1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas

none June 2025 January 2025 1940 United States presidential election 1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas Arkansas 1924 Presidential no 1936 United States presidential election in Arkansas 1936 November 5, 1940 1944 United States presidential election in Arkansas 1944 x200px FDRoosevelt1938.png Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York Henry A. Wallace 9 157,213 78.44% WendellWillkie.jpg Wendell Willkie Republican Party (United States) New York Charles L. McNary 0 42,122 21.02% 1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas results map by county.svg 300px County results Roosevelt #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Willkie #e27f90 50–60% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Except for the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state.See Urwin Cathy Kunzinger Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71 January 1991 32 University of Arkansas Press 1557282005 Disfranchisement of effectively all African Americans and most poor whites by a poll tax since 1890 meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections. Increased voting by poor Ozark whites as a protest against Woodrow Wilson's internationalist foreign policy meant that Warren G. Harding in 1920 was able to win almost forty percent of the statewide vote;Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority 23 November 2014 211, 287 Princeton University Press 978-0-691-16324-6 and 1928 saw the rest of the Outer South and North Alabama bolt the anti-Prohibition Catholic Al Smith. However, the presence of Arkansas Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson as running mate meant that within Arkansas only the most northwesterly counties with ordinarily substantial Republican votes suffered the same fate.Barnes Kenneth C. Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960 November 2016 164–165 University of Arkansas Press 978-1682260166 The following years saw Arkansas plunge into the Great Depression, followed almost immediately by a major drought from the summer of 1930 until the winter of 1931 and 1932.Whayne Jeannie M. DeBlack Thomas A. Sabo George Arnold Morris S. Arkansas: A Narrative History June 2013 341–342 University of Arkansas Press 978-1557289933 Like in the rest of the "Solid South", Arkansas gave overwhelming support to Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932,Grantham Dewey W. The Life and Death of the Solid South: A Political History 11 July 2014 102 University Press of Kentucky 978-0813148724 with Roosevelt carrying every county in the state.Leuchtenburg William E. The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson October 2005 51 LSU Press 0807151424 His popularity would lessen somewhat during his second term due to the urban and labor bias of the New Deal, but Roosevelt remained in no danger in 1940. This was especially true given that Arkansas had never experienced German or Scandinavian immigration and thus strongly sympathized – as FDR did – with Britain in World War II.Dunn Susan 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler – the Election Amid the Storm 4 June 2013 57 Yale University Press 978-0300190861 Thus FDR was able to almost maintain his 1936 majority in Arkansas, and replicated the county map of 1896, 1916, 1924 and 1936. As of 2020, this remains the last time that a presidential nominee has won more than seventy percent of the vote in Arkansas. Results Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 157,213 78.44% 9 New York Henry Agard Wallace Iowa Wendell Willkie Republican 42,122 21.02% 0 New York Charles L. McNary Oregon — Write-ins 1,094 0.55% 0 — — — 200,429 100.00% 9 266 Results by county +1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas by countyScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 48-49 0405077114County Franklin Delano RooseveltDemocratic Wendell Lewis WillkieRepublican Various candidatesWrite-ins Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Arkansas 2,345 74.87% 742 23.69% 45 1.44% 1,603 51.18% 3,132 Ashley 1,835 90.71% 184 9.10% 4 0.20% 1,651 81.61% 2,023 Baxter 859 63.39% 489 36.09% 7 0.52% 370 27.31% 1,355 Benton 2,442 54.59% 1,962 43.86% 69 1.54% 480 10.73% 4,473 Boone 2,054 71.59% 786 27.40% 29 1.01% 1,268 44.20% 2,869 Bradley 1,939 93.85% 123 5.95% 4 0.19% 1,816 87.90% 2,066 Calhoun 818 94.90% 44 5.10% 0 0.00% 774 89.79% 862 Carroll 1,604 59.69% 1,081 40.23% 2 0.07% 523 19.46% 2,687 Chicot 1,592 90.71% 161 9.17% 2 0.11% 1,431 81.54% 1,755 Clark 2,008 86.29% 311 13.36% 8 0.34% 1,697 72.93% 2,327 Clay 1,676 60.31% 1,029 37.03% 74 2.66% 647 23.28% 2,779 Cleburne 834 68.47% 374 30.71% 10 0.82% 460 37.77% 1,218 Cleveland 989 94.37% 58 5.53% 1 0.10% 931 88.84% 1,048 Columbia 2,270 93.72% 149 6.15% 3 0.12% 2,121 87.57% 2,422 Conway 2,067 88.33% 272 11.62% 1 0.04% 1,795 76.71% 2,340 Craighead 3,300 77.43% 935 21.94% 27 0.63% 2,365 55.49% 4,262 Crawford 1,581 68.21% 691 29.81% 46 1.98% 890 38.40% 2,318 Crittenden 1,966 96.37% 72 3.53% 2 0.10% 1,894 92.84% 2,040 Cross 1,746 85.80% 285 14.00% 4 0.20% 1,461 71.79% 2,035 Dallas 1,295 88.28% 118 8.04% 54 3.68% 1,177 80.23% 1,467 Desha 1,370 89.78% 146 9.57% 10 0.66% 1,224 80.21% 1,526 Drew 1,329 87.95% 152 10.06% 30 1.99% 1,177 77.90% 1,511 Faulkner 2,535 82.68% 519 16.93% 12 0.39% 2,016 65.75% 3,066 Franklin 1,601 83.30% 319 16.60% 2 0.10% 1,282 66.70% 1,922 Fulton 838 70.84% 333 28.15% 12 1.01% 505 42.69% 1,183 Garland 3,335 69.89% 1,424 29.84% 13 0.27% 1,911 40.05% 4,772 Grant 1,043 86.70% 160 13.30% 0 0.00% 883 73.40% 1,203 Greene 2,220 81.17% 510 18.65% 5 0.18% 1,710 62.52% 2,735 Hempstead 2,814 87.15% 415 12.85% 0 0.00% 2,399 74.30% 3,229 Hot Spring 1,730 78.03% 482 21.74% 5 0.23% 1,248 56.29% 2,217 Howard 1,540 78.05% 419 21.24% 14 0.71% 1,121 56.82% 1,973 Independence 2,276 70.68% 928 28.82% 16 0.50% 1,348 41.86% 3,220 Izard 1,058 74.19% 366 25.67% 2 0.14% 692 48.53% 1,426 Jackson 2,223 84.59% 382 14.54% 23 0.88% 1,841 70.05% 2,628 Jefferson 3,829 86.45% 587 13.25% 13 0.29% 3,242 73.20% 4,429 Johnson 1,429 81.38% 318 18.11% 9 0.51% 1,111 63.27% 1,756 Lafayette 1,352 88.02% 159 10.35% 25 1.63% 1,193 77.67% 1,536 Lawrence 2,484 73.93% 852 25.36% 24 0.71% 1,632 48.57% 3,360 Lee 1,100 90.76% 109 8.99% 3 0.25% 991 81.77% 1,212 Lincoln 916 89.37% 99 9.66% 10 0.98% 817 79.71% 1,025 Little River 1,104 79.31% 276 19.83% 12 0.86% 828 59.48% 1,392 Logan 2,831 72.66% 1,065 27.34% 0 0.00% 1,766 45.33% 3,896 Lonoke 1,899 85.35% 323 14.52% 3 0.13% 1,576 70.83% 2,225 Madison 2,196 50.97% 2,107 48.91% 5 0.12% 89 2.07% 4,308 Marion 864 71.94% 320 26.64% 17 1.42% 544 45.30% 1,201 Miller 3,019 83.88% 563 15.64% 17 0.47% 2,456 68.24% 3,599 Mississippi 5,257 89.24% 616 10.46% 18 0.31% 4,641 78.78% 5,891 Monroe 1,494 92.00% 128 7.88% 2 0.12% 1,366 84.11% 1,624 Montgomery 1,012 71.42% 400 28.23% 5 0.35% 612 43.19% 1,417 Nevada 1,399 85.83% 224 13.74% 7 0.43% 1,175 72.09% 1,630 Newton 1,202 45.91% 1,392 53.17% 24 0.92% -190 -7.26% 2,618 Ouachita 2,951 91.08% 284 8.77% 5 0.15% 2,667 82.31% 3,240 Perry 783 79.09% 206 20.81% 1 0.10% 577 58.28% 990 Phillips 2,235 90.12% 245 9.88% 0 0.00% 1,990 80.24% 2,480 Pike 974 69.13% 424 30.09% 11 0.78% 550 39.03% 1,409 Poinsett 4,138 85.90% 670 13.91% 9 0.19% 3,468 72.00% 4,817 Polk 1,255 67.55% 585 31.49% 18 0.97% 670 36.06% 1,858 Pope 3,765 82.55% 770 16.88% 26 0.57% 2,995 65.67% 4,561 Prairie 1,069 75.92% 336 23.86% 3 0.21% 733 52.06% 1,408 Pulaski 14,219 82.52% 2,955 17.15% 56 0.33% 11,264 65.37% 17,230 Randolph 1,687 77.42% 474 21.75% 18 0.83% 1,213 55.67% 2,179 St. Francis 1,671 88.23% 192 10.14% 31 1.64% 1,479 78.09% 1,894 Saline 1,963 87.21% 274 12.17% 14 0.62% 1,689 75.03% 2,251 Scott 992 73.32% 353 26.09% 8 0.59% 639 47.23% 1,353 Searcy 982 43.11% 1,292 56.72% 4 0.18% -310 -13.61% 2,278 Sebastian 5,249 72.44% 1,968 27.16% 29 0.40% 3,281 45.28% 7,246 Sevier 1,374 82.03% 293 17.49% 8 0.48% 1,081 64.54% 1,675 Sharp 1,099 71.50% 433 28.17% 5 0.33% 666 43.33% 1,537 Stone 644 60.93% 406 38.41% 7 0.66% 238 22.52% 1,057 Union 4,842 90.59% 489 9.15% 14 0.26% 4,353 81.44% 5,345 Van Buren 1,068 72.65% 402 27.35% 0 0.00% 666 45.31% 1,470 Washington 2,873 60.48% 1,819 38.29% 58 1.22% 1,054 22.19% 4,750 White 3,345 78.80% 876 20.64% 24 0.57% 2,469 58.16% 4,245 Woodruff 1,280 86.43% 193 13.03% 8 0.54% 1,087 73.40% 1,481 Yell 2,236 90.64% 224 9.08% 7 0.28% 2,012 81.56% 2,467Totals157,21378.44%42,12221.02%1,0940.55%115,09157.42%200,429 See also United States presidential elections in Arkansas References 2 Arkansas 1940