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The1936 United States presidential election in Connecticut was held on November 3, 1936, as part of the1936 United States presidential election. The state voters chose eight electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.Connecticut voted forDemocratic Party candidate and incumbent PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt, who won the state by a margin of 14.97%.
As of2024, this remains the last election in which Connecticut voted to the right ofNebraska. Roosevelt was the first Democrat to carry the state since1912, the first to carry it with a majority of the popular vote since Grover Cleveland in1892, and the first to carry Tolland County since1852.
| 1936 United States presidential election in Connecticut[2] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Democratic | Franklin Delano Roosevelt ofNew York | John Nance Garner ofTexas | 382,129 | 55.32% | 8 | 100.00% | ||
| Republican | Alf Landon ofKansas | Frank Knox ofIllinois | 278,685 | 40.35% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Union | William Lemke ofNorth Dakota | Thomas C. O'Brien ofMassachusetts | 21,805 | 3.16% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist | Norman Thomas ofNew York | George A. Nelson ofWisconsin | 5,683 | 0.82% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist Labor | John W. Aiken ofConnecticut | Emil F. Teichert ofNew York | 1,228 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Communist | Earl Russell Browder ofKansas | James W. Ford ofNew York | 1,193 | 0.17% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 690,723 | 100.00% | 8 | 100.00% | ||||
| 1936 United States presidential election in Connecticut (by county)[3] | |||||||
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| County | Roosevelt % | Roosevelt # | Landon % | Landon # | Others % | Others # | Total # |
| Fairfield | 54.7% | 87,329 | 42.5% | 67,846 | 2.8% | 4,446 | 159,621 |
| Hartford | 59.1% | 103,450 | 37.5% | 65,652 | 3.3% | 5,812 | 174,914 |
| Litchfield | 47.2% | 17,468 | 50.9% | 18,850 | 1.9% | 688 | 37,006 |
| Middlesex | 52.4% | 12,294 | 46.6% | 10,925 | 1.0% | 236 | 23,455 |
| New Haven | 57.9% | 117,308 | 37.8% | 76,614 | 4.2% | 8,524 | 202,446 |
| New London | 52.8% | 24,999 | 45.1% | 21,367 | 2.1% | 992 | 47,358 |
| Tolland | 51.2% | 6,676 | 45.8% | 5,965 | 3.0% | 390 | 13,031 |
| Windham | 50.9% | 12,605 | 46.3% | 11,466 | 2.9% | 717 | 24,788 |
State and district results of the1936 United States presidential election | ||
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