1936 United States presidential election

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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Democratic ticket of incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt and incumbent Vice President John Nance Garner defeated the Republican ticket of Kansas governor Alf Landon and newspaper editor Frank Knox in a landslide victory. Roosevelt won the highest share of the popular vote (60.8%) and the electoral vote (98.49%) since the largely uncontested 1820 election. The sweeping victory consolidated the New Deal Coalition in control of the Fifth Party System. President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner were renominated without opposition. With the backing of party leaders, Landon defeated progressive and isolationist Senator William Borah of Idaho at the 1936 Republican National Convention to win his party's presidential nomination. The populist Union Party nominated Republican Congressman William Lemke of North Dakota for president. The election took place as the Great Depression...

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