This is the electoral history of Franklin D. Roosevelt , who served as the 32nd president of the United States (1933–1945) and the 44th governor of New York (1929–1932).
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932
A member of the Democratic Party , Roosevelt was first elected to the New York State Senate in 1910, representing the 26th district . He won re-election in 1912 before resigning shortly after starting his second term to accept the position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson . He served throughout World War I , then resigned in 1920 to run for Vice President of the United States as a part of James M. Cox 's campaign. They would lose in a landslide to the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge . After a break from electoral politics following his polio diagnosis, Roosevelt made his political comeback when he was narrowly elected Governor of New York in the 1928 election . His popularity as a result of his handling of the Great Depression in the state allowed him to win re-election by a much wider margin in 1930 .
Roosevelt re-entered national politics when he announced his bid for the presidency in the 1932 election . After securing the Democratic nomination, he unseated incumbent President Herbert Hoover , becoming the first Democrat to win an outright majority of the popular vote since Samuel J. Tilden in 1876 and effectively jumpstarting the Fifth Party System . His re-election in 1936 was the greatest electoral landslide since the largely uncontested 1820 election , receiving the highest percentage of the electoral vote won by any candidate since then. He became the first and only president to win an unprecedented third and fourth terms in 1940 and 1944 , in which he continued to enjoy relatively comfortable margins of victory due to his favorable handling of World War II and the persisting popularity of the New Deal . Roosevelt would die in office less than three months into his fourth term, being succeeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman .
1910
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1912
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1920 United States presidential election Candidate Running mate Party Popular vote Electoral vote Votes % Votes % Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge Republican 16,144,093 60.32 404 76.08 James M. Cox Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 9,139,661 34.15 127 23.92 Eugene V. Debs Seymour Stedman Socialist 913,693 3.41 Parley P. Christensen Max S. Hayes Farmer–Labor 265,398 0.99 Aaron S. Watkins D. Leigh Colvin Prohibition 188,787 0.71 James E. Ferguson William J. Hough American 47,968 0.18 William Wesley Cox August Gillhaus Socialist Labor 31,084 0.12 Others 34,496 0.13 Total 26,765,180 100.00 531 100.00 Source: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
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1928
County results of the 1928 gubernatorial election
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1930
County results of the 1930 gubernatorial election
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1932
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1932 Democratic Party presidential primaries [7]
Candidate
Votes
%
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1,464,607
49.44
J. Hamilton Lewis
590,130
19.92
Al Smith
415,795
14.04
John Nance Garner
249,816
8.43
William H. Murray
226,392
7.64
Leo J. Chassee
7,372
0.25
Gus H. Howard
5,541
0.19
Others
2,972
0.10
Total votes
2,962,625
100.00
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1932 United States presidential election Candidate Running mate Party Popular vote Electoral vote Votes % Votes % Franklin D. Roosevelt John Nance Garner Democratic 22,821,277 57.41 472 88.89 Herbert Hoover (inc.)Charles Curtis (inc.)Republican 15,761,254 39.65 59 11.11 Norman Thomas James H. Maurer Socialist 884,885 2.23 William Z. Foster James W. Ford Communist 103,307 0.26 William David Upshaw Frank S. Regan Prohibition 81,905 0.21 William Hope Harvey Frank Hemenway Liberty 53,425 0.13 Others 45,845 0.12 Total 39,751,898 100.00 531 100.00 Source: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
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1936
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1936 United States presidential election Candidate Running mate Party Popular vote Electoral vote Votes % Votes % Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) John Nance Garner (inc.)Democratic 27,752,648 60.80 523 98.49 Alf Landon Frank Knox Republican 16,681,862 36.54 8 1.51 William Lemke Thomas C. O'Brien Union 892,378 1.95 Norman Thomas George A. Nelson Socialist 187,910 0.41 Earl Browder James W. Ford Communist 79,315 0.17 Others 53,586 0.12 Total 45,647,699 100.00 531 100.00 Source: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
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1940
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1940 Democratic Party presidential primaries [10]
Candidate
Votes
%
Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent)
3,250,555
72.16
John Nance Garner
426,641
9.47
Charles W. Sawyer
283,952
6.30
William B. Bankhead
196,508
4.36
H. C. Allen
102,729
2.28
Willis Allen
90,718
2.01
James Farley
76,919
1.71
Ellis E. Patterson
48,337
1.07
Unpledged
27,636
0.61
Others
636
0.01
Total votes
4,504,631
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1940 United States presidential election Candidate Running mate Party Popular vote Electoral vote Votes % Votes % Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) Henry A. Wallace Democratic 27,313,945 54.74 449 84.56 Wendell Willkie Charles L. McNary Republican 22,347,744 44.78 82 15.44 Norman Thomas Maynard C. Krueger Socialist 116,599 0.23 Roger Babson Edgar Moorman Prohibition 57,903 0.12 Earl Browder James W. Ford Communist 48,557 0.10 Others 17,365 0.03 Total 49,902,113 100.00 531 100.00 Source: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
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1944
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1944 Democratic Party presidential primaries [12]
Candidate
Votes
%
Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent)
1,566,218
79.24
Joseph T. Ferguson
164,915
8.34
Harry F. Byrd
109,000
5.51
Claude R. Linger
59,282
3.00
Unpledged
57,299
2.90
Fred H. Hildebrandt
7,414
0.38
A. W. Powell
6,727
0.34
Others
5,754
0.29
Total votes
1,976,609
100.00
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1944 United States presidential election Candidate Running mate Party Popular vote Electoral vote Votes % Votes % Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) Harry S. Truman Democratic 25,612,916 53.38 432 81.36 Thomas E. Dewey John W. Bricker Republican 22,017,929 45.89 99 18.64 Unpledged Unpledged Texas Regulars 143,238 0.30 Norman Thomas Darlington Hoopes Socialist 79,017 0.16 Claude A. Watson Andrew N. Johnson Prohibition 74,758 0.16 Others 57,004 0.12 Total 47,984,862 100.00 531 100.00 Source: Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
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