United States presidential election in New York, 1932

United States presidential election in New York, 1932

November 8, 1932

Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover Party Democratic Republican Home state New York California Running mate John N. Garner Charles Curtis Electoral vote 47 0 Popular vote 2,534,959 1,937,963 Percentage 54.07% 41.33%

County Results   Roosevelt—70-80%   Roosevelt—60-70%   Roosevelt—50-60%   Hoover—<50%   Hoover—50-60%   Hoover—60-70%   Hoover—70-80%

President before election Herbert Hoover Republican Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic

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The 1932 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 8, 1932. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1932 United States presidential election. New York voters chose 47 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President.

New York was won by Democratic Governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was challenging embattled incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt ran with Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas, and Hoover ran with incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas.

Context and strategy

With the incumbent Republican president greatly weakened by his failures to adequately address the Great Depression, the New York Governor easily carried his home state in the midst of a nationwide Democratic landslide. Franklin Roosevelt took 54.07% of the vote in New York State versus Herbert Hoover's 41.33%, a margin of 12.73%. Socialist candidate Norman Thomas finished a distant third with 3.78%.

Despite being Roosevelt's home state- and although he won the state comfortably- in the context of the 1932 nationwide Democratic landslide, New York weighed in for this election as 5% more Republican than the national average.

The presidential election of 1932 was a partisan election for New York, with more than 95.4% of the electorate casting votes for either the Democratic Party or the Republican.^[1]

1932 was the first time a Democrat had won New York's electoral votes in 20 years; in 1912, Republican vote-splitting for the third party candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt had allowed Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win the state with a plurality of only 41% of the vote. Franklin Roosevelt's 54.07% made him the first Democratic presidential candidate to win an absolute majority of the vote in New York State since Samuel Tilden in 1876. Roosevelt's 12.73% victory margin over Hoover was the widest victory margin ever for a Democratic presidential candidate in New York State up to that point, although it would be surpassed just four years later by Roosevelt's own 20-point re-election victory in 1936.

Roosevelt's support in the state did not appear spontaneously in 1932; his winning strategy in New York State was primarily to build upon the Democratic coalition fellow New Yorker Al Smith had organized behind him in the 1928 election. Smith had narrowly lost the state in the midst of a nationwide Republican landslide, but had dramatically improved upon how Democrats before him had done, and laid the groundwork for turning the state Democratic in 1932 and beyond. In 1920 and 1924, Republicans had swept every county in New York State and Democrats took less than 30% of the vote. In 1928, Smith came within 2 points of winning the state by sweeping all 5 boroughs of heavily populated New York City, winning the state capital of Albany in Albany County along with neighboring Rensselaer County, and winning two counties in northern New York along the Saint Lawrence River, Clinton County and Franklin County. In 1932, FDR turned a 2 point statewide Democratic defeat into a 13-point victory primarily by pushing up turnout and victory margins in Smith 1928 counties, as the county map remained almost entirely the same. Only one county in New York State actually changed hands from Hoover in 1928 to Roosevelt in 1932, rural Sullivan County.

The most vital component to Roosevelt's victory in New York State was his overwhelming landslide in the massively populated 5 boroughs of New York City. Roosevelt took over 70% of the vote in the Bronx, and over 60% of the vote in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Up to this point, 1932 was the strongest victory ever for a Democrat in NYC, although Roosevelt would outperform himself with an even stronger performance in the city in 1936. FDR built on the urban, ethnic coalition that had delivered the city to Al Smith four years earlier, and with the rise of the New Deal Coalition, New York would be solidified as one of the most Democratic cities in the United States.

Just as Al Smith's 1928 counties remained loyal to the Democrats in 1932, most of upstate New York which had gone Republican in 1928 remained loyal to Herbert Hoover in 1932. This included even counties like Erie County and Monroe County, respectively home to the cities of Buffalo and Rochester, which would not go Democratic until 1936. Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, provided FDR's strongest victory outside of New York City, giving him over 60% of the vote.

Results

See also

• Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Timeline of the Great Depression

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