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Election 1940 Results

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1940 presidential election in California

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Wendell Willkie (Republican) in California in 1940, 57.4% to 41.3%, a margin of 16.1 points and 526,199 votes.

California voted 6.1 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+10.0.

The Democratic hold continued from 1936, when Franklin D. Roosevelt also won.

Democrats led in 51 of the 58 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 7. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 1,415,269 votes and went to the Democrat by 17.6 points. The closest was San Benito, where 34 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Franklin D. Roosevelt won Democratic 1,877,618 57.4%
Wendell Willkie Republican 1,351,419 41.3%
All other candidates 39,754 1.2%
Total3,268,791

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 822,718 58.1% 574,266 40.6% 18,285 1,415,269 D+17.6
San Francisco 185,607 59.5% 122,449 39.3% 3,822 311,878 D+20.3
Alameda 148,224 55.2% 116,961 43.6% 3,311 268,496 D+11.6
San Diego 71,188 55.6% 55,434 43.3% 1,488 128,110 D+12.3
Santa Clara 40,449 49.6% 40,100 49.2% 947 81,496 D+0.4
Sacramento 51,351 68.1% 23,201 30.8% 864 75,416 D+37.3
Fresno 48,866 69.1% 21,079 29.8% 805 70,750 D+39.3
San Bernardino 37,520 54.5% 30,511 44.3% 847 68,878 D+10.2
Orange 28,236 43.4% 36,070 55.5% 691 64,997 R+12.1
San Mateo 29,831 52.4% 26,539 46.6% 581 56,951 D+5.8
Kern 32,202 61.8% 19,445 37.3% 479 52,126 D+24.5
San Joaquin 26,536 52.5% 23,403 46.3% 559 50,498 D+6.2
Contra Costa 30,900 61.8% 18,627 37.2% 513 50,040 D+24.5
Riverside 20,003 47.2% 21,779 51.4% 598 42,380 R+4.2
Tulare 20,129 56.0% 15,414 42.9% 428 35,971 D+13.1
Sonoma 15,230 47.0% 16,819 51.9% 330 32,379 R+4.9
Stanislaus 16,494 52.0% 14,803 46.6% 449 31,746 D+5.3
Santa Barbara 17,237 54.4% 14,107 44.5% 334 31,678 D+9.9
Monterey 14,758 55.0% 11,810 44.0% 265 26,833 D+11.0
Ventura 15,182 57.0% 11,225 42.1% 227 26,634 D+14.9
Marin 11,365 50.2% 10,974 48.5% 301 22,640 D+1.7
Santa Cruz 10,683 47.5% 11,453 50.9% 350 22,486 R+3.4
Humboldt 12,329 56.0% 9,470 43.0% 225 22,024 D+13.0
Solano 15,054 70.6% 6,081 28.5% 193 21,328 D+42.1
Butte 10,684 58.2% 7,433 40.5% 255 18,372 D+17.7
Merced 10,501 62.6% 6,101 36.4% 182 16,784 D+26.2
San Luis Obispo 8,499 53.4% 7,204 45.3% 217 15,920 D+8.1
Imperial 7,728 52.5% 6,854 46.6% 130 14,712 D+5.9
Napa 6,771 52.7% 5,924 46.1% 158 12,853 D+6.6
Shasta 8,662 68.0% 3,909 30.7% 162 12,733 D+37.3
Mendocino 7,055 56.1% 5,345 42.5% 169 12,569 D+13.6
Placer 8,402 67.6% 3,887 31.3% 147 12,436 D+36.3
Kings 8,307 67.4% 3,911 31.7% 102 12,320 D+35.7
Siskiyou 7,714 63.2% 4,387 35.9% 111 12,212 D+27.2
Yolo 6,380 58.8% 4,373 40.3% 101 10,854 D+18.5
Nevada 5,782 66.0% 2,863 32.7% 114 8,759 D+33.3
Madera 5,749 67.6% 2,653 31.2% 101 8,503 D+36.4
Sutter 4,195 57.1% 3,089 42.1% 61 7,345 D+15.1
Yuba 4,660 64.6% 2,471 34.2% 86 7,217 D+30.3
Tehama 3,618 54.7% 2,913 44.0% 87 6,618 D+10.7
Lassen 4,367 69.2% 1,902 30.1% 44 6,313 D+39.0
El Dorado 4,144 66.4% 2,019 32.4% 74 6,237 D+34.1
Glenn 3,095 55.0% 2,473 43.9% 63 5,631 D+11.0
Tuolumne 3,541 63.0% 2,004 35.6% 79 5,624 D+27.3
San Benito 2,441 50.0% 2,407 49.3% 35 4,883 D+0.7
Plumas 3,418 72.1% 1,270 26.8% 52 4,740 D+45.3
Colusa 2,655 59.5% 1,774 39.7% 35 4,464 D+19.7
Amador 2,762 66.1% 1,372 32.9% 42 4,176 D+33.3
Lake 1,897 45.7% 2,215 53.4% 39 4,151 R+7.7
Calaveras 2,405 58.9% 1,649 40.4% 29 4,083 D+18.5
Modoc 2,232 61.5% 1,371 37.8% 27 3,630 D+23.7
Inyo 1,820 54.7% 1,483 44.5% 27 3,330 D+10.1
Mariposa 1,935 64.4% 1,035 34.5% 33 3,003 D+30.0
Del Norte 1,034 44.9% 1,233 53.6% 35 2,302 R+8.6
Trinity 1,431 63.8% 780 34.8% 31 2,242 D+29.0
Sierra 1,057 67.0% 511 32.4% 10 1,578 D+34.6
Mono 523 52.6% 459 46.1% 13 995 D+6.4
Alpine 62 33.0% 125 66.5% 1 188 R+33.5

Counties as they stood in 1940; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

California in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+20.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+29.2
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+30.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+24.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.9
2000 Al Gore (D) D+11.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+12.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.2
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.3
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+0.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.6
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+35.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.5
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+49.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.9
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.4
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+22.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+34.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+13.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+0.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+6.6
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+1.8
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+0.5