1940
Reading the 1940 result in Kansas
Kansas backed Willkie (Republican) in the 1940 presidential election, casting 9 electoral votes for the ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Kansas among the states he did not carry.
It marked the 2nd consecutive election in which Kansas backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1936. The region divided — Nebraska joined Kansas for the Republican ticket, while Missouri, Oklahoma, and Colorado did not. Across the 41 presidential elections Kansas has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican party (34 times). The vote fell within the New Deal Coalition — FDR, civil rights, and the long Democratic majority.
In the national count, Franklin D. Roosevelt took 449 of the 531 electoral votes, against Wendell Willkie's 82. Franklin D. Roosevelt led the national popular vote with 54.74% of the ballots cast.
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