United States presidential election, 1936 - wikipedia United States presidential election, 1936 United States presidential election, 1936 ← 1932 November 3, 1936 1940 → 531 electoral votes of the Electoral College 266 electoral votes needed to win Turnout 61.0 % 4.1 pp Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Alf Landon Party Democratic Republican Home state New York Kansas Running mate John Nance Garner Frank Knox Electoral vote 523 8 States carried 46 Popular vote 27,747,636 16,679,543 Percentage 60.8 % 36.5 % Presidential election results map. Blue denotes those won by Roosevelt / Garner, red denotes states won by Landon / Knox. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. President before election Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic The United States presidential election of 1936 was the thirty - eighth quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1936. In terms of electoral votes, it was the most lopsided presidential election in the history of the United States. In terms of the popular vote, it was the second - biggest victory for the winner since the election of 1820, which was not seriously contested. The election took place as the Great Depression entered its eighth year. Incumbent President and Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt was still working to push the provisions of his New Deal economic policy through Congress and the courts. However, the New Deal policies he had already enacted, such as Social Security and unemployment benefits, had proven to be highly popular with most Americans. Roosevelt 's Republican opponent was Governor Alf Landon of Kansas, a political moderate. Although some political pundits predicted a close race, Roosevelt went on to win the greatest electoral landslide since the beginning of the current two - party system in the 1850s. Roosevelt carried every state except Maine and Vermont, which together could only return eight electoral votes. By winning 523 electoral votes, Roosevelt received 98.49 % of the electoral vote total, the highest percentage since the uncontested election of 1820, and is to this date, the only time a Democrat would break at least 500 electoral votes in a presidential election. Roosevelt also won the largest number of electoral votes recorded at that time, only surpassed by Ronald Reagan in the election of 1984, when there were seven more electoral votes available to contest. In addition, Roosevelt won 60.8 % of the national popular vote, which at the time was the highest popular - vote percentage won since James Monroe won re-election unopposed in 1820. Contents 1 Nominations 1.1 Democratic Party nomination 1.2 Republican Party nomination 1.3 Other nominations 2 Pre-election polling 3 Campaign 4 Results 4.1 Geography of results 4.1. 1 Cartographic gallery 4.2 Results by state 4.3 Close states 5 Miscellenea 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links Nominations Democratic party nomination Main article : 1936 Democratic National Convention Democratic Party Ticket, 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt John Nance Garner for President for Vice President 32nd President of the United States ( 1933 -- 1945 ) 32nd Vice President of the United States ( 1933 -- 1941 ) Campaign President Franklin D. Roosevelt Henry Skillman Breckinridge of New York, former Assistant Secretary of War Undated photograph of President Roosevelt Before his assassination, there was a challenge from Louisiana Senator Huey Long. But, due to his untimely death, President Roosevelt faced only one primary opponent other than various favorite sons. Henry Skillman Breckinridge, an anti-New Deal lawyer from New York, filed to run against Roosevelt in four primaries. Breckinridge 's challenge of the popularity of the New Deal among Democrats failed miserably. In New Jersey, President Roosevelt did not file for the preference vote and lost that primary to Breckinridge, even though he did receive 19 % of the vote on write - ins. Roosevelt 's candidates for delegates swept the race in New Jersey and elsewhere. In other primaries, Breckinridge 's best showing was 15 % in Maryland. Overall, Roosevelt received 93 % of the primary vote, compared to 2 % for Breckinridge. The Democratic Party Convention was held in Philadelphia between July 23 and 27. The delegates unanimously re-nominated incumbents President Roosevelt and Vice-President John Nance Garner. At Roosevelt 's request, the two - thirds rule, which had given the South a de facto veto power, was repealed. The balloting Presidential ballot Vice-presidential ballot Franklin D. Roosevelt 1100 John Nance Garner 1100 Republican party nomination Main article : 1936 Republican National Convention Republican Party Ticket, 1936 Alf Landon Frank Knox for President for Vice President 26th Governor of Kansas ( 1933 -- 1937 ) Publisher of the Chicago Daily News ( 1931 -- 1940 ) Campaign Governor Alf Landon of Kansas Senator William Borah from Idaho Publisher Frank Knox from Illinois Republican primaries by state results The 1936 Republican National Convention was held in Cleveland, Ohio, between June 9 and 12. Although many candidates sought the Republican nomination, only two, Governor Landon and Senator William Borah from Idaho, were considered to be serious candidates. While favorite sons County Attorney Earl Warren from California, Governor Warren Green of South Dakota, and Stephen A. Day from Ohio won their respective primaries, the seventy - year - old Borah, a well - known progressive and `` insurgent, '' won the Wisconsin, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Oregon primaries, while also performing quite strongly in Knox 's Illinois and Green 's South Dakota. The party machinery, however, almost uniformly backed Landon, a wealthy businessman and centrist, who won primaries in Massachusetts and New Jersey and dominated in the caucuses and at state party conventions. With Knox withdrawing to become Landon 's selection for vice-president ( after the rejection of New Hampshire Governor Styles Bridges ) and Day, Green, and Warren releasing their delegates, the tally at the convention was as follows : Alf Landon 984 William Borah 19 Other nominations Many people, most significantly Democratic National Committee Chairman James Farley, expected Huey Long, the colorful Democratic senator from Louisiana, to run as a third - party candidate with his `` Share Our Wealth '' program as his platform. Polls made during 1934 and 1935 suggested Long could have won between six and seven million votes, or approximately fifteen percent of the actual number cast in the 1936 election. However, Long was assassinated in September 1935. Some historians, including Long biographer T. Harry Williams, contend that Long had never, in fact, intended to run for the presidency in 1936. Instead, he had been plotting with Father Charles Coughlin, a Catholic priest and populist talk radio personality, to run someone else on the soon - to - be-formed `` Share Our Wealth '' Party ticket. According to Williams, the idea was that this candidate would split the left - wing vote with President Roosevelt, thereby electing a Republican president and proving the electoral appeal of Share Our Wealth. Long would then wait four years and run for president as a Democrat in 1940. Prior to Long 's death, leading contenders for the role of the sacrificial 1936 candidate included Idaho Senator William Borah, Montana Senator and running mate of Robert La Follette in 1924 Burton K. Wheeler, and Governor Floyd B. Olson of the Minnesota Farmer -- Labor Party. After Long 's assassination, however, the two senators lost interest in the idea, while Olson was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer. Father Coughlin, who had allied himself with Dr. Francis Townsend, a left - wing political activist who was pushing for the creation of an old - age pension system, and Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith, was eventually forced to run Representative William Lemke ( R - North Dakota ) as the candidate of the newly created `` Union Party ''. Lemke, who lacked the charisma and national stature of the other potential candidates, fared poorly in the election, barely managing two percent of the vote, and the party was dissolved the following year. William Dudley Pelley, Chief of the Silver Shirts Legion, ran on the ballot for the Christian Party in Washington State, but won fewer than two thousand votes. Earl Browder ran for the Communist Party ( CPUSA ). Pre-election polling This election is notable for The Literary Digest poll, which was based on ten million questionnaires mailed to readers and potential readers ; 2.3 million were returned. The Literary Digest, which had correctly predicted the winner of the last 5 elections, announced in its October 31 issue that Landon would be the winner with 370 electoral votes. The cause of this mistake has often been attributed to improper sampling : more Republicans subscribed to the Literary Digest than Democrats, and were thus more likely to vote for Landon than Roosevelt, and indeed every other poll made at this time predicted Roosevelt would win, although most expected him to garner no more than 360 electoral votes. However, a 1976 article in The American Statistician demonstrates that the actual reason for the error was that the Literary Digest relied on voluntary responses. As the article explains, the 2.3 million `` respondents who returned their questionnaires represented only that subset of the population with a relatively intense interest in the subject at hand, and as such constitute in no sense a random sample... it seems clear that the minority of anti-Roosevelt voters felt more strongly about the election than did the pro-Roosevelt majority. '' A more detailed study in 1988 showed that both the initial sample and non-response bias were contributing factors, and that the error due to the initial sample taken alone would not have been sufficient to predict the Landon victory. This mistake by the Literary Digest proved to be devastating to the magazine 's credibility and it ceased publishing within a few months of the election. That same year, George Gallup, an advertising executive who had begun a scientific poll, predicted that Roosevelt would win the election, based on a quota sample of 50,000 people. He also predicted that the Literary Digest would mis - predict the results. His correct predictions made public opinion polling a critical element of elections for journalists and indeed for politicians. The Gallup Poll would become a staple of future presidential elections, and remains one of the most prominent election polling organizations. Campaign Election poster in Manchester, NH Landon proved to be an ineffective campaigner who rarely traveled. Most of the attacks on FDR and Social Security were developed by Republican campaigners rather than Landon himself. In the two months after his nomination he made no campaign appearances. Columnist Westbrook Pegler lampooned, `` Considerable mystery surrounds the disappearance of Alfred M. Landon of Topeka, Kansas... The Missing Persons Bureau has sent out an alarm bulletin bearing Mr. Landon 's photograph and other particulars, and anyone having information of his whereabouts is asked to communicate direct with the Republican National Committee. '' Landon respected and admired Roosevelt and accepted much of the New Deal but objected that it was hostile to business and involved too much waste and inefficiency. Late in the campaign, Landon accused Roosevelt of corruption -- that is, of acquiring so much power that he was subverting the Constitution : The President spoke truly when he boasted... `` We have built up new instruments of public power. '' He spoke truly when he said these instruments could provide `` shackles for the liberties of the people... and... enslavement for the public ''. These powers were granted with the understanding that they were only temporary. But after the powers had been obtained, and after the emergency was clearly over, we were told that another emergency would be created if the power was given up. In other words, the concentration of power in the hands of the President was not a question of temporary emergency. It was a question of permanent national policy. In my opinion the emergency of 1933 was a mere excuse... National economic planning -- the term used by this Administration to describe its policy -- violates the basic ideals of the American system... The price of economic planning is the loss of economic freedom. And economic freedom and personal liberty go hand in hand. Results Election results by county. Franklin D. Roosevelt Alf Landon Roosevelt won in a landslide, carrying 46 of the then - 48 states and bringing in many additional Democratic members of Congress. After Lyndon B. Johnson 's 61.1 percent share of the popular vote in 1964, Roosevelt 's 60.8 percent is the second - largest percentage in U.S. history since the nearly unopposed election of James Monroe in 1820, and his 98.5 % of the electoral vote is the highest in two - party competition. Roosevelt won the largest number of electoral votes ever recorded at that time, so far only surpassed by Ronald Reagan in 1984, when seven more electoral votes were available to contest. Garner won the highest percentage of the electoral vote of any vice president. Landon became the second official major - party candidate since the current system was established to win fewer than ten electoral votes by tying William Howard Taft, who won eight votes in his unsuccessful re-election campaign in 1912. No major - party candidate has won so few electoral votes since this election. The closest anyone has come was Reagan 's 1984 opponent Walter Mondale, who won only thirteen electoral votes. Of the 3,095 counties, parishes and independent cities making returns, Roosevelt won in 2,634 ( 85.11 percent ) while Landon carried 461 ( 14.89 percent ). Some political pundits predicted the Republicans, whom many voters blamed for the Great Depression, would soon become an extinct political party. However, the Republicans would make a strong comeback in the 1938 congressional elections and would remain a potent force in Congress, although they were not able to win the presidency again until 1952. The Electoral College results, in which Landon only won Maine and Vermont, inspired Democratic Party chairman James Farley, who had in fact declared during the campaign that Roosevelt was to lose only these two states, to amend the then - conventional political wisdom of `` As Maine goes, so goes the nation '' into `` As goes Maine, so goes Vermont. '' Additionally, a prankster posted a sign on Vermont 's border with New Hampshire the day after the 1936 election, reading, `` You are now leaving the United States. '' Some of Roosevelt 's advisers even joked that America 's fiscal woes might be best solved if he offered to sell Vermont and Maine to Canada. As of 2017, even after a quarter century as a classic `` blue '' state that usually supports Democratic presidential candidates, Vermont has voted for more Republican presidential nominees than any other state. From 1856 through 1960, Vermont gave the state 's electoral votes to the Republican Party nominee in every presidential election. No other state has voted so many consecutive times for candidates of the same political party. Maine once held a similar political record, voting from 1856 through 1960 for the Republican candidate in every presidential election but one, when in 1912, the state gave Democrat Woodrow Wilson a plurality with 39.43 % of the vote. Another state that had been reliably Republican for a very long time before 1936 was Pennsylvania, which Roosevelt was the first Democrat to carry since `` favorite son '' James Buchanan won Pennsylvania in 1856. Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral vote Running mate Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote Franklin D. Roosevelt ( Incumbent ) Democratic New York 27,752,648 60.80 % 523 John Nance Garner ( Incumbent ) Texas 523 Alf Landon Republican Kansas 16,681,862 36.54 % 8 Frank Knox Illinois 8 William Lemke Union North Dakota 892,378 1.95 % 0 Thomas C. O'Brien Massachusetts 0 Norman Thomas Socialist New York 187,910 0.41 % 0 George A. Nelson Wisconsin 0 Earl Browder Communist Kansas 79,315 0.17 % 0 James W. Ford New York 0 D. Leigh Colvin Prohibition New York 37,646 0.08 % 0 Claude A. Watson California 0 John W. Aiken Socialist Labor Connecticut 12,799 0.03 % 0 Emil F. Teichert New York 0 Other 3,141 0.00 % -- Other -- Total 45,647,699 100 % 531 531 Needed to win 266 266 Source ( Popular Vote ) : Leip, David. `` 1936 Presidential Election Results ''. Dave Leip 's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved July 31, 2005. Source ( Electoral Vote ) : `` Electoral College Box Scores 1789 -- 1996 ''. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved July 31, 2005. Popular vote Roosevelt 60.80 % Landon 36.54 % Lemke 1.95 % Thomas 0.41 % Others 0.30 % Electoral vote Roosevelt 98.49 % Landon 1.51 % Geography of results Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate 's percentage of the vote Cartographic gallery Presidential election results by county Democratic presidential election results by county Republican presidential election results by county `` Other '' presidential election results by county American Labor presidential election results by county Cartogram of presidential election results by county Cartogram of Democratic presidential election results by county Cartogram of Republican presidential election results by county Cartogram of `` Other '' presidential election results by county Cartogram of American Labor presidential election results by county Results by state States won by Roosevelt / Garner States won by Landon / Knox Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Alfred Landon Republican William Lemke Union Norman Thomas Socialist Other Margin State Total State electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % electoral votes # % # Alabama 11 238,136 86.38 11 35,358 12.82 - 551 0.20 - 242 0.09 - 1,397 0.51 - 202,838 73.56 275,244 AL Arizona 86,722 69.85 33,433 26.93 - 3,307 2.66 - 317 0.26 - 384 0.31 - 53,289 42.92 124,163 AZ Arkansas 9 146,765 81.80 9 32,039 17.86 - 0.00 - 446 0.25 - 169 0.09 - 114,726 63.94 179,423 AR California 22 1,766,836 66.95 22 836,431 31.70 - - - - 11,331 0.43 - 24,284 0.92 - 930,405 35.26 2,638,882 CA Colorado 6 295,021 60.37 6 181,267 37.09 - 9,962 2.04 - 1,593 0.33 - 841 0.17 - 113,754 23.28 488,684 CO Connecticut 8 382,129 55.32 8 278,685 40.35 - 21,805 3.16 - 5,683 0.82 - 2,421 0.35 - 103,444 14.98 690,723 CT Delaware 69,702 54.62 57,236 44.85 - 442 0.35 - 172 0.13 - 51 0.04 - 12,466 9.77 127,603 DE Florida 7 249,117 76.10 7 78,248 23.90 - - - - - - - - - - 170,869 52.20 327,365 FL Georgia 12 255,364 87.10 12 36,942 12.60 - 141 0.05 - 68 0.02 - 660 0.23 - 218,422 74.50 293,175 GA Idaho 125,683 62.96 66,256 33.19 - 7,678 3.85 - - - - - - - 59,427 29.77 199,617 ID Illinois 29 2,282,999 57.70 29 1,570,393 39.69 - 89,439 2.26 - 7,530 0.19 - 6,161 0.16 - 712,606 18.01 3,956,522 IL Indiana 14 934,974 56.63 14 691,570 41.89 - 19,407 1.18 - 3,856 0.23 - 1,090 0.07 - 243,404 14.74 1,650,897 IN Iowa 11 621,756 54.41 11 487,977 42.70 - 29,687 2.60 - 1,373 0.12 - 1,940 0.17 - 133,779 11.71 1,142,733 IA Kansas 9 464,520 53.67 9 397,727 45.95 - 497 0.06 - 2,770 0.32 - - - - 66,793 7.72 865,014 KS Kentucky 11 541,944 58.51 11 369,702 39.92 - 12,501 1.35 - 632 0.07 - 1,424 0.15 - 172,242 18.60 926,203 KY Louisiana 10 292,894 88.82 10 36,791 11.16 - - - - - - - 93 0.00 - 256,103 77.66 329,778 LA Maine 5 126,333 41.52 - 168,823 55.49 5 7,581 2.49 - 783 0.26 - 720 0.24 - - 42,490 - 13.97 304,240 ME Maryland 8 389,612 62.35 8 231,435 37.04 - - - - 1,629 0.26 - 2,220 0.36 - 158,177 25.31 624,896 MD Massachusetts 17 942,716 51.22 17 768,613 41.76 - 118,639 6.45 - 5,111 0.28 - 5,278 0.29 - 174,103 9.46 1,840,357 MA Michigan 19 1,016,794 56.33 19 699,733 38.76 - 75,795 4.20 - 8,208 0.45 - 4,568 0.25 - 317,061 17.56 1,805,098 MI Minnesota 11 698,811 61.84 11 350,461 31.01 - 74,296 6.58 - 2,872 0.25 - 3,535 0.31 - 348,350 30.83 1,129,975 MN Mississippi 9 157,318 97.06 9 4,443 2.74 - - - - 329 0.20 - - - - 152,875 94.31 162,090 MS Missouri 15 1,111,043 60.76 15 697,891 38.16 - 14,630 0.80 - 3,454 0.19 - 1,617 0.09 - 413,152 22.59 1,828,635 MO Montana 159,690 69.28 63,598 27.59 - 5,549 2.41 - 1,066 0.46 - 609 0.26 - 96,092 41.69 230,512 MT Nebraska 7 347,445 57.14 7 247,731 40.74 - 12,847 2.11 - - - - - - - 99,714 16.40 608,023 NE Nevada 31,925 72.81 11,923 27.19 - - - - - - - - - - 20,002 45.62 43,848 NV New Hampshire 108,460 49.73 104,642 47.98 - 4,819 2.21 - - - - 193 0.09 - 3,818 1.75 218,114 NH New Jersey 16 1,083,850 59.54 16 720,322 39.57 - 9,407 0.52 - 3,931 0.22 - 2,927 0.16 - 364,128 19.97 1,820,437 NJ New Mexico 106,037 62.69 61,727 36.50 - 924 0.55 - 343 0.20 - 105 0.06 - 44,310 26.20 169,176 NM New York 47 3,293,222 58.85 47 2,180,670 38.97 - - - - 86,897 1.55 - 35,609 0.64 - 1,112,552 19.88 5,596,398 NY North Carolina 13 616,141 73.40 13 223,283 26.60 - 0.00 - 21 0.00 - 17 0.00 - 392,858 46.80 839,464 NC North Dakota 163,148 59.60 72,751 26.58 - 36,708 13.41 - 552 0.20 - 557 0.20 - 90,397 33.03 273,716 ND Ohio 26 1,747,140 57.99 26 1,127,855 37.44 - 132,212 4.39 - 117 0.00 - 5,265 0.17 - 619,285 20.56 3,012,589 OH Oklahoma 11 501,069 66.83 11 245,122 32.69 - - - - 2,221 0.30 - 1,328 0.18 - 255,947 34.14 749,740 OK Oregon 5 266,733 64.42 5 122,706 29.64 - 21,831 5.27 - 2,143 0.52 - 608 0.15 - 144,027 34.79 414,021 OR Pennsylvania 36 2,353,987 56.88 36 1,690,200 40.84 - 67,468 1.63 - 14,599 0.35 - 12,172 0.29 - 663,787 16.04 4,138,426 PA Rhode Island 165,238 53.10 125,031 40.18 - 19,569 6.29 - - - - 1,340 0.43 - 40,207 12.92 311,178 RI South Carolina 8 113,791 98.57 8 1,646 1.43 - - - - - - - - - - 112,145 97.15 115,437 SC South Dakota 160,137 54.02 125,977 42.49 - 10,338 3.49 - - - - - - - 34,160 11.52 296,472 SD Tennessee 11 328,083 68.85 11 146,520 30.75 - 296 0.06 - 686 0.14 - 953 0.20 - 181,563 38.10 476,538 TN Texas 23 734,485 87.08 23 103,874 12.31 - 3,281 0.39 - 1,075 0.13 - 767 0.09 - 630,611 74.76 843,482 TX Utah 150,246 69.34 64,555 29.79 - 1,121 0.52 - 432 0.20 - 323 0.15 - 85,691 39.55 216,677 UT Vermont 62,124 43.24 - 81,023 56.39 - - - - - - 542 0.38 - - 18,899 - 13.15 143,689 VT Virginia 11 234,980 70.23 11 98,336 29.39 - 233 0.07 - 313 0.09 - 728 0.22 - 136,644 40.84 334,590 VA Washington 8 459,579 66.38 8 206,892 29.88 - 17,463 2.52 - 3,496 0.50 - 4,908 0.71 - 252,687 36.50 692,338 WA West Virginia 8 502,582 60.56 8 325,358 39.20 - - - - 832 0.10 - 1,173 0.14 - 177,224 21.35 829,945 WV Wisconsin 12 802,984 63.80 12 380,828 30.26 - 60,297 4.79 - 10,626 0.84 - 3,825 0.30 - 422,156 33.54 1,258,560 WI Wyoming 62,624 60.58 38,739 37.47 - 1,653 1.60 - 200 0.19 - 166 0.16 - 23,885 23.10 103,382 WY TOTALS : 531 27,752,648 60.80 523 16,681,862 36.54 8 892,378 1.95 - 187,910 0.41 - 132,901 0.29 - 11,070,786 24.25 45,647,699 US Close States Margin of victory less than 5 % ( 4 electoral votes ) : New Hampshire, 1.75 % Margin of victory between 5 % and 10 % ( 29 electoral votes ) : Kansas, 7.72 % Massachusetts, 9.46 % Delaware, 9.77 % Miscellenea This was the last election until 1964 in which the Democrats won Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Roosevelt 's landslide remains the penultimate occasion Democrats won those last four very solid Republican Plains States Indiana has subsequently been won by the Democrats only in 1964 and 2008 This was the last election in which the Democrats won Colorado and Iowa until 1948 1936 was the last time until 2016 the Democrats won Orange County, California. This election remains the last time a Democratic candidate ever carried Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Douglas County, Nevada, Josephine County, Oregon, Ada County, Idaho, Hughes County, South Dakota and over thirty smaller counties in Nebraska and Kansas. See also History of the United States ( 1918 -- 1945 ) United States House elections, 1936 United States Senate elections, 1936 Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt Earl Browder Huey Long References Jump up ^ `` Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections ''. The American Presidency Project. UC Santa Barbara. Jump up ^ Our Campaigns -- US President -- D Primaries Race -- Feb 01, 1936 Jump up ^ Kane, Harnett ; Huey Long 's Louisiana Hayride, p. 126. ISBN 1455606111 Jump up ^ Hair, William Ivy ; The Kingfish and His Realm : The Life and Times of Huey P. Long ; ISBN 080712124X Jump up ^ Carpenter, Ronald H. ; Father Charles E. Coughlin : Surrogate Spokesman for the Disaffected ; p. 62 ISBN 0 - 313 - 29040 - 7 ^ Jump up to : Derbyshire, Wyn ; Dark Realities : America 's Great Depression ; p. 213 ISBN 1907444777 Jump up ^ Bryson, Maurice C. ' The Literary Digest Poll : Making of a Statistical Myth ' The American Statistician, 30 ( 4 ) : November 1976 Jump up ^ Squire, Peverill `` Why the 1936 Literary Digest Poll Failed '' Public Opinion Quarterly, 52 : 125 -- 133 1988 ^ Jump up to : Gould, Lewis L. ; The Republicans : A History of the Grand Old Party. ISBN 0199936625 Jump up ^ Boller, Paul F. ; Presidential Campaigns : From George Washington to George W. Bush ; p. 249 ISBN 0195167163 Jump up ^ `` 1936 Presidential General Election Data - National ''. Retrieved April 8, 2013. ^ Jump up to : Sullivan, Robert David ; ' How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century ' ; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review ; June 29, 2016 13. https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1936 Further reading Andersen, Kristi. The Creation of a Democratic Majority : 1928 -- 1936 ( 1979 ), statistical Burns, James MacGregor. Roosevelt : The Lion and the Fox ( 1956 ) Communist Party USA, The Communist Election Platform, 1936. New York : Workers Library Publishers, 1936. Fadely, James Philip. `` Editors, Whistle Stops, and Elephants : the Presidential Campaign of 1936 in Indiana. '' Indiana Magazine of History 1989 85 ( 2 ) : 101 -- 137. ISSN 0019 - 6673 Leuchtenburg, William E. `` Election of 1936 '', in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ed., A History of American Presidential Elections vol 3 ( 1971 ), analysis and primary documents McCoy, Donald. Landon of Kansas ( 1968 ) Nicolaides, Becky M. `` Radio Electioneering in the American Presidential Campaigns of 1932 and 1936, '' Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, June 1988, Vol. 8 Issue 2, pp. 115 -- 138 Savage, Sean J. `` The 1936 - 1944 Campaigns, '' in William D. Pederson, ed. A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 2011 ) pp 96 -- 113 online Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur M. 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Question: who was the president of the united states in 1936
Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt