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Election 1940 Results

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1940 presidential election in Washington

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Wendell Willkie (Republican) in Washington in 1940, 58.2% to 40.6%, a margin of 17.6 points and 140,022 votes.

Washington voted 7.7 points more Democratic 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 31 of the 39 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 8. The largest, King, cast 241,803 votes and went to the Democrat by 19.7 points. The closest was Whitman, where 5 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	462,145	58.2%
Wendell Willkie	Republican	322,123	40.6%
All other candidates		9,565	1.2%
Total		793,833

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	143,134 59.2%	95,504 39.5%	3,165	241,803	D+19.7
Pierce	51,670 64.3%	27,188 33.9%	1,453	80,311	D+30.5
Spokane	44,852 56.9%	33,228 42.2%	713	78,793	D+14.8
Snohomish	26,185 64.5%	13,638 33.6%	762	40,585	D+30.9
Yakima	18,092 46.7%	20,398 52.6%	270	38,760	R+5.9
Whatcom	14,877 51.6%	13,351 46.3%	606	28,834	D+5.3
Grays Harbor	14,861 63.3%	8,369 35.6%	257	23,487	D+27.6
Clark	12,931 59.0%	8,776 40.0%	218	21,925	D+19.0
Kitsap	13,861 70.7%	5,525 28.2%	210	19,596	D+42.5
Lewis	9,280 49.6%	9,228 49.3%	218	18,726	D+0.3
Thurston	11,092 59.7%	7,275 39.2%	206	18,573	D+20.6
Skagit	9,796 54.5%	7,985 44.4%	189	17,970	D+10.1
Cowlitz	11,420 64.5%	6,078 34.3%	216	17,714	D+30.2
Chelan	7,181 47.0%	8,019 52.5%	73	15,273	R+5.5
Walla Walla	5,875 42.5%	7,883 57.0%	63	13,821	R+14.5
Whitman	6,351 49.6%	6,356 49.7%	92	12,799	level
Okanogan	5,362 55.5%	4,244 44.0%	49	9,655	D+11.6
Clallam	5,966 61.9%	3,555 36.9%	110	9,631	D+25.0
Kittitas	5,203 60.1%	3,401 39.3%	56	8,660	D+20.8
Stevens	4,904 59.7%	3,238 39.4%	66	8,208	D+20.3
Pacific	4,393 61.5%	2,704 37.8%	48	7,145	D+23.6
Grant	4,097 73.1%	1,487 26.5%	17	5,601	D+46.6
Lincoln	2,896 52.2%	2,627 47.3%	29	5,552	D+4.8
Mason	3,465 64.8%	1,775 33.2%	106	5,346	D+31.6
Benton	2,414 47.0%	2,670 52.0%	55	5,139	R+5.0
Klickitat	2,627 54.8%	2,139 44.6%	28	4,794	D+10.2
Douglas	1,972 49.7%	1,959 49.3%	40	3,971	D+0.3
Jefferson	2,083 57.0%	1,540 42.1%	32	3,655	D+14.9
Asotin	2,107 58.3%	1,483 41.1%	21	3,611	D+17.3
Pend Oreille	1,812 58.5%	1,268 40.9%	17	3,097	D+17.6
Island	1,626 53.2%	1,371 44.8%	60	3,057	D+8.3
Franklin	1,868 62.6%	1,084 36.3%	31	2,983	D+26.3
Adams	1,397 47.9%	1,508 51.7%	13	2,918	R+3.8
Columbia	1,218 45.4%	1,461 54.4%	6	2,685	R+9.1
Skamania	1,292 62.1%	765 36.8%	22	2,079	D+25.3
Ferry	1,247 67.4%	590 31.9%	12	1,849	D+35.5
Wahkiakum	1,164 63.8%	642 35.2%	19	1,825	D+28.6
Garfield	714 41.3%	1,003 58.1%	10	1,727	R+16.7
San Juan	860 51.3%	808 48.2%	7	1,675	D+3.1

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.

Washington in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+18.2
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+19.2
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+15.7
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+14.9
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+17.2
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+7.2
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+5.6
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+12.5
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+11.4
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+1.6
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+13.5
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+12.3
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+3.9
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+18.3
1968	Hubert Humphrey (D)	D+2.1
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+24.6
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+2.4
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+8.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+9.6
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+9.8
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+14.6
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+17.6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+36.5
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+23.5
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+35.7
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+42.1
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+34.8
1916	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+4.2
1912	Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+25.8
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+50.6
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+11.7
1896	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+15.1
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+7.6

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