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| image_size = x200px| image1 = FDR in 1933 (cropped).jpg| nominee1 = Franklin D. Roosevelt| party1 = Democratic Party (United States)New York (state)>New York| running_mate1 = John Nance Garner| electoral_vote1 = 9| popular_vote1 = 146,765| percentage1 = 81.80%| image2 = LandonPortr (cropped).jpg| nominee2 = Alf Landon| party2 = Republican Party (United States)| home_state2 = Kansas| running_mate2 = Frank Knox| electoral_vote2 = 0| popular_vote2 = 32,039| percentage2 = 17.86%| map_image = Arkansas Presidential Election Results 1936.svg| map_size = 300px| map_caption = County Results{{col-start}}{{col-2}}Roosevelt{{legend|#86b6f2|50-60%}}{{legend|#4389e3|60-70%}}{{legend|#1666cb|70-80%}}{{legend|#0645b4|80-90%}}{{legend|#002b84|90-100%}}{{col-2}}Landon{{legend|#e27f90|50-60%}}{{col-end}}| title = President| before_election = Franklin D. Roosevelt| before_party = Democratic Party (United States)| after_election = Franklin D. Roosevelt| after_party = Democratic Party (United States)}}{{ElectionsAR}}The 1936 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York (running with Vice President John Nance Garner of Texas) carried Arkansas in a landslide, taking 81.8% of the state’s vote to Republican Alf Landon’s 17.86%.WEB,uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=5&year=1936, 1936 Presidential General Election Results — Arkansas, Even amidst a national Democratic landslide – in which Roosevelt carried every state except Vermont and Maine and earned more than 60% of the national popular vote – Arkansas weighed in as nearly 40% more Democratic than the nation at-large.This was typical of the time; with the exception of the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state.See BOOK, Urwin, Cathy Kunzinger, Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71, 32, 1557282005, Disfranchisement of effectively all Negroes and most poor whites had meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections.The 1920s did see a minor change in this, as increased voting by poor Ozark whites as a protest against Woodrow Wilson’s internationalist foreign policy meant that Warren G. Harding was able to win almost forty percent of the statewide vote in 1920;BOOK, Phillips, Kevin P., The Emerging Republican Majority, 211, 287, 978-0-691-16324-6, however despite his national landslide Calvin Coolidge in 1924 could not do any more than win the two traditional Unionist GOP counties. 1928 saw the rest of the Outer South and North Alabama bolt the anti-Prohibition Catholic Al Smith, but the presence of Arkansas Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson as running mate meant that within Arkansas only the most northwesterly counties with ordinarily substantial Republican votes would suffer the same fate.BOOK, Barnes, Kenneth C., Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960, 164-165, 168226016X, The following years saw Arkansas plunge into the Great Depression, followed almost immediately by a major drought from the summer of 1930s until the winter of 1931/1932.BOOK, Whayne, Jeannie M., DeBlack, Thomas A., Sabo, George, Arnold, Morris S., Arkansas: A Narrative History, 341-342, 155728993X, This came on top of a long depression in agriculture, which was still the dominant player in Arkansas’ economy and was backed up by the “Great Migration” of the state’s agricultural labor force to northeastern and midwestern cities.Whayne, DeBlack, Sabo and Arnold. Arkansas, pp. 313-316 Arkansas gave extremely heavy support to Democrat Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, when he garnered more than 86% of ballots and swept every county in the state,BOOK, Grantham, Dewey W., The Life and Death of the Solid South: A Political History, 102, 0813148723, becoming the first Democrat to win Searcy County since before the Civil War and only the second to win adjacent Newton County.BOOK, Menendez, Albert J., The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, 87, 2005, McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina, Jefferson, North Carolina, 0786422173, Throughout his first term as President, Roosevelt was extremely popular in the “Solid South“BOOK, Leuchtenburg, William E., The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, 51, 0807151424, and despite embryonic concerns over loss of Southern control of the national party due to abolition of the “two-thirds” ruleBOOK, Frederickson, Kari A., The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968, 24, 0807849103, and some hostility to FDR’s repeal of ProhibitionMenendez. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, p. 64 he was overwhelmingly and in many places almost unanimously supported by Arkansas’ limited electorate. Ozark Republican Landon did regain the two Unionist and Prohibitionist Ozark counties, but topped 40% in only two of the remaining seventy-three. Nonetheless, the 1936 results in Arkansas were about 10% less Democratic than that of 1932, despite the nation as a whole shifting somewhat to the left. As of 2020, this remains the last time that a presidential candidate has won more than 80% of the vote in Arkansas.

Results

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Results by county{| width“65%” class“wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed nowrap” style@text-align:center”

America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 48-49 {{ISBN>0405077114}}! rowspan=“2” |County! style="text-align:center;” colspan=“2“| Franklin Delano RooseveltDemocratic! style="text-align:center;” colspan=“2“| Alfred Mossman LandonRepublican! style="text-align:center;” colspan=“2“| Various candidatesOther parties! style="text-align:center;” colspan=“2“| Margin! colspan=“1” rowspan=“2” style="text-align:center;” | Total votes cast! style="text-align:center;” data-sort-type=“number“| #! style="text-align:center;” data-sort-type=“number“| %! style="text-align:center;” data-sort-type=“number“| #! style="text-align:center;” data-sort-type=“number“| %! style="text-align:center;” data-sort-type=“number“| #! style="text-align:center;” data-sort-type=“number“| %! style="text-align:center;” data-sort-type=“number“| #! style="text-align:center;” data-sort-type=“number“| % style="text-align:center;” Arkansas 2,008 85.19% 341 14.47% 8 0.34% 1,667 70.73% 2,357 style="text-align:center;” Ashley 1,382 93.57% 95 6.43% 0 0.00% 1,287 87.14% 1,477 style="text-align:center;” Baxter 773 66.93% 375 32.47% 7 0.61% 398 34.46% 1,155 style="text-align:center;” Benton 2,418 58.77% 1,672 40.64% 24 0.58% 746 18.13% 4,114 style="text-align:center;” Boone 2,386 69.20% 1,052 30.51% 10 0.29% 1,334 38.69% 3,448 style="text-align:center;” Bradley 1,571 95.97% 65 3.97% 1 0.06% 1,506 92.00% 1,637 style="text-align:center;” Calhoun 704 95.78% 30 4.08% 1 0.14% 674 91.70% 735 style="text-align:center;” Carroll 1,649 63.55% 940 36.22% 6 0.23% 709 27.32% 2,595 style="text-align:center;” Chicot 1,145 93.78% 75 6.14% 1 0.08% 1,070 87.63% 1,221 style="text-align:center;” Clark 1,962 90.71% 193 8.92% 8 0.37% 1,769 81.78% 2,163 style="text-align:center;” Clay 1,778 68.94% 795 30.83% 6 0.23% 983 38.12% 2,579 style="text-align:center;” Cleburne 927 72.93% 336 26.44% 8 0.63% 591 46.50% 1,271 style="text-align:center;” Cleveland 1,088 95.77% 45 3.96% 3 0.26% 1,043 91.81% 1,136 style="text-align:center;” Columbia 1,847 96.65% 64 3.35% 0 0.00% 1,783 93.30% 1,911 style="text-align:center;” Conway 2,013 86.77% 305 13.15% 2 0.09% 1,708 73.62% 2,320 style="text-align:center;” Craighead 3,335 82.02% 710 17.46% 21 0.52% 2,625 64.56% 4,066 style="text-align:center;” Crawford 1,963 73.47% 697 26.09% 12 0.45% 1,266 47.38% 2,672 style="text-align:center;” Crittenden 1,858 98.83% 22 1.17% 0 0.00% 1,836 97.66% 1,880 style="text-align:center;” Cross 1,644 91.49% 133 7.40% 20 1.11% 1,511 84.08% 1,797 style="text-align:center;” Dallas 1,433 93.29% 103 6.71% 0 0.00% 1,330 86.59% 1,536 style="text-align:center;” Desha 1,411 96.12% 55 3.75% 2 0.14% 1,356 92.37% 1,468 style="text-align:center;” Drew 1,229 94.47% 70 5.38% 2 0.15% 1,159 89.09% 1,301 style="text-align:center;” Faulkner 2,521 82.82% 511 16.79% 12 0.39% 2,010 66.03% 3,044 style="text-align:center;” Franklin 1,890 84.11% 345 15.35% 12 0.53% 1,545 68.76% 2,247 style="text-align:center;” Fulton 946 68.25% 437 31.53% 3 0.22% 509 36.72% 1,386 style="text-align:center;” Garland 2,931 70.07% 1,217 29.09% 35 0.84% 1,714 40.98% 4,183 style="text-align:center;” Grant 978 86.86% 147 13.06% 1 0.09% 831 73.80% 1,126 style="text-align:center;” Greene 1,811 81.25% 412 18.48% 6 0.27% 1,399 62.76% 2,229 style="text-align:center;” Hempstead 2,431 92.68% 190 7.24% 2 0.08% 2,241 85.44% 2,623 style="text-align:center;” Hot Spring 1,581 77.77% 444 21.84% 8 0.39% 1,137 55.93% 2,033 style="text-align:center;” Howard 1,437 83.69% 275 16.02% 5 0.29% 1,162 67.68% 1,717 style="text-align:center;” Independence 2,101 75.25% 685 24.53% 6 0.21% 1,416 50.72% 2,792 style="text-align:center;” Izard 1,350 76.44% 416 23.56% 0 0.00% 934 52.89% 1,766 style="text-align:center;” Jackson 2,151 86.77% 327 13.19% 1 0.04% 1,824 73.58% 2,479 style="text-align:center;” Jefferson 3,414 93.66% 224 6.15% 7 0.19% 3,190 87.52% 3,645 style="text-align:center;” Johnson 1,432 80.81% 318 17.95% 22 1.24% 1,114 62.87% 1,772 style="text-align:center;” Lafayette 1,279 92.55% 100 7.24% 3 0.22% 1,179 85.31% 1,382 style="text-align:center;” Lawrence 2,230 82.50% 457 16.91% 16 0.59% 1,773 65.59% 2,703 style="text-align:center;” Lee 1,257 94.87% 66 4.98% 2 0.15% 1,191 89.89% 1,325 style="text-align:center;” Lincoln 913 95.90% 39 4.10% 0 0.00% 874 91.81% 952 style="text-align:center;” Little River 1,056 84.14% 192 15.30% 7 0.56% 864 68.84% 1,255 style="text-align:center;” Logan 2,663 77.41% 770 22.38% 7 0.20% 1,893 55.03% 3,440 style="text-align:center;” Lonoke 2,735 89.76% 310 10.17% 2 0.07% 2,425 79.59% 3,047 style="text-align:center;” Madison 1,679 53.02% 1,484 46.86% 4 0.13% 195 6.16% 3,167 style="text-align:center;” Marion 989 68.68% 435 30.21% 16 1.11% 554 38.47% 1,440 style="text-align:center;” Miller 2,689 89.01% 323 10.69% 9 0.30% 2,366 78.32% 3,021 style="text-align:center;” Mississippi 4,835 93.94% 303 5.89% 9 0.17% 4,532 88.05% 5,147 style="text-align:center;” Monroe 1,102 92.84% 82 6.91% 3 0.25% 1,020 85.93% 1,187 style="text-align:center;” Montgomery 1,034 68.07% 465 30.61% 20 1.32% 569 37.46% 1,519 style="text-align:center;” Nevada 1,252 85.69% 204 13.96% 5 0.34% 1,048 71.73% 1,461 style="text-align:center;” Newton 938 47.11% 1,053 52.89% 0 0.00% -115 -5.78% 1,991 style="text-align:center;” Ouachita 2,808 91.47% 262 8.53% 0 0.00% 2,546 82.93% 3,070 style="text-align:center;” Perry 899 78.31% 249 21.69% 0 0.00% 650 56.62% 1,148 style="text-align:center;” Phillips 2,259 95.60% 94 3.98% 10 0.42% 2,165 91.62% 2,363 style="text-align:center;” Pike 994 77.78% 283 22.14% 1 0.08% 711 55.63% 1,278 style="text-align:center;” Poinsett 3,457 85.38% 563 13.90% 29 0.72% 2,894 71.47% 4,049 style="text-align:center;” Polk 1,170 67.44% 537 30.95% 28 1.61% 633 36.48% 1,735 style="text-align:center;” Pope 2,678 88.38% 348 11.49% 4 0.13% 2,330 76.90% 3,030 style="text-align:center;” Prairie 1,321 82.25% 282 17.56% 3 0.19% 1,039 64.69% 1,606 style="text-align:center;” Pulaski 11,482 89.49% 1,320 10.29% 28 0.22% 10,162 79.20% 12,830 style="text-align:center;” Randolph 1,693 80.24% 414 19.62% 3 0.14% 1,279 60.62% 2,110 style="text-align:center;” St. Francis 1,938 94.72% 94 4.59% 14 0.68% 1,844 90.13% 2,046 style="text-align:center;” Saline 1,520 79.87% 359 18.86% 24 1.26% 1,161 61.01% 1,903 style="text-align:center;” Scott 1,137 75.70% 363 24.17% 2 0.13% 774 51.53% 1,502 style="text-align:center;” Searcy 767 43.14% 1,010 56.81% 1 0.06% -243 -13.67% 1,778 style="text-align:center;” Sebastian 4,539 79.35% 1,161 20.30% 20 0.35% 3,378 59.06% 5,720 style="text-align:center;” Sevier 1,200 80.00% 289 19.27% 11 0.73% 911 60.73% 1,500 style="text-align:center;” Sharp 934 75.63% 289 23.40% 12 0.97% 645 52.23% 1,235 style="text-align:center;” Stone 521 67.49% 248 32.12% 3 0.39% 273 35.36% 772 style="text-align:center;” Union 4,141 93.94% 254 5.76% 13 0.29% 3,887 88.18% 4,408 style="text-align:center;” Van Buren 1,422 72.22% 541 27.48% 6 0.30% 881 44.74% 1,969 style="text-align:center;” Washington 3,378 67.87% 1,579 31.73% 20 0.40% 1,799 36.15% 4,977 style="text-align:center;” White 2,503 82.20% 535 17.57% 7 0.23% 1,968 64.63% 3,045 style="text-align:center;” Woodruff 1,473 84.70% 253 14.55% 13 0.75% 1,220 70.16% 1,739 style="text-align:center;” Yell 2,382 88.22% 318 11.78% 0 0.00% 2,064 76.44% 2,700 style="text-align:center;“!Totals!!146,765!!81.79%!!32,049!!17.86%!!617!!0.34%!!114,716!!63.93%!!179,431

See also

• United States presidential elections in Arkansas

References

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