United States Presidential Election of 1932

Roosevelt defeated Hoover 472 to 59 amid depression, realigning American politics for half a century.

Overview

With a quarter of the workforce idle, farms failing, and Hoover discredited, FDR promised a new deal for the American people and won 472 to 59, carrying all but six states and 57.4 percent of the vote. The Democrats gained a dozen Senate seats and nearly a hundred House seats, fusing urban workers, Black voters leaving the party of Lincoln, southern whites, and progressives into the Fifth Party System majority that dominated national politics until the late 1960s. Few elections so completely remade the governing order.