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1932
Presidential / Vice presidential candidates | Popular votes | Electoral votes |
Franklin D. Roosevelt / John Nance Garner (Democratic) | 22,821,857 | 472 |
Herbert Hoover / Charles Curtis (Republican) | 15,761,845 | 59 |
Roosevelt won the Democratic nomination on the fourth ballot, defeating 1928 nominee Alfred E. Smith. Hoover won the Republican nomination on the first ballot.
1936
Presidential / Vice presidential candidates | Popular votes | Electoral votes |
Franklin D. Roosevelt / John Nance Garner (Democratic) | 27,476,673 | 523 |
Alfred M. Landon / Frank Knox (Republican) | 16,679,583 | 8 |
1940
Presidential / Vice presidential candidates | Popular votes | Electoral votes |
Franklin D. Roosevelt / Henry A. Wallace (Democratic) | 27,243,466 | 449 |
Wendell L. Willkie / Charles L. McNary (Republican) | 22,304,755 | 82 |
Roosevelt went against two-term tradition and sought a third term, frustrating such presidential hopefuls as incumbent vice president Garner; Roosevelt easily received the nomination on the first ballot. Newcomer Willkie defeated early ballot leaders Thomas E. Dewey and Robert A. Taft on the sixth ballot.
1944
Presidential / Vice presidential candidates | Popular votes | Electoral votes |
Franklin D. Roosevelt / Harry S. Truman (Democratic... |
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