1940 United States presidential election in Nebraska

none June 2025 September 2023 1940 United States presidential election 1940 United States presidential election in Nebraska Nebraska presidential no 1936 United States presidential election in Nebraska 1936 1944 United States presidential election in Nebraska 1944 All 7 Nebraska votes to the Electoral College November 5, 1940 x200px WendellWillkie.jpg Wendell Willkie Republican Party (United States) New York Charles L. McNary 7 352,201 57.19% FDRoosevelt1938.jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York Henry A. Wallace 0 263,677 42.81% 1940 United States presidential election in Nebraska results map by county.svg 350px County results Willkie #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% Roosevelt #86b6f2 50–60% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1940 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose sevenhttps://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1941_1953.html#1940 1940 Election for the Thirty-ninth Term (1941-45) August 19, 2018 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Nebraska was won by the Republican candidate, business man Wendell Willkie, running with Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 57.19% of the popular vote, against incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt, running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 42.81% of the popular vote.http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=31&year=1940 1940 Presidential General Election Results - Nebraska August 19, 2018http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1940 The American Presidency Project - Election of 1940 August 19, 2018 Though he had carried the state by over 16 points just four years earlier in 1936, Roosevelt's popularity with Nebraskans completely eroded in 1940, and with 57.19% of the popular vote, the state would prove to be Willkie's second strongest state in the 1940 election, after neighboring South Dakota. Roosevelt lost the state by almost exactly the same margin as he had carried it four years prior.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1940&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1940 Presidential Election Statistics Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-03-05 This constituted a Republican victory margin of 14.4%, with the results in Nebraska representing a very large 30.8% shift to the right from 1936. Nebraska weighed in as a drastic 24.3% more Republican than the nation as whole. Roosevelt became the first Democrat since Grover Cleveland in 1892 to win the presidency without carrying Nebraska. Key to Willkie's landslide victory was his overperformance among rural farmers in Nebraska, whom Roosevelt had carried decisively in 1936. Willkie flipped 39 counties that had been reliably Democratic just 4 years earlier, those being: Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Boyd, Burt, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne, Cuming, Custer, Dawes, Dawson, Deuel, Dodge, Dundy, Frontier, Gosper, Grant, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Holt, Keith, Kimball, Knox, Madison, Merrick, Morrill, Pawnee, Perkins, Phelps, Pierce, Red Willow, Scotts Bluff, Sheridan, Sioux, Stanton, Thomas and Wayne. The 1940 election would mark a turning point in Nebraska's politics; the state has voted for the Republican nominee by double digits in every election since, except for when Lyndon B. Johnson carried it by a relatively narrow margin of 5.2% amidst a national landslide victory. FDR's implosion among farmers can likely be attributed to his New Deal programs that paid farmers not to produce food and to destroy some crops, which was an attempt to cure the problem of food overproduction; the policy instead resulted in the United States needing to import food from other countries and paying more for it.https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/11/21/do-farm-subsidies-protect-national-security/fdrs-disastrous-experiment F.D.R.'s Disastrous Experiment www.nytimes.com 7 May 2023https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/america-1918-1939/farmers-and-the-new-deal/ Farmers and the New Deal History Learning Site 7 May 2023 Additionally, as Roosevelt was running for his third consecutive term, many voters were wary of breaking the long-standing two term tradition. Results 1940 United States presidential election in Nebraska Wendell Willkie Republican Party (United States) 352,201 57.19% Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) Democratic Party (United States) 263,677 42.81% 615,878 100% Results by county CountyOur Campaigns https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2824 NE US President Race, November 05, 1940 Wendell Lewis WillkieRepublican Franklin Delano RooseveltDemocratic Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % Adams 6,630 60.60% 4,311 39.40% 2,319 21.20% 10,941 Antelope 4,331 66.77% 2,155 33.23% 2,176 33.55% 6,486 Arthur 348 64.21% 194 35.79% 154 28.41% 542 Banner 450 66.57% 226 33.43% 224 33.14% 676 Blaine 454 59.35% 311 40.65% 143 18.69% 765 Boone 3,334 62.34% 2,014 37.66% 1,320 24.68% 5,348 Box Butte 2,942 57.27% 2,195 42.73% 747 14.54% 5,137 Boyd 1,734 62.13% 1,057 37.87% 677 24.26% 2,791 Brown 1,783 64.65% 975 35.35% 808 29.30% 2,758 Buffalo 6,387 61.14% 4,060 38.86% 2,327 22.27% 10,447 Burt 3,443 57.08% 2,589 42.92% 854 14.16% 6,032 Butler 2,966 47.75% 3,246 52.25% -280 -4.51% 6,212 Cass 4,704 56.46% 3,627 43.54% 1,077 12.93% 8,331 Cedar 4,397 62.67% 2,619 37.33% 1,778 25.34% 7,016 Chase 1,557 63.27% 904 36.73% 653 26.53% 2,461 Cherry 2,705 60.30% 1,781 39.70% 924 20.60% 4,486 Cheyenne 2,394 55.20% 1,943 44.80% 451 10.40% 4,337 Clay 3,576 66.98% 1,763 33.02% 1,813 33.96% 5,339 Colfax 2,587 52.28% 2,361 47.72% 226 4.57% 4,948 Cuming 4,383 73.32% 1,595 26.68% 2,788 46.64% 5,978 Custer 6,269 59.66% 4,238 40.34% 2,031 19.33% 10,507 Dakota 2,140 46.91% 2,422 53.09% -282 -6.18% 4,562 Dawes 3,184 64.26% 1,771 35.74% 1,413 28.52% 4,955 Dawson 5,445 66.02% 2,803 33.98% 2,642 32.03% 8,248 Deuel 1,156 67.17% 565 32.83% 591 34.34% 1,721 Dixon 3,038 61.37% 1,912 38.63% 1,126 22.75% 4,950 Dodge 7,141 62.51% 4,282 37.49% 2,859 25.03% 11,423 Douglas 53,325 44.38% 66,840 55.62% -13,515 -11.25% 120,165 Dundy 1,441 64.22% 803 35.78% 638 28.43% 2,244 Fillmore 3,677 65.13% 1,969 34.87% 1,708 30.25% 5,646 Franklin 2,354 63.08% 1,378 36.92% 976 26.15% 3,732 Frontier 2,069 66.08% 1,062 33.92% 1,007 32.16% 3,131 Furnas 3,316 64.85% 1,797 35.15% 1,519 29.71% 5,113 Gage 8,156 61.55% 5,096 38.45% 3,060 23.09% 13,252 Garden 1,351 64.73% 736 35.27% 615 29.47% 2,087 Garfield 1,053 66.39% 533 33.61% 520 32.79% 1,586 Gosper 1,001 61.45% 628 38.55% 373 22.90% 1,629 Grant 423 63.51% 243 36.49% 180 27.03% 666 Greeley 1,530 50.46% 1,502 49.54% 28 0.92% 3,032 Hall 7,412 61.26% 4,687 38.74% 2,725 22.52% 12,099 Hamilton 3,286 66.36% 1,666 33.64% 1,620 32.71% 4,952 Harlan 2,182 61.73% 1,353 38.27% 829 23.45% 3,535 Hayes 759 55.93% 598 44.07% 161 11.86% 1,357 Hitchcock 1,663 58.33% 1,188 41.67% 475 16.66% 2,851 Holt 4,840 61.61% 3,016 38.39% 1,824 23.22% 7,856 Hooker 403 73.27% 147 26.73% 256 46.55% 550 Howard 1,696 43.11% 2,238 56.89% -542 -13.78% 3,934 Jefferson 4,980 64.35% 2,759 35.65% 2,221 28.70% 7,739 Johnson 2,919 68.26% 1,357 31.74% 1,562 36.53% 4,276 Kearney 1,792 53.44% 1,561 46.56% 231 6.89% 3,353 Keith 2,022 53.48% 1,759 46.52% 263 6.96% 3,781 Keya Paha 1,004 66.67% 502 33.33% 502 33.33% 1,506 Kimball 1,190 61.82% 735 38.18% 455 23.64% 1,925 Knox 4,352 57.79% 3,179 42.21% 1,173 15.58% 7,531 Lancaster 27,384 58.63% 19,321 41.37% 8,063 17.26% 46,705 Lincoln 5,908 54.36% 4,960 45.64% 948 8.72% 10,868 Logan 498 60.51% 325 39.49% 173 21.02% 823 Loup 539 65.10% 289 34.90% 250 30.19% 828 Madison 7,353 64.87% 3,982 35.13% 3,371 29.74% 11,335 McPherson 414 71.63% 164 28.37% 250 43.25% 578 Merrick 2,886 66.31% 1,466 33.69% 1,420 32.63% 4,352 Morrill 2,214 60.08% 1,471 39.92% 743 20.16% 3,685 Nance 1,963 57.77% 1,435 42.23% 528 15.54% 3,398 Nemaha 3,817 59.96% 2,549 40.04% 1,268 19.92% 6,366 Nuckolls 3,017 61.70% 1,873 38.30% 1,144 23.39% 4,890 Otoe 5,799 66.46% 2,927 33.54% 2,872 32.91% 8,726 Pawnee 2,643 62.35% 1,596 37.65% 1,047 24.70% 4,239 Perkins 1,413 57.28% 1,054 42.72% 359 14.55% 2,467 Phelps 2,512 57.63% 1,847 42.37% 665 15.26% 4,359 Pierce 3,271 69.30% 1,449 30.70% 1,822 38.60% 4,720 Platte 4,929 56.07% 3,862 43.93% 1,067 12.14% 8,791 Polk 2,653 61.87% 1,635 38.13% 1,018 23.74% 4,288 Red Willow 3,119 55.70% 2,481 44.30% 638 11.39% 5,600 Richardson 4,833 54.07% 4,105 45.93% 728 8.14% 8,938 Rock 1,104 64.79% 600 35.21% 504 29.58% 1,704 Saline 3,673 46.48% 4,229 53.52% -556 -7.04% 7,902 Sarpy 2,165 46.04% 2,537 53.96% -372 -7.91% 4,702 Saunders 4,917 54.16% 4,162 45.84% 755 8.32% 9,079 Scotts Bluff 7,989 64.20% 4,455 35.80% 3,534 28.40% 12,444 Seward 4,117 61.95% 2,529 38.05% 1,588 23.89% 6,646 Sheridan 3,161 66.87% 1,566 33.13% 1,595 33.74% 4,727 Sherman 1,494 44.18% 1,888 55.82% -394 -11.65% 3,382 Sioux 1,072 63.43% 618 36.57% 454 26.86% 1,690 Stanton 2,074 65.74% 1,081 34.26% 993 31.47% 3,155 Thayer 3,893 65.21% 2,077 34.79% 1,816 30.42% 5,970 Thomas 486 63.70% 277 36.30% 209 27.39% 763 Thurston 1,973 49.18% 2,039 50.82% -66 -1.65% 4,012 Valley 2,449 60.63% 1,590 39.37% 859 21.27% 4,039 Washington 2,922 52.57% 2,636 47.43% 286 5.15% 5,558 Wayne 3,209 69.70% 1,395 30.30% 1,814 39.40% 4,604 Webster 2,847 68.18% 1,329 31.82% 1,518 36.35% 4,176 Wheeler 495 53.69% 427 46.31% 68 7.38% 922 York 5,322 70.75% 2,200 29.25% 3,122 41.50% 7,522Totals352,20157.19%263,67742.81%88,52414.37%615,878 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican 16em Boone Adams Banner Blaine Box Butte Boyd Buffalo Burt Chase Cherry Cedar Cheyenne Clay Colfax Cuming Custer Dixon Dawes Dawson Deuel Dodge Dundy Fillmore Franklin Frontier Gage Gosper Grant Hall Harlan Hayes Hitchcock Holt Kearney Keith Knox Kimball Lancaster Lincoln Logan Madison Merrick Nemaha Nance Nuckolls Greeley Jefferson Johnson Morrill Pawnee Perkins Phelps Pierce Platte Polk Red Willow Richardson Saunders Scotts Bluff Seward Sheridan Stanton Thayer Thomas Sioux Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler See also United States presidential elections in Nebraska References Nebraska 1940 Category:1940 Nebraska elections