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Election 1940 Results

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1940 presidential election in Colorado

Wendell Willkie (Republican) beat Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) in Colorado in 1940, 50.9% to 48.4%, a margin of 2.6 points and 14,022 votes.

Colorado voted 12.5 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+10.0.

Colorado changed party: in 1936 it went Democratic, for Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Republicans led in 42 of the 63 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 21. The largest, Denver, cast 173,208 votes and went to the Democrat by 5.7 points. The closest was Ouray, where 15 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Wendell Willkie won	Republican	279,576	50.9%
Franklin D. Roosevelt	Democratic	265,554	48.4%
All other candidates		3,874	0.7%
Total		549,004

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Denver	90,994 52.5%	81,109 46.8%	1,105	173,208	D+5.7
Pueblo	18,802 56.8%	14,166 42.8%	125	33,093	D+14.0
El Paso	13,281 44.0%	16,702 55.3%	229	30,212	R+11.3
Weld	10,723 39.6%	16,136 59.6%	227	27,086	R+20.0
Boulder	9,050 45.7%	10,523 53.2%	212	19,785	R+7.4
Larimer	6,413 37.2%	10,706 62.1%	126	17,245	R+24.9
Jefferson	7,535 45.9%	8,767 53.5%	100	16,402	R+7.5
Arapahoe	7,574 48.3%	7,955 50.8%	137	15,666	R+2.4
Mesa	7,696 51.7%	7,034 47.2%	169	14,899	D+4.4
Las Animas	8,795 64.2%	4,855 35.4%	50	13,700	D+28.8
Otero	4,474 44.9%	5,425 54.5%	62	9,961	R+9.5
Adams	4,683 49.2%	4,771 50.1%	62	9,516	R+0.9
Fremont	4,197 44.6%	5,148 54.7%	58	9,403	R+10.1
Logan	2,867 37.9%	4,616 61.0%	83	7,566	R+23.1
Morgan	2,541 35.1%	4,641 64.1%	57	7,239	R+29.0
Delta	2,940 40.9%	4,151 57.8%	96	7,187	R+16.8
Montrose	3,052 44.2%	3,755 54.4%	98	6,905	R+10.2
Huerfano	4,000 58.6%	2,798 41.0%	24	6,822	D+17.6
La Plata	2,843 42.1%	3,871 57.3%	39	6,753	R+15.2
Yuma	1,930 35.0%	3,518 63.9%	60	5,508	R+28.8
Prowers	2,311 42.4%	3,089 56.6%	53	5,453	R+14.3
Rio Grande	2,223 41.7%	3,066 57.5%	40	5,329	R+15.8
Routt	2,786 55.4%	2,212 44.0%	32	5,030	D+11.4
Garfield	2,087 41.9%	2,867 57.6%	26	4,980	R+15.7
Alamosa	2,470 52.3%	2,231 47.2%	23	4,724	D+5.1
Conejos	2,480 54.8%	2,027 44.8%	17	4,524	D+10.0
Chaffee	2,157 52.4%	1,927 46.8%	35	4,119	D+5.6
Montezuma	1,576 40.4%	2,310 59.2%	18	3,904	R+18.8
Washington	1,399 36.9%	2,369 62.5%	23	3,791	R+25.6
Bent	1,754 48.1%	1,873 51.4%	17	3,644	R+3.3
Kit Carson	1,103 30.5%	2,485 68.7%	31	3,619	R+38.2
Lake	2,066 60.3%	1,347 39.3%	15	3,428	D+21.0
Gunnison	1,760 52.9%	1,546 46.4%	24	3,330	D+6.4
Teller	2,035 61.4%	1,261 38.0%	20	3,316	D+23.3
Lincoln	1,185 39.5%	1,794 59.8%	23	3,002	R+20.3
Costilla	1,666 59.1%	1,126 40.0%	26	2,818	D+19.2
Baca	1,156 42.2%	1,543 56.4%	38	2,737	R+14.1
Elbert	931 34.7%	1,745 65.0%	10	2,686	R+30.3
Moffat	1,056 40.2%	1,557 59.2%	15	2,628	R+19.1
Saguache	1,130 43.2%	1,457 55.7%	27	2,614	R+12.5
Eagle	1,480 57.9%	1,064 41.6%	13	2,557	D+16.3
Phillips	1,024 42.1%	1,342 55.2%	64	2,430	R+13.1
Sedgwick	964 39.8%	1,444 59.7%	12	2,420	R+19.8
Clear Creek	1,283 55.6%	1,017 44.1%	7	2,307	D+11.5
Crowley	835 36.9%	1,414 62.5%	12	2,261	R+25.6
Douglas	802 38.1%	1,295 61.5%	9	2,106	R+23.4
Grand	858 44.2%	1,074 55.3%	9	1,941	R+11.1
Park	857 46.6%	978 53.1%	6	1,841	R+6.6
Cheyenne	748 44.9%	911 54.6%	8	1,667	R+9.8
Archuleta	746 46.0%	869 53.6%	5	1,620	R+7.6
Kiowa	599 37.6%	985 61.8%	10	1,594	R+24.2
San Miguel	850 54.0%	718 45.6%	7	1,575	D+8.4
Rio Blanco	530 34.3%	1,006 65.2%	8	1,544	R+30.8
Ouray	606 50.5%	591 49.2%	4	1,201	D+1.2
Custer	489 41.8%	667 57.0%	14	1,170	R+15.2
Summit	543 52.7%	482 46.8%	5	1,030	D+5.9
Pitkin	504 51.1%	471 47.8%	11	986	D+3.3
Jackson	358 40.4%	523 59.0%	5	886	R+18.6
Gilpin	433 51.0%	411 48.4%	5	849	D+2.6
Dolores	377 44.8%	448 53.3%	16	841	R+8.4
San Juan	378 45.3%	453 54.3%	4	835	R+9.0
Mineral	276 53.9%	230 44.9%	6	512	D+9.0
Hinsdale	103 40.4%	150 58.8%	2	255	R+18.4

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.

Colorado in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+11.0
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+13.5
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+4.9
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+5.4
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+9.0
2004	George W. Bush (R)	R+4.7
2000	George W. Bush (R)	R+8.4
1996	Bob Dole (R)	R+1.4
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+4.3
1988	George H. W. Bush (R)	R+7.8
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+28.3
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+24.0
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+11.4
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+28.0
1968	Richard Nixon (R)	R+9.1
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+23.1
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+9.7
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+19.7
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+21.3
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+5.4
1944	Thomas E. Dewey (R)	R+6.8
1940	Wendell Willkie (R)	R+2.6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+23.3
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+13.4
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+30.8
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+35.0
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+23.4
1916	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+26.0
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+20.9
1908	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+1.1
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+14.2
1900	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+13.4
1896	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+71.1
1892	James B. Weaver (other)
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+14.4
1884	James G. Blaine (R)	R+12.6
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+5.2

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