1940 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania

1940 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania

←  1934 November 5, 1940 1946  →

Nominee Joseph F. Guffey Jay Cooke Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 2,069,980 1,893,104 Percentage 51.79% 47.36%

County results Guffey:     50–60%     60–70% Cooke:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%

U.S. senator before election Joseph F. Guffey Democratic Elected U.S. Senator Joseph F. Guffey Democratic

The 1940 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Joseph F. Guffey successfully sought re-election to another term, defeating the Republican nominee, Jay Cooke.

As of 2023, this is the last time that Mifflin County and Montour County voted Democratic in a Senate election. This was also the last time until 1991 that Democrats won this Senate seat, and the last until 2006 that they were elected to this seat for a full term.

General election

Candidates

• Joseph F. Guffey, incumbent U.S. Senator (Democratic)
• Jay Cooke, businessman and chairman of the Philadelphia Republican city committee (Republican)

Results

General election results ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Joseph F. Guffey (inc.)	2,069,980	51.79%	1.01
	Republican	Jay Cooke	1,893,104	47.36%	0.90
	Socialist	David H.H. Felix	15,449	0.39%
	Prohibition	H. B. Mansell	11,113	0.28%	0.40
	Communist	Carl Reeve	4,761	0.12%	0.09
	Socialist Labor	Frank Knotek	2,503	0.06%	0.10
	Write-in		110	0.00%
Totals			3,997,020	100.00%

References

1. "Statistics of the Congressional and Presidential Election of November 5, 1940" (PDF). Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House. Retrieved July 9, 2014.