The 1940 United States presidential election in California took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose 22 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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| Turnout | 81.44% (of registered voters)  1.92 pp 78.32% (of eligible voters)  7.76 pp[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 County Results
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California voted for the Democratic incumbent, Franklin Roosevelt, over the Republican challenger, businessman Wendell Willkie.
Willkie did nonetheless make considerable gains vis-à-vis the previous Republican nominee, Alf Landon, who remains the solitary Republican nominee to not carry a single county in the state. Willkie carried seven counties scattered across the state and gained ten percentage points on Landon's performance.
This is the last election where the Democrats won Sutter County, which, as of the 2020 presidential election,[2] stands as the longest run voting for one party by any California county.[3] Mono County would not vote Democratic again until John Kerry in 2004,[4] and Orange County would not vote Democratic again until Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Results
edit| 1940 United States presidential election in California[5] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) | 1,877,618 | 57.44% | 22 | |
| Republican | Wendell Willkie | 1,351,419 | 41.34% | 0 | |
| Progressive | Norman Thomas | 16,506 | 0.50% | 0 | |
| Communist | Earl Russell Browder | 13,586 | 0.42% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Roger Babson | 9,400 | 0.29% | 0 | |
| No party | Write-ins | 262 | 0.01% | 0 | |
| Invalid or blank votes | — | ||||
| Totals | 3,268,791 | 100.00% | 22 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
Results by county
edit| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic | Wendell Lewis Willkie Republican | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | |
| Plumas | 72.11% | 3,418 | 26.79% | 1,270 | 1.10% | 52 | 45.32% | 2,148 |
| Solano | 70.58% | 15,054 | 28.51% | 6,081 | 0.90% | 193 | 42.07% | 8,973 |
| Lassen | 69.17% | 4,367 | 30.13% | 1,902 | 0.70% | 44 | 39.05% | 2,465 |
| Fresno | 69.07% | 48,866 | 29.79% | 21,079 | 1.14% | 805 | 39.27% | 27,787 |
| Sacramento | 68.09% | 51,351 | 30.76% | 23,201 | 1.15% | 864 | 37.33% | 28,150 |
| Shasta | 68.03% | 8,662 | 30.70% | 3,909 | 1.27% | 162 | 37.33% | 4,753 |
| Madera | 67.61% | 5,749 | 31.20% | 2,653 | 1.19% | 101 | 36.41% | 3,096 |
| Placer | 67.56% | 8,402 | 31.26% | 3,887 | 1.18% | 147 | 36.31% | 4,515 |
| Kings | 67.43% | 8,307 | 31.75% | 3,911 | 0.83% | 102 | 35.68% | 4,396 |
| Sierra | 66.98% | 1,057 | 32.38% | 511 | 0.63% | 10 | 34.60% | 546 |
| El Dorado | 66.44% | 4,144 | 32.37% | 2,019 | 1.19% | 74 | 34.07% | 2,125 |
| Amador | 66.14% | 2,762 | 32.85% | 1,372 | 1.01% | 42 | 33.29% | 1,390 |
| Nevada | 66.01% | 5,782 | 32.69% | 2,863 | 1.30% | 114 | 33.33% | 2,919 |
| Yuba | 64.57% | 4,660 | 34.24% | 2,471 | 1.19% | 86 | 30.33% | 2,189 |
| Mariposa | 64.44% | 1,935 | 34.47% | 1,035 | 1.10% | 33 | 29.97% | 900 |
| Trinity | 63.83% | 1,431 | 34.79% | 780 | 1.38% | 31 | 29.04% | 651 |
| Siskiyou | 63.17% | 7,714 | 35.92% | 4,387 | 0.91% | 111 | 27.24% | 3,327 |
| Tuolumne | 62.96% | 3,541 | 35.63% | 2,004 | 1.40% | 79 | 27.33% | 1,537 |
| Merced | 62.57% | 10,501 | 36.35% | 6,101 | 1.08% | 182 | 26.22% | 4,400 |
| Kern | 61.78% | 32,202 | 37.30% | 19,445 | 0.92% | 479 | 24.47% | 12,757 |
| Contra Costa | 61.75% | 30,900 | 37.22% | 18,627 | 1.03% | 513 | 24.53% | 12,273 |
| Modoc | 61.49% | 2,232 | 37.77% | 1,371 | 0.74% | 27 | 23.72% | 861 |
| San Francisco | 59.51% | 185,607 | 39.26% | 122,449 | 1.23% | 3,822 | 20.25% | 63,158 |
| Colusa | 59.48% | 2,655 | 39.74% | 1,774 | 0.78% | 35 | 19.74% | 881 |
| Calaveras | 58.90% | 2,405 | 40.39% | 1,649 | 0.71% | 29 | 18.52% | 756 |
| Yolo | 58.78% | 6,380 | 40.29% | 4,373 | 0.93% | 101 | 18.49% | 2,007 |
| Butte | 58.15% | 10,684 | 40.46% | 7,433 | 1.39% | 255 | 17.70% | 3,251 |
| Los Angeles | 58.13% | 822,718 | 40.58% | 574,266 | 1.29% | 18,285 | 17.56% | 248,452 |
| Sutter | 57.11% | 4,195 | 42.06% | 3,089 | 0.83% | 61 | 15.06% | 1,106 |
| Ventura | 57.00% | 15,182 | 42.15% | 11,225 | 0.85% | 227 | 14.86% | 3,957 |
| Mendocino | 56.13% | 7,055 | 42.53% | 5,345 | 1.34% | 169 | 13.60% | 1,710 |
| Humboldt | 55.98% | 12,329 | 43.00% | 9,470 | 1.02% | 225 | 12.98% | 2,859 |
| Tulare | 55.96% | 20,129 | 42.85% | 15,414 | 1.19% | 428 | 13.11% | 4,715 |
| San Diego | 55.57% | 71,188 | 43.27% | 55,434 | 1.16% | 1,488 | 12.30% | 15,754 |
| Alameda | 55.21% | 148,224 | 43.56% | 116,961 | 1.23% | 3,311 | 11.64% | 31,263 |
| Monterey | 55.00% | 14,758 | 44.01% | 11,810 | 0.99% | 265 | 10.99% | 2,948 |
| Glenn | 54.96% | 3,095 | 43.92% | 2,473 | 1.12% | 63 | 11.05% | 622 |
| Inyo | 54.65% | 1,820 | 44.53% | 1,483 | 0.81% | 27 | 10.12% | 337 |
| Tehama | 54.59% | 3,618 | 43.95% | 2,913 | 1.46% | 97 | 10.64% | 705 |
| San Bernardino | 54.47% | 37,520 | 44.30% | 30,511 | 1.23% | 847 | 10.18% | 7,009 |
| Santa Barbara | 54.41% | 17,237 | 44.53% | 14,107 | 1.05% | 334 | 9.88% | 3,130 |
| San Luis Obispo | 53.39% | 8,499 | 45.25% | 7,204 | 1.36% | 217 | 8.13% | 1,295 |
| Napa | 52.68% | 6,771 | 46.09% | 5,924 | 1.23% | 158 | 6.59% | 847 |
| Mono | 52.56% | 523 | 46.13% | 459 | 1.31% | 13 | 6.43% | 64 |
| San Joaquin | 52.55% | 26,536 | 46.34% | 23,403 | 1.11% | 559 | 6.20% | 3,133 |
| Imperial | 52.53% | 7,728 | 46.59% | 6,854 | 0.88% | 130 | 5.94% | 874 |
| San Mateo | 52.38% | 29,831 | 46.60% | 26,539 | 1.02% | 581 | 5.78% | 3,292 |
| Stanislaus | 51.96% | 16,494 | 46.63% | 14,803 | 1.41% | 449 | 5.33% | 1,691 |
| Marin | 50.20% | 11,365 | 48.47% | 10,974 | 1.33% | 301 | 1.73% | 391 |
| San Benito | 49.99% | 2,441 | 49.29% | 2,407 | 0.72% | 35 | 0.70% | 34 |
| Santa Clara | 49.63% | 40,449 | 49.20% | 40,100 | 1.16% | 947 | 0.43% | 349 |
| Santa Cruz | 47.51% | 10,683 | 50.93% | 11,453 | 1.56% | 350 | -3.42% | -770 |
| Riverside | 47.20% | 20,003 | 51.39% | 21,779 | 1.41% | 598 | -4.19% | -1,776 |
| Sonoma | 47.04% | 15,230 | 51.94% | 16,819 | 1.02% | 330 | -4.91% | -1,589 |
| Lake | 45.70% | 1,897 | 53.36% | 2,215 | 0.94% | 39 | -7.66% | -318 |
| Del Norte | 44.92% | 1,034 | 53.56% | 1,233 | 1.52% | 35 | -8.64% | -199 |
| Orange | 43.44% | 28,236 | 55.49% | 36,070 | 1.06% | 691 | -12.05% | -7,834 |
| Alpine | 32.98% | 62 | 66.49% | 125 | 0.53% | 1 | -33.51% | -63 |
References
edit- ^ "Historical Voter Registration and Participation in Statewide General Elections 1910-2018" (PDF). California Secretary of State. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
- ^ "California Election Results". The New York Times. November 3, 2020.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868–2004, p. 131 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ "1940 Presidential General Election Results – California". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved August 25, 2008.
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