1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania

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1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
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Nominee Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt
Party Republican Democratic
Home state California New York
Running mate Charles Curtis John N. Garner
Electoral vote 36 0
Popular vote 1,453,540 1,295,948
Percentage 50.84% 45.33%
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Herbert Hoover
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

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The 1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Pennsylvania voted for the Republican nominee, President Herbert Hoover, over the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hoover won Pennsylvania by a margin of 5.51%. With 50.84% of the popular vote, Pennsylvania would be Hoover's third strongest state in the nation after Vermont and Maine.[1]

Pennsylvania was one of only six states – along with Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont – which voted to re-elect the embattled Hoover, who was widely unpopular over his failure to adequately address the Great Depression.

This is the last election where the Republican candidate carried Philadelphia County, then still controlled by a Republican political machine, in a presidential election.[2] This was the last time that Luzerne County voted for the statewide loser until 2020. This is also one of only four occasions where Pennsylvania and Michigan voted for different presidential candidates ever since the Democrats and Republicans became the two major parties in U.S. politics.[3][a]

Results

1932 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[4]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Herbert Hoover (incumbent) 1,453,540 50.84% 36
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt 1,295,948 45.33% 0
Socialist Norman Thomas 91,223 3.19% 0
Prohibition William Upshaw 11,369 0.40% 0
Communist William Z. Foster 5,659 0.20% 0
Jobless James Cox 726 0.03% 0
Industrialist Verne L. Reynolds 659 0.02% 0
Totals 2,858,247 100.00% 36

Results by county

County Herbert Clark Hoover
Republican 		Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic 		Norman Mattoon Thomas[5]
Socialist 		Various candidates
Other parties 		Margin Total votes cast[6]
# % # % # % # % # %
Adams 6,084 45.09% 7,185 53.25% 158 1.17% 67 0.50% -1,101 -8.16% 13,494
Allegheny 152,326 42.43% 189,839 52.88% 14,777 4.12% 2,061 0.57% -37,513 -10.45% 359,003
Armstrong 10,884 52.10% 9,230 44.18% 483 2.31% 293 1.40% 1,654 7.92% 20,890
Beaver 19,751 47.87% 19,805 48.00% 1,325 3.21% 379 0.92% -54 -0.13% 41,260
Bedford 6,597 54.29% 5,075 41.76% 350 2.88% 130 1.07% 1,522 12.52% 12,152
Berks 27,073 37.07% 29,763 40.76% 15,988 21.89% 199 0.27% -2,690 -3.68% 73,023
Blair 19,553 56.95% 13,709 39.93% 840 2.45% 232 0.68% 5,844 17.02% 34,334
Bradford 11,521 63.34% 5,970 32.82% 562 3.09% 135 0.74% 5,551 30.52% 18,188
Bucks 22,331 59.07% 14,135 37.39% 1,203 3.18% 138 0.37% 8,196 21.68% 37,807
Butler 11,543 54.77% 8,717 41.36% 535 2.54% 280 1.33% 2,826 13.41% 21,075
Cambria 21,351 41.75% 28,197 55.13% 1,245 2.43% 352 0.69% -6,846 -13.39% 51,145
Cameron 1,438 64.31% 748 33.45% 36 1.61% 14 0.63% 690 30.86% 2,236
Carbon 9,918 48.52% 9,874 48.30% 604 2.95% 45 0.22% 44 0.22% 20,441
Centre 8,264 52.55% 7,053 44.85% 244 1.55% 165 1.05% 1,211 7.70% 15,726
Chester 29,425 69.21% 12,040 28.32% 879 2.07% 173 0.41% 17,385 40.89% 42,517
Clarion 5,991 46.05% 6,651 51.12% 211 1.62% 158 1.21% -660 -5.07% 13,011
Clearfield 10,500 46.84% 11,029 49.20% 675 3.01% 213 0.95% -529 -2.36% 22,417
Clinton 4,851 54.54% 3,741 42.06% 244 2.74% 58 0.65% 1,110 12.48% 8,894
Columbia 8,791 44.43% 10,640 53.77% 186 0.94% 170 0.86% -1,849 -9.34% 19,787
Crawford 10,918 51.72% 9,382 44.44% 505 2.39% 306 1.45% 1,536 7.28% 21,111
Cumberland 13,098 50.86% 12,086 46.93% 257 1.00% 310 1.20% 1,012 3.93% 25,751
Dauphin 36,278 60.31% 22,412 37.26% 1,098 1.83% 364 0.61% 13,866 23.05% 60,152
Delaware 75,291 68.19% 32,413 29.36% 2,372 2.15% 333 0.30% 42,878 38.84% 110,409
Elk 5,797 46.39% 6,461 51.70% 184 1.47% 55 0.44% -664 -5.31% 12,497
Erie 18,371 45.43% 19,592 48.44% 2,027 5.01% 452 1.12% -1,221 -3.02% 40,442
Fayette 15,903 35.26% 27,662 61.33% 1,222 2.71% 319 0.71% -11,759 -26.07% 45,106
Forest 1,090 63.34% 569 33.06% 27 1.57% 35 2.03% 521 30.27% 1,721
Franklin 10,992 52.96% 9,338 44.99% 266 1.28% 161 0.78% 1,654 7.97% 20,757
Fulton 1,410 41.83% 1,921 56.99% 15 0.44% 25 0.74% -511 -15.16% 3,371
Greene 4,808 33.41% 9,322 64.77% 111 0.77% 152 1.06% -4,514 -31.36% 14,393
Huntingdon 7,371 66.39% 3,426 30.86% 181 1.63% 125 1.13% 3,945 35.53% 11,103
Indiana 12,727 57.24% 8,606 38.70% 625 2.81% 277 1.25% 4,121 18.53% 22,235
Jefferson 8,246 52.48% 6,570 41.81% 697 4.44% 200 1.27% 1,676 10.67% 15,713
Juniata 2,752 48.44% 2,805 49.38% 40 0.70% 84 1.48% -53 -0.93% 5,681
Lackawanna 34,632 45.24% 40,793 53.28% 865 1.13% 270 0.35% -6,161 -8.05% 76,560
Lancaster 34,502 56.54% 24,406 40.00% 1,757 2.88% 354 0.58% 10,096 16.55% 61,019
Lawrence 13,064 55.10% 9,390 39.61% 883 3.72% 372 1.57% 3,674 15.50% 23,709
Lebanon 10,487 58.97% 5,924 33.31% 1,256 7.06% 117 0.66% 4,563 25.66% 17,784
Lehigh 21,169 46.95% 21,939 48.65% 1,858 4.12% 127 0.28% -770 -1.71% 45,093
Luzerne 52,672 45.44% 60,975 52.60% 1,943 1.68% 338 0.29% -8,303 -7.16% 115,928
Lycoming 16,212 55.43% 11,499 39.31% 1,164 3.98% 375 1.28% 4,713 16.11% 29,250
McKean 9,970 65.01% 4,661 30.39% 607 3.96% 97 0.63% 5,309 34.62% 15,335
Mercer 14,057 53.53% 10,961 41.74% 827 3.15% 413 1.57% 3,096 11.79% 26,258
Mifflin 5,525 58.95% 3,654 38.99% 121 1.29% 72 0.77% 1,871 19.96% 9,372
Monroe 4,659 41.60% 6,357 56.76% 143 1.28% 40 0.36% -1,698 -15.16% 11,199
Montgomery 64,619 64.00% 32,971 32.66% 3,168 3.14% 203 0.20% 31,648 31.35% 100,961
Montour 2,159 44.24% 2,677 54.86% 30 0.61% 14 0.29% -518 -10.61% 4,880
Northampton 20,779 45.04% 24,009 52.04% 1,148 2.49% 197 0.43% -3,230 -7.00% 46,133
Northumberland 17,982 42.35% 23,114 54.43% 1,265 2.98% 103 0.24% -5,132 -12.09% 42,464
Perry 4,402 53.23% 3,733 45.14% 66 0.80% 68 0.82% 669 8.09% 8,269
Philadelphia 331,092 54.54% 260,276 42.88% 13,038 2.15% 2,608 0.43% 70,816 11.67% 607,014
Pike 1,649 46.36% 1,844 51.84% 57 1.60% 7 0.20% -195 -5.48% 3,557
Potter 3,847 58.53% 2,271 34.55% 384 5.84% 71 1.08% 1,576 23.98% 6,573
Schuylkill 32,492 46.88% 35,023 50.53% 1,405 2.03% 385 0.56% -2,531 -3.65% 69,305
Snyder 3,423 59.37% 2,176 37.74% 97 1.68% 70 1.21% 1,247 21.63% 5,766
Somerset 11,857 58.56% 7,919 39.11% 339 1.67% 134 0.66% 3,938 19.45% 20,249
Sullivan 1,457 46.77% 1,602 51.42% 35 1.12% 21 0.67% -145 -4.65% 3,115
Susquehanna 6,884 55.99% 5,171 42.06% 168 1.37% 72 0.59% 1,713 13.93% 12,295
Tioga 9,583 75.00% 3,004 23.51% 119 0.93% 72 0.56% 6,579 51.49% 12,778
Union 3,534 61.63% 1,948 33.97% 187 3.26% 65 1.13% 1,586 27.66% 5,734
Venango 12,230 64.07% 6,174 32.34% 308 1.61% 376 1.97% 6,056 31.73% 19,088
Warren 7,872 57.24% 5,254 38.20% 476 3.46% 151 1.10% 2,618 19.04% 13,753
Washington 21,447 40.82% 28,934 55.07% 1,556 2.96% 599 1.14% -7,487 -14.25% 52,536
Wayne 6,215 61.47% 3,666 36.26% 160 1.58% 70 0.69% 2,549 25.21% 10,111
Westmoreland 30,426 37.73% 45,436 56.34% 3,988 4.94% 801 0.99% -15,010 -18.61% 80,651
Wyoming 3,968 58.00% 2,728 39.88% 84 1.23% 61 0.89% 1,240 18.13% 6,841
York 25,430 44.33% 29,313 51.10% 1,549 2.70% 1,073 1.87% -3,883 -6.77% 57,365
Totals 1,464,533 51.24% 1,284,235 44.93% 91,223 3.19% 18,256 0.64% 180,298 6.31% 2,858,247

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The other times were in 1856, 1940, and 1976. Additionally, this was the only one of the four where Pennsylvania backed the Republican and Michigan backed the Democrat.

References

  1. ^ "1932 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  3. ^ Brownstein, Ronald (September 16, 2024). "Why these three states are the most consistent tipping point in American politics". CNN. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
  4. ^ David Leip. "1932 Presidential General Election Results – Pennsylvania". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
  5. ^ Géoelections; 1932 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15 on request)
  6. ^ Robinson, Edgar Eugene; The Presidential Vote 1896-1932, pp. 309-313 ISBN 9780804716963