Election 1936 Results
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1936 presidential election in New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Alf Landon (Republican) in New York in 1936, 58.8% to 39.0%, a margin of 19.9 points and 1,112,552 votes.
New York voted 4.4 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.
Republicans led in 48 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 14. The largest, Kings, cast 974,301 votes and went to the Democrat by 56.3 points. The closest was Sullivan, where 468 votes separated the two parties.
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
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin D. Roosevelt won | Democratic | 3,293,222 | 58.8% |
| Alf Landon | Republican | 2,180,670 | 39.0% |
| All other candidates | 122,506 | 2.2% | |
| Total | 5,596,398 |
Every county
| County | Democrat | Republican | Others | Total | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kings | 761,449 78.2% | 212,852 21.8% | 974,301 | D+56.3 | |
| New York | 536,954 75.5% | 174,299 24.5% | 711,253 | D+51.0 | |
| Bronx | 435,667 82.4% | 93,151 17.6% | 528,818 | D+64.8 | |
| Queens | 330,212 67.0% | 162,797 33.0% | 493,009 | D+34.0 | |
| Erie | 189,896 55.5% | 152,312 44.5% | 342,208 | D+11.0 | |
| Westchester | 127,899 48.9% | 133,670 51.1% | 261,569 | R+2.2 | |
| Monroe | 117,468 55.8% | 93,055 44.2% | 210,523 | D+11.6 | |
| Nassau | 77,811 45.0% | 94,968 55.0% | 172,779 | R+9.9 | |
| Onondaga | 65,772 45.0% | 80,498 55.0% | 146,270 | R+10.1 | |
| Albany | 74,549 58.5% | 52,962 41.5% | 127,511 | D+16.9 | |
| Oneida | 44,794 49.2% | 46,317 50.8% | 91,111 | R+1.7 | |
| Suffolk | 35,365 41.9% | 48,970 58.1% | 84,335 | R+16.1 | |
| Richmond | 47,537 67.5% | 22,852 32.5% | 70,389 | D+35.1 | |
| Rensselaer | 33,849 49.3% | 34,772 50.7% | 68,621 | R+1.3 | |
| Broome | 30,658 45.4% | 36,945 54.6% | 67,603 | R+9.3 | |
| Orange | 28,848 45.6% | 34,428 54.4% | 63,276 | R+8.8 | |
| Niagara | 31,271 50.9% | 30,144 49.1% | 61,415 | D+1.8 | |
| Schenectady | 32,493 54.7% | 26,914 45.3% | 59,407 | D+9.4 | |
| Chautauqua | 24,492 44.6% | 30,435 55.4% | 54,927 | R+10.8 | |
| Dutchess | 25,477 46.9% | 28,868 53.1% | 54,345 | R+6.2 | |
| Ulster | 19,933 44.7% | 24,678 55.3% | 44,611 | R+10.6 | |
| Steuben | 15,823 38.8% | 24,987 61.2% | 40,810 | R+22.5 | |
| St. Lawrence | 13,525 34.2% | 26,031 65.8% | 39,556 | R+31.6 | |
| Jefferson | 14,541 36.8% | 24,925 63.2% | 39,466 | R+26.3 | |
| Chemung | 15,680 43.3% | 20,515 56.7% | 36,195 | R+13.4 | |
| Oswego | 11,573 33.7% | 22,803 66.3% | 34,376 | R+32.7 | |
| Saratoga | 15,113 44.1% | 19,153 55.9% | 34,266 | R+11.8 | |
| Cayuga | 12,997 39.1% | 20,203 60.9% | 33,200 | R+21.7 | |
| Cattaraugus | 12,500 37.9% | 20,484 62.1% | 32,984 | R+24.2 | |
| Rockland | 16,507 51.4% | 15,583 48.6% | 32,090 | D+2.9 | |
| Montgomery | 15,012 51.5% | 14,127 48.5% | 29,139 | D+3.0 | |
| Herkimer | 13,188 45.3% | 15,941 54.7% | 29,129 | R+9.5 | |
| Ontario | 9,403 34.6% | 17,812 65.4% | 27,215 | R+30.9 | |
| Wayne | 7,633 29.9% | 17,901 70.1% | 25,534 | R+40.2 | |
| Otsego | 8,083 32.6% | 16,682 67.4% | 24,765 | R+34.7 | |
| Fulton | 9,484 40.0% | 14,253 60.0% | 23,737 | R+20.1 | |
| Washington | 8,131 34.9% | 15,186 65.1% | 23,317 | R+30.3 | |
| Columbia | 8,639 39.9% | 13,034 60.1% | 21,673 | R+20.3 | |
| Clinton | 11,017 51.2% | 10,521 48.8% | 21,538 | D+2.3 | |
| Delaware | 6,200 29.0% | 15,164 71.0% | 21,364 | R+42.0 | |
| Tompkins | 7,414 35.7% | 13,332 64.3% | 20,746 | R+28.5 | |
| Madison | 6,237 30.3% | 14,353 69.7% | 20,590 | R+39.4 | |
| Franklin | 8,957 43.7% | 11,521 56.3% | 20,478 | R+12.5 | |
| Genesee | 6,777 33.8% | 13,292 66.2% | 20,069 | R+32.5 | |
| Sullivan | 10,225 51.2% | 9,757 48.8% | 19,982 | D+2.3 | |
| Warren | 6,998 35.2% | 12,873 64.8% | 19,871 | R+29.6 | |
| Allegany | 5,679 29.1% | 13,829 70.9% | 19,508 | R+41.8 | |
| Chenango | 5,223 27.5% | 13,772 72.5% | 18,995 | R+45.0 | |
| Livingston | 6,600 34.8% | 12,353 65.2% | 18,953 | R+30.4 | |
| Essex | 5,489 32.1% | 11,599 67.9% | 17,088 | R+35.8 | |
| Cortland | 4,919 29.6% | 11,718 70.4% | 16,637 | R+40.9 | |
| Greene | 7,000 43.6% | 9,060 56.4% | 16,060 | R+12.8 | |
| Orleans | 4,425 29.5% | 10,569 70.5% | 14,994 | R+41.0 | |
| Wyoming | 4,588 30.9% | 10,253 69.1% | 14,841 | R+38.2 | |
| Tioga | 4,477 32.8% | 9,163 67.2% | 13,640 | R+34.4 | |
| Seneca | 4,535 36.4% | 7,919 63.6% | 12,454 | R+27.2 | |
| Schoharie | 4,539 39.7% | 6,895 60.3% | 11,434 | R+20.6 | |
| Lewis | 3,378 29.6% | 8,048 70.4% | 11,426 | R+40.9 | |
| Putnam | 4,872 45.8% | 5,761 54.2% | 10,633 | R+8.4 | |
| Yates | 2,383 25.7% | 6,897 74.3% | 9,280 | R+48.6 | |
| Schuyler | 2,636 35.4% | 4,819 64.6% | 7,455 | R+29.3 | |
| Hamilton | 934 35.5% | 1,695 64.5% | 2,629 | R+28.9 |
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.
New York in every presidential election we hold
| Year | Winner | Margin |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Kamala Harris (D) | D+12.6 |
| 2020 | Joe Biden (D) | D+23.1 |
| 2016 | Hillary Clinton (D) | D+22.5 |
| 2012 | Barack Obama (D) | D+28.2 |
| 2008 | Barack Obama (D) | D+26.9 |
| 2004 | John Kerry (D) | D+18.3 |
| 2000 | Al Gore (D) | D+25.0 |
| 1996 | Bill Clinton (D) | D+28.9 |
| 1992 | Bill Clinton (D) | D+15.8 |
| 1988 | Michael Dukakis (D) | D+4.1 |
| 1984 | Ronald Reagan (R) | R+8.0 |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan (R) | R+2.7 |
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter (D) | D+4.4 |
| 1972 | Richard Nixon (R) | R+17.3 |
| 1968 | Hubert Humphrey (D) | D+5.5 |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson (D) | D+37.3 |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy (D) | D+5.3 |
| 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) | R+22.5 |
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) | R+11.9 |
| 1948 | Thomas E. Dewey (R) | R+1.0 |
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) | D+5.0 |
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) | D+3.6 |
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) | D+19.9 |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) | D+12.7 |
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover (R) | R+2.3 |
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge (R) | R+26.6 |
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding (R) | R+37.6 |
| 1916 | Charles Evans Hughes (R) | R+7.0 |
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson (D) | D+12.6 |
| 1908 | William Howard Taft (R) | R+12.4 |
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt (R) | R+10.9 |
| 1900 | William McKinley (R) | R+9.3 |
| 1896 | William McKinley (R) | R+18.9 |
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland (D) | D+3.4 |
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison (R) | R+1.1 |
| 1884 | Grover Cleveland (D) | D+0.1 |
| 1880 | James A. Garfield (R) | R+1.9 |
| 1876 | Samuel J. Tilden (D) | D+3.2 |
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant (R) | R+6.5 |
| 1868 | Horatio Seymour (D) | D+1.2 |