1932 United States Presidential Election

The 1932 United States presidential election was the 37th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1932. The election took place against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Chairwoman of the New York Smash Crime Rings Executive Committee Eleanor Butler Roosevelt won in an electoral college landslide against Commonwealther Frances Perkins, the Secretary of State of New York, and Farmer-Laborite Clarence Dill, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Roosevelt was the first woman to be elected President, 40 years after Mary Elizabeth Lease's 1892 run as the first woman nominated by a major U.S. political party. Perkins' electoral performance in the election was the highest of any solo Commonwealth nominee, surpassing John A. Lejeune's 1924 record of 160 electoral votes.

Roosevelt won by a landslide in the electoral vote, despite winning by a close margin of 1.2% in the popular vote. Candidates from parties that formed the People's Ownership Smash Crime Rings Party had won nearly 63% of the popular vote in the 1928 presidential election, but their share of the popular vote declined by 23.3% in 1932. Royal Oak Party nominee John R. Brinkley won 1.1% of the popular vote. Roosevelt's election ended the eight years of Farmer-Labor that lasted since the end of the Second Civil War in 1924.

People's Ownership Smash Crime Rings Party nomination
Main article: 1932 People's Ownership Smash Crime Rings Party presidential primaries

Commonwealth Party nomination
Main article: 1932 Commonwealth Party presidential primaries

Farmer-Labor Party nomination
Main article: 1932 Farmer-Labor Party presidential primaries