1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota

1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota

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All 4 South Dakota votes to the Electoral College
 
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York California
Running mate John Nance Garner Charles Curtis
Electoral vote 4 0
Popular vote 183,515 99,212
Percentage 63.62% 34.40%

County Results

President before election

Herbert Hoover
Republican

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The 1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose four[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

South Dakota was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (DNew York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 63.62 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (RCalifornia), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 34.40 percent of the popular vote.[3]

As a result of his win in the state, Roosevelt became only the second Democratic presidential candidate to win South Dakota as well as the first since William Jennings Bryan in 1896.

This is the only occasion since South Dakota’s statehood when Campbell County, Hutchinson County, Sully County and Turner County have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate,[4] and the last occasion when Butte County and McPherson County have done so.[5] Every county except for arch-Yankee Lawrence County voted for Roosevelt.

This election constitutes the most raw votes a Democrat has ever received in South Dakota. Along with North Dakota in the same year, this is the longest standing such record.[6] It is one of just seven states where a candidate other than Joe Biden in 2020 or Barack Obama in either of his runs holds the record for most raw votes ever received by a Democrat for president, the other six being Rhode Island and West Virginia (Lyndon Johnson), Louisiana and Arkansas (Bill Clinton), North Dakota (Franklin D. Roosevelt), and Oklahoma (Jimmy Carter).[citation needed]

  1. ^ "United States Presidential election of 1932 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  2. ^ "1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37)". Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  3. ^ "1932 Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota". US Election Atlas. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  4. ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 294-298 ISBN 0786422173
  5. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  6. ^ "Our Campaigns - Container Detail Page". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved April 17, 2021.