1932 United States presidential election in Vermont

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United States presidential election in Vermont, 1932

November 8, 1932

Nominee Herbert Hoover Franklin D. Roosevelt Party Republican Democratic Home state California New York Running mate Charles Curtis John N. Garner Electoral vote 3 0 Popular vote 78,984 56,266 Percentage 57.66% 41.08%

County Results   Roosevelt—50-60%   Hoover—50-60%   Hoover—60-70%

President before election Herbert Hoover Republican Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic

The 1932 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 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, incumbent President Herbert Hoover of California, over the Democratic nominee, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Hoover's running mate was incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis of Kansas, while Roosevelt ran with incumbent Speaker of the House John Nance Garner of Texas.

Hoover took 57.66% of the vote, to Roosevelt's 41.08%, a margin of 16.58%.

Vermont historically was a bastion of liberal Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1932 the Green Mountain State had gone Republican in every presidential election since the founding of the Republican Party. From 1856 to 1928, 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 1932.

Vermont was one of only six states, four of them in New England, which voted to re-elect the embattled Republican incumbent Hoover, who was widely unpopular over his failure to adequately address the Great Depression. Vermont would ultimately be one of only two states (along with nearby Maine) that would reject FDR in all four of his presidential campaigns.

In terms of both vote share and margin, Vermont was the most Republican state in the nation. Vermont would weigh in as a whopping 34% more Republican than the national average in the 1932 election.

Hoover carried 11 of the state's 14 counties, breaking 60% in 7 of them. But the three northwestern counties of Vermont would become New Deal Democratic enclaves in an otherwise Republican state. In 1928, Democrat Al Smith had won Chittenden County, the state's most populous county, home to the state's largest city, Burlington. In 1932, Roosevelt would carry Chittenden County for the Democrats as Smith did in 1928, but also flip Franklin County and Grand Isle County into the Democratic column. All 3 counties would remain loyally Democratic in the elections that followed until Dwight Eisenhower's Republican landslide of 1952.

Results

United States presidential election in Vermont, 1932
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Herbert Hoover	78,984	57.66%	3
	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt	56,266	41.08%	0
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	1,533	1.12%	0
	Communist	William Z. Foster	195	0.14%	0
	N/A	Write-ins	2	0.00%	0
Totals			136,980	100.00%	3

Results by County

County	Hoover	Votes	Roosevelt	Votes	Others	Votes	Total
Addison County	62.8%	5,295	36.0%	3,031	1.2%	102	8,428
Bennington County	55.8%	5,250	42.1%	3,964	2.2%	202	9,416
Caledonia County	62.3%	6,066	37.2%	3,621	0.6%	54	9,741
Chittenden County	43.9%	7,208	55.4%	9,104	0.8%	123	16,435
Essex County	52.6%	1,567	46.9%	1,397	0.5%	16	2,980
Franklin County	44.3%	4,999	54.8%	6,179	1.0%	108	11,286
Grand Isle County	43.9%	649	54.9%	811	1.2%	17	1,477
Lamoille County	69.7%	2,599	29.4%	1,096	0.9%	34	3,729
Orange County	69.3%	4,305	29.5%	1,830	1.2%	77	6,212
Orleans County	66.4%	5,132	32.7%	2,530	0.9%	67	7,729
Rutland County	54.2%	10,821	44.7%	8,924	1.0%	206	19,951
Washington County	57.7%	8,393	39.7%	5,777	2.5%	370	14,540
Windham County	66.0%	7,347	32.9%	3,659	1.1%	123	11,129
Windsor County	67.2%	9,353	31.2%	4,343	1.7%	231	13,927