1940 United States presidential election in Georgia explained

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Election Name:	1940 United States presidential election in Georgia
Country:	Georgia (U.S. state)
Flag Year:	1920
Type:	presidential
Vote Type:	Popular
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1936 United States presidential election in Georgia
Previous Year:	1936
Next Election:	1944 United States presidential election in Georgia
Next Year:	1944
Image1:	FDRoosevelt1938.png
Nominee1:	Franklin Roosevelt
Party1:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1:	New York
Running Mate1:	Henry A. Wallace
Electoral Vote1:	12
Popular Vote1:	265,194
Percentage1:	84.85%
Nominee2:	Wendell Willkie
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:	New York
Running Mate2:	Charles L. McNary
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	46,360
Percentage2:	14.83%
Map Size:	290px
President
Before Election:	Franklin Roosevelt
Before Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
Posttitle:	Elected President
After Election:	Franklin Roosevelt
After Party:	Democratic Party (United States)

The 1940 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 5, 1940, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

With the exception of a handful of historically Unionist North Georgia counties – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns – Georgia since the 1880s had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. Disfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and most poor whites had made the Republican Party virtually nonexistent outside of local governments in those few hill counties,^[1] and the national Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction. The only competitive elections were Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.^[2]

Secretary of State John B. Wilson refused to allow Earl Browder, the nominee of the Communist Party USA, to appear on the ballot stating that the party was in violation of a Georgian law which prohibited "candidates of a party which seeks to overthrow our democratic constitutional form of government" from appearing on the ballot. The Georgia General Assembly later passed restrictive ballot access legislation in 1943, which required petitions to have signatures from at least five percent of registered voters. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution stated that the legislation was passed in order to "sustain Secretary of State John B. Wilson in refusing a Communist candidate for president a place on the Georgia ballot in the 1940 election".^{[3] [4]} Georgia would later lower its voting age from twenty-one to eighteen in 1943.^[5]

Results

1940 United States presidential election in Georgia^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Franklin Roosevelt (incumbent)	265,194	84.85%	12
	Republican	Wendell Willkie	46,360	14.83%	0
	Prohibition	Roger Babson	983	0.31%	0
	Independent		14	0.00%	0

Results by county

County	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic		Wendell Lewis Willkie Republican/Independent Democratic		Roger Ward Babson Prohibition		Write-ins Independent		Margin		Total votes cast^[7]
		%		%		%		%		%
	Appling		1,514		82.19%		312		16.94%		16		0.87%		0		0.00%		1,202		65.26%		1,842
	Atkinson		703		91.30%		66		8.57%		1		0.13%		0		0.00%		637		82.73%		770
	Bacon		821		88.95%		97		10.51%		5		0.54%		0		0.00%		724		78.44%		923
	Baker		557		94.73%		30		5.10%		1		0.17%		0		0.00%		527		89.63%		588
	Baldwin		1,313		86.38%		203		13.36%		4		0.26%		0		0.00%		1,110		73.03%		1,520
	Banks		668		79.71%		164		19.57%		6		0.72%		0		0.00%		504		60.14%		838
	Barrow		1,615		87.82%		219		11.91%		5		0.27%		0		0.00%		1,396		75.91%		1,839
	Bartow		1,734		84.17%		318		15.44%		8		0.39%		0		0.00%		1,416		68.74%		2,060
	Ben Hill		1,206		86.64%		181		13.00%		4		0.29%		1		0.07%		1,025		73.64%		1,392
	Berrien		1,156		97.97%		23		1.95%		1		0.08%		0		0.00%		1,133		96.02%		1,180
	Bibb		6,729		82.70%		1,371		16.85%		37		0.45%		0		0.00%		5,358		65.85%		8,137
	Bleckley		785		88.40%		100		11.26%		3		0.34%		0		0.00%		685		77.14%		888
	Brantley		960		93.20%		67		6.50%		3		0.29%		0		0.00%		893		86.70%		1,030
	Brooks		1,300		83.93%		248		16.01%		1		0.06%		0		0.00%		1,052		67.91%		1,549
	Bryan		874		94.49%		49		5.30%		2		0.22%		0		0.00%		825		89.19%		925
	Bulloch		2,063		93.35%		141		6.38%		6		0.27%		0		0.00%		1,922		86.97%		2,210
	Burke		1,029		95.54%		42		3.90%		6		0.56%		0		0.00%		987		91.64%		1,077
	Butts		1,012		91.92%		87		7.90%		2		0.18%		0		0.00%		925		84.01%		1,101
	Calhoun		610		94.87%		33		5.13%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		577		89.74%		643
	Camden		564		90.24%		60		9.60%		1		0.16%		0		0.00%		504		80.64%		625
	Candler		748		92.00%		63		7.75%		2		0.25%		0		0.00%		685		84.26%		813
	Carroll		3,808		85.92%		616		13.90%		8		0.18%		0		0.00%		3,192		72.02%		4,432
	Catoosa		1,440		85.26%		249		14.74%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,191		70.52%		1,689
	Charlton		562		90.35%		60		9.65%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		502		80.71%		622
	Chatham		10,048		83.37%		1,985		16.47%		19		0.16%		0		0.00%		8,063		66.90%		12,052
	Chattahoochee		204		91.07%		20		8.93%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		184		82.14%		224
	Chattooga		2,413		89.47%		273		10.12%		11		0.41%		0		0.00%		2,140		79.35%		2,697
	Cherokee		1,552		60.11%		1,017		39.39%		13		0.50%		0		0.00%		535		20.72%		2,582
	Clarke		2,894		91.87%		246		7.81%		10		0.32%		0		0.00%		2,648		84.06%		3,150
	Clay		488		93.31%		33		6.31%		2		0.38%		0		0.00%		455		87.00%		523
	Clayton		1,382		89.45%		161		10.42%		2		0.13%		0		0.00%		1,221		79.03%		1,545
	Clinch		1,049		94.33%		63		5.67%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		986		88.67%		1,112
	Cobb		4,447		81.63%		992		18.21%		9		0.17%		0		0.00%		3,455		63.42%		5,448
	Coffee		1,561		92.15%		128		7.56%		5		0.30%		0		0.00%		1,433		84.59%		1,694
	Colquitt		1,819		77.04%		525		22.24%		17		0.72%		0		0.00%		1,294		54.81%		2,361
	Columbia		627		92.61%		46		6.79%		4		0.59%		0		0.00%		581		85.82%		677
	Cook		941		86.81%		143		13.19%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		798		73.62%		1,084
	Coweta		2,846		96.25%		103		3.48%		8		0.27%		0		0.00%		2,743		92.76%		2,957
	Crawford		362		82.84%		74		16.93%		1		0.23%		0		0.00%		288		65.90%		437
	Crisp		1,049		88.75%		129		10.91%		4		0.34%		0		0.00%		920		77.83%		1,182
	Dade		982		86.67%		151		13.33%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		831		73.35%		1,133
	Dawson		484		63.43%		276		36.17%		3		0.39%		0		0.00%		208		27.26%		763
	Decatur		1,781		89.05%		217		10.85%		2		0.10%		0		0.00%		1,564		78.20%		2,000
	DeKalb		8,862		80.65%		2,081		18.94%		45		0.41%		0		0.00%		6,781		61.71%		10,988
	Dodge		1,280		87.91%		171		11.74%		5		0.34%		0		0.00%		1,109		76.17%		1,456
	Dooly		1,209		90.43%		124		9.27%		4		0.30%		0		0.00%		1,085		81.15%		1,337
	Dougherty		2,175		92.32%		180		7.64%		1		0.04%		0		0.00%		1,995		84.68%		2,356
	Douglas		833		80.64%		195		18.88%		5		0.48%		0		0.00%		638		61.76%		1,033
	Early		1,751		94.29%		104		5.60%		2		0.11%		0		0.00%		1,647		88.69%		1,857
	Echols		441		95.87%		18		3.91%		1		0.22%		0		0.00%		423		91.96%		460
	Effingham		633		73.60%		227		26.40%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		406		47.21%		860
	Elbert		2,052		84.48%		357		14.70%		20		0.82%		0		0.00%		1,695		69.78%		2,429
	Emanuel		1,428		94.51%		81		5.36%		2		0.13%		0		0.00%		1,347		89.15%		1,511
	Evans		1,399		92.04%		112		7.37%		9		0.59%		0		0.00%		1,287		84.67%		1,520
	Fannin		1,771		43.98%		2,256		56.02%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		-485		-12.04%		4,027
	Fayette		577		92.91%		44		7.09%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		533		85.83%		621
	Floyd		5,528		85.56%		912		14.12%		21		0.33%		0		0.00%		4,616		71.44%		6,461
	Forsyth		1,378		68.49%		634		31.51%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		744		36.98%		2,012
	Franklin		1,579		86.66%		222		12.18%		21		1.15%		0		0.00%		1,357		74.48%		1,822
	Fulton		31,311		83.57%		6,033		16.10%		122		0.33%		0		0.00%		25,278		67.47%		37,466
	Gilmer		856		56.61%		653		43.19%		3		0.20%		0		0.00%		203		13.43%		1,512
	Glascock		332		80.98%		76		18.54%		2		0.49%		0		0.00%		256		62.44%		410
	Glynn		2,014		87.76%		274		11.94%		7		0.31%		0		0.00%		1,740		75.82%		2,295
	Gordon		1,623		75.17%		527		24.41%		9		0.42%		0		0.00%		1,096		50.76%		2,159
	Grady		1,461		86.09%		224		13.20%		12		0.71%		0		0.00%		1,237		72.89%		1,697
	Greene		1,497		90.29%		148		8.93%		13		0.78%		0		0.00%		1,349		81.36%		1,658
	Gwinnett		4,023		84.32%		728		15.26%		20		0.42%		0		0.00%		3,295		69.06%		4,771
	Habersham		1,840		81.06%		421		18.55%		9		0.40%		0		0.00%		1,419		62.51%		2,270
	Hall		2,943		85.13%		513		14.84%		1		0.03%		0		0.00%		2,430		70.29%		3,457
	Hancock		501		76.49%		153		23.36%		1		0.15%		0		0.00%		348		53.13%		655
	Haralson		1,397		75.19%		457		24.60%		4		0.22%		0		0.00%		940		50.59%		1,858
	Harris		914		92.04%		71		7.15%		8		0.81%		0		0.00%		843		84.89%		993
	Hart		1,328		92.16%		97		6.73%		16		1.11%		0		0.00%		1,231		85.43%		1,441
	Heard		647		74.37%		221		25.40%		2		0.23%		0		0.00%		426		48.97%		870
	Henry		1,551		93.77%		101		6.11%		2		0.12%		0		0.00%		1,450		87.67%		1,654
	Houston		622		80.57%		149		19.30%		1		0.13%		0		0.00%		473		61.27%		772
	Irwin		962		82.79%		197		16.95%		3		0.26%		0		0.00%		765		65.83%		1,162
	Jackson		1,599		90.29%		166		9.37%		6		0.34%		0		0.00%		1,433		80.91%		1,771
	Jasper		689		90.30%		72		9.44%		2		0.26%		0		0.00%		617		80.87%		763
	Jeff Davis		696		87.11%		101		12.64%		2		0.25%		0		0.00%		595		74.47%		799
	Jefferson		1,068		86.13%		171		13.79%		1		0.08%		0		0.00%		897		72.34%		1,240
	Jenkins		940		92.98%		69		6.82%		2		0.20%		0		0.00%		871		86.15%		1,011
	Johnson		2,386		88.24%		306		11.32%		12		0.44%		0		0.00%		2,080		76.92%		2,704
	Jones		613		85.73%		101		14.13%		1		0.14%		0		0.00%		512		71.61%		715
	Lamar		869		90.62%		85		8.86%		5		0.52%		0		0.00%		784		81.75%		959
	Lanier		607		97.12%		16		2.56%		2		0.32%		0		0.00%		591		94.56%		625
	Laurens		2,316		84.07%		435		15.79%		4		0.15%		0		0.00%		1,881		68.28%		2,755
	Lee		416		95.63%		17		3.91%		2		0.46%		0		0.00%		399		91.72%		435
	Liberty		407		79.80%		102		20.00%		1		0.20%		0		0.00%		305		59.80%		510
	Lincoln		466		86.62%		67		12.45%		3		0.56%		2		0.37%		399		74.16%		538
	Long		319		80.35%		76		19.14%		2		0.50%		0		0.00%		243		61.21%		397
	Lowndes		2,551		90.40%		260		9.21%		11		0.39%		0		0.00%		2,291		81.18%		2,822
	Lumpkin		889		84.11%		165		15.61%		3		0.28%		0		0.00%		724		68.50%		1,057
	Macon		852		91.81%		72		7.76%		4		0.43%		0		0.00%		780		84.05%		928
	Madison		1,160		85.36%		185		13.61%		14		1.03%		0		0.00%		975		71.74%		1,359
	Marion		605		88.58%		77		11.27%		1		0.15%		0		0.00%		528		77.31%		683
	McDuffie		959		92.12%		75		7.20%		7		0.67%		0		0.00%		884		84.92%		1,041
	McIntosh		468		81.53%		106		18.47%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		362		63.07%		574
	Meriwether		2,726		93.74%		174		5.98%		8		0.28%		0		0.00%		2,552		87.76%		2,908
	Miller		775		93.94%		50		6.06%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		725		87.88%		825
	Mitchell		2,131		93.22%		155		6.78%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,976		86.44%		2,286
	Monroe		1,016		94.86%		49		4.58%		6		0.56%		0		0.00%		967		90.29%		1,071
	Montgomery		686		89.44%		75		9.78%		6		0.78%		0		0.00%		611		79.66%		767
	Morgan		484		95.28%		24		4.72%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		460		90.55%		508
	Murray		1,399		71.89%		545		28.01%		2		0.10%		0		0.00%		854		43.88%		1,946
	Muscogee		5,392		88.38%		702		11.51%		7		0.11%		0		0.00%		4,690		76.87%		6,101
	Newton		1,512		93.85%		95		5.90%		4		0.25%		0		0.00%		1,417		87.96%		1,611
	Oconee		635		77.72%		177		21.66%		5		0.61%		0		0.00%		458		56.06%		817
	Oglethorpe		818		86.11%		131		13.79%		1		0.11%		0		0.00%		687		72.32%		950
	Paulding		1,653		67.89%		770		31.62%		12		0.49%		0		0.00%		883		36.26%		2,435
	Peach		738		82.09%		155		17.24%		6		0.67%		0		0.00%		583		64.85%		899
	Pickens		1,124		55.64%		884		43.76%		12		0.59%		0		0.00%		240		11.88%		2,020
	Pierce		943		91.55%		84		8.16%		3		0.29%		0		0.00%		859		83.40%		1,030
	Pike		829		79.87%		209		20.13%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		620		59.73%		1,038
	Polk		2,693		86.76%		401		12.92%		10		0.32%		0		0.00%		2,292		73.84%		3,104
	Pulaski		478		91.92%		38		7.31%		4		0.77%		0		0.00%		440		84.62%		520
	Putnam		730		92.17%		61		7.70%		1		0.13%		0		0.00%		669		84.47%		792
	Quitman		324		94.46%		19		5.54%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		305		88.92%		343
	Rabun		958		91.85%		82		7.86%		3		0.29%		0		0.00%		876		83.99%		1,043
	Randolph		1,298		89.95%		143		9.91%		2		0.14%		0		0.00%		1,155		80.04%		1,443
	Richmond		5,855		89.97%		641		9.85%		8		0.12%		4		0.06%		5,214		80.12%		6,508
	Rockdale		1,291		93.55%		86		6.23%		3		0.22%		0		0.00%		1,205		87.32%		1,380
	Schley		471		86.90%		69		12.73%		2		0.37%		0		0.00%		402		74.17%		542
	Screven		1,174		91.79%		100		7.82%		5		0.39%		0		0.00%		1,074		83.97%		1,279
	Seminole		884		93.45%		58		6.13%		3		0.32%		1		0.11%		826		87.32%		946
	Spalding		3,022		93.76%		197		6.11%		4		0.12%		0		0.00%		2,825		87.65%		3,223
	Stephens		1,084		91.71%		90		7.61%		6		0.51%		2		0.17%		994		84.09%		1,182
	Stewart		600		92.02%		52		7.98%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		548		84.05%		652
	Sumter		1,561		92.26%		118		6.97%		13		0.77%		0		0.00%		1,443		85.28%		1,692
	Talbot		656		92.92%		49		6.94%		1		0.14%		0		0.00%		607		85.98%		706
	Taliaferro		507		96.39%		19		3.61%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		488		92.78%		526
	Tattnall		1,246		74.43%		421		25.15%		7		0.42%		0		0.00%		825		49.28%		1,674
	Taylor		796		78.73%		213		21.07%		2		0.20%		0		0.00%		583		57.67%		1,011
	Telfair		1,391		92.24%		104		6.90%		13		0.86%		0		0.00%		1,287		85.34%		1,508
	Terrell		1,040		100.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,040		100.00%		1,040
	Thomas		2,072		84.64%		371		15.16%		5		0.20%		0		0.00%		1,701		69.49%		2,448
	Tift		1,463		85.51%		226		13.21%		22		1.29%		0		0.00%		1,237		72.30%		1,711
	Toombs		1,061		88.79%		134		11.21%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		927		77.57%		1,195
	Towns		894		51.86%		830		48.14%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		64		3.71%		1,724
	Treutlen		1,184		96.89%		38		3.11%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,146		93.78%		1,222
	Troup		3,176		91.34%		288		8.28%		13		0.37%		0		0.00%		2,888		83.06%		3,477
	Turner		791		68.96%		351		30.60%		5		0.44%		0		0.00%		440		38.36%		1,147
	Twiggs		723		88.82%		91		11.18%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		632		77.64%		814
	Union		950		62.96%		557		36.91%		2		0.13%		0		0.00%		393		26.04%		1,509
	Upson		2,235		93.36%		159		6.64%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		2,076		86.72%		2,394
	Walker		2,859		83.50%		558		16.30%		7		0.20%		0		0.00%		2,301		67.20%		3,424
	Walton		2,179		95.24%		104		4.55%		5		0.22%		0		0.00%		2,075		90.69%		2,288
	Ware		2,672		89.48%		308		10.31%		6		0.20%		0		0.00%		2,364		79.17%		2,986
	Warren		606		86.20%		95		13.51%		2		0.28%		0		0.00%		511		72.69%		703
	Washington		1,112		80.93%		253		18.41%		9		0.66%		0		0.00%		859		62.52%		1,374
	Wayne		1,542		89.39%		179		10.38%		4		0.23%		0		0.00%		1,363		79.01%		1,725
	Webster		280		84.85%		50		15.15%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		230		69.70%		330
	Wheeler		495		80.49%		117		19.02%		3		0.49%		0		0.00%		378		61.46%		615
	White		754		87.17%		111		12.83%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		643		74.34%		865
	Whitfield		3,162		76.03%		991		23.83%		6		0.14%		0		0.00%		2,171		52.20%		4,159
	Wilcox		890		87.51%		118		11.60%		9		0.88%		0		0.00%		772		75.91%		1,017
	Wilkes		1,022		88.72%		123		10.68%		7		0.61%		0		0.00%		899		78.04%		1,152
	Wilkinson		906		85.96%		147		13.95%		1		0.09%		0		0.00%		759		72.01%		1,054
	Worth		936		82.91%		190		16.83%		3		0.27%		0		0.00%		746		66.08%		1,129
Totals	265,194	84.81%	46,495	14.87%	983	0.31%	14	0.00%	218,699	69.94%	312,686

Notes and References

1. [Kevin Phillips (political commentator)|Phillips, Kevin P.]
2. Springer, Melanie Jean; How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000, p. 155
3. News: April 20, 2018 . Martin Cowen v. Brian P. Kemp . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220117212656/https://ballot-access.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-04-20-declaration-of-Darcy-Richardson.pdf . January 17, 2022.
4. News: April 20, 2018 . Darcy Richardson Submits Evidence in Georgia Ballot Access Case About Why the 5% Petition was Created in 1943 . . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220117211910/https://ballot-access.org/2018/04/20/darcy-richardson-submits-evidence-in-georgia-ballot-access-case-about-why-the-5-petition-was-created-in-1943/ . January 17, 2022.
5. Book: Wayne, Stephen . 2008 . Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process Fifth Edition . Rowman & Littlefield.
6. Book: Georgia's Official Register, 1939-1941-1943 . Atlanta, Georgia . 550–552 .
7. Web site: GA US President Race, November 05, 1940. Our Campaigns. September 28, 2020. January 17, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220117212704/https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2808. live.