1932 United States presidential election in New York

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Turnout	66.1%[1] 2.2pp
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover Party Democratic Republican Home state New York California Running mate John Nance Garner Charles Curtis Electoral vote 47 0 Popular vote 2,534,959 1,937,963 Percentage 54.07% 41.33%
County results Roosevelt   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Hoover   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%
President before election Herbert Hoover Republican Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic

The1932 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 8, 1932. All contemporary 48 states were part of the1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 47 electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.

New York was won by DemocraticGovernor of New YorkFranklin D. Roosevelt, who was challenging embattled incumbent RepublicanPresidentHerbert Hoover. Roosevelt ran withSpeaker of the HouseJohn Nance Garner ofTexas, and Hoover ran with incumbentVice PresidentCharles Curtis ofKansas. With the incumbent Republican president greatly weakened by his failures to adequately address theGreat Depression, the New York Governor easily carried his home state amid a nationwide Democratic landslide. Franklin Roosevelt took 54.07% of the vote in New York State versus Herbert Hoover's 41.33%, a margin of 12.74%.Socialist candidateNorman Thomas finished a distant third, with 3.78%. Despite being Roosevelt's home state – and although he won the state comfortably – in the context of the 1932 nationwide Democratic landslide, New York weighed in for this election as 5% moreRepublican than the national average.^[2]

1932 was the first time a Democrat had won New York's electoral votes since1912, when Republican vote-splitting for thethird party candidacy ofTheodore Roosevelt had allowed DemocratWoodrow Wilson to win the state with a plurality of only 41% of the vote. Franklin Roosevelt's 54.07% made him the first Democratic presidential candidate to win an absolute majority of the vote in New York State sinceSamuel J. Tilden in1876. Roosevelt's 12.74% victory margin over Hoover was the widest victory margin ever for a Democratic presidential candidate in New York State up to that point, although it would be surpassed just 4 years later by Roosevelt's own 20-point re-election victory in1936.

Roosevelt's support in the state did not appear spontaneously in 1932; his winning strategy in New York State was primarily to build upon the Democratic coalition fellow New YorkerAl Smith had organized behind him in the1928 election. Smith had narrowly lost the state amid a nationwide Republican landslide, but had dramatically improved upon how Democrats before him had done, and laid the groundwork for turning the state Democratic in 1932 and beyond. In1920 and1924, Republicans had swept every county in New York State and Democrats took less than 30% of the vote. In 1928, Smith came within 2 points of winning the state by sweeping all five boroughs of heavily populatedNew York City, winningAlbany County, home to the state capital ofAlbany, along with neighboringRensselaer County, and winning two counties innorthern New York along theSaint Lawrence River,Clinton County andFranklin County. FDR turned a 2-point statewide Democratic defeat in 1928 into a 13-point victory in 1932 primarily by pushing up turnout and victory margins in Smith's 1928 counties, as the county map remained almost entirely the same. Only one county in New York State changed hands from Hoover in 1928 to Roosevelt in 1932, ruralSullivan County, which voted Democratic for the first time since 1912.

• Sullivan

The most vital component to Roosevelt's victory in New York State was his overwhelming landslide in the massively populated 5 boroughs ofNew York City. Roosevelt took over 70% of the vote inthe Bronx, and over 60% inManhattan,Brooklyn,Queens, andStaten Island. Up to this point, 1932 was the strongest victory ever for a Democrat in the city, although Roosevelt would outperform himself with an even stronger performance in the city in 1936. FDR built on the urban, ethnic coalition that had delivered the city to Al Smith 4 years earlier, and with the rise of theNew Deal Coalition, New York would be solidified as one of the most Democratic cities in the United States. Just as Al Smith's 1928 counties remained loyal to the Democrats in 1932, most ofupstate New York which had gone Republican in 1928 remained loyal to Herbert Hoover in 1932, albeit with reduced margins. Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, provided Roosevelt's strongest victory outside of New York City, giving him over 60% of the vote.

This was the second of three straight elections in which Democrats swept all five boroughs of New York City. Hoover only received at least forty percent of the vote in seven of the state assembly districts within New York City and only won a majority of the vote in one, the 15th district. His vote total in New York City declined from 36.71% in 1928, to 26.62% in 1932.Rensselaer County would not vote Democratic again until 1964.^[5] Roosevelt received 387,000 votes from Jews in New York City while Hoover received 95,000-105,000 votes and Thomas received 50,000-60,000 votes, which accounted for half of Thomas' 122,565 votes from New York City.^[5]

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