1940 United States presidential election in Alabama

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1940 United States presidential election in Alabama
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Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Wendell Willkie
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York New York
Running mate Henry A. Wallace Charles L. McNary
Electoral vote 11 0
Popular vote 250,726 42,184
Percentage 85.22% 14.34%
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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.

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. [1]

Results[]

1940 United States presidential election in Alabama
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) 250,726 85.22%
Republican Wendell Willkie 42,184 14.34%
Prohibition Roger Babson 700 0.24%
Communist Earl Browder 501 0.17%
Socialist Norman Thomas 100 0.03%
Total votes 294,211 100.00%

Results by county[]

County Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic 		Wendell Willkie
Republican 		Roger Babson[2]
Prohibition 		Earl Browder[2]
Communist 		Norman Thomas[2]
Socialist 		Margin Total votes cast[3]
# % # % # % # % # % # %
Autauga 1,630 93.62% 99 5.69% 10 0.57% 2 0.11% 0 0.00% 1,531 87.94% 1,741
Baldwin 2,681 76.58% 617 17.62% 24 0.72% 12 0.36% 5 0.15% 2,064 61.85% 3,501
Barbour 2,328 95.88% 90 3.71% 7 0.29% 3 0.12% 0 0.00% 2,238 92.17% 2,428
Bibb 1,821 90.51% 173 8.60% 9 0.45% 9 0.45% 0 0.00% 1,647 81.90% 2,012
Blount 2,784 75.71% 855 23.25% 32 0.87% 5 0.14% 1 0.03% 1,929 52.46% 3,677
Bullock 1,301 98.64% 18 1.36% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,283 97.27% 1,319
Butler 2,732 97.99% 52 1.87% 1 0.04% 3 0.11% 0 0.00% 2,680 96.13% 2,788
Calhoun 4,408 86.89% 645 12.71% 16 0.32% 2 0.04% 0 0.00% 3,764 74.21% 5,073
Chambers 4,141 97.16% 110 2.58% 10 0.23% 1 0.02% 0 0.00% 4,031 94.58% 4,262
Cherokee 2,617 86.94% 381 12.66% 10 0.33% 1 0.03% 1 0.03% 2,236 74.29% 3,010
Chilton 2,746 57.80% 1,995 41.99% 5 0.11% 5 0.11% 0 0.00% 751 15.81% 4,751
Choctaw 2,023 96.52% 73 3.48% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,950 93.03% 2,096
Clarke 3,753 98.71% 48 1.26% 1 0.03% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 3,705 97.45% 3,802
Clay 2,153 71.22% 854 28.25% 6 0.20% 10 0.33% 0 0.00% 1,299 42.97% 3,023
Cleburne 1,369 75.72% 434 24.00% 4 0.19% 1 0.05% 0 0.00% 1,205 57.99% 1,808
Coffee 2,226 93.88% 145 6.12% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,081 87.77% 2,371
Colbert 3,998 91.47% 365 8.35% 4 0.09% 1 0.02% 3 0.07% 3,633 83.12% 4,371
Conecuh 2,345 97.71% 50 2.08% 5 0.21% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,295 95.63% 2,400
Coosa 1,347 80.32% 317 18.90% 11 0.66% 2 0.12% 0 0.00% 1,030 61.42% 1,677
Covington 4,635 96.08% 186 3.86% 2 0.04% 1 0.02% 0 0.00% 4,449 92.23% 4,824
Crenshaw 2,680 96.65% 84 3.03% 7 0.25% 2 0.07% 0 0.00% 2,596 93.62% 2,773
Cullman 5,603 64.51% 3,057 35.19% 11 0.13% 11 0.13% 4 0.05% 2,546 29.31% 8,686
Dale 2,543 87.03% 374 12.80% 1 0.03% 4 0.14% 0 0.00% 2,169 74.23% 2,922
Dallas 3,106 95.10% 157 4.81% 2 0.06% 1 0.03% 0 0.00% 2,949 90.29% 3,266
DeKalb 5,432 65.77% 2,810 34.02% 13 0.16% 2 0.02% 2 0.02% 2,622 31.75% 8,259
Elmore 4,267 96.54% 144 3.26% 7 0.16% 2 0.05% 0 0.00% 4,123 93.28% 4,420
Escambia 2,772 95.03% 137 4.70% 5 0.17% 3 0.10% 0 0.00% 2,635 90.33% 2,917
Etowah 7,012 84.33% 1,270 15.27% 27 0.32% 4 0.05% 2 0.02% 5,742 69.06% 8,315
Fayette 2,091 73.42% 737 25.88% 10 0.35% 10 0.35% 0 0.00% 1,354 47.54% 2,848
Franklin 3,523 63.67% 1,989 35.95% 8 0.14% 12 0.22% 1 0.02% 1,534 27.72% 5,533
Geneva 2,565 87.19% 364 12.37% 6 0.20% 7 0.24% 0 0.00% 2,201 74.81% 2,942
Greene 894 92.07% 77 7.93% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 817 84.14% 971
Hale 1,691 98.14% 32 1.86% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,659 96.29% 1,723
Henry 1,960 96.50% 69 3.40% 2 0.10% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,891 93.11% 2,031
Houston 3,941 88.78% 483 10.88% 13 0.29% 2 0.05% 0 0.00% 3,458 77.90% 4,439
Jackson 3,818 80.01% 945 19.80% 7 0.15% 2 0.04% 0 0.00% 2,873 60.21% 4,772
Jefferson 37,110 84.34% 6,714 15.26% 105 0.24% 52 0.12% 19 0.04% 30,395 69.08% 44,001
Lamar 2,665 90.28% 275 9.32% 8 0.27% 4 0.14% 0 0.00% 2,391 80.97% 2,952
Lauderdale 5,065 90.35% 507 9.04% 19 0.34% 10 0.18% 4 0.07% 4,558 81.32% 5,606
Lawrence 2,277 82.23% 480 17.33% 2 0.07% 10 0.36% 0 0.00% 1,797 64.90% 2,769
Lee 2,566 95.96% 103 3.85% 4 0.15% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 2,463 92.11% 2,674
Limestone 2,941 96.58% 95 3.12% 9 0.30% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,846 93.46% 3,045
Lowndes 1,132 98.86% 12 1.05% 1 0.09% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,120 97.82% 1,145
Macon 1,259 96.77% 41 3.15% 1 0.08% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,218 93.62% 1,301
Madison 5,515 90.44% 566 9.28% 9 0.15% 3 0.05% 5 0.08% 4,959 81.46% 6,098
Marengo 2,284 96.94% 70 2.97% 2 0.08% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 2,214 93.97% 2,356
Marion 2,654 69.64% 1,081 28.37% 12 0.31% 64 1.68% 0 0.00% 1,573 41.28% 3,811
Marshall 4,142 81.55% 913 17.98% 18 0.35% 4 0.08% 2 0.04% 3,229 63.58% 5,079
Mobile 11,480 85.08% 1,887 13.99% 89 0.66% 14 0.10% 14 0.10% 9,592 71.20% 13,493
Monroe 2,953 98.17% 40 1.33% 12 0.40% 3 0.10% 0 0.00% 2,913 96.84% 3,008
Montgomery 11,311 97.74% 230 1.99% 16 0.14% 16 0.14% 0 0.00% 11,081 95.75% 11,573
Morgan 5,345 90.93% 500 8.51% 22 0.37% 8 0.14% 1 0.02% 4,846 82.46% 5,878
Perry 1,509 97.17% 39 2.51% 5 0.32% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,470 94.66% 1,553
Pickens 1,714 92.00% 140 7.51% 7 0.45% 2 0.13% 0 0.00% 1,277 81.55% 1,863
Pike 3,049 95.94% 121 3.81% 1 0.03% 7 0.22% 0 0.00% 2,928 92.13% 3,178
Randolph 2,407 77.92% 670 21.69% 8 0.26% 4 0.13% 0 0.00% 1,737 56.23% 3,089
Russell 2,435 97.95% 48 1.93% 2 0.08% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 2,387 96.02% 2,486
Shelby 2,777 74.61% 938 25.20% 5 0.13% 2 0.05% 0 0.00% 1,839 49.41% 4,024
St. Clair 2,462 61.18% 1,540 38.27% 9 0.22% 6 0.15% 7 0.17% 922 22.91% 3,722
Sumter 1,404 96.76% 46 3.17% 1 0.07% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,358 93.59% 1,451
Talladega 3,965 87.88% 534 11.84% 9 0.20% 4 0.09% 0 0.00% 3,431 76.04% 4,512
Tallapoosa 4,325 96.65% 139 3.11% 7 0.16% 3 0.07% 1 0.02% 4,186 93.54% 4,475
Tuscaloosa 6,284 93.35% 426 6.33% 14 0.21% 5 0.07% 3 0.04% 5,858 87.02% 6,732
Walker 5,940 74.52% 2,007 25.18% 17 0.21% 4 0.05% 3 0.04% 3,933 49.34% 7,971
Washington 1,892 95.65% 80 4.04% 5 0.25% 1 0.05% 0 0.00% 1,812 91.61% 1,978
Wilcox 1,534 98.71% 20 1.29% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,514 97.43% 1,554
Winston 1,394 45.10% 1,686 54.55% 6 0.19% 4 0.13% 0 0.00% -301 -9.78% 3,091
Totals 250,726 85.22% 42,184 14.34% 700 0.24% 509 0.17% 100 0.03% 208,542 70.88% 294,219

References[]

  1. ^ "1940 Presidential General Election Results — Alabama". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
  2. ^ a b c "AL US President Race, November 05, 1940". Our Campaigns.
  3. ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 29–30 ISBN 0405077114.
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