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The1936 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the1936 United States presidential election. All contemporary forty-eight states took part in the national election, and Utah voters selected four voters to theElectoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Since its landslide endorsement ofWilliam Jennings Bryan's "free silver" in its inaugural1896 election,Utah had been a swing state apart from its support for embattled PresidentWilliam Howard Taft in1912.Woodrow Wilson had carried the state easily in1916 due to stronganti-war sentiment,[1] butJames M. Cox,John W. Davis andRobert M. La Follette did not win a single county between them in the1920 and1924 Republican landslides.
Vis-à-vis the rest of the nation, Utah had shown only a small anti-Hoover trend in1932. During Landon's summer campaigning, Utah was targeted strongly as a state the GOP needed to carry to have a chance at the presidency.[2] However, FDR's western public works programs, most notablyBoulder Dam,[3] had made him exceptionally popular in the rugged, arid West.[4] Along with the potent campaigning ofJames Farley meant that, by the last week of October the Republicans were showing no interest in Utah,[5] and this despite the opposition of the leadership of Utah's dominantChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Roosevelt's candidacy and policies, chiefly regarding the church's desire to remove Mormons from welfare rolls.[6]
Utah, like every other state west of theAppalachian Mountains, voted forFranklin D. Roosevelt overAlf Landon by a substantial margin, making FDR the first (and only) Democrat to win the state more than once. Roosevelt won Utah by a landslide with 69.34 percent of the vote, which remains the second best Democratic result from the state behind William Jennings Bryan in the state's inaugural election of 1896.
Like Bryan, FDR won every county in the state except strongly Republican Kane County in the far south, which has only voted Democratic for Woodrow Wilson in 1916.[1] Kane County was the westernmost county in the nation to vote for Landon, and one of only three west of the Continental Divide to do so.[a]
As of the2024 presidential election[update], this is the last election in whichIron County,Sanpete County,Sevier County,San Juan County, andGarfield County have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[7]
| Party | Pledged to | Elector | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | Franklin D. Roosevelt | E. A. Britsch | 150,246 | |
| Democratic Party | Franklin D. Roosevelt | J. E. Wilson | 150,002 | |
| Democratic Party | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Margaret G. Larsen | 149,949 | |
| Democratic Party | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Mrs. Francis G. Callahan | 149,932 | |
| Republican Party | Alf Landon | James A. Ivers | 64,555 | |
| Republican Party | Alf Landon | Charles W. Morse | 64,511 | |
| Republican Party | Alf Landon | Mrs. Sherman Christenson | 64,440 | |
| Republican Party | Alf Landon | Mrs. G. D. Rutledge | 64,369 | |
| Union Party | William Lemke | Ellen A. DeWitt | 1,121 | |
| Union Party | William Lemke | Wesley Jacques | 1,120 | |
| Union Party | William Lemke | James V. Leonard | 1,119 | |
| Union Party | William Lemke | Frank E. Stark | 1,112 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Vern Bullough | 432 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Bert Westover | 429 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Darwin Condie | 423 | |
| Socialist Party | Norman Thomas | Otto E. Parson | 422 | |
| Communist Party | Earl Browder | Dan Black | 280 | |
| Communist Party | Earl Browder | Theodore Houston | 280 | |
| Communist Party | Earl Browder | C. W. Matson | 278 | |
| Communist Party | Earl Browder | Howard Brown | 277 | |
| Prohibition Party | D. Leigh Colvin | Anna Flewelling | 43 | |
| Prohibition Party | D. Leigh Colvin | C. E. Smith | 43 | |
| Prohibition Party | D. Leigh Colvin | Julius Sheppard | 42 | |
| Prohibition Party | D. Leigh Colvin | Leota K. Hutsinpillar | 42 | |
| Votes cast[b] | 216,677 | |||
| County[8][9][10] | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | Alf Landon Republican | William Lemke Union | Norman Thomas Socialist | Earl Browder Communist | D. Leigh Colvin Prohibition | Margin | Total votes cast[b] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Beaver | 1,337 | 59.13% | 913 | 40.38% | 10 | 0.44% | 1 | 0.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 424 | 18.75% | 2,261 |
| Box Elder | 5,001 | 69.16% | 2,180 | 30.15% | 44 | 0.61% | 5 | 0.07% | 1 | 0.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,821 | 39.01% | 7,231 |
| Cache | 8,606 | 71.97% | 3,258 | 27.25% | 74 | 0.62% | 13 | 0.11% | 5 | 0.04% | 1 | 0.01% | 5,348 | 44.73% | 11,957 |
| Carbon | 5,040 | 77.42% | 1,348 | 20.71% | 59 | 0.91% | 26 | 0.40% | 35 | 0.54% | 2 | 0.03% | 3,692 | 56.71% | 6,510 |
| Daggett | 128 | 61.54% | 78 | 37.50% | 2 | 0.96% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 50 | 24.04% | 208 |
| Davis | 3,920 | 67.80% | 1,841 | 31.84% | 14 | 0.24% | 4 | 0.07% | 2 | 0.03% | 1 | 0.02% | 2,079 | 35.96% | 5,782 |
| Duchesne | 1,970 | 63.86% | 1,070 | 34.68% | 35 | 1.13% | 9 | 0.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.03% | 900 | 29.17% | 3,085 |
| Emery | 1,909 | 66.54% | 938 | 32.69% | 11 | 0.38% | 9 | 0.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.07% | 971 | 33.84% | 2,869 |
| Garfield | 928 | 52.37% | 842 | 47.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 86 | 4.85% | 1,772 |
| Grand | 521 | 64.40% | 272 | 33.62% | 12 | 1.48% | 4 | 0.49% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 249 | 30.78% | 809 |
| Iron | 1,844 | 56.07% | 1,396 | 42.44% | 12 | 0.36% | 37 | 1.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 448 | 13.62% | 3,289 |
| Juab | 2,319 | 68.67% | 1,027 | 30.41% | 17 | 0.50% | 13 | 0.38% | 1 | 0.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,292 | 38.26% | 3,377 |
| Kane | 395 | 43.03% | 519 | 56.54% | 2 | 0.22% | 2 | 0.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -124 | -13.51% | 918 |
| Millard | 2,313 | 60.34% | 1,466 | 38.25% | 42 | 1.10% | 12 | 0.31% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 847 | 22.10% | 3,833 |
| Morgan | 739 | 60.18% | 483 | 39.33% | 6 | 0.49% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 256 | 20.85% | 1,228 |
| Piute | 611 | 64.25% | 339 | 35.65% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 272 | 28.60% | 951 |
| Rich | 488 | 55.45% | 388 | 44.09% | 4 | 0.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 100 | 11.36% | 880 |
| Salt Lake | 62,386 | 71.77% | 23,819 | 27.40% | 382 | 0.44% | 155 | 0.18% | 177 | 0.20% | 10 | 0.01% | 38,567 | 44.37% | 86,929 |
| San Juan | 520 | 54.11% | 432 | 44.95% | 5 | 0.52% | 3 | 0.31% | 1 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 88 | 9.16% | 961 |
| Sanpete | 3,959 | 58.67% | 2,738 | 40.57% | 39 | 0.58% | 9 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 3 | 0.04% | 1,221 | 18.09% | 6,748 |
| Sevier | 2,816 | 59.07% | 1,899 | 39.84% | 34 | 0.71% | 10 | 0.21% | 8 | 0.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 917 | 19.24% | 4,767 |
| Summit | 2,344 | 61.95% | 1,422 | 37.58% | 7 | 0.18% | 7 | 0.18% | 4 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 922 | 24.37% | 3,784 |
| Tooele | 2,361 | 69.46% | 1,029 | 30.27% | 5 | 0.15% | 2 | 0.06% | 2 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,332 | 39.19% | 3,399 |
| Uintah | 1,986 | 60.96% | 1,193 | 36.62% | 71 | 2.18% | 8 | 0.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 793 | 24.34% | 3,258 |
| Utah | 14,387 | 69.52% | 6,173 | 29.83% | 62 | 0.30% | 44 | 0.21% | 24 | 0.12% | 5 | 0.02% | 8,214 | 39.69% | 20,695 |
| Wasatch | 1,299 | 55.66% | 1,029 | 44.09% | 1 | 0.04% | 4 | 0.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.04% | 270 | 11.57% | 2,334 |
| Washington | 2,005 | 63.37% | 1,145 | 36.19% | 9 | 0.28% | 4 | 0.13% | 1 | 0.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 860 | 27.18% | 3,164 |
| Wayne | 522 | 61.12% | 329 | 38.52% | 2 | 0.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0.12% | 193 | 22.60% | 854 |
| Weber | 17,594 | 77.08% | 4,989 | 21.86% | 160 | 0.70% | 48 | 0.21% | 19 | 0.08% | 16 | 0.07% | 12,605 | 55.22% | 22,826 |
| Total | 150,246[c] | 69.34% | 64,555 | 29.79% | 1,121 | 0.52% | 432 | 0.20% | 280 | 0.13% | 43 | 0.02% | 85,691 | 39.55% | 216,677 |
| Democratic Hold Gain from Republican |
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