1940 United States presidential election in Vermont

none June 2025 September 2023 1940 United States presidential election 1940 United States presidential election in Vermont Vermont presidential no 1936 United States presidential election in Vermont 1936 1944 United States presidential election in Vermont 1944 November 5, 1940 x200px WendellWillkie.jpg Wendell Willkie Republican Party (United States) New York Charles L. McNary 3 78,371 54.78% FDRoosevelt1938.png Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York Henry A. Wallace 0 64,269 44.92% x250px County results x250px Municipality results Willkie #F2B3BE 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #AA0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% Roosevelt #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666CB 70–80% #002B84 90–100% Tie #D4C4DC 40–50% #AE8BB1 50% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1940 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Vermont voted for the Republican nominee, corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie of New York, over the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Willkie's running mate was Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon, while Roosevelt ran with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace of Iowa. Willkie took 54.78% of the vote, to Roosevelt's 44.92%, a margin of 9.86%. Vermont historically was a bastion of Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1940, it had gone Republican in every presidential election since the founding of the Republican Party. From 1856 to 1936, Vermont had had the longest streak of voting Republican of any state, having never voted Democratic before, and this tradition continued in 1940. Vermont had been one of only two states, along with nearby Maine, to reject Roosevelt in all four of his successful presidential campaigns, even in the nationwide Democratic landslides of 1932 and 1936. However, 1940 would prove to be Roosevelt's high point in Vermont, and in New England as a whole, even as the rest of the nation shifted toward the GOP. Roosevelt came within just under 10 percentage points of winning the state, the only time he ever got within single digits of a Republican opponent there. The results in Maine, the only state to have joined Vermont in voting Republican in 1936, showed a similar but even more dramatic swing toward Roosevelt, with Willkie holding onto Maine by a narrow 51–49 margin. Roosevelt's gain in Vermont and other New England states, in an election when Willkie carried almost 700 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. As a result, Vermont became one of five states that shifted left from 1936, alongside Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Rhode Island.Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections; 1940 Presidential General Election Data -- National Whereas Vermont had been the most Republican state in the union in the 1930s, a strong swing against Roosevelt in the Midwest pushed Vermont into being only the fifth-most Republican state after South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and North Dakota,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 although it still registered as a strong twenty percent more Republican than the national average. Willkie carried ten of the state's 14 counties, breaking 60% in six of them. However, Roosevelt carried Vermont's three northwestern counties of Chittenden County, Franklin County, and Grand Isle County, all of which were Democratic enclaves in an otherwise Republican state throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Roosevelt also managed to carry for the first time rural Essex County in the northeastern portion of the state, being the first Democrat to do so since Martin Van Buren in 1836.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 67-68 0786422173 Results 1940 United States presidential election in Vermonthttp://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1940&fips=50&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1940 Presidential General Election Results - Vermont 2013-08-02 Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential ElectionsPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Wendell Willkie 78,371 54.78% 3 Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) 64,269 44.92% 0 Communist Earl Browder 411 0.29% 0 N/A Write-ins 11 0.01% 0 Totals 143,062 100.00% 3 Results by county County Wendell Lewis WillkieRepublican Franklin Delano RooseveltDemocratic Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes castScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 465 0405077114 # % # % # % # % Addison 4,500 63.22% 2,593 36.43% 25 0.35% 1,907 26.79% 7,118 Bennington 5,845 57.42% 4,308 42.32% 27 0.27% 1,537 15.10% 10,180 Caledonia 5,793 62.56% 3,444 37.19% 23 0.25% 2,349 25.37% 9,260 Chittenden 7,926 41.58% 11,069 58.07% 66 0.35% -3,143 -16.49% 19,061 Essex 1,365 46.96% 1,531 52.67% 11 0.38% -166 -5.71% 2,907 Franklin 5,258 41.21% 7,439 58.30% 63 0.49% -2,181 -17.09% 12,760 Grand Isle 716 41.65% 998 58.06% 5 0.29% -282 -16.40% 1,719 Lamoille 2,566 63.61% 1,463 36.27% 5 0.12% 1,103 27.34% 4,034 Orange 4,527 68.81% 2,029 30.84% 23 0.35% 2,498 37.97% 6,579 Orleans 4,480 57.52% 3,294 42.29% 15 0.19% 1,186 15.23% 7,789 Rutland 10,829 55.02% 8,798 44.70% 54 0.27% 2,031 10.32% 19,681 Washington 8,426 52.00% 7,727 47.69% 50 0.31% 699 4.31% 16,203 Windham 7,031 63.01% 4,101 36.75% 27 0.24% 2,930 26.26% 11,159 Windsor 9,109 62.34% 5,475 37.47% 28 0.19% 3,634 24.87% 14,612Totals78,37154.78%64,26944.92%4220.29%14,1029.86%143,062 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Essex See also United States presidential elections in Vermont References expanded Vermont 1940 Category:1940 Vermont elections