1932 United States elections

The 1932 United States general election, held on November 8 of that year, were the last elections to be held in the Old United States. Held during the turmoil and severe hardships of the Great Depression, the election produced a landslide victory for the parties of the Popular Front - the Workers' Communist Party and Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Their jointly-endorsed presidential candidate, Norman Thomas, won well over 50% of the popular vote against the divided candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties, and the Popular Front won a combined 336 of the 471 seats in the House of Representatives. However, the new government would ultimately never take office, as the shock results prompted reactionary members of the American establishment to plot a successful coup d'etat on the day the Popular Front government was to be sworn-in. The coup, known as the MacArthur Putsch after its leader, General Douglas MacArthur, resulted in the assassination of much of the WCP leadership, including President-Elect Thomas, culminated in mass popular uprising across vast swathes of the country, sparking the Second American Civil War and the eventual establishment of the Union of American Socialist Republics.