1940 United States presidential election in Maine

none June 2025 September 2023 1940 United States presidential election 1940 United States presidential election in Maine Maine presidential no 1936 United States presidential election in Maine 1936 1944 United States presidential election in Maine 1944 November 5, 1940 x200px WendellWillkie.jpg Wendell Willkie Republican Party (United States) New York Charles L. McNary 5 163,951 51.10% FDRoosevelt1938.png Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York Henry A. Wallace 0 156,478 48.77% 1940 United States presidential election in Maine results map by county.svg 350px County results Willkie #E27F90 50–60% #CC2F4A 60–70% Roosevelt #86B6F2 50–60% #4389E3 60–70% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1940 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Maine was won by Republican businessman Wendell Willkie of New York, who was running against incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Willkie ran with Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon while Roosevelt ran with Henry A. Wallace of Iowa. Willkie won Maine by a narrow margin of 2.33%. This represented a swing of 11.66% to Roosevelt during an election where he lost eight states and almost 700 counties that had supported him four years earlier, mostly because of Midwestern German-American opposition to increasing tension with Nazi Germany.Dunn, Susan; 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler–the Election Amid the Storm, p. 107 0300190867 However, the Atlanticist tendencies of Yankee and French-Canadian Maine and support for aid to the United Kingdom and France in World War II led to substantial gains for Roosevelt in the state.Phillips, Kevin; The Emerging Republican Majority; p. 93 1400852293 Maine ultimately became one of five states that shifted left from 1936, alongside New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Of these five, however, Maine's 11.66% swing was the strongest by far, almost three times the amount neighboring New Hampshire swung by.Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections; 1940 Presidential General Election Data -- National This was the first time that Kennebec County, home of state capital Augusta, had ever voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 68 0786422173 Results 1940 United States presidential election in Maine1940 Presidential General Election Results – Maine http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=23&year=1940&f=0&off=0&elect=0 U.S. Election Atlas 23 December 2013 Republican Party (United States) Wendell Willkie New York Charles Linza McNary Oregon 163,951 51.10% 5 100.00% Democratic Party (United States) Franklin Delano Roosevelt New York Henry Agard Wallace Iowa 156,478 48.77% 0 0.00% Communist Party USA Earl Russell Browder Kansas James W. Ford New York 411 0.13% 0 0.00% 320,840 100.00% 5 100.00% Results by county CountyWendell Lewis WillkieRepublicanFranklin Delano RooseveltDemocraticEarl Russell BrowderCommunistMarginTotal votes castScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 203 0405077114 # % # % # % # % Androscoggin 10,394 34.99% 19,273 64.88% 40 0.13% -8,879 -29.89% 29,707 Aroostook 13,888 58.34% 9,877 41.49% 39 0.16% 4,011 16.85% 23,804 Cumberland 29,795 52.47% 26,911 47.39% 76 0.13% 2,884 5.08% 56,782 Franklin 4,548 58.47% 3,224 41.44% 7 0.09% 1,324 17.02% 7,779 Hancock 8,539 66.36% 4,315 33.54% 13 0.10% 4,224 32.83% 12,867 Kennebec 14,877 48.36% 15,861 51.56% 27 0.09% -984 -3.20% 30,765 Knox 6,530 60.76% 4,197 39.05% 20 0.19% 2,333 21.71% 10,747 Lincoln 5,244 68.42% 2,415 31.51% 5 0.07% 2,829 36.91% 7,664 Oxford 8,656 53.49% 7,502 46.36% 25 0.15% 1,154 7.13% 16,183 Penobscot 18,674 55.79% 14,757 44.09% 40 0.12% 3,917 11.70% 33,471 Piscataquis 3,806 52.05% 3,499 47.85% 7 0.10% 307 4.20% 7,312 Sagadahoc 3,504 43.30% 4,575 56.54% 13 0.16% -1,071 -13.24% 8,092 Somerset 7,526 53.42% 6,534 46.38% 28 0.20% 992 7.04% 14,088 Waldo 5,170 61.56% 3,214 38.27% 14 0.17% 1,956 23.29% 8,398 Washington 6,253 43.65% 8,048 56.18% 25 0.17% -1,795 -12.53% 14,326 York 16,547 42.59% 22,276 57.33% 32 0.08% -5,729 -14.74% 38,855Totals163,95151.10%156,47848.77%4110.13%7,4732.33%320,840 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Kennebec Sagadahoc See also United States presidential elections in Maine References expanded Maine 1940 Category:1940 Maine elections