United States Presidential Election, 1936 (Abraham Lincoln Born in the 20th Century)

The United States presidential election of 1936 was the thirty-eighth quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1936. In terms of electoral votes, it was the most lopsided presidential election in the history of the United States. In terms of the popular vote, it was the second-biggest victory for the winner since the election of 1820, which was not seriously contested.

The election took place as the Great Depression entered its eighth year. Incumbent President and Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt was still working to push the provisions of his New Deal economic policy through Congress and the courts. However, the New Deal policies he had already enacted, such as Social Security and unemployment benefits, had proven to be highly popular with most Americans. Roosevelt’s opponent was Communist nominee Earl Browder, who was a radical extremist suggesting that if he were elected and had the US went communist the great depression would end.

This election marks two firsts and lasts, the first and last time a Communist party candidate made to election day, and the first and last US election to be missing the Republican Part (who had earlyer in the year tried to get a Republican in office of the Confederate States Presidential Election of that year.)