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The1936 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose four[2] representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Idaho was won byincumbent PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York) and Vice PresidentJohn Nance Garner (D–Texas) with 62.96 percent of the popular vote, overGovernorAlf Landon (R–Kansas) and running mateFrank Knox (R–Illinois) with 33.19 percent of the popular vote.[3][4]
Idaho has since become a Republican stronghold; as of2024, this election marks the last time thatAda County,Canyon County,Gooding County,Jerome County,Lincoln County,Payette County andTwin Falls County would vote for a Democratic presidential nominee,[5][6] the last time that a Democrat would carry the state by double digits, and the last time that the state would (by margin of victory) vote more Democratic than the nation as a whole.
William Borah, the Republican Senator for Idaho ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1936, the first candidate from Idaho to do so.
His candidacy was opposed by the conservative Republican leadership. Borah praised Roosevelt for some of his policies, and deeply criticized the Republican Party. With only 25 Republicans left in the Senate, Borah saw an opportunity to recast the Republican Party along progressive lines, as he had long sought to do. He was opposed by the Republican organization, which sought to dilute his strength in the primaries by running statefavorite son candidates in order to ensure abrokered convention. Despite being easily the leading primary vote-getter, Borah managed to win only a handful of delegates and took a majority of them in only one state, Wisconsin, where he had the endorsement of SenatorRobert M. La Follette, Jr. Borah refused to endorse the eventual candidate, Kansas GovernorAlf Landon (who was nominated at the1936 Republican National Convention), leading some to believe Borah might cross party lines and support Roosevelt. Ultimately, as he had four years earlier, he chose to endorse neither candidate.[7] Borah was on the ballot that fall in Idaho, seeking a sixth term in the Senate. For the first time since the people had been given the right to elect senators, the Democrats ran a serious candidate against him, GovernorC. Ben Ross. Although Idahoans overwhelmingly voted for Roosevelt, who won every state exceptMaine andVermont, Borah still took over sixty percent of their votes in hisre-election bid.[8]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) | 125,683 | 62.96% | |
| Republican | Alf Landon | 66,256 | 33.19% | |
| Union | William Lemke | 7,678 | 3.85% | |
| Total votes | 199,617 | 100% | ||
| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic | Alfred Mossman Landon Republican | William Frederick Lemke Union | Margin | Total votes cast[9] | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Ada | 12,027 | 58.46% | 7,581 | 36.85% | 966 | 4.70% | 4,446 | 21.61% | 20,574 |
| Adams | 770 | 59.41% | 434 | 33.49% | 92 | 7.10% | 336 | 25.93% | 1,296 |
| Bannock | 9,443 | 70.51% | 3,830 | 28.60% | 120 | 0.90% | 5,613 | 41.91% | 13,393 |
| Bear Lake | 2,078 | 59.61% | 1,404 | 40.28% | 4 | 0.11% | 674 | 19.33% | 3,486 |
| Benewah | 1,906 | 65.70% | 897 | 30.92% | 98 | 3.38% | 1,009 | 34.78% | 2,901 |
| Bingham | 4,215 | 62.42% | 2,354 | 34.86% | 184 | 2.72% | 1,861 | 27.56% | 6,753 |
| Blaine | 1,361 | 64.59% | 735 | 34.88% | 11 | 0.52% | 626 | 29.71% | 2,107 |
| Boise | 780 | 65.55% | 368 | 30.92% | 42 | 3.53% | 412 | 34.62% | 1,190 |
| Bonner | 3,521 | 58.75% | 2,016 | 33.64% | 456 | 7.61% | 1,505 | 25.11% | 5,993 |
| Bonneville | 5,439 | 69.85% | 2,213 | 28.42% | 135 | 1.73% | 3,226 | 41.43% | 7,787 |
| Boundary | 1,304 | 60.31% | 732 | 33.86% | 126 | 5.83% | 572 | 26.46% | 2,162 |
| Butte | 546 | 62.83% | 312 | 35.90% | 11 | 1.27% | 234 | 26.93% | 869 |
| Camas | 442 | 60.47% | 274 | 37.48% | 15 | 2.05% | 168 | 22.98% | 731 |
| Canyon | 8,290 | 56.99% | 4,910 | 33.75% | 1,347 | 9.26% | 3,380 | 23.24% | 14,547 |
| Caribou | 640 | 66.53% | 321 | 33.37% | 1 | 0.10% | 319 | 33.16% | 962 |
| Cassia | 3,100 | 64.62% | 1,629 | 33.96% | 68 | 1.42% | 1,471 | 30.66% | 4,797 |
| Clark | 272 | 46.90% | 304 | 52.41% | 4 | 0.69% | -32 | -5.52% | 580 |
| Clearwater | 1,959 | 66.95% | 812 | 27.75% | 155 | 5.30% | 1,147 | 39.20% | 2,926 |
| Custer | 875 | 61.58% | 530 | 37.30% | 16 | 1.13% | 345 | 24.28% | 1,421 |
| Elmore | 1,567 | 65.84% | 688 | 28.91% | 125 | 5.25% | 879 | 36.93% | 2,380 |
| Franklin | 2,255 | 61.44% | 1,396 | 38.04% | 19 | 0.52% | 859 | 23.41% | 3,670 |
| Fremont | 2,904 | 66.51% | 1,423 | 32.59% | 39 | 0.89% | 1,481 | 33.92% | 4,366 |
| Gem | 2,468 | 69.17% | 879 | 24.64% | 221 | 6.19% | 1,589 | 44.53% | 3,568 |
| Gooding | 2,100 | 56.68% | 1,505 | 40.62% | 100 | 2.70% | 595 | 16.06% | 3,705 |
| Idaho | 3,104 | 62.97% | 1,535 | 31.14% | 290 | 5.88% | 1,569 | 31.83% | 4,929 |
| Jefferson | 2,776 | 71.84% | 1,037 | 26.84% | 51 | 1.32% | 1,739 | 45.01% | 3,864 |
| Jerome | 2,374 | 62.84% | 1,297 | 34.33% | 107 | 2.83% | 1,077 | 28.51% | 3,778 |
| Kootenai | 5,752 | 63.92% | 2,586 | 28.74% | 661 | 7.35% | 3,166 | 35.18% | 8,999 |
| Latah | 4,359 | 58.45% | 2,838 | 38.05% | 261 | 3.50% | 1,521 | 20.39% | 7,458 |
| Lemhi | 1,648 | 61.82% | 943 | 35.37% | 75 | 2.81% | 705 | 26.44% | 2,666 |
| Lewis | 1,612 | 74.35% | 507 | 23.39% | 49 | 2.26% | 1,105 | 50.97% | 2,168 |
| Lincoln | 916 | 53.22% | 766 | 44.51% | 39 | 2.27% | 150 | 8.72% | 1,721 |
| Madison | 2,455 | 68.35% | 1,114 | 31.01% | 23 | 0.64% | 1,341 | 37.33% | 3,592 |
| Minidoka | 2,095 | 67.65% | 948 | 30.61% | 54 | 1.74% | 1,147 | 37.04% | 3,097 |
| Nez Perce | 5,705 | 71.45% | 1,988 | 24.90% | 292 | 3.66% | 3,717 | 46.55% | 7,985 |
| Oneida | 1,673 | 63.42% | 955 | 36.20% | 10 | 0.38% | 718 | 27.22% | 2,638 |
| Owyhee | 1,106 | 64.00% | 500 | 28.94% | 122 | 7.06% | 606 | 35.07% | 1,728 |
| Payette | 1,677 | 45.78% | 1,524 | 41.61% | 462 | 12.61% | 153 | 4.18% | 3,663 |
| Power | 1,075 | 59.33% | 708 | 39.07% | 29 | 1.60% | 367 | 20.25% | 1,812 |
| Shoshone | 5,377 | 70.92% | 2,146 | 28.30% | 59 | 0.78% | 3,231 | 42.61% | 7,582 |
| Teton | 834 | 59.19% | 542 | 38.47% | 33 | 2.34% | 292 | 20.72% | 1,409 |
| Twin Falls | 7,476 | 58.28% | 4,966 | 38.71% | 386 | 3.01% | 2,510 | 19.57% | 12,828 |
| Valley | 1,260 | 63.64% | 575 | 29.04% | 145 | 7.32% | 685 | 34.60% | 1,980 |
| Washington | 2,147 | 60.38% | 1,234 | 34.70% | 175 | 4.92% | 913 | 25.67% | 3,556 |
| Totals | 125,683 | 62.96% | 66,256 | 33.19% | 7,678 | 3.85% | 59,427 | 29.77% | 199,617 |
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