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Election 1936 Results

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1936 presidential election in Oregon

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Alf Landon (Republican) in Oregon in 1936, 64.4% to 29.6%, a margin of 34.8 points and 144,027 votes.

Oregon voted 10.5 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 36 of the 36 counties as they stood then. The largest, Multnomah, cast 152,319 votes and went to the Democrat by 42.8 points. The closest was Benton, where 157 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Franklin D. Roosevelt won	Democratic	266,733	64.4%
Alf Landon	Republican	122,706	29.6%
William Lemke	Union	21,831	5.3%
All other candidates		2,751	0.7%
Total		414,021

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Multnomah	106,561 70.0%	41,405 27.2%	4,353	152,319	D+42.8
Marion	15,536 59.6%	8,595 33.0%	1,940	26,071	D+26.6
Lane	13,926 57.5%	8,309 34.3%	1,980	24,215	D+23.2
Clackamas	14,203 66.7%	5,830 27.4%	1,270	21,303	D+39.3
Jackson	7,520 54.0%	4,866 35.0%	1,528	13,914	D+19.1
Washington	8,641 63.5%	4,148 30.5%	823	13,612	D+33.0
Klamath	8,562 70.1%	3,225 26.4%	435	12,222	D+43.7
Linn	5,856 52.2%	4,110 36.7%	1,245	11,211	D+15.6
Coos	7,167 67.4%	2,576 24.2%	887	10,630	D+43.2
Douglas	4,893 48.4%	4,254 42.1%	963	10,110	D+6.3
Yamhill	5,366 55.9%	3,443 35.9%	787	9,596	D+20.0
Umatilla	5,753 61.1%	2,943 31.3%	715	9,411	D+29.9
Clatsop	6,267 71.0%	2,261 25.6%	304	8,832	D+45.4
Columbia	5,587 71.6%	1,815 23.3%	399	7,801	D+48.4
Benton	3,547 47.8%	3,390 45.7%	486	7,423	D+2.1
Baker	4,991 69.8%	1,768 24.7%	392	7,151	D+45.1
Union	4,643 69.2%	1,517 22.6%	552	6,712	D+46.6
Polk	3,694 56.8%	2,246 34.6%	558	6,498	D+22.3
Josephine	2,840 47.7%	1,992 33.5%	1,123	5,955	D+14.2
Deschutes	4,278 72.7%	1,299 22.1%	307	5,884	D+50.6
Wasco	3,573 68.9%	1,278 24.7%	333	5,184	D+44.3
Lincoln	3,024 60.0%	1,585 31.4%	433	5,042	D+28.5
Tillamook	2,781 60.7%	1,380 30.1%	422	4,583	D+30.6
Malheur	2,630 59.6%	1,385 31.4%	395	4,410	D+28.2
Hood River	2,759 65.8%	1,249 29.8%	187	4,195	D+36.0
Wallowa	2,000 63.9%	811 25.9%	321	3,132	D+38.0
Grant	1,436 57.7%	697 28.0%	356	2,489	D+29.7
Lake	1,274 56.5%	725 32.2%	254	2,253	D+24.4
Harney	1,262 65.1%	546 28.1%	132	1,940	D+36.9
Morrow	1,181 63.0%	518 27.6%	175	1,874	D+35.4
Crook	1,086 62.0%	589 33.6%	77	1,752	D+28.4
Curry	913 54.3%	497 29.6%	270	1,680	D+24.8
Gilliam	983 69.7%	362 25.7%	66	1,411	D+44.0
Sherman	823 67.8%	337 27.8%	53	1,213	D+40.1
Wheeler	663 55.7%	502 42.2%	25	1,190	D+13.5
Jefferson	514 64.0%	253 31.5%	36	803	D+32.5

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.

Oregon in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+14.3
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+16.1
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+11.0
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+12.1
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+16.3
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+4.2
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+0.4
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+8.1
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+10.0
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+4.7
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+12.2
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+9.7
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+0.2
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+10.1
1968	Richard Nixon (R)	R+6.0
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+27.8
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+5.2
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+10.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+21.6
1948	Thomas E. Dewey (R)	R+3.4
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+4.8
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+8.1
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+34.8
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+21.1
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+30.0
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+26.8
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+26.7
1916	Charles Evans Hughes (R)	R+2.6
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+9.0
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+22.1
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+47.6
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+16.1
1896	William McKinley (R)	R+2.1
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+26.4
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+10.9
1884	James G. Blaine (R)	R+4.3
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+1.6
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes (R)	R+3.5
1872	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+20.2
1868	Horatio Seymour (D)	D+0.7

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