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Election 1940 Results

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1940 presidential election in New York

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Wendell Willkie (Republican) in New York in 1940, 51.6% to 48.0%, a margin of 3.6 points and 224,440 votes.

New York voted 6.4 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 55 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 7. The largest, Kings, cast 1,141,613 votes and went to the Democrat by 30.9 points. The closest was Richmond, where 374 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 3,251,918 51.6%
Wendell Willkie Republican 3,027,478 48.0%
All other candidates 22,200 0.4%
Total6,301,596

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kings 747,079 65.4% 394,534 34.6% 1,141,613 D+30.9
New York 482,027 62.2% 292,480 37.8% 774,507 D+24.5
Bronx 422,225 68.0% 198,293 32.0% 620,518 D+36.1
Queens 289,926 47.3% 323,406 52.7% 613,332 R+5.5
Erie 190,771 50.9% 183,664 49.1% 374,435 D+1.9
Westchester 110,808 37.7% 182,883 62.3% 293,691 R+24.5
Monroe 121,681 51.5% 114,383 48.5% 236,064 D+3.1
Nassau 73,621 33.9% 143,672 66.1% 217,293 R+32.2
Onondaga 67,966 42.7% 91,056 57.3% 159,022 R+14.5
Albany 77,255 56.7% 58,912 43.3% 136,167 D+13.5
Oneida 49,380 48.5% 52,362 51.5% 101,742 R+2.9
Suffolk 34,123 34.9% 63,712 65.1% 97,835 R+30.2
Richmond 38,537 49.8% 38,911 50.2% 77,448 R+0.5
Broome 32,271 42.3% 44,013 57.7% 76,284 R+15.4
Rensselaer 32,484 45.0% 39,648 55.0% 72,132 R+9.9
Niagara 33,372 47.6% 36,729 52.4% 70,101 R+4.8
Orange 27,772 41.6% 38,913 58.4% 66,685 R+16.7
Schenectady 32,368 48.7% 34,101 51.3% 66,469 R+2.6
Dutchess 25,720 44.3% 32,329 55.7% 58,049 R+11.4
Chautauqua 21,780 38.0% 35,536 62.0% 57,316 R+24.0
Ulster 20,510 43.0% 27,186 57.0% 47,696 R+14.0
Steuben 14,778 34.9% 27,587 65.1% 42,365 R+30.2
Jefferson 14,678 36.5% 25,584 63.5% 40,262 R+27.1
St. Lawrence 15,651 39.1% 24,339 60.9% 39,990 R+21.7
Chemung 15,341 40.9% 22,156 59.1% 37,497 R+18.2
Saratoga 15,135 41.5% 21,298 58.5% 36,433 R+16.9
Oswego 13,542 37.4% 22,688 62.6% 36,230 R+25.2
Cayuga 14,141 40.2% 21,032 59.8% 35,173 R+19.6
Rockland 15,024 42.8% 20,040 57.2% 35,064 R+14.3
Cattaraugus 12,068 34.4% 22,987 65.6% 35,055 R+31.1
Montgomery 15,113 49.3% 15,546 50.7% 30,659 R+1.4
Herkimer 13,067 42.6% 17,590 57.4% 30,657 R+14.8
Ontario 9,230 32.8% 18,932 67.2% 28,162 R+34.5
Wayne 7,420 27.9% 19,196 72.1% 26,616 R+44.2
Otsego 7,876 32.0% 16,771 68.0% 24,647 R+36.1
Fulton 9,119 38.0% 14,896 62.0% 24,015 R+24.1
Washington 8,015 33.4% 15,960 66.6% 23,975 R+33.1
Columbia 8,635 39.0% 13,527 61.0% 22,162 R+22.1
Clinton 11,431 52.4% 10,369 47.6% 21,800 D+4.9
Sullivan 9,861 45.4% 11,877 54.6% 21,738 R+9.3
Delaware 6,016 27.7% 15,684 72.3% 21,700 R+44.6
Madison 6,400 29.5% 15,262 70.5% 21,662 R+40.9
Tompkins 7,227 33.5% 14,325 66.5% 21,552 R+32.9
Genesee 6,726 31.7% 14,503 68.3% 21,229 R+36.6
Franklin 9,512 45.4% 11,446 54.6% 20,958 R+9.2
Warren 7,266 34.7% 13,657 65.3% 20,923 R+30.5
Allegany 5,156 24.8% 15,611 75.2% 20,767 R+50.3
Chenango 5,284 27.2% 14,168 72.8% 19,452 R+45.7
Livingston 6,455 33.8% 12,629 66.2% 19,084 R+32.4
Essex 5,583 32.0% 11,868 68.0% 17,451 R+36.0
Cortland 5,178 29.7% 12,233 70.3% 17,411 R+40.5
Greene 6,463 38.9% 10,153 61.1% 16,616 R+22.2
Wyoming 4,432 28.1% 11,323 71.9% 15,755 R+43.7
Orleans 4,561 29.4% 10,958 70.6% 15,519 R+41.2
Tioga 4,140 30.1% 9,618 69.9% 13,758 R+39.8
Seneca 4,234 33.6% 8,364 66.4% 12,598 R+32.8
Putnam 4,833 40.3% 7,164 59.7% 11,997 R+19.4
Lewis 3,483 30.2% 8,049 69.8% 11,532 R+39.6
Schoharie 4,098 35.9% 7,316 64.1% 11,414 R+28.2
Yates 2,191 23.6% 7,084 76.4% 9,275 R+52.8
Schuyler 2,235 31.2% 4,936 68.8% 7,171 R+37.7
Hamilton 844 29.4% 2,029 70.6% 2,873 R+41.2

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 York in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+12.6
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+23.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+22.5
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+28.2
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+26.9
2004 John Kerry (D) D+18.3
2000 Al Gore (D) D+25.0
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+28.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.8
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.1
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+8.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.7
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+5.5
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+37.3
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+22.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.0
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+3.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+19.9
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+12.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+2.3
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+26.6
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+37.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+7.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+12.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+10.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.3
1896 William McKinley (R) R+18.9
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+1.1
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+1.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+3.2
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+6.5
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+1.2