1940 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

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.

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 vote 4 0
Popular vote 125,292 110,127
Percentage 53.22% 46.78%

County Results

President before election

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

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.[2]

Results

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1940 United States presidential election in New Hampshire[3]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Democratic Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York Henry Agard Wallace of Iowa 125,292 53.22% 4 100.00%
Republican Wendell Willkie of New York Charles Linza McNary of Oregon 110,127 46.78% 0 0.00%
Total 235,419 100.00% 4 100.00%

Results by county

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County Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic
Wendell Lewis Willkie
Republican
Margin Total votes cast[4]
# % # % # %
Belknap 5,653 48.04% 6,115 51.96% -462 -3.93% 11,768
Carroll 2,870 33.66% 5,656 66.34% -2,786 -32.68% 8,526
Cheshire 6,916 45.45% 8,302 54.55% -1,386 -9.11% 15,218
Coös 10,100 60.30% 6,650 39.70% 3,450 20.60% 16,750
Grafton 9,761 45.96% 11,478 54.04% -1,717 -8.08% 21,239
Hillsborough 42,580 61.91% 26,201 38.09% 16,379 23.81% 68,781
Merrimack 14,692 49.61% 14,923 50.39% -231 -0.78% 29,615
Rockingham 14,001 46.32% 16,223 53.68% -2,222 -7.35% 30,224
Strafford 12,847 58.82% 8,996 41.18% 3,851 17.63% 21,843
Sullivan 5,872 51.26% 5,583 48.74% 289 2.52% 11,455
Totals 125,292 53.22% 110,127 46.78% 15,165 6.44% 235,419

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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See also

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References

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  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