Alf Landon (R)
Alf Landon
Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt won reelection in the 1936 presidential election defeating Alfred Landon. In the 1936 presidential election Franklin Roosevelt received 523 electoral votes and Alfred Landon received 8 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Roosevelt 27,757,333 and Landon 16,684,231.
Republican Alf Landon was the challenger in the 1936 presidential election.
Alfred Landon did not win, Franklin D. Roosevelt won the election of 1936.
Kansas Governor Alf Landon
Herbert Hoover ran against Franklin D. Roosevelt in the presidential election that took place in November of 1932. Hoover was the incumbent President and Roosevelt was the Governor of New York. Roosevelt, the Democratic candidate, won the election.
Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt won reelection in the 1936 presidential election defeating Alfred Landon. In the 1936 presidential election Franklin Roosevelt received 523 electoral votes and Alfred Landon received 8 electoral votes. Incumbent President Ronald Reagan won reelection in the 1984 presidential election defeating Walter Mondale. In the 1984 election Ronald Reagan received 525 (97.58%) of the 538 electoral votes. Walter Mondale received 10 electoral votes from his home state of Minnesota and 3 electoral votes from the District of Columbia.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the most lopsided election in United States history in 1936. His defeated opponent was Alf Landon.
Yes, Governor Alf Landon (Alfred Mossman Landon, Jr., 1887-1987) of Kansas was the Republican Party Presidential Nominee in the U.S. Presidential Election of 1936. He lost to Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), who had taken office in March 1933 and was running for reelection for the first time. Roosevelt's 523-8 (98.5% to 1.5%) win over Landon was the largest landslide in the history of U.S. presidential elections.
Roosevelt defeated Alfred M. Landon in 1936. That was the 2nd-largest landslide in U.S. Presidential election history, after Monroe's 234-1 defeat of John Quincy Adams in 1820.