1932 United States presidential election in Oregon


The 1932 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Background and results

Outside a few Presidential and gubernatorial elections, Oregon was a virtually one-party Republican state during the “System of 1896”, where the only competition was via Republican primaries. Apart from Woodrow Wilson’s two elections, during the first of which the GOP was severely divided, no Democrat had carried a single county in the state since William Jennings Bryan in 1900.
However, since the 1928 election when Oregon had been won against Al Smith by 30.04%, the United States had fallen into the Great Depression, which had been particularly severe in the rural western parts of the nation. The New Deal was especially popular in the Pacific States, and as a result Roosevelt was assured of carrying the state.
Oregon was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 57.99% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover, running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 36.88% of the popular vote. Roosevelt flipped every county in Oregon except arch-Yankee Benton, and was the first-ever Democratic victor in the northern coastal counties of Clatsop, Lincoln and Tillamook, and also in inland wheat-growing Gilliam County and Wheeler County.

Results

Results by county