1936 United States presidential election in Idaho
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The 1936 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose four[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Idaho was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York) and Vice President John Nance Garner (D–Texas) with 62.96 percent of the popular vote, over Governor Alf Landon (R–Kansas) and running mate Frank Knox (R–Illinois) with 33.19 percent of the popular vote.[3][4]
Idaho has since become a Republican stronghold; as of 2020, this election marks the last time that Ada County, Canyon County, Gooding County, Jerome County, Lincoln County, Payette County and Twin Falls County would vote for a Democratic presidential nominee,[5][6] the last time that a Democrat would carry the state by double digits, and the last time that the state would (by margin of victory) vote more Democratic than the nation as a whole.
Republican nomination
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William Borah, the Republican Senator for Idaho ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1936, the first candidate from Idaho to do so.
His candidacy was opposed by the conservative Republican leadership. Borah praised Roosevelt for some of his policies, and deeply criticized the Republican Party. With only 25 Republicans left in the Senate, Borah saw an opportunity to recast the Republican Party along progressive lines, as he had long sought to do. He was opposed by the Republican organization, which sought to dilute his strength in the primaries by running state favorite son candidates in order to ensure a brokered convention. Despite being easily the leading primary vote-getter, Borah managed to win only a handful of delegates and took a majority of them in only one state, Wisconsin, where he had the endorsement of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr. Borah refused to endorse the eventual candidate, Kansas Governor Alf Landon (who was nominated at the 1936 Republican National Convention), leading some to believe Borah might cross party lines and support Roosevelt. Ultimately, as he had four years earlier, he chose to endorse neither candidate.[7] Borah was on the ballot that fall in Idaho, seeking a sixth term in the Senate. For the first time since the people had been given the right to elect senators, the Democrats ran a serious candidate against him, Governor C. Ben Ross. Although Idahoans overwhelmingly voted for Roosevelt, who won every state except Maine and Vermont, Borah still took over sixty percent of their votes in his re-election bid.[8]
Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) | 125,683 | 62.96% | |
| Republican | Alf Landon | 66,256 | 33.19% | |
| Union | William Lemke | 7,678 | 3.85% | |
| Total votes | 199,617 | 100% | ||
Results by county
[edit]| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic |
Alfred Mossman Landon Republican |
William Frederick Lemke Union |
Margin | Total votes cast[9] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Ada | 12,027 | 58.46% | 7,581 | 36.85% | 966 | 4.70% | 4,446 | 21.61% | 20,574 |
| Adams | 770 | 59.41% | 434 | 33.49% | 92 | 7.10% | 336 | 25.93% | 1,296 |
| Bannock | 9,443 | 70.51% | 3,830 | 28.60% | 120 | 0.90% | 5,613 | 41.91% | 13,393 |
| Bear Lake | 2,078 | 59.61% | 1,404 | 40.28% | 4 | 0.11% | 674 | 19.33% | 3,486 |
| Benewah | 1,906 | 65.70% | 897 | 30.92% | 98 | 3.38% | 1,009 | 34.78% | 2,901 |
| Bingham | 4,215 | 62.42% | 2,354 | 34.86% | 184 | 2.72% | 1,861 | 27.56% | 6,753 |
| Blaine | 1,361 | 64.59% | 735 | 34.88% | 11 | 0.52% | 626 | 29.71% | 2,107 |
| Boise | 780 | 65.55% | 368 | 30.92% | 42 | 3.53% | 412 | 34.62% | 1,190 |
| Bonner | 3,521 | 58.75% | 2,016 | 33.64% | 456 | 7.61% | 1,505 | 25.11% | 5,993 |
| Bonneville | 5,439 | 69.85% | 2,213 | 28.42% | 135 | 1.73% | 3,226 | 41.43% | 7,787 |
| Boundary | 1,304 | 60.31% | 732 | 33.86% | 126 | 5.83% | 572 | 26.46% | 2,162 |
| Butte | 546 | 62.83% | 312 | 35.90% | 11 | 1.27% | 234 | 26.93% | 869 |
| Camas | 442 | 60.47% | 274 | 37.48% | 15 | 2.05% | 168 | 22.98% | 731 |
| Canyon | 8,290 | 56.99% | 4,910 | 33.75% | 1,347 | 9.26% | 3,380 | 23.24% | 14,547 |
| Caribou | 640 | 66.53% | 321 | 33.37% | 1 | 0.10% | 319 | 33.16% | 962 |
| Cassia | 3,100 | 64.62% | 1,629 | 33.96% | 68 | 1.42% | 1,471 | 30.66% | 4,797 |
| Clark | 272 | 46.90% | 304 | 52.41% | 4 | 0.69% | -32 | -5.52% | 580 |
| Clearwater | 1,959 | 66.95% | 812 | 27.75% | 155 | 5.30% | 1,147 | 39.20% | 2,926 |
| Custer | 875 | 61.58% | 530 | 37.30% | 16 | 1.13% | 345 | 24.28% | 1,421 |
| Elmore | 1,567 | 65.84% | 688 | 28.91% | 125 | 5.25% | 879 | 36.93% | 2,380 |
| Franklin | 2,255 | 61.44% | 1,396 | 38.04% | 19 | 0.52% | 859 | 23.41% | 3,670 |
| Fremont | 2,904 | 66.51% | 1,423 | 32.59% | 39 | 0.89% | 1,481 | 33.92% | 4,366 |
| Gem | 2,468 | 69.17% | 879 | 24.64% | 221 | 6.19% | 1,589 | 44.53% | 3,568 |
| Gooding | 2,100 | 56.68% | 1,505 | 40.62% | 100 | 2.70% | 595 | 16.06% | 3,705 |
| Idaho | 3,104 | 62.97% | 1,535 | 31.14% | 290 | 5.88% | 1,569 | 31.83% | 4,929 |
| Jefferson | 2,776 | 71.84% | 1,037 | 26.84% | 51 | 1.32% | 1,739 | 45.01% | 3,864 |
| Jerome | 2,374 | 62.84% | 1,297 | 34.33% | 107 | 2.83% | 1,077 | 28.51% | 3,778 |
| Kootenai | 5,752 | 63.92% | 2,586 | 28.74% | 661 | 7.35% | 3,166 | 35.18% | 8,999 |
| Latah | 4,359 | 58.45% | 2,838 | 38.05% | 261 | 3.50% | 1,521 | 20.39% | 7,458 |
| Lemhi | 1,648 | 61.82% | 943 | 35.37% | 75 | 2.81% | 705 | 26.44% | 2,666 |
| Lewis | 1,612 | 74.35% | 507 | 23.39% | 49 | 2.26% | 1,105 | 50.97% | 2,168 |
| Lincoln | 916 | 53.22% | 766 | 44.51% | 39 | 2.27% | 150 | 8.72% | 1,721 |
| Madison | 2,455 | 68.35% | 1,114 | 31.01% | 23 | 0.64% | 1,341 | 37.33% | 3,592 |
| Minidoka | 2,095 | 67.65% | 948 | 30.61% | 54 | 1.74% | 1,147 | 37.04% | 3,097 |
| Nez Perce | 5,705 | 71.45% | 1,988 | 24.90% | 292 | 3.66% | 3,717 | 46.55% | 7,985 |
| Oneida | 1,673 | 63.42% | 955 | 36.20% | 10 | 0.38% | 718 | 27.22% | 2,638 |
| Owyhee | 1,106 | 64.00% | 500 | 28.94% | 122 | 7.06% | 606 | 35.07% | 1,728 |
| Payette | 1,677 | 45.78% | 1,524 | 41.61% | 462 | 12.61% | 153 | 4.18% | 3,663 |
| Power | 1,075 | 59.33% | 708 | 39.07% | 29 | 1.60% | 367 | 20.25% | 1,812 |
| Shoshone | 5,377 | 70.92% | 2,146 | 28.30% | 59 | 0.78% | 3,231 | 42.61% | 7,582 |
| Teton | 834 | 59.19% | 542 | 38.47% | 33 | 2.34% | 292 | 20.72% | 1,409 |
| Twin Falls | 7,476 | 58.28% | 4,966 | 38.71% | 386 | 3.01% | 2,510 | 19.57% | 12,828 |
| Valley | 1,260 | 63.64% | 575 | 29.04% | 145 | 7.32% | 685 | 34.60% | 1,980 |
| Washington | 2,147 | 60.38% | 1,234 | 34.70% | 175 | 4.92% | 913 | 25.67% | 3,556 |
| Totals | 125,683 | 62.96% | 66,256 | 33.19% | 7,678 | 3.85% | 59,427 | 29.77% | 199,617 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
[edit]Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1936 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ^ "1936 Election for the Thirty-eighth Term (1937-41)". Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ^ "1936 Presidential General Election Results - Idaho". Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1936". Retrieved December 30, 2018.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 178-179 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ A Lion Among The Liberals, by Kevin C. Murphy. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- ^ Johnson, Claudius O. (January 1953). "William E. Borah: The People's Choice". The Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 44 (1): 15–22. JSTOR 40486998.
- ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 119 ISBN 0405077114
