,160 22.15% 5,236
Campbell 1,435 51.54% 1,322 47.49% 21 0.75% 6 0.22% 113 4.06% 2,784
Carbon 3,257 60.62% 2,041 37.99% 51 0.95% 24 0.45% 1,216 22.63% 5,373
Converse 1,639 50.42% 1,556 47.86% 34 1.05% 22 0.68% 83 2.55% 3,251
Crook 1,088 46.30% 1,218 51.83% 38 1.62% 6 0.26% -130 -5.53% 2,350
Fremont 3,050 55.12% 2,357 42.60% 107 1.93% 19 0.34% 693 12.52% 5,533
Goshen 2,639 55.55% 2,047 43.09% 47 0.99% 18 0.38% 592 12.46% 4,751
Hot Springs 1,419 61.19% 796 34.33% 89 3.84% 15 0.65% 623 26.87% 2,319
Johnson 949 40.68% 1,266 54.26% 109 4.67% 9 0.39% -317 -13.59% 2,333
Laramie 7,594 62.55% 4,356 35.88% 151 1.24% 39 0.32% 3,238 26.67% 12,140
Lincoln 2,747 66.03% 1,376 33.08% 31 0.75% 6 0.14% 1,371 32.96% 4,160
Natrona 7,819 65.67% 3,810 32.00% 241 2.02% 37 0.31% 4,009 33.67% 11,907
Niobrara 1,124 50.07% 1,086 48.37% 28 1.25% 7 0.31% 38 1.69% 2,245
Park 2,594 60.12% 1,618 37.50% 92 2.13% 11 0.25% 976 22.62% 4,315
Platte 1,730 50.79% 1,546 45.39% 108 3.17% 22 0.65% 184 5.40% 3,406
Sheridan 4,731 61.60% 2,726 35.49% 204 2.66% 19 0.25% 2,005 26.11% 7,680
Sublette 667 49.85% 638 47.68% 27 2.02% 6 0.45% 29 2.17% 1,338
Sweetwater 6,232 76.97% 1,797 22.19% 32 0.40% 36 0.44% 4,435 54.77% 8,097
Teton 795 58.80% 501 37.06% 51 3.77% 5 0.37% 294 21.75% 1,352
Uinta 1,972 65.41% 1,015 33.67% 21 0.70% 7 0.23% 957 31.74% 3,015
Washakie 1,109 56.50% 810 41.26% 34 1.73% 10 0.51% 299 15.23% 1,963
Weston 1,193 51.98% 1,084 47.23% 15 0.65% 3 0.13% 109 4.75% 2,295
Totals62,62460.58%38,73937.47%1,6531.60%3660.35%23,88523.10%103,382
County flips from 1932:

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "1936 Presidential Election Results Wyoming". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
  2. ↑ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  3. ↑ Larson, T. A. (1969). "The New Deal in Wyoming". Pacific Historical Review. 38 (3): 249–273. doi:10.2307/3636099. JSTOR 3636099.
  4. ↑ Géoelections; 1936 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15 on request)
  5. ↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 516 ISBN 0405077114
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