1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota

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

1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota

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All 4 South Dakota 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 4 0
Popular vote 183,515 99,212
Percentage 63.62% 34.40%

County Results

President before election

Herbert Hoover
Republican

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

South Dakota was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (DNew York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 63.62 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (RCalifornia), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 34.40 percent of the popular vote.[3]

As a result of his win in the state, Roosevelt became only the second Democratic presidential candidate to win South Dakota as well as the first since William Jennings Bryan in 1896.

This is the only occasion since South Dakota’s statehood when Campbell County, Hutchinson County, Sully County and Turner County have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate,[4] and the last occasion when Butte County and McPherson County have done so.[5]

This election constitutes the most raw votes a Democrat has ever received in South Dakota. Along with North Dakota in the same year, this is the longest standing such record.[6] It is one of just seven states where a candidate other than Joe Biden in 2020 or Barack Obama in either of his runs holds the record for most raw votes ever received by a Democrat for president, the other six being Rhode Island and West Virginia (Lyndon Johnson), Louisiana and Arkansas (Bill Clinton), North Dakota (Franklin D. Roosevelt), and Oklahoma (Jimmy Carter).[citation needed]

Results edit

1932 United States presidential election in South Dakota
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt 183,515 63.62%
Republican Herbert Hoover (inc.) 99,212 34.40%
Liberty William Harvey 3,333 1.16%
Independent Norman Thomas 1,551 0.54%
Independent William Upshaw 463 0.16%
Independent William Foster 364 0.13%
Total votes 288,438 100%

Results by county edit

County[7] Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic
Herbert Clark Hoover
Republican
William Hope Harvey
Liberty
Norman Mattoon Thomas
Independent
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Aurora 2,304 71.58% 860 26.72% 17 0.53% 33 1.03% 5 0.16% 1,444 44.86% 3,219
Beadle 6,246 66.83% 2,995 32.05% 32 0.34% 58 0.62% 15 0.16% 3,251 34.78% 9,346
Bennett 1,410 73.90% 453 23.74% 22 1.15% 16 0.84% 7 0.37% 957 50.16% 1,908
Bon Homme 3,504 71.72% 1,354 27.71% 9 0.18% 14 0.29% 5 0.10% 2,150 44.00% 4,886
Brookings 3,247 49.20% 3,231 48.96% 33 0.50% 61 0.92% 27 0.41% 16 0.24% 6,599
Brown 8,669 63.74% 4,639 34.11% 89 0.65% 93 0.68% 111 0.82% 4,030 29.63% 13,601
Brule 2,465 74.36% 797 24.04% 5 0.15% 40 1.21% 8 0.24% 1,668 50.32% 3,315
Buffalo 634 69.59% 270 29.64% 5 0.55% 1 0.11% 1 0.11% 364 39.96% 911
Butte 1,684 50.46% 1,594 47.77% 18 0.54% 3 0.09% 38 1.14% 90 2.70% 3,337
Campbell 1,116 58.61% 770 40.44% 12 0.63% 2 0.11% 4 0.21% 346 18.17% 1,904
Charles Mix 5,399 78.86% 1,397 20.41% 15 0.22% 26 0.38% 9 0.13% 4,002 58.46% 6,846
Clark 2,649 61.60% 1,572 36.56% 51 1.19% 13 0.30% 15 0.35% 1,077 25.05% 4,300
Clay 3,040 65.74% 1,514 32.74% 23 0.50% 38 0.82% 9 0.19% 1,526 33.00% 4,624
Codington 4,806 64.98% 2,538 34.32% 23 0.31% 20 0.27% 9 0.12% 2,268 30.67% 7,396
Corson 2,403 68.97% 946 27.15% 111 3.19% 20 0.57% 4 0.11% 1,457 41.82% 3,484
Custer 1,548 60.28% 977 38.05% 21 0.82% 12 0.47% 10 0.39% 571 22.24% 2,568
Davison 5,233 69.96% 2,147 28.70% 40 0.53% 30 0.40% 30 0.40% 3,086 41.26% 7,480
Day 3,910 63.16% 1,983 32.03% 208 3.36% 27 0.44% 63 1.02% 1,927 31.13% 6,191
Deuel 1,658 58.96% 1,131 40.22% 9 0.32% 7 0.25% 7 0.25% 527 18.74% 2,812
Dewey 1,591 68.37% 710 30.51% 18 0.77% 7 0.30% 1 0.04% 881 37.86% 2,327
Douglas 2,005 65.39% 1,045 34.08% 7 0.23% 6 0.20% 3 0.10% 960 31.31% 3,066
Edmunds 2,588 67.47% 1,183 30.84% 23 0.60% 23 0.60% 19 0.50% 1,405 36.63% 3,836
Fall River 2,603 64.61% 1,351 33.53% 41 1.02% 23 0.57% 11 0.27% 1,252 31.07% 4,029
Faulk 1,743 59.49% 1,141 38.94% 16 0.55% 23 0.78% 7 0.24% 602 20.55% 2,930
Grant 2,887 64.56% 1,515 33.88% 33 0.74% 26 0.58% 11 0.25% 1,372 30.68% 4,472
Gregory 3,278 73.30% 1,169 26.14% 18 0.40% 4 0.09% 3 0.07% 2,109 47.16% 4,472
Haakon 1,245 55.73% 797 35.68% 175 7.83% 14 0.63% 3 0.13% 448 20.05% 2,234
Hamlin 1,920 59.44% 1,267 39.23% 14 0.43% 13 0.40% 16 0.50% 653 20.22% 3,230
Hand 2,658 64.75% 1,394 33.96% 33 0.80% 14 0.34% 6 0.15% 1,264 30.79% 4,105
Hanson 1,783 67.28% 845 31.89% 14 0.53% 7 0.26% 1 0.04% 938 35.40% 2,650
Harding 715 49.52% 625 43.28% 76 5.26% 22 1.52% 6 0.42% 90 6.23% 1,444
Hughes 1,852 56.64% 1,374 42.02% 22 0.67% 8 0.24% 14 0.43% 478 14.62% 3,270
Hutchinson 3,630 69.92% 1,504 28.97% 21 0.40% 27 0.52% 10 0.19% 2,126 40.95% 5,192
Hyde 895 56.08% 678 42.48% 8 0.50% 13 0.81% 2 0.13% 217 13.60% 1,596
Jackson 812 60.42% 499 37.13% 23 1.71% 4 0.30% 6 0.45% 313 23.29% 1,344
Jerauld 1,773 66.33% 836 31.28% 33 1.23% 8 0.30% 23 0.86% 937 35.05% 2,673
Jones 929 63.85% 472 32.44% 26 1.79% 23 1.58% 5 0.34% 457 31.41% 1,455
Kingsbury 2,808 55.79% 2,135 42.42% 72 1.43% 11 0.22% 7 0.14% 673 13.37% 5,033
Lake 3,090 57.15% 2,222 41.09% 54 1.00% 37 0.68% 4 0.07% 868 16.05% 5,407
Lawrence 3,106 45.22% 3,708 53.99% 12 0.17% 30 0.44% 12 0.17% -602 -8.77% 6,868
Lincoln 3,300 59.35% 2,160 38.85% 25 0.45% 66 1.19% 9 0.16% 1,140 20.50% 5,560
Lyman 1,879 68.83% 811 29.71% 23 0.84% 13 0.48% 4 0.15% 1,068 39.12% 2,730
Marshall 2,137 62.01% 935 27.13% 349 10.13% 9 0.26% 16 0.46% 1,202 34.88% 3,446
McCook 2,884 65.22% 1,436 32.47% 89 2.01% 9 0.20% 4 0.09% 1,448 32.75% 4,422
McPherson 2,650 80.25% 606 18.35% 24 0.73% 20 0.61% 2 0.06% 2,044 61.90% 3,302
Meade 2,687 58.31% 1,735 37.65% 126 2.73% 37 0.80% 23 0.50% 952 20.66% 4,608
Mellette 1,583 70.20% 657 29.14% 9 0.40% 5 0.22% 1 0.04% 926 41.06% 2,255
Miner 2,332 68.27% 976 28.57% 85 2.49% 20 0.59% 3 0.09% 1,356 39.70% 3,416
Minnehaha 12,646 54.34% 10,288 44.21% 126 0.54% 152 0.65% 61 0.26% 2,358 10.13% 23,273
Moody 2,547 65.21% 1,289 33.00% 33 0.84% 34 0.87% 3 0.08% 1,258 32.21% 3,906
Pennington 5,178 58.34% 3,638 40.99% 42 0.47% 16 0.18% 1 0.01% 1,540 17.35% 8,875
Perkins 1,852 53.96% 1,406 40.97% 134 3.90% 34 0.99% 6 0.17% 446 13.00% 3,432
Potter 1,668 70.98% 660 28.09% 5 0.21% 9 0.38% 8 0.34% 1,008 42.89% 2,350
Roberts 4,440 69.72% 1,381 21.69% 485 7.62% 40 0.63% 22 0.35% 3,059 48.04% 6,368
Sanborn 2,398 73.09% 860 26.21% 18 0.55% 1 0.03% 4 0.12% 1,538 46.88% 3,281
Shannon 798 63.23% 463 36.69% 1 0.08% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 335 26.55% 1,262
Spink 4,046 60.98% 2,433 36.67% 104 1.57% 38 0.57% 14 0.21% 1,613 24.31% 6,635
Stanley 757 56.66% 553 41.39% 15 1.12% 4 0.30% 7 0.52% 204 15.27% 1,336
Sully 961 61.25% 559 35.63% 30 1.91% 8 0.51% 11 0.70% 402 25.62% 1,569
Todd 1,485 73.01% 533 26.20% 9 0.44% 5 0.25% 2 0.10% 952 46.80% 2,034
Tripp 3,647 75.26% 1,147 23.67% 16 0.33% 28 0.58% 8 0.17% 2,500 51.59% 4,846
Turner 3,170 58.65% 2,172 40.19% 33 0.61% 24 0.44% 6 0.11% 998 18.46% 5,405
Union 3,530 71.21% 1,381 27.86% 5 0.10% 22 0.44% 19 0.38% 2,149 43.35% 4,957
Walworth 2,221 66.90% 1,049 31.60% 22 0.66% 18 0.54% 10 0.30% 1,172 35.30% 3,320
Washabaugh 612 80.42% 134 17.61% 3 0.39% 6 0.79% 6 0.79% 478 62.81% 761
Washington 342 67.99% 157 31.21% 2 0.40% 1 0.20% 1 0.20% 185 36.78% 503
Yankton 4,930 73.25% 1,693 25.16% 13 0.19% 88 1.31% 6 0.09% 3,237 48.10% 6,730
Ziebach 982 66.67% 462 31.36% 25 1.70% 3 0.20% 1 0.07% 520 35.30% 1,473
Armstrong[a] 0 N/A 0 N/A 0 N/A 0 N/A 0 N/A N/A N/A 0
Totals 183,515 63.62% 99,212 34.40% 3,333 1.16% 1,551 0.54% 827 0.29% 84,303 29.23% 288,438

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ No returns were canvassed for Armstrong County and voters from this county were listed in neighbouring counties.[8]

References edit

  1. ^ "United States Presidential election of 1932 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  2. ^ "1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37)". Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  3. ^ "1932 Presidential General Election Results – South Dakota". US Election Atlas. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  4. ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 294-298 ISBN 0786422173
  5. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  6. ^ "Our Campaigns - Container Detail Page". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
  7. ^ Our Campaigns; SD US Presidential Election Race, November 08, 1932
  8. ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 412 ISBN 0405077114