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Office

President

Type

Primary Election

Filing Deadline

January 01, 1936 - 12:00pm

Polls Open

February 01, 1936 - 06:00am

Polls Close

July 01, 1936 - 08:00pm

Term Start

January 20, 1937 - 12:00pm

Term End

January 20, 1941 - 12:00pm

Contributor

Thomas Walker

Last Modified

E Pluribus Unum January 30, 2025 12:06am

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Description

President Roosevelt faced only one opponent in the Democratic primaries of 1936 (apart from two favorite son candidates in California). Henry S. Breckinridge, an anti-New Deal attorney from New York City, offered himself as a test of the President's popularity in the Democratic Party. Roosevelt scored a wide victory in all states except one. In New Jersey, Roosevelt did not file for the preference primary, though he did enter candidates for delegate. Breckinridge won New Jersey with 81% of the vote against Roosevelt, who won 19% of the vote with write-ins. Roosevelt's candidates for delegate swept the primary. In his other primaries, Breckinridge performed best in Maryland, where the recently deceased Gov. Ritchie's supporters voted for him. Roosevelt won that primary by an 83-15 margin.

LAST GENERAL ELECTION
	Party	Democratic	Won	11/08/1932
	Name	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Votes	22,829,501 (57.42%)
	Term	03/04/1933 - 01/20/1937	Margin	7,068,817 (+17.78%)