National Election Statistics

80,055,000
Voting Age Population
57.0%
Turnout by VAP

1936 Presidential Election

Results of the presidential election of 1936, won by Franklin D. Roosevelt with 523 electoral votes.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Cabinet

President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)

Vice President: John Nance Garner (1933-1941)

Secretary of State: Cordell Hull (1933-1944)

Secretary of the Treasury: Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1934-1945)

Secretary of War: Harry Hines Woodring (1936-1940), Henry L. Stimson (1940-1945)

Attorney General: Homer Stille Cummings (1933-1939), Frank Murphy (1939-1940), Robert H. Jackson (1940-1941)

Postmaster General: James Farley (1933-1940), Frank C. Walker (1940-1945)

Secretary of the Navy: Claude A. Swanson (1933-1939), Charles Edison (1939-1940), Frank Knox (1940-1944)

Secretary of the Interior: Harold L. Ickes (1933-1945)

Secretary of Agriculture: Henry A. Wallace (1933-1940), Claude R. Wickard (1940-1945)

Secretary of Commerce: Daniel C. Roper (1933-1938), Harry Hopkins (1938-1940), Jesse H. Jones (1940-1945)

Secretary of Labor: Frances Perkins (1933-1945)

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1936 National Election

267 to win
27,750,866 votes (60.8%)
Running Mate: John Nance Garner
16,679,683 votes (36.5%)
Running Mate: Frank Knox

20th Amendment ratified in this cycle: Inauguration day moves from March 4th to January 20th.

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