1936 United States elections
[3][4][5] In the presidential election, incumbent Democratic president Franklin D. Roosevelt won re-election, defeating Republican governor Alf Landon of Kansas.Roosevelt took every state but Vermont and Maine, winning with the fourth-largest electoral vote margin in American history.Landon decisively won his party's nomination over Idaho Senator William Borah.The Democrats gained twelve seats in the House of Representatives, furthering their supermajority over the Republicans.[4] These elections marked the last time in U.S. history in which any party held three-fourths of all seats in both chambers of Congress.