Alf Landon - Electoral History

Electoral History

Kansas gubernatorial election, 1932

• Alf Landon (R) – 278,581 (34.82%)
• Harry Hines Woodring (D, Inc.) – 272,944 (34.12%)
• John Romulus Brinkley (I) – 244,607 (30.58%)

Republican primary for Governor of Kansas, 1934

• Alf Landon (Inc.) – 233,956 (79.87%)
• John Romulus Brinkley – 58,983 (20.14%)

Kansas gubernatorial election, 1934

• Alf Landon (R, Inc.) – 422,030 (53.51%)
• Omar B. Ketchum (D) – 359,877 (45.63%)
• George M. Whiteside (Socialist) – 6,744 (0.86%)

Republican presidential primaries, 1936

• William E. Borah – 1,478,676 (44.48%)
• Alf Landon – 729,908 (21.96%)
• Frank Knox – 527,054 (15.85%)
• Earl Warren – 350,917 (10.56%)
• Stephen A. Day – 155,732 (4.69%)
• Warren E. Green – 44,518 (1.34%)
• Leo J. Chassee – 18,986 (0.57%)
• Herbert Hoover – 7,750 (0.23%)
• Frederick Steiwer – 3,285 (0.10%)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (write-in) – 1,159 (0.04%)

1936 Republican National Convention

• Alf Landon – 984 (98.11%)
• William E. Borah – 19 (1.89%)

United States presidential election, 1936

• Franklin D. Roosevelt/John Nance Garner (Democratic, Inc.) – 27,752,648 (60.8%) and 523 electoral votes (46 states carried)
• Alf Landon/Frank Knox (Republican) – 16,681,862 (36.5%) and 8 electoral votes (2 states carried)
• William Lemke/Thomas C. O'Brien (Union) – 892,378 (2.0%) and 0 electoral votes
• Norman Thomas/George A. Nelson (Socialist) – 187,910 (0.4%) and 0 electoral votes
• Earl Browder/James W. Ford (Communist) – 79,315 (0.2%) and 0 electoral votes
• Others – 53,586 (0.1%) and 0 electoral votes