1932 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Turnout	78.9%[1] 4.0pp
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover Party Democratic Republican Home state New York California Running mate John Nance Garner Charles Curtis Electoral vote 14 0 Popular vote 862,054 677,184 Percentage 54.7% 42.9%
County Results Roosevelt   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Hoover   40–50%   50–60%
President before election Herbert Hoover Republican Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic

Apresidential election was held inIndiana on November 8, 1932, as part of the1932 United States presidential election. TheDemocratic ticket of thegovernor of New YorkFranklin D. Roosevelt and thespeaker of the United States House of RepresentativesJohn Nance Garner defeated theRepublican ticket of the incumbentpresident of the United StatesHerbert Hoover and thevice president of the United StatesCharles Curtis. Roosevelt defeated Hoover in the national election with 472electoral votes.^[2]

Roosevelt became the only Democratic presidential candidate to carrySteuben County, Indiana.^[3] As of the2024^[update], this remains the most recent presidential election in which the Democratic ticket carriedFulton,Jasper,Kosciusko,Morgan andNewton counties.^[4]

Indiana chose 14 electors on a statewidegeneral ticket. State law required voters to elect each member of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a group.^[5] This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party.^[6] The following table quotes the official returns published by thesecretary of state of Indiana, which list the votes for the first elector on each ticket.^[7]

1932 United States presidential election in Indiana^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt John Nance Garner	862,054	54.67	15.08
	Republican	Herbert Hoover Charles Curtis	677,184	42.94	16.74
	Socialist	Norman Thomas James H. Maurer	21,388	1.36	1.09
	Prohibition	William D. Upshaw Frank S. Regan	10,399	0.66	0.27
	Communist	William Z. Foster James W. Ford	2,187	0.14	0.12
	Socialist Labor	Verne L. Reynolds John W. Aiken	2,070	0.13	0.08
	National	John Zahnd[a] Florence Garvin	1,615	0.10	0.10
Total votes			1,576,927	100%

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

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• Sullivan, Robert David (June 29, 2016)."How the Red and Blue Map Evolved over the Past Century".America.

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