In short
On November 8, 1932, Americans elected Franklin D. Roosevelt president in a crushing defeat for incumbent Herbert Hoover, who had presided over the economy's collapse into the Great Depression. Roosevelt's landslide victory—he won 472 electoral votes to Hoover's 59—gave him a mandate to fundamentally reshape the federal government's role in managing economic crisis.
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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1932. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the Republican ticket of President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis were defeated in a landslide by the Democratic ticket of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York and John Nance Garner, the Speaker of the House. This realigning election marked the effective end of the Fourth Party System, which had been dominated by Republicans, and the beginning of an era of Democratic dominance under the New Deal coalition.
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