The 1936 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 3, 1936. All contemporary forty-eight states were part of the

1936 United States presidential election The 1936 United States presidential election was the 38th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Gover ...

. State voters chose three electors to represent them in the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President. New Mexico was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a 26-point landslide against

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Alf Landon. Roosevelt won every county in the state save

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: this is the last time a Democrat has ever carried Lincoln County. Union Party candidate William Lemke won 924 votes, 0.5 percent of the state’s total.

Results

Results by county

References

{{State Results of the 1936 U.S. presidential election New Mexico 1936 New Mexico elections

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