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Election 1940 Results

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1940 presidential election in Oregon

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Wendell Willkie (Republican) in Oregon in 1940, 53.7% to 45.6%, a margin of 8.1 points and 38,860 votes.

Oregon voted 1.9 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.

Democrats led in 27 of the 36 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 9. The largest, Multnomah, cast 172,313 votes and went to the Democrat by 13.9 points. The closest was Yamhill, where 21 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt won	Democratic	258,415	53.7%
Wendell Willkie	Republican	219,555	45.6%
All other candidates		3,270	0.7%
Total		481,240

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Multnomah	97,595 56.6%	73,612 42.7%	1,106	172,313	D+13.9
Lane	16,286 51.1%	15,349 48.1%	255	31,890	D+2.9
Marion	14,031 44.9%	16,940 54.2%	255	31,226	R+9.3
Clackamas	13,547 53.9%	11,416 45.4%	186	25,149	D+8.5
Washington	8,626 50.4%	8,367 48.9%	110	17,103	D+1.5
Klamath	9,345 59.9%	6,169 39.5%	96	15,610	D+20.3
Jackson	6,754 44.0%	8,507 55.5%	77	15,338	R+11.4
Coos	7,853 60.5%	5,034 38.8%	101	12,988	D+21.7
Linn	6,360 49.1%	6,523 50.3%	76	12,959	R+1.3
Yamhill	5,566 49.7%	5,545 49.5%	96	11,207	D+0.2
Douglas	4,707 43.7%	5,991 55.6%	72	10,770	R+11.9
Clatsop	6,686 63.6%	3,758 35.7%	70	10,514	D+27.8
Umatilla	4,935 48.6%	5,193 51.1%	32	10,160	R+2.5
Columbia	5,758 65.6%	2,958 33.7%	57	8,773	D+31.9
Polk	4,077 48.8%	4,211 50.4%	60	8,348	R+1.6
Benton	2,942 36.4%	5,089 63.0%	48	8,079	R+26.6
Baker	4,353 58.1%	3,101 41.4%	39	7,493	D+16.7
Deschutes	4,775 64.1%	2,603 34.9%	75	7,453	D+29.1
Union	4,500 62.5%	2,642 36.7%	53	7,195	D+25.8
Josephine	2,888 41.7%	3,964 57.2%	80	6,932	R+15.5
Lincoln	3,510 53.7%	2,962 45.3%	61	6,533	D+8.4
Malheur	2,958 49.9%	2,929 49.4%	42	5,929	D+0.5
Wasco	3,001 53.8%	2,553 45.8%	21	5,575	D+8.0
Tillamook	2,786 52.2%	2,516 47.1%	36	5,338	D+5.1
Hood River	2,367 50.5%	2,305 49.2%	17	4,689	D+1.3
Wallowa	1,974 59.6%	1,319 39.8%	18	3,311	D+19.8
Grant	1,582 58.7%	1,103 40.9%	10	2,695	D+17.8
Lake	1,414 55.6%	1,121 44.1%	9	2,544	D+11.5
Crook	1,439 60.0%	942 39.3%	17	2,398	D+20.7
Harney	1,214 56.8%	912 42.7%	10	2,136	D+14.1
Curry	1,033 51.9%	941 47.3%	17	1,991	D+4.6
Morrow	979 56.0%	758 43.3%	12	1,749	D+12.6
Wheeler	652 47.9%	705 51.8%	3	1,360	R+3.9
Gilliam	785 60.1%	518 39.6%	4	1,307	D+20.4
Sherman	670 53.7%	575 46.1%	3	1,248	D+7.6
Jefferson	467 52.1%	423 47.2%	6	896	D+4.9

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.

Oregon in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+14.3
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+16.1
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+11.0
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+12.1
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+16.3
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+4.2
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+0.4
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+8.1
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+10.0
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+4.7
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+12.2
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+9.7
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+0.2
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+10.1
1968	Richard Nixon (R)	R+6.0
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+27.8
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+5.2
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+10.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+21.6
1948	Thomas E. Dewey (R)	R+3.4
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+4.8
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+8.1
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+34.8
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+21.1
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+30.0
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+26.8
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+26.7
1916	Charles Evans Hughes (R)	R+2.6
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+9.0
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+22.1
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+47.6
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+16.1
1896	William McKinley (R)	R+2.1
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+26.4
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+10.9
1884	James G. Blaine (R)	R+4.3
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+1.6
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes (R)	R+3.5
1872	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+20.2
1868	Horatio Seymour (D)	D+0.7

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