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The1936 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 3, 1936. All contemporary 48 states were part of the1936 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
New Jersey was won by theDemocratic nominees, incumbentPresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt ofNew York and his running mate incumbentVice PresidentJohn Nance Garner ofTexas. Roosevelt and Garner defeated theRepublican nominees,GovernorAlf Landon ofKansas and his running mate newspaper publisherFrank Knox ofIllinois. Roosevelt decisively carried New Jersey with 59.54 percent of the vote to Landon's 39.57 percent, a victory margin of 19.97 percent.[2]
Reflecting the decisiveness of his statewide victory, Roosevelt carried 17 of the New Jersey's 21 counties with majorities of the vote, breaking 60% of the vote in five. This result represented dramatic gains from1932, when Roosevelt narrowly carried the state by less than 2 points, and won only four counties. In 1932, Roosevelt had won majorities in populousMiddlesex County and ruralWarren County, along with a plurality win inPassaic County, but much of Roosevelt's margin of victory was provided by a landslide win in heavily populatedHudson County. Roosevelt had received more than 70% of the vote in Hudson County, part of theNew York City metro area.
In 1936, Roosevelt again broke 70% of the vote in Hudson County, but this time thirteen other counties flipped from voting forHerbert Hoover in 1932 to Roosevelt in 1936, enabling him to win the state with a much more comfortable 20 point margin. InNorth Jersey, Roosevelt won all but two out of the ten northernmost counties. Besides his landslide win in Hudson County, Roosevelt also received more than 60% of the vote in Middlesex and Mercer Counties and won majorities in seven other counties. Landon won only ruralSussex andMorris counties. Roosevelt decisively sweptSouth Jersey, winning majorities in all seven of the southernmost counties in the state. Landon fared better inCentral Jersey, where he wonMonmouth andOcean counties.
New Jersey in the early decades of the 20th century had been a reliably Republican state; prior to FDR's 1936 victory, the state had not given a majority of the vote to a Democratic presidential candidate since1892, with FDR only winning the state with a bare plurality in 1932. However, in 1936, with the emergence of theNew Deal Coalition,FDR made dramatic gains for the Democratic Party in New Jersey that would endure and transform it into a closely dividedswing state with only a slight Republican lean, a pattern that would endure for much of the 20th century until New Jersey ultimately became a solidly Democratic state in the 1990s. The 1936 election would be the first of many elections to conform to that pattern, with the results making the state about 4 points more Republican than the nation.
Roosevelt was the first Democratic victor inCumberland County sinceJames Buchanan in1856, and the first inEssex County sinceGrover Cleveland in1892.[3] He was the first to win Hunterdon County since 1916, and the first to win Bergen, Union, Somerset, Mercer, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic, Cape May, and Salem counties since 1912.
| 1936 United States presidential election in New Jersey | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) | 1,083,850 | 59.54% | 16 | |
| Republican | Alf Landon | 720,322 | 39.57% | 0 | |
| National Union | William Lemke | 9,407 | 0.52% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Norman Thomas | 3,931 | 0.22% | 0 | |
| Communist | Earl Browder | 1,639 | 0.09% | 0 | |
| National Prohibition | D. Leigh Colvin | 926 | 0.05% | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor | John W. Aiken | 362 | 0.02% | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,820,437 | 100.0% | 16 | ||
| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt[4] Democratic | Alfred Mossman Landon[4] Republican | William Frederick Lemke[4] National Union | Norman Mattoon Thomas[4] Socialist | Various candidates[4] Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Atlantic | 39,605 | 61.22% | 24,680 | 38.15% | 296 | 0.46% | 47 | 0.07% | 60 | 0.09% | 14,925 | 23.07% | 64,688 |
| Bergen | 91,107 | 50.09% | 89,628 | 49.28% | 530 | 0.29% | 461 | 0.25% | 152 | 0.08% | 1,479 | 0.81% | 181,878 |
| Burlington | 26,095 | 57.78% | 18,644 | 41.29% | 239 | 0.53% | 103 | 0.23% | 78 | 0.17% | 7,451 | 16.50% | 45,159 |
| Camden | 86,300 | 69.74% | 35,874 | 28.99% | 757 | 0.61% | 511 | 0.41% | 300 | 0.24% | 50,426 | 40.75% | 123,742 |
| Cape May | 9,363 | 52.16% | 8,531 | 47.52% | 23 | 0.13% | 16 | 0.09% | 19 | 0.11% | 832 | 4.63% | 17,952 |
| Cumberland | 20,492 | 58.06% | 14,500 | 41.09% | 74 | 0.21% | 63 | 0.18% | 163 | 0.46% | 5,992 | 16.98% | 35,292 |
| Essex | 174,857 | 54.74% | 140,991 | 44.14% | 2,364 | 0.74% | 714 | 0.22% | 515 | 0.16% | 33,866 | 10.60% | 319,441 |
| Gloucester | 20,516 | 56.02% | 15,813 | 43.18% | 88 | 0.24% | 70 | 0.19% | 135 | 0.37% | 4,703 | 12.84% | 36,622 |
| Hudson | 233,390 | 77.65% | 65,110 | 21.66% | 1,259 | 0.42% | 531 | 0.18% | 269 | 0.09% | 168,280 | 55.99% | 300,559 |
| Hunterdon | 9,526 | 51.75% | 8,832 | 47.98% | 1 | 0.01% | 20 | 0.11% | 30 | 0.16% | 694 | 3.77% | 18,409 |
| Mercer | 47,702 | 61.52% | 29,283 | 37.77% | 293 | 0.38% | 151 | 0.19% | 105 | 0.14% | 18,419 | 23.76% | 77,534 |
| Middlesex | 61,679 | 64.69% | 32,959 | 34.57% | 489 | 0.51% | 92 | 0.10% | 121 | 0.13% | 28,720 | 30.12% | 95,340 |
| Monmouth | 38,914 | 48.18% | 41,460 | 51.33% | 228 | 0.28% | 98 | 0.12% | 67 | 0.08% | -2,546 | -3.15% | 80,767 |
| Morris | 24,978 | 43.11% | 32,365 | 55.86% | 300 | 0.52% | 211 | 0.36% | 89 | 0.15% | -7,387 | -12.75% | 57,943 |
| Ocean | 9,889 | 46.27% | 11,293 | 52.84% | 117 | 0.55% | 31 | 0.15% | 42 | 0.20% | -1,404 | -6.57% | 21,372 |
| Passaic | 71,384 | 58.42% | 49,046 | 40.14% | 1,113 | 0.91% | 308 | 0.25% | 339 | 0.28% | 22,338 | 18.28% | 122,190 |
| Salem | 11,614 | 59.86% | 7,671 | 39.54% | 31 | 0.16% | 36 | 0.19% | 50 | 0.26% | 3,943 | 20.32% | 19,402 |
| Somerset | 15,987 | 50.14% | 15,806 | 49.57% | 15 | 0.05% | 35 | 0.11% | 44 | 0.14% | 181 | 0.57% | 31,887 |
| Sussex | 6,862 | 46.17% | 7,945 | 53.46% | 25 | 0.17% | 10 | 0.07% | 19 | 0.13% | -1,083 | -7.29% | 14,861 |
| Union | 70,813 | 53.61% | 59,553 | 45.08% | 1,162 | 0.88% | 363 | 0.27% | 206 | 0.16% | 11,260 | 8.52% | 132,097 |
| Warren | 12,476 | 56.82% | 9,437 | 42.98% | 1 | 0.00% | 24 | 0.11% | 19 | 0.09% | 3,039 | 13.84% | 21,957 |
| Totals | 1,083,549 | 59.56% | 719,421 | 39.55% | 9,405 | 0.52% | 3,895 | 0.21% | 2,852 | 0.16% | 364,128 | 20.02% | 1,819,122 |
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