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Williams County, presidential election of 1936

Williams County

53%Alf Landon (R), the most votes13,302Votes counted for president

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

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What this is

Williams County counted 13,302 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
Alf LandonRepublican7,05053%
Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic5,62842.31%
William LemkeUnion6194.65%
OtherOther50.04%

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
Williams County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+10.7 against Ohio's D+20.6: 31.2 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 4th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1932
From 1932 to 1936 the county's lean moved 21.8 points toward the Republicans, from D+11.1 to R+10.7.
Matched
Williams County parted from Ohio and did not vote for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

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Where this appears

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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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