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The1932 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the1932 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
New Hampshire voted for theRepublican nominee, incumbentPresidentHerbert Hoover ofCalifornia, over theDemocratic nominee,GovernorFranklin D. Roosevelt ofNew York. Hoover's running mate was incumbentVice PresidentCharles Curtis ofKansas, while Roosevelt ran with incumbentSpeaker of the HouseJohn Nance Garner ofTexas.
Hoover won New Hampshire by a narrow margin of 1.43%. With 50.42% of the popular vote, it was Hoover's fifth strongest state in the nation behindVermont,Maine,Pennsylvania andDelaware.[1]
New Hampshire was one of only six states (the other five being Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Vermont), four of them inNew England, which voted to re-elect the embattled Republican incumbent Hoover, who was widely unpopular over his failure to adequately address theGreat Depression. The state voted for the losing candidate for the first time since1892, something it would do only six times since: in1948,1960,1976,2004,2016, and2024.
| 1932 United States presidential election in New Hampshire[2] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | Herbert Hoover ofCalifornia(incumbent) | Charles Curtis ofKansas(incumbent) | 103,629 | 50.42% | 4 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | Franklin Delano Roosevelt ofNew York | John Nance Garner ofTexas | 100,680 | 48.99% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist | Norman Thomas ofNew York | James Hudson Maurer ofPennsylvania | 947 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Communist | William Z. Foster ofMassachusetts | James W. Ford ofAlabama | 264 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 205,520 | 100.00% | 4 | 100.00% | ||||
| County | Herbert Hoover Republican | Franklin Roosevelt Democratic | Norman Thomas[3] Socialist | William Foster Communist | Margin | Total votes cast[4] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Belknap | 6,048 | 55.04% | 4,911 | 44.69% | 26 | 0.24% | 3 | 0.03% | 1,137 | 10.35% | 10,988 |
| Carroll | 5,269 | 64.56% | 2,873 | 35.20% | 16 | 0.20% | 3 | 0.04% | 2,396 | 29.36% | 8,161 |
| Cheshire | 7,904 | 57.73% | 5,662 | 41.35% | 115 | 0.84% | 11 | 0.08% | 2,242 | 16.37% | 13,692 |
| Coös | 7,189 | 47.28% | 7,928 | 52.14% | 74 | 0.49% | 14 | 0.09% | -739 | -4.86% | 15,205 |
| Grafton | 10,810 | 55.94% | 8,342 | 43.17% | 159 | 0.82% | 12 | 0.06% | 2,468 | 12.77% | 19,323 |
| Hillsborough | 23,308 | 41.50% | 32,458 | 57.79% | 267 | 0.48% | 128 | 0.23% | -9,150 | -16.29% | 56,161 |
| Merrimack | 13,986 | 51.98% | 12,805 | 47.59% | 82 | 0.30% | 35 | 0.13% | 1,181 | 4.39% | 26,908 |
| Rockingham | 14,902 | 56.44% | 11,363 | 43.03% | 113 | 0.43% | 27 | 0.10% | 3,539 | 13.40% | 26,405 |
| Strafford | 9,060 | 47.44% | 9,970 | 52.20% | 57 | 0.30% | 11 | 0.06% | -910 | -4.76% | 19,098 |
| Sullivan | 5,153 | 53.79% | 4,368 | 45.60% | 38 | 0.40% | 20 | 0.21% | 785 | 8.20% | 9,579 |
| Totals | 103,629 | 50.42% | 100,680 | 48.99% | 947 | 0.46% | 264 | 0.13% | 2,949 | 1.43% | 205,520 |