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1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina

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The 1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election. North Carolina voters chose thirteen[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina
← 1928 November 8, 1932[1] 1936 →
All 13 North Carolina votes to the Electoral College
 
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Herbert Hoover
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York California
Running mate John Nance Garner Charles Curtis
Electoral vote 13 0
Popular vote 497,566 208,344
Percentage 69.93% 29.28%
County Results
President before election

Herbert Hoover
Republican

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

As a former Confederate state, North Carolina had a history of Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement of its African-American population and dominance of the Democratic Party in state politics. However, unlike the Deep South, the Republican Party had sufficient historic Unionist White support from the mountains and northwestern Piedmont to gain a stable one-third of the statewide vote total in most general elections,[3] where turnout was higher than elsewhere in the former Confederacy due substantially to the state's early abolition of the poll tax in 1920.[4] A rapid move following disenfranchisement to a completely “lily-white” state GOP also helped maintain Republican support amongst the state's voters.[5] Like Virginia, Tennessee and Oklahoma, the relative strength of Republican opposition meant that North Carolina did not have statewide white primaries, although certain counties did use the white primary.[6]

However, anti-Catholicism against 1928 Democratic nominee Al Smith in the fishing communities of the Outer Banks, alongside increasing middle-class Republican voting in such cities as Charlotte, Durham and Greensboro,[7] meant that Republican nominee Herbert Hoover would use the lily-white state party to win its electoral votes for the first time since the Reconstruction election of 1872. During Hoover's administration, North Carolina was the scene of a major controversy in the Supreme Court nomination of Fourth Circuit judge and 1920 Republican gubernatorial candidate John Johnston Parker. During that election, Parker had said that black North Carolinians no longer desire to participate in politics, and when he was nominated the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sent letters to senators requesting Parker's defeat.[8] The NAACP would ultimately succeed in defeating Parker, being helped by many Southern Democrats who feared that his nomination would strengthen a newly lily-white Republican Party in the South, by many Northern and Border State Republicans opposed to a lily-white GOP in the former Confederacy, and by the hostility of the American Federation of Labor to some of his rulings.[9] The Parker defeat put an end to Republican efforts to breach the “Solid South” for over two decades, and in North Carolina the two Republican Congressmen elected in 1928 would both be defeated in 1930.

Although North Carolina suffered the smallest relative income loss of any state as a result of the Depression,[10] many Southerners blamed the collapse on the North and on Wall Street.[11] it had extremely severe effects in the South, which had the highest unemployment rate in the nation, and many Southerners blamed this on the North and on Wall Street, rejecting Hoover's claim that the Depression's causes were exogenous.[11]

Neither Hoover nor Democratic nominees Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and Speaker John Nance Garner campaigned in North Carolina, which was universally expected to return to the “Solid South” with economic conditions as bad as they were.[12] Early polls in October would entirely omit the state, even those including Confederate states that had actually remained loyal to Al Smith.[13] The only poll taken in the state was taken very late in the campaign and had Roosevelt leading by three-to-one.[14]

North Carolina was won by Roosevelt with 69.93 percent of the popular vote, against Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis, with 29.28 percent of the popular vote.[15] Roosevelt won all but six loyally Unionist counties; although as in 1928 rock-ribbed Republican Avery County in the northwestern Blue Ridge Mountains was Hoover's tenth-best in the country.[16]

Results

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1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt 497,566 69.93%
Republican Herbert Hoover (incumbent) 208,344 29.28%
Socialist Norman Thomas 5,591 0.79%
Total votes 711,501 100%

Results by county

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1932 United States presidential election in North Carolina by county[17]
County Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic 		Herbert Clark Hoover
Republican 		Norman Mattoon Thomas
Socialist 		Margin
% # % # % # % #
Bertie 97.83% 3,154 2.02% 65 0.16% 5 95.81% 3,089
Martin 97.37% 3,781 2.42% 94 0.21% 8 94.95% 3,687
Pitt 96.55% 7,724 3.19% 255 0.26% 21 93.36% 7,469
Hoke 96.22% 1,780 3.51% 65 0.27% 5 92.70% 1,715
Greene 96.28% 2,510 3.61% 94 0.12% 3 92.67% 2,416
Currituck 96.02% 1,759 3.77% 69 0.22% 4 92.25% 1,690
Chowan 95.96% 1,639 3.75% 64 0.29% 5 92.21% 1,575
Warren 95.82% 2,661 3.96% 110 0.22% 6 91.86% 2,551
Edgecombe 95.62% 5,872 4.04% 248 0.34% 21 91.58% 5,624
Northampton 95.47% 3,243 4.33% 147 0.21% 7 91.14% 3,096
Franklin 95.34% 4,294 4.42% 199 0.24% 11 90.92% 4,095
Hertford 95.08% 1,835 4.56% 88 0.36% 7 90.52% 1,747
Halifax 94.98% 6,413 4.53% 306 0.49% 33 90.45% 6,107
Anson 94.91% 4,252 4.98% 223 0.11% 5 89.93% 4,029
Granville 94.51% 3,808 5.26% 212 0.22% 9 89.25% 3,596
Nash 92.79% 7,472 6.61% 532 0.61% 49 86.18% 6,940
Gates 93.01% 1,198 6.91% 89 0.08% 1 86.10% 1,109
Lenoir 92.60% 4,677 6.93% 350 0.48% 24 85.67% 4,327
Scotland 92.42% 2,608 7.37% 208 0.21% 6 85.05% 2,400
Vance 92.03% 3,833 7.64% 318 0.34% 14 84.39% 3,515
Camden 92.05% 915 7.85% 78 0.10% 1 84.21% 837
Wilson 91.55% 6,153 7.69% 517 0.76% 51 83.86% 5,636
Jones 91.42% 1,449 8.33% 132 0.25% 4 83.09% 1,317
Caswell 91.39% 1,858 8.31% 169 0.30% 6 83.08% 1,689
Onslow 90.89% 2,615 8.79% 253 0.31% 9 82.10% 2,362
Robeson 90.48% 7,860 9.01% 783 0.51% 44 81.47% 7,077
Craven 90.02% 4,375 9.59% 466 0.39% 19 80.43% 3,909
Pasquotank 89.49% 2,946 9.96% 328 0.55% 18 79.53% 2,618
Union 88.84% 6,103 10.33% 710 0.83% 57 78.50% 5,393
Pender 87.64% 1,993 11.87% 270 0.48% 11 75.77% 1,723
Hyde 87.43% 1,050 12.24% 147 0.33% 4 75.19% 903
Richmond 86.96% 4,862 12.39% 693 0.64% 36 74.57% 4,169
Columbus 86.55% 5,098 12.55% 739 0.90% 53 74.01% 4,359
Wake 86.02% 14,863 12.56% 2,170 1.42% 246 73.46% 12,693
Beaufort 86.33% 5,552 13.05% 839 0.62% 40 73.29% 4,713
Perquimans 84.94% 1,280 14.93% 225 0.13% 2 70.01% 1,055
Cumberland 83.77% 5,012 15.56% 931 0.67% 40 68.21% 4,081
Lee 81.50% 3,058 18.15% 681 0.35% 13 63.35% 2,377
Cleveland 80.60% 8,016 19.15% 1,904 0.25% 25 61.46% 6,112
New Hanover 79.33% 6,030 18.81% 1,430 1.86% 141 60.52% 4,600
Duplin 79.46% 4,674 19.94% 1,173 0.60% 35 59.52% 3,501
Wayne 79.01% 6,365 20.25% 1,631 0.74% 60 58.76% 4,734
Mecklenburg 77.90% 18,167 21.32% 4,973 0.78% 181 56.58% 13,194
Person 77.80% 2,372 21.65% 660 0.56% 17 56.15% 1,712
Tyrrell 76.78% 873 22.69% 258 0.53% 6 54.09% 615
Bladen 75.85% 2,651 23.12% 808 1.03% 36 52.73% 1,843
Washington 72.71% 1,681 26.77% 619 0.52% 12 45.93% 1,062
Rockingham 72.37% 7,795 26.89% 2,896 0.74% 80 45.48% 4,899
Durham 70.78% 7,559 25.94% 2,770 3.29% 351 44.84% 4,789
Orange 69.57% 2,924 26.50% 1,114 3.93% 165 43.06% 1,810
Dare 71.16% 1,241 28.50% 497 0.34% 6 42.66% 744
Gaston 70.78% 12,890 28.36% 5,164 0.86% 157 42.42% 7,726
Johnston 70.86% 9,574 28.77% 3,887 0.37% 50 42.09% 5,687
Cabarrus 70.68% 8,465 28.76% 3,444 0.57% 68 41.92% 5,021
Harnett 70.42% 6,346 29.04% 2,617 0.54% 49 41.38% 3,729
Forsyth 69.73% 14,016 28.49% 5,727 1.78% 357 41.24% 8,289
Alleghany 70.28% 1,951 29.18% 810 0.54% 15 41.10% 1,141
Iredell 69.70% 8,367 29.85% 3,583 0.46% 55 39.85% 4,784
Pamlico 67.34% 1,526 29.35% 665 3.31% 75 38.00% 861
Haywood 68.54% 6,790 31.11% 3,082 0.34% 34 37.43% 3,708
Rowan 67.81% 9,782 30.94% 4,464 1.25% 180 36.86% 5,318
Buncombe 66.69% 18,241 31.97% 8,745 1.34% 367 34.72% 9,496
Guilford 66.42% 19,301 31.88% 9,263 1.70% 495 34.54% 10,038
Carteret 65.50% 3,455 33.46% 1,765 1.04% 55 32.04% 1,690
McDowell 65.68% 4,810 33.84% 2,478 0.48% 35 31.84% 2,332
Rutherford 64.93% 8,336 34.65% 4,448 0.42% 54 30.29% 3,888
Alamance 63.97% 8,240 34.76% 4,478 1.27% 164 29.20% 3,762
Moore 63.11% 4,287 36.20% 2,459 0.69% 47 26.91% 1,828
Polk 62.48% 2,401 36.98% 1,421 0.55% 21 25.50% 980
Surry 62.05% 7,490 37.37% 4,511 0.57% 69 24.68% 2,979
Chatham 61.68% 4,263 37.47% 2,590 0.85% 59 24.20% 1,673
Jackson 60.49% 4,360 39.03% 2,813 0.49% 35 21.46% 1,547
Davidson 59.95% 9,292 39.04% 6,051 1.01% 157 20.91% 3,241
Alexander 59.86% 2,953 39.57% 1,952 0.57% 28 20.29% 1,001
Transylvania 59.84% 2,523 39.63% 1,671 0.52% 22 20.21% 852
Caldwell 59.07% 5,479 40.43% 3,750 0.50% 46 18.64% 1,729
Catawba 58.90% 8,446 40.56% 5,817 0.54% 77 18.33% 2,629
Stanly 58.87% 5,785 40.63% 3,992 0.50% 49 18.25% 1,793
Stokes 58.76% 3,721 40.69% 2,577 0.55% 35 18.06% 1,144
Yancey 58.66% 3,412 41.19% 2,396 0.15% 9 17.47% 1,016
Macon 57.97% 3,223 41.49% 2,307 0.54% 30 16.47% 916
Montgomery 57.41% 2,927 42.23% 2,153 0.35% 18 15.18% 774
Swain 55.78% 2,412 43.78% 1,893 0.44% 19 12.00% 519
Henderson 55.37% 5,255 43.96% 4,172 0.66% 63 11.41% 1,083
Brunswick 55.30% 2,245 44.29% 1,798 0.42% 17 11.01% 447
Lincoln 55.02% 4,399 44.56% 3,563 0.43% 34 10.46% 836
Ashe 54.86% 4,751 44.70% 3,871 0.44% 38 10.16% 880
Burke 54.64% 5,866 44.92% 4,823 0.44% 47 9.71% 1,043
Randolph 54.44% 7,345 45.00% 6,072 0.56% 75 9.44% 1,273
Sampson 53.66% 4,911 45.09% 4,127 1.25% 114 8.57% 784
Graham 53.32% 1,364 46.25% 1,183 0.43% 11 7.08% 181
Watauga 51.76% 3,419 47.93% 3,166 0.32% 21 3.83% 253
Cherokee 51.48% 3,348 48.14% 3,131 0.38% 25 3.34% 217
Clay 51.30% 1,341 48.39% 1,265 0.31% 8 2.91% 76
Davie 48.64% 2,381 50.52% 2,473 0.84% 41 -1.88% -92
Wilkes 46.04% 5,598 53.64% 6,522 0.32% 39 -7.60% -924
Yadkin 44.68% 2,789 54.82% 3,422 0.50% 31 -10.14% -633
Madison 37.57% 2,769 61.76% 4,552 0.66% 49 -24.19% -1,783
Mitchell 31.77% 1,773 68.06% 3,798 0.16% 9 -36.29% -2,025
Avery 26.79% 1,045 72.64% 2,833 0.56% 22 -45.85% -1,788

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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References

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  1. ^ "United States Presidential election of 1932 — Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved January 29, 2019.
  2. ^ "1932 Election for the Thirty-seventh Term (1933-37)". Retrieved January 29, 2019.
  3. ^ Phillips, Kevin P.;The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 210, 242 ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6
  4. ^ Key, Valdimer Orlando; Southern Politics in State and Nation, p. 502, Alfred A. Knopf (1949)
  5. ^ Heersink, Boris; Jenkins, Jeffery A. (2020). Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968. Cambridge University Press. pp. 48–50, 239–243. ISBN 9781316663950.
  6. ^ Klarman, Michael J. (2001). "The White Primary Rulings: A Case Study in the Consequences of Supreme Court Decision-Making". Florida State University Law Review. 29: 55–107.
  7. ^ Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 212-215
  8. ^ Goings, Kenneth W. (1990). The NAACP comes of age: the defeat of Judge John J. Parker. Indiana University Press. pp. 23–24. ISBN 0253325854.
  9. ^ Topping, Simon (2008). Lincoln's lost legacy: the Republican Party and the African American vote, 1928-1952. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. p. 22. ISBN 978-0813032283.
  10. ^ Abrams, Douglas Carl (1992). Conservative constraints: North Carolina and the New Deal. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. p. 3. ISBN 9780878055593.
  11. ^ a b Ritchie, Donald A. (2007). Electing FDR: the New Deal campaign of 1932. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. p. 143. ISBN 978-0700616879.
  12. ^ Lewinson, Paul (1965). Race, class and party; a history of Negro suffrage and white politics in the South. pp. 167–168.
  13. ^ See "Roosevelt Increases Lead over Hoover with Nearly 800,000 Votes Counted in Literary Digest's Poll". The Piqua Daily Call. October 7, 1932. p. 6.
  14. ^ "All Record Broken by Digest Poll: Semi-Final Figures Near 3,000,000 Mark — Vote Stands Hoover 1,093,274, Roosevelt 1,648,237". The Hartford Daily Courant. October 28, 1932. p. 24.
  15. ^ "1932 Presidential General Election Results – North Carolina". Retrieved January 29, 2019.
  16. ^ "1932 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
  17. ^ "NC US President Race, November 08, 1932". Our Campaigns.
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