1940 United States presidential election in North Dakota

1940 United States presidential election in North Dakota
All 4 North Dakota votes to the Electoral College
Willkie 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% 80-90% 90-100%	Roosevelt 50-60% 60-70%
President before election; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Democratic	Elected President ; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Democratic

The 1940 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose four^[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

North Dakota was won by Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 55.06% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 44.18% of the popular vote.^[3]^[4]

With 55.06% of the popular vote, North Dakota would prove to be Willkie's fourth strongest state in the 1940 election in terms of popular vote percentage, after fellow free-soil Plains West states South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas.^[5]

This was the first election since North Dakota's inaugural 1892 election in which it voted for a losing candidate. Then, it narrowly voted for Populist candidate James B. Weaver. However, due to a fusion between Weaver and the winning Democrat Grover Cleveland, North Dakota cast a single elector for Cleveland as well. That makes this the first election in which North Dakota did not cast a single electoral vote for the winning candidate, or in which the state backed a losing Republican candidate.

Results

1940 United States presidential election in North Dakota
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Wendell Willkie	154,590	55.06%
	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.)	124,036	44.18%
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	1,279	0.46%
	Not Designated	Alfred Knutson	545	0.19%
	Prohibition	Roger Babson	325	0.12%
Total votes			280,775	100%

Results by county

County^[6]	Wendell Lewis Willkie Republican		Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic		Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist		Alfred B. Knutson Not Designated		Roger Ward Babson Prohibition		Margin		Total votes cast
County^[6]	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast
Adams	1,231	58.76%	837	39.95%	19	0.91%	4	0.19%	4	0.19%	394	18.81%	2,095
Barnes	4,649	57.67%	3,384	41.97%	21	0.26%	3	0.04%	5	0.06%	1,265	15.69%	8,062
Benson	2,485	45.85%	2,898	53.47%	30	0.55%	2	0.04%	5	0.09%	-413	-7.62%	5,420
Billings	663	62.08%	404	37.83%	1	0.09%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	259	24.25%	1,068
Bottineau	3,129	55.60%	2,469	43.87%	29	0.52%	1	0.02%	0	0.00%	660	11.73%	5,628
Bowman	927	50.63%	882	48.17%	20	1.09%	2	0.11%	0	0.00%	45	2.46%	1,831
Burke	1,951	57.53%	1,342	39.58%	80	2.36%	7	0.21%	11	0.32%	609	17.96%	3,391
Burleigh	5,858	57.06%	4,350	42.37%	29	0.28%	22	0.21%	7	0.07%	1,508	14.69%	10,266
Cass	12,567	51.11%	11,911	48.45%	74	0.30%	17	0.07%	17	0.07%	656	2.67%	24,586
Cavalier	2,845	50.64%	2,757	49.07%	10	0.18%	2	0.04%	4	0.07%	88	1.57%	5,618
Dickey	2,777	57.44%	1,721	35.59%	13	0.27%	314	6.49%	10	0.21%	1,056	21.84%	4,835
Divide	1,437	44.32%	1,771	54.63%	29	0.89%	1	0.03%	4	0.12%	-334	-10.30%	3,242
Dunn	2,132	60.29%	1,392	39.37%	6	0.17%	1	0.03%	5	0.14%	740	20.93%	3,536
Eddy	1,319	48.42%	1,368	50.22%	37	1.36%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-49	-1.80%	2,724
Emmons	3,515	77.29%	1,004	22.08%	21	0.46%	1	0.02%	7	0.15%	2,511	55.21%	4,548
Foster	1,109	43.20%	1,446	56.33%	8	0.31%	4	0.16%	0	0.00%	-337	-13.13%	2,567
Golden Valley	873	55.57%	689	43.86%	3	0.19%	6	0.38%	0	0.00%	184	11.71%	1,571
Grand Forks	7,043	45.42%	8,396	54.15%	46	0.30%	12	0.08%	9	0.06%	-1,353	-8.73%	15,506
Grant	2,815	81.52%	627	18.16%	11	0.32%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	2,188	63.37%	3,453
Griggs	1,117	43.09%	1,464	56.48%	8	0.31%	3	0.12%	0	0.00%	-347	-13.39%	2,592
Hettinger	2,468	78.32%	671	21.29%	8	0.25%	4	0.13%	0	0.00%	1,797	57.03%	3,151
Kidder	2,214	72.31%	837	27.34%	2	0.07%	1	0.03%	8	0.26%	1,377	44.97%	3,062
LaMoure	2,943	63.70%	1,637	35.43%	26	0.56%	6	0.13%	8	0.17%	1,306	28.27%	4,620
Logan	2,572	83.59%	498	16.18%	5	0.16%	2	0.06%	0	0.00%	2,074	67.40%	3,077
McHenry	3,894	63.07%	2,225	36.04%	28	0.45%	21	0.34%	6	0.10%	1,669	27.03%	6,174
McIntosh	3,494	91.66%	318	8.34%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	3,176	83.32%	3,812
McKenzie	1,563	38.63%	2,440	60.31%	21	0.52%	8	0.20%	14	0.35%	-877	-21.68%	4,046
McLean	4,113	58.99%	2,666	38.24%	167	2.40%	13	0.19%	13	0.19%	1,447	20.75%	6,972
Mercer	3,341	85.36%	567	14.49%	5	0.13%	1	0.03%	0	0.00%	2,774	70.87%	3,914
Morton	5,499	65.25%	2,889	34.28%	22	0.26%	6	0.07%	12	0.14%	2,610	30.97%	8,428
Mountrail	1,981	44.67%	2,392	53.93%	39	0.88%	12	0.27%	11	0.25%	-411	-9.27%	4,435
Nelson	1,859	43.07%	2,435	56.42%	11	0.25%	6	0.14%	5	0.12%	-576	-13.35%	4,316
Oliver	1,356	83.55%	266	16.39%	1	0.06%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	1,090	67.16%	1,623
Pembina	2,924	43.94%	3,711	55.76%	11	0.17%	1	0.02%	8	0.12%	-787	-11.83%	6,655
Pierce	2,349	61.64%	1,451	38.07%	5	0.13%	2	0.05%	4	0.10%	898	23.56%	3,811
Ramsey	3,629	50.44%	3,530	49.07%	25	0.35%	6	0.08%	4	0.06%	99	1.38%	7,194
Ransom	2,579	56.20%	1,986	43.28%	19	0.41%	3	0.07%	2	0.04%	593	12.92%	4,589
Renville	1,202	47.03%	1,298	50.78%	48	1.88%	8	0.31%	0	0.00%	-96	-3.76%	2,556
Richland	5,102	58.42%	3,584	41.04%	32	0.37%	6	0.07%	10	0.11%	1,518	17.38%	8,734
Rolette	1,555	35.41%	2,820	64.21%	10	0.23%	3	0.07%	4	0.09%	-1,265	-28.80%	4,392
Sargent	1,922	50.01%	1,894	49.28%	21	0.55%	1	0.03%	5	0.13%	28	0.73%	3,843
Sheridan	2,405	81.33%	543	18.36%	2	0.07%	7	0.24%	0	0.00%	1,862	62.97%	2,957
Sioux	1,167	66.84%	578	33.10%	1	0.06%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	589	33.73%	1,746
Slope	801	57.58%	585	42.06%	4	0.29%	1	0.07%	0	0.00%	216	15.53%	1,391
Stark	4,367	67.63%	2,075	32.14%	7	0.11%	2	0.03%	6	0.09%	2,292	35.50%	6,457
Steele	1,328	47.70%	1,434	51.51%	17	0.61%	3	0.11%	2	0.07%	-106	-3.81%	2,784
Stutsman	5,634	58.92%	3,897	40.76%	19	0.20%	3	0.03%	9	0.09%	1,737	18.17%	9,562
Towner	1,630	50.29%	1,596	49.24%	10	0.31%	2	0.06%	3	0.09%	34	1.05%	3,241
Traill	2,882	53.47%	2,476	45.94%	15	0.28%	8	0.15%	9	0.17%	406	7.53%	5,390
Walsh	3,051	35.61%	5,499	64.18%	4	0.05%	1	0.01%	13	0.15%	-2,448	-28.57%	8,568
Ward	6,519	45.61%	7,669	53.66%	67	0.47%	13	0.09%	25	0.17%	-1,150	-8.05%	14,293
Wells	3,335	63.74%	1,878	35.89%	13	0.25%	1	0.02%	5	0.10%	1,457	27.85%	5,232
Williams	2,470	34.25%	4,579	63.50%	121	1.68%	31	0.43%	10	0.14%	-2,109	-29.25%	7,211
Total	154,590	55.06%	124,036	44.18%	1,279	0.46%	545	0.19%	325	0.12%	30,554	10.88%	280,775

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

References

^ "United States Presidential election of 1940 – Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved August 19, 2018.
^ "1940 Election for the Thirty-ninth Term (1941-45)". Retrieved August 19, 2018.
^ "1940 Presidential General Election Results – North Dakota". Retrieved August 19, 2018.
^ "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1940". Retrieved August 19, 2018.
^ "1940 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
^ "ND US President Race, November 05, 1940". Our Campaigns.

[1] "United States Presidential election of 1940 – Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved August 19, 2018.

[2] "1940 Election for the Thirty-ninth Term (1941-45)". Retrieved August 19, 2018.

[3] "1940 Presidential General Election Results – North Dakota". Retrieved August 19, 2018.

[4] "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1940". Retrieved August 19, 2018.

[5] "1940 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.

[6] "ND US President Race, November 05, 1940". Our Campaigns.

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1940 United States presidential election in North Dakota

Results

Results by county

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

See also

References