Election in Georgia
1936 United States presidential election in Georgia County Results
Roosevelt
50-60%
60-70%
70-80%
80-90%
90-100%
Landon
50-60%
The 1936 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
With the exception of a handful of historically Unionist North Georgia counties – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens , Gilmer and Towns – Georgia since the 1880s had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. Disfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and most poor whites had made the Republican Party virtually nonexistent outside of local governments in those few hill counties,[1] and the national Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction. The only competitive elections were Democratic primaries , which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.[2]
On election day, the Democratic ticket of incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice President John N. Garner carried the state of Georgia in a landslide, defeating Republican Alf Landon by a margin of nearly 75 percentage points and sweeping all but one county in the state. Even amidst a national Democratic landslide, Roosevelt's margin in Georgia exceeded his margin nationwide by more than 50 percentage points.
Results [ edit ] Results by congressional districts [ edit ] Results by county [ edit ] County Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic Alfred Mossman Landon Republican David Leigh Colvin Prohibition William Frederick Lemke Union Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist Margin Total votes cast [5] # % # % # % # % # % # % Appling 1,309 89.84% 140 9.61% 3 0.21% 5 0.34% 0 0.00% 1,169 80.23% 1,457 Atkinson 958 97.06% 29 2.94% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 929 94.12% 987 Bacon 929 93.74% 62 6.26% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 867 87.49% 991 Baker 599 97.72% 13 2.12% 1 0.16% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 586 95.60% 613 Baldwin 811 87.58% 113 12.20% 2 0.22% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 698 75.38% 926 Banks 641 77.98% 181 22.02% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 460 55.96% 822 Barrow 1,181 87.16% 172 12.69% 2 0.15% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,009 74.46% 1,355 Bartow 2,228 83.13% 444 16.57% 6 0.22% 2 0.07% 0 0.00% 1,784 66.57% 2,680 Ben Hill 1,147 88.64% 146 11.28% 1 0.08% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,001 77.36% 1,294 Berrien 1,700 96.98% 53 3.02% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,647 93.95% 1,753 Bibb 5,722 92.34% 452 7.29% 22 0.36% 1 0.02% 0 0.00% 5,270 85.04% 6,197 Bleckley 649 90.14% 69 9.58% 2 0.28% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 580 80.56% 720 Brantley 527 92.13% 40 6.99% 5 0.87% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 487 85.14% 572 Brooks 1,277 92.74% 94 6.83% 6 0.44% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,183 85.91% 1,377 Bryan 632 90.41% 63 9.01% 4 0.57% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 569 81.40% 699 Bulloch 1,978 96.53% 66 3.22% 5 0.24% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,912 93.31% 2,049 Burke 1,040 95.06% 51 4.66% 3 0.27% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 989 90.40% 1,094 Butts 820 96.13% 28 3.28% 5 0.59% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 792 92.85% 853 Calhoun 777 97.98% 14 1.77% 2 0.25% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 763 96.22% 793 Camden 515 90.19% 53 9.28% 2 0.35% 1 0.18% 0 0.00% 462 80.91% 571 Candler 992 92.28% 80 7.44% 3 0.28% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 912 84.84% 1,075 Carroll 3,717 84.98% 653 14.93% 4 0.09% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 3,064 70.05% 4,374 Catoosa 1,018 82.16% 218 17.59% 1 0.08% 1 0.08% 1 0.08% 800 64.57% 1,239 Charlton 468 94.16% 28 5.63% 1 0.20% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 440 88.53% 497 Chatham 10,019 88.90% 1,227 10.89% 14 0.12% 4 0.04% 6 0.05% 8,792 78.01% 11,270 Chattahoochee 206 91.15% 20 8.85% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 186 82.30% 226 Chattooga 2,999 92.79% 231 7.15% 2 0.06% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,768 85.64% 3,232 Cherokee 1,211 58.79% 842 40.87% 6 0.29% 1 0.05% 0 0.00% 369 17.91% 2,060 Clarke 2,632 94.13% 160 5.72% 3 0.11% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 2,472 88.41% 2,796 Clay 484 96.99% 13 2.61% 2 0.40% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 471 94.39% 499 Clayton 1,352 88.37% 175 11.44% 3 0.20% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,177 76.93% 1,530 Clinch 1,002 93.21% 71 6.60% 2 0.19% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 931 86.60% 1,075 Cobb 2,802 79.72% 707 20.11% 6 0.17% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,095 59.60% 3,515 Coffee 1,702 93.57% 116 6.38% 1 0.05% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,586 87.19% 1,819 Colquitt 2,449 84.42% 448 15.44% 3 0.10% 1 0.03% 0 0.00% 2,001 68.98% 2,901 Columbia 659 94.14% 34 4.86% 7 1.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 625 89.29% 700 Cook 1,697 93.45% 117 6.44% 1 0.06% 1 0.06% 0 0.00% 1,580 87.00% 1,816 Coweta 2,260 96.79% 73 3.13% 2 0.09% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,187 93.66% 2,335 Crawford 413 94.51% 22 5.03% 2 0.46% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 391 89.47% 437 Crisp 1,029 92.70% 79 7.12% 2 0.18% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 950 85.59% 1,110 Dade 857 87.01% 127 12.89% 1 0.10% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 730 74.11% 985 Dawson 377 53.93% 322 46.07% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 55 7.87% 699 Decatur 1,965 95.71% 79 3.85% 4 0.19% 1 0.05% 4 0.19% 1,886 91.86% 2,053 DeKalb 7,391 86.34% 1,137 13.28% 17 0.20% 4 0.05% 11 0.13% 6,254 73.06% 8,560 Dodge 1,259 94.24% 71 5.31% 2 0.15% 4 0.30% 0 0.00% 1,188 88.92% 1,336 Dooly 1,339 97.03% 41 2.97% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,298 94.06% 1,380 Dougherty 2,591 95.40% 122 4.49% 1 0.04% 2 0.07% 0 0.00% 2,469 90.91% 2,716 Douglas 1,015 80.88% 237 18.88% 1 0.08% 2 0.16% 0 0.00% 778 61.99% 1,255 Early 1,107 95.68% 46 3.98% 1 0.09% 2 0.17% 1 0.09% 1,061 91.70% 1,157 Echols 300 90.63% 30 9.06% 1 0.30% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 270 81.57% 331 Effingham 612 81.06% 142 18.81% 1 0.13% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 470 62.25% 755 Elbert 1,772 79.39% 438 19.62% 21 0.94% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 1,334 59.77% 2,232 Emanuel 1,943 93.37% 125 6.01% 6 0.29% 7 0.34% 0 0.00% 1,818 87.36% 2,081 Evans 733 95.07% 35 4.54% 3 0.39% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 698 90.53% 771 Fannin 1,540 44.90% 1,890 55.10% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -350 -10.20% 3,430 Fayette 748 91.33% 70 8.55% 1 0.12% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 678 82.78% 819 Floyd 5,499 89.87% 612 10.00% 6 0.10% 1 0.02% 1 0.02% 4,887 79.87% 6,119 Forsyth 780 58.60% 551 41.40% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 229 17.21% 1,331 Franklin 1,621 86.73% 238 12.73% 8 0.43% 1 0.05% 1 0.05% 1,383 74.00% 1,869 Fulton 27,183 88.17% 3,552 11.52% 54 0.18% 20 0.06% 20 0.06% 23,631 76.65% 30,829 Gilmer 1,128 51.86% 1,047 48.14% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 81 3.72% 2,175 Glascock 369 83.86% 68 15.45% 3 0.68% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 301 68.41% 440 Glynn 1,925 87.98% 260 11.88% 1 0.05% 1 0.05% 1 0.05% 1,665 76.10% 2,188 Gordon 2,026 79.86% 504 19.87% 7 0.28% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,522 59.99% 2,537 Grady 1,659 90.71% 163 8.91% 6 0.33% 1 0.05% 0 0.00% 1,496 81.79% 1,829 Greene 1,348 93.35% 86 5.96% 10 0.69% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,262 87.40% 1,444 Gwinnett 2,382 81.41% 541 18.49% 3 0.10% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,841 62.92% 2,926 Habersham 1,884 80.93% 424 18.21% 16 0.69% 4 0.17% 0 0.00% 1,460 62.71% 2,328 Hall 2,731 85.85% 444 13.96% 6 0.19% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,287 71.90% 3,181 Hancock 504 88.42% 57 10.00% 9 1.58% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 447 78.42% 570 Haralson 1,643 67.39% 787 32.28% 6 0.25% 1 0.04% 1 0.04% 856 35.11% 2,438 Harris 953 94.54% 54 5.36% 1 0.10% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 899 89.19% 1,008 Hart 1,514 86.96% 222 12.75% 5 0.29% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,292 74.21% 1,741 Heard 725 82.11% 155 17.55% 3 0.34% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 570 64.55% 883 Henry 1,362 91.90% 116 7.83% 3 0.20% 1 0.07% 0 0.00% 1,246 84.08% 1,482 Houston 796 95.56% 37 4.44% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 759 91.12% 833 Irwin 1,025 89.83% 110 9.64% 5 0.44% 1 0.09% 0 0.00% 915 80.19% 1,141 Jackson 2,447 92.76% 187 7.09% 4 0.15% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,260 85.67% 2,638 Jasper 923 96.55% 33 3.45% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 890 93.10% 956 Jeff Davis 631 87.15% 93 12.85% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 538 74.31% 724 Jefferson 1,238 87.31% 168 11.85% 10 0.71% 1 0.07% 1 0.07% 1,070 75.46% 1,418 Jenkins 880 96.49% 32 3.51% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 848 92.98% 912 Johnson 1,861 84.40% 334 15.15% 10 0.45% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,527 69.25% 2,205 Jones 508 95.67% 23 4.33% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 485 91.34% 531 Lamar 839 92.30% 69 7.59% 1 0.11% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 770 84.71% 909 Lanier 800 95.81% 30 3.59% 5 0.60% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 770 92.22% 835 Laurens 2,620 89.39% 304 10.37% 7 0.24% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,316 79.02% 2,931 Lee 490 99.59% 1 0.20% 1 0.20% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 489 99.39% 492 Liberty 369 87.65% 49 11.64% 2 0.48% 1 0.24% 0 0.00% 320 76.01% 421 Lincoln 561 84.23% 88 13.21% 17 2.55% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 473 71.02% 666 Long 305 84.96% 51 14.21% 2 0.56% 1 0.28% 0 0.00% 254 70.75% 359 Lowndes 3,099 94.89% 130 3.98% 8 0.24% 27 0.83% 2 0.06% 2,969 90.91% 3,266 Lumpkin 617 79.41% 160 20.59% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 457 58.82% 777 Macon 958 90.98% 92 8.74% 2 0.19% 1 0.09% 0 0.00% 866 82.24% 1,053 Madison 1,697 80.89% 393 18.73% 8 0.38% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,304 62.15% 2,098 Marion 420 86.96% 62 12.84% 1 0.21% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 358 74.12% 483 McDuffie 705 87.14% 98 12.11% 6 0.74% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 607 75.03% 809 McIntosh 308 85.32% 53 14.68% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 255 70.64% 361 Meriwether 2,438 94.61% 138 5.36% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,300 89.25% 2,577 Miller 653 94.64% 36 5.22% 1 0.14% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 617 89.42% 690 Mitchell 2,297 96.47% 79 3.32% 3 0.13% 1 0.04% 1 0.04% 2,218 93.15% 2,381 Monroe 1,277 89.24% 147 10.27% 7 0.49% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,130 78.97% 1,431 Montgomery 945 91.39% 81 7.83% 5 0.48% 3 0.29% 0 0.00% 864 83.56% 1,034 Morgan 1,130 96.66% 37 3.17% 2 0.17% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,093 93.50% 1,169 Murray 1,597 66.43% 806 33.53% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 791 32.90% 2,404 Muscogee 5,009 91.56% 455 8.32% 7 0.13% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 4,554 83.24% 5,471 Newton 1,994 93.79% 123 5.79% 8 0.38% 1 0.05% 0 0.00% 1,871 88.01% 2,126 Oconee 483 73.29% 173 26.25% 3 0.46% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 310 47.04% 659 Oglethorpe 845 87.66% 115 11.93% 4 0.41% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 730 75.73% 964 Paulding 1,386 68.14% 645 31.71% 3 0.15% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 741 36.43% 2,034 Peach 767 92.52% 49 5.91% 12 1.45% 1 0.12% 0 0.00% 718 86.61% 829 Pickens 1,223 53.73% 1,053 46.27% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 170 7.47% 2,276 Pierce 1,494 96.45% 45 2.91% 7 0.45% 3 0.19% 0 0.00% 1,449 93.54% 1,549 Pike 910 85.69% 149 14.03% 1 0.09% 2 0.19% 0 0.00% 761 71.66% 1,062 Polk 2,754 87.51% 389 12.36% 4 0.13% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,365 75.15% 3,147 Pulaski 808 94.61% 38 4.45% 7 0.82% 1 0.12% 0 0.00% 770 90.16% 854 Putnam 703 93.11% 51 6.75% 1 0.13% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 652 86.36% 755 Quitman 355 94.92% 19 5.08% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 336 89.84% 374 Rabun 948 85.33% 162 14.58% 1 0.09% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 786 70.75% 1,111 Randolph 1,208 93.86% 74 5.75% 5 0.39% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,134 88.11% 1,287 Richmond 7,239 92.69% 551 7.06% 16 0.20% 1 0.01% 3 0.04% 6,688 85.63% 7,810 Rockdale 837 91.88% 73 8.01% 1 0.11% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 764 83.86% 911 Schley 419 90.69% 43 9.31% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 376 81.39% 462 Screven 933 92.47% 61 6.05% 15 1.49% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 872 86.42% 1,009 Seminole 761 90.27% 82 9.73% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 679 80.55% 843 Spalding 2,457 98.28% 36 1.44% 3 0.12% 3 0.12% 1 0.04% 2,421 96.84% 2,500 Stephens 1,142 94.22% 68 5.61% 2 0.17% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,074 88.61% 1,212 Stewart 628 92.22% 49 7.20% 2 0.29% 2 0.29% 0 0.00% 579 85.02% 681 Sumter 1,870 96.69% 58 3.00% 6 0.31% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,812 93.69% 1,934 Talbot 796 94.42% 41 4.86% 6 0.71% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 755 89.56% 843 Taliaferro 552 96.34% 14 2.44% 7 1.22% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 538 93.89% 573 Tattnall 1,047 82.31% 214 16.82% 11 0.86% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 833 65.49% 1,272 Taylor 771 83.71% 147 15.96% 3 0.33% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 624 67.75% 921 Telfair 1,158 90.54% 121 9.46% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,037 81.08% 1,279 Terrell 1,336 95.50% 61 4.36% 2 0.14% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,275 91.14% 1,399 Thomas 2,409 91.08% 222 8.39% 13 0.49% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 2,187 82.68% 2,645 Tift 1,627 90.49% 161 8.95% 10 0.56% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,466 81.54% 1,798 Toombs 1,001 92.43% 78 7.20% 4 0.37% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 923 85.23% 1,083 Towns 763 51.04% 732 48.96% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 31 2.07% 1,495 Treutlen 912 97.44% 23 2.46% 1 0.11% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 889 94.98% 936 Troup 2,728 94.13% 167 5.76% 3 0.10% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,561 88.37% 2,898 Turner 860 82.06% 188 17.94% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 672 64.12% 1,048 Twiggs 491 89.44% 57 10.38% 1 0.18% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 434 79.05% 549 Union 1,148 59.45% 783 40.55% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 365 18.90% 1,931 Upson 1,471 91.37% 138 8.57% 1 0.06% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,333 82.80% 1,610 Walker 2,313 83.32% 458 16.50% 4 0.14% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 1,855 66.82% 2,776 Walton 1,952 93.58% 132 6.33% 2 0.10% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,820 87.25% 2,086 Ware 2,566 90.77% 256 9.06% 5 0.18% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,310 81.71% 2,827 Warren 545 79.91% 129 18.91% 8 1.17% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 416 61.00% 682 Washington 1,286 89.24% 149 10.34% 6 0.42% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,137 78.90% 1,441 Wayne 788 87.65% 105 11.68% 6 0.67% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 683 75.97% 899 Webster 310 88.32% 40 11.40% 1 0.28% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 270 76.92% 351 Wheeler 594 86.21% 94 13.64% 1 0.15% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 500 72.57% 689 White 599 78.82% 161 21.18% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 438 57.63% 760 Whitfield 2,481 73.69% 877 26.05% 7 0.21% 1 0.03% 1 0.03% 1,604 47.64% 3,367 Wilcox 1,066 84.40% 195 15.44% 2 0.16% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 871 68.96% 1,263 Wilkes 1,031 91.89% 78 6.95% 13 1.16% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 953 84.94% 1,122 Wilkinson 695 84.96% 118 14.43% 5 0.61% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 577 70.54% 818 Worth 1,124 89.42% 132 10.50% 1 0.08% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 992 78.92% 1,257 Totals 255,363 87.10% 36,943 12.60% 660 0.23% 141 0.05% 68 0.02% 218,420 74.50% 293,175
References [ edit ] ^ Phillips, Kevin P. ; The Emerging Republican Majority , pp. 208, 210 ISBN 9780691163246 ^ Springer, Melanie Jean; How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000 , p. 155 ISBN 022611435X ^ "1936 Presidential General Election Results – Georgia" . Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Georgia's Official Register, 1933-1935-1937 (PDF) . Atlanta, Georgia. pp. 651–652. ^ "GA US President Race, November 03, 1936" . Our Campaigns.