1932 United States presidential election

Franklin D. Roosevelt took 57 percent of the popular vote, 472 electoral votes and 42 of the 48 states as voters turned on Herbert Hoover over the Depression. Roosevelt called for "a new deal for the American people" without yet spelling out the programs that would carry the name. The lasting change was the coalition: Southern Protestants, Catholic and Jewish voters in Northern cities, union members and Black voters came together behind the Democrats as the New Deal took shape. Gains in the 1934 midterms and Roosevelt's 1936 landslide confirmed the Democrats as the majority party for a generation. If you read only one entry on this list, this is the textbook case of a realigning election.