1936 Democratic Party presidential primaries

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1936 Democratic Party presidential primaries

← 1932 March 10 to May 19, 1936 1940 →

Candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt Henry Skillman Breckinridge Home state New York New York Contests won 13 1 Popular vote 4,814,978 136,407 Percentage 92.9% 2.6%

Results map by state.

Previous Democratic nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt

From March 10 to May 19, 1936, voters of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1936 Democratic National Convention for the purpose of selecting the party's for president in the 1936 United States presidential election.^[1] Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1936 Democratic National Convention held from June 23 to June 27, 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Before his assassination, there was a challenge from Louisiana Senator Huey Long. But, due to his untimely assassination, President Roosevelt faced only one primary opponent other than various favorite sons.

Franklin D. Roosevelt	Henry Skillman Breckinridge	Upton Sinclair	John S. McGroarty	Al Smith
U.S. President (1933–1945)	Assistant Secretary of War (1913–1916)	Novelist and Journalist from California	Representative from California (1935–1939)	Governor of New York (1919–1920, 1923–1928)
4,830,730 votes	136,407 votes	106,068 votes	61,391 votes	8,856 votes

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