1940 United States presidential election in Utah

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1940 United States presidential election in Utah

November 5, 1940

Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Wendell Willkie Party Democratic Republican Home state New York New York Running mate Henry A. Wallace Charles L. McNary Electoral vote 4 0 Popular vote 154,277 93,151 Percentage 62.25% 37.59%

County Results Roosevelt   50–60%   60–70% Willkie   50-60%   60-70%

President before election Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic

The 1940 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 5, 1940 as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and state voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Utah, like every other state west of the Continental Divide, voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt over Wendell Willkie by a substantial margin. This was the first time any Democrat won the state more than twice. Roosevelt landslided Utah with 62.25 percent of the vote. The percentage, however, wasn’t as large as his victory in the state four years earlier. As of the 2020 presidential election^[update], this is the last election in which Piute County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.^[1]

Results

1940 United States presidential election in Utah[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent)	154,277	62.25%	4
	Republican	Wendell Willkie	93,151	37.59%	0
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	200	0.08%	0
	N/A	Write-ins	191	0.08%	0
Totals			247,819	100.00%	4

Results by county

County	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic		Wendell Lewis Willkie Republican		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast[3]
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Beaver	1,303	54.18%	1,101	45.78%	1	0.04%	202	8.40%	2,405
Box Elder	4,736	59.30%	3,248	40.67%	2	0.03%	1,488	18.63%	7,986
Cache	7,867	60.25%	5,184	39.70%	7	0.05%	2,683	20.55%	13,058
Carbon	5,180	69.47%	2,242	30.07%	34	0.46%	2,938	39.40%	7,456
Daggett	160	62.50%	96	37.50%	0	0.00%	64	25.00%	256
Davis	3,865	57.63%	2,836	42.28%	6	0.09%	1,029	15.34%	6,707
Duchesne	1,982	59.92%	1,322	39.96%	4	0.12%	660	19.95%	3,308
Emery	1,901	65.13%	1,006	34.46%	12	0.41%	895	30.66%	2,919
Garfield	814	44.14%	1,030	55.86%	0	0.00%	-216	-11.71%	1,844
Grand	446	50.62%	432	49.04%	3	0.34%	14	1.59%	881
Iron	1,915	47.90%	2,060	51.53%	23	0.58%	-145	-3.63%	3,998
Juab	2,136	60.12%	1,412	39.74%	5	0.14%	724	20.38%	3,553
Kane	339	33.43%	675	66.57%	0	0.00%	-336	-33.14%	1,014
Millard	2,302	54.10%	1,943	45.66%	10	0.24%	359	8.44%	4,255
Morgan	699	54.87%	575	45.13%	0	0.00%	124	9.73%	1,274
Piute	466	51.21%	442	48.57%	2	0.22%	24	2.64%	910
Rich	475	51.52%	447	48.48%	0	0.00%	28	3.04%	922
Salt Lake	67,318	65.40%	35,427	34.42%	181	0.18%	31,891	30.98%	102,926
San Juan	515	49.19%	528	50.43%	4	0.38%	-13	-1.24%	1,047
Sanpete	3,524	48.61%	3,722	51.34%	4	0.06%	-198	-2.73%	7,250
Sevier	2,521	48.22%	2,703	51.70%	4	0.08%	-182	-3.48%	5,228
Summit	2,215	56.10%	1,730	43.82%	3	0.08%	485	12.28%	3,948
Tooele	2,625	63.90%	1,476	35.93%	7	0.17%	1,149	27.97%	4,108
Uintah	1,773	52.16%	1,624	47.78%	2	0.06%	149	4.38%	3,399
Utah	15,168	63.32%	8,740	36.48%	48	0.20%	6,428	26.83%	23,956
Wasatch	1,502	55.59%	1,199	44.37%	1	0.04%	303	11.21%	2,702
Washington	1,993	55.04%	1,625	44.88%	3	0.08%	368	10.16%	3,621
Wayne	500	56.75%	380	43.13%	1	0.11%	120	13.62%	881
Weber	18,037	69.35%	7,946	30.55%	24	0.09%	10,091	38.80%	26,007
Totals	154,277	62.25%	93,151	37.59%	391	0.16%	61,126	24.67%	247,819

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Garfield
• Iron
• San Juan
• Sanpete
• Sevier

See also

• United States presidential elections in Utah

References

1. Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
2. "1940 Presidential General Election Results - Utah". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
3. Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 459 ISBN 0405077114