1932 United States presidential election in West Virginia

Herbert Hoover Republican Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic The 1932 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 8, 1932, as part of the 1932 United States presidential election.

West Virginia was won by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Speaker John Nance Garner, with 54.47 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Herbert Hoover (R–California), running with Vice President Charles Curtis, with 44.47 percent of the popular vote.

[3][4] Despite Roosevelt being the first Democrat to win a majority of West Virginia's vote since Grover Cleveland as far back as 1884, West Virginia was Hoover's tenth-best state by popular vote share and twelfth-best by percentage margin, voting overall 7.76 points more Republican than the nation at-large.

The election nonetheless marked the beginning of West Virginia's transition to a strongly Democratic-leaning state during the 20th century.

Roosevelt was the first Democratic victor in Hancock County since James Buchanan in 1856, the first Democrat to win Monongalia County since Stephen A. Douglas in 1860, and the first Democratic victor in Brooke County since Horatio Seymour in 1868.