See main article: 1940 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1940 United States presidential election in New Hampshire |
| Country: | New Hampshire |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1936 United States presidential election in New Hampshire |
| Previous Year: | 1936 |
| Next Election: | 1944 United States presidential election in New Hampshire |
| Next Year: | 1944 |
| Election Date: | November 5, 1940 |
| Image1: | FDRoosevelt1938.png |
| Nominee1: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | New York |
| Running Mate1: | Henry A. Wallace |
| Electoral Vote1: | 4 |
| Popular Vote1: | 125,292 |
| Percentage1: | 53.22% |
| Nominee2: | Wendell Willkie |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | New York |
| Running Mate2: | Charles L. McNary |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 110,127 |
| Percentage2: | 46.78% |
| Map Size: | 295px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 1940 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 5, 1940. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1940 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
New Hampshire was won by incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, who was running against Republican businessman Wendell Willkie of New York. Roosevelt ran with Henry A. Wallace of Iowa as his running mate, and Willkie ran with Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon.
Roosevelt won New Hampshire by 6.44%, at the time the best performance by a Democratic presidential candidate in this traditionally Republican state since the latter party was founded[1] and the first time since Franklin Pierce in 1852 that a Democrat won the state with an absolute majority of the vote. (It had been won with a plurality by Roosevelt four years earlier and by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and 1916.) Roosevelt's gain in New Hampshire and other New England states, in an election when Willkie carried almost seven hundred counties that the President had won during his landslide four years beforehand, was due to support in the region for helping Britain and France during World War II.[2]
| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic | Wendell Lewis Willkie Republican | Margin | Total votes cast[3] | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | |||||||||||||
| Belknap | 5,653 | 48.04% | 6,115 | 51.96% | -462 | -3.93% | 11,768 | ||||||||
| Carroll | 2,870 | 33.66% | 5,656 | 66.34% | -2,786 | -32.68% | 8,526 | ||||||||
| Cheshire | 6,916 | 45.45% | 8,302 | 54.55% | -1,386 | -9.11% | 15,218 | ||||||||
| Coös | 10,100 | 60.30% | 6,650 | 39.70% | 3,450 | 20.60% | 16,750 | ||||||||
| Grafton | 9,761 | 45.96% | 11,478 | 54.04% | -1,717 | -8.08% | 21,239 | ||||||||
| Hillsborough | 42,580 | 61.91% | 26,201 | 38.09% | 16,379 | 23.81% | 68,781 | ||||||||
| Merrimack | 14,692 | 49.61% | 14,923 | 50.39% | -231 | -0.78% | 29,615 | ||||||||
| Rockingham | 14,001 | 46.32% | 16,223 | 53.68% | -2,222 | -7.35% | 30,224 | ||||||||
| Strafford | 12,847 | 58.82% | 8,996 | 41.18% | 3,851 | 17.63% | 21,843 | ||||||||
| Sullivan | 5,872 | 51.26% | 5,583 | 48.74% | 289 | 2.52% | 11,455 | ||||||||
| Totals | 125,292 | 53.22% | 110,127 | 46.78% | 15,165 | 6.44% | 235,419 | ||||||||