after the 1936 election, reading, "You are now leaving the United States." This was the last election in which Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota would vote Democratic until 1964. Of these states, only Indiana would vote Democratic again after 1964 (for Barack Obama in 2008), making this the penultimate time a Democrat won any of the Great Plains states.Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote): Geography of results Cartographic gallery Results by state Close states Margin of victory less than 5% (4 electoral votes): New Hampshire, 1.75% (3,818 votes) Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (29 electoral votes): Kansas, 7.72% (66,793 votes) Massachusetts, 9.46% (174,103 votes) Delaware, 9.77% (12,466 votes) Margin of victory Between 11% and 20% (214 electoral votes): South Dakota, 11.53% (34,160 votes) Iowa, 11.71% (133,779 votes) Rhode Island, 12.92% (40,207 votes) Vermont, 13.15% (18,889 votes) Maine, 13.97% (42,490 votes) Indiana, 14.74% (243,404 votes) Connecticut, 14.97% (103,404 votes) Pennsylvania, 16.04% (663,787 votes) Nebraska, 16.40% (99,714 votes) Michigan, 17.57% (317,061 votes) Illinois, 18.01% (712,606 votes) Kentucky, 18.59% (172,242 votes) New York, 19.88% (1,112,552 votes) New Jersey, 19.97% (363,528 votes) Tipping point state: Ohio, 20.56% (619,285 votes) Statistics Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Democratic) Issaquena County, Mississippi 100.00% Horry County, South Carolina 100.00% Lancaster County, South Carolina 100.00% Greensville County, Virginia 100.00% Edgefield County, South Carolina 99.92%Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Republican) Jackson County, Kentucky 89.05% Johnson County, Tennessee 84.39% Owsley County, Kentucky 83.02% Leslie County, Kentucky 81.39% Avery County, North Carolina 77.98%Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Other) Burke County, North Dakota 31.63% Sheridan County, North Dakota 28.88% Hettinger County, North Dakota 28.25% Mountrail County, North Dakota 25.73% Steele County, North Dakota 24.30%''' See also History of the United States (1918–1945) 1936 United States House of Representatives elections 1936 United States Senate elections Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt Earl Browder Huey Long Notes References Works cited Further reading Andersen, Kristi. The Creation of a Democratic Majority: 1928–1936 (1979), statistical Brown, Courtney. "Mass dynamics of US presidential competitions, 1928–1936." American Political Science Review 82.4 (1988): 1153–1181. online Burns, James MacGregor. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox (1956) Campbell, James E. "Sources of the new deal realignment: The contributions of conversion and mobilization to partisan change." Western Political Quarterly 38.3 (1985): 357–376. online Fadely, James Philip. "Editors, Whistle Stops, and Elephants: the Presidential Campaign of 1936 in Indiana." Indiana Magazine of History 1989 85(2): 101–137.