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1936 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.
80,055,000
Voting-Age Population (VAP)
57.0%
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: 61.0%. 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 1936, won by Franklin D. Roosevelt with 523 electoral votes.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt's Cabinet

Officials who served during the 1937–1941 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: 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 (acting until January 1940) (1939–1940), Frank Knox (1940–1944)

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

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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Electoral Votes

Other color: Union Party (William Lemke). Mixed/centrist alignment. Combined Other totals include all remaining candidates.

523
Franklin D. Roosevelt
8
Alfred M. Landon
266 to win
27,750,866 popular votes (60.8%)
Running Mate: John Nance Garner
16,679,683 popular votes (36.5%)
Running Mate: Frank Knox

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

1936

Presedential Election

Democrat

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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