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The1940 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.Maine was won byRepublican businessmanWendell Willkie ofNew York, who was running against incumbentDemocratic PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt ofNew York. Willkie ran withSenatorCharles L. McNary ofOregon while Roosevelt ran withHenry A. Wallace ofIowa.
Willkie won Maine by a narrow margin of 2.33%. This was a swing of 11.66% to Roosevelt during an election where he lost eight states and almost 700 counties that had supported him four years earlier, mostly because ofMidwesternGerman-American opposition to increasing "tension" withNazi Germany.[1] However, theAtlanticist tendencies ofYankee andFrench-Canadian Maine and support for aid to theUnited Kingdom andFrance inWorld War II led to substantial gains for Roosevelt in the state.[2] Maine was one of five states that swung more Democratic compared to 1936, alongside New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and North Carolina.[3]
This was the first time thatKennebec County (home ofAugusta, the state capital) had ever voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[4]
| 1940 United States presidential election in Maine[5] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | Wendell Willkie ofNew York | Charles Linza McNary ofOregon | 163,951 | 51.10% | 5 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | Franklin Delano Roosevelt ofNew York | Henry Agard Wallace ofIowa | 156,478 | 48.77% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Communist | Earl Russell Browder ofKansas | James W. Ford ofNew York | 411 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 320,840 | 100.00% | 5 | 100.00% | ||||
| County | Wendell Lewis Willkie Republican | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic | Earl Russell Browder Communist | Margin | Total votes cast[6] | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Androscoggin | 10,394 | 34.99% | 19,273 | 64.88% | 40 | 0.13% | -8,879 | -29.89% | 29,707 |
| Aroostook | 13,888 | 58.34% | 9,877 | 41.49% | 39 | 0.16% | 4,011 | 16.85% | 23,804 |
| Cumberland | 29,795 | 52.47% | 26,911 | 47.39% | 76 | 0.13% | 2,884 | 5.08% | 56,782 |
| Franklin | 4,548 | 58.47% | 3,224 | 41.44% | 7 | 0.09% | 1,324 | 17.02% | 7,779 |
| Hancock | 8,539 | 66.36% | 4,315 | 33.54% | 13 | 0.10% | 4,224 | 32.83% | 12,867 |
| Kennebec | 14,877 | 48.36% | 15,861 | 51.56% | 27 | 0.09% | -984 | -3.20% | 30,765 |
| Knox | 6,530 | 60.76% | 4,197 | 39.05% | 20 | 0.19% | 2,333 | 21.71% | 10,747 |
| Lincoln | 5,244 | 68.42% | 2,415 | 31.51% | 5 | 0.07% | 2,829 | 36.91% | 7,664 |
| Oxford | 8,656 | 53.49% | 7,502 | 46.36% | 25 | 0.15% | 1,154 | 7.13% | 16,183 |
| Penobscot | 18,674 | 55.79% | 14,757 | 44.09% | 40 | 0.12% | 3,917 | 11.70% | 33,471 |
| Piscataquis | 3,806 | 52.05% | 3,499 | 47.85% | 7 | 0.10% | 307 | 4.20% | 7,312 |
| Sagadahoc | 3,504 | 43.30% | 4,575 | 56.54% | 13 | 0.16% | -1,071 | -13.24% | 8,092 |
| Somerset | 7,526 | 53.42% | 6,534 | 46.38% | 28 | 0.20% | 992 | 7.04% | 14,088 |
| Waldo | 5,170 | 61.56% | 3,214 | 38.27% | 14 | 0.17% | 1,956 | 23.29% | 8,398 |
| Washington | 6,253 | 43.65% | 8,048 | 56.18% | 25 | 0.17% | -1,795 | -12.53% | 14,326 |
| York | 16,547 | 42.59% | 22,276 | 57.33% | 32 | 0.08% | -5,729 | -14.74% | 38,855 |
| Totals | 163,951 | 51.10% | 156,478 | 48.77% | 411 | 0.13% | 7,473 | 2.33% | 320,840 |
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