1940 United States presidential election in Maryland
← 1936 November 5, 1940[1] 1944 →
All 8 Maryland votes to the Electoral College
 
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Wendell Willkie
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York New York
Running mate Henry A. Wallace Charles L. McNary
Electoral vote 8 0
Popular vote 384,546 269,534
Percentage 58.25% 40.83%
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The 1940 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose eight[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Maryland was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, with 58.25% of the popular vote, against Wendell Willkie (R–New York), running with Minority Leader Charles L. McNary, with 40.83% of the popular vote.[3][4]

This is the first time since 1880 that a Democrat carried ancestrally Federalist Calvert County, and would be the only instance during the 80 years between 1880 and 1960 that a Democrat would carry the county.[5] It was only the fourth time that the party carried the county overall, despite it having participating in every single election since the creation of the Democratic Party. The others were 1864, 1868, and the aforementioned 1880.[6]

Maryland weighed in for this election as Roosevelt’s strongest performance in any of the antebellum Union States. In this election, Maryland voted 7.47% to the left of the nation at-large.[7]

Results

1940 United States presidential election in Maryland
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) 384,546 58.25%
Republican Wendell Willkie 269,534 40.83%
Socialist Norman Thomas 4,093 0.62%
Communist Earl Browder 1,274 0.19%
Socialist Labor John Aiken 657 0.10%
Write-ins Roger Babson 13 0.00%
Total votes 660,117 100%

Results by county

County Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic 		Wendell Lewis Willkie
Republican 		Various candidates
Other parties 		Margin Total votes cast[8]
# % # % # % # %
Allegany 18,456 55.18% 14,804 44.26% 188 0.56% 3,652 10.92% 33,448
Anne Arundel 13,116 58.54% 9,204 41.08% 85 0.38% 3,912 17.46% 22,405
Baltimore 30,360 53.08% 26,652 46.60% 186 0.33% 3,708 6.48% 57,198
Baltimore City 199,715 63.20% 112,364 35.56% 3,917 1.24% 87,351 27.64% 315,996
Calvert 2,149 50.61% 2,067 48.68% 30 0.71% 82 1.93% 4,246
Caroline 3,284 51.30% 3,087 48.23% 30 0.47% 197 3.08% 6,401
Carroll 5,833 41.14% 8,300 58.54% 45 0.32% -2,467 -17.40% 14,178
Cecil 5,360 57.71% 3,878 41.75% 50 0.54% 1,482 15.96% 9,288
Charles 2,692 49.27% 2,716 49.71% 56 1.02% -24 -0.44% 5,464
Dorchester 6,088 60.11% 3,953 39.03% 87 0.86% 2,135 21.08% 10,128
Frederick 11,255 51.55% 10,485 48.02% 93 0.43% 770 3.53% 21,833
Garrett 2,805 38.80% 4,387 60.68% 38 0.53% -1,582 -21.88% 7,230
Harford 5,500 45.61% 6,501 53.91% 59 0.49% -1,001 -8.30% 12,060
Howard 3,957 55.98% 3,082 43.60% 30 0.42% 875 12.38% 7,069
Kent 3,014 53.05% 2,639 46.45% 28 0.49% 375 6.60% 5,681
Montgomery 15,177 51.41% 13,831 46.85% 513 1.74% 1,346 4.56% 29,521
Prince George's 16,592 63.21% 9,523 36.28% 136 0.52% 7,069 26.93% 26,251
Queen Anne's 3,581 58.46% 2,508 40.94% 37 0.60% 1,073 17.52% 6,126
Somerset 4,352 51.87% 3,954 47.13% 84 1.00% 398 4.74% 8,390
St. Mary's 2,860 54.95% 2,301 44.21% 44 0.85% 559 10.74% 5,205
Talbot 3,689 45.51% 4,368 53.89% 49 0.60% -679 -8.38% 8,106
Washington 14,125 55.91% 11,054 43.76% 83 0.33% 3,071 12.16% 25,262
Wicomico 7,198 59.92% 4,741 39.47% 73 0.61% 2,457 20.45% 12,012
Worcester 3,388 51.29% 3,135 47.46% 83 1.26% 253 3.83% 6,606
Totals 384,546 58.26% 269,534 40.83% 6,024 0.91% 115,012 17.42% 660,104

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

See also

References

  1. ^ "United States Presidential election of 1940 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved August 21, 2018.
  2. ^ "1940 Election for the Thirty-ninth Term (1941-45)". Retrieved August 21, 2018.
  3. ^ "1940 Presidential General Election Results - Maryland". Retrieved August 21, 2018.
  4. ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1940". Retrieved August 21, 2018.
  5. ^ "County Project (WIP)". Google Docs. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
  6. ^ "Maryland". Google Docs. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  7. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
  8. ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 208 ISBN 0405077114
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