1940 United States presidential election in Maine

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

1940 United States presidential election in Maine

November 5, 1940
 
Nominee Wendell Willkie Franklin D. Roosevelt
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Indiana New York
Running mate Charles L. McNary Henry A. Wallace
Electoral vote 5 0
Popular vote 163,951 156,478
Percentage 51.10% 48.77%

County Results

President before election

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

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

Willkie won Maine by a narrow margin of 2.33%, a swing of 11.66% to Roosevelt during an election where FDR lost 697 counties that had supported him four years earlier, mostly because of German Americans opposition to increasing "tension" with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.[1] Contrariwise, the powerful "Anglophile" tendencies of Yankee and French-Canadian Maine meant that support for aid to the United Kingdom and France in ongoing World War II turned substantial numbers of normally rock-ribbed GOP voters to Roosevelt.[2] This was the first time Kennebec County had ever voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[3]

Results

1940 United States presidential election in Maine[4]
Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote
Count % Count %
Republican Wendell Willkie of Indiana Charles Linza McNary of Oregon 163,951 51.10% 5 100.00%
Democratic Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York Henry Agard Wallace of Iowa 156,478 48.77% 0 0.00%
Communist Earl Russell Browder of Kansas James W. Ford of New York 411 0.13% 0 0.00%
Total 320,840 100.00% 5 100.00%

Results by county

County Wendell Lewis Willkie

Republican

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Democratic

Earl Russell Browder

Communist

Total votes cast[5]
# % # % # %
Androscoggin 10,394 34.99% 19,273 64.88% 40 0.13% 29,707
Aroostook 13,888 58.34% 9,877 41.49% 39 0.16% 23,804
Cumberland 29,795 52.47% 26,911 47.39% 76 0.13% 56,782
Franklin 4,548 58.47% 3,224 41.44% 7 0.09% 7,779
Hancock 8,539 66.36% 4,315 33.54% 13 0.10% 12,867
Kennebec 14,877 48.36% 15,861 51.56% 27 0.09% 30,765
Knox 6,530 60.76% 4,197 39.05% 20 0.19% 10,747
Lincoln 5,244 68.42% 2,415 31.51% 5 0.07% 7,664
Oxford 8,656 53.49% 7,502 46.36% 25 0.15% 16,183
Penobscot 18,674 55.79% 14,757 44.09% 40 0.12% 33,471
Piscataquis 3,806 52.05% 3,499 47.85% 7 0.10% 7,312
Sagadahoc 3,504 43.30% 4,575 56.54% 13 0.16% 8,092
Somerset 7,526 53.42% 6,534 46.38% 28 0.20% 14,088
Waldo 5,170 61.56% 3,214 38.27% 14 0.17% 8,398
Washington 6,253 43.65% 8,048 56.18% 25 0.17% 14,326
York 16,547 42.59% 22,276 57.33% 32 0.08% 38,855
Totals163,95151.10%156,47848.77%4110.13%320,840

See also

References

  1. Dunn, Susan; 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler–the Election Amid the Storm, p. 107 ISBN 0300190867
  2. Phillips, Kevin; The Emerging Republican Majority; p. 93 ISBN 1400852293
  3. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 68 ISBN 0786422173
  4. "1940 Presidential General Election Results – Maine". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 23 December 2013.
  5. Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 203 ISBN 0405077114
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