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Election 1936 Results

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1936 presidential election in Indiana

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Alf Landon (Republican) in Indiana in 1936, 56.6% to 41.9%, a margin of 14.7 points and 243,404 votes.

Indiana voted 9.5 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+24.3.

The Democratic hold continued from 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt also won.

Democrats led in 72 of the 92 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 20. The largest, Marion, cast 216,550 votes and went to the Democrat by 17.2 points. The closest was Union, where 32 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt won Democratic 934,974 56.6%
Alf Landon Republican 691,570 41.9%
All other candidates 24,353 1.5%
Total1,650,897

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Marion 124,961 57.7% 87,798 40.5% 3,791 216,550 D+17.2
Lake 68,551 66.1% 33,689 32.5% 1,510 103,750 D+33.6
St. Joseph 43,131 61.3% 25,807 36.7% 1,401 70,339 D+24.6
Allen 39,151 59.2% 24,765 37.4% 2,230 66,146 D+21.7
Vanderburgh 41,490 72.7% 14,725 25.8% 870 57,085 D+46.9
Vigo 33,018 65.1% 17,278 34.1% 442 50,738 D+31.0
Madison 27,347 61.5% 16,644 37.4% 504 44,495 D+24.1
Delaware 19,048 56.8% 14,207 42.4% 272 33,527 D+14.4
Elkhart 14,473 47.7% 14,896 49.0% 1,002 30,371 R+1.4
La Porte 15,359 56.1% 11,722 42.8% 311 27,392 D+13.3
Wayne 13,696 51.9% 12,126 46.0% 551 26,373 D+6.0
Grant 13,655 52.0% 11,774 44.8% 831 26,260 D+7.2
Tippecanoe 12,732 48.7% 13,081 50.1% 309 26,122 R+1.3
Knox 13,669 61.0% 8,589 38.3% 142 22,400 D+22.7
Howard 12,288 55.0% 9,534 42.7% 524 22,346 D+12.3
Cass 10,475 53.9% 8,528 43.9% 419 19,422 D+10.0
Henry 10,172 52.4% 9,099 46.9% 149 19,420 D+5.5
Lawrence 8,062 44.4% 9,982 54.9% 134 18,178 R+10.6
Floyd 10,654 58.8% 6,976 38.5% 491 18,121 D+20.3
Monroe 9,220 50.9% 8,842 48.8% 48 18,110 D+2.1
Greene 9,730 56.1% 7,460 43.0% 154 17,344 D+13.1
Gibson 9,392 56.2% 7,078 42.4% 240 16,710 D+13.8
Clark 10,116 63.6% 5,536 34.8% 244 15,896 D+28.8
Clinton 8,340 53.0% 7,265 46.2% 125 15,730 D+6.8
Huntington 8,361 53.3% 7,024 44.7% 312 15,697 D+8.5
Montgomery 8,053 51.8% 7,369 47.4% 127 15,549 D+4.4
Kosciusko 6,890 45.4% 8,182 53.9% 107 15,179 R+8.5
Sullivan 10,203 67.3% 4,685 30.9% 266 15,154 D+36.4
Miami 8,173 54.0% 6,747 44.6% 202 15,122 D+9.4
Bartholomew 8,536 56.5% 6,484 42.9% 87 15,107 D+13.6
Shelby 8,552 58.1% 6,026 40.9% 139 14,717 D+17.2
Clay 8,235 56.1% 6,335 43.1% 113 14,683 D+12.9
Wabash 6,200 45.5% 7,223 53.0% 200 13,623 R+7.5
Daviess 6,848 50.8% 6,459 48.0% 163 13,470 D+2.9
Randolph 6,487 48.8% 6,682 50.3% 114 13,283 R+1.5
Jackson 8,018 61.5% 4,951 38.0% 68 13,037 D+23.5
De Kalb 6,970 53.5% 5,848 44.9% 209 13,027 D+8.6
Marshall 6,651 51.3% 6,118 47.2% 202 12,971 D+4.1
Hamilton 5,396 41.9% 7,323 56.9% 151 12,870 R+15.0
Boone 6,775 53.8% 5,739 45.6% 79 12,593 D+8.2
Johnson 6,934 56.2% 5,315 43.1% 80 12,329 D+13.1
Jay 6,535 54.6% 5,233 43.7% 199 11,967 D+10.9
Noble 5,990 50.2% 5,760 48.3% 186 11,936 D+1.9
Porter 5,560 46.6% 6,278 52.6% 98 11,936 R+6.0
Vermillion 7,188 61.8% 4,320 37.1% 127 11,635 D+24.6
Rush 5,999 52.2% 5,457 47.5% 44 11,500 D+4.7
Morgan 5,451 48.1% 5,793 51.1% 84 11,328 R+3.0
Dearborn 6,366 56.6% 4,669 41.5% 221 11,256 D+15.1
Putnam 6,177 55.1% 4,961 44.3% 69 11,207 D+10.9
Hendricks 5,237 47.2% 5,776 52.1% 84 11,097 R+4.9
Fayette 5,756 52.7% 5,067 46.4% 99 10,922 D+6.3
Ripley 5,546 51.8% 4,919 46.0% 233 10,698 D+5.9
Dubois 6,927 66.9% 3,011 29.1% 421 10,359 D+37.8
Fountain 5,617 54.4% 4,663 45.2% 36 10,316 D+9.2
Jefferson 4,805 47.1% 5,320 52.1% 82 10,207 R+5.0
Hancock 5,962 58.6% 4,174 41.0% 44 10,180 D+17.6
Decatur 4,887 48.4% 5,126 50.7% 94 10,107 R+2.4
Wells 6,189 62.8% 3,606 36.6% 59 9,854 D+26.2
Orange 4,549 46.9% 5,106 52.7% 37 9,692 R+5.7
Spencer 4,966 51.3% 4,567 47.2% 143 9,676 D+4.1
Parke 4,811 50.4% 4,665 48.9% 66 9,542 D+1.5
Warrick 5,343 56.7% 3,968 42.1% 118 9,429 D+14.6
White 4,863 52.6% 4,245 45.9% 142 9,250 D+6.7
Adams 5,822 63.2% 3,249 35.3% 137 9,208 D+27.9
Carroll 4,676 51.0% 4,426 48.3% 65 9,167 D+2.7
Whitley 5,115 55.9% 3,959 43.3% 76 9,150 D+12.6
Fulton 4,322 48.0% 4,541 50.4% 141 9,004 R+2.4
Harrison 5,025 55.9% 3,885 43.2% 76 8,986 D+12.7
Posey 5,630 63.3% 3,088 34.7% 170 8,888 D+28.6
Pike 4,952 55.8% 3,885 43.7% 45 8,882 D+12.0
Tipton 4,796 54.9% 3,842 44.0% 101 8,739 D+10.9
Perry 4,752 55.1% 3,619 42.0% 248 8,619 D+13.1
Washington 4,766 56.2% 3,690 43.5% 26 8,482 D+12.7
Steuben 3,402 45.1% 3,998 53.0% 145 7,545 R+7.9
Franklin 3,891 54.3% 2,952 41.2% 321 7,164 D+13.1
Blackford 4,217 59.0% 2,845 39.8% 83 7,145 D+19.2
Jennings 3,157 46.3% 3,594 52.7% 72 6,823 R+6.4
Jasper 3,109 46.3% 3,540 52.7% 72 6,721 R+6.4
Owen 3,498 52.6% 3,091 46.5% 59 6,648 D+6.1
Benton 3,211 50.7% 2,989 47.2% 131 6,331 D+3.5
Pulaski 3,274 53.5% 2,780 45.4% 66 6,120 D+8.1
Lagrange 2,821 46.7% 3,125 51.7% 96 6,042 R+5.0
Starke 3,143 52.1% 2,846 47.2% 43 6,032 D+4.9
Martin 2,923 52.7% 2,583 46.6% 40 5,546 D+6.1
Crawford 2,919 52.9% 2,589 46.9% 11 5,519 D+6.0
Newton 2,430 44.9% 2,937 54.3% 41 5,408 R+9.4
Switzerland 2,840 56.1% 2,212 43.7% 14 5,066 D+12.4
Warren 2,242 44.4% 2,780 55.1% 23 5,045 R+10.7
Scott 2,696 56.8% 2,034 42.9% 16 4,746 D+13.9
Union 1,662 50.2% 1,630 49.2% 21 3,313 D+1.0
Brown 1,585 55.7% 1,244 43.7% 15 2,844 D+12.0
Ohio 1,362 57.1% 1,022 42.9% 2,384 D+14.3

Counties as they stood in 1936; 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.

Indiana in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+19.0
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+16.1
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+19.2
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+10.2
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+1.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+20.7
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+15.6
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+5.6
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+6.1
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+20.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+24.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+18.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+7.6
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+32.8
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+12.3
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+12.4
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+10.4
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+20.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+17.1
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+0.8
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.7
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+1.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.7
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+11.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+20.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+16.6
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+14.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+1.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+1.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.8
1900 William McKinley (R) R+4.0
1896 William McKinley (R) R+2.9
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.3
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+0.4
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.3
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+1.4
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+1.3
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+6.4
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+2.8