1936 United States presidential election in Delaware

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The 1936 United States presidential election in Delaware was held on November 3, 1936. The state voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1936 United States presidential election in Delaware

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Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Alf Landon Party Democratic Republican Home state New York Kansas Running mate John Nance Garner Frank Knox Electoral vote 3 0 Popular vote 69,702 57,236 Percentage 54.62% 44.85%

County Results Roosevelt   50–60%

President before election Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic

Delaware voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who defeated Republican nominee, Kansas Governor Alf Landon. Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 9.77%, marking the first time since 1912 that the state voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, and the first time since 1888 that a Democrat carried the state with an outright majority.

While Landon lost the state, the 44.85% of the popular vote made Delaware his fifth strongest state in the 1936 election in terms of popular vote percentage after Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Kansas.^[1]

This election marked Delaware's transition into a bellwether state: for the rest of the 20th century, it would vote for a losing candidate only once (in 1948). Once the century rolled around, it came to be regarded as a solidly blue state.

Results

1936 United States presidential election in Delaware[2]
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Popular vote		Electoral vote
				Count	%	Count	%
	Democratic	Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York	John Nance Garner of Texas	69,702	54.62%	3	100.00%
	Republican	Alf Landon of Kansas	Frank Knox of Illinois	57,236	44.85%	0	0.00%
	Union	William Lemke of North Dakota	Thomas C. O'Brien of Massachusetts	442	0.35%	0	0.00%
	Socialist	Norman Thomas of New York	George A. Nelson of Wisconsin	172	0.13%	0	0.00%
	Communist	Earl Russell Browder of Kansas	James W. Ford of New York	51	0.04%	0	0.00%
Total				127,603	100.00%	3	100.00%

Results by county

County	Dem	Rep	Oth
Kent	9,588	6,936	481
New Castle	47,315	36,859	1,592
Sussex	12,799	10,219	1,814
STATEWIDE	69,702	54,014	3,887

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• New Castle

See also

• United States presidential elections in Delaware