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Election 1940 Results

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1940 presidential election in North Dakota

Wendell Willkie (Republican) beat Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) in North Dakota in 1940, 55.1% to 44.2%, a margin of 10.9 points and 30,554 votes.

North Dakota voted 20.8 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+10.0.

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

Republicans led in 37 of the 53 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 16. The largest, Cass, cast 24,586 votes and went to the Republican by 2.7 points. The closest was Sargent, where 28 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
Wendell Willkie won Republican 154,590 55.1%
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 124,036 44.2%
All other candidates 2,149 0.8%
Total280,775

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cass 11,911 48.4% 12,567 51.1% 108 24,586 R+2.7
Grand Forks 8,396 54.1% 7,043 45.4% 67 15,506 D+8.7
Ward 7,669 53.7% 6,519 45.6% 105 14,293 D+8.0
Burleigh 4,350 42.4% 5,858 57.1% 58 10,266 R+14.7
Stutsman 3,897 40.8% 5,634 58.9% 31 9,562 R+18.2
Richland 3,584 41.0% 5,102 58.4% 48 8,734 R+17.4
Walsh 5,499 64.2% 3,051 35.6% 18 8,568 D+28.6
Morton 2,889 34.3% 5,499 65.2% 40 8,428 R+31.0
Barnes 3,384 42.0% 4,649 57.7% 29 8,062 R+15.7
Williams 4,579 63.5% 2,470 34.3% 162 7,211 D+29.2
Ramsey 3,530 49.1% 3,629 50.4% 35 7,194 R+1.4
McLean 2,666 38.2% 4,113 59.0% 193 6,972 R+20.8
Pembina 3,711 55.8% 2,924 43.9% 20 6,655 D+11.8
Stark 2,075 32.1% 4,367 67.6% 15 6,457 R+35.5
McHenry 2,225 36.0% 3,894 63.1% 55 6,174 R+27.0
Bottineau 2,469 43.9% 3,129 55.6% 30 5,628 R+11.7
Cavalier 2,757 49.1% 2,845 50.6% 16 5,618 R+1.6
Benson 2,898 53.5% 2,485 45.8% 37 5,420 D+7.6
Traill 2,476 45.9% 2,882 53.5% 32 5,390 R+7.5
Wells 1,878 35.9% 3,335 63.7% 19 5,232 R+27.8
Dickey 1,721 35.6% 2,777 57.4% 337 4,835 R+21.8
La Moure 1,637 35.4% 2,943 63.7% 40 4,620 R+28.3
Ransom 1,986 43.3% 2,579 56.2% 24 4,589 R+12.9
Emmons 1,004 22.1% 3,515 77.3% 29 4,548 R+55.2
Mountrail 2,392 53.9% 1,981 44.7% 62 4,435 D+9.3
Rolette 2,820 64.2% 1,555 35.4% 17 4,392 D+28.8
Nelson 2,435 56.4% 1,859 43.1% 22 4,316 D+13.3
McKenzie 2,440 60.3% 1,563 38.6% 43 4,046 D+21.7
Mercer 567 14.5% 3,341 85.4% 6 3,914 R+70.9
Sargent 1,894 49.3% 1,922 50.0% 27 3,843 R+0.7
McIntosh 318 8.3% 3,494 91.7% 3,812 R+83.3
Pierce 1,451 38.1% 2,349 61.6% 11 3,811 R+23.6
Dunn 1,392 39.4% 2,132 60.3% 12 3,536 R+20.9
Grant 627 18.2% 2,815 81.5% 11 3,453 R+63.4
Burke 1,342 39.6% 1,951 57.5% 98 3,391 R+18.0
Divide 1,771 54.6% 1,437 44.3% 34 3,242 D+10.3
Towner 1,596 49.2% 1,630 50.3% 15 3,241 R+1.0
Hettinger 671 21.3% 2,468 78.3% 12 3,151 R+57.0
Logan 498 16.2% 2,572 83.6% 7 3,077 R+67.4
Kidder 837 27.3% 2,214 72.3% 11 3,062 R+45.0
Sheridan 543 18.4% 2,405 81.3% 9 2,957 R+63.0
Steele 1,434 51.5% 1,328 47.7% 22 2,784 D+3.8
Eddy 1,368 50.2% 1,319 48.4% 37 2,724 D+1.8
Griggs 1,464 56.5% 1,117 43.1% 11 2,592 D+13.4
Foster 1,446 56.3% 1,109 43.2% 12 2,567 D+13.1
Renville 1,298 50.8% 1,202 47.0% 56 2,556 D+3.8
Adams 837 40.0% 1,231 58.8% 27 2,095 R+18.8
Bowman 882 48.2% 927 50.6% 22 1,831 R+2.5
Sioux 578 33.1% 1,167 66.8% 1 1,746 R+33.7
Oliver 266 16.4% 1,356 83.5% 1 1,623 R+67.2
Golden Valley 689 43.9% 873 55.6% 9 1,571 R+11.7
Slope 585 42.1% 801 57.6% 5 1,391 R+15.5
Billings 404 37.8% 663 62.1% 1 1,068 R+24.3

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.

North Dakota in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+36.4
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+33.3
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+35.7
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+19.6
2008 John McCain (R) R+8.6
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+27.4
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+27.6
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+6.8
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+12.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+13.1
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+31.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+38.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+5.9
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+26.3
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.7
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+16.1
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+10.9
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+23.6
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+42.6
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+8.8
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+8.4
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+10.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+33.0
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+41.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+10.3
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+40.7
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+59.6
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+1.5
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+7.5
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+26.2
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+54.7
1900 William McKinley (R) R+26.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+11.9
1892 James B. Weaver (other)