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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 = 4| popular_vote1 = 125,683| percentage1 = 62.96%| image2 = LandonPortr (cropped).jpg| nominee2 = Alf Landon| party2 = Republican Party (United States)| home_state2 = Kansas| running_mate2 = Frank Knox| electoral_vote2 = 0| popular_vote2 = 66,256| percentage2 = 33.19%| map_image = Idaho Presidential Election Results 1936.svg| map_size = 300px| map_caption = County Results{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}Roosevelt{{legend|#b9d7ff|40–50%}}{{legend|#86b6f2|50–60%}}{{legend|#4389e3|60–70%}}{{legend|#1666cb|70–80%}}{{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)}}{{Elections in Idaho sidebar}}The 1936 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose fourWEB,www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1929_1941.html#1936, 1936 Election for the Thirty-eighth Term (1937-41), December 30, 2018, representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.Idaho was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York) and Vice President John Nance Garner (D–Texas) with 62.96 percent of the popular vote, over Governor Alf Landon (R–Kansas) and running mate Frank Knox (R–Illinois) with 33.19 percent of the popular vote.WEB,uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=16&year=1936, 1936 Presidential General Election Results - Idaho, December 30, 2018, WEB,www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1936, The American Presidency Project - Election of 1936, December 30, 2018, Idaho has since become a Republican stronghold; as of 2020, this election marks the last time that Ada County, Canyon County, Gooding County, Jerome County, Lincoln County, Payette County and Twin Falls County would vote for a Democratic presidential nominee,Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 178-179 {{ISBN|0786422173}} the last time that a Democrat would carry the state by double digits, and the last time that the state would (by margin of victory) vote more Democratic than the nation as a whole.

William Borah’s run for the 1936 Republican presidential nomination

(File:1936 Republican presidential primaries.JPG|thumb|right|Few states had presidential primaries in 1936. Those won by Borah are in green.)William Borah the Republican Senator for Idaho ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1936, the first candidate from Idaho to do so.His candidacy was opposed by the conservative Republican leadership. Borah praised Roosevelt for some of his policies, and deeply criticized the Republican Party. With only 25 Republicans left in the Senate, Borah saw an opportunity to recast the Republican Party along progressive lines, as he had long sought to do. He was opposed by the Republican organization, which sought to dilute his strength in the primaries by running state favorite son candidates in order to ensure a brokered convention. Despite being easily the leading primary vote-getter, Borah managed to win only a handful of delegates and took a majority of them in only one state, Wisconsin, where he had the endorsement of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr. Borah refused to endorse the eventual candidate, Kansas Governor Alf Landon (who was nominated at the 1936 Republican National Convention), leading some to believe Borah might cross party lines and support Roosevelt. Ultimately, as he had four years earlier, he chose to endorse neither candidate.A Lion Among The Liberals, by Kevin C. Murphy. Retrieved June 29, 2016. Borah was on the ballot that fall in Idaho, seeking a sixth term in the Senate. For the first time since the people had been given the right to elect senators, the Democrats ran a serious candidate against him, Governor C. Ben Ross. Although Idahoans overwhelmingly voted for Roosevelt, who won every state except Maine and Vermont, Borah still took over sixty percent of their votes in his re-election bid.JOURNAL, William E. Borah: The People’s Choice, Claudius O., Johnson, The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 44, 1, January 1953, 15–22, 40486998,

Results

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

! style="text-align:center;” 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“| William Frederick LemkeUnion! style="text-align:center;” colspan=“2“| Margin! style="text-align:center;” rowspan=“2“| Total votes castScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 119 {{ISBN|0405077114}}! 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;” Ada 12,027 58.46% 7,581 36.85% 966 4.70% 4,446 21.61% 20,574 style="text-align:center;” Adams 770 59.41% 434 33.49% 92 7.10% 336 25.93% 1,296 style="text-align:center;” Bannock 9,443 70.51% 3,830 28.60% 120 0.90% 5,613 41.91% 13,393 style="text-align:center;” Bear Lake 2,078 59.61% 1,404 40.28% 4 0.11% 674 19.33% 3,486 style="text-align:center;” Benewah 1,906 65.70% 897 30.92% 98 3.38% 1,009 34.78% 2,901 style="text-align:center;” Bingham 4,215 62.42% 2,354 34.86% 184 2.72% 1,861 27.56% 6,753 style="text-align:center;” Blaine 1,361 64.59% 735 34.88% 11 0.52% 626 29.71% 2,107 style="text-align:center;” Boise 780 65.55% 368 30.92% 42 3.53% 412 34.62% 1,190 style="text-align:center;” Bonner 3,521 58.75% 2,016 33.64% 456 7.61% 1,505 25.11% 5,993 style="text-align:center;” Bonneville 5,439 69.85% 2,213 28.42% 135 1.73% 3,226 41.43% 7,787 style="text-align:center;” Boundary 1,304 60.31% 732 33.86% 126 5.83% 572 26.46% 2,162 style="text-align:center;” Butte 546 62.83% 312 35.90% 11 1.27% 234 26.93% 869 style="text-align:center;” Camas 442 60.47% 274 37.48% 15 2.05% 168 22.98% 731 style="text-align:center;” Canyon 8,290 56.99% 4,910 33.75% 1,347 9.26% 3,380 23.24% 14,547 style="text-align:center;” Caribou 640 66.53% 321 33.37% 1 0.10% 319 33.16% 962 style="text-align:center;” Cassia 3,100 64.62% 1,629 33.96% 68 1.42% 1,471 30.66% 4,797 style="text-align:center;” Clark 272 46.90% 304 52.41% 4 0.69% -32 -5.52% 580 style="text-align:center;” Clearwater 1,959 66.95% 812 27.75% 155 5.30% 1,147 39.20% 2,926 style="text-align:center;” Custer 875 61.58% 530 37.30% 16 1.13% 345 24.28% 1,421 style="text-align:center;” Elmore 1,567 65.84% 688 28.91% 125 5.25% 879 36.93% 2,380 style="text-align:center;” Franklin 2,255 61.44% 1,396 38.04% 19 0.52% 859 23.41% 3,670 style="text-align:center;” Fremont 2,904 66.51% 1,423 32.59% 39 0.89% 1,481 33.92% 4,366 style="text-align:center;” Gem 2,468 69.17% 879 24.64% 221 6.19% 1,589 44.53% 3,568 style="text-align:center;” Gooding 2,100 56.68% 1,505 40.62% 100 2.70% 595 16.06% 3,705 style="text-align:center;” Idaho 3,104 62.97% 1,535 31.14% 290 5.88% 1,569 31.83% 4,929 style="text-align:center;” Jefferson 2,776 71.84% 1,037 26.84% 51 1.32% 1,739 45.01% 3,864 style="text-align:center;” Jerome 2,374 62.84% 1,297 34.33% 107 2.83% 1,077 28.51% 3,778 style="text-align:center;” Kootenai 5,752 63.92% 2,586 28.74% 661 7.35% 3,166 35.18% 8,999 style="text-align:center;” Latah 4,359 58.45% 2,838 38.05% 261 3.50% 1,521 20.39% 7,458 style="text-align:center;” Lemhi 1,648 61.82% 943 35.37% 75 2.81% 705 26.44% 2,666 style="text-align:center;” Lewis 1,612 74.35% 507 23.39% 49 2.26% 1,105 50.97% 2,168 style="text-align:center;” Lincoln 916 53.22% 766 44.51% 39 2.27% 150 8.72% 1,721 style="text-align:center;” Madison 2,455 68.35% 1,114 31.01% 23 0.64% 1,341 37.33% 3,592 style="text-align:center;” Minidoka 2,095 67.65% 948 30.61% 54 1.74% 1,147 37.04% 3,097 style="text-align:center;” Nez Perce 5,705 71.45% 1,988 24.90% 292 3.66% 3,717 46.55% 7,985 style="text-align:center;” Oneida 1,673 63.42% 955 36.20% 10 0.38% 718 27.22% 2,638 style="text-align:center;” Owyhee 1,106 64.00% 500 28.94% 122 7.06% 606 35.07% 1,728 style="text-align:center;” Payette 1,677 45.78% 1,524 41.61% 462 12.61% 153 4.18% 3,663 style="text-align:center;” Power 1,075 59.33% 708 39.07% 29 1.60% 367 20.25% 1,812 style="text-align:center;” Shoshone 5,377 70.92% 2,146 28.30% 59 0.78% 3,231 42.61% 7,582 style="text-align:center;” Teton 834 59.19% 542 38.47% 33 2.34% 292 20.72% 1,409 style="text-align:center;” Twin Falls 7,476 58.28% 4,966 38.71% 386 3.01% 2,510 19.57% 12,828 style="text-align:center;” Valley 1,260 63.64% 575 29.04% 145 7.32% 685 34.60% 1,980 style="text-align:center;” Washington 2,147 60.38% 1,234 34.70% 175 4.92% 913 25.67% 3,556 style="text-align:center;“!Totals!!125,683!!62.96%!!66,256!!33.19%!!7,678!!3.85%!!59,427!!29.77%!!199,617

See also

• United States presidential elections in Idaho

References

{{Reflist}}{{State Results of the 1936 U.S. presidential election}}{{United States elections}}