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1932 Presidential Election

VAP turnout uses this page’s presidential vote total. VAP here is the civilian population and excludes Armed Forces members. VEP turnout is a separately published historical rate, using its own turnout and population estimates. These rates are not directly comparable.
75,671,000
Voting-Age Population (VAP)
52.5%
Turnout by VAP
A state VEP map and precise population-share chart are unavailable for this year. The US Elections Project has not released pre-1980 state VEP estimates because the underlying citizenship and correctional-population data are incomplete.
Voting-Eligible Population (VEP)
National turnout by VEP: 56.9%. UF Election Lab, March 2, 2026 publishes this rounded national election turnout rate, without a population count in this dataset. It uses the source’s own turnout and population estimates and is not recalculated from this page’s presidential vote total. The two turnout rates are not directly comparable. The pre-1948 historical rates were produced by Walter Dean Burnham.
Turnout by VEP

Results of the presidential election of 1932, won by Franklin D. Roosevelt with 472 electoral votes.

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Election History

Historical context for the 1932 election. Before the election: Democrats controlled the House and Republicans controlled the Senate.

July 28, 1932

Bonus Army Evicted from Washington

Federal troops dispersed veterans demanding early bonus payments, making hardship and the government’s response a powerful symbol of Depression-era conflict.

June 17, 1930

Smoot–Hawley Tariff

Higher tariffs and international retaliation aggravated trade tensions during the Depression and fueled disputes over economic recovery policy.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Cabinet

Officials who served during the 1933–1937 elected term. Years show full tenure in office, including service outside the term; acting service is identified.

President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)

Vice President: John Nance Garner (1933–1941)

Secretary of State: Cordell Hull (1933–1944)

Secretary of the Treasury: William H. Woodin (1933–1933), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (acting in 1933) (1933–1945)

Secretary of War: George Dern (1933–1936), Harry Hines Woodring (acting until September 1936) (1936–1940)

Attorney General: Homer Stille Cummings (1933–1939)

Postmaster General: James Farley (1933–1940)

Secretary of the Navy: Claude A. Swanson (1933–1939)

Secretary of the Interior: Harold L. Ickes (1933–1946)

Secretary of Agriculture: Henry A. Wallace (1933–1940)

Secretary of Commerce: Daniel C. Roper (1933–1938)

Secretary of Labor: Frances Perkins (1933–1945)

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Electoral Votes

Other color: Socialist Party (Norman Thomas). Left-leaning alignment. Combined Other totals include all remaining candidates.

472
Franklin D. Roosevelt
59
Herbert Hoover
266 to win
22,818,740 popular votes (57.4%)
Running Mate: John Nance Garner
15,760,425 popular votes (39.6%)
Running Mate: Charles Curtis

The effects of the 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression were being felt intensely across the country. Roosevelt wins by a landslide.

1932

Presedential Election

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State Electoral Votes

Alabama

11

Alaska

Arizona

3

Arkansas

9

California

22

Colorado

6

Connecticut

8

Delaware

3

District of Columbia

Florida

7

Georgia

12

Hawaii

Idaho

4

Illinois

29

Indiana

14

Iowa

11

Kansas

9

Kentucky

11

Louisiana

10

Maine

5

Maryland

8

Massachusetts

17

Michigan

19

Minnesota

11

Mississippi

9

Missouri

15

Montana

4

Nebraska

7

Nevada

3

New Hampshire

4

New Jersey

16

New Mexico

3

New York

47

North Carolina

13

North Dakota

4

Ohio

26

Oklahoma

11

Oregon

5

Pennsylvania

36

Rhode Island

4

South Carolina

8

South Dakota

4

Tennessee

11

Texas

23

Utah

4

Vermont

3

Virginia

11

Washington

8

West Virginia

8

Wisconsin

12

Wyoming

3

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