United States presidential election in California, 1940

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November 5, 1940

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Nominee	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Wendell Willkie
Party	Democratic	Republican
Home state	New York	Indiana
Running mate	Henry A. Wallace	Charles L. McNary
Electoral vote	22	0
Popular vote	1,877,618	1,351,419
Percentage	57.44%	41.34%

County Results

President before election

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

In the 1940 United States presidential election, California voted for the Democratic incumbent, Franklin Roosevelt, over the Republican challenger, businessman Wendell Willkie.

Willkie did nonetheless make considerable gains vis-à-vis the previous Republican nominee, Alf Landon, who remains the solitary Republican nominee to not carry a single county in the state. Willkie carried seven counties scattered across the state and gained twenty percentage points on Landon’s performance.

This remains the last election when the Democrats have won Sutter County, which as of 2017 stands as the longest run voting for one party by any California county.Mono County would not vote Democratic again until John Kerry in 2004.

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