1932 United States presidential election

E2039

United States presidential election national election

The 1932 United States presidential election was the landslide victory in which Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover amid the Great Depression, ushering in the New Deal era.

Aliases (1)

United States presidential election, 1932 ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States presidential election → national election →
campaignSloganOfWinner	Happy Days Are Here Again →
campaignThemeOfWinner	New Deal for the American people →
context	Great Depression →
country	United States →
date	November 8, 1932 →
democraticNationalConventionYear	1932 →
electoralVotesLoser	59 →
electoralVotesNeededToWin	266 →
electoralVotesWinner	472 →
featuredCandidate	Franklin D. Roosevelt → Herbert Hoover → Norman Thomas →
historicalEraUsheredIn	New Deal era →
incumbentBeforeElection	Herbert Hoover →
incumbentBlamedFor	economic crisis →
incumbentPartyBeforeElection	Republican Party (United States) →
locationOfKeyConvention	Chicago, Illinois →
loserParty	Republican Party (United States) →
mainLoser	Herbert Hoover →
mainWinner	Franklin D. Roosevelt →
majorIssue	Great Depression → Prohibition in the United States → bank failures → unemployment in the United States →
markedBeginningOf	Fifth Party System in United States politics →
nextElection	1936 United States presidential election →
popularVoteLoser	15,761,254 →
popularVotePercentageLoser	39.7% →
popularVotePercentageWinner	57.4% →
popularVoteWinner	22,821,857 →
presidentAfterElection	Franklin D. Roosevelt →
presidentPartyAfterElection	Democratic Party (United States) →
previousElection	1928 United States presidential election →
republicanNationalConventionYear	1932 →
runningMateOfLoser	Charles Curtis →
runningMateOfWinner	John Nance Garner →
significantOutcome	formation of the New Deal coalition → realignment toward Democratic Party dominance →
statesCarriedByLoser	6 →
statesCarriedByWinner	42 →
thirdParty	Socialist Party of America →
thirdPartyCandidate	Norman Thomas →
tookPlaceDuring	Fourth Party System in United States politics →
totalElectoralVotes	531 →
typeOfVictory	landslide →
voterTurnout	52.6% →
voterTurnoutChange	+2.4 percentage points →
winnerParty	Democratic Party (United States) →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Happy Days Are Here Again →	associatedEvent
Norman Thomas →	candidateInElection
William Z. Foster →	electionParticipatedIn
1936 United States presidential election →	follows
1928 United States presidential election →	nextElection
Fifth Party System in United States politics ("United States presidential election, 1932") →	notableElection