1932 United States presidential election in Oregon

The 1932 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose five[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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1932 United States presidential election in Oregon
November 8, 1932[1]
All 5 Oregon votes to the Electoral College
 
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York California
Running mate John Nance Garner Charles Curtis
Electoral vote 5 0
Popular vote 213,871 136,019
Percentage 58.0% 36.9%
County Results
President before election

Herbert Hoover
Republican

 Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Elections in Oregon

Background and results

Outside a few Presidential and gubernatorial elections, Oregon was a virtually one-party Republican state during the “System of 1896”,[3] where the only competition was via Republican primaries.[4] Apart from Woodrow Wilson’s two elections, during the first of which the GOP was severely divided, no Democrat had carried a single county in the state since William Jennings Bryan in 1900.

However, since the 1928 election when Oregon had been won against Al Smith by 30.04%, the United States had fallen into the Great Depression, which had been particularly severe in the rural western parts of the nation.[5] The New Deal was especially popular in the Pacific States,[6] and as a result Roosevelt was assured of carrying the state.

Oregon was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 57.99% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 36.88% of the popular vote.[7] Roosevelt flipped every county in Oregon except arch-Yankee Benton, and was the first-ever Democratic victor in the northern coastal counties of Clatsop, Lincoln and Tillamook,[8] and also in inland wheat-growing Gilliam County and Wheeler County.[8]

Results
1932 United States presidential election in Oregon
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt 213,871 57.99%
Republican Herbert Hoover (inc.) 136,019 36.88%
Socialist Norman Thomas 15,450 4.19%
Socialist Labor Verne L. Reynolds 1,730 0.47%
Communist William Z. Foster 1,681 0.46%
Write-in 57 0.02%
Total votes 368,808 100%

Results by county
County Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic		 Herbert Clark Hoover
Republican		 Norman Mattoon Thomas[9]
Socialist		 Verne L. Reynolds[9]
Socialist Labor		 Various candidates[9]
Other parties		 Margin Total votes cast[10]
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Baker 4,420 66.23% 2,097 31.42% 136 2.04% 13 0.19% 8 0.12% 2,323 34.81% 6,674
Benton 3,121 42.00% 4,068 54.74% 219 2.95% 15 0.20% 10 0.13% -947 -12.74% 7,431
Clackamas 11,575 62.20% 5,964 32.05% 916 4.92% 89 0.48% 64 0.34% 5,611 30.15% 18,608
Clatsop 4,473 59.98% 2,570 34.46% 183 2.45% 63 0.84% 168 2.25% 1,903 25.52% 7,457
Columbia 3,643 61.36% 1,975 33.27% 231 3.89% 49 0.83% 39 0.66% 1,668 28.09% 5,937
Coos 5,504 59.21% 3,299 35.49% 376 4.04% 52 0.56% 65 0.70% 2,205 23.72% 9,296
Crook 990 59.78% 626 37.80% 30 1.81% 8 0.48% 2 0.12% 364 21.98% 1,656
Curry 971 68.00% 395 27.66% 54 3.78% 6 0.42% 2 0.14% 576 40.34% 1,428
Deschutes 2,962 58.60% 1,697 33.57% 246 4.87% 117 2.31% 33 0.65% 1,265 25.02% 5,055
Douglas 4,638 51.23% 4,046 44.69% 283 3.13% 47 0.52% 40 0.44% 592 6.54% 9,054
Gilliam 854 63.59% 470 35.00% 12 0.89% 2 0.15% 5 0.37% 384 28.59% 1,343
Grant 1,496 64.34% 733 31.53% 78 3.35% 17 0.73% 1 0.04% 763 32.82% 2,325
Harney 1,276 61.73% 687 33.24% 80 3.87% 21 1.02% 4 0.19% 589 28.50% 2,067
Hood River 1,685 51.75% 1,387 42.60% 141 4.33% 24 0.74% 19 0.58% 298 9.15% 3,256
Jackson 7,519 55.13% 5,459 40.02% 582 4.27% 61 0.45% 18 0.13% 2,060 15.10% 13,639
Jefferson 477 62.27% 253 33.03% 31 4.05% 3 0.39% 2 0.26% 224 29.24% 766
Josephine 3,060 58.90% 1,757 33.82% 314 6.04% 53 1.02% 14 0.27% 1,303 25.08% 5,195
Klamath 6,772 62.97% 3,483 32.38% 400 3.72% 61 0.57% 39 0.36% 3,289 30.58% 10,755
Lake 1,199 57.53% 839 40.26% 30 1.44% 14 0.67% 2 0.10% 360 17.27% 2,084
Lane 11,073 45.88% 10,547 43.70% 2,345 9.72% 124 0.51% 48 0.20% 526 2.18% 24,137
Lincoln 2,376 59.49% 1,415 35.43% 156 3.90% 26 0.65% 25 0.63% 961 24.06% 3,994
Linn 5,366 53.49% 4,106 40.93% 496 4.94% 43 0.43% 20 0.20% 1,260 12.56% 10,031
Malheur 2,025 53.94% 1,589 42.33% 104 2.77% 25 0.67% 11 0.29% 436 11.61% 3,754
Marion 12,572 56.84% 8,633 39.03% 760 3.43% 92 0.42% 74 0.33% 3,939 17.81% 22,118
Morrow 929 58.03% 579 36.16% 78 4.87% 6 0.37% 9 0.56% 350 21.86% 1,601
Multnomah 78,898 59.44% 47,201 35.56% 5,348 4.03% 432 0.33% 864 0.65% 31,697 23.88% 132,743
Polk 3,705 56.88% 2,548 39.12% 205 3.15% 40 0.61% 16 0.25% 1,157 17.76% 6,514
Sherman 665 59.80% 423 38.04% 19 1.71% 5 0.45% 0 0.00% 242 21.76% 1,112
Tillamook 2,726 57.51% 1,722 36.33% 245 5.15% 34 0.72% 28 0.59% 1,004 21.18% 4,740
Umatilla 5,631 63.43% 2,930 33.01% 283 3.19% 28 0.32% 5 0.06% 2,701 30.43% 8,877
Union 4,450 70.08% 1,705 26.85% 159 2.50% 29 0.46% 7 0.11% 2,745 43.23% 6,350
Wallowa 1,790 67.50% 772 29.11% 75 2.83% 13 0.49% 2 0.08% 1,018 38.39% 2,652
Wasco 2,776 59.52% 1,740 37.31% 127 2.72% 13 0.28% 8 0.17% 1,036 22.21% 4,664
Washington 6,824 59.06% 4,201 36.36% 444 3.84% 56 0.48% 48 0.41% 2,623 22.70% 11,554
Wheeler 632 54.25% 519 44.55% 10 0.86% 4 0.34% 0 0.00% 113 9.70% 1,165
Yamhill 4,798 55.03% 3,584 41.11% 254 2.91% 45 0.52% 38 0.44% 1,214 13.92% 8,719
Totals213,87158.00%136,01936.89%15,4504.19%1,7300.47%1,7380.47%77,85221.11%368,751
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  2. "1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37)". Retrieved January 30, 2019.
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  4. Murray, Keith; ‘Issues and Personalities of Pacific Northwest Politics, 1889-1950’, The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 3 (July 1950), pp. 213-233
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