1940 United States presidential election in Iowa

1940 United States presidential election in Iowa
All 11 Iowa votes to the Electoral College
Willkie 40-50% 50-60% 60-70%	Roosevelt 40-50% 50-60%
President before election; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Democratic	Elected President ; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Democratic

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^[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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.^[3]^[4]

Results[]

1940 United States presidential election in Iowa
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Wendell Willkie	632,370	52.03%
	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.)	578,800	47.62%
	Prohibition	Roger W. Babson	2,284	0.19%
	Communist	Earl R. Browder	1,524	0.13%
	Socialist Labor	John W. Aiken	452	0.04%
Total votes			1,215,430	100%

Results by county[]

County^[5]	Wendell Lewis Wilkie Republican		Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic		Roger Ward Babson Prohibition		Earl Russell Browder Communist		John W. Aiken Socialist Labor		Margin		Total votes cast
County^[5]	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast
Adair	3,907	58.77%	2,734	41.13%	6	0.09%	1	0.02%	0	0.00%	1,173	17.64%	6,648
Adams	3,182	60.13%	2,088	39.46%	16	0.30%	5	0.09%	1	0.02%	1,094	20.67%	5,292
Allamakee	5,840	64.02%	3,258	35.72%	5	0.05%	18	0.20%	1	0.01%	2,582	28.31%	9,122
Appanoose	6,032	49.43%	6,069	49.74%	40	0.33%	57	0.47%	4	0.03%	-37	-0.30%	12,202
Audubon	2,632	44.80%	3,236	55.08%	1	0.02%	6	0.10%	0	0.00%	-604	-10.28%	5,875
Benton	5,298	49.55%	5,363	50.15%	18	0.17%	7	0.07%	7	0.07%	-65	-0.61%	10,693
Black Hawk	17,132	49.61%	17,305	50.11%	47	0.14%	40	0.12%	8	0.02%	-173	-0.50%	34,532
Boone	5,227	41.92%	7,168	57.49%	55	0.44%	16	0.13%	3	0.02%	-1,941	-15.57%	12,469
Bremer	5,374	63.26%	3,103	36.53%	11	0.13%	6	0.07%	1	0.01%	2,271	26.73%	8,495
Buchanan	5,630	54.61%	4,649	45.10%	23	0.22%	4	0.04%	3	0.03%	981	9.52%	10,309
Buena Vista	4,576	48.69%	4,784	50.90%	29	0.31%	3	0.03%	7	0.07%	-208	-2.21%	9,399
Butler	4,848	63.56%	2,760	36.18%	12	0.16%	1	0.01%	7	0.09%	2,088	27.37%	7,628
Calhoun	3,792	46.46%	4,344	53.23%	12	0.15%	8	0.10%	5	0.06%	-552	-6.76%	8,161
Carroll	5,376	49.22%	5,526	50.59%	14	0.13%	6	0.05%	1	0.01%	-150	-1.37%	10,923
Cass	6,377	62.69%	3,763	36.99%	26	0.26%	6	0.06%	0	0.00%	2,614	25.70%	10,172
Cedar	5,521	62.45%	3,293	37.25%	10	0.11%	9	0.10%	7	0.08%	2,228	25.20%	8,840
Cerro Gordo	9,728	47.20%	10,839	52.59%	27	0.13%	15	0.07%	3	0.01%	-1,111	-5.39%	20,612
Cherokee	4,458	53.50%	3,855	46.27%	15	0.18%	3	0.04%	1	0.01%	603	7.24%	8,332
Chickasaw	4,440	52.71%	3,981	47.26%	1	0.01%	1	0.01%	0	0.00%	459	5.45%	8,423
Clarke	2,962	53.76%	2,513	45.61%	29	0.53%	5	0.09%	1	0.02%	449	8.15%	5,510
Clay	3,673	45.77%	4,328	53.93%	19	0.24%	1	0.01%	4	0.05%	-655	-8.16%	8,025
Clayton	7,443	59.86%	4,973	40.00%	10	0.08%	4	0.03%	4	0.03%	2,470	19.86%	12,434
Clinton	12,177	54.17%	10,251	45.60%	15	0.07%	17	0.08%	18	0.08%	1,926	8.57%	22,478
Crawford	5,284	55.92%	4,130	43.71%	8	0.08%	17	0.18%	10	0.11%	1,154	12.21%	9,449
Dallas	6,218	49.24%	6,279	49.72%	56	0.44%	73	0.58%	2	0.02%	-61	-0.48%	12,628
Davis	2,975	46.65%	3,374	52.91%	23	0.36%	4	0.06%	1	0.02%	-399	-6.26%	6,377
Decatur	3,494	46.91%	3,938	52.87%	9	0.12%	5	0.07%	2	0.03%	-444	-5.96%	7,448
Delaware	6,175	67.30%	2,985	32.53%	8	0.09%	6	0.07%	2	0.02%	3,190	34.76%	9,176
Des Moines	10,988	62.34%	6,578	37.32%	36	0.20%	11	0.06%	12	0.07%	4,410	25.02%	17,625
Dickinson	2,736	47.65%	2,985	51.99%	15	0.26%	3	0.05%	3	0.05%	-249	-4.34%	5,742
Dubuque	14,590	51.30%	13,805	48.54%	16	0.06%	11	0.04%	19	0.07%	785	2.76%	28,441
Emmet	3,053	49.27%	3,097	49.98%	16	0.26%	28	0.45%	3	0.05%	-44	-0.71%	6,197
Fayette	8,237	57.43%	6,066	42.30%	18	0.13%	20	0.14%	1	0.01%	2,171	15.14%	14,342
Floyd	5,829	58.11%	4,167	41.54%	22	0.22%	9	0.09%	4	0.04%	1,662	16.57%	10,031
Franklin	3,623	49.56%	3,540	48.43%	13	0.18%	130	1.78%	4	0.05%	83	1.14%	7,310
Fremont	3,825	49.27%	3,914	50.41%	18	0.23%	6	0.08%	1	0.01%	-89	-1.15%	7,764
Greene	3,920	52.22%	3,566	47.51%	13	0.17%	6	0.08%	1	0.01%	354	4.72%	7,506
Grundy	3,908	58.56%	2,745	41.13%	16	0.24%	3	0.04%	2	0.03%	1,163	17.43%	6,674
Guthrie	4,733	57.33%	3,489	42.27%	23	0.28%	7	0.08%	3	0.04%	1,244	15.07%	8,255
Hamilton	4,183	44.03%	5,279	55.56%	23	0.24%	13	0.14%	3	0.03%	-1,096	-11.54%	9,501
Hancock	3,632	50.63%	3,514	48.99%	14	0.20%	12	0.17%	1	0.01%	118	1.65%	7,173
Hardin	5,692	54.26%	4,764	45.41%	25	0.24%	4	0.04%	6	0.06%	928	8.85%	10,491
Harrison	6,094	53.33%	5,317	46.53%	10	0.09%	7	0.06%	0	0.00%	777	6.80%	11,428
Henry	5,893	67.36%	2,837	32.43%	18	0.21%	1	0.01%	0	0.00%	3,056	34.93%	8,749
Howard	3,714	50.16%	3,675	49.63%	5	0.07%	7	0.09%	4	0.05%	39	0.53%	7,405
Humboldt	2,853	46.44%	3,268	53.20%	9	0.15%	13	0.21%	0	0.00%	-415	-6.76%	6,143
Ida	3,166	57.70%	2,306	42.03%	8	0.15%	7	0.13%	0	0.00%	860	15.67%	5,487
Iowa	4,696	55.33%	3,649	42.99%	14	0.16%	120	1.41%	9	0.11%	1,047	12.34%	8,488
Jackson	5,417	56.07%	4,218	43.66%	8	0.08%	10	0.10%	8	0.08%	1,199	12.41%	9,661
Jasper	7,240	46.95%	8,129	52.71%	26	0.17%	20	0.13%	6	0.04%	-889	-5.76%	15,421
Jefferson	4,891	58.67%	3,402	40.81%	36	0.43%	5	0.06%	2	0.02%	1,489	17.86%	8,336
Johnson	7,206	44.27%	9,017	55.39%	16	0.10%	30	0.18%	9	0.06%	-1,811	-11.13%	16,278
Jones	5,630	56.70%	4,273	43.04%	10	0.10%	16	0.16%	0	0.00%	1,357	13.67%	9,929
Keokuk	5,394	54.00%	4,552	45.57%	35	0.35%	4	0.04%	3	0.03%	842	8.43%	9,988
Kossuth	5,639	46.35%	6,502	53.45%	8	0.07%	13	0.11%	3	0.02%	-863	-7.09%	12,165
Lee	10,616	53.71%	9,117	46.12%	19	0.10%	11	0.06%	3	0.02%	1,499	7.58%	19,766
Linn	23,581	54.54%	19,531	45.17%	75	0.17%	27	0.06%	21	0.05%	4,050	9.37%	43,235
Louisa	3,330	59.18%	2,247	39.93%	21	0.37%	28	0.50%	1	0.02%	1,083	19.25%	5,627
Lucas	3,806	53.24%	3,255	45.53%	33	0.46%	50	0.70%	5	0.07%	551	7.71%	7,149
Lyon	3,880	59.33%	2,648	40.49%	6	0.09%	6	0.09%	0	0.00%	1,232	18.84%	6,540
Madison	4,477	58.91%	3,094	40.71%	25	0.33%	3	0.04%	1	0.01%	1,383	18.20%	7,600
Mahaska	6,123	51.12%	5,757	48.07%	83	0.69%	7	0.06%	7	0.06%	366	3.06%	11,977
Marion	5,763	45.19%	6,915	54.22%	48	0.38%	25	0.20%	2	0.02%	-1,152	-9.03%	12,753
Marshall	8,503	56.44%	6,497	43.13%	46	0.31%	16	0.11%	3	0.02%	2,006	13.32%	15,065
Mills	3,873	57.39%	2,862	42.41%	8	0.12%	4	0.06%	2	0.03%	1,011	14.98%	6,749
Mitchell	3,947	56.49%	3,025	43.29%	11	0.16%	3	0.04%	1	0.01%	922	13.20%	6,987
Monona	4,192	46.63%	4,783	53.20%	4	0.04%	11	0.12%	0	0.00%	-591	-6.57%	8,990
Monroe	3,270	44.57%	3,994	54.44%	46	0.63%	23	0.31%	3	0.04%	-724	-9.87%	7,336
Montgomery	4,848	58.98%	3,332	40.54%	24	0.29%	15	0.18%	1	0.01%	1,516	18.44%	8,220
Muscatine	8,543	59.24%	5,825	40.39%	28	0.19%	13	0.09%	12	0.08%	2,718	18.85%	14,421
O'Brien	4,760	53.30%	4,133	46.28%	18	0.20%	19	0.21%	1	0.01%	627	7.02%	8,931
Osceola	2,425	51.14%	2,288	48.25%	9	0.19%	16	0.34%	4	0.08%	137	2.89%	4,742
Page	7,407	64.04%	4,102	35.47%	42	0.36%	10	0.09%	5	0.04%	3,305	28.58%	11,566
Palo Alto	3,322	42.47%	4,482	57.30%	13	0.17%	4	0.05%	1	0.01%	-1,160	-14.83%	7,822
Plymouth	7,725	66.72%	3,831	33.09%	14	0.12%	9	0.08%	0	0.00%	3,894	33.63%	11,579
Pocahontas	2,985	41.92%	4,118	57.83%	10	0.14%	4	0.06%	4	0.06%	-1,133	-15.91%	7,121
Polk	41,245	44.26%	51,647	55.42%	176	0.19%	77	0.08%	48	0.05%	-10,402	-11.16%	93,193
Pottawattamie	15,929	51.07%	15,221	48.80%	20	0.06%	12	0.04%	6	0.02%	708	2.27%	31,188
Poweshiek	4,773	49.66%	4,794	49.88%	32	0.33%	8	0.08%	4	0.04%	-21	-0.22%	9,611
Ringgold	3,507	59.50%	2,374	40.28%	9	0.15%	4	0.07%	0	0.00%	1,133	19.22%	5,894
Sac	4,358	53.66%	3,754	46.23%	2	0.02%	7	0.09%	0	0.00%	604	7.44%	8,121
Scott	18,504	46.69%	20,996	52.98%	59	0.15%	50	0.13%	21	0.05%	-2,492	-6.29%	39,630
Shelby	4,613	54.53%	3,811	45.05%	17	0.20%	16	0.19%	3	0.04%	802	9.48%	8,460
Sioux	7,585	64.55%	4,144	35.27%	16	0.14%	3	0.03%	2	0.02%	3,441	29.29%	11,750
Story	7,853	52.11%	7,152	47.46%	53	0.35%	9	0.06%	3	0.02%	701	4.65%	15,070
Tama	5,865	49.31%	5,996	50.42%	12	0.10%	16	0.13%	4	0.03%	-131	-1.10%	11,893
Taylor	4,420	59.56%	2,976	40.10%	19	0.26%	2	0.03%	4	0.05%	1,444	19.46%	7,421
Union	5,421	62.54%	3,229	37.25%	11	0.13%	6	0.07%	1	0.01%	2,192	25.29%	8,668
Van Buren	4,108	62.72%	2,416	36.89%	24	0.37%	2	0.03%	0	0.00%	1,692	25.83%	6,550
Wapello	9,039	43.03%	11,880	56.56%	44	0.21%	27	0.13%	16	0.08%	-2,841	-13.52%	21,006
Warren	5,016	56.21%	3,856	43.21%	31	0.35%	14	0.16%	6	0.07%	1,160	13.00%	8,923
Washington	5,649	58.11%	4,030	41.46%	29	0.30%	9	0.09%	4	0.04%	1,619	16.65%	9,721
Wayne	3,748	50.64%	3,625	48.98%	12	0.16%	12	0.16%	4	0.05%	123	1.66%	7,401
Webster	7,583	41.29%	10,731	58.43%	28	0.15%	12	0.07%	12	0.07%	-3,148	-17.14%	18,366
Winnebago	3,308	51.78%	3,051	47.76%	17	0.27%	10	0.16%	2	0.03%	257	4.02%	6,388
Winneshiek	6,208	53.35%	5,405	46.45%	12	0.10%	8	0.07%	4	0.03%	803	6.90%	11,637
Woodbury	22,832	48.19%	24,457	51.62%	33	0.07%	41	0.09%	15	0.03%	-1,625	-3.43%	47,378
Worth	2,434	44.62%	3,007	55.12%	12	0.22%	2	0.04%	0	0.00%	-573	-10.50%	5,455
Wright	4,443	47.52%	4,871	52.10%	17	0.18%	14	0.15%	5	0.05%	-428	-4.58%	9,350
Totals	632,370	52.03%	578,802	47.62%	2,284	0.19%	1,524	0.13%	452	0.04%	53,568	4.41%	1,215,432