1940 United States presidential election in New York

none June 2025 September 2023 1940 United States presidential election 1940 United States presidential election in New York New York Flag of New York (1909–2020).svg presidential no 1936 United States presidential election in New York 1936 1944 United States presidential election in New York 1944 75.7%Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072. 3.1 pp November 5, 1940 x200px FDRoosevelt1938.png Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) American Labor New York Henry A. Wallace 47 3,251,918 51.50% WendellWillkie.jpg Wendell Willkie Republican Party (United States) New York Charles L. McNary 0 3,027,478 47.95% 400px 440px County results Roosevelt #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% Willkie #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1940 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters had chosen 47 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. thumb|Pro-Roosevelt advertisement near Radio City Music Hall, 1940, with slogan "Free Democracy Rule." New York 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, and Willkie ran with Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon. A former Governor of New York who had easily carried the state in his previous two presidential campaigns, Franklin Roosevelt again won New York State in 1940, but by a much closer margin. Roosevelt took 51.50% of the vote versus Wendell Willkie's 47.95%, a margin of 3.55%. This is the only one of his four elections in which New York was decided by less than 5%. New York weighed in for this election as 6% more Republican than the national average. The presidential election of 1940 was a very partisan election for New York, with 99.45% of the electorate casting votes for either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1940&fips=36&f=1&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1940 Presidential General Election Results – New York Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2013-07-25 In typical form for the time, the highly populated centers of New York City, Albany, Buffalo, and Rochester voted primarily Democratic, while the majority of smaller counties in New York turned out for Willkie as the Republican candidate. Much of Roosevelt's margin of victory was provided by his dominance in New York City. Roosevelt took over 60% of the vote in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, and decisively won New York City as a whole. However, the boroughs of Queens and Staten Island flipped to the Republican side in 1940 after voting for FDR in 1932 and 1936, a major contributing factor as to why the race was much closer than the 20-point margin that FDR had won the state by in 1936, along with Willkie also winning the counties of Schenectady, Montgomery, Rockland and Sullivan, all of which Roosevelt had won in 1936. This was the first time since 1836 that a Democrat won the presidency without carrying Staten Island. Primaries American Labor Party Members of the Communist Party USA started joining the American Labor Party and Israel Amter, chair of the Communist Party, called for the "building of the American Labor Party". Communists in the ALP opposed reelecting Roosevelt in the 1940 election and the party's leadership started an attempt to remove them from the party. Fights broke out at the convention on September 14, 1940, where Roosevelt was given the nomination despite an attempted resolution condemning Roosevelt.Soyer 2021 29-31 1940 American Labor Party presidential ballotSoyer 2021 31 American Labor Party Franklin D. Roosevelt 442 64.34% American Labor Party No candidate 234 34.06% American Labor Party Norman Thomas 11 1.60% 687 100.00% Results 1940 United States presidential election in New YorkPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt 2,834,500 44.98% American Labor Franklin D. Roosevelt 417,418 6.62% Total Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) 3,251,918 51.50% 47 Republican Wendell Willkie 3,027,478 47.95% 0 Socialist Norman Thomas 18,950 0.30% 0 Communist Earl Browder 11,289 0.18% 0 Prohibition Roger Babson 3,250 0.05% 0 N/A Others 1,012 0.02% 0 Totals 6,313,897 100.0% 47 New York City results 1940 Presidential Election in New York CityManhattanThe BronxBrooklynQueens Staten IslandTotal Democratic-American LaborFranklin D. Roosevelt478,153418,931742,668288,02438,3071,966,08360.69%61.45%67.11%64.83%46.91%49.45% RepublicanWendell Willkie292,480198,293394,534323,40638,9111,247,62438.52%37.59%31.77%34.44%52.68%50.23% SocialistNorman Thomas3,4962,9903,9511,74920812,3940.38%1.48%1.30%1.20%1.69%1.62% ProhibitionRoger Babson378304460153221,3170.04%0.05%0.05%0.04%0.02%0.03%TOTAL778,099624,2041,145,567613,95477,4673,239,291100.00% Results by county County Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic/American Labor Wendell WillkieRepublican Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votescastNew York, ‘Vote, New York State, By Counties, November 5, 1940 For Highest Elector for President and Vice President’, The New York Red Book 1941 (Albany, 1941) # % # % # % # % Albany 77,052 56.58% 58,912 43.26% 210 0.15% 18,140 13.32% 136,174 Allegany 5,077 24.45% 15,611 75.17% 79 0.38% -10,534 -50.72% 20,767 Bronx 418,931 67.11% 198,293 31.77% 6,980 1.12% 220,638 35.35% 624,204 Broome 32,092 42.07% 44,013 57.70% 179 0.23% -11,921 -15.63% 76,284 Cattaraugus 11,924 34.02% 22,987 65.57% 144 0.41% -11,063 -31.56% 35,055 Cayuga 13,985 39.76% 21,032 59.80% 156 0.44% -7,047 -20.04% 35,173 Chautauqua 21,524 37.55% 35,536 62.00% 256 0.45% -14,012 -24.45% 57,316 Chemung 15,203 40.54% 22,156 59.08% 140 0.37% -6,953 -18.54% 37,499 Chenango 5,241 26.94% 14,168 72.84% 43 0.22% -8,927 -45.89% 19,452 Clinton 11,378 52.19% 10,369 47.56% 53 0.24% 1,009 4.63% 21,800 Columbia 8,591 38.76% 13,527 61.04% 44 0.20% -4,936 -22.27% 22,162 Cortland 5,147 29.56% 12,233 70.26% 31 0.18% -7,086 -40.70% 17,411 Delaware 5,968 27.50% 15,684 72.28% 48 0.22% -9,716 -44.77% 21,700 Dutchess 25,598 44.10% 32,329 55.69% 122 0.21% -6,731 -11.60% 58,049 Erie 189,779 50.68% 183,664 49.05% 992 0.26% 6,115 1.63% 374,435 Essex 5,545 31.77% 11,868 68.01% 38 0.22% -6,323 -36.23% 17,451 Franklin 9,479 45.23% 11,446 54.61% 33 0.16% -1,967 -9.39% 20,958 Fulton 9,040 37.64% 14,896 62.03% 79 0.33% -5,856 -24.38% 24,015 Genesee 6,664 31.39% 14,503 68.32% 62 0.29% -7,839 -36.93% 21,229 Greene 6,425 38.67% 10,153 61.10% 38 0.23% -3,728 -22.44% 16,616 Hamilton 840 29.24% 2,029 70.62% 4 0.14% -1,189 -41.39% 2,873 Herkimer 13,013 42.45% 17,590 57.38% 54 0.18% -4,577 -14.93% 30,657 Jefferson 14,581 36.22% 25,584 63.54% 97 0.24% -11,003 -27.33% 40,262 Kings 742,668 64.83% 394,534 34.44% 8,365 0.73% 348,134 30.39% 1,145,567 Lewis 3,466 30.06% 8,049 69.80% 17 0.15% -4,583 -39.74% 11,532 Livingston 6,397 33.52% 12,629 66.18% 58 0.30% -6,232 -32.66% 19,084 Madison 6,301 29.09% 15,262 70.46% 99 0.46% -8,961 -41.37% 21,662 Monroe 120,613 51.09% 114,383 48.45% 1,099 0.47% 6,230 2.64% 236,095 Montgomery 15,079 49.18% 15,546 50.71% 34 0.11% -467 -1.52% 30,659 Nassau 73,171 33.67% 143,672 66.12% 450 0.21% -70,501 -32.45% 217,293 New York 478,153 61.45% 292,480 37.59% 7,466 0.96% 185,673 23.86% 778,099 Niagara 33,207 47.37% 36,729 52.39% 165 0.24% -3,522 -5.02% 70,101 Oneida 49,109 48.27% 52,362 51.47% 271 0.27% -3,253 -3.20% 101,742 Onondaga 67,481 42.44% 91,056 57.26% 485 0.30% -23,575 -14.82% 159,022 Ontario 9,110 32.35% 18,932 67.23% 120 0.43% -9,822 -34.88% 28,162 Orange 27,632 41.43% 38,913 58.35% 145 0.22% -11,281 -16.92% 66,690 Orleans 4,525 29.16% 10,958 70.61% 36 0.23% -6,433 -41.45% 15,519 Oswego 13,459 37.15% 22,688 62.62% 83 0.23% -9,229 -25.47% 36,230 Otsego 7,798 31.64% 16,771 68.04% 78 0.32% -8,973 -36.41% 24,647 Putnam 4,794 39.96% 7,164 59.71% 39 0.33% -2,370 -19.75% 11,997 Queens 288,024 46.91% 323,406 52.68% 2,524 0.41% -35,382 -5.76% 613,954 Rensselaer 32,387 44.90% 39,648 54.97% 97 0.13% -7,261 -10.07% 72,132 Richmond 38,307 49.45% 38,911 50.23% 249 0.32% -604 -0.78% 77,467 Rockland 14,897 42.20% 20,040 56.77% 362 1.03% -5,143 -14.57% 35,299 Saratoga 15,037 41.27% 21,298 58.46% 98 0.27% -6,261 -17.18% 36,433 Schenectady 32,041 48.20% 34,101 51.30% 334 0.50% -2,060 -3.10% 66,476 Schoharie 4,073 35.68% 7,316 64.10% 25 0.22% -3,243 -28.41% 11,414 Schuyler 2,211 30.83% 4,936 68.83% 24 0.33% -2,725 -38.00% 7,171 Seneca 4,203 33.36% 8,364 66.39% 31 0.25% -4,161 -33.03% 12,598 St. Lawrence 15,569 38.93% 24,339 60.86% 82 0.21% -8,770 -21.93% 39,990 Steuben 14,651 34.58% 27,587 65.12% 127 0.30% -12,936 -30.53% 42,365 Suffolk 33,853 34.60% 63,712 65.12% 270 0.28% -29,859 -30.52% 97,835 Sullivan 9,785 45.01% 11,877 54.64% 76 0.35% -2,092 -9.62% 21,738 Tioga 4,081 29.66% 9,618 69.91% 59 0.43% -5,537 -40.25% 13,758 Tompkins 7,118 32.81% 14,325 66.04% 250 1.15% -7,207 -33.22% 21,693 Ulster 20,403 42.78% 27,186 57.00% 107 0.22% -6,783 -14.22% 47,696 Warren 7,226 34.54% 13,657 65.27% 40 0.19% -6,431 -30.74% 20,923 Washington 7,977 33.27% 15,960 66.57% 38 0.16% -7,983 -33.30% 23,975 Wayne 7,358 27.65% 19,196 72.12% 62 0.23% -11,838 -44.48% 26,616 Westchester 110,114 37.49% 182,883 62.27% 694 0.24% -72,769 -24.78% 293,691 Wyoming 4,393 27.88% 11,323 71.87% 39 0.25% -6,930 -43.99% 15,755 Yates 2,170 23.40% 7,084 76.38% 21 0.23% -4,914 -52.98% 9,275Totals3,251,91851.50%3,027,47847.95%34,5010.55%224,4403.55%6,313,897 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Richmond (Staten Island) Queens Rockland Montgomery Schenectady Sullivan See also United States presidential elections in New York Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt References Works cited Soyer Daniel Left in the Center: The Liberal Party of New York and the Rise and Fall of American Social Democracy https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv1hw3x50.2 Cornell University Press 2021 10.7591/j.ctv1hw3x50.2 9781501759888 expanded New York 1940 Category:1940 New York (state) elections