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Election 1932 Results

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1932 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Herbert Hoover (Republican) beat Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1932, 50.8% to 45.3%, a margin of 5.5 points and 157,592 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 23.3 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 40 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 27. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 607,019 votes and went to the Republican by 11.7 points. The closest was Carbon, where 44 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 1,453,540 50.8%
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 1,295,948 45.3%
All other candidates 109,689 3.8%
Total2,859,177

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 260,276 42.9% 331,092 54.5% 15,651 607,019 R+11.7
Allegheny 189,839 52.9% 152,326 42.4% 16,838 359,003 D+10.4
Luzerne 60,975 52.6% 52,672 45.4% 2,281 115,928 D+7.2
Delaware 32,413 29.4% 75,291 68.2% 2,705 110,409 R+38.8
Montgomery 32,971 32.7% 64,619 64.0% 3,371 100,961 R+31.3
Westmoreland 45,436 56.3% 30,426 37.7% 4,789 80,651 D+18.6
Lackawanna 40,793 53.3% 34,632 45.2% 1,135 76,560 D+8.0
Berks 29,763 40.8% 27,073 37.1% 16,187 73,023 D+3.7
Schuylkill 35,023 50.5% 32,492 46.9% 1,790 69,305 D+3.7
Lancaster 24,406 40.0% 34,502 56.5% 2,111 61,019 R+16.5
Dauphin 22,412 37.3% 36,278 60.3% 1,462 60,152 R+23.1
York 29,313 51.1% 25,430 44.3% 2,622 57,365 D+6.8
Washington 28,934 55.1% 21,447 40.8% 2,155 52,536 D+14.3
Cambria 28,197 55.1% 21,351 41.7% 1,597 51,145 D+13.4
Northampton 24,009 52.0% 20,779 45.0% 1,345 46,133 D+7.0
Fayette 27,662 61.3% 15,903 35.2% 1,591 45,156 D+26.0
Lehigh 21,939 48.7% 21,169 46.9% 1,985 45,093 D+1.7
Northumberland 23,114 54.3% 17,982 42.2% 1,468 42,564 D+12.1
Chester 12,040 28.3% 29,425 69.2% 1,052 42,517 R+40.9
Beaver 19,805 48.0% 19,751 47.9% 1,704 41,260 D+0.1
Erie 19,592 48.4% 18,371 45.4% 2,479 40,442 D+3.0
Bucks 14,135 37.4% 22,331 59.1% 1,341 37,807 R+21.7
Blair 13,709 39.9% 19,553 56.9% 1,073 34,335 R+17.0
Lycoming 11,499 39.3% 16,212 55.4% 1,539 29,250 R+16.1
Mercer 10,961 41.7% 14,057 53.5% 1,240 26,258 R+11.8
Cumberland 12,086 46.9% 13,098 50.9% 567 25,751 R+3.9
Lawrence 9,390 39.6% 13,064 55.1% 1,255 23,709 R+15.5
Clearfield 11,209 49.6% 10,500 46.5% 888 22,597 D+3.1
Indiana 8,606 38.7% 12,727 57.2% 902 22,235 R+18.5
Crawford 9,382 44.4% 10,918 51.7% 811 21,111 R+7.3
Butler 8,717 41.4% 11,543 54.8% 815 21,075 R+13.4
Armstrong 9,230 44.2% 10,884 52.1% 776 20,890 R+7.9
Franklin 9,338 45.0% 10,992 53.0% 428 20,758 R+8.0
Carbon 9,874 48.3% 9,918 48.5% 649 20,441 R+0.2
Somerset 7,919 39.1% 11,857 58.6% 473 20,249 R+19.4
Columbia 10,640 53.8% 8,791 44.4% 356 19,787 D+9.3
Venango 6,174 32.3% 12,230 64.1% 684 19,088 R+31.7
Bradford 5,970 32.8% 11,521 63.3% 697 18,188 R+30.5
Lebanon 5,924 33.3% 10,487 59.0% 1,373 17,784 R+25.7
Centre 7,053 44.8% 8,264 52.5% 409 15,726 R+7.7
Jefferson 6,570 41.8% 8,246 52.5% 897 15,713 R+10.7
McKean 4,661 30.4% 9,970 65.0% 704 15,335 R+34.6
Greene 9,322 64.8% 4,808 33.4% 258 14,388 D+31.4
Warren 5,254 38.2% 7,872 57.2% 627 13,753 R+19.0
Adams 7,185 53.2% 6,084 45.1% 225 13,494 D+8.2
Clarion 6,651 51.1% 5,991 46.0% 373 13,015 D+5.1
Tioga 3,004 23.5% 9,583 75.0% 191 12,778 R+51.5
Elk 6,461 51.7% 5,797 46.4% 239 12,497 D+5.3
Susquehanna 5,171 42.1% 6,884 56.0% 240 12,295 R+13.9
Bedford 5,075 41.8% 6,597 54.3% 480 12,152 R+12.5
Monroe 6,357 56.8% 4,659 41.6% 183 11,199 D+15.2
Huntingdon 3,426 30.9% 7,371 66.4% 306 11,103 R+35.5
Wayne 3,666 36.3% 6,215 61.5% 230 10,111 R+25.2
Mifflin 3,654 39.0% 5,525 59.0% 193 9,372 R+20.0
Clinton 3,741 42.1% 4,851 54.5% 302 8,894 R+12.5
Perry 3,733 45.1% 4,402 53.2% 134 8,269 R+8.1
Wyoming 2,728 39.9% 3,968 58.0% 145 6,841 R+18.1
Potter 2,271 34.6% 3,847 58.5% 455 6,573 R+24.0
Snyder 2,176 37.7% 3,423 59.4% 167 5,766 R+21.6
Union 1,948 34.0% 3,534 61.6% 252 5,734 R+27.7
Juniata 2,805 49.4% 2,752 48.4% 124 5,681 D+0.9
Montour 2,677 54.9% 2,159 44.2% 44 4,880 D+10.6
Pike 1,844 51.8% 1,649 46.3% 65 3,558 D+5.5
Fulton 1,921 57.0% 1,410 41.8% 40 3,371 D+15.2
Sullivan 1,602 51.4% 1,457 46.8% 56 3,115 D+4.7
Cameron 748 33.5% 1,438 64.3% 50 2,236 R+30.9
Forest 569 33.1% 1,090 63.3% 62 1,721 R+30.3

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4