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