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The American Political Almanac
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The Nation Decides

Electoral votes, the popular vote, and how every state moved
✓ Won
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democrat
Franklin D. Roosevelt
472
Electoral votes
57.4% · 22,988,507
President · The New Deal Order

1932

Roosevelt def. Hoover, 472–59
vote totals summed from county returns

Also running: Norman Thomas (2.2%)

Herbert Hoover
Republican
Herbert Hoover
59
Electoral votes
39.7% · 15,836,119
Electoral college — 266 to win (531 electors)472 D · 59 R
Popular vote57.4% · 39.7% · other 2.9% · margin D+17.7

39,970,851 votes counted (summed from counties) · Excludes third-party votes in 1 county whose source totals are double-counted.

Electoral map — one tile per state · coloured by county-summed popular vote
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R+40D+40third party won

Per-state electoral vote detail is staged from 1976; earlier years show the national college in the bar above, and states are coloured by their county-summed popular vote.

Missouri: the source double-counts some county totals this year, so third-party vote there is understated (shown with a +).

The swing from last time
Change in each state’s margin since 1928 · ← toward Republicans · toward Democrats →

The Map Beneath the Map

Three thousand counties, and the demography of the divide

Every county that cast a ballot, shaded by its margin. Hover any county to read it; click to open its 156-year profile. Scrub the timeline above and the map redraws in place. Vote counts exist for all forty elections; the demographic lenses begin in 2000.

County margin

Drawing three thousand counties…

R+40D+40no returns

Who voted for whom? The survey record begins with the 1948 ANES — there is no comparable individual-level account of the 1932 electorate.

Notes on this election

  • The New Deal realignment begins: FDR flipped 282 electoral votes' worth of 1928 Hoover states.