1940 United States presidential election in Georgia

none June 2025 September 2023 1940 United States presidential election 1940 United States presidential election in Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) 1920 presidential Popular no 1936 United States presidential election in Georgia 1936 1940 11 5 1944 United States presidential election in Georgia 1944 x200px FDRoosevelt1938.png Franklin Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York Henry A. Wallace 12 265,194 84.85% WendellWillkie.jpg Wendell Willkie Republican Party (United States) New York Charles L. McNary 0 46,360 14.83% 1940 United States presidential election in Georgia results map by county.svg 290px County results Roosevelt #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Willkie #e27f90 50–60% President Franklin Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Elected President Franklin Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1940 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. With the exception of a handful of historically Unionist North Georgia counties – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns – Georgia since the 1880s had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. Disfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and most poor whites had made the Republican Party virtually nonexistent outside of local governments in those few hill counties,Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 9780691163246 and the national Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction. The only competitive elections were Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.Springer, Melanie Jean; How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000, p. 155 022611435X Secretary of State John B. Wilson refused to allow Earl Browder, the nominee of the Communist Party USA, to appear on the ballot stating that the party was in violation of a Georgian law which prohibited "candidates of a party which seeks to overthrow our democratic constitutional form of government" from appearing on the ballot. The Georgia General Assembly later passed restrictive ballot access legislation in 1943, which required petitions to have signatures from at least five percent of registered voters. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution stated that the legislation was passed in order to "sustain Secretary of State John B. Wilson in refusing a Communist candidate for president a place on the Georgia ballot in the 1940 election".April 20, 2018 Martin Cowen v. Brian P. Kemp https://ballot-access.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-20-declaration-of-Darcy-Richardson.pdf live https://web.archive.org/web/20220117212656/https://ballot-access.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-20-declaration-of-Darcy-Richardson.pdf January 17, 2022April 20, 2018 Darcy Richardson Submits Evidence in Georgia Ballot Access Case About Why the 5% Petition was Created in 1943 Ballot Access News https://ballot-access.org/2018/04/20/darcy-richardson-submits-evidence-in-georgia-ballot-access-case-about-why-the-5-petition-was-created-in-1943/ live https://web.archive.org/web/20220117211910/https://ballot-access.org/2018/04/20/darcy-richardson-submits-evidence-in-georgia-ballot-access-case-about-why-the-5-petition-was-created-in-1943/ January 17, 2022 Georgia would later lower its voting age from twenty-one to eighteen in 1943.Wayne Stephen 2008 Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process Fifth Edition Rowman & Littlefield Results 1940 United States presidential election in GeorgiaGeorgia's Official Register, 1939-1941-1943 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statreg-images/pdfs/1939.pdf#page=548 Atlanta, Georgia 550–552 PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Franklin Roosevelt (incumbent) 265,194 84.85% 12 Republican Wendell Willkie 46,360Willkie vote is a fusion of 23,932 Republican and 22,428 Independent votes. 14.83% 0 Prohibition Roger Babson 983 0.31% 0 Independent 14 0.00% 0 Results by county CountyFranklin Delano RooseveltDemocraticWendell Lewis WillkieRepublican/IndependentRoger Ward BabsonProhibitionWrite-insIndependentMarginTotal votes casthttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2808 Our Campaigns GA US President Race, November 05, 1940 September 28, 2020 January 17, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220117212704/https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2808 live # % # % # % # % # % Appling 1,514 82.19% 312 16.94% 16 0.87% 0 0.00% 1,202 65.26% 1,842 Atkinson 703 91.30% 66 8.57% 1 0.13% 0 0.00% 637 82.73% 770 Bacon 821 88.95% 97 10.51% 5 0.54% 0 0.00% 724 78.44% 923 Baker 557 94.73% 30 5.10% 1 0.17% 0 0.00% 527 89.63% 588 Baldwin 1,313 86.38% 203 13.36% 4 0.26% 0 0.00% 1,110 73.03% 1,520 Banks 668 79.71% 164 19.57% 6 0.72% 0 0.00% 504 60.14% 838 Barrow 1,615 87.82% 219 11.91% 5 0.27% 0 0.00% 1,396 75.91% 1,839 Bartow 1,734 84.17% 318 15.44% 8 0.39% 0 0.00% 1,416 68.74% 2,060 Ben Hill 1,206 86.64% 181 13.00% 4 0.29% 1 0.07% 1,025 73.64% 1,392 Berrien 1,156 97.97% 23 1.95% 1 0.08% 0 0.00% 1,133 96.02% 1,180 Bibb 6,729 82.70% 1,371 16.85% 37 0.45% 0 0.00% 5,358 65.85% 8,137 Bleckley 785 88.40% 100 11.26% 3 0.34% 0 0.00% 685 77.14% 888 Brantley 960 93.20% 67 6.50% 3 0.29% 0 0.00% 893 86.70% 1,030 Brooks 1,300 83.93% 248 16.01% 1 0.06% 0 0.00% 1,052 67.91% 1,549 Bryan 874 94.49% 49 5.30% 2 0.22% 0 0.00% 825 89.19% 925 Bulloch 2,063 93.35% 141 6.38% 6 0.27% 0 0.00% 1,922 86.97% 2,210 Burke 1,029 95.54% 42 3.90% 6 0.56% 0 0.00% 987 91.64% 1,077 Butts 1,012 91.92% 87 7.90% 2 0.18% 0 0.00% 925 84.01% 1,101 Calhoun 610 94.87% 33 5.13% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 577 89.74% 643 Camden 564 90.24% 60 9.60% 1 0.16% 0 0.00% 504 80.64% 625 Candler 748 92.00% 63 7.75% 2 0.25% 0 0.00% 685 84.26% 813 Carroll 3,808 85.92% 616 13.90% 8 0.18% 0 0.00% 3,192 72.02% 4,432 Catoosa 1,440 85.26% 249 14.74% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,191 70.52% 1,689 Charlton 562 90.35% 60 9.65% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 502 80.71% 622 Chatham 10,048 83.37% 1,985 16.47% 19 0.16% 0 0.00% 8,063 66.90% 12,052 Chattahoochee 204 91.07% 20 8.93% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 184 82.14% 224 Chattooga 2,413 89.47% 273 10.12% 11 0.41% 0 0.00% 2,140 79.35% 2,697 Cherokee 1,552 60.11% 1,017 39.39% 13 0.50% 0 0.00% 535 20.72% 2,582 Clarke 2,894 91.87% 246 7.81% 10 0.32% 0 0.00% 2,648 84.06% 3,150 Clay 488 93.31% 33 6.31% 2 0.38% 0 0.00% 455 87.00% 523 Clayton 1,382 89.45% 161 10.42% 2 0.13% 0 0.00% 1,221 79.03% 1,545 Clinch 1,049 94.33% 63 5.67% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 986 88.67% 1,112 Cobb 4,447 81.63% 992 18.21% 9 0.17% 0 0.00% 3,455 63.42% 5,448 Coffee 1,561 92.15% 128 7.56% 5 0.30% 0 0.00% 1,433 84.59% 1,694 Colquitt 1,819 77.04% 525 22.24% 17 0.72% 0 0.00% 1,294 54.81% 2,361 Columbia 627 92.61% 46 6.79% 4 0.59% 0 0.00% 581 85.82% 677 Cook 941 86.81% 143 13.19% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 798 73.62% 1,084 Coweta 2,846 96.25% 103 3.48% 8 0.27% 0 0.00% 2,743 92.76% 2,957 Crawford 362 82.84% 74 16.93% 1 0.23% 0 0.00% 288 65.90% 437 Crisp 1,049 88.75% 129 10.91% 4 0.34% 0 0.00% 920 77.83% 1,182 Dade 982 86.67% 151 13.33% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 831 73.35% 1,133 Dawson 484 63.43% 276 36.17% 3 0.39% 0 0.00% 208 27.26% 763 Decatur 1,781 89.05% 217 10.85% 2 0.10% 0 0.00% 1,564 78.20% 2,000 DeKalb 8,862 80.65% 2,081 18.94% 45 0.41% 0 0.00% 6,781 61.71% 10,988 Dodge 1,280 87.91% 171 11.74% 5 0.34% 0 0.00% 1,109 76.17% 1,456 Dooly 1,209 90.43% 124 9.27% 4 0.30% 0 0.00% 1,085 81.15% 1,337 Dougherty 2,175 92.32% 180 7.64% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 1,995 84.68% 2,356 Douglas 833 80.64% 195 18.88% 5 0.48% 0 0.00% 638 61.76% 1,033 Early 1,751 94.29% 104 5.60% 2 0.11% 0 0.00% 1,647 88.69% 1,857 Echols 441 95.87% 18 3.91% 1 0.22% 0 0.00% 423 91.96% 460 Effingham 633 73.60% 227 26.40% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 406 47.21% 860 Elbert 2,052 84.48% 357 14.70% 20 0.82% 0 0.00% 1,695 69.78% 2,429 Emanuel 1,428 94.51% 81 5.36% 2 0.13% 0 0.00% 1,347 89.15% 1,511 Evans 1,399 92.04% 112 7.37% 9 0.59% 0 0.00% 1,287 84.67% 1,520 Fannin 1,771 43.98% 2,256 56.02% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -485 -12.04% 4,027 Fayette 577 92.91% 44 7.09% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 533 85.83% 621 Floyd 5,528 85.56% 912 14.12% 21 0.33% 0 0.00% 4,616 71.44% 6,461 Forsyth 1,378 68.49% 634 31.51% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 744 36.98% 2,012 Franklin 1,579 86.66% 222 12.18% 21 1.15% 0 0.00% 1,357 74.48% 1,822 Fulton 31,311 83.57% 6,033 16.10% 122 0.33% 0 0.00% 25,278 67.47% 37,466 Gilmer 856 56.61% 653 43.19% 3 0.20% 0 0.00% 203 13.43% 1,512 Glascock 332 80.98% 76 18.54% 2 0.49% 0 0.00% 256 62.44% 410 Glynn 2,014 87.76% 274 11.94% 7 0.31% 0 0.00% 1,740 75.82% 2,295 Gordon 1,623 75.17% 527 24.41% 9 0.42% 0 0.00% 1,096 50.76% 2,159 Grady 1,461 86.09% 224 13.20% 12 0.71% 0 0.00% 1,237 72.89% 1,697 Greene 1,497 90.29% 148 8.93% 13 0.78% 0 0.00% 1,349 81.36% 1,658 Gwinnett 4,023 84.32% 728 15.26% 20 0.42% 0 0.00% 3,295 69.06% 4,771 Habersham 1,840 81.06% 421 18.55% 9 0.40% 0 0.00% 1,419 62.51% 2,270 Hall 2,943 85.13% 513 14.84% 1 0.03% 0 0.00% 2,430 70.29% 3,457 Hancock 501 76.49% 153 23.36% 1 0.15% 0 0.00% 348 53.13% 655 Haralson 1,397 75.19% 457 24.60% 4 0.22% 0 0.00% 940 50.59% 1,858 Harris 914 92.04% 71 7.15% 8 0.81% 0 0.00% 843 84.89% 993 Hart 1,328 92.16% 97 6.73% 16 1.11% 0 0.00% 1,231 85.43% 1,441 Heard 647 74.37% 221 25.40% 2 0.23% 0 0.00% 426 48.97% 870 Henry 1,551 93.77% 101 6.11% 2 0.12% 0 0.00% 1,450 87.67% 1,654 Houston 622 80.57% 149 19.30% 1 0.13% 0 0.00% 473 61.27% 772 Irwin 962 82.79% 197 16.95% 3 0.26% 0 0.00% 765 65.83% 1,162 Jackson 1,599 90.29% 166 9.37% 6 0.34% 0 0.00% 1,433 80.91% 1,771 Jasper 689 90.30% 72 9.44% 2 0.26% 0 0.00% 617 80.87% 763 Jeff Davis 696 87.11% 101 12.64% 2 0.25% 0 0.00% 595 74.47% 799 Jefferson 1,068 86.13% 171 13.79% 1 0.08% 0 0.00% 897 72.34% 1,240 Jenkins 940 92.98% 69 6.82% 2 0.20% 0 0.00% 871 86.15% 1,011 Johnson 2,386 88.24% 306 11.32% 12 0.44% 0 0.00% 2,080 76.92% 2,704 Jones 613 85.73% 101 14.13% 1 0.14% 0 0.00% 512 71.61% 715 Lamar 869 90.62% 85 8.86% 5 0.52% 0 0.00% 784 81.75% 959 Lanier 607 97.12% 16 2.56% 2 0.32% 0 0.00% 591 94.56% 625 Laurens 2,316 84.07% 435 15.79% 4 0.15% 0 0.00% 1,881 68.28% 2,755 Lee 416 95.63% 17 3.91% 2 0.46% 0 0.00% 399 91.72% 435 Liberty 407 79.80% 102 20.00% 1 0.20% 0 0.00% 305 59.80% 510 Lincoln 466 86.62% 67 12.45% 3 0.56% 2 0.37% 399 74.16% 538 Long 319 80.35% 76 19.14% 2 0.50% 0 0.00% 243 61.21% 397 Lowndes 2,551 90.40% 260 9.21% 11 0.39% 0 0.00% 2,291 81.18% 2,822 Lumpkin 889 84.11% 165 15.61% 3 0.28% 0 0.00% 724 68.50% 1,057 Macon 852 91.81% 72 7.76% 4 0.43% 0 0.00% 780 84.05% 928 Madison 1,160 85.36% 185 13.61% 14 1.03% 0 0.00% 975 71.74% 1,359 Marion 605 88.58% 77 11.27% 1 0.15% 0 0.00% 528 77.31% 683 McDuffie 959 92.12% 75 7.20% 7 0.67% 0 0.00% 884 84.92% 1,041 McIntosh 468 81.53% 106 18.47% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 362 63.07% 574 Meriwether 2,726 93.74% 174 5.98% 8 0.28% 0 0.00% 2,552 87.76% 2,908 Miller 775 93.94% 50 6.06% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 725 87.88% 825 Mitchell 2,131 93.22% 155 6.78% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,976 86.44% 2,286 Monroe 1,016 94.86% 49 4.58% 6 0.56% 0 0.00% 967 90.29% 1,071 Montgomery 686 89.44% 75 9.78% 6 0.78% 0 0.00% 611 79.66% 767 Morgan 484 95.28% 24 4.72% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 460 90.55% 508 Murray 1,399 71.89% 545 28.01% 2 0.10% 0 0.00% 854 43.88% 1,946 Muscogee 5,392 88.38% 702 11.51% 7 0.11% 0 0.00% 4,690 76.87% 6,101 Newton 1,512 93.85% 95 5.90% 4 0.25% 0 0.00% 1,417 87.96% 1,611 Oconee 635 77.72% 177 21.66% 5 0.61% 0 0.00% 458 56.06% 817 Oglethorpe 818 86.11% 131 13.79% 1 0.11% 0 0.00% 687 72.32% 950 Paulding 1,653 67.89% 770 31.62% 12 0.49% 0 0.00% 883 36.26% 2,435 Peach 738 82.09% 155 17.24% 6 0.67% 0 0.00% 583 64.85% 899 Pickens 1,124 55.64% 884 43.76% 12 0.59% 0 0.00% 240 11.88% 2,020 Pierce 943 91.55% 84 8.16% 3 0.29% 0 0.00% 859 83.40% 1,030 Pike 829 79.87% 209 20.13% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 620 59.73% 1,038 Polk 2,693 86.76% 401 12.92% 10 0.32% 0 0.00% 2,292 73.84% 3,104 Pulaski 478 91.92% 38 7.31% 4 0.77% 0 0.00% 440 84.62% 520 Putnam 730 92.17% 61 7.70% 1 0.13% 0 0.00% 669 84.47% 792 Quitman 324 94.46% 19 5.54% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 305 88.92% 343 Rabun 958 91.85% 82 7.86% 3 0.29% 0 0.00% 876 83.99% 1,043 Randolph 1,298 89.95% 143 9.91% 2 0.14% 0 0.00% 1,155 80.04% 1,443 Richmond 5,855 89.97% 641 9.85% 8 0.12% 4 0.06% 5,214 80.12% 6,508 Rockdale 1,291 93.55% 86 6.23% 3 0.22% 0 0.00% 1,205 87.32% 1,380 Schley 471 86.90% 69 12.73% 2 0.37% 0 0.00% 402 74.17% 542 Screven 1,174 91.79% 100 7.82% 5 0.39% 0 0.00% 1,074 83.97% 1,279 Seminole 884 93.45% 58 6.13% 3 0.32% 1 0.11% 826 87.32% 946 Spalding 3,022 93.76% 197 6.11% 4 0.12% 0 0.00% 2,825 87.65% 3,223 Stephens 1,084 91.71% 90 7.61% 6 0.51% 2 0.17% 994 84.09% 1,182 Stewart 600 92.02% 52 7.98% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 548 84.05% 652 Sumter 1,561 92.26% 118 6.97% 13 0.77% 0 0.00% 1,443 85.28% 1,692 Talbot 656 92.92% 49 6.94% 1 0.14% 0 0.00% 607 85.98% 706 Taliaferro 507 96.39% 19 3.61% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 488 92.78% 526 Tattnall 1,246 74.43% 421 25.15% 7 0.42% 0 0.00% 825 49.28% 1,674 Taylor 796 78.73% 213 21.07% 2 0.20% 0 0.00% 583 57.67% 1,011 Telfair 1,391 92.24% 104 6.90% 13 0.86% 0 0.00% 1,287 85.34% 1,508 Terrell 1,040 100.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,040 100.00% 1,040 Thomas 2,072 84.64% 371 15.16% 5 0.20% 0 0.00% 1,701 69.49% 2,448 Tift 1,463 85.51% 226 13.21% 22 1.29% 0 0.00% 1,237 72.30% 1,711 Toombs 1,061 88.79% 134 11.21% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 927 77.57% 1,195 Towns 894 51.86% 830 48.14% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 64 3.71% 1,724 Treutlen 1,184 96.89% 38 3.11% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,146 93.78% 1,222 Troup 3,176 91.34% 288 8.28% 13 0.37% 0 0.00% 2,888 83.06% 3,477 Turner 791 68.96% 351 30.60% 5 0.44% 0 0.00% 440 38.36% 1,147 Twiggs 723 88.82% 91 11.18% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 632 77.64% 814 Union 950 62.96% 557 36.91% 2 0.13% 0 0.00% 393 26.04% 1,509 Upson 2,235 93.36% 159 6.64% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,076 86.72% 2,394 Walker 2,859 83.50% 558 16.30% 7 0.20% 0 0.00% 2,301 67.20% 3,424 Walton 2,179 95.24% 104 4.55% 5 0.22% 0 0.00% 2,075 90.69% 2,288 Ware 2,672 89.48% 308 10.31% 6 0.20% 0 0.00% 2,364 79.17% 2,986 Warren 606 86.20% 95 13.51% 2 0.28% 0 0.00% 511 72.69% 703 Washington 1,112 80.93% 253 18.41% 9 0.66% 0 0.00% 859 62.52% 1,374 Wayne 1,542 89.39% 179 10.38% 4 0.23% 0 0.00% 1,363 79.01% 1,725 Webster 280 84.85% 50 15.15% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 230 69.70% 330 Wheeler 495 80.49% 117 19.02% 3 0.49% 0 0.00% 378 61.46% 615 White 754 87.17% 111 12.83% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 643 74.34% 865 Whitfield 3,162 76.03% 991 23.83% 6 0.14% 0 0.00% 2,171 52.20% 4,159 Wilcox 890 87.51% 118 11.60% 9 0.88% 0 0.00% 772 75.91% 1,017 Wilkes 1,022 88.72% 123 10.68% 7 0.61% 0 0.00% 899 78.04% 1,152 Wilkinson 906 85.96% 147 13.95% 1 0.09% 0 0.00% 759 72.01% 1,054 Worth 936 82.91% 190 16.83% 3 0.27% 0 0.00% 746 66.08% 1,129Totals265,19484.81%46,49514.87%9830.31%140.00%218,69969.94%312,686 Notes References 2 Georgia 1940 Category:1940 Georgia (U.S. state) elections