1940 United States presidential election in Kansas
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Elections in Kansas |
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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[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Kansas was won by Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 56.86 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary Henry A. Wallace, with 42.40 percent of the popular vote.[3][4] This was the first time since 1896 that Kansas voted for a losing candidate, and the first time since 1884 that the state backed a losing Republican in a presidential election.
With 56.86 percent 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.[5]
Results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Wendell Willkie | 489,169 | 56.86% | |
Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) | 364,725 | 42.40% | |
Prohibition | Roger Babson | 4,056 | 0.47% | |
Socialist | Norman Thomas | 2,347 | 0.27% | |
Total votes | 860,297 | 100% |
Results by county
[edit]1940 United States presidential election in Kansas by county[6][7] | |||||||||||
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County | Wendell Lewis Willkie Republican |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic |
Roger Ward Babson Prohibition |
Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Allen | 6,376 | 66.42% | 3,178 | 33.10% | 34 | 0.35% | 12 | 0.13% | 3,198 | 33.31% | 9,600 |
Anderson | 3,886 | 64.41% | 2,114 | 35.04% | 21 | 0.35% | 12 | 0.20% | 1,772 | 29.37% | 6,033 |
Atchison | 5,921 | 56.07% | 4,557 | 43.15% | 55 | 0.52% | 27 | 0.26% | 1,364 | 12.92% | 10,560 |
Barber | 2,389 | 52.84% | 2,074 | 45.87% | 41 | 0.91% | 17 | 0.38% | 315 | 6.97% | 4,521 |
Barton | 6,011 | 54.43% | 4,982 | 45.11% | 36 | 0.33% | 14 | 0.13% | 1,029 | 9.32% | 11,043 |
Bourbon | 5,751 | 53.61% | 4,898 | 45.66% | 64 | 0.60% | 14 | 0.13% | 853 | 7.95% | 10,727 |
Brown | 6,008 | 69.18% | 2,633 | 30.32% | 34 | 0.39% | 9 | 0.10% | 3,375 | 38.86% | 8,684 |
Butler | 7,619 | 49.60% | 7,615 | 49.58% | 108 | 0.70% | 18 | 0.12% | 4 | 0.03% | 15,360 |
Chase | 1,871 | 57.78% | 1,344 | 41.51% | 15 | 0.46% | 8 | 0.25% | 527 | 16.28% | 3,238 |
Chautauqua | 2,888 | 62.70% | 1,679 | 36.45% | 30 | 0.65% | 9 | 0.20% | 1,209 | 26.25% | 4,606 |
Cherokee | 6,600 | 49.27% | 6,670 | 49.79% | 61 | 0.46% | 65 | 0.49% | -70 | -0.52% | 13,396 |
Cheyenne | 1,760 | 64.14% | 971 | 35.39% | 8 | 0.29% | 5 | 0.18% | 789 | 28.75% | 2,744 |
Clark | 1,072 | 49.47% | 1,079 | 49.79% | 13 | 0.60% | 3 | 0.14% | -7 | -0.32% | 2,167 |
Clay | 4,699 | 68.74% | 2,067 | 30.24% | 46 | 0.67% | 24 | 0.35% | 2,632 | 38.50% | 6,836 |
Cloud | 5,275 | 60.44% | 3,327 | 38.12% | 99 | 1.13% | 27 | 0.31% | 1,948 | 22.32% | 8,728 |
Coffey | 4,164 | 64.26% | 2,272 | 35.06% | 32 | 0.49% | 12 | 0.19% | 1,892 | 29.20% | 6,480 |
Comanche | 1,322 | 59.50% | 880 | 39.60% | 14 | 0.63% | 6 | 0.27% | 442 | 19.89% | 2,222 |
Cowley | 9,684 | 53.99% | 8,115 | 45.25% | 100 | 0.56% | 36 | 0.20% | 1,569 | 8.75% | 17,935 |
Crawford | 10,143 | 47.68% | 11,002 | 51.71% | 64 | 0.30% | 66 | 0.31% | -859 | -4.04% | 21,275 |
Decatur | 2,018 | 56.16% | 1,546 | 43.03% | 16 | 0.45% | 13 | 0.36% | 472 | 13.14% | 3,593 |
Dickinson | 6,931 | 63.25% | 3,957 | 36.11% | 39 | 0.36% | 31 | 0.28% | 2,974 | 27.14% | 10,958 |
Doniphan | 4,204 | 67.70% | 1,986 | 31.98% | 9 | 0.14% | 11 | 0.18% | 2,218 | 35.72% | 6,210 |
Douglas | 9,146 | 70.28% | 3,727 | 28.64% | 47 | 0.36% | 94 | 0.72% | 5,419 | 41.64% | 13,014 |
Edwards | 1,886 | 60.14% | 1,219 | 38.87% | 26 | 0.83% | 5 | 0.16% | 667 | 21.27% | 3,136 |
Elk | 2,774 | 64.77% | 1,478 | 34.51% | 15 | 0.35% | 16 | 0.37% | 1,296 | 30.26% | 4,283 |
Ellis | 3,622 | 52.15% | 3,299 | 47.49% | 10 | 0.14% | 15 | 0.22% | 323 | 4.65% | 6,946 |
Ellsworth | 2,658 | 54.13% | 2,237 | 45.56% | 5 | 0.10% | 10 | 0.20% | 421 | 8.57% | 4,910 |
Finney | 2,349 | 53.39% | 2,027 | 46.07% | 14 | 0.32% | 10 | 0.23% | 322 | 7.32% | 4,400 |
Ford | 4,356 | 51.97% | 3,954 | 47.17% | 52 | 0.62% | 20 | 0.24% | 402 | 4.80% | 8,382 |
Franklin | 6,393 | 63.80% | 3,542 | 35.35% | 46 | 0.46% | 39 | 0.39% | 2,851 | 28.45% | 10,020 |
Geary | 2,840 | 52.65% | 2,504 | 46.42% | 24 | 0.44% | 26 | 0.48% | 336 | 6.23% | 5,394 |
Gove | 1,352 | 66.31% | 659 | 32.32% | 7 | 0.34% | 21 | 1.03% | 693 | 33.99% | 2,039 |
Graham | 1,804 | 60.97% | 1,135 | 38.36% | 9 | 0.30% | 11 | 0.37% | 669 | 22.61% | 2,959 |
Grant | 614 | 61.03% | 382 | 37.97% | 7 | 0.70% | 3 | 0.30% | 232 | 23.06% | 1,006 |
Gray | 1,056 | 51.87% | 962 | 47.25% | 13 | 0.64% | 5 | 0.25% | 94 | 4.62% | 2,036 |
Greeley | 497 | 64.55% | 268 | 34.81% | 2 | 0.26% | 3 | 0.39% | 229 | 29.74% | 770 |
Greenwood | 4,893 | 60.34% | 3,160 | 38.97% | 37 | 0.46% | 19 | 0.23% | 1,733 | 21.37% | 8,109 |
Hamilton | 798 | 57.95% | 569 | 41.32% | 6 | 0.44% | 4 | 0.29% | 229 | 16.63% | 1,377 |
Harper | 3,205 | 55.73% | 2,478 | 43.09% | 45 | 0.78% | 23 | 0.40% | 727 | 12.64% | 5,751 |
Harvey | 5,539 | 56.76% | 4,087 | 41.88% | 65 | 0.67% | 68 | 0.70% | 1,452 | 14.88% | 9,759 |
Haskell | 607 | 58.48% | 425 | 40.94% | 4 | 0.39% | 2 | 0.19% | 182 | 17.53% | 1,038 |
Hodgeman | 1,092 | 60.87% | 690 | 38.46% | 6 | 0.33% | 6 | 0.33% | 402 | 22.41% | 1,794 |
Jackson | 4,306 | 63.92% | 2,397 | 35.58% | 23 | 0.34% | 11 | 0.16% | 1,909 | 28.34% | 6,737 |
Jefferson | 4,330 | 65.81% | 2,212 | 33.62% | 14 | 0.21% | 24 | 0.36% | 2,118 | 32.19% | 6,580 |
Jewell | 4,591 | 71.57% | 1,719 | 26.80% | 69 | 1.08% | 36 | 0.56% | 2,872 | 44.77% | 6,415 |
Johnson | 10,326 | 63.97% | 5,770 | 35.75% | 30 | 0.19% | 16 | 0.10% | 4,556 | 28.22% | 16,142 |
Kearny | 721 | 58.00% | 519 | 41.75% | 3 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 202 | 16.25% | 1,243 |
Kingman | 3,068 | 54.35% | 2,528 | 44.78% | 38 | 0.67% | 11 | 0.19% | 540 | 9.57% | 5,645 |
Kiowa | 1,571 | 64.10% | 844 | 34.43% | 30 | 1.22% | 6 | 0.24% | 727 | 29.66% | 2,451 |
Labette | 8,210 | 54.17% | 6,860 | 45.26% | 58 | 0.38% | 29 | 0.19% | 1,350 | 8.91% | 15,157 |
Lane | 888 | 60.78% | 557 | 38.12% | 7 | 0.48% | 9 | 0.62% | 331 | 22.66% | 1,461 |
Leavenworth | 8,503 | 58.25% | 6,053 | 41.46% | 18 | 0.13% | 24 | 0.17% | 2,450 | 16.78% | 14,598 |
Lincoln | 2,822 | 67.69% | 1,301 | 31.21% | 31 | 0.74% | 15 | 0.36% | 1,521 | 36.48% | 4,169 |
Linn | 4,086 | 66.04% | 2,067 | 33.41% | 17 | 0.27% | 17 | 0.27% | 2,019 | 32.63% | 6,187 |
Logan | 1,201 | 66.83% | 584 | 32.50% | 6 | 0.33% | 6 | 0.33% | 617 | 34.34% | 1,797 |
Lyon | 6,918 | 52.33% | 6,170 | 46.68% | 90 | 0.68% | 41 | 0.31% | 748 | 5.66% | 13,219 |
Marion | 5,764 | 67.44% | 2,724 | 31.87% | 26 | 0.30% | 33 | 0.39% | 3,040 | 35.57% | 8,547 |
Marshall | 7,286 | 66.65% | 3,588 | 32.82% | 17 | 0.16% | 40 | 0.37% | 3,698 | 33.83% | 10,931 |
McPherson | 6,732 | 60.24% | 4,240 | 37.94% | 136 | 1.22% | 68 | 0.61% | 2,492 | 22.30% | 11,176 |
Meade | 1,618 | 61.13% | 970 | 36.65% | 53 | 2.00% | 6 | 0.23% | 648 | 24.48% | 2,647 |
Miami | 5,178 | 56.77% | 3,900 | 42.76% | 18 | 0.20% | 25 | 0.27% | 1,278 | 14.01% | 9,121 |
Mitchell | 3,681 | 63.55% | 2,060 | 35.57% | 32 | 0.55% | 19 | 0.33% | 1,621 | 27.99% | 5,792 |
Montgomery | 13,781 | 57.68% | 9,999 | 41.85% | 68 | 0.28% | 46 | 0.19% | 3,782 | 15.83% | 23,894 |
Morris | 3,276 | 61.64% | 1,992 | 37.48% | 21 | 0.40% | 26 | 0.49% | 1,284 | 24.16% | 5,315 |
Morton | 643 | 55.72% | 503 | 43.59% | 5 | 0.43% | 3 | 0.26% | 140 | 12.13% | 1,154 |
Nemaha | 5,178 | 65.64% | 2,679 | 33.96% | 13 | 0.16% | 19 | 0.24% | 2,499 | 31.68% | 7,889 |
Neosho | 6,556 | 59.43% | 4,419 | 40.06% | 29 | 0.26% | 27 | 0.24% | 2,137 | 19.37% | 11,031 |
Ness | 1,826 | 58.68% | 1,230 | 39.52% | 37 | 1.19% | 19 | 0.61% | 596 | 19.15% | 3,112 |
Norton | 3,415 | 70.28% | 1,378 | 28.36% | 33 | 0.68% | 33 | 0.68% | 2,037 | 41.92% | 4,859 |
Osage | 4,991 | 60.52% | 3,186 | 38.63% | 44 | 0.53% | 26 | 0.32% | 1,805 | 21.89% | 8,247 |
Osborne | 3,424 | 68.55% | 1,488 | 29.79% | 62 | 1.24% | 21 | 0.42% | 1,936 | 38.76% | 4,995 |
Ottawa | 2,810 | 57.06% | 2,065 | 41.93% | 29 | 0.59% | 21 | 0.43% | 745 | 15.13% | 4,925 |
Pawnee | 2,329 | 50.77% | 2,216 | 48.31% | 22 | 0.48% | 20 | 0.44% | 113 | 2.46% | 4,587 |
Phillips | 3,676 | 69.49% | 1,563 | 29.55% | 40 | 0.76% | 11 | 0.21% | 2,113 | 39.94% | 5,290 |
Pottawatomie | 5,045 | 69.12% | 2,226 | 30.50% | 15 | 0.21% | 13 | 0.18% | 2,819 | 38.62% | 7,299 |
Pratt | 2,930 | 49.94% | 2,870 | 48.92% | 45 | 0.77% | 22 | 0.37% | 60 | 1.02% | 5,867 |
Rawlins | 1,758 | 58.02% | 1,247 | 41.16% | 15 | 0.50% | 10 | 0.33% | 511 | 16.86% | 3,030 |
Reno | 12,448 | 53.64% | 10,543 | 45.43% | 138 | 0.59% | 79 | 0.34% | 1,905 | 8.21% | 23,208 |
Republic | 4,450 | 63.54% | 2,511 | 35.86% | 25 | 0.36% | 17 | 0.24% | 1,939 | 27.69% | 7,003 |
Rice | 4,792 | 56.49% | 3,635 | 42.85% | 39 | 0.46% | 17 | 0.20% | 1,157 | 13.64% | 8,483 |
Riley | 7,420 | 68.59% | 3,293 | 30.44% | 45 | 0.39% | 60 | 0.52% | 4,127 | 38.15% | 10,818 |
Rooks | 2,590 | 60.61% | 1,650 | 38.61% | 23 | 0.54% | 10 | 0.23% | 940 | 22.00% | 4,273 |
Rush | 2,394 | 59.84% | 1,588 | 39.69% | 10 | 0.25% | 9 | 0.22% | 806 | 20.14% | 4,001 |
Russell | 3,714 | 58.56% | 2,579 | 40.67% | 40 | 0.63% | 9 | 0.14% | 1,135 | 17.90% | 6,342 |
Saline | 7,975 | 54.69% | 6,514 | 44.67% | 57 | 0.39% | 35 | 0.24% | 1,461 | 10.02% | 14,581 |
Scott | 988 | 57.24% | 717 | 41.54% | 15 | 0.87% | 6 | 0.35% | 271 | 15.70% | 1,726 |
Sedgwick | 32,160 | 48.05% | 34,219 | 51.13% | 394 | 0.59% | 153 | 0.23% | -2,059 | -3.08% | 66,926 |
Seward | 1,503 | 49.65% | 1,474 | 48.70% | 44 | 1.45% | 6 | 0.20% | 29 | 0.96% | 3,027 |
Shawnee | 23,882 | 54.96% | 19,375 | 44.59% | 113 | 0.26% | 84 | 0.19% | 4,507 | 10.37% | 43,454 |
Sheridan | 1,492 | 62.06% | 903 | 37.56% | 5 | 0.21% | 4 | 0.17% | 589 | 24.50% | 2,404 |
Sherman | 1,569 | 52.16% | 1,399 | 46.51% | 17 | 0.57% | 23 | 0.76% | 170 | 5.65% | 3,008 |
Smith | 3,630 | 65.58% | 1,855 | 33.51% | 42 | 0.76% | 8 | 0.14% | 1,775 | 32.07% | 5,535 |
Stafford | 2,795 | 52.17% | 2,509 | 46.84% | 38 | 0.71% | 15 | 0.28% | 286 | 5.34% | 5,357 |
Stanton | 378 | 54.62% | 301 | 43.50% | 13 | 1.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 77 | 11.13% | 692 |
Stevens | 851 | 55.05% | 674 | 43.60% | 19 | 1.23% | 2 | 0.13% | 177 | 11.45% | 1,546 |
Sumner | 6,585 | 51.86% | 5,988 | 47.16% | 94 | 0.74% | 31 | 0.24% | 597 | 4.70% | 12,698 |
Thomas | 1,721 | 54.20% | 1,423 | 44.82% | 17 | 0.54% | 14 | 0.44% | 298 | 9.39% | 3,175 |
Trego | 1,571 | 57.59% | 1,140 | 41.79% | 10 | 0.37% | 7 | 0.26% | 431 | 15.80% | 2,728 |
Wabaunsee | 3,481 | 73.64% | 1,212 | 25.64% | 16 | 0.34% | 18 | 0.38% | 2,269 | 48.00% | 4,727 |
Wallace | 756 | 67.08% | 361 | 32.03% | 6 | 0.53% | 4 | 0.35% | 395 | 35.05% | 1,127 |
Washington | 5,792 | 73.29% | 2,061 | 26.08% | 31 | 0.39% | 19 | 0.24% | 3,731 | 47.21% | 7,903 |
Wichita | 644 | 59.08% | 433 | 39.72% | 8 | 0.73% | 5 | 0.46% | 211 | 19.36% | 1,090 |
Wilson | 5,288 | 64.42% | 2,859 | 34.83% | 50 | 0.61% | 12 | 0.15% | 2,429 | 29.59% | 8,209 |
Woodson | 2,637 | 64.87% | 1,398 | 34.39% | 19 | 0.47% | 11 | 0.27% | 1,239 | 30.48% | 4,065 |
Wyandotte | 28,152 | 42.24% | 38,239 | 57.38% | 158 | 0.24% | 94 | 0.14% | -10,087 | -15.14% | 66,643 |
Totals | 489,169 | 56.86% | 364,725 | 42.40% | 4,056 | 0.47% | 2,347 | 0.27% | 124,444 | 14.47% | 860,297 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
[edit]- Atchison
- Barton
- Barber
- Bourbon
- Butler
- Chase
- Cheyenne
- Cloud
- Cowley
- Comanche
- Decatur
- Edwards
- Ellis
- Ellsworth
- Ford
- Finney
- Geary
- Grant
- Gray
- Graham
- Greenwood
- Harper
- Hamilton
- Haskell
- Harvey
- Hodgeman
- Kearny
- Kingman
- Kiowa
- Labette
- Lane
- Lincoln
- Lyon
- Marion
- McPherson
- Meade
- Mitchell
- Morris
- Morton
- Nemaha
- Ness
- Ottawa
- Pawnee
- Pratt
- Rawlins
- Rice
- Reno
- Rooks
- Rush
- Russell
- Saline
- Scott
- Seward
- Shawnee
- Sherman
- Sheridan
- Stafford
- Stanton
- Stevens
- Thomas
- Wichita
- Trego
- Sumner
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1940 — Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved August 19, 2018.
- ^ "1940 Election for the Thirty-ninth Term (1941-45)". Retrieved August 19, 2018.
- ^ "1940 Presidential General Election Results — Kansas". Retrieved August 19, 2018.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project — Election of 1940". Retrieved August 19, 2018.
- ^ "1940 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 167-168 ISBN 0405077114
- ^ "KS US President Race, November 05, 1940". Our Campaigns.