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Election 1936 Results

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1936 presidential election in Vermont

Alf Landon (Republican) beat Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) in Vermont in 1936, 56.4% to 43.2%, a margin of 13.2 points and 18,899 votes.

Vermont voted 37.4 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+24.3.

The Republican hold continued from 1932, when Herbert Hoover won.

Republicans led in 11 of the 14 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 3. The largest, Rutland, cast 20,391 votes and went to the Republican by 6.1 points. The closest was Grand Isle, where 140 votes separated the two parties.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Alf Landon won Republican 81,023 56.4%
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 62,124 43.2%
All other candidates 542 0.4%
Total143,689

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Rutland 9,543 46.8% 10,794 52.9% 54 20,391 R+6.1
Chittenden 10,962 58.4% 7,757 41.3% 56 18,775 D+17.1
Washington 8,073 49.0% 8,351 50.6% 66 16,490 R+1.7
Windsor 5,084 34.8% 9,489 64.9% 49 14,622 R+30.1
Franklin 6,817 55.2% 5,507 44.6% 36 12,360 D+10.6
Windham 3,699 33.3% 7,369 66.4% 27 11,095 R+33.1
Bennington 4,166 42.4% 5,515 56.1% 153 9,834 R+13.7
Caledonia 3,342 35.5% 6,054 64.2% 27 9,423 R+28.8
Addison 2,646 33.8% 5,161 65.9% 24 7,831 R+32.1
Orleans 2,662 34.5% 5,038 65.3% 20 7,720 R+30.8
Orange 1,796 26.6% 4,956 73.3% 11 6,763 R+46.7
Lamoille 1,279 30.9% 2,846 68.8% 12 4,137 R+37.9
Essex 1,203 44.9% 1,474 55.0% 3 2,680 R+10.1
Grand Isle 852 54.3% 712 45.4% 4 1,568 D+8.9

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.

Vermont in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+31.5
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+35.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+26.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+35.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+37.0
2004 John Kerry (D) D+20.1
2000 Al Gore (D) D+9.9
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+22.3
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.7
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+17.1
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+6.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.2
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+26.2
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+32.6
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+44.4
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+43.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+24.6
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+14.1
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+9.9
1936 Alf Landon (R) R+13.2
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+16.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+34.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+62.5
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+52.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+27.2
1912 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.7
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+53.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+59.1
1900 William McKinley (R) R+52.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+63.4
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+38.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+43.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+37.4
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+41.9
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+37.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.1