1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey

none June 2025 September 2023 1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey New Jersey 1896 presidential no 1936 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1936 1944 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1944 November 5, 1940 85.52%https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4046183&seq=560 Manual of the legislature of New Jersey, 1941 NJ State Library ( 0.80%) FDRoosevelt1938.png Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York Henry A. Wallace 16 1,016,808 51.55% WendellWillkie.jpg Wendell Willkie Republican Party (United States) New York Charles L. McNary 0 945,475 47.93% 1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey results map by county.svg 405px County results Roosevelt #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% Willkie #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) 1940 United States presidential election The 1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New Jersey was won by the Democratic nominees, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace of Iowa. Roosevelt and Wallace defeated the Republican nominees, corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie of New York and his running mate Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon. Roosevelt narrowly carried New Jersey with 51.55 percent of the vote to Willkie's 47.93 percent, a margin of 3.62 percent.1940 Presidential General Election Results – New Jersey http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1940&fips=34&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 30 November 2013 Reflecting the closeness of the statewide result, Roosevelt and Willkie virtually split the state's 21 counties: Roosevelt won 11 counties to Willkie's ten. Roosevelt edged out Willkie statewide with decisive victories in some of the most heavily populated parts of the state, while keeping the results close in heavily populated counties that he lost. In North Jersey, Roosevelt maintained his dominance in heavily populated Hudson County, part of the New York metropolitan area where the New Deal Coalition was very strong, breaking 60% of the vote in the county for the third election in a row. Roosevelt also won heavily populated Middlesex County with more than 60% of the vote, along with majorities in Mercer County, Passaic County, and rural Warren County. Willkie won the remaining counties of North Jersey, breaking sixty percent of the vote in Bergen County and Morris County. Roosevelt performed much more strongly overall in South Jersey, winning majorities in 6 out of 8 of the southernmost counties in the state; his strongest county win there was urban Camden County, where he broke 60% of the vote. In South Jersey, Willkie won only rural Cape May County. Besides his victories in North Jersey, Willkie also won Monmouth County and Ocean County in the central portion of the state. New Jersey by 1940 had become a closely divided swing state with a Republican lean, and its results in 1940 adhered to that pattern. Roosevelt had carried the state in the midst of both of his preceding nationwide landslides, although only by a very narrow margin in 1932. As Roosevelt decisively won re-election to an unprecedented third term, carrying 38 out of 48 states, his narrow margin of victory in New Jersey made the state about 6 points more Republican than the national average. Results 1940 United States presidential election in New JerseyPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) 1,016,808 51.55% 16 Republican Wendell Willkie 945,475 47.93% 0 Communist Earl Browder 6,508 0.33% 0 Socialist Norman Thomas 2,433 0.12% 0 National Prohibition Roger Babson 873 0.04% 0 Socialist Labor John W. Aiken 455 0.02% 0 Totals 1,974,214 100.0% 16 Results by county County Franklin D. RooseveltOur Campaigns; NJ US President Race, November 05, 1940Democratic Wendell WillkieRepublican Earl BrowderCommunist Norman ThomasSocialist Roger BabsonNational Prohibition John W. AikenSocialist Labor Margin Total votescast # % # % # % # % # % # % # % Atlantic 36,155 54.13% 30,551 45.74% 26 0.04% 33 0.05% 28 0.04% 5 0.01% 5,604 8.39% 66,798 Bergen 76,541 36.65% 131,588 63.01% 190 0.09% 379 0.18% 58 0.03% 67 0.03% -55,047 -26.36% 208,823 Burlington 26,574 55.50% 21,161 44.20% 13 0.03% 71 0.15% 53 0.11% 6 0.01% 5,413 11.31% 47,878 Camden 84,837 65.81% 43,480 33.73% 93 0.07% 337 0.26% 158 0.12% 14 0.01% 41,357 32.08% 128,919 Cape May 8,485 47.29% 9,429 52.55% 4 0.02% 10 0.06% 16 0.09% 0 0.00% -944 -5.26% 17,944 Cumberland 19,251 53.95% 16,322 45.75% 13 0.04% 23 0.06% 58 0.16% 13 0.04% 2,929 8.21% 35,680 Essex 154,363 44.87% 182,124 52.94% 6,556 1.91% 765 0.22% 139 0.04% 87 0.03% -27,761 -8.07% 344,034 Gloucester 20,284 53.22% 17,674 46.38% 11 0.03% 51 0.13% 82 0.22% 9 0.02% 2,610 6.85% 38,111 Hudson 208,429 65.85% 107,552 33.98% 255 0.08% 237 0.07% 9 0.00% 26 0.01% 100,877 31.87% 316,508 Hunterdon 7,872 43.25% 10,284 56.50% 2 0.01% 27 0.15% 12 0.07% 6 0.03% -2,412 -13.25% 18,203 Mercer 50,121 57.26% 37,190 42.49% 119 0.14% 85 0.10% 14 0.02% 4 0.00% 12,931 14.77% 87,533 Middlesex 67,140 61.59% 41,709 38.26% 69 0.06% 23 0.02% 6 0.01% 66 0.06% 25,431 23.33% 109,013 Monmouth 36,298 42.18% 49,675 57.73% 16 0.02% 29 0.03% 23 0.03% 6 0.01% -13,377 -15.55% 86,047 Morris 24,698 38.23% 39,720 61.47% 25 0.04% 117 0.18% 47 0.07% 5 0.01% -15,022 -23.25% 64,612 Ocean 8,762 39.50% 13,394 60.38% 18 0.08% 6 0.03% 2 0.01% 0 0.00% -4,632 -20.88% 22,182 Passaic 69,880 51.42% 65,523 48.21% 231 0.17% 184 0.14% 31 0.02% 58 0.04% 4,357 3.21% 135,907 Salem 12,244 59.92% 8,132 39.80% 15 0.07% 16 0.08% 26 0.13% 0 0.00% 4,112 20.12% 20,433 Somerset 16,490 44.86% 20,169 54.87% 36 0.10% 40 0.11% 10 0.03% 10 0.03% -3,679 -10.01% 36,755 Sussex 6,314 42.14% 8,642 57.67% 4 0.03% 7 0.05% 16 0.11% 1 0.01% -2,328 -15.54% 14,984 Union 70,737 46.45% 79,962 52.50% 1,116 0.73% 369 0.24% 52 0.03% 60 0.04% -9,225 -6.06% 152,296 Warren 10,929 50.69% 10,595 49.14% 8 0.04% 14 0.06% 12 0.06% 3 0.01% 334 1.55% 21,561Totals1,016,40451.48%944,87647.86%8,8140.45%2,8230.14%8510.04%4460.02%71,5283.62%1,974,214 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Cape May Hunterdon Essex Bergen Somerset Union See also Presidency of Franklin D. 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