National Election Statistics

84,319,000
Voting Age Population
59.1%
Turnout by VAP

1940 Presidential Election

Results of the presidential election of 1940, won by Franklin D. Roosevelt with 449 electoral votes.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Cabinet

President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)

Vice President: Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945)

Secretary of State: Cordell Hull (1933-1944), Edward Stettinius Jr. (1944-1945)

Secretary of the Treasury: Henry Morgenthau Jr. (1934-1945)

Secretary of War: Henry L. Stimson (1940-1945)

Attorney General: Francis Biddle (1941-1945)

Postmaster General: Frank C. Walker (1940-1945)

Secretary of the Navy: Frank Knox (1940-1944), James Forrestal (1944-1945)

Secretary of the Interior: Harold L. Ickes (1933-1945)

Secretary of Agriculture: Claude R. Wickard (1940-1945)

Secretary of Commerce: Jesse H. Jones (1940-1945)

Secretary of Labor: Frances Perkins (1933-1945)

Chief Justice: Harlan Fiske Stone (1941-1946)

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1940 National Election

267 to win
27,243,218 votes (54.7%)
Running Mate: Henry A. Wallace
22,334,940 votes (44.8%)
Running Mate: Charles L. McNary

The United States presidential election of 1940 was fought in the shadow of World War II as the United States was emerging from the Great Depression.

State Electoral Votes

Alabama

11

Alaska

Arizona

3

Arkansas

9

California

22

Colorado

6

Connecticut

8

Delaware

3

District of Columbia

Florida

7

Georgia

12

Hawaii

Idaho

4

Illinois

29

Indiana

14

Iowa

11

Kansas

9

Kentucky

11

Louisiana

10

Maine

5

Maryland

8

Massachusetts

17

Michigan

19

Minnesota

11

Mississippi

9

Missouri

15

Montana

4

Nebraska

7

Nevada

3

New Hampshire

4

New Jersey

16

New Mexico

3

New York

47

North Carolina

13

North Dakota

4

Ohio

26

Oklahoma

11

Oregon

5

Pennsylvania

36

Rhode Island

4

South Carolina

8

South Dakota

4

Tennessee

11

Texas

23

Utah

4

Vermont

3

Virginia

11

Washington

8

West Virginia

8

Wisconsin

12

Wyoming

3