Talk:1932 Democratic Party presidential primaries

Answers to questionnaire

@Ariostos

1. My preference would be something similar to how we handle Faithless Electors. See 2016.

2. I'd say preference based on delegates won.

3. We should treat them as pledged delegates. That's the most straightforward thing to do.

Happy to help! Inspector Semenych (talk) 21:07, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Keeping Track of Caucuses

This is me largely keeping track of the Democratic Presidential Caucuses (or State Conventions) that were held around the country that year and who the delegates were pledged to. I can't readily organize the data myself not being a subscriber to the New York Times, and not having a copy of the Proceedings for the '32 Democratic Convention it is not always clear how many delegates have been selected by each State or Territory; I'll leave that to someone else who is. Hopefully we don't end up with any missing contests, as I'm not sure how regularly the Times reported on these. --Ariostos (talk) 17:28, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

• Virginia for Byrd
• Washington for Roosevelt
• Alaska for Roosevelt
• Maine for Roosevelt
• Texas for Garner
• Arkansas Uninstructed, but for Roosevelt
• Connecticut for Smith
• Arizona and New Mexico maybe for Garner
• Louisiana Uncommitted
• Oklahoma for Murray
• Missouri for Senator James Reed
• Alabama for Roosevelt
• Minnesota for Roosevelt
• Delaware for Roosevelt
• Iowa for Roosevelt
• Philippines Uncommitted
• Kentucky for Roosevelt
• Michigan for Roosevelt
• Puerto Rico Uncommitted
• Canal Zone Uncommitted
• Hawaii for Roosevelt
• Rhode Island for Smith
• Wyoming for Roosevelt
• Arizona for Roosevelt
• Maryland for Governor Albert Ritchie
• Virgin Islands Uncommitted
• Kansas for Roosevelt
• Vermont for Roosevelt
• South Carolina Uncommitted
• Tennessee for Roosevelt
• Nevada for Roosevelt
• Utah and Colorado for Roosevelt
• Idaho for Roosevelt
• North Carolina for Roosevelt
• Indiana Uncommitted

You've done a lot of great research; I applaud you for that. Here you should include the protocol, and how the votes are counted, how the electors are delegated, and how each candidate wins a state, etc. Add more to the body of how the primaries take place.

The Infobox Strikes Again! (talk) 15:34, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

References

Potential Candidates

• Owen D. Young - Declined Consideration (May 16th, 1932)

References

Accuracy???

The map seems incredibly inaccurate. Additionally, the New Hampshire results are a red flag. I have come across many accounts saying that Al Smith outperformed Roosevelt in that primary, which makes me question this article's accuracy. SecretName101 (talk) 17:59, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

I don't have a source listed for New Hampshire in this case above, which was probably an oversight on my part or I was concentrating entirely on the Primaries. What I do remember thought is that quite a few of the Primary States, both New Hampshire and Massachusetts come to mind as well as New Jersey, all held their Presidential and Delegate primaries separately; the Presidential preference primary usually had no bearing on which delegates were selected to go to the National Convention. Because of this I was conflicted in these cases on whether to display the results for the Presidential Primary or the Delegate Primary, and usually I leaned towards the latter. At least that was what I was working on, I can't remember how far alone things were when I stopped. To the best of my knowledge what is displayed NOW for New Hampshire is the Presidential Preference Primary, and I think that was because I couldn't find source giving a complete set of results for the delegate primary, least those like the one in New Hampshire I put in for the 1940 Democratic Primaries.

Otherwise the map is largely accurate, I just never got back to putting in an equivalent of the 1940 Democratic Primary table into this article with the references. Minus New York that is, but that is because I could never determine what its status was. --Ariostos (talk) 01:22, 25 October 2017 (UTC)