The 1936 United States presidential election in California was held on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. State voters chose twenty-two electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

California voted for the Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, in a landslide over the Republican challenger, Kansas Governor Alfred Mossman Landon, carrying every county and nearly sixty-seven percent of the vote to Landon's 31.7%. Roosevelt's percentage of the vote is the highest of any presidential candidate in California history, besting Warren G. Harding’s 66.2% in 1920.Thomas, G. Scott; The Pursuit of the White House: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics and History, p. 421 While his 35.25-percentage point margin of victory over Landon is the largest for any Democratic candidate, it is the second largest overall behind Harding’s 41.92% in 1920 and ahead of his cousin Theodore Roosevelt’s 34.9% in 1904.

, this is the last time that a presidential candidate from either political party completely swept all of California’s counties in an election. The only other candidate to manage this was Harding in his landslide 1920 victory.

Roosevelt was the last Democrat until Hillary Clinton in 2016 to carry Orange County in a presidential election, and the last until John Kerry in 2004 to carry Alpine County. Also, this was the only one of FDR’s four presidential campaigns where he carried Riverside County, which had never previously voted Democratic since its first election in 1896Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 152-155 and would not do so again until Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. It would also be the first election in the state’s history where the Democratic Party won the state in two consecutive presidential elections.

This was the last election in California where presidential electors were chosen directly by the voters. Starting in 1940, the state adopted the modern "short ballot" where voters could only choose between the actual candidates' names, with the understanding that a vote for a candidate was a vote for their party's entire slate of electors.

Results + General Election ResultsParty Pledged to Elector Votes Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Mrs. Hancock Banning1,766,836 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt O. K. Cushing1,766,013 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Leo J. Smith1,765,958 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Daniel C. Murphy1,765,919 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Charles L. Culbert1,765,843 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Mrs. George J. Knox1,765,807 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt W. R. Jacob1,765,739 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt George F. Irvine1,765,680 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Argyll Campbell1,765,652 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Stephen P. Galvin1,765,651 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt H. H. Whitting1,765,634 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Doris McAdoo1,765,598 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Lloyd Sheldon1,765,528 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Daniel Green1,765,429 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Archibald W. Livingston1,765,340 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt John H. Burke1,765,319 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Stanley S. Anderson1,765,295 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt John Baumgartner1,765,287 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt C. M. Brown1,765,262 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt James B. Ogg1,765,253 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Charles W. McQuarrie1,765,193 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt E. O. Busenburg1,764,603 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Joseph Scott836,431 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Tallant Tubbs836,060 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon James G. Anderson835,954 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon A. E. Goddard835,822 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Thomas M. Carlson835,796 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Charles H. Segerstrom835,787 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Thomas C. Meagher835,767 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Albert A. Rosenshine835,761 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Cecil B. DeMille835,748 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Raymond Smith835,745 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young835,734 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Walter H. Duval835,713 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Walter S. Hunsaker835,713 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Louis B. Mayer835,701 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Mrs. Newton Cleveland835,689 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Frank J. Buckley835,683 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Ruth Buchanan835,651 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Charlotta A. Bass835,618 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon A. E. Henning835,618 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Gladys O'Donnell835,586 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Charles E. Brouse835,535 Republican Party Alfred M. Landon Charles B. Wincote835,392 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin W. P. Fassett12,917 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Minnie Goldthwaite12,839 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Joseph Fusch12,835 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin H. A. Johnson12,831 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Nellie S. Harriss12,828 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Ethel Hubler12,812 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Frank G. H. Stevens12,809 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin W. H. Easterling12,799 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin James P. M. Jensen12,795 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin John C. Bell12,794 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin B. C. Johnson12,794 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Russell S. Dingley12,793 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin M. Len Hutchins12,790 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Percy F. Adams12,789 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Virgil G. Hinshaw12,789 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Florence Jeffs12,779 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin William I. Hull12,778 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin C. B. Griffin12,775 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Lucius D. Dale12,774 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Errol O. Shour12,770 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin O. U. Hull12,759 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin L. B. Steward12,753 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Ralph W. Musson11,331 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Joseph A. Plecarpo11,325 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Eva Randall11,318 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Willard F. Smith11,318 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Millie Shapiro11,311 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Herbert L. Coggins11,310 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Sybren Cornelius Zondervon11,310 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Raymond H. Henderson11,300 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Ernest Norback11,300 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Edward V. Peterson11,294 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Glen Trimble11,290 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Milen Dempster11,289 Socialist Party Norman Thomas B. A. Zaremba11,287 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Clarence Rust11,285 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Catherine McCauley11,284 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Lillian Elstein11,283 Socialist Party Norman Thomas A. Dutkiewicz11,282 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Lyle Loomis11,275 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Frank O. Rear11,274 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Trelfa Lund11,270 Socialist Party Norman Thomas P. Manisculo11,270 Socialist Party Norman Thomas George A. Garrett11,267 Communist Party Earl Browder William Schneiderman10,877 Communist Party Earl Browder Louis Rosser10,842 Communist Party Earl Browder Pettis Perry10,841 Communist Party Earl Browder George Maurer10,839 Communist Party Earl Browder Peter J. Garrison10,827 Communist Party Earl Browder Thomas Cooney10,825 Communist Party Earl Browder James Tormey10,823 Communist Party Earl Browder Carroll Barnes10,820 Communist Party Earl Browder William J. Prater10,820 Communist Party Earl Browder Bessie Keckler10,818 Communist Party Earl Browder E. L. Patterson10,818 Communist Party Earl Browder Mini Carson10,816 Communist Party Earl Browder Sam Jaye10,816 Communist Party Earl Browder D. L. Saunders10,812 Communist Party Earl Browder Herbert S. Elstein10,810 Communist Party Earl Browder Eleanor McLauchlan10,810 Communist Party Earl Browder Leon Vannier10,810 Communist Party Earl Browder Henry J. Rainer10,809 Communist Party Earl Browder Harry Schneider10,809 Communist Party Earl Browder Alex Noral10,808 Communist Party Earl Browder William A. Standridge10,806 Communist Party Earl Browder Atanasio E. Torres10,793 Write-in Scattering490Votes cast 2,638,882

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