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Election 1940 Results

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1940 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Wendell Willkie (Republican) in Pennsylvania in 1940, 53.2% to 46.3%, a margin of 6.9 points and 281,187 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 3.1 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 42 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 25. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 891,518 votes and went to the Democrat by 19.9 points. The closest was Elk, where 29 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 2,171,035 53.2%
Wendell Willkie Republican 1,889,848 46.3%
All other candidates 17,831 0.4%
Total4,078,714

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 532,149 59.7% 354,878 39.8% 4,491 891,518 D+19.9
Allegheny 367,926 58.0% 263,285 41.5% 2,987 634,198 D+16.5
Luzerne 101,577 55.8% 79,685 43.8% 622 181,884 D+12.0
Delaware 60,225 42.7% 80,158 56.9% 549 140,932 R+14.1
Lackawanna 71,343 56.3% 54,931 43.4% 411 126,685 D+13.0
Montgomery 49,409 40.1% 73,250 59.5% 432 123,091 R+19.4
Westmoreland 64,567 59.9% 42,643 39.6% 577 107,787 D+20.3
Schuylkill 48,739 52.7% 43,505 47.0% 231 92,475 D+5.7
Berks 53,301 61.3% 32,111 36.9% 1,530 86,942 D+24.4
Dauphin 38,305 47.3% 42,394 52.4% 282 80,981 R+5.0
Washington 50,829 63.4% 29,026 36.2% 296 80,151 D+27.2
Lancaster 32,210 41.6% 44,939 58.0% 269 77,418 R+16.4
Cambria 42,894 58.4% 30,306 41.3% 201 73,401 D+17.1
York 39,543 56.5% 30,228 43.2% 165 69,936 D+13.3
Erie 31,735 46.2% 36,608 53.3% 371 68,714 R+7.1
Fayette 41,960 63.5% 23,908 36.2% 246 66,114 D+27.3
Lehigh 33,007 52.4% 29,584 47.0% 359 62,950 D+5.4
Northampton 33,304 56.5% 25,385 43.1% 269 58,958 D+13.4
Beaver 33,609 57.7% 24,324 41.8% 282 58,215 D+15.9
Chester 22,473 44.2% 28,222 55.5% 183 50,878 R+11.3
Northumberland 26,315 53.3% 22,914 46.4% 139 49,368 D+6.9
Blair 21,573 44.6% 26,639 55.1% 125 48,337 R+10.5
Bucks 20,586 44.8% 25,169 54.7% 229 45,984 R+10.0
Lycoming 18,363 46.0% 21,423 53.6% 167 39,953 R+7.7
Lawrence 18,814 49.0% 19,361 50.4% 230 38,405 R+1.4
Mercer 16,968 44.4% 21,058 55.1% 189 38,215 R+10.7
Butler 13,875 41.5% 19,450 58.2% 114 33,439 R+16.7
Clearfield 17,705 53.2% 15,407 46.3% 163 33,275 D+6.9
Somerset 14,085 44.7% 17,369 55.1% 58 31,512 R+10.4
Cumberland 15,758 50.6% 15,297 49.2% 68 31,123 D+1.5
Indiana 12,035 43.5% 15,547 56.2% 68 27,650 R+12.7
Lebanon 13,315 49.6% 13,449 50.1% 93 26,857 R+0.5
Armstrong 12,144 45.4% 14,524 54.3% 82 26,750 R+8.9
Crawford 10,197 38.9% 15,891 60.6% 125 26,213 R+21.7
Franklin 12,713 49.2% 13,084 50.6% 43 25,840 R+1.4
Venango 6,873 27.9% 17,728 71.9% 57 24,658 R+44.0
Carbon 12,777 54.5% 10,618 45.3% 60 23,455 D+9.2
Columbia 12,523 56.6% 9,518 43.1% 66 22,107 D+13.6
McKean 6,991 31.9% 14,822 67.6% 119 21,932 R+35.7
Bradford 6,605 30.7% 14,826 69.0% 53 21,484 R+38.3
Jefferson 8,559 41.4% 12,081 58.4% 47 20,687 R+17.0
Centre 9,869 47.9% 10,665 51.7% 76 20,610 R+3.9
Greene 10,214 60.2% 6,726 39.6% 36 16,976 D+20.5
Warren 5,825 34.4% 11,016 65.0% 101 16,942 R+30.6
Bedford 7,388 45.3% 8,864 54.4% 49 16,301 R+9.1
Tioga 4,434 27.5% 11,645 72.2% 43 16,122 R+44.7
Adams 7,354 46.0% 8,609 53.9% 21 15,984 R+7.9
Clarion 6,564 42.0% 9,035 57.8% 44 15,643 R+15.8
Susquehanna 5,383 36.0% 9,520 63.7% 39 14,942 R+27.7
Huntingdon 5,631 38.0% 9,141 61.6% 58 14,830 R+23.7
Elk 6,920 49.8% 6,949 50.0% 31 13,900 R+0.2
Clinton 7,419 54.0% 6,291 45.8% 26 13,736 D+8.2
Mifflin 6,993 52.3% 6,352 47.5% 34 13,379 D+4.8
Wayne 3,460 27.2% 9,203 72.4% 41 12,704 R+45.2
Monroe 6,670 52.6% 6,001 47.3% 16 12,687 D+5.3
Perry 4,601 43.9% 5,877 56.0% 12 10,490 R+12.2
Snyder 2,478 30.2% 5,722 69.7% 14 8,214 R+39.5
Potter 2,731 34.3% 5,205 65.4% 27 7,963 R+31.1
Union 2,220 28.3% 5,612 71.4% 25 7,857 R+43.2
Wyoming 2,548 32.4% 5,273 67.1% 33 7,854 R+34.7
Juniata 3,579 50.4% 3,507 49.4% 12 7,098 D+1.0
Montour 3,080 53.0% 2,723 46.9% 4 5,807 D+6.1
Pike 1,818 41.1% 2,596 58.6% 14 4,428 R+17.6
Fulton 1,982 48.4% 2,108 51.5% 6 4,096 R+3.1
Sullivan 1,626 44.0% 2,059 55.8% 7 3,692 R+11.7
Cameron 1,450 44.6% 1,793 55.2% 8 3,251 R+10.6
Forest 919 33.6% 1,811 66.2% 6 2,736 R+32.6

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4