1940 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

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1940 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
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Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Wendell Willkie
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York New York
Running mate Henry A. Wallace Charles L. McNary
Electoral vote40
Popular vote125,292110,127
Percentage53.22%46.78%
New Hampshire Presidential Election Results 1940.svg
County Results
President before election

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The 1940 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Contents

New Hampshire was won by incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who was running against Republican businessman Wendell Willkie of New York. Roosevelt ran with Henry A. Wallace of Iowa as his running mate, and Willkie ran with Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon.

Roosevelt won New Hampshire by 6.44%, at the time the best performance by a Democratic presidential candidate in this traditionally Republican state since the latter party was founded [1] and the first time since Franklin Pierce in 1852 that a Democrat won the state with an absolute majority of the vote. (It had been won with a plurality by Roosevelt four years earlier and by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and 1916.)

Roosevelt's gain in New Hampshire and other New England states, in an election when Willkie carried almost seven hundred counties that the President had won during his landslide four years beforehand, was due to support in the region for helping Britain and France during World War II. New Hampshire was one of six states that swung more Democratic compared to 1936, alongside Delaware, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, and North Carolina. [2]

Results

1940 United States presidential election in New Hampshire [3]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Democratic Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York Henry Agard Wallace of Iowa 125,29253.22%4100.00%
Republican Wendell Willkie of New York Charles Linza McNary of Oregon 110,12746.78%00.00%
Total235,419100.00%4100.00%

Results by county

CountyFranklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic		Wendell Lewis Willkie
Republican		MarginTotal votes cast [4]
# %# %# %
Belknap 5,65348.04%6,11551.96%-462-3.93%11,768
Carroll 2,87033.66%5,65666.34%-2,786-32.68%8,526
Cheshire 6,91645.45%8,30254.55%-1,386-9.11%15,218
Coös 10,10060.30%6,65039.70%3,45020.60%16,750
Grafton 9,76145.96%11,47854.04%-1,717-8.08%21,239
Hillsborough 42,58061.91%26,20138.09%16,37923.81%68,781
Merrimack 14,69249.61%14,92350.39%-231-0.78%29,615
Rockingham 14,00146.32%16,22353.68%-2,222-7.35%30,224
Strafford 12,84758.82%8,99641.18%3,85117.63%21,843
Sullivan 5,87251.26%5,58348.74%2892.52%11,455
Totals125,29253.22%110,12746.78%15,1656.44%235,419

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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References

  1. ↑ Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections; Presidential General Election Results Comparison – New Hampshire
  2. ↑ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 67-68 ISBN   0786422173
  3. ↑ "1940 Presidential General Election Results – New Hampshire". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
  4. ↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 294 ISBN   0405077114


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