1936 Democratic Party presidential primaries

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1936 Democratic Party presidential primaries

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Candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt Henry Skillman Breckinridge Home state New York New York Contests won 13 1 Popular vote 4,814,978 136,407 Percentage 92.9% 2.6%

Previous Democratic nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt

From March 10 to May 19, 1936, voters of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1936 Democratic National Convention for the purpose of selecting the party's for president in the 1936 United States presidential election.^[1] Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1936 Democratic National Convention held from June 23 to June 27, 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.