1940 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party
Willkie was the CEO of the Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, which provided electrical power to customers in eleven states. In 1933, President Roosevelt had created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which promised to provide flood control and cheap electricity to the impoverished people of the Tennessee Valley. However, the government-run TVA would compete with Willkie's Commonwealth & Southern, and this led Willkie to criticize and oppose the TVA's attempt to compete with private power companies. Willkie argued that the government had unfair advantages over private corporations, and should thus avoid competing directly against them.


1940 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party
However, Willkie did not dismiss all of Roosevelt's social welfare programs, indeed supporting those he believed could not be managed any better by the free enterprise system. Furthermore, unlike the leading Republican candidates, Willkie was a forceful and outspoken advocate of aid to the Allies of World War II, especially the United Kingdom. His support of giving all aid to the British "short of declaring war" won him the support of many Republicans on the East Coast of the United States, who disagreed with their party's isolationist leaders in Congress.


1940 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party
Willkie's persuasive arguments impressed these Republicans, who believed that he would be an attractive presidential candidate. Many of the leading press barons of the era, such as Ogden Reid of the New York Herald Tribune, Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain and John and Gardner Cowles, Jr. publishers of the Minneapolis Star and the Minneapolis Tribune, as well as The Des Moines Register and Look magazine, supported Willkie in their newspapers and magazines. Even so, Willkie remained a long-shot candidate; the May 8 Gallup Poll showed Dewey at 67% support among Republicans, followed by Vandenberg and Taft, with Willkie at only 3%.


1940 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party
The German Army's rapid Blitzkrieg campaign into France in May 1940 shook American public opinion, even as Taft was telling a Kansas audience that America needed to concentrate on domestic issues to prevent Roosevelt from using the war crisis to extend socialism at home. Both Dewey and Vandenberg also continued to oppose any aid to the United Kingdom that might lead to war with Nazi Germany. Nevertheless, sympathy for the embattled British was mounting daily, and this aided Willkie's candidacy.


1940 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party
By mid-June, little over one week before the Republican Convention opened, the Gallup poll reported that Willkie had moved into second place with 17%, and that Dewey was slipping. Fueled by his favorable media attention, Willkie's pro-British statements won over many of the delegates. As the delegates were arriving in Philadelphia, Gallup reported that Willkie had surged to 29%, Dewey had slipped five more points to 47%, and Taft, Vandenberg and Hoover trailed at 8%, 8%, and 6% respectively.


1940 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party
Hundreds of thousands, perhaps as many as one million, telegrams urging support for Willkie poured in, many from "Willkie Clubs" that had sprung up across the country. Millions more signed petitions circulating everywhere. At the 1940 Republican National Convention itself, keynote speaker Harold Stassen, the Governor of Minnesotaa, announced his support for Willkie and became his official floor manager. Hundreds of vocal Willkie supporters packed the upper galleries of the convention hall. Willkie's amateur status and fresh face appealed to delegates as well as voters.


1940 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party
Most of the delegations were selected not by primaries, but by party leaders in each state, and they had a keen sense of the fast-changing pulse of public opinion. Gallup found the same thing in polling data not reported until after the convention: Willkie had moved ahead among Republican voters by 44% to only 29% for the collapsing Dewey. As the pro-Willkie galleries chanted "We Want Willkie!" the delegates on the convention floor began their vote. Dewey led on the first ballot, but steadily lost strength thereafter.


1940 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party
Both Taft and Willkie gained in strength on each ballot, and by the fourth ballot it was obvious that either Willkie or Taft would be the nominee. The key moments came when the delegations of large states such as Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York left Dewey and Vandenberg and switched to Willkie, giving him the victory on the sixth ballot.


1940 United States presidential election, Nominations, Republican Party
Willkie's nomination was one of the most dramatic moments in any political convention. Having given little thought to whom he would select as his vice-presidential nominee, Willkie left the decision to convention chairman and Massachusetts Representative Joseph Martin, the House Minority Leader, who suggested Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary from Oregon. Despite the fact that McNary had spearheaded a "Stop Willkie" campaign late in the balloting, the convention picked him to be Willkie's running mate.


1940 United States presidential election, General election, Polling
The Gallup Poll accurately predicted the election outcome. However, the American Institute of Public Opinion, responsible for the Gallup Poll, avoided predicting the outcome, citing a four percent margin of error. The Gallup Poll also found that, if there was no war in Europe, voters preferred Willkie over Roosevelt.


1940 United States presidential election, General election, Fall campaign
Willkie crusaded against Roosevelt's attempt to break the two-term presidential tradition, arguing that "if one man is indispensable, then none of us is free." Even some Democrats who had supported Roosevelt in the past disapproved of his attempt to win a third term, and Willkie hoped to win their votes. Willkie also criticized what he claimed was the incompetence and waste in Roosevelt's New Deal welfare programs. He stated that as president he would keep most of Roosevelt's government programs, but would make them more efficient.


1940 United States presidential election, General election, Fall campaign
However, many Americans still blamed business leaders for the Great Depression, and the fact that Willkie symbolized "Big Business" hurt him with many working-class voters. Willkie was a fearless campaigner; he often visited industrial areas where Republicans were still blamed for causing the Great Depression and where Roosevelt was highly popular. In these areas, Willkie frequently had rotten fruit and vegetables thrown at him and was heckled by crowds; still, he was unfazed.


1940 United States presidential election, General election, Fall campaign
Willkie also accused Roosevelt of leaving the nation unprepared for war, but Roosevelt's military buildup and transformation of the nation into the "Arsenal of Democracy" removed the "unpreparedness" charge as a major issue. Willkie then reversed his approach and charged Roosevelt with secretly planning to take the nation into World War II. This accusation did cut into Roosevelt's support. In response, Roosevelt, in a pledge that he would later regret, promised that he would "not send American boys into any foreign wars." The United Kingdom actively intervened throughout the election against isolationism.


1940 United States presidential election, General election, Results
Roosevelt led in all pre-election opinion polls by various margins. On Election Day—November 5, 1940, he received 27.3 million votes to Willkie's 22.3 million, and in the Electoral College, he defeated Willkie by a margin of 449 to 82. Willkie did get over six million more votes than the Republican nominee in 1936, Alf Landon, and he ran strong in rural areas in the American Midwest, taking over 57% of the farm vote. Many counties in the Midwest have not voted for a Democrat since.


1940 United States presidential election, General election, Results
Roosevelt, meanwhile, carried every American city with a population of more than 400,000 except Cincinnati, Ohio. Of the 106 cities with more than 100,000 population, he won 61% of the votes cast; in the Southern United States as a whole, he won 73% of the total vote. In the remainder of the country (the rural and small-town Northern United States), Willkie had a majority of 53%. In the cities, there was a class differential, with the white-collar and middle-class voters supporting the Republican candidate, and working class, blue-collar voters going for FDR. In the North, Roosevelt won 87% of the Jewish vote, 73% of the Catholics, and 61% of the nonmembers, while all the major Protestant denominations showed majorities for Willkie.


1940 United States presidential election, General election, Results
Of the 3,094 counties/independent cities, Roosevelt won in 1,947 (62.93%) while Willkie carried 1,147 (37.07%).


1940 United States presidential election, General election, Results
As a result of Willkie's gains, Roosevelt became the second of only three presidents in United States history to win re-election with a lower percentage of both the electoral vote and the popular vote than in the prior election, preceded by James Madison in 1812 and followed by Barack Obama in 2012. Andrew Jackson in 1832 and Grover Cleveland in 1892 received more electoral votes but fewer popular votes, while Woodrow Wilson in 1916 received more popular votes but fewer electoral votes.


1940 United States presidential election, General election, Results
Willkie and McNary both died in 1944 (October 8, and February 25, respectively); the first, and to date only time both members of a major-party presidential ticket died during the term for which they sought election. Had they been elected, Willkie's death would have resulted in the Secretary of State becoming acting president for the remainder of the term ending on January 20, 1945, in accordance with the Presidential Succession Act of 1886.


1940 United States presidential election, General election, Geography of results
Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote


1940 United States presidential election, General election, Close states
Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (83 electoral votes):


1940 United States presidential election, General election, Foreign interference
The British government engaged covert intelligence operations to support Roosevelt, including the planting of false news stories, wiretaps, "October surprises", and other intelligence activities.


1940 United States presidential election in Alabama
The 1940 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Alabama
Alabama was won in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace of Iowa with 85.22 percent of the popular vote, against corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon, with 14.34 percent of the popular vote, for a Democratic margin of 70.88 percent. Third party candidates only managed to pick up 0.44 percent of the vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Arizona
The 1940 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Arizona
Arizona was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, with 63.49% of the popular vote, against President of Commonwealth and Southern Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 36.01% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas
The 1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas, Background
Except for the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state. Disfranchisement of effectively all Negroes and most poor whites by a poll tax since 1890 meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections.


1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas, Background
Increased voting by poor Ozark whites as a protest against Woodrow Wilson's internationalist foreign policy meant that Warren G. Harding in 1920 was able to win almost forty percent of the statewide vote; and 1928 saw the rest of the Outer South and North Alabama bolt the anti-Prohibition Catholic Al Smith. However, the presence of Arkansas Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson as running mate meant that within Arkansas only the most northwesterly counties with ordinarily substantial Republican votes suffered the same fate.


1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas, Background
The following years saw Arkansas plunge into the Great Depression, followed almost immediately by a major drought from the summer of 1930s until the winter of 1931/1932. Arkansas gave extremely heavy support to Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. Roosevelt won every county in the state, and was extremely popular in the “Solid South” throughout his first term. although his popularity lessened somewhat during his second term due to the urban and labor bias of the New Deal, Roosevelt remained in no danger in 1940.


1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas, Background
This was especially true given that the South had never experienced German or Scandinavian immigration and thus strongly sympathized – as FDR did – with Britain in World War II. Thus FDR was able to almost maintain his 1936 majority in the Natural State, and replicated the county map of 1896, 1916, 1924 and 1936.


1940 United States presidential election in California
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.


1940 United States presidential election in California
California voted for the Democratic incumbent, Franklin Roosevelt, over the Republican challenger, businessman Wendell Willkie.


1940 United States presidential election in California
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 twenty percentage points on Landon's performance.


1940 United States presidential election in California
This remains the last election when the Democrats have won Sutter County, which as of the 2020 presidential election, stands as the longest run voting for one party by any California county. Mono County would not vote Democratic again until John Kerry in 2004.


1940 United States presidential election in Colorado
The 1940 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose six representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Colorado
Colorado was won by Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 50.92% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 48.37% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Connecticut
The 1940 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Connecticut
Connecticut was won by popular incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who was running against Republican businessman Wendell Willkie of New York. Roosevelt ran with Henry A. Wallace of Iowa as his running mate, and Willkie ran with Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon.


1940 United States presidential election in Delaware
The 1940 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Delaware voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Delaware
Delaware was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 54.70% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 45.05% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Florida
The 1940 United States presidential election in Florida was held on November 5, 1940, as part of the concurrent United States presidential election. Florida voters chose seven electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Florida, Background and vote
Florida had been one of the most solid members of the "Solid South" ever since the 1889 poll tax disfranchised almost all blacks and most poor whites. Unlike southern states extending into the Appalachian Mountains or Ozarks, or Texas with its German settlements in the Edwards Plateau, Florida completely lacked upland or German "Forty-Eighter" whites opposed to secession. Thus disfranchisement of blacks left the party moribund – fifty years after disfranchisement, half of all Florida's registered Republicans were still black although a negligible number had ever voted.


1940 United States presidential election in Florida, Background and vote
Immigration of northerners into the previously undeveloped areas of South Florida, along with fierce anti-Catholicism in the northern Piney Woods, did give Herbert Hoover a freakish victory in 1928, but apart from that the Democratic Party had lost only six counties at a presidential level since 1892.


1940 United States presidential election in Florida, Background and vote
Following FDR's second successive sweep of all sixty-seven counties in 1936, Senator Claude Pepper and Miami politicians led a successful push to abolish the poll tax because of the corruption it was causing. Repeal of the poll tax produced significant increases in the total vote cast vis-à-vis that of 1936: the presidential vote increased by around forty-seven percent, and in gubernatorial primaries the absolute increase in percent turnout was over eleven percent of the total voting age white population.


1940 United States presidential election in Florida, Background and vote
Nonetheless, almost all of this new electorate remained white due to the white primary. Aided by considerable sympathy amongst Florida's largely English-descended white population for the United Kingdom's cause in ongoing World War II, Roosevelt was to sweep every county in Florida for the third successive election and for the ninth occasion in thirteen elections since the recently abolished poll tax was originally imposed. Willkie, who improved by over eight percent upon Alf Landon's performance in 1936, gained less than half that amount in Florida.


1940 United States presidential election in Georgia
The 1940 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the wider United States Presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Georgia, Background
With the exception of a handful of historically Unionist North Georgia counties – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns – Georgia since the 1880s had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. Disfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and most poor whites had made the Republican Party virtually nonexistent outside of local governments in those few hill counties, and the national Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction. The only competitive elections were Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.


1940 United States presidential election in Georgia, Vote
The Roosevelt/Wallace ticket easily carried the state of Georgia on election day.


1940 United States presidential election in Idaho
The 1940 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Idaho
Idaho was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, with 54.36% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 45.31% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Idaho
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion when Cassia County, Lemhi County and Owyhee County have voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate.


1940 United States presidential election in Illinois
The 1940 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose 29 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Illinois
Illinois was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 50.97% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 48.54% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Illinois, Election information
The primaries and general elections coincided with those for other federal offices (Senate and House), as well as those for state offices.


1940 United States presidential election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout
The total vote in the state-run primary elections (Democratic and Republican) was 2,365,144.


1940 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries
Both major parties held non-binding state-run preferential primaries on April 9.


1940 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Democratic
The 1940 Illinois Democratic presidential primary was held on April 9, 1940, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Democratic Party's state primaries ahead of the 1940 presidential election.


1940 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Democratic
The popular vote was a non-binding "beauty contest". Delegates were instead elected by direct votes by congressional district on delegate candidates.


1940 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Republican
The 1940 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on April 9, 1940, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 1940 presidential election.


1940 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Republican
The preference vote was a "beauty contest". Delegates were instead selected by direct-vote in each congressional districts on delegate candidates.


1940 United States presidential election in Indiana
The 1940 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose 14 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Indiana
Indiana was won by Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon, with 50.45% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, with 49.03% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Iowa
The 1940 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Iowa voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Iowa
Iowa was won by Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 52.03% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 47.62% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Kansas
The 1940 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Kansas
Kansas was won by Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 56.86% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 42.40% of the popular vote. This was the first time since 1896 Kansas voted for a losing candidate.


1940 United States presidential election in Kansas
With 56.86% of the popular vote, Kansas would prove to be Willkie's third strongest state in the 1940 election in terms of popular vote percentage after South Dakota and neighboring Nebraska.


1940 United States presidential election in Kentucky
The 1940 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Kentucky
Kentucky was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 57.45 percent of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 42.30 percent of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Louisiana
The 1940 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose ten representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Louisiana was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 85.88% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 14.09% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Louisiana
By percentage of the vote carried, Louisiana was the third-most lopsided contest in the nation, only behind South Carolina and Mississippi, whose margins both exceeded 90% in favor of Roosevelt.


1940 United States presidential election in Maine
The 1940 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Maine
Maine was won by Republican businessman Wendell Willkie of New York, who was running against incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Willkie ran with Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon while Roosevelt ran with Henry A. Wallace of Iowa.


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


1940 United States presidential election in Maryland
The 1940 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Maryland
Maryland was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, with 58.25% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 40.83% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Maryland
This is the first time since 1880 that a Democrat carried ancestrally Federalist Calvert County, and would be the only instance during the 80 years between 1880 and 1960 that a Democrat would carry the county. It was only the fourth time that the party carried the county overall, despite it having participating in every single election since the creation of the Democratic Party. The others were 1864, 1868, and the aforementioned 1880.


1940 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
The 1940 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 17 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Massachusetts voted for the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, over the Republican nominee, corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie of New York. Roosevelt ran with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace of Iowa, while Willkie’s running mate was Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon.


1940 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Roosevelt carried the state with 53.11% of the vote to Willkie’s 46.36%, a Democratic victory margin of 6.75%.


1940 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
As Roosevelt was re-elected nationally to an unprecedented third term, Massachusetts weighed in as about 3% more Republican than the national average. Roosevelt’s win may have been aided by support in New England for aid to Britain during World War Two, as he maintained his votes better among those of English descent than the German-American populations of the interior.


1940 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Once a typical Yankee Republican bastion in the wake of the Civil War, Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, when a coalition of Irish Catholic and other ethnic immigrant voters primarily based in urban areas turned Massachusetts and neighboring Rhode Island into New England's only reliably Democratic states. Massachusetts voted for Al Smith in 1928, and for Franklin Roosevelt in his national Democratic landslides of 1932 and 1936. Roosevelt’s 1940 victory thus marked the fourth straight win for the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, a state that had voted Democratic only once in its history prior to this series of consecutive Democratic wins.


1940 United States presidential election in Massachusetts
Roosevelt and Willkie would split the state's 14 counties, winning 7 counties each. However Roosevelt won the most heavily populated parts of the state including the cities of Boston, Worcester, and Springfield, while most of Willkie’s wins were small or island counties.


1940 United States presidential election in Michigan
The 1940 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose 19 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Michigan
Michigan was narrowly won by the Republican candidate Wendell Willkie over Democratic incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt by 6,926 votes in the closest race in any statewide presidential election since 1916 when Woodrow Wilson won by 56 votes in New Hampshire and opponent Charles Evans Hughes won in Minnesota by 392 votes. Willkie received 49.85% of ballots cast, while Roosevelt received 49.52%. This was the only election where Michigan supported Roosevelt's opponent, as well as the last election until 1976 that Michigan voted for a different candidate than Pennsylvania.


1940 United States presidential election in Minnesota
The 1940 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Minnesota
Minnesota was won by the Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt won the state over dark horse Republican nominee Wendell Willkie of New York by a margin of 47,922 votes, or 3.83%. Nationally, Roosevelt was re-elected to an unprecedented third term as president, with 449 electoral votes and a 9.97% lead over Willkie in the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Minnesota
Roosevelt was the only president of the United States who was elected to more than two quadrennial terms. He was also elected to a fourth term in 1944, although he died in office during that term. The 22nd Amendment, ratified on February 27, 1951, ensures that Roosevelt will continue, indefinitely, to be the only president of the United States to be elected to more than two terms, as the said amendment prohibits any person from serving more than two and a half terms as president.


1940 United States presidential election in Mississippi
The 1940 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Mississippi voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Mississippi
Mississippi was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 95.70% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 4.19% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Mississippi
By percentage of the popular vote won, Mississippi was the most lopsided contest in the nation, with a margin of over 91% for Roosevelt.


1940 United States presidential election in Missouri
The 1940 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Missouri
Missouri was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 52.27 percent of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 47.50 percent of the popular vote.


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


1940 United States presidential election in Montana
Montana voted powerfully to give Democratic nominee, President Franklin D. Roosevelt an unprecedented third term, over the Republican nominee, corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie, a dark horse candidate that had never before run for a political office. Roosevelt won Montana by a convincing 18.61% margin. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election when the following counties have voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate: Broadwater, Madison, Meagher and Garfield.


1940 United States presidential election in Nebraska
The 1940 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Nebraska was won by Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 57.19% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 42.81% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Nebraska
With 57.19% of the popular vote, Nebraska would prove to be Willkie's second strongest state in the 1940 election in terms of popular vote percentage after neighboring South Dakota.


1940 United States presidential election in Nevada
The 1940 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Nevada
Nevada was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 60.08% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 39.92% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Lyon County and Churchill County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.


1940 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
The 1940 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
New Hampshire was won by incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who was running against Republican businessman Wendell Willkie of New York. Roosevelt ran with Henry A. Wallace of Iowa as his running mate, and Willkie ran with Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon.


1940 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
Roosevelt won New Hampshire by 6.44%, at the time the best performance by a Democratic presidential candidate in this traditionally Republican state since the latter party was founded and the first time since Franklin Pierce in 1852 that a Democrat won an absolute majority of the vote. Roosevelt's gain in New Hampshire and other New England states, in an election when Willkie carried almost seven hundred counties that the President had won during his landslide four years beforehand, was due to support in the region for helping Britain and France during World War II.


1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey
The 1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey
New Jersey was won by the Democratic nominees, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace of Iowa. Roosevelt and Wallace defeated the Republican nominees, corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie of New York and his running mate Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon.


1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Roosevelt narrowly carried New Jersey with 51.55 percent of the vote to Willkie’s 47.93 percent, a margin of 3.62 percent.


1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Reflecting the closeness of the statewide result, Roosevelt and Willkie virtually split the state's 21 counties: Roosevelt won 11 counties to Willkie's ten. Roosevelt edged out Willkie statewide with decisive victories in some of the most heavily populated parts of the state, while keeping the results close in heavily populated counties that he lost.


1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey
In North Jersey, Roosevelt maintained his dominance in heavily populated Hudson County, part of the New York metropolitan area where the New Deal Coalition was very strong, breaking sixty percent of the vote in the county for the third election in a row. Roosevelt also won heavily populated Middlesex County with more than sixty percent of the vote, along with majorities in Mercer County, Passaic County, and rural Warren County. Willkie won the remaining counties of North Jersey, breaking sixty percent of the vote in Bergen County and Morris County.


1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Roosevelt performed much more strongly overall in South Jersey, winning majorities in 6 out of 8 of the southernmost counties in the state; his strongest county win there was urban Camden County, where he broke 60% of the vote. In South Jersey, Willkie won only rural Cape May County. Besides his victories in North Jersey, Willkie also won Monmouth County and Ocean County in the central portion of the state.


1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey
New Jersey by 1940 had become a closely divided swing state with a Republican lean, and its results in 1940 adhered to that pattern. Roosevelt had carried the state in the midst of both of his preceding nationwide landslides, although only by a very narrow margin in 1932. As Roosevelt decisively won re-election to an unprecedented third term, carrying 38 out of 48 states, his narrow margin of victory in New Jersey made the state about 6 points more Republican than the national average.


1940 United States presidential election in New Mexico
The 1940 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 5, 1940. All 48 States were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to represent them in the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President.


1940 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt comfortably won New Mexico by a 13-point margin over Republican businessman Wendell Willkie. This was the only election in United States history where a President was elected to serve a third full term.


1940 United States presidential election in New York
The 1940 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters had chosen 47 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in New York
New York was won by incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who was running against Republican businessman Wendell Willkie of New York. Roosevelt ran with incumbent  Vice President Henry A. Wallace of Iowa, and  Willkie ran with Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon.


1940 United States presidential election in New York
A former Governor of New York who had easily carried the state in his previous two presidential campaigns, Franklin Roosevelt again won New York State in 1940, but by a much closer margin. Roosevelt took 51.50% of the vote versus Wendell Willkie's 47.95%, a margin of 3.55%. This is the only one of his four elections in which New York was decided by less than 5%.


1940 United States presidential election in New York
New York weighed in for this election as 6% more Republican than the national average.


1940 United States presidential election in New York
The presidential election of 1940 was a very partisan election for New York, with more than 99.6% of the electorate casting votes for either the Democratic Party or the Republican. In typical form for the time, the highly populated centers of New York City, Albany, Buffalo, and Rochester voted primarily Democratic, while the majority of smaller counties in New York turned out for Willkie as the Republican candidate. Much of Roosevelt's margin of victory was provided by his dominance in New York City.


1940 United States presidential election in New York
Roosevelt took over sixty percent of the vote in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx and decisively won New York City as a whole. However the boroughs of Queens and Staten Island flipped to the Republican side in 1940 after voting for FDR in 1932 and 1936, a major contributing factor to why the race was much closer than the 20-point margin FDR had won the state by in 1936.


1940 United States presidential election in North Carolina
The 1940 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. North Carolina voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote
As a former Confederate state, North Carolina had a history of Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement of its African-American population and dominance of the Democratic Party in state politics. However, unlike the Deep South, the Republican Party had sufficient historic Unionist white support from the mountains and northwestern Piedmont to gain one-third of the statewide vote total in most general elections, where turnout was higher than elsewhere in the former Confederacy due substantially to the state’s early abolition of the poll tax in 1920. Like Virginia, Tennessee and Oklahoma, the relative strength of Republican opposition meant that North Carolina did not have statewide white primaries, although certain counties did use the white primary.


1940 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote
In 1928, anti-Catholicism in the Outer Banks and growing middle-class urban Republicanism in Piedmont cities turned North Carolina to GOP nominee Herbert Hoover, but this was sharply and severely reversed in the following two elections as exceptionally heavy support was given to Democratic nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt in all but a few rock-ribbed Republican mountain bastions. In 1940, large portions of the interior of the United States – heavily populated by German Americans – opposed increasing "tension" with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and turned to Republican candidate Wendell Willkie.


1940 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote
North Carolina, however, was historically one of the least isolationist states, and its almost entirely English and Scotch-Irish descended electorate strongly favoured as much aid to Britain’s World War II effort as possible. Thus, North Carolina’s electorate did not merely resist the GOP shift in the heartland – in many Appalachian counties with normally substantial Republican support, FDR gained on what he had achieved in his 1932 and 1936 national landslides.


1940 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote
North Carolina was thus won in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 74.03 percent of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–Indiana), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 25.97 percent of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in North Carolina, Background and vote
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Davie County and Randolph County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. This is also the best Democratic performance in the state since Andrew Jackson in 1832.


1940 United States presidential election in North Dakota
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 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in North Dakota
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.


1940 United States presidential election in North Dakota
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.


1940 United States presidential election in North Dakota
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 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.


1940 United States presidential election in Ohio
The 1940 United States presidential election in Ohio was held on November 5, 1940 as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose 26 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Ohio
Ohio was won by the Democratic Party candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with 52.20% of the popular vote. The Republican Party candidate, Wendell Willkie, garnered 47.80% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
The 1940 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
Oklahoma was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 57.41% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 42.23% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Oregon
The 1940 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Oregon
Oregon was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, with 53.70% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader and Oregon senior Senator Charles L. McNary, with 45.62% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Oregon
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion when Malheur County has voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate.


1940 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
The 1940 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 5, 1940 as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose 36 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania voted to give Democratic nominee, President Franklin D. Roosevelt an unprecedented third term, over the Republican nominee, corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie, a dark horse candidate who had never before run for a political office. Roosevelt won Pennsylvania by a margin of 6.9%. This was the last election until 1976 that Pennsylvania voted for a different candidate than Michigan.


1940 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
The 1940 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Rhode Island
Rhode Island was won by incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who was running against Republican businessman Wendell Willkie of New York. Roosevelt ran with former Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace of Iowa as his running mate, and Willkie ran with Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon.


1940 United States presidential election in South Carolina
The 1940 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose 8 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in South Carolina
South Carolina was won by incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who was running against Republican businessman Wendell Willkie of New York. Roosevelt ran with Henry A. Wallace of Iowa as his running mate, and Willkie ran with Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon.


1940 United States presidential election in South Carolina
Roosevelt won South Carolina by a landslide margin of 91.27%.


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


1940 United States presidential election in South Dakota
South Dakota was won by Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 57.41% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 42.59% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in South Dakota
With 57.41% of the popular vote, South Dakota would prove to be Willkie's strongest state in the 1940 election in terms of popular vote percentage.


1940 United States presidential election in Tennessee
The 1940 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Tennessee
Tennessee was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, with 67.25% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader and Oregon senior Senator Charles L. McNary, with 32.35% of the popular vote. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion when Knox County has voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate.


1940 United States presidential election in Texas
The 1940 United States presidential election in Texas took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose 23 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Texas, Background
As a former Confederate state, Texas had a history of Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement of its African-American and Mexican-American populations, and single-party Democratic rule outside local governments in a few Unionist German-American counties (chiefly Gillespie and Kendall) of Central Texas. Since 1930 no Republicans had served in either house of the Texas Legislature, and in his two 1930s landslides Franklin D. Roosevelt had won over 87% of Texas' ballots.


1940 United States presidential election in Texas, Background
Texas' rulers were highly critical of Roosevelt's decision in 1940 to replace conservative Texan John Nance Garner with liberal Northerner Henry A. Wallace on the 1940 Democratic ticket. There was also severe opposition to Roosevelt in the German counties due to his policy of all out aid to the United Kingdom and France in World War II against their ancestral homeland. This was sufficient to marginally reduce Roosevelt's margin, but the incumbent President nonetheless easily won Texas with 80.92% of the popular vote against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 18.91% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Utah
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.


1940 United States presidential election in Utah
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, this is the last election in which Piute County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.


1940 United States presidential election in Vermont
The 1940 United States presidential election in Vermont  took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont voted for the Republican nominee, corporate lawyer Wendell Willkie of New York, over the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Willkie's running mate was Senate Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon, while Roosevelt ran with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace of Iowa.


1940 United States presidential election in Vermont
Willkie took 54.78% of the vote, to Roosevelt's 44.92%, a margin of 9.86%.


1940 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont historically was a bastion of liberal Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1940 the Green Mountain State had gone Republican in every presidential election since the founding of the Republican Party. From 1856 to 1936, Vermont had had the longest streak of voting Republican of any state, having never voted Democratic before, and this tradition continued in 1940.


1940 United States presidential election in Vermont
Vermont had been one of only two states (along with nearby Maine) to reject Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in all 4 of his presidential campaigns, even in the nationwide Democratic landslides of 1932 and 1936.


1940 United States presidential election in Vermont
However 1940 would prove to be Roosevelt's high point in Vermont, and in New England as a whole, even as the rest of the nation shifted toward the GOP. Roosevelt improved on his previous showings in Vermont, coming within just under 10 percentage points of winning the state, the only time he ever got within single digits of a Republican opponent in the state.


1940 United States presidential election in Vermont
The results in Maine, the only state to have joined Vermont in voting Republican in 1936, showed a similar but even more dramatic swing toward FDR, with Willkie only holding onto Maine by a narrow 51—49 margin. Roosevelt's gain in Vermont and other New England states, in an election when Willkie carried almost seven hundred counties that the President had won during his landslide four years beforehand, was due to support in the region for helping Britain and France during World War II.


1940 United States presidential election in Vermont
Whereas Vermont had been the most Republican state in the union in the 1930s, a strong swing against Roosevelt in the Midwest pushed Vermont into being only the fifth most Republican state after South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and North Dakota, although it still registered as a strong twenty percent more Republican than the national average.


1940 United States presidential election in Vermont
Willkie carried ten of the state's 14 counties, breaking 60% in 6. However, the three northwestern counties of Vermont had been Democratic enclaves in an otherwise Republican state throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and Roosevelt once again won Chittenden County, Franklin County and Grand Isle County for the Democrats. Roosevelt also managed to carry for the first time rural Essex County in the northeast of the state, being the first Democrat to do so since Martin Van Buren in 1836.


1940 United States presidential election in Virginia
The 1940 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 5, 1940. Voters chose 11 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Virginia
Virginia voted for the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, over the Republican nominee, businessman Wendell Willkie. Roosevelt ultimately won the national election with 54.74% of the vote. The election would be the last time Fairfax County, Virginia's most populous county would vote Democratic until 2004 apart from 1964. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time the Democratic nominee has won the counties of Greene, Madison and Wythe. It also proved the last time the Democrats would win Montgomery County until Bill Clinton did so in 1992.


1940 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
The 1940 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Washington (state)
Washington was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 58.22% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 40.58% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in West Virginia
The 1940 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose eight representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in West Virginia
West Virginia was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 57.10% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 42.90% of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Wisconsin
The 1940 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 5, 1940 as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background
Politics in Wisconsin since the Populist movement had been dominated by the Republican Party. The Democratic Party had been uncompetitive outside certain eastern German areas, as the upper classes, along with the majority of workers who followed them, fled from William Jennings Bryan’s agrarian and free silver sympathies. Although the state did develop a strong Socialist Party to provide opposition to the GOP, Wisconsin developed the direct Republican primary in 1903 and this ultimately created competition between the “League” under Robert M. La Follette, and the conservative “Regular” faction. This ultimately would develop into the Wisconsin Progressive Party in the late 1930s, which was opposed to the conservative German Democrats and to the national Republican Party, and allied with Franklin D. Roosevelt at the federal level.


1940 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background
In 1936, despite continuing Democratic gains in industrial and urban areas, German Catholic areas of Wisconsin gave substantial support to Union Party candidate William Lemke due to his support for rigid isolationism. When the next presidential election came, the Progressive Party had lost ground in 1938 but World War II had divided the country deeply on ethnic lines.


1940 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Background
Germans – especially German Catholics – and Irish Catholics believed Communism in the shape of Stalinist Russia was a much greater danger to the United States than Nazism and that the United States should not aid Britain and France, whereas the British and French, bound by ties to their homeland, were strongly in favor of such aid.


1940 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Vote
Republican nominee Willkie visited Wisconsin in his campaign in September, saying change was needed to make the American political system work. By late September opinion polls suggested he had the edge over Roosevelt in the state. Even as some other states of the Midwest moved towards President Roosevelt, Wisconsin was still seen as likely to go to Willkie as Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. strongly opposed war aid to Britain and France. A Gallup poll four days before voting showed Willkie still ahead but falling.


1940 United States presidential election in Wisconsin, Vote
In the end, however, unlike in Iowa, Michigan and Indiana, Roosevelt’s gains proved enough to pass Willkie, and he carried Wisconsin, although by a massively reduced margin compared to 1932 and 1936. Whereas Alf Landon had carried only four of Wisconsin’s seventy-one counties, Willkie carried forty-two. Most significantly, Willkie established the historically German “WOW counties” surrounding Milwaukee as reliable GOP strongholds that as of 2020 have not voted Democratic since except during Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide in 1964. Roosevelt’s win was due to his seventy-eight-thousand vote plurality in Milwaukee County, and to maintaining his strength in the unionized, Scaniavian-American northwest.


1940 United States presidential election in Wyoming
The 1940 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.


1940 United States presidential election in Wyoming
Wyoming was won by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with the 11th Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, with 52.82 percent of the popular vote, against American lawyer and corporate executive Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with senator Charles L. McNary, with 46.89 percent of the popular vote.


1940 United States presidential election in Wyoming
This would be the last occasion Teton County would vote for a Democratic presidential candidate until Bill Clinton carried the county in 1992 – since then it has become a Democratic island in the nation's "reddest" state.


1940 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
It was contested by 11 teams, and Nacional won the championship.


1940 Utah Redskins football team
The 1940 Utah Redskins football team, also commonly known as the Utah Utes, was an American football team that represented the University of Utah in the Mountain States Conference (MSC) during the 1940 college football season. In their 16th season under head coach Ike Armstrong, the Utes compiled a 7–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 169 to 87.


1940 Utah Redskins football team
Rex Geary was the team captain. Four Utah players received recognition on the 1940 All-Mountain States football team: end Carlos Soffe; tackle Floyd Spendlove; guard Rex Geary; and halfback Izzy Spector.


1940 Utah Redskins football team
Utah's season opener against Santa Clara was part of the first-ever major college football doubleheader. The event at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco also featured the future Rose Bowl champions, the Stanford "Wow Boys", defeat San Francisco, 27–0.


1940 Utah Redskins football team, After the season, NFL draft
Utah did not have any players selected in the 1941 NFL Draft.


1940 Utah State Aggies football team
The 1940 Utah State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah State Agricultural College in the Mountain States Conference (MSC) during the 1940 college football season. In their 22nd season under head coach Dick Romney, the Aggies compiled a 2–5–1 record (2–4 against MSC opponents), finished sixth in the MSC, and were outscored by a total of 104 to 48.


1940 Utah gubernatorial election
The 1940 Utah gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1940. Democratic nominee Herbert B. Maw defeated Republican nominee Don B. Colton with 52.07% of the vote.


1940 VFA season
The 1940 Victorian Football Association season was the 62nd season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, which defeated Prahran by 47 points in the Grand Final on 5 October. It was Port Melbourne's first VFA premiership since 1922, and its fourth overall.


1940 VFA season, Premiership
World War II had commenced in Europe in September 1939, and the Association opted to proceed with a full premiership season. The home-and-home season was played over twenty matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the Page–McIntyre system to determine the premiers for the season.


1940 VFL Grand Final
The 1940 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 28 September 1940. It was the 44th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1940 VFL season. The match, attended by 70,330 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 39 points, marking that club's fourth premiership victory.


1940 VFL Grand Final
This was Melbourne's second successive premiership, having defeated Collingwood in the 1939 VFL Grand Final.


1940 VFL Lightning Premiership
The 1940 VFL Lightning Premiership (known at the time as the Patriotic Premiership) was an Australian rules football knockout competition played entirely on Saturday, 3 August 1940, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). It was played during a week's break of the Victorian Football Leagues's 1940 season between Rounds 14 and 15. It was contested by the 12 teams who competed in the 1940 VFL season. A total of 30,407 witnessed the day's matches. St Kilda won the lighting premiership competition, defeating Richmond in the final by 24 points. It was the first premiership of any kind at any grade that the St Kilda Football Club had won in its history.


1940 VFL Lightning Premiership
This was the first time a lightning premiership had been contested in the VFL. The tournament was played to raise money for the Patriotic Fund during World War II; similar tournaments were held in other leagues, including the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), around the same time.


1940 VFL Lightning Premiership, Format
The Patriotic Premiership was staged as a knock-out tournament amongst the twelve VFL teams on a single day. Because twelve teams is not enough for a balanced knock-out tournament, the draw was arranged such that the teams which occupied the bottom four places on the league ladder at the time of the tournament had an easier path to the final.


1940 VFL Lightning Premiership, Format
Each match lasted for twenty minutes, without time-on, played in a single continuous period.


1940 VFL season
The 1940 Victorian Football League season was the 44th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.


1940 VFL season, Premiership season
In 1940, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.


1940 VFL season, Premiership season
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.


1940 VFL season, Premiership season
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1940 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system.


1940 VFL season, Grand final
Melbourne defeated Richmond 15.17 (107) to 10.8 (68), in front of a crowd of 69,061 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).


1940 VPI Gobblers football team
The 1940 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1940 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Henry Redd and finished with a record of five wins and five losses (5–5).


1940 VPI Gobblers football team, Players
The following players were members of the 1940 football team according to the roster published in the 1941 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1940 college football season. The Commodores were led by Red Sanders, in his first season as head coach. Members of the Southeastern Conference, Vanderbilt went 3–6–1 overall and 1–5–1 in conference play. The Commodores played their seven home games at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee.


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
The 1940 season was coach Sanders only losing season as a head coach. The Commodores opened the 1940 season with a win over Washington and Lee and a loss to Princeton. Next on the schedule was Kentucky, which was favored to win the game. The game was played in Dudley Field. Fred Russell of the Nashville Banner recommended to Vanderbilt Coach Red Sanders that he hire Paul "Bear" Bryant  to his staff. On Thursday October 10, 1940, Sanders was taken to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. The Tennessean reported:


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
"Paul (Bear) Bryant, line coach who took over the head man's job yesterday when Sanders had his inflamed appendix whacked out, was doubtful last night if Ellis would be of much service. In fact, he was not counting on starting him but hoped that he would be available for some duty."


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
"The loss of Sanders, who is not apt to be back on the practice field for two weeks, if that soon, was a jolt. Bryant is thoroughly capable of handling the Commodores, but the absence of Sanders leaves him with two tasks to perform and it requires a super man for such an undertaking."


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
Before the game, Sanders talked to the team by telephone from the hospital bed at Vanderbilt. The game ended in a tie Kentucky 7-7.


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
Bryant had this to say after coaching his first game as an acting head coach:


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
"I couldn’t ask a bunch of boys to play a better game than they did today. Bob Gude played the greatest game at center I’ve ever seen. Roy Huggins was marvelous. (Dan) Walton, (Mac) Peebles, (William) McElreath, (Eddie) Atkinson, (Blinks) Bushmiser—well, all of them gave a wonderful exhibition. It's too bad they didn’t win after rising to such great heights. I’m thoroughly satisfied with their play.


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
"We were in the worst physical condition we have been in the season and I am still wondering how some of them stayed in there as well as they did. These boys certainly are fighters and they’ve got plenty of guts. It's hard to beat that kind of team."


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
Bryant wrote in his autobiography Bear: My Hard Life & Good Times As Alabama's Head Coach, published in 1974:


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
"The night before the game I went out into the country and puked my guts out. My big chance. All I really had to do was give them that lineup. Instead I coached a 7-0 victory into a 7-7 tie. Kentucky didn’t have a great team. We struggled along and finally went ahead in the first half when an Irish kid named Flanagan, our tailback passed for a touchdown."


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
"So in the second half I didn’t let Flanagan throw any more passes. And Kentucky tied the game in the fourth quarter. Naturally I thought the officials cheated us somehow, else we’d have won. No young coach is going to believe he lost on his own merit. Preacher Franklin, who has a Coca-Cola distributorship in Birmingham now and is one of my television sponsors, was the Vanderbilt team manager, and he always had my ear."


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
"Preacher wanted me to go out there and kill the referee, a distinguished gentleman named Bill McMasters. Preacher had on his white coveralls and he was hopping around egging me on. He was like that. Even today when we lose old Preach thinks we got cheated."


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
"I had made a couple of steps towards McMasters, who was looking at me out of one eye, when Bernie Shiveley, the Kentucky athletic director, came up from behind and put his big arms around me and pulled me away. If he hadn’t I’d probably got thrown out of football before my time. I didn’t get to say a word."


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
Mickey Flanagan played for Vanderbilt in 1939–40. One of the referee's calls that must have irritated Bryant was described in The Tennessean:


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
"The break that turned victory for the turned, worn-out and reeling Commodores into a tie came when the officials called a slugging penalty in the fading minutes just after Noah Mullins, Kentucky right halfback, had wiggled through the Vanderbilt line for 21 yards to place the ball only 22 yards from goal."


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
"Art Rebrovich, Vandy's 165-pound back, was accused of slugging and with his ejection from the game went an 11-yard penalty. Three plays later Charley Ishmael, Cat fullback who was supposed to have had a sprained ankle, shot through right guard and into the end zone for the touchdown. Hardly a hand touched him."


1940 Vanderbilt Commodores football team, Bear Bryant
Sanders was able to come back the next week to travel to Georgia Tech. Vanderbilt finished with a 3-6-1 record including a 25-21 loss to 17th ranked Alabama. The 1941 Commodores club was 8-2 with a 7-0 upset victory over 7th ranked Alabama and was the last year for coach Bryant at Vanderbilt.


1940 Venezuelan Primera División season
The 1940 season of the Venezuelan Primera División, the top category of Venezuelan football, was played by 6 teams. The national champions were Unión.


1940 Vermont Catamounts football team
The 1940 Vermont Catamounts football team was an American football team that represented  the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In their first year under head coach John C. Evans, the team compiled a 4–4 record.


1940 Vermont gubernatorial election
The 1940 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1940. Incumbent Republican George Aiken did not run for re-election to a third term as Governor of Vermont, instead running for the United States Senate. Republican candidate William H. Wills defeated Democratic candidate John McGrath to succeed him.


1940 Victorian Legislative Council election
Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 15 June 1940 to elect 17 of the 34 members of the state's Legislative Council for six year terms. MLC were elected using preferential voting.


1940 Victorian Legislative Council election, Results, Legislative Council
Victorian Legislative Council election, 15 June 1940Legislative Council << 1937–1943 >>


1940 Victorian Legislative Council election, Candidates
Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.


1940 Victorian state election
The 1940 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 16 March 1940 to elect 44 of the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.


1940 Victorian state election, Background
Several events had taken place since the previous state election on 2 October 1937, which had changed the breakdown of the parties in the Assembly:


1940 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly
Victorian state election, 16 March 1940Legislative Assembly << 1937–1943 >>


1940 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 1940 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1940 college football season. The head coach was Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith, coaching his fifth season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania.


1940 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 1940 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1940 college football season. The Cavaliers were led by fourth-year head coach Frank Murray and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as independents, finishing with a record of 4–5.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering
In late 1940, the Commonwealth of Virginia renumbered some of its state highways in order to provide continuous numbers across state lines. At the same time, Maryland, North Carolina, and West Virginia took part by renumbering some of their highways to match Virginia's, and Tennessee planned to renumber one of its highways but never did.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 3 was eliminated northwest of Sperryville by State Route 261 (now State Route 739) and State Route 522 (a placeholder for the extension of U.S. Route 522 into Virginia).


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 4, which had not existed immediately prior to 1940, was assigned as a renumbering of State Route 84 to match Kentucky Route 4. This is now U.S. Route 460.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 7 was eliminated northwest of Winchester and replaced by State Route 522 (a placeholder for the extension of U.S. Route 522 into Virginia).


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
Former State Route 9 was split between State Route 120 and State Route 123. The State Route 9 designation was then used as a renumbering of State Route 238 to match West Virginia Route 9.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 10 south of Suffolk became State Route 32 to match North Carolina Highway 32.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
U.S. Route 15 was relocated between Warrenton and Gilberts Corner. The old alignment became an extension of State Route 17 (to match Maryland Route 17), while the new alignment replaced a secondary route and part of State Route 234.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
Former State Route 16 was renumbered State Route 27. This allowed State Route 16 to be used for all of former State Route 92 from North Carolina to Mouth of Wilson, followed US 58 to Volney, State Route 88 from Volney to Tazewell, and part of former State Route 81 from Tazewell to West Virginia. In North Carolina, North Carolina Highway 16 was rerouted over former North Carolina Highway 681 to match, while the former NC 16 to Tennessee became North Carolina Highway 88. West Virginia Route 12, at least near the Virginia line, became an extension of West Virginia Route 16.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 17, which continued U.S. Route 17 northwest from Fredericksburg to Opal, was extended over U.S. Route 15 from Opal to Warrenton, former US 15 from Warrenton to Middleburg, secondary routes from Middleburg to south of Purcellville, and the northern piece of State Route 234 through Purcellville to Maryland. This is now U.S. Route 17, State Route 245, secondary routes, and State Route 287. Maryland swapped its Maryland Route 17 and Maryland Route 33 to match; SR 287's connection in Maryland is still MD 17. (The number 33 could not be used in Virginia because of U.S. Route 33.)


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 27 was renumbered as State Route 170. On the North Carolina side, North Carolina Highway 170, which had ended at Sligo, was extended north along former North Carolina Highway 34. This is now State Route 168 and North Carolina Highway 168. The State Route 27 designation was reused for former State Route 16.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 32 had run from Boykins west to Emporia, north to Purdy, and east through Jarratt. A short piece from Boykins to Branchville became an extension of State Route 195, which had ended at Branchville. SR 32 from Branchville to Purdy became a new State Route 88, and the piece east from Purdy became an extension of State Route 137. This had the effect of freeing up the State Route 32 designation for a renumbering of State Route 10 south of Suffolk to match North Carolina Highway 32.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 34, which had run from Kenbridge via Lawrenceville to North Carolina, was eliminated. It became State Route 46 to match North Carolina Highway 46, but was realigned to end at Blackstone rather than Kenbridge; State Route 137 (which had run to Blackstone) was rerouted over former SR 34 to Kenbridge.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 37, from Petersburg east to Garysville, was renumbered State Route 106. This freed up State Route 37 (now U.S. Route 13) to match North Carolina Highway 37, replacing all of State Route 53.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 38 was extended northwest from Amelia along former State Route 49 to Tobaccoville. This eliminated an overlap with SR 49 and U.S. Route 360 southwest of Amelia; SR 49 north of Tobaccoville was replaced by the extension of U.S. Route 522 into Virginia.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 39, from near Wylliesburg north to Pamplin City, became an extension of State Route 47. This freed up State Route 39 as a renumbering of State Route 501 (an extension of US 501) to match West Virginia Route 39; West Virginia was "not... able to change location of Rt. 501 through their State." The original plan would have left Routes 39 and 501 unchanged.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 46, from Barnes Junction to Boydton, became part of an extension of State Route 47 from Barnes Junction to Chase City and a new State Route 92 from Chase City to Boydton. The State Route 46 designation was thus freed to match North Carolina Highway 46 as a renumbering of State Route 34, but the north end was swapped with State Route 137 to end at Blackstone rather than Kenbridge.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 47, which had run from South Hill west to Chase City, was extended west over part of State Route 46 to Barnes Junction, north over U.S. Route 15 to near Wylliesburg, and north replacing all of State Route 39 to Pamplin City. This allowed State Route 39 to be used to match West Virginia Route 39. The original plan would have left Route 47 unchanged.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 49, which had run north to Flint Hill, was greatly truncated to Burkeville; most of the old route, from near Powhatan north to Culpeper, became part of State Route 522 (a placeholder for the extension of U.S. Route 522). The non-concurrent piece between Burkeville and near Powhatan became an extension of State Route 38; the piece north of Culpeper became an extension of State Route 242. At the south end, SR 49 was truncated to Virgilina and taken to the North Carolina line there; the former route west from Virgilina became a new State Route 96. North Carolina Highway 49 was extended from Charlotte all the way to the state line, replacing many routes including most of North Carolina Highway 144.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 53 was renumbered State Route 37 to match North Carolina Highway 37.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
U.S. Route 58 was relocated to a new alignment between Damascus and Mouth of Wilson, replacing State Route 305. The old route mainly became part of State Route 91 from Damascus to Lodi, State Route 81 from Lodi to near Troutdale, and State Route 16 (both renumbered and lengthened from former State Route 81 and State Route 88) from Troutdale to Mouth of Wilson.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 59 was renumbered as State Route 83 to match West Virginia Route 83, and State Route 59 was used on former State Route 261 to match West Virginia Route 59.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 64, from the Tennessee state line to Lebanon, was renumbered as part of a realigned State Route 71 from Lebanon to Dickensonville, overlapped US 58 from Dickensonville to St. Paul, State Route 70 from St. Paul to east of Dryden, State Route 65 from east of Dryden to Pennington Gap, State Route 70 from Pennington Gap]to Tennessee. State Route 64 was used on the old route of State Route 71 from Dickensonville to Hansonville, and on former State Route 70 from Banners Corner to Fremont.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 65, from Dot to Kentucky, was renumbered as part of State Route 66 to match Kentucky, and State Route 65 was used to replace part of State Route 64 from east of Dryden to Woodway.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 66, from east of Dryden Pennington Gap, was renumbered as part of State Route 70, and State Route 66  was used on former State Route 70 from Banners Corner to Pattonsville, and State Route 65, from Dot to Kentucky to match Kentucky Route 66.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 67 was renumbered as State Route 160 to match Kentucky Route 160, and State Route 67 was used on former State Route 83.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 70 was renumbered as State Route 66, from Pattonsville to Banners Corner and as State Route 64 from Banners Corner to Fremont, and State Route 70 was used on former State Route 64 from St. Paul to east of Dryden, State Route 66  from east of Dryden to Pennington Gap, and State Route 64 from Pennington Gap to Tennessee to match Tennessee State Route 70.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 71 was realigned over State Route 64 from Dickensonville to Lebanon. The section of State Route 71 from Dickensonville to Hansonville was renumbered as State Route 64.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 75 was renumbered as State Route 77, and State Route 75 was reused on former State Route 77 to match Tennessee State Route 75.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 77 was renumbered as State Route 75 to match Tennessee State Route 75, and State Route 77 was reused on former State Route 75.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 78 was renumbered as part of State Route 91, and State Route 78 was used on former State Route 87.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 81 was renumbered as part of State Route 91 from Lodi to Frog Level, and part of State Route 16 from Tazewell to West Virginia, and State Route 81 was used on the former alignment of U.S. Route 58 from Lodi to Troutdale, and State Route 91 from Cedar Springs to Speedwell.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 83 was renumbered as State Route 67, and State Route 83 was used on former State Route 59 to match West Virginia Route 83.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 84 was renumbered as State Route 4 to match Kentucky Route 4, and State Route 84 was used on former State Route 271 to match West Virginia Route 84.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 87 was renumbered as State Route 78, and State Route 87 was used on former State Route 106 to match North Carolina Highway 87.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 88 from Volney to Tazewell was renumbered as part of State Route 16, and State Route 88 was used as a renumbering of the portion of State Route 32 from Branchville to Purdy.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 89, which had not existed immediately prior to 1940, was assigned as a renumbering of State Route 96 to match North Carolina Highway 89.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 91 was renumbered as State Route 81, and State Route 91 was used on former State Route 81 from Frog Level to Lodi, former U.S. Route 58 from Lodi to Damascus and former State Route 78 from Damascus to Tennessee to match Tennessee State Route 91.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 92 from North Carolina to Mouth of Wilson was renumbered as part of State Route 16 to match North Carolina Highway 16, and State Route 92 was used on part of former State Route 46 from Chase City to Boydton.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 96 was renumbered as State Route 89 to match North Carolina Highway 89, and State Route 96 was used on the portion of State Route 49 west of Virgilina to match North Carolina Highway 96 (which was renumbered from North Carolina Highway 562).


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 106 was renumbered as State Route 87 to match North Carolina Highway 87, and State Route 106 was used on former State Route 37.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 120 was renumbered as State Route 245, and State Route 120 was used on part of former State Route 9.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 123 was renumbered as State Route 320, and State Route 123 was used on part of former State Route 9.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 137 was realigned over part of State Route 34 from Danieltown to Kenbridge and extended over part of State Route 32 from Purdy east through Jarratt. The old route from Danieltown to Blackstone was renumbered as part of State Route 46. (which replaced the remainder of State Route 34).


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
U.S. Route 258 was created in Virginia, replacing the section of U.S. Route 158 (which was rerouted so that it no longer goes through Virginia) northeast of Murfreesboro in Virginia, and State Route 158 was renumbered as State Route 258 to match the highway number (which became part of US 258 in 1945), and State Route 258 was renumbered as State Route 158.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 160 was renumbered as State Route 271, and State Route 160 was used on former State Route 67 to match Kentucky Route 160.


1940 Virginia state highway renumbering, List of renumbered routes
State Route 170 was renumbered as State Route 238. State Route 170 was reused on former State Route 27 to match North Carolina Highway 170.