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Roosevelt won his home state by means of a dominance of the massively populated [[New York City]] area, performing even more strongly than he had in 1932. Roosevelt took over 70% of the vote in the boroughs of [[Manhattan]], [[Brooklyn]], and [[the Bronx]], and took over sixty percent of the vote in [[Queens]] and [[Staten Island]]. For the era, this was an historically overwhelming victory for a Democratic presidential candidate in the five boroughs of New York City, and enough to easily secure a statewide win for Roosevelt. The emergence of the [[New Deal coalition|New Deal Coalition]] was at its peak in 1936,<ref>Davin, Eric Leif; ''Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960'', p. 268 {{ISBN|0739122398}}</ref> and made American cities with their powerful [[political machine]]s core bases of support for the Democratic Party.<ref>''Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives'' (1979), p. 114</ref> The [[Great Depression]] had accelerated the process of urbanization of the Democratic Party which had begun with the election of [[1928 United States presidential election|1928]]. Roosevelt's landslide win in New York City was a fruit born by this process, and over the whole nation he achieved majorities in the largest cities totaling twice what [[Warren G. Harding|Harding]] had achieved [[1920 United States presidential election|in 1920]].<ref>Heale, Michael; ''The United States in the Long Twentieth Century: Politics and Society since 1900'', p. 77 {{ISBN|1472511565}}</ref> 1936 was the third election in a row in which Democrats had won all five boroughs of NYC. After 1936, New York City would remain Democratic overall in every election that has followed, although no presidential candidate would sweep all five boroughs of NYC again until [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Lyndon Johnson]] in [[1964 United States presidential election in New York|1964]]. Partly as a consequence of this, FDR's 1936 victory in New York State would also be the strongest statewide Democratic performance ever in terms of both margin and vote share until 1964.<ref name="Counting"/>
In [[upstate New York]], Roosevelt's support was mostly concentrated in the cities. Roosevelt again carried the state capital of [[Albany, New York|Albany]], which since [[1928 United States presidential election in New York|1928]] had become a Democratic stronghold of a city. Nearby [[Schenectady County, New York|Schenectady]] and [[Montgomery County, New York|Montgomery]] counties went Democratic as well.
However, much of rural upstate New York remained one of the most loyally Republican regions in the nation throughout the FDR era, which many locals attributed to the fact that [[New Deal]] [[public works]] had barely affected these regions.<ref>Sheppard, Si; ''The buying of the presidency?: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the election of 1936'' pp. 207, 216-217 {{ISBN|1440831068}}</ref>
This was the last election in which Democrats won the boroughs of Queens until 1960 and Staten Island until 1964.
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