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The1940 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
South Carolina was won by incumbentDemocratic PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt ofNew York, who was running againstRepublican businessmanWendell Willkie ofNew York. Roosevelt ran withHenry A. Wallace ofIowa as his running mate, and Willkie ran withSenatorCharles L. McNary ofOregon. Notably,Communist Party USA candidateEarl Browder was on the ballot in every county, but failed to win a single vote in the entire state.[1]
Roosevelt won South Carolina by a landslide margin of 91.27 points. This was the last time that a candidate carried 95% or more of the vote, alongside Mississippi, as the best performance in DC so far was Barack Obama in 2008 with 92.46% of the vote.
| 1940 United States presidential election in South Carolina[2] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Democratic | Franklin Delano Roosevelt ofNew York | Henry Agard Wallace ofIowa | 95,470 | 95.63% | 8 | 100.00% | ||
| Fusion | Wendell Willkie | Charles Linza McNary | 4,360[a][3] | 4.36% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Write-in | Roger Ward Babson ofMassachusetts | Edgar Moorman ofIllinois | 2 | 0.01% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Communist | Earl Browder ofNew York | William Z. Foster ofMassachusetts | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 99,832 | 100.00% | 8 | 100.00% | ||||
| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic | Wendell Lewis Willkie Fusion[a] | Earl Russell Browder Communist | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Abbeville | 1,007 | 96.92% | 32 | 3.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 975 | 93.84% | 1,039 |
| Aiken | 2,772 | 96.89% | 89 | 3.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,683 | 93.78% | 2,861 |
| Allendale | 905 | 96.79% | 30 | 3.21% | 0 | 0.00% | 875 | 93.58% | 935 |
| Anderson | 3,763 | 97.77% | 86 | 2.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,677 | 95.54% | 3,849 |
| Bamberg | 904 | 98.58% | 13 | 1.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 891 | 97.16% | 917 |
| Barnwell | 1,845 | 99.30% | 13 | 0.70% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,832 | 98.60% | 1,858 |
| Beaufort | 582 | 86.48% | 91 | 13.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 491 | 72.96% | 673 |
| Berkeley | 490 | 84.34% | 91 | 15.66% | 0 | 0.00% | 399 | 68.68% | 581 |
| Calhoun | 657 | 99.55% | 3 | 0.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 654 | 99.10% | 660 |
| Charleston | 8,145 | 85.58% | 1,372 | 14.42% | 0 | 0.00% | 6,773 | 71.16% | 9,517 |
| Cherokee | 2,069 | 98.29% | 36 | 1.71% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,033 | 96.58% | 2,105 |
| Chester | 1,930 | 98.22% | 35 | 1.78% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,895 | 96.44% | 1,965 |
| Chesterfield | 2,880 | 99.31% | 20 | 0.69% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,860 | 98.62% | 2,900 |
| Clarendon | 1,154 | 95.53% | 54 | 4.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,100 | 91.06% | 1,208 |
| Colleton | 1,197 | 94.85% | 65 | 5.15% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,132 | 89.70% | 1,262 |
| Darlington | 1,395 | 95.88% | 60 | 4.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,335 | 91.76% | 1,455 |
| Dillon | 868 | 97.20% | 25 | 2.80% | 0 | 0.00% | 843 | 94.40% | 893 |
| Dorchester | 993 | 90.03% | 110 | 9.97% | 0 | 0.00% | 883 | 80.06% | 1,103 |
| Edgefield | 1,065 | 99.16% | 9 | 0.84% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,056 | 98.32% | 1,074 |
| Fairfield | 848 | 97.70% | 20 | 2.30% | 0 | 0.00% | 828 | 95.40% | 868 |
| Florence | 2,597 | 96.47% | 95 | 3.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,502 | 92.94% | 2,692 |
| Georgetown | 1,503 | 90.65% | 155 | 9.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,348 | 81.30% | 1,658 |
| Greenville | 8,118 | 94.05% | 514 | 5.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 7,604 | 88.10% | 8,632 |
| Greenwood | 2,914 | 98.68% | 39 | 1.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,875 | 97.36% | 2,953 |
| Hampton | 1,198 | 98.04% | 24 | 1.96% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,174 | 96.08% | 1,222 |
| Horry | 2,111 | 92.79% | 164 | 7.21% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,947 | 85.58% | 2,275 |
| Jasper | 418 | 91.07% | 41 | 8.93% | 0 | 0.00% | 377 | 82.14% | 459 |
| Kershaw | 1,174 | 98.32% | 20 | 1.68% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,154 | 96.64% | 1,194 |
| Lancaster | 3,205 | 99.57% | 14 | 0.43% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,191 | 99.14% | 3,219 |
| Laurens | 2,697 | 98.54% | 40 | 1.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,657 | 97.08% | 2,737 |
| Lee | 825 | 97.63% | 20 | 2.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 805 | 95.26% | 845 |
| Lexington | 1,496 | 98.88% | 17 | 1.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,479 | 97.76% | 1,513 |
| Marion | 716 | 97.55% | 18 | 2.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 698 | 95.10% | 734 |
| Marlboro | 526 | 97.59% | 13 | 2.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 513 | 95.18% | 539 |
| McCormick | 419 | 97.44% | 11 | 2.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 408 | 94.88% | 430 |
| Newberry | 1,739 | 98.03% | 35 | 1.97% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,704 | 96.06% | 1,774 |
| Oconee | 1,593 | 91.76% | 143 | 8.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,450 | 83.52% | 1,736 |
| Orangeburg | 2,356 | 97.68% | 56 | 2.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,300 | 95.36% | 2,412 |
| Pickens | 2,122 | 96.54% | 76 | 3.46% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,046 | 93.08% | 2,198 |
| Richland | 4,781 | 96.62% | 167 | 3.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,614 | 93.24% | 4,948 |
| Saluda | 1,115 | 98.67% | 15 | 1.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,100 | 97.34% | 1,130 |
| Spartanburg | 9,119 | 97.35% | 248 | 2.65% | 0 | 0.00% | 8,871 | 94.70% | 9,367 |
| Union | 3,662 | 99.21% | 29 | 0.79% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,633 | 98.42% | 3,691 |
| Williamsburg | 1,089 | 96.97% | 34 | 3.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,055 | 93.94% | 1,123 |
| York | 2,508 | 95.51% | 118 | 4.49% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,390 | 91.02% | 2,626 |
| Sumter[b] | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A | 0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0 |
| Totals | 95,470 | 95.63% | 4,360 | 4.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 91,110 | 91.26% | 99,832[c] |
State and district results of the1940 United States presidential election | ||
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