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Elections in Pennsylvania |
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The 1940 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 5, 1940 as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Pennsylvania voted to give Democratic nominee, President Franklin D. Roosevelt an unprecedented third term, over the Republican nominee, corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie, a dark horse candidate who had never before run for a political office. Roosevelt won Pennsylvania by a margin of 6.9%. This is also one of only four occasions where Pennsylvania and Michigan voted for different presidential candidates ever since the Democrats and Republicans became the two major parties in U.S. politics. [1] [a]
1940 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania [2] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) | 2,171,035 | 53.23% | 36 | |
Republican | Wendell Willkie | 1,889,848 | 46.33% | 0 | |
Socialist | Norman Thomas | 10,967 | 0.27% | 0 | |
Communist | Earl Browder | 4,519 | 0.11% | 0 | |
Industrial Government | John Aiken | 1,518 | 0.04% | 0 | |
Write-ins | Write-ins | 827 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Totals | 4,078,714 | 100.00% | 36 |
County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic | Wendell Lewis Willkie Republican | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast [3] | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adams | 7,354 | 46.01% | 8,609 | 53.86% | 20 | 0.13% | -1,255 | -7.85% | 15,983 |
Allegheny | 367,926 | 58.03% | 263,285 | 41.52% | 2,849 | 0.45% | 104,641 | 16.50% | 634,060 |
Armstrong | 12,144 | 45.44% | 14,524 | 54.34% | 60 | 0.22% | -2,380 | -8.90% | 26,728 |
Beaver | 33,609 | 57.78% | 24,324 | 41.81% | 239 | 0.41% | 9,285 | 15.96% | 58,172 |
Bedford | 7,388 | 45.32% | 8,864 | 54.38% | 49 | 0.30% | -1,476 | -9.05% | 16,301 |
Berks | 53,301 | 61.31% | 32,111 | 36.94% | 1,522 | 1.75% | 21,190 | 24.37% | 86,934 |
Blair | 21,573 | 44.65% | 26,639 | 55.13% | 106 | 0.22% | -5,066 | -10.48% | 48,318 |
Bradford | 6,605 | 30.75% | 14,826 | 69.02% | 49 | 0.23% | -8,221 | -38.27% | 21,480 |
Bucks | 20,586 | 44.78% | 25,169 | 54.75% | 212 | 0.46% | 4,583 | 9.97% | 45,967 |
Butler | 13,875 | 41.52% | 19,450 | 58.20% | 96 | 0.29% | -5,575 | -16.68% | 33,421 |
Cambria | 42,894 | 58.44% | 30,306 | 41.29% | 193 | 0.26% | 12,588 | 17.15% | 73,393 |
Cameron | 1,450 | 44.60% | 1,793 | 55.15% | 8 | 0.25% | -343 | -10.55% | 3,251 |
Carbon | 12,777 | 54.50% | 10,618 | 45.29% | 51 | 0.22% | 2,159 | 9.21% | 23,446 |
Centre | 9,869 | 47.90% | 10,665 | 51.77% | 68 | 0.33% | -796 | -3.86% | 20,602 |
Chester | 22,473 | 44.18% | 28,222 | 55.48% | 174 | 0.34% | -5,749 | -11.30% | 50,869 |
Clarion | 6,564 | 41.99% | 9,035 | 57.79% | 34 | 0.22% | -2,471 | -15.81% | 15,633 |
Clearfield | 17,705 | 53.23% | 15,407 | 46.32% | 148 | 0.44% | 2,298 | 6.91% | 33,260 |
Clinton | 7,419 | 54.03% | 6,291 | 45.81% | 22 | 0.16% | 1,128 | 8.21% | 13,732 |
Columbia | 12,523 | 56.76% | 9,518 | 43.14% | 21 | 0.10% | 3,005 | 13.62% | 22,062 |
Crawford | 10,197 | 38.92% | 15,891 | 60.65% | 115 | 0.44% | -5,694 | -21.73% | 26,203 |
Cumberland | 15,758 | 50.64% | 15,297 | 49.16% | 61 | 0.20% | 461 | 1.48% | 31,116 |
Dauphin | 38,305 | 47.30% | 42,394 | 52.35% | 276 | 0.34% | -4,089 | -5.05% | 80,975 |
Delaware | 60,225 | 42.74% | 80,158 | 56.88% | 534 | 0.38% | -19,933 | -14.15% | 140,917 |
Elk | 6,920 | 49.78% | 6,949 | 49.99% | 31 | 0.22% | -29 | -0.21% | 13,900 |
Erie | 31,735 | 46.19% | 36,608 | 53.29% | 355 | 0.52% | -4,873 | -7.09% | 68,698 |
Fayette | 41,960 | 63.47% | 23,908 | 36.16% | 246 | 0.37% | 18,052 | 27.30% | 66,114 |
Forest | 919 | 33.59% | 1,811 | 66.19% | 6 | 0.22% | -892 | -32.60% | 2,736 |
Franklin | 12,713 | 49.21% | 13,084 | 50.64% | 39 | 0.15% | -371 | -1.44% | 25,836 |
Fulton | 1,982 | 48.40% | 2,108 | 51.48% | 5 | 0.12% | -126 | -3.08% | 4,095 |
Greene | 10,214 | 60.17% | 6,726 | 39.63% | 34 | 0.20% | 3,488 | 20.55% | 16,974 |
Huntingdon | 5,631 | 37.97% | 9,141 | 61.64% | 58 | 0.39% | -3,510 | -23.67% | 14,830 |
Indiana | 12,035 | 43.53% | 15,547 | 56.23% | 68 | 0.25% | -3,512 | -12.70% | 27,650 |
Jefferson | 8,559 | 41.37% | 12,081 | 58.40% | 47 | 0.23% | -3,522 | -17.03% | 20,687 |
Juniata | 3,579 | 50.46% | 3,507 | 49.44% | 7 | 0.10% | 72 | 1.02% | 7,093 |
Lackawanna | 71,343 | 56.32% | 54,931 | 43.36% | 411 | 0.32% | 16,412 | 12.95% | 126,685 |
Lancaster | 32,210 | 41.62% | 44,939 | 58.07% | 245 | 0.32% | -12,729 | -16.45% | 77,394 |
Lawrence | 18,814 | 49.07% | 19,361 | 50.50% | 167 | 0.44% | -547 | -1.43% | 38,342 |
Lebanon | 13,315 | 49.61% | 13,449 | 50.11% | 73 | 0.27% | -134 | -0.50% | 26,837 |
Lehigh | 33,007 | 52.44% | 29,584 | 47.00% | 356 | 0.57% | 3,423 | 5.44% | 62,947 |
Luzerne | 101,577 | 55.85% | 79,685 | 43.81% | 622 | 0.34% | 21,892 | 12.04% | 181,884 |
Lycoming | 18,363 | 46.05% | 21,423 | 53.72% | 91 | 0.23% | -3,060 | -7.67% | 39,877 |
McKean | 6,911 | 31.63% | 14,822 | 67.84% | 115 | 0.53% | -7,911 | -36.21% | 21,848 |
Mercer | 16,968 | 44.42% | 21,058 | 55.12% | 175 | 0.46% | -4,090 | -10.71% | 38,201 |
Mifflin | 6,993 | 52.31% | 6,352 | 47.51% | 24 | 0.18% | 641 | 4.79% | 13,369 |
Monroe | 6,670 | 52.57% | 6,001 | 47.30% | 16 | 0.13% | 669 | 5.27% | 12,687 |
Montgomery | 49,409 | 40.15% | 73,250 | 59.52% | 403 | 0.33% | -23,841 | -19.37% | 123,062 |
Montour | 3,080 | 53.04% | 2,723 | 46.89% | 4 | 0.07% | 357 | 6.15% | 5,807 |
Northampton | 33,304 | 56.49% | 25,385 | 43.06% | 266 | 0.45% | 7,919 | 13.43% | 58,955 |
Northumberland | 26,315 | 53.31% | 22,914 | 46.42% | 134 | 0.27% | 3,401 | 6.89% | 49,363 |
Perry | 4,601 | 43.87% | 5,877 | 56.03% | 11 | 0.10% | -1,276 | -12.17% | 10,489 |
Philadelphia | 532,149 | 59.69% | 354,878 | 39.81% | 4,459 | 0.50% | 177,271 | 19.88% | 891,486 |
Pike | 1,818 | 41.08% | 2,596 | 58.65% | 12 | 0.27% | -778 | -17.58% | 4,426 |
Potter | 2,731 | 34.30% | 5,205 | 65.36% | 27 | 0.34% | -2,474 | -31.07% | 7,963 |
Schuylkill | 48,739 | 52.71% | 43,505 | 47.05% | 231 | 0.25% | 5,234 | 5.66% | 92,475 |
Snyder | 2,478 | 30.17% | 5,722 | 69.66% | 14 | 0.17% | -3,244 | -39.49% | 8,214 |
Somerset | 14,085 | 44.71% | 17,369 | 55.13% | 52 | 0.17% | -3,284 | -10.42% | 31,506 |
Sullivan | 1,626 | 44.04% | 2,059 | 55.77% | 7 | 0.19% | -433 | -11.73% | 3,692 |
Susquehanna | 5,383 | 36.04% | 9,520 | 63.73% | 35 | 0.23% | -4,137 | -27.69% | 14,938 |
Tioga | 4,434 | 27.51% | 11,645 | 72.24% | 40 | 0.25% | -7,211 | -44.74% | 16,119 |
Union | 2,220 | 28.27% | 5,612 | 71.45% | 22 | 0.28% | -3,392 | -43.19% | 7,854 |
Venango | 6,873 | 27.89% | 17,728 | 71.95% | 38 | 0.15% | -10,855 | -44.06% | 24,639 |
Warren | 5,825 | 34.39% | 11,016 | 65.04% | 97 | 0.57% | -5,191 | -30.65% | 16,938 |
Washington | 50,829 | 63.43% | 29,026 | 36.22% | 285 | 0.36% | 21,803 | 27.21% | 80,140 |
Wayne | 3,460 | 27.26% | 9,203 | 72.50% | 30 | 0.24% | -5,743 | -45.25% | 12,693 |
Westmoreland | 64,567 | 59.90% | 42,643 | 39.56% | 577 | 0.54% | 21,924 | 20.34% | 107,787 |
Wyoming | 2,548 | 32.51% | 5,273 | 67.28% | 16 | 0.20% | -2,725 | -34.77% | 7,837 |
York | 39,543 | 56.56% | 30,228 | 43.23% | 146 | 0.21% | 9,315 | 13.32% | 69,917 |
Totals | 2,175,538 | 53.35% | 1,885,265 | 46.23% | 17,004 | 0.42% | 290,273 | 7.12% | 4,077,807 |