The factor that had a direct impact on the results of the 1932 presidential election is rising unemployment levels. The economic crisis during the Great Depression, characterized by high unemployment, significantly influenced voters' perceptions and their decision to support Franklin D. Roosevelt over the incumbent president Herbert Hoover.
Hoover's declining health, the rise of a new Republican coalition, and the unpopularity of the Democratic Party may have had some effect, but the immediate and pressing concern of voters was primarily related to the economic hardships they were facing, making rising unemployment the most direct factor.
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