United States Presidential election7 Nov 2028in 728 days Senate D 97% House D 58% Calendar Track record Research
Closest results
Election 1936 Results

Each election opens in its own mode: the forecast before the votes are counted, the live count while races are still too close to call, and the results once every race is decided.

1936 presidential election in Nevada

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Alf Landon (Republican) in Nevada in 1936, 72.8% to 27.2%, a margin of 45.6 points and 20,002 votes.

Nevada voted 21.4 points more Democratic 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 17 of the 17 counties as they stood then. The largest, Washoe, cast 13,872 votes and went to the Democrat by 37.2 points. The closest was Douglas, where 120 votes separated the two parties.

United States
If only voted How this works
If the polls miss like

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 31,925 72.8%
Alf Landon Republican 11,923 27.2%
Total43,848

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Washoe 9,514 68.6% 4,358 31.4% 13,872 D+37.2
Clark 5,091 81.2% 1,178 18.8% 6,269 D+62.4
Elko 2,888 73.1% 1,065 26.9% 3,953 D+46.1
White Pine 2,806 76.3% 872 23.7% 3,678 D+52.6
Churchill 1,290 63.0% 759 37.0% 2,049 D+25.9
Nye 1,495 76.3% 464 23.7% 1,959 D+52.6
Lincoln 1,639 86.6% 254 13.4% 1,893 D+73.2
Lyon 1,203 71.2% 487 28.8% 1,690 D+42.4
Humboldt 1,210 75.6% 390 24.4% 1,600 D+51.3
Ormsby (Ext) 745 58.3% 533 41.7% 1,278 D+16.6
Pershing 861 76.2% 269 23.8% 1,130 D+52.4
Mineral 778 76.7% 236 23.3% 1,014 D+53.5
Lander 585 71.2% 237 28.8% 822 D+42.3
Douglas 466 57.4% 346 42.6% 812 D+14.8
Esmeralda 566 78.4% 156 21.6% 722 D+56.8
Eureka 396 68.8% 180 31.3% 576 D+37.5
Storey 392 73.8% 139 26.2% 531 D+47.6

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.

Nevada in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+3.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+2.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+2.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+6.7
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+12.5
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+2.6
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+1.0
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+2.6
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+20.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+33.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+35.6
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+4.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.4
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+17.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+15.9
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+22.9
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+3.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+20.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+45.6
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+38.8
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+13.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+19.8
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+20.7
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+17.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+23.8
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+1.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+23.8
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+24.5
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+62.3
1892 Third party (other)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+15.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+12.5
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+4.8
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+5.5
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+14.9
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+10.8