1936 United States presidential election in Oregon
The 1936 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Before the election, the primary focus was on power development in the water-rich and mountainous Pacific Northwest, especially the construction of major Federal dams and whether power rates for all users should be uniform. The Republican Party strongly supported private utilities, whilst Democrats generally supported at least some degree of public ownership  and control of electric utilities. Oregon had been a virtually one-party Republican state outside a few Presidential and gubernatorial elections during the “System of 1896”; however, in 1932 under the influence of the Great Depression, Roosevelt had been the first Democrat since Horatio Seymour in 1868 to win a majority of the state's vote, although Woodrow Wilson won a plurality in 1912. In 1936, despite some popular reservations about public-owned power, the Beaver State was won in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Vice President John Nance Garner, with 64.42 % of the popular vote, against Governor Alf Landon (R–Kansas), running with Frank Knox, with 29.64% of the popular vote. FDR's 64.42% result is the best ever achieved by a Democrat in Oregon, and he remains the only Democrat to sweep all Oregon's counties in a presidential election. Additionally, the 1936 election remains the last in which a Democratic presidential candidate won Josephine County.