Democratic Party presidential primaries, 1940

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March 12 to June 27, 1940

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1,094 delegates to the Democratic National Convention
547 delegates votes needed to win


Candidate	Franklin D. Roosevelt	John Nance Garner	Charles W. Sawyer (Favorite son)
Home state	New York	Texas	Ohio
Delegate count	691.5 (Incomplete)	69.5	52
Contests won	34	1	1
Popular vote	3,214,555	426,700	-
Percentage	71.93%	9.55%	-


Candidate	James Farley	William B. Bankhead (Favorite son)	O. John Rogge (Favorite son)
Home state	Massachusetts	Alabama	New York
Delegate count	38.5	22	20
Contests won	2	1	1
Popular vote	-	-	-
Percentage	-	-	-


Candidate	Millard Tydings (Favorite son)	Burton K. Wheeler	Joseph C. O'Mahoney (Favorite son)
Home state	Maryland	Montana	Wyoming
Delegate count	16	8	6
Contests won	1	1	1
Popular vote	-	-	-
Percentage	-	-	-

First place finishes by delegate allocation

First place finishes by convention roll call

Previous Democratic nominee

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democratic nominee

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The 1940 Democratic presidential primaries were the selection process by which voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for President of the United States in the 1940 U.S. presidential election. Incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1940 Democratic National Convention held from July 15 to July 18, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois.