The American Vote
2024 result
Candidate

Wendell Willkie

Republican

Elections
1
Won
0
Electoral votes, all elections
82
Years
1940

Record

Wendell Willkie: result of each presidential election
YearElectoral votesPopular voteResult
1940
82
of 531
22,304,755
44.8%
Lost

Popular vote is the sum of the sourced state counts, shown only where every state that held a popular vote has one; sums from county returns (1868–1972) can run a few tenths of a point below national totals published elsewhere.

Electoral votesNational Archives, Electoral College results: 1940 (public domain, read 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

SourceStatistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1940 (Public domain: a work of the United States government (17 U.S.C. 105), retrieved 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

Election by election

1940Republican · Lost

States carried · 10 of 48
Closest states won
  1. Michiganby 6,926 · 0.3 pts
  2. Indianaby 25,403 · 1.4 pts
  3. Maineby 7,473 · 2.3 pts
Closest states lost
  1. WisconsinRoosevelt by 25,615 · 1.8 pts
  2. IllinoisRoosevelt by 102,694 · 2.4 pts
  3. New YorkRoosevelt by 224,440 · 3.6 pts

Margins computed for 48 of 48 states: those with a sourced popular vote that names Willkie.

SourceStatistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1940 (Public domain: a work of the United States government (17 U.S.C. 105), retrieved 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

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