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Results of the presidential election of 1940, won by Franklin D. Roosevelt with 449 electoral votes.
This article provides a list of scientific, nationwide public opinion polls that were conducted relating to the 1940 United States presidential election. Presidential election. Franklin Roosevelt vs Wendell Willkie.
Incumbent President Clinton held a comfortable lead in the polls throughout the campaign due to the good economy, stable international situation, and tying Dole to Newt Gingrich (the unpopular speaker of the House), easily winning the general election.
It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1940. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican businessman Wendell Willkie to be reelected for an unprecedented third term in office. Until 1988, this was the last time in which the incumbent's party won three consecutive presidential elections.
Detailed national-level Presidential Election Results for 1940.
Willkie received 44.8 percent and 82 electoral votes, carrying 10 states: Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Vermont. For the results of the previous election, see United States presidential election of 1936.
By DANIEL KATZ. What factors make or break the polls in predicting elections? Why did Gallup, with his achievement of the lowest state-by-state error in polling history, re- gard the presidential contest as too close to justify a definite prediction?
