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Shelby County, presidential election of 1936

Shelby County

53.43%Franklin D. Roosevelt (D), the most votes13,307Votes counted for president

Every election in Shelby County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1936

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What this is

Shelby County counted 13,307 votes for president across 4 candidates in 1936. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.

The count, as certified

Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic7,11053.43%
Alf LandonRepublican4,48233.68%
William LemkeUnion1,70612.82%
OtherOther90.07%

Turnout: None found in the records checked

This year in context

Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.

Ohio that year
Ohio went to Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) with 57.99%, a 20.6-point margin over Alf Landon. The country elected Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Against the state
Shelby County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+19.8 against Ohio's D+20.6: 0.8 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 64th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1932
From 1932 to 1936 the county's lean moved 11.8 points toward the Republicans, from D+31.5 to D+19.8. Lean counts only the two major parties; William Lemke (Union) took 12.8% in 1936.
Matched
Shelby County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

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Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1936 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1936 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1936-11-03 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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