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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 = 8| popular_vote1 = 502,582| percentage1 = 60.56%| image2 = LandonPortr (cropped).jpg| nominee2 = Alf Landon| party2 = Republican Party (United States)| home_state2 = Kansas| running_mate2 = Frank Knox| electoral_vote2 = 0| popular_vote2 = 325,358| percentage2 = 39.20%| map_image = West Virginia 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%}}{{legend|#cc2f4a|60-70%}}{{legend|#d40000|70-80%}}{{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)}}{{ElectionsWV}}The 1936 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose eightWEB,www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1929_1941.html#1936, 1936 Election for the Thirty-eighth Term (1937-41), December 23, 2018, representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.West Virginia was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Vice President John Nance Garner, with 60.56 percent of the popular vote, against Governor Alf Landon (R–Kansas), running with Frank Knox, with 39.20 percent of the popular vote.WEB,uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1936&fips=54&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0, 1936 Presidential General Election Results — West Virginia, December 23, 2018, WEB,www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1936, The American Presidency Project — Election of 1936, December 23, 2018, Owing to powerful support for Roosevelt in labor-conscious coal-mining areas of the south and industrial areas of the Northern Panhandle, Roosevelt more than doubled his 1932 margin despite losing Jackson, Mason and Roane Counties.BOOK, Phillips, Kevin P., The Emerging Republican Majority, 978-0-691-16324-6, 288, In McDowell County, which had not voted Democratic since 1884,BOOK, Menendez, Albert J., The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, 334–336, 0786422173, FDR improved from 43.36 percent to 71.79 percent, and he made double-digit gains in adjacent Mingo, Logan, Wyoming, Raleigh and Fayette Counties.WEB, Our Campaigns,www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2898, WV US President — November 03, 1936, Despite Roosevelt’s appeal to coal miners and other industrial workers, West Virginia still voted 2.90 points more Republican than the nation at-large, helped by Landon gains in the central regions of the state. This would be the last presidential election where West Virginia voted more Republican than the nation until 1972.

Results

{{Election box begin no change| title = 1936 United States presidential election in West Virginia}}{{Election box winning candidate with party link no changeFranklin D. Roosevelt (Incumbent>inc.)| party = Democratic Party (United States)| votes = 502,582| percentage = 60.56%}}{{Election box candidate with party link no change| candidate = Alf Landon| party = Republican Party (United States)| votes = 325,358| percentage = 39.20%}}{{Election box candidate with party link no change| candidate = Norman Thomas| party = Socialist Party of America| votes = 1,173| percentage = 0.14%}}{{Election box candidate with party link no change| candidate = William David Upshaw| party = Prohibition Party (United States)| votes = 832| percentage = 0.10%}}{{Election box total no change| votes = 829,945| percentage= 100%}}{{Election box end}}

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

1936 United States presidential election in West Virginia by county! rowspan=“2” |County! colspan=“2“| {{nowrap|Franklin Delano Roosevelt}} Democratic! colspan=“2“| {{nowrap|Alfred Mossman Landon}}Republican! colspan=“2“| {{nowrap|Norman Mattoon Thomas}}Socialist! colspan=“2“| {{nowrap|William David Upshaw}}Prohibition! colspan=“2“| Margin! rowspan=“2“| {{nowrap|Total votes cast}}! data-sort-type=“number“| #! data-sort-type=“number“| %! data-sort-type=“number“| #! data-sort-type=“number“| %! data-sort-type=“number“| #! data-sort-type=“number“| %! data-sort-type=“number“| #! data-sort-type=“number“| %! data-sort-type=“number“| #! data-sort-type=“number“| % style="text-align:center;” Barbour 5,284 57.45% 3,875 42.13% 19 0.21% 20 0.22% 1,409 15.32% 9,198 style="text-align:center;” Berkeley 8,336 55.72% 6,585 44.02% 26 0.17% 13 0.09% 1,751 11.70% 14,960 style="text-align:center;” Boone 7,697 68.88% 3,477 31.12% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 4,220 37.77% 11,174 style="text-align:center;” Braxton 5,667 60.34% 3,709 39.49% 8 0.09% 8 0.09% 1,958 20.85% 9,392 style="text-align:center;” Brooke 5,955 62.72% 3,485 36.70% 26 0.27% 29 0.31% 2,470 26.01% 9,495 style="text-align:center;” Cabell 27,319 58.87% 19,003 40.95% 50 0.11% 37 0.08% 8,316 17.92% 46,409 style="text-align:center;” Calhoun 3,369 65.87% 1,733 33.88% 10 0.20% 3 0.06% 1,636 31.98% 5,115 style="text-align:center;” Clay 3,387 57.36% 2,513 42.56% 4 0.07% 1 0.02% 874 14.80% 5,905 style="text-align:center;” Doddridge 1,716 36.17% 3,023 63.72% 4 0.08% 1 0.02% -1,307 -27.55% 4,744 style="text-align:center;” Fayette 23,864 72.57% 8,942 27.19% 53 0.16% 27 0.08% 14,922 45.37% 32,886 style="text-align:center;” Gilmer 3,433 64.88% 1,858 35.12% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,575 29.77% 5,291 style="text-align:center;” Grant 995 25.36% 2,923 74.51% 2 0.05% 3 0.08% -1,928 -49.15% 3,923 style="text-align:center;” Greenbrier 10,738 64.41% 5,881 35.27% 40 0.24% 13 0.08% 4,857 29.13% 16,672 style="text-align:center;” Hampshire 3,792 71.21% 1,512 28.39% 17 0.32% 4 0.08% 2,280 42.82% 5,325 style="text-align:center;” Hancock 7,756 65.89% 3,957 33.62% 40 0.34% 18 0.15% 3,799 32.27% 11,771 style="text-align:center;” Hardy 2,956 65.08% 1,581 34.81% 4 0.09% 1 0.02% 1,375 30.27% 4,542 style="text-align:center;” Harrison 24,361 62.98% 14,180 36.66% 84 0.22% 53 0.14% 10,181 26.32% 38,678 style="text-align:center;” Jackson 3,453 42.25% 4,711 57.65% 3 0.04% 5 0.06% -1,258 -15.39% 8,172 style="text-align:center;” Jefferson 5,443 72.56% 2,040 27.20% 10 0.13% 8 0.11% 3,403 45.37% 7,501 style="text-align:center;” Kanawha 50,801 58.86% 35,387 41.00% 55 0.06% 58 0.07% 15,414 17.86% 86,301 style="text-align:center;” Lewis 5,531 49.90% 5,499 49.61% 40 0.36% 14 0.13% 32 0.29% 11,084 style="text-align:center;” Lincoln 5,370 55.07% 4,382 44.93% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 988 10.13% 9,752 style="text-align:center;” Logan 18,424 72.13% 7,069 27.68% 28 0.11% 21 0.08% 11,355 44.46% 25,542 style="text-align:center;” Marion 20,859 64.29% 11,403 35.15% 92 0.28% 89 0.27% 9,456 29.15% 32,443 style="text-align:center;” Marshall 9,198 53.35% 7,967 46.21% 49 0.28% 27 0.16% 1,231 7.14% 17,241 style="text-align:center;” Mason 4,852 45.00% 5,894 54.67% 24 0.22% 12 0.11% -1,042 -9.66% 10,782 style="text-align:center;” McDowell 25,471 71.79% 9,975 28.11% 21 0.06% 14 0.04% 15,496 43.67% 35,481 style="text-align:center;” Mercer 18,391 63.02% 10,762 36.88% 18 0.06% 12 0.04% 7,629 26.14% 29,183 style="text-align:center;” Mineral 5,333 54.09% 4,486 45.50% 12 0.12% 28 0.28% 847 8.59% 9,859 style="text-align:center;” Mingo 11,278 66.09% 5,771 33.82% 5 0.03% 10 0.06% 5,507 32.27% 17,064 style="text-align:center;” Monongalia 13,677 60.57% 8,811 39.02% 33 0.15% 61 0.27% 4,866 21.55% 22,582 style="text-align:center;” Monroe 3,413 50.98% 3,268 48.81% 9 0.13% 5 0.07% 145 2.17% 6,695 style="text-align:center;” Morgan 1,620 38.72% 2,555 61.07% 8 0.19% 1 0.02% -935 -22.35% 4,184 style="text-align:center;” Nicholas 5,872 59.28% 3,964 40.02% 58 0.59% 12 0.12% 1,908 19.26% 9,906 style="text-align:center;” Ohio 22,899 62.30% 13,743 37.39% 29 0.08% 87 0.24% 9,156 24.91% 36,758 style="text-align:center;” Pendleton 2,637 59.26% 1,800 40.45% 12 0.27% 1 0.02% 837 18.81% 4,450 style="text-align:center;” Pleasants 1,907 51.06% 1,820 48.73% 5 0.13% 3 0.08% 87 2.33% 3,735 style="text-align:center;” Pocahontas 4,118 59.01% 2,850 40.84% 6 0.09% 4 0.06% 1,268 18.17% 6,978 style="text-align:center;” Preston 5,410 41.62% 7,553 58.11% 19 0.15% 15 0.12% -2,143 -16.49% 12,997 style="text-align:center;” Putnam 4,756 54.54% 3,938 45.16% 9 0.10% 17 0.19% 818 9.38% 8,720 style="text-align:center;” Raleigh 22,840 71.63% 9,001 28.23% 29 0.09% 15 0.05% 13,839 43.40% 31,885 style="text-align:center;” Randolph 8,109 68.48% 3,711 31.34% 13 0.11% 9 0.08% 4,398 37.14% 11,842 style="text-align:center;” Ritchie 2,825 37.74% 4,639 61.97% 16 0.21% 6 0.08% -1,814 -24.23% 7,486 style="text-align:center;” Roane 5,047 48.81% 5,282 51.08% 10 0.10% 2 0.02% -235 -2.27% 10,341 style="text-align:center;” Summers 5,779 62.07% 3,521 37.82% 9 0.10% 2 0.02% 2,258 24.25% 9,311 style="text-align:center;” Taylor 5,795 58.55% 4,061 41.03% 30 0.30% 12 0.12% 1,734 17.52% 9,898 style="text-align:center;” Tucker 3,801 61.61% 2,335 37.85% 23 0.37% 10 0.16% 1,466 23.76% 6,169 style="text-align:center;” Tyler 2,509 38.25% 4,031 61.46% 15 0.23% 4 0.06% -1,522 -23.20% 6,559 style="text-align:center;” Upshur 3,163 35.40% 5,745 64.30% 16 0.18% 10 0.11% -2,582 -28.90% 8,934 style="text-align:center;” Wayne 8,954 61.38% 5,603 38.41% 23 0.16% 8 0.05% 3,351 22.97% 14,588 style="text-align:center;” Webster 4,613 69.70% 1,987 30.02% 10 0.15% 8 0.12% 2,626 39.68% 6,618 style="text-align:center;” Wetzel 6,463 62.98% 3,770 36.74% 20 0.19% 9 0.09% 2,693 26.24% 10,262 style="text-align:center;” Wirt 1,783 52.24% 1,612 47.23% 18 0.53% 0 0.00% 171 5.01% 3,413 style="text-align:center;” Wood 16,829 57.21% 12,574 42.75% 9 0.03% 2 0.01% 4,255 14.47% 29,414 style="text-align:center;” Wyoming 6,734 65.16% 3,601 34.84% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 3,133 30.31% 10,335!Totals!!502,582!!60.56%!!325,358!!39.20%!!1,173!!0.14%!!832!!0.10%!!177,224!!21.35%!!829,945

References

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