1936 United States presidential election in Ohio

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Nominee	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Alf Landon
Party	Democratic	Republican
Home state	New York	Kansas
Running mate	John Nance Garner	Frank Knox
Electoral vote	26	0
Popular vote	1,747,140	1,127,855
Percentage	57.99%	37.44%

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The 1936 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose 26 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Ohio was decisively won by Democratic Party candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with 57.99% of the popular vote. The Republican Party candidate, Alf Landon, garnered a meager 37.44% of the popular vote. As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which Allen County and Hancock County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.

Results

1936 United States presidential election in Ohio
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent)	1,747,140	57.99%	26
	Republican	Alf Landon	1,127,855	37.44%	0
	Union	William Lemke	132,212	4.39%	0
	Communist	Earl Browder	5,251	0.17%	0
	Write-ins	Scattered	131	0.01%	0
Totals			3,012,589	100.0%	26

Results by county

County	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic		Alfred Mossman Landon Republican		William Frederick Lemke Union		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast
Adams	5,832	49.55%	5,910	50.21%	22	0.19%	6	0.05%	-78	-0.66%	11,770
Allen	16,500	49.12%	15,079	44.89%	2,002	5.96%	11	0.03%	1,421	4.23%	33,592
Ashland	8,818	57.44%	6,154	40.09%	357	2.33%	23	0.15%	2,664	17.35%	15,352
Ashtabula	14,468	48.21%	14,025	46.73%	1,453	4.84%	64	0.21%	443	1.48%	30,010
Athens	13,205	57.61%	9,509	41.48%	191	0.83%	17	0.07%	3,696	16.12%	22,922
Auglaize	7,835	54.77%	5,526	38.63%	940	6.57%	4	0.03%	2,309	16.14%	14,305
Belmont	30,545	67.16%	14,511	31.91%	329	0.72%	96	0.21%	16,034	35.25%	45,481
Brown	6,316	56.96%	4,511	40.68%	257	2.32%	4	0.04%	1,805	16.28%	11,088
Butler	29,892	59.99%	17,842	35.80%	1,996	4.01%	102	0.20%	12,050	24.18%	49,832
Carroll	3,801	45.59%	4,440	53.26%	94	1.13%	2	0.02%	-639	-7.66%	8,337
Champaign	6,485	47.27%	6,872	50.09%	357	2.60%	5	0.04%	-387	-2.82%	13,719
Clark	26,138	61.44%	15,483	36.40%	884	2.08%	35	0.08%	10,655	25.05%	42,540
Clermont	9,204	53.29%	7,608	44.05%	444	2.57%	14	0.08%	1,596	9.24%	17,270
Clinton	5,785	47.70%	6,265	51.66%	71	0.59%	6	0.05%	-480	-3.96%	12,127
Columbiana	22,664	56.38%	16,986	42.26%	495	1.23%	53	0.13%	5,678	14.13%	40,198
Coshocton	9,316	58.72%	6,449	40.65%	93	0.59%	8	0.05%	2,867	18.07%	15,866
Crawford	10,955	59.48%	6,638	36.04%	810	4.40%	16	0.09%	4,317	23.44%	18,419
Cuyahoga	311,117	65.44%	128,947	27.12%	33,128	6.97%	2,226	0.47%	182,170	38.32%	475,418
Darke	11,114	54.79%	8,375	41.29%	788	3.89%	6	0.03%	2,739	13.50%	20,283
Defiance	5,608	48.05%	5,000	42.84%	1,060	9.08%	2	0.02%	608	5.21%	11,670
Delaware	7,045	47.90%	7,364	50.06%	297	2.02%	3	0.02%	-319	-2.17%	14,709
Erie	10,376	55.43%	6,869	36.69%	1,452	7.76%	23	0.12%	3,507	18.73%	18,720
Fairfield	12,322	59.16%	8,062	38.70%	430	2.06%	16	0.08%	4,260	20.45%	20,830
Fayette	5,807	54.33%	4,841	45.29%	33	0.31%	8	0.07%	966	9.04%	10,689
Franklin	90,746	57.42%	63,830	40.39%	3,325	2.10%	146	0.09%	26,916	17.03%	158,047
Fulton	3,582	35.04%	6,152	60.17%	482	4.71%	8	0.08%	-2,570	-25.14%	10,224
Gallia	4,548	40.34%	6,700	59.42%	17	0.15%	10	0.09%	-2,152	-19.09%	11,275
Geauga	3,400	46.49%	3,620	49.49%	282	3.86%	12	0.16%	-220	-3.01%	7,314
Greene	8,946	53.53%	7,449	44.57%	299	1.79%	18	0.11%	1,497	8.96%	16,712
Guernsey	11,404	56.82%	8,532	42.51%	114	0.57%	20	0.10%	2,872	14.31%	20,070
Hamilton	153,117	54.60%	108,506	38.69%	18,426	6.57%	387	0.14%	44,611	15.91%	280,436
Hancock	9,929	47.77%	9,816	47.23%	1,030	4.96%	9	0.04%	113	0.54%	20,784
Hardin	8,441	51.84%	7,631	46.86%	206	1.27%	5	0.03%	810	4.97%	16,283
Harrison	5,231	52.08%	4,779	47.58%	25	0.25%	10	0.10%	452	4.50%	10,045
Henry	5,472	51.29%	4,108	38.51%	1,076	10.09%	12	0.11%	1,364	12.79%	10,668
Highland	8,011	51.85%	7,392	47.84%	39	0.25%	9	0.06%	619	4.01%	15,451
Hocking	6,580	61.62%	3,960	37.09%	132	1.24%	6	0.06%	2,620	24.54%	10,678
Holmes	4,097	63.70%	2,247	34.93%	83	1.29%	5	0.08%	1,850	28.76%	6,432
Huron	8,500	47.16%	8,318	46.15%	1,194	6.63%	10	0.06%	182	1.01%	18,022
Jackson	6,802	49.67%	6,853	50.04%	33	0.24%	6	0.04%	-51	-0.37%	13,694
Jefferson	27,472	67.11%	13,044	31.87%	363	0.89%	56	0.14%	14,428	35.25%	40,935
Knox	8,315	49.97%	7,956	47.81%	369	2.22%	1	0.01%	359	2.16%	16,641
Lake	11,213	51.66%	9,386	43.24%	1,070	4.93%	38	0.18%	1,827	8.42%	21,707
Lawrence	11,471	57.17%	8,498	42.35%	85	0.42%	12	0.06%	2,973	14.82%	20,066
Licking	17,785	58.56%	11,958	39.37%	606	2.00%	23	0.08%	5,827	19.19%	30,372
Logan	7,353	46.23%	8,363	52.58%	180	1.13%	9	0.06%	-1,010	-6.35%	15,905
Lorain	24,393	57.19%	15,906	37.29%	2,280	5.35%	77	0.18%	8,487	19.90%	42,656
Lucas	74,155	55.76%	45,853	34.48%	12,616	9.49%	355	0.27%	28,302	21.28%	132,979
Madison	5,184	51.17%	4,843	47.81%	94	0.93%	9	0.09%	341	3.37%	10,130
Mahoning	64,886	71.41%	24,825	27.32%	973	1.07%	174	0.19%	40,061	44.09%	90,858
Marion	11,881	55.45%	9,070	42.33%	459	2.14%	17	0.08%	2,811	13.12%	21,427
Medina	7,400	49.14%	7,283	48.37%	364	2.42%	11	0.07%	117	0.78%	15,058
Meigs	6,085	48.49%	6,464	51.51%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-379	-3.02%	12,549
Mercer	7,217	54.66%	3,602	27.28%	2,381	18.03%	4	0.03%	3,615	27.38%	13,204
Miami	12,754	50.44%	11,343	44.86%	1,177	4.65%	12	0.05%	1,411	5.58%	25,286
Monroe	5,368	61.64%	3,211	36.87%	125	1.44%	5	0.06%	2,157	24.77%	8,709
Montgomery	76,430	59.81%	44,742	35.02%	6,469	5.06%	137	0.11%	31,688	24.80%	127,778
Morgan	3,093	39.65%	4,630	59.35%	75	0.96%	3	0.04%	-1,537	-19.70%	7,801
Morrow	3,947	47.83%	4,086	49.52%	215	2.61%	4	0.05%	-139	-1.68%	8,252
Muskingum	16,265	49.93%	15,454	47.44%	822	2.52%	32	0.10%	811	2.49%	32,573
Noble	3,865	46.46%	4,384	52.70%	70	0.84%	0	0.00%	-519	-6.24%	8,319
Ottawa	6,335	56.87%	4,006	35.96%	796	7.15%	2	0.02%	2,329	20.91%	11,139
Paulding	4,179	50.65%	3,853	46.70%	216	2.62%	3	0.04%	326	3.95%	8,251
Perry	8,508	53.90%	6,826	43.24%	434	2.75%	17	0.11%	1,682	10.66%	15,785
Pickaway	7,813	61.22%	4,920	38.55%	24	0.19%	6	0.05%	2,893	22.67%	12,763
Pike	5,287	64.13%	2,953	35.82%	3	0.04%	1	0.01%	2,334	28.31%	8,244
Portage	13,798	61.43%	8,035	35.77%	602	2.68%	28	0.12%	5,763	25.66%	22,463
Preble	6,366	51.80%	5,593	45.51%	325	2.64%	6	0.05%	773	6.29%	12,290
Putnam	5,786	46.23%	4,151	33.16%	2,566	20.50%	14	0.11%	1,635	13.06%	12,517
Richland	20,070	61.27%	11,220	34.25%	1,416	4.32%	52	0.16%	8,850	27.02%	32,758
Ross	12,503	55.71%	9,817	43.75%	95	0.42%	26	0.12%	2,686	11.97%	22,441
Sandusky	9,171	45.26%	8,692	42.89%	2,382	11.75%	20	0.10%	479	2.36%	20,265
Scioto	22,243	55.08%	17,860	44.23%	255	0.63%	22	0.05%	4,383	10.85%	40,380
Seneca	8,982	40.35%	9,953	44.71%	3,307	14.86%	17	0.08%	-971	-4.36%	22,259
Shelby	7,110	53.43%	4,482	33.68%	1,706	12.82%	9	0.07%	2,628	19.75%	13,307
Stark	57,931	59.96%	34,693	35.91%	3,835	3.97%	153	0.16%	23,238	24.05%	96,612
Summit	91,836	68.69%	38,991	29.16%	2,581	1.93%	288	0.22%	52,845	39.53%	133,696
Trumbull	32,384	64.34%	16,887	33.55%	966	1.92%	92	0.18%	15,497	30.79%	50,329
Tuscarawas	21,991	66.71%	10,317	31.30%	622	1.89%	35	0.11%	11,674	35.41%	32,965
Union	5,157	47.10%	5,673	51.81%	115	1.05%	5	0.05%	-516	-4.71%	10,950
Van Wert	7,744	52.56%	6,275	42.59%	704	4.78%	10	0.07%	1,469	9.97%	14,733
Vinton	2,902	48.58%	3,056	51.16%	14	0.23%	2	0.03%	-154	-2.58%	5,974
Warren	7,209	49.02%	7,359	50.04%	134	0.91%	5	0.03%	-150	-1.02%	14,707
Washington	10,203	47.78%	10,826	50.70%	311	1.46%	14	0.07%	-623	-2.92%	21,354
Wayne	12,666	54.08%	10,331	44.11%	418	1.78%	8	0.03%	2,335	9.97%	23,423
Williams	5,628	42.31%	7,050	53.00%	619	4.65%	5	0.04%	-1,422	-10.69%	13,302
Wood	11,255	45.42%	11,716	47.28%	1,798	7.26%	9	0.04%	-461	-1.86%	24,778
Wyandot	5,597	54.41%	4,260	41.42%	429	4.17%	0	0.00%	1,337	13.00%	10,286
Totals	1,747,140	58.00%	1,127,855	37.44%	132,212	4.39%	5,251	0.17%	619,285	20.56%	3,012,458

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Notes

This total, including votes for Socialist Norman Thomas and Socialist Labor Party candidate John W. Aiken, differs from that in America at the Polls.
The Socialist, Socialist Labor and "scattered" vote, totalling 202, was not tabulated by county

References

Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; 1936 Presidential General Election Results – Ohio
Sullivan, Robert David (June 29, 2016). "How the red and blue map evolved over the past century". America Magazine.
Géoelections; 1936 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15 on request)
Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 348-349 ISBN 0405077114

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