U.S. presidential election, 1932

Presidential Candidate	Electoral Vote	Popular Vote	Pct	Party	Running Mate (Electoral Votes)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (W)	472	22,821,857	57.7	Democrat	John Nance Garner (472)
Herbert Hoover	59	15,761,841	39.8	Republican	Charles Curtis (59)
Norman Thomas		884,781	2.2	Socialist Party
Total			100.0%
Other elections: 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944
Source: U.S. Office of the Federal Register

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At the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago, Illinois Franklin Delano Roosevelt succeeded in getting the party's nomination on the third ballot, triumphing over 1928 Democratic candidate Al Smith.

The election was held on November 8, 1932.

President Hoover was widely percieved as being at least in part to blame for the Great Depression; for over 2 years Hoover had been issuing statements that the worst was over, only to have the economy make further downturns.

The Democratic Party Platform included repeal of National Prohibition (devolving the decision of allowing or prohibiting alcohol to the individual states to decide for themselves). How discredited prohibition had become can be seen from the fact that despite this threat, Prohibition Party candidate William D. Upshaw gathered but 81,872 votes. From now on the Prohibitionist movement would exist only as a small fringe with little influence on the mainstream of American politics.

Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas received 884,781 popular votes (2.2%) for President. Communist Party candidate William Z. Foster received 103,253 votes (0.3%).