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Willkie won Maine by a narrow margin of 2.33 percent, a swing of 11.66 percent to Roosevelt during an election where FDR lost 697 counties that had supported him four years earlier, mostly because of German-American opposition to increasing "tension" with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.[1] Contrariwise, the powerful "Anglophile" tendencies of Yankee and French-Canadian Maine meant that support for aid to Britain and France in ongoing World War II turned substantial numbers of normally rock-ribbed GOP voters to Roosevelt.[2] This was the first time Kennebec County had ever voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[3]
Results
United States presidential election in Maine, 1940[4]