1940 United States presidential election in Utah

1940 United States presidential election in Utah

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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 vote 4 0 Popular vote 154,277 93,151 Percentage 62.25% 37.59%

County Results Roosevelt   50–60%   60–70% Willkie   50–60%   60–70%

President before election Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic

Main article: 1940 United States presidential election

The 1940 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and state voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Utah, like every other state west of the Continental Divide, voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt over Wendell Willkie by a substantial margin. This was the first time any Democrat won the state more than twice. Roosevelt landslided Utah with 62.25 percent of the vote. The percentage, however, wasn't as large as his victory in the state four years earlier. As of the 2024 presidential election ^[update] , this is the last election in which Piute County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. ^[1]

Results

General Election Results ^{[2] [3]}

Party		Pledged to	Elector	Votes
	Democratic Party	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Oscar W. McConckie	154,277
	Democratic Party	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Mrs. George S. Baliff	153,833
	Democratic Party	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Joseph Jensen	153,734
	Democratic Party	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Sophus Bertleson	153,473
	Republican Party	Wendell Willkie	S. Marion Bliss	93,151
	Republican Party	Wendell Willkie	Mrs. R. L. Ashby	92,973
	Republican Party	Wendell Willkie	Clarence Dahl	92,852
	Republican Party	Wendell Willkie	John W. Guild	92,356
	Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	J. D. DeFriez	200
	Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Isabel Adamson	198
	Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	William J. McConnell	198
	Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Emil Munez	197
	Communist Party	Earl Browder	David Douglas Jr.	191
	Communist Party	Earl Browder	Marguerite H. Forest	188
	Communist Party	Earl Browder	Hyrum James Woolman	188
	Communist Party	Earl Browder	William Mathrus	185
Votes cast [a]				247,819

Results by county

County [2] [3]	Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic		Wendell Willkie Republican		Norman Thomas Socialist		Earl Browder Communist		Margin		Total votes cast [a]
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Beaver	1,303	54.18%	1,101	45.78%	1	0.04%	0	0.00%	202	8.40%	2,405
Box Elder	4,736	59.30%	3,248	40.67%	2	0.03%	0	0.00%	1.488	18.63%	7,986
Cache	7,867	60.25%	5,184	39.70%	6	0.05%	1	0.01%	2,683	20.55%	13,058
Carbon	5,180	69.47%	2,242	30.07%	10	0.13%	24	0.32%	2,938	39.40%	7,456
Daggett	160	62.50%	96	37.50%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	64	25.00%	256
Davis	3,865	57.63%	2,836	42.28%	1	0.01%	5	0.07%	1,029	15.34%	6,707
Duchesne	1,982	59.92%	1,322	39.96%	4	0.12%	0	0.00%	660	19.95%	3,308
Emery	1,901	65.13%	1,006	34.46%	10	0.34%	2	0.07%	895	30.66%	2,919
Garfield	814	44.14%	1,030	55.86%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-216	-11.71%	1,844
Grand	446	50.62%	432	49.04%	3	0.34%	0	0.00%	14	1.59%	881
Iron	1,915	47.90%	2,060	51.53%	21	0.53%	2	0.05%	-145	-3.63%	3,998
Juab	2,136	60.12%	1,412	39.74%	5	0.14%	0	0.00%	724	20.38%	3,553
Kane	339	33.43%	675	66.57%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-336	-33.14%	1,014
Millard	2,302	54.10%	1,943	45.66%	7	0.16%	3	0.07%	359	8.44%	4,255
Morgan	699	54.87%	575	45.13%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	124	9.73%	1,274
Piute	466	51.21%	442	48.57%	1	0.11%	1	0.11%	24	2.64%	910
Rich	475	51.52%	447	48.48%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	28	3.04%	922
Salt Lake	67,318	65.40%	35,427	34.42%	66	0.06%	115	0.11%	31,891	30.98%	102,926
San Juan	515	49.19%	528	50.43%	1	0.10%	3	0.29%	-13	-1.24%	1,047
Sanpete	3,524	48.61%	3,722	51.34%	3	0.04%	1	0.04%	-198	-2.73%	7,250
Sevier	2,521	48.22%	2,703	51.70%	4	0.08%	0	0.00%	-182	-3.48%	5,228
Summit	2,215	56.10%	1,730	43.82%	0	0.00%	3	0.08%	485	12.28%	3,948
Tooele	2,625	63.90%	1,476	35.93%	7	0.17%	0	0.00%	1,149	27.97%	4,108
Uintah	1,773	52.16%	1,624	47.78%	2	0.06%	0	0.00%	149	4.38%	3,399
Utah	15,168	63.32%	8,740	36.48%	23	0.10%	25	0.10%	6,428	26.83%	23,956
Wasatch	1,502	55.59%	1,199	44.37%	0	0.00%	1	0.04%	303	11.21%	2,702
Washington	1,993	55.04%	1,625	44.88%	2	0.06%	1	0.03%	368	10.16%	3,621
Wayne	500	56.75%	380	43.13%	1	0.11%	0	0.00%	120	13.62%	881
Weber	18,037	69.35%	7,946	30.55%	20	0.08%	4	0.02%	10,091	38.80%	26,007
Totals	154,277	62.25%	93,151	37.59%	200	0.08%	191	0.08%	61,126	24.67%	247,819

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Garfield
• Iron
• San Juan
• Sanpete
• Sevier

See also

• United States presidential elections in Utah

Notes

1. Based on highest elector on each ticket

References

1. Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
2. Utah State Archives, Abstract of the Returns of an Election held in the State of Utah, Tuesday, November 5, A.D. 1940 for Presidential Electors, for United States Senator, for Representatives in the Seventy-Seventh Congress of the United States, for State Officers, and District Officers in Districts comprising more than one county, and for the adoption or rejection of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State of Utah.
3. Monson, E. E., ed. (1940). Twenty-Second Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State Of Utah. Salt Lake City. Retrieved December 29, 2025.