The 1936 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election. All contemporary forty-eight states took part in the national election, and Utah voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Since its landslide endorsement of William Jennings Bryan's "free silver" in its inaugural 1896 election, Utah had been a swing state apart from its support for embattled President William Howard Taft in 1912. Woodrow Wilson had carried the state easily in 1916 due to strong anti-war sentiment,Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 47 but James M. Cox, John W. Davis and Robert M. La Follette did not win a single county between them in the 1920 and 1924 Republican landslides.

Vis-à-vis the rest of the nation, Utah had shown only a small anti-Hoover trend in 1932. During Landon's summer campaigning, Utah was targeted strongly as a state the GOP needed to carry to have a chance at the presidency.Sheppard, Si; The Buying of the Presidency?: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Election of 1936 (Praeger Series on American Political Culture) , pp. 52-53 However, FDR's western public works programs, most notably Boulder Dam,Wrobel, David M.; America's West: A History, 1890–1950, p. 139 had made him exceptionally popular in the rugged, arid West.Murrin, John; Johnson, Paul; McPherson, James; Fahs, Alice and Gerstle, Gary; Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People (Enhanced Concise Edition), p. 151 Along with the potent campaigning of James Farley meant that, by the last week of October the Republicans were showing no interest in Utah,Sheppard; The Buying of the Presidency, pp. 191-192 and this despite the opposition of the leadership of Utah's dominant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Roosevelt's candidacy and policies, chiefly regarding the church's desire to remove Mormons from welfare rolls.Cannon, Brian Q. and Embry, Jessie L. (editors); Utah in the Twentieth Century, pp. 167-169

Utah, like every other state west of the Appalachian Mountains, voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt over Alf Landon by a substantial margin, making FDR the first (and only) Democrat to win the state more than once. Roosevelt won Utah by a landslide with 69.34 percent of the vote, which remains the second best Democratic result from the state behind William Jennings Bryan in the state's inaugural election of 1896.

Like Bryan, FDR won every county in the state except strongly Republican Kane County in the far south, which has only voted Democratic for Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Kane County was the westernmost county in the nation to vote for Landon, and one of only three west of the Continental Divide to do so.

, this is the last election in which Iron County, Sanpete County, Sevier County, San Juan County, and Garfield County have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016

Results + General Election ResultsUtah State Archives, Abstract of the Returns of an Election held in the State of Utah, Tuesday, November 3rd, A.D. 1936 for Presidential Electors, for Representatives in the Seventy-fifth Congress of the United States, for State Officers in Districts comprising more than one county, and for the Adoption or Rejection of Six Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the State of Utah.Party Pledged to Elector Votes Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt E. A. Britsch150,246 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt J. E. Wilson150,002 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Margaret G. Larsen149,949 Democratic Party Franklin D. Roosevelt Mrs. Francis G. Callahan149,932 Republican Party Alf Landon James A. Ivers64,555 Republican Party Alf Landon Charles W. Morse64,511 Republican Party Alf Landon Mrs. Sherman Christenson64,440 Republican Party Alf Landon Mrs. G. D. Rutledge64,369 Union Party William Lemke Ellen A. DeWitt1,121 Union Party William Lemke Wesley Jacques1,120 Union Party William Lemke James V. Leonard1,119 Union Party William Lemke Frank E. Stark1,112 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Vern Bullough432 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Bert Westover429 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Darwin Condie423 Socialist Party Norman Thomas Otto E. Parson422 Communist Party Earl Browder Dan Black280 Communist Party Earl Browder Theodore Houston280 Communist Party Earl Browder C. W. Matson278 Communist Party Earl Browder Howard Brown277 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Anna Flewelling43 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin C. E. Smith43 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Julius Sheppard42 Prohibition Party D. Leigh Colvin Leota K. Hutsinpillar42Votes cast 216,677

Results by county County Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic Alf LandonRepublican William LemkeUnion Norman ThomasSocialist Earl BrowderCommunist D. Leigh ColvinProhibition Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # % # % # %Beaver 1,33759.13%91340.38%100.44%10.04%00.00%00.00%42418.75%2,261Box Elder 5,00169.16%2,18030.15%440.61%50.07%10.01%00.00%2,82139.01%7,231Cache 8,60671.97%3,25827.25%740.62%130.11%50.04%10.01%5,34844.73%11,957Carbon 5,04077.42%1,34820.71%590.91%260.40%350.54%20.03%3,69256.71%6,510Daggett 12861.54%7837.50%20.96%00.00%00.00%00.00%5024.04%208Davis 3,92067.80%1,84131.84%140.24%40.07%20.03%10.02%2,07935.96%5,782Duchesne 1,97063.86%1,07034.68%351.13%90.29%00.00%10.03%90029.17%3,085Emery 1,90966.54%93832.69%110.38%90.31%00.00%20.07%97133.84%2,869Garfield 92852.37%84247.52%00.00%20.11%00.00%00.00%864.85%1,772Grand 52164.40%27233.62%121.48%40.49%00.00%00.00%24930.78%809Iron 1,84456.07%1,39642.44%120.36%371.12%00.00%00.00%44813.62%3,289Juab 2,31968.67%1,02730.41%170.50%130.38%10.03%00.00%1,29238.26%3,377Kane 39543.03%51956.54%20.22%20.22%00.00%00.00%-124-13.51%918Millard 2,31360.34%1,46638.25%421.10%120.31%00.00%00.00%84722.10%3,833Morgan 73960.18%48339.33%60.49%00.00%00.00%00.00%25620.85%1,228Piute 61164.25%33935.65%00.00%10.11%00.00%00.00%27228.60%951Rich 48855.45%38844.09%40.45%00.00%00.00%00.00%10011.36%880Salt Lake 62,38671.77%23,81927.40%3820.44%1550.18%1770.20%100.01%38,56744.37%86,929San Juan 52054.11%43244.95%50.52%30.31%10.10%00.00%889.16%961Sanpete 3,95958.67%2,73840.57%390.58%90.13%00.00%30.04%1,22118.09%6,748Sevier 2,81659.07%1,89939.84%340.71%100.21%80.17%00.00%91719.24%4,767Summit 2,34461.95%1,42237.58%70.18%70.18%40.11%00.00%92224.37%3,784Tooele 2,36169.46%1,02930.27%50.15%20.06%20.06%00.00%1,33239.19%3,399Uintah 1,98660.96%1,19336.62%712.18%80.25%00.00%00.00%79324.34%3,258Utah 14,38769.52%6,17329.83%620.30%440.21%240.12%50.02%8,21439.69%20,695Wasatch 1,29955.66%1,02944.09%10.04%40.17%00.00%10.04%27011.57%2,334Washington 2,00563.37%1,14536.19%90.28%40.13%10.03%00.00%86027.18%3,164Wayne 52261.12%32938.52%20.23%00.00%00.00%10.12%19322.60%854Weber 17,59477.08%4,98921.86%1600.70%480.21%190.08%160.07%12,60555.22%22,826Total150,24669.34%64,55529.79%1,1210.52%4320.20%2800.13%430.02%85,69139.55%216,677

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Daggett Garfield Iron Millard Piute San Juan

See also United States presidential elections in Utah

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