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The '''1940 United States presidential election in Utah''' took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and Utah voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. |
The '''1940 United States presidential election in Utah''' took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and Utah voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. |
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[[United States presidential elections in Utah|Utah]], like every other state west of the [[Continental Divide]], voted for Franklin 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 1936 election victory. {{As of|2016|11|alt=As of the [[United States presidential election in Utah, 2016|2016 presidential election]]}}, this is the last election in which [[Piute County, Utah|Piute County]] voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.<ref name="how">Sullivan, Robert David; [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’]; ''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016</ref> |
[[United States presidential elections in Utah|Utah]], like every other state fully west of the [[Continental Divide]], voted for Franklin 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 1936 election victory. {{As of|2016|11|alt=As of the [[United States presidential election in Utah, 2016|2016 presidential election]]}}, this is the last election in which [[Piute County, Utah|Piute County]] voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.<ref name="how">Sullivan, Robert David; [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’]; ''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016</ref> |
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==Results== |
==Results== |
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Elections in Utah |
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The 1940 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and Utah voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Utah, like every other state fully west of the Continental Divide, voted for Franklin 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 1936 election victory. As of the 2016 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Piute County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[1]
Results
United States presidential election in Utah, 1940[2] | |||||
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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
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic |
Wendell Lewis Willkie Republican |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast[3] | |||||
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County | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # |
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 |
References
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ "1940 Presidential General Election Results - Utah". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
- ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 459 ISBN 0405077114