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Election 1940 Results

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1940 presidential election in New Hampshire

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Wendell Willkie (Republican) in New Hampshire in 1940, 53.2% to 46.8%, a margin of 6.4 points and 15,165 votes.

New Hampshire voted 3.5 points more Republican 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.

Republicans led in 6 of the 10 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 4. The largest, Hillsborough, cast 68,781 votes and went to the Democrat by 23.8 points. The closest was Merrimack, where 231 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 125,292 53.2%
Wendell Willkie Republican 110,127 46.8%
Total235,419

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Hillsborough 42,580 61.9% 26,201 38.1% 68,781 D+23.8
Rockingham 14,001 46.3% 16,223 53.7% 30,224 R+7.4
Merrimack 14,692 49.6% 14,923 50.4% 29,615 R+0.8
Strafford 12,847 58.8% 8,996 41.2% 21,843 D+17.6
Grafton 9,761 46.0% 11,478 54.0% 21,239 R+8.1
Coos 10,100 60.3% 6,650 39.7% 16,750 D+20.6
Cheshire 6,916 45.4% 8,302 54.6% 15,218 R+9.1
Belknap 5,653 48.0% 6,115 52.0% 11,768 R+3.9
Sullivan 5,872 51.3% 5,583 48.7% 11,455 D+2.5
Carroll 2,870 33.7% 5,656 66.3% 8,526 R+32.7

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.

New Hampshire in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+2.8
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+7.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+0.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+9.6
2004 John Kerry (D) D+1.4
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+1.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+10.0
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+1.2
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+26.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+37.7
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+29.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.3
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+29.1
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+27.8
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+6.8
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+32.3
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+21.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.7
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+4.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.4
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.8
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+1.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.6
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+25.1
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+20.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.1
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+2.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+21.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+22.3
1900 William McKinley (R) R+20.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+43.2
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+4.0
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.6
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+4.8
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.7
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+3.7
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+7.9
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+10.5