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1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana

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1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana

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All 10 Louisiana 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 10 0
Popular vote 249,418 18,853
Percentage 92.79% 7.01%

Parish Results
Roosevelt
  70-80%
  80-90%
  90-100%


President before election

Herbert Hoover
Republican

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

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

Ever since the passage of a new constitution in 1898, Louisiana had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party became moribund due to the disenfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as Louisiana completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.[3] Despite this absolute single-party dominance, non-partisan tendencies remained strong among wealthy sugar planters in Acadiana and within the business elite of New Orleans.[4]

Until the rise of Huey P. Long, post-disenfranchisement Louisiana politics was dominated by the New Orleans–based “Choctaw Club”,[5] which overcame Socialist, Wobbly, and Progressive challenges from the outlying upcountry, Imperial Calcasieu and Acadiana regions between the late 1900s and early 1920s.[6] The three presidential elections between 1916 and 1924 saw a rebellion in Acadiana over sugar tariffs and Woodrow Wilson’s foreign and domestic policies; however, the nomination of Catholic Al Smith in 1928 rapidly restored their Democratic loyalty without causing significant upheaval in the remainder of the state, which was too focused on control of black labor to worry about Smith’s Catholicism.[7] The effects of the Great Depression were extremely severe in the South,[8] which had the highest unemployment rate in the nation. Many Southerners blamed this on the North and on Wall Street, rejecting Hoover’s claim that the Depression’s causes were exogenous,[9] and this ensured that the previous decades Acadiana revolts would not be repeated.

Louisiana was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (DNew York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 92.79 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (RCalifornia), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 7.01 percent of the popular vote.[10][11]

By percentage of the popular vote won, Louisiana was Roosevelt's third-best state, behind only South Carolina and Mississippi.

Results

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1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt 249,418 92.79%
Republican Herbert Hoover (inc.) 18,853 7.01%
Write-ins 533 0.20%
Total votes 268,804 100%

Results by parish

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1932 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parish[12]
Parish Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic
Herbert Clark Hoover
Republican
Various candidates
Write-ins
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
Acadia 3,583 91.08% 351 8.92% 3,232 82.16% 3,934
Allen 2,075 93.93% 130 5.89% 4 0.18% 1,945 88.05% 2,209
Ascension 1,800 86.58% 279 13.42% 1,521 73.16% 2,079
Assumption 1,538 79.94% 386 20.06% 1,152 59.88% 1,924
Avoyelles 3,148 96.03% 130 3.97% 3,018 92.07% 3,278
Beauregard 2,319 94.08% 146 5.92% 2,173 88.15% 2,465
Bienville 2,671 98.45% 41 1.51% 1 0.04% 2,630 96.94% 2,713
Bossier 2,191 97.51% 56 2.49% 2,135 95.02% 2,247
Caddo 12,159 89.71% 1,309 9.66% 85 0.63% 10,850 80.06% 13,553
Calcasieu 6,105 89.71% 678 9.96% 22 0.32% 5,427 79.75% 6,805
Caldwell 1,448 93.96% 86 5.58% 7 0.45% 1,362 88.38% 1,541
Cameron 938 98.95% 10 1.05% 928 97.89% 948
Catahoula 1,340 97.88% 29 2.12% 1,311 95.76% 1,369
Claiborne 2,765 97.84% 61 2.16% 2,704 95.68% 2,826
Concordia 999 98.04% 20 1.96% 979 96.07% 1,019
De Soto 2,416 96.45% 87 3.47% 2 0.08% 2,329 92.97% 2,505
East Baton Rouge 6,363 85.51% 1,045 14.04% 33 0.44% 5,318 71.47% 7,441
East Carroll 751 96.90% 24 3.10% 727 93.81% 775
East Feliciana 1,178 94.77% 65 5.23% 1,113 89.54% 1,243
Evangeline 3,115 98.36% 52 1.64% 3,063 96.72% 3,167
Franklin 2,930 97.34% 78 2.59% 2 0.07% 2,852 94.75% 3,010
Grant 1,966 96.00% 81 3.96% 1 0.05% 1,885 92.04% 2,048
Iberia 2,412 75.14% 798 24.86% 1,614 50.28% 3,210
Iberville 1,308 75.26% 430 24.74% 878 50.52% 1,738
Jackson 1,748 98.09% 34 1.91% 1,714 96.18% 1,782
Jefferson 7,395 93.90% 466 5.92% 14 0.18% 6,929 87.99% 7,875
Jefferson Davis 2,308 81.73% 512 18.13% 4 0.14% 1,796 63.60% 2,824
Lafayette 4,019 93.21% 291 6.75% 2 0.05% 3,728 86.46% 4,312
Lafourche 2,623 87.78% 364 12.18% 1 0.03% 2,259 75.60% 2,988
LaSalle 1,738 93.64% 117 6.30% 1 0.05% 1,621 87.34% 1,856
Lincoln 1,908 92.13% 163 7.87% 1,745 84.26% 2,071
Livingston 1,953 95.64% 89 4.36% 1,864 91.28% 2,042
Madison 548 89.11% 67 10.89% 481 78.21% 615
Morehouse 2,014 96.04% 83 3.96% 1,931 92.08% 2,097
Natchitoches 3,458 95.18% 173 4.76% 2 0.06% 3,285 90.42% 3,633
Orleans 85,288 93.87% 5,407 5.95% 165 0.18% 79,881 87.92% 90,860
Ouachita 5,968 92.86% 423 6.58% 36 0.56% 5,545 86.28% 6,427
Plaquemines 1,918 98.06% 38 1.94% 1,880 96.11% 1,956
Pointe Coupee 1,027 94.05% 65 5.95% 962 88.10% 1,092
Rapides 7,578 91.77% 680 8.23% 6,898 83.53% 8,258
Red River 1,661 98.34% 24 1.42% 4 0.24% 1,637 96.92% 1,689
Richland 1,773 97.42% 46 2.53% 1 0.05% 1,727 94.89% 1,820
Sabine 3,008 96.16% 110 3.52% 10 0.32% 2,898 92.65% 3,128
Saint Bernard 1,525 93.50% 106 6.50% 1,419 87.00% 1,631
Saint Charles 1,429 94.08% 86 5.66% 4 0.26% 1,343 88.41% 1,519
Saint Helena 962 97.37% 26 2.63% 936 94.74% 988
Saint James 1,715 87.72% 240 12.28% 1,475 75.45% 1,955
Saint John the Baptist 799 79.58% 176 17.53% 29 2.89% 623 62.05% 1,004
Saint Landry 3,766 92.69% 297 7.31% 3,469 85.38% 4,063
Saint Martin 1,420 92.99% 107 7.01% 1,313 85.99% 1,527
Saint Mary 2,072 81.41% 473 18.59% 1,599 62.83% 2,545
Saint Tammany 3,206 94.60% 178 5.25% 5 0.15% 3,028 89.35% 3,389
Tangipahoa 4,404 90.58% 455 9.36% 3 0.06% 3,949 81.22% 4,862
Tensas 635 95.49% 29 4.36% 1 0.15% 606 91.13% 665
Terrebonne 2,126 90.82% 215 9.18% 1,911 81.63% 2,341
Union 2,285 97.52% 58 2.48% 2,227 95.05% 2,343
Vermilion 2,945 91.63% 269 8.37% 2,676 83.26% 3,214
Vernon 2,868 96.60% 46 1.55% 55 1.85% 2,822 95.05% 2,969
Washington 3,997 93.37% 283 6.61% 1 0.02% 3,714 86.76% 4,281
Webster 3,020 97.64% 73 2.36% 2,947 95.28% 3,093
West Baton Rouge 593 86.07% 96 13.93% 497 72.13% 689
West Carroll 1,471 97.94% 31 2.06% 1,440 95.87% 1,502
West Feliciana 557 91.91% 49 8.09% 508 83.83% 606
Winn 2,172 96.71% 36 1.60% 38 1.69% 2,136 95.10% 2,246
Totals 249,418 92.79% 18,853 7.01% 533 0.20% 230,565 85.77% 268,804

See also

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References

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  8. ^ Lewinson, Paul (1965). Race, class and party; a history of Negro suffrage and white politics in the South. pp. 167–168.
  9. ^ Ritchie, Donald A. (2007). Electing FDR: the New Deal campaign of 1932. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. p. 143. ISBN 978-0700616879.
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  11. ^ "The American Presidency Project — Election of 1932". Retrieved January 20, 2019.
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