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1932 United States presidential election in Texas

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1932 United States presidential election in Texas
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The 1932 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 23 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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Texas voted for the Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, over the Republican nominee, incumbent President Herbert Hoover of California. Roosevelt ran with Speaker of the House John Nance Garner, a Texas native while Hoover ran with incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas.

Roosevelt defeated Hoover in Texas by a landslide margin of 76.71%. In this era, Texas was a one-party Solid South state dominated by the Democratic Party, but Roosevelt's performance was overwhelming even relative to the many prior Democratic landslides, and remains the largest blowout victory by any presidential nominee in the state. Furthermore, Roosevelt carried every single county with more than 65% of the vote. This election constitutes the only time in history that a presidential candidate has swept all 254 counties in the state.[a]

With 88.06%, Texas would prove to be Roosevelt's fifth strongest state in popular vote percentage after South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia.[1] To date, this is the last election in which Kendall County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate; in fact, despite Roosevelt carrying the county with over 73% of the vote, no Democrat since has reached even 45%.[2]

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Results

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Results by county

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Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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Notes

  1. In 1852, before the founding of the Republican Party and before much of the state had been incorporated, Franklin Pierce also swept all counties at the time.
  2. There are significant differences between totals for minor parties given in Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas, America at the Polls and Géoelections.
  3. This total includes 157 “Jacksonian” and 34 write-in votes not separated by county.[6]

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