Video: 'Election Night 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt vs. Alf Landon | Full News Coverage'

(Tuesday, November 3, 1936, during the 1936 presidential campaign) — Democratic incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York was re-elected today over Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas with the largest percentage of the popular vote in U.S. to this date.

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Roosevelt and his running mate, Vice President John Nance Garner of Texas, overwhelmingly defeated Landon and his running mate, newspaper publisher Frank Knox of Illinois, 60.80%-36.54% in the national popular vote, resulting in a 523-8 victory in the Electoral College (electoral votes cast Dec. 14, 1936, tabulated by a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 1937; FDR’s 98.5% of the electoral vote is the highest in the history of two-party competition).

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Roosevelt and Garner would be sworn in for their second four-year terms next year on the new inaugural date of January 20.

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