Who won Maine in the 1940 presidential election?

Willkie (Republican) carried Maine in 1940, winning its 5 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Maine have in 1940?

Maine cast 5 electoral votes in the 1940 presidential election.

Did Maine vote for the national winner in 1940?

No. Maine backed Willkie, while Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidency nationally.

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1940

Maine: Willkie carries 5 EV.

Maine cast its 5 electoral votes for Willkie (Republican). National winner: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) — Maine voted against the national winner this cycle.

Reading the 1940 result in Maine

Maine backed Willkie (Republican) in the 1940 presidential election, casting 5 electoral votes for the ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Maine among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 2nd consecutive election in which Maine backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1936. Maine did not move alone — neighboring New Hampshire broke the same way in 1940. Across the 52 presidential elections Maine has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican party (29 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.

The 1940 national map

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