The 1940 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 5, 1940 as part of the
1940 United States presidential election
The 1940 United States presidential election was the 39th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican businessman Wendell Willkie to be re ...
. Voters chose 36 representatives, or electors to the
Electoral College, who voted for
president and
vice president.
Pennsylvania voted to give
Democratic nominee,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt an unprecedented third term, over the
Republican nominee, corporate lawyer
Wendell Willkie, a
dark horse
A dark horse is a previously lesser-known person or thing that emerges to prominence in a situation, especially in a competition involving multiple rivals, or a contestant that on paper should be unlikely to succeed but yet still might.
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candidate who had never before run for a political office. Roosevelt won Pennsylvania by a margin of 6.9%. This was the last election until
1976
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that Pennsylvania voted for a different candidate than nearby
Michigan.
Results
Results by county
See also
*
List of United States presidential elections in Pennsylvania
United States presidential elections in Pennsylvania occur when voters in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania cast ballots for electors to the Electoral College as part of a national election to elect the President and Vice President of the U ...
References
{{State Results of the 1940 U.S. presidential election
Pennsylvania
1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
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1940 Pennsylvania elections