The1932 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 electors, or representatives to theElectoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
DemocratFranklin D. Roosevelt became the first Democrat to ever carryMinnesota in a presidential election, taking 59.9% of the state's vote to incumbentRepublican PresidentHerbert Hoover's 36.3%, a margin of victory of 23.62% and 236,847 votes. Roosevelt won the national election in a landslide, taking 472 electoral votes and winning the national popular vote by 17.76%, Despite a history of overwhelming Republican dominance, Minnesota weighed in in this election as 5.86 percentage points more Democratic than the nation at-large.
This significant shift would foreshadow a national electoral realignment. The election of 1932, the first held since theWall Street Crash of 1929, effectively marked the end of the Republican-dominatedFourth Party System, and the beginning of theFifth Party System. This led to the dominance of theNew Deal Coalition in presidential politics until1968. Leading up to this election, the state's1930 gubernatorial election, in whichFarmer-Labor candidateFloyd B. Olson won the governorship by a landslide margin, was considered an indicator of the GOP's poor prospects in 1932. Throughout most of the 1930s, Roosevelt would dominate presidential politics in Minnesota, while Olson and the Farmer-Laborites tended to dominate state politics. The eventual cooperation between the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic Party, fostered by Olson and Roosevelt, would lead to the establishment of theMinnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in 1944.
This was also only the second time since statehood that the state did not support the Republican candidate, the first being when it backedProgressive Party candidateTheodore Roosevelt in1912. Minnesota has since voted Democratic in every presidential election except1952,1956, and1972, all of which were national Republican landslides. As of the2024 presidential election[update], this is the last election in whichLake County voted for a Republican presidential candidate (incidentally it was the only county to vote Republican in this election) and the last election in whichCarver County andOtter Tail County voted for a Democratic candidate.[1]
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