1936 Democratic Party presidential primaries

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March 10 to May 19, 1936

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Candidate	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Henry Skillman Breckinridge
Home state	New York	New York
Contests won	13	1
Popular vote	4,814,978	136,407
Percentage	92.9%	2.6%

Results map by state.

Previous Democratic nominee

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democratic nominee

Franklin D. Roosevelt

From March 10 to May 19, 1936, voters of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1936 Democratic National Convention for the purpose of selecting the party's for president in the 1936 United States presidential election. Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1936 Democratic National Convention held from June 23 to June 27, 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Candidates

Before his assassination, there was a challenge from Louisiana Senator Huey Long. But, due to his untimely assassination, President Roosevelt faced only one primary opponent other than various favorite sons.

Franklin D. Roosevelt	Henry Skillman Breckinridge	Upton Sinclair	John S. McGroarty	Al Smith


U.S. President (1933–1945)	Assistant Secretary of War (1913–1916)	Novelist and Journalist from California	Representative from California (1935–1939)	Governor of New York (1919–1920, 1923–1928)
4,830,730 votes	136,407 votes	106,068 votes	61,391 votes	8,856 votes

Primaries


		Franklin Roosevelt	Henry Breckinridge	Upton Sinclair	John McGroarty	Joseph Coutremarsh	Uncommitted	Others
March 10	New Hampshire (Primary)	100.00% (15,752)	-	-	-	-	-	-
April 7	Wisconsin (Primary)	99.96% (401,773)	-	-	-	-	-	0.04% (154)
April 14	Illinois (Primary)	99.97% (1,416,411)	-	-	-	-	-	0.03% (446)
April 14	Nebraska (Primary)	100.00% (139,743)	-	-	-	-	-	-
April 28	Massachusetts (Primary)	85.85% (W) (51,924)	-	-	-	-	-	14.15% (W) (8,556)
April 28	Pennsylvania (Primary)	95.32% (720,309)	4.68% (35,351)	-	-	-	-	-
May 4	Maryland (Primary)	83.45% (100,269)	15.11% (18,150)	-	-	-	1.45% (1,739)	-
May 5	California (Primary)	82.51% (790,235)	-	11.08% (106,068)	6.41% (61,391)	-	-	-
May 5	South Dakota (Primary)	100.00% (48,262)	-	-	-	-	-	-
May 12	Ohio (Primary)	93.98% (514,366)	6.02% (32,950)	-	-	-	-	-
May 12	West Virginia (Primary)	97.25% (288,799)	-	-	-	2.75% (8,162)	-	-
May 15	Oregon (Primary)	99.77% (88,305)	-	-	-	-	-	0.24% (208)
May 19	New Jersey (Primary)	18.94% (W) (11,676)	81.04% (49,956)	-	-	-	-	0.02% (14)
June 6	Florida (Primary)	89.67% (242,906)	-	-	-	10.33% (27,982)	-	-

Legend:		1st place (popular vote)		2nd place (popular vote)		3rd place (popular vote)		Candidate has Withdrawn or Ceased Campaigning		(W) - Votes are Write-In

References

Kalb, Deborah (2016-02-19). Guide to U.S. Elections - Google Books. ISBN 9781483380353. Retrieved 2016-02-19.

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State legislatures	Iowa Senate

(← 1932) 1936 United States presidential election (→ 1940)

Democratic Party

Candidates

Incumbent nominee: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Incumbent VP nominee: John Nance Garner

Other candidates: Henry S. Breckinridge

Republican Party

Candidates

Nominee: Alf Landon
VP nominee: Frank Knox

Third-party and independent candidates
Communist Party	Nominee: Earl Browder VP nominee: James W. Ford
Prohibition Party	Nominee: D. Leigh Colvin VP nominee: Claude A. Watson
Socialist Party	Nominee: Norman Thomas VP nominee: George A. Nelson
Union Party	Nominee: William Lemke VP nominee: Thomas C. O'Brien
Socialist Labor Party	Nominee: John W. Aiken VP nominee: Emil F. Teichert
Christian Party	Nominee: William Dudley Pelley VP nominee: Willard Kemp

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History

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tickets,
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U.S. House
leaders,
Speakers,
and
Caucus
chairs

A. Stevenson (1827–1834)
Bell (1834–1835)
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J. W. Jones (1843–1845)
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Orr (1857–1859)
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Kerr (1875–1876)
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Wright (1987–1989)
Foley (1989–1995)
Gephardt (1995–2003)
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Jeffries (2023–)

U.S. Senate
leaders
and
Caucus
chairs

J. W. Stevenson (1873–1877)
Wallace (1877–1881)
Pendleton (1881–1885)
Beck (1885–1890)
Gorman (1890–1898)
Turpie (1898–1899)
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Gorman (1903–1906)
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Money (1909–1911)
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