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Election 1932 Results

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1932 presidential election in Maine

Herbert Hoover (Republican) beat Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) in Maine in 1932, 55.8% to 43.2%, a margin of 12.6 points and 37,724 votes.

Maine voted 30.4 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+17.8.

The Republican hold continued from 1928, when Herbert Hoover also won.

Republicans led in 15 of the 16 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 1. The largest, Cumberland, cast 54,033 votes and went to the Republican by 22.6 points. The closest was Waldo, where 598 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Herbert Hoover won Republican 166,631 55.8%
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 128,907 43.2%
All other candidates 2,906 1.0%
Total298,444

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cumberland 20,655 38.2% 32,864 60.8% 514 54,033 R+22.6
York 14,760 45.7% 17,301 53.5% 258 32,319 R+7.9
Penobscot 13,058 40.4% 18,987 58.8% 272 32,317 R+18.3
Kennebec 12,110 45.2% 14,451 53.9% 236 26,797 R+8.7
Androscoggin 14,441 58.8% 9,838 40.1% 283 24,562 D+18.7
Aroostook 9,409 39.8% 14,054 59.5% 168 23,631 R+19.7
Oxford 7,179 45.8% 8,264 52.7% 230 15,673 R+6.9
Washington 6,829 47.3% 7,507 51.9% 115 14,451 R+4.7
Somerset 6,040 44.9% 7,144 53.1% 277 13,461 R+8.2
Hancock 4,369 35.2% 7,942 64.1% 85 12,396 R+28.8
Knox 4,765 42.7% 6,169 55.3% 225 11,159 R+12.6
Waldo 3,907 46.1% 4,505 53.2% 55 8,467 R+7.1
Franklin 3,171 41.0% 4,521 58.5% 41 7,733 R+17.5
Lincoln 2,602 35.6% 4,666 63.8% 41 7,309 R+28.2
Piscataquis 2,849 40.1% 4,198 59.1% 52 7,099 R+19.0
Sagadahoc 2,763 39.3% 4,220 60.0% 54 7,037 R+20.7

Counties as they stood in 1932; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Maine in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+6.9
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+9.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+3.0
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+15.3
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+17.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.0
2000 Al Gore (D) D+5.1
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+20.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+8.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+11.5
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+22.1
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+3.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+0.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+23.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+12.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+37.7
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+14.1
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+41.7
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+32.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+14.5
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.0
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+2.3
1936 Alf Landon (R) R+14.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+12.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+37.7
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+50.2
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+39.1
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+4.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+19.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+29.7
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+38.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+27.1
1896 William McKinley (R) R+38.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+12.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+18.1
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+15.4
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+6.2
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+14.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+35.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.8