United States presidential election in Vermont, 1936

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Nominee	Alf Landon	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Party	Republican	Democratic
Home state	Kansas	New York
Running mate	Frank Knox	John N. Garner
Electoral vote	3	0
Popular vote	81,023	62,124
Percentage	56.39%	43.24%

County Results

Roosevelt—50-60%

Landon—50-60%

Landon—60-70%

Landon—70-80%

President before election

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The 1936 United States Presidential Election in Vermont took place on November 3, 1936 as part of the 1936 United States Presidential Election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 3 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Vermont voted for the Republican nominee, Governor Alf Landon of Kansas, over the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Landon's running mate was newspaper publisher Frank Knox of Illinois, while Roosevelt ran with incumbent Vice President John Nance Garner of Texas.

Landon took 56.39% of the vote, to Roosevelt's 43.24%, a margin of 13.15%.

Vermont historically was a bastion of liberal Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1936 the Green Mountain State had gone Republican in every presidential election since the founding of the Republican Party. From 1856 to 1932, Vermont had had the longest streak of voting Republican of any state, having never voted Democratic before, and this tradition continued even in the midst of a nationwide Democratic landslide in 1936. It would not vote Democratic until 1964.

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