1932 United States presidential election in Missouri

1932 United States presidential election in Missouri

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Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York California
Running mate John Nance Garner Charles Curtis
Electoral vote 15 0
Popular vote 1,025,406 564,713
Percentage 63.69% 35.08%

County Results

President before election

Herbert Hoover
Republican

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The 1932 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Missouri was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (DNew York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 63.39 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (RCalifornia), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 35.08 percent of the popular vote.[3][4]

This is the last election in which Cedar County, Dade County, Miller County, and Wright County have voted for a Democratic presidential nominee, and the only election since the Civil War when Unionist Ozark Camden County, Christian County and Stone County did so.[5][6]

  1. ^ "United States Presidential election of 1932 — Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  2. ^ "1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37)". Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  3. ^ "1932 Presidential General Election Results — Missouri". Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  4. ^ "The American Presidency Project — Election of 1932". Retrieved January 15, 2019.
  5. ^ Menendez, Albert J. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. pp. 239–246. ISBN 0786422173.
  6. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016

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