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The1936 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the1936 United States presidential election. North Carolina voters chose 13[2] representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
As a former Confederate state, North Carolina had a history ofJim Crow laws,disfranchisement of itsAfrican-American population and dominance of the Democratic Party in state politics. However, unlike the Deep South, the Republican Party had sufficienthistoric Unionist White support from the mountains and northwestern Piedmont to gain a stable one-third of the statewide vote total in most general elections,[3] where turnout was higher than elsewhere in the former Confederacy due substantially to the state's early abolition ofthe poll tax in 1920.[4] A rapid move following disenfranchisement to a completely“lily-white” state GOP also helped maintain Republican support amongst the state's voters.[5] LikeVirginia,Tennessee andOklahoma, the relative strength of Republican opposition meant that North Carolina did not have statewidewhite primaries, although certain counties did use the white primary.[6]
Anti-Catholicism against 1928 Democratic nomineeAl Smith in the fishing communities of theOuter Banks, alongside increasing middle-class Republican voting in such cities asCharlotte,Durham andGreensboro,[7] meant that Republican nominee Herbert Hoover would use the lily-white state party to win its electoral votes for the first time since theReconstruction election of 1872. During Hoover's administration, the state became the scene of a major controversy in the Supreme Court nomination of Fourth Circuit judge and1920 Republican gubernatorial candidateJohn Johnston Parker, who had said that black North Carolinians no longer desire to participate in politics. When he was nominated theNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People sent letters to senators requesting Parker's defeat.[8] The NAACP would ultimately succeed in defeating Parker, being helped by manySouthern Democrats who feared that his nomination would strengthen a newly lily-white Republican Party in the former Confederacy, by manyNorthern andBorder State Republicans opposed to a lily-white GOP there, and by the hostility of theAmerican Federation of Labor to some of his rulings.[9] The Parker defeat put an end to Republican efforts to breach the “Solid South” for over two decades, and in North Carolina the two Republican congressmen electedin 1928 would both be defeatedin 1930.
Although North Carolina suffered the smallest relative income loss of any state as a result of the Depression,[10] many Southerners blamed the collapse on the North and onWall Street.[11] it had extremely severe effects in the South, which had the highest unemployment rate in the nation, and many Southerners blamed this on the North and onWall Street, rejecting Hoover's claim that the Depression's causes were exogenous.[11] As expected,[12] North Carolina returned to the “Solid South” in 1932, and despite the entrenched conservatism of its Democratic leadership, the majority of the state's electorate revered PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt.[13] In October 1936, a poll had Roosevelt winning 65 percent of the state's ballots againstRepublican nomineesKansas GovernorAlf Landon andFrank Knox.[14] Another poll a week before the election said the state was sure to back FDR despite known doubts about theNew Deal amongst voters.[15]
UltimatelyNorth Carolina was won by Roosevelt with 73.40 percent of the popular vote, against Landon's 26.60 percent.[16][17] This was an improvement of over three points upon FDR's 1932 performance, produced by gains of double digits in the urbanPiedmont counties ofDurham andAlamance, and lesser gains in neighbouring counties.[18] Landon retained the loyal GOP Unionist strength, withAvery County advancing from the tenth-most Republican in 1932 to being Landon's fifth-strongest county four years later.[19]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) | 616,141 | 73.40% | |
| Republican | Alf Landon | 223,283 | 26.60% | |
| Write-in | Norman Thomas | 21[a] | 0.00% | |
| Write-in | Earl Browder | 11[a] | 0.00% | |
| Write-in | William Lemke | 2[a] | 0.00% | |
| Write-ins | Various candidates | 6[a] | 0.00% | |
| Total votes | 839,464 | 100% | ||
| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic | Alfred Mossman Landon Republican | Margin | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | # | % | # | % | # | |
| Martin | 97.58% | 4,477 | 2.42% | 111 | 95.16% | 4,366 |
| Northampton | 97.20% | 3,785 | 2.80% | 109 | 94.40% | 3,676 |
| Bertie | 97.08% | 3,828 | 2.92% | 115 | 94.17% | 3,713 |
| Pitt | 96.71% | 9,539 | 3.29% | 325 | 93.41% | 9,214 |
| Hertford | 96.52% | 2,327 | 3.48% | 84 | 93.03% | 2,243 |
| Halifax | 96.39% | 8,230 | 3.61% | 308 | 92.79% | 7,922 |
| Greene | 96.39% | 3,097 | 3.61% | 116 | 92.78% | 2,981 |
| Edgecombe | 96.17% | 6,684 | 3.83% | 266 | 92.35% | 6,418 |
| Granville | 95.86% | 4,279 | 4.14% | 185 | 91.71% | 4,094 |
| Franklin | 95.75% | 5,209 | 4.25% | 231 | 91.51% | 4,978 |
| Warren | 95.61% | 3,047 | 4.39% | 140 | 91.21% | 2,907 |
| Nash | 94.38% | 8,682 | 5.62% | 517 | 88.76% | 8,165 |
| Lenoir | 94.34% | 5,854 | 5.66% | 351 | 88.69% | 5,503 |
| Chowan | 94.17% | 1,550 | 5.83% | 96 | 88.34% | 1,454 |
| Vance | 93.51% | 4,536 | 6.49% | 315 | 87.01% | 4,221 |
| Robeson | 93.35% | 10,280 | 6.65% | 732 | 86.71% | 9,548 |
| Hoke | 93.27% | 1,953 | 6.73% | 141 | 86.53% | 1,812 |
| Wilson | 93.20% | 7,522 | 6.80% | 549 | 86.40% | 6,973 |
| Currituck | 92.70% | 1,625 | 7.30% | 128 | 85.40% | 1,497 |
| Union | 92.56% | 7,480 | 7.44% | 601 | 85.13% | 6,879 |
| Craven | 92.44% | 5,543 | 7.56% | 453 | 84.89% | 5,090 |
| Anson | 92.40% | 4,629 | 7.60% | 381 | 84.79% | 4,248 |
| Caswell | 92.33% | 2,493 | 7.67% | 207 | 84.67% | 2,286 |
| Onslow | 92.15% | 2,758 | 7.85% | 235 | 84.30% | 2,523 |
| Gates | 92.06% | 1,484 | 7.94% | 128 | 84.12% | 1,356 |
| Richmond | 91.70% | 6,709 | 8.30% | 607 | 83.41% | 6,102 |
| Scotland | 91.02% | 3,183 | 8.98% | 314 | 82.04% | 2,869 |
| Pasquotank | 90.87% | 3,226 | 9.13% | 324 | 81.75% | 2,902 |
| Camden | 89.60% | 1,008 | 10.40% | 117 | 79.20% | 891 |
| Jones | 89.26% | 1,563 | 10.74% | 188 | 78.53% | 1,375 |
| Wake | 88.99% | 19,850 | 11.01% | 2,456 | 77.98% | 17,394 |
| Person | 88.30% | 2,898 | 11.70% | 384 | 76.60% | 2,514 |
| Pender | 87.72% | 2,379 | 12.28% | 333 | 75.44% | 2,046 |
| Beaufort | 86.42% | 6,133 | 13.58% | 964 | 72.83% | 5,169 |
| Cumberland | 86.40% | 6,505 | 13.60% | 1,024 | 72.80% | 5,481 |
| Bladen | 85.91% | 3,360 | 14.09% | 551 | 71.82% | 2,809 |
| Perquimans | 85.76% | 970 | 14.24% | 161 | 71.53% | 809 |
| Durham | 85.40% | 12,804 | 14.60% | 2,189 | 70.80% | 10,615 |
| New Hanover | 84.96% | 7,376 | 15.04% | 1,306 | 69.91% | 6,070 |
| Mecklenburg | 84.75% | 26,169 | 15.25% | 4,709 | 69.50% | 21,460 |
| Lee | 84.75% | 3,723 | 15.25% | 670 | 69.50% | 3,053 |
| Cleveland | 84.34% | 11,393 | 15.66% | 2,116 | 68.67% | 9,277 |
| Columbus | 83.97% | 6,359 | 16.03% | 1,214 | 67.94% | 5,145 |
| Rockingham | 81.84% | 11,366 | 18.16% | 2,522 | 63.68% | 8,844 |
| Cabarrus | 81.32% | 12,297 | 18.68% | 2,825 | 62.64% | 9,472 |
| Wayne | 80.19% | 7,087 | 19.81% | 1,751 | 60.38% | 5,336 |
| Duplin | 79.42% | 5,966 | 20.58% | 1,546 | 58.84% | 4,420 |
| Hyde | 79.30% | 1,157 | 20.70% | 302 | 58.60% | 855 |
| Gaston | 78.63% | 17,555 | 21.37% | 4,772 | 57.25% | 12,783 |
| Forsyth | 78.09% | 18,734 | 21.91% | 5,256 | 56.18% | 13,478 |
| Harnett | 77.98% | 8,018 | 22.02% | 2,264 | 55.96% | 5,754 |
| Washington | 77.80% | 1,875 | 22.20% | 535 | 55.60% | 1,340 |
| Tyrrell | 77.53% | 1,049 | 22.47% | 304 | 55.06% | 745 |
| Rowan | 74.84% | 12,808 | 25.16% | 4,306 | 49.68% | 8,502 |
| Iredell | 74.76% | 11,308 | 25.24% | 3,817 | 49.53% | 7,491 |
| Alamance | 74.13% | 11,025 | 25.87% | 3,847 | 48.27% | 7,178 |
| Guilford | 72.89% | 25,579 | 27.11% | 9,514 | 45.78% | 16,065 |
| Orange | 72.75% | 3,860 | 27.25% | 1,446 | 45.50% | 2,414 |
| Johnston | 72.17% | 11,253 | 27.83% | 4,339 | 44.34% | 6,914 |
| Dare | 71.93% | 1,389 | 28.07% | 542 | 43.86% | 847 |
| Buncombe | 71.40% | 23,646 | 28.60% | 9,470 | 42.81% | 14,176 |
| Haywood | 71.05% | 8,175 | 28.95% | 3,331 | 42.10% | 4,844 |
| Rutherford | 67.23% | 9,911 | 32.77% | 4,830 | 34.47% | 5,081 |
| Chatham | 66.71% | 4,373 | 33.29% | 2,182 | 33.42% | 2,191 |
| Carteret | 66.68% | 3,780 | 33.32% | 1,889 | 33.36% | 1,891 |
| Caldwell | 66.56% | 6,809 | 33.44% | 3,421 | 33.12% | 3,388 |
| Pamlico | 65.42% | 1,627 | 34.58% | 860 | 30.84% | 767 |
| Surry | 64.95% | 8,833 | 35.05% | 4,766 | 29.91% | 4,067 |
| Moore | 64.29% | 4,466 | 35.71% | 2,481 | 28.57% | 1,985 |
| Catawba | 63.30% | 11,017 | 36.70% | 6,387 | 26.60% | 4,630 |
| McDowell | 63.22% | 5,352 | 36.78% | 3,114 | 26.44% | 2,238 |
| Brunswick | 62.51% | 2,710 | 37.49% | 1,625 | 25.03% | 1,085 |
| Lincoln | 61.17% | 5,515 | 38.83% | 3,501 | 22.34% | 2,014 |
| Alleghany | 61.02% | 2,345 | 38.98% | 1,498 | 22.04% | 847 |
| Jackson | 59.94% | 4,580 | 40.06% | 3,061 | 19.88% | 1,519 |
| Stanly | 58.99% | 6,505 | 41.01% | 4,523 | 17.97% | 1,982 |
| Transylvania | 58.71% | 2,845 | 41.29% | 2,001 | 17.42% | 844 |
| Davidson | 58.62% | 10,844 | 41.38% | 7,656 | 17.23% | 3,188 |
| Polk | 58.42% | 2,521 | 41.58% | 1,794 | 16.85% | 727 |
| Montgomery | 58.16% | 3,484 | 41.84% | 2,506 | 16.33% | 978 |
| Burke | 57.52% | 7,454 | 42.48% | 5,506 | 15.03% | 1,948 |
| Stokes | 57.36% | 4,384 | 42.64% | 3,259 | 14.72% | 1,125 |
| Yancey | 57.24% | 3,603 | 42.76% | 2,691 | 14.49% | 912 |
| Alexander | 57.10% | 3,262 | 42.90% | 2,451 | 14.20% | 811 |
| Macon | 56.45% | 3,311 | 43.55% | 2,554 | 12.91% | 757 |
| Swain | 55.69% | 2,619 | 44.31% | 2,084 | 11.38% | 535 |
| Ashe | 54.92% | 5,552 | 45.08% | 4,557 | 9.84% | 995 |
| Sampson | 54.54% | 5,937 | 45.46% | 4,948 | 9.09% | 989 |
| Randolph | 53.87% | 8,090 | 46.13% | 6,927 | 7.74% | 1,163 |
| Watauga | 53.23% | 3,880 | 46.77% | 3,409 | 6.46% | 471 |
| Henderson | 52.99% | 5,747 | 47.01% | 5,099 | 5.97% | 648 |
| Graham | 52.64% | 1,473 | 47.36% | 1,325 | 5.29% | 148 |
| Cherokee | 51.94% | 3,473 | 48.06% | 3,214 | 3.87% | 259 |
| Davie | 49.74% | 2,476 | 50.26% | 2,502 | -0.52% | -26 |
| Clay | 46.77% | 1,340 | 53.23% | 1,525 | -6.46% | -185 |
| Wilkes | 43.77% | 6,506 | 56.23% | 8,358 | -12.46% | -1,852 |
| Yadkin | 43.31% | 3,209 | 56.69% | 4,200 | -13.38% | -991 |
| Madison | 38.06% | 3,133 | 61.94% | 5,099 | -23.88% | -1,966 |
| Mitchell | 33.29% | 1,687 | 66.71% | 3,380 | -33.41% | -1,693 |
| Avery | 22.02% | 839 | 77.98% | 2,971 | -55.96% | -2,132 |
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