The following elections occurred in the year 1936.

Africa

1936 Egyptian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt in May 1936.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) ''Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erster Halbband'', p294 The election was held following the death of Ki ...

Asia

1936 Ceylonese State Council election The second election to the State Council of Ceylon The State Council of Ceylon was the unicameral legislature for Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), established in 1931 by the Donoughmore Constitution. The State Council gave universal adult franch ...

Europe

1936 Belgian general election General elections were held in Belgium on 24 May 1936. The result was a victory for the Belgian Labour Party, which won 70 of the 202 seats in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, Chamber of Representatives and 39 of the 101 seats in the Belg ...

* 1936 Bielsko municipal election * 1936 Danish Landsting election *

1936 Finnish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 1 and 2 July 1936.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p606 Following the election Prime Minister Toivo Mikael Kivimäki of the National Progressive Part ...

1936 French legislative election Legislative elections were held in France on 26 April and 3 May 1936, the last elections before World War II. The number of candidates set a record, with 4,807 running for election to the Chamber of Deputies of France, Chamber of Deputies. In t ...

* 1936 German election and referendum *

1936 Greek legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 26 January 1936.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p830 The Liberal Party emerged as the largest party in Parliament, winning 126 of the 300 seats.Nohlen ...

1936 Liechtenstein general election General elections were held in Liechtenstein in February 1936.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1164 The elections took place in two rounds; in the first round on 3 February each of the ten municipal ...

1936 Lithuanian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Lithuania on 10 June 1936,Fourth Seimas 1936 - 1940
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1936 Norwegian parliamentary election Events January–February * January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House. * January 28 – Death and state funer ...

1936 Spanish general election Legislative elections were held in Spain on 16 February 1936. At stake were all 473 seats in the unicameral Cortes Generales. The winners of the 1936 elections were the Popular Front, a left-wing coalition of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Par ...

* 1936 Swedish general election

United Kingdom

* 1936 Combined Scottish Universities by-election *

1936 Greenock by-election The 1936 Greenock by-election was a by-election held on 26 November 1936 for the UK House of Commons constituency of Greenock in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Vacancy The seat had become vacant on 13 October 1936 when the Secretary of State for Scot ...

1936 Preston by-election The 1936 Preston by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Preston on 25 November 1936. The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament William Kirkpatrick had resi ...

* 1936 Ross and Cromarty by-election

North America

Canada

* 1936 Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election * 1936 Edmonton municipal election *

1936 Manitoba general election Events January–February * January 20 – The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII, following the death of his father, George V, at Sandringham House. * January 28 – State funeral of Geo ...

* 1936 Ottawa municipal election *

1936 Quebec general election The 1936 Quebec general election was held on August 17, 1936, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The '' Union Nationale'', led by Maurice Duplessis, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led ...

* December 1936 Toronto municipal election * January 1936 Toronto municipal election

Central America

* 1936 Honduran Constituent Assembly election * 1936 Honduran presidential election *

1936 Nicaraguan general election General elections were held in Nicaragua on 8 December 1936 to elect a President, half of the Deputies and one-third of the Senators of the National Congress. On 16 June the Liberal party met in León to hold its convention and name its candidate ...

1936 Nicaraguan presidential election Presidential elections were held in Nicaragua on 9 June 1936. On 31 May 1936 Somoza's forces attacked Managua. On 6 June President Juan Bautista Sacasa and Vice-President Rodolfo Espinosa Ramírez resigned and Julián Irías (Minister of Gober ...

* 1936 Panamanian general election * 1936 Salvadoran legislative election

United States

1936 United States Presidential Election United States presidential election, Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression in the United States, Great Depression, the History of the Democratic Party (United States), Dem ...

* United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1936 * 1936 Louisiana gubernatorial election * 1936 Minnesota gubernatorial election *

1936 New York state election The 1936 New York state election was held on November 3, 1936, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the state comptroller, the attorney general, a judge of the New York Court of Appeals and two U.S. Representatives-at-large, as we ...

* United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1936 *

1936 United States House of Representatives elections The 1936 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 75th United States Congress. They were held for the most part on November 3, 1936, while Main ...

1936 United States Senate elections The 1936 United States Senate elections coincided with the reelection of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The 32 seats of Classes of United States senators, Class 2 were contested in regular elections, and special elec ...

United States Senate

* United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1936 * United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1936

South America

* 1936 Argentine legislative election

Oceania

Australia

1936 Western Australian state election Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 15 February 1936 to elect all 50 members to the Legislative Assembly. The Labor Party, led by Premier Philip Collier, won a second term in office against the Country and Nationalist partie ...