Except for the UnionistOzark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government, Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one-party Democratic “Solid South” state.[1]Disfranchisement of effectively all Negroes and most poor whites by a poll tax since 1890 meant that outside those two aberrant counties, the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections.
Increased voting by poor Ozark whites as a protest against Woodrow Wilson's internationalist foreign policy meant that Warren G. Harding in 1920 was able to win almost forty percent of the statewide vote;[2] and 1928 saw the rest of the Outer South and North Alabama bolt the anti-Prohibition Catholic Al Smith. However, the presence of Arkansas SenatorJoseph Taylor Robinson as running mate meant that within Arkansas only the most northwesterly counties with ordinarily substantial Republican votes suffered the same fate.[3]
The following years saw Arkansas plunge into the Great Depression, followed almost immediately by a major drought from the summer of 1930s until the winter of 1931 and 1932.[4] Like in the rest of the "Solid South", Arkansas gave overwhelming support to Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932,[5] with Roosevelt carrying every county in the state.[6] His popularity would lessen somewhat during his second term due to the urban and labor bias of the New Deal, but Roosevelt remained in no danger in 1940. This was especially true given that the South had never experienced German or Scandinavian immigration and thus strongly sympathized – as FDR did – with Britain in World War II.[7] Thus FDR was able to almost maintain his 1936 majority in Arkansas, and replicated the county map of 1896, 1916, 1924 and 1936. As of 2020, this remains the last time that a presidential nominee has won more than seventy percent of the vote in Arkansas.
^See Urwin, Cathy Kunzinger. Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71. p. 32. ISBN1557282005.
^Phillips, Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority. pp. 211, 287. ISBN978-0-691-16324-6.
^Barnes, Kenneth C. Anti-Catholicism in Arkansas: How Politicians, the Press, the Klan, and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy, 1910–1960. pp. 164–165. ISBN168226016X.
^Whayne, Jeannie M.; DeBlack, Thomas A.; Sabo, George; Arnold, Morris S. Arkansas: A Narrative History. pp. 341–342. ISBN155728993X.
^Grantham, Dewey W. The Life and Death of the Solid South: A Political History. p. 102. ISBN0813148723.
^Leuchtenburg, William E. The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson. p. 51. ISBN0807151424.
^Dunn, Susan. 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler – the Election Amid the Storm. p. 57. ISBN0300190867.
^Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 48-49 ISBN0405077114
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Main article 1940 United States presidential election The 1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 5 1940 as part of the 1940 United States presidential election State voters chose nine representatives or electors to the Electoral College who voted for president and vice president 1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas 1936 November 5 1940 1944 Nominee Franklin D Roosevelt Wendell WillkieParty Democratic RepublicanHome state New York New YorkRunning mate Henry A Wallace Charles L McNaryElectoral vote 9 0Popular vote 157 213 42 122Percentage 78 44 21 02 County Results Roosevelt 50 60 60 70 70 80 80 90 90 100 Wilkie 50 60 President before electionFranklin D RooseveltDemocratic Elected President Franklin D RooseveltDemocraticExcept for the Unionist Ozark counties of Newton and Searcy where Republicans controlled local government Arkansas since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic one party Democratic Solid South state 1 Disfranchisement of effectively all Negroes and most poor whites by a poll tax since 1890 meant that outside those two aberrant counties the Republican Party was completely moribund and Democratic primaries the only competitive elections Increased voting by poor Ozark whites as a protest against Woodrow Wilson s internationalist foreign policy meant that Warren G Harding in 1920 was able to win almost forty percent of the statewide vote 2 and 1928 saw the rest of the Outer South and North Alabama bolt the anti Prohibition Catholic Al Smith However the presence of Arkansas Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson as running mate meant that within Arkansas only the most northwesterly counties with ordinarily substantial Republican votes suffered the same fate 3 The following years saw Arkansas plunge into the Great Depression followed almost immediately by a major drought from the summer of 1930s until the winter of 1931 and 1932 4 Like in the rest of the Solid South Arkansas gave overwhelming support to Democrat Franklin D Roosevelt in 1932 5 with Roosevelt carrying every county in the state 6 His popularity would lessen somewhat during his second term due to the urban and labor bias of the New Deal but Roosevelt remained in no danger in 1940 This was especially true given that the South had never experienced German or Scandinavian immigration and thus strongly sympathized as FDR did with Britain in World War II 7 Thus FDR was able to almost maintain his 1936 majority in Arkansas and replicated the county map of 1896 1916 1924 and 1936 As of 2020 this remains the last time that a presidential nominee has won more than seventy percent of the vote in Arkansas Contents 1 Results 1 1 Results by county 2 See also 3 ReferencesResults editElectoral results Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoralvote Running mateCount Percentage Vice presidential candidate Home state Electoral voteFranklin D Roosevelt Democratic New York 157 213 78 44 9 Henry Agard Wallace Iowa 9Wendell Willkie Republican New York 42 122 21 02 0 Charles L McNary Oregon 0 Write ins 1 094 0 55 0 0Total 200 429 100 9 9Needed to win 266 266Results by county edit 1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas by county 8 County Franklin Delano RooseveltDemocratic Wendell Lewis WillkieRepublican Various candidatesWrite ins Margin Total votes cast Arkansas 2 345 74 87 742 23 69 45 1 44 1 603 51 18 3 132Ashley 1 835 90 71 184 9 10 4 0 20 1 651 81 61 2 023Baxter 859 63 39 489 36 09 7 0 52 370 27 31 1 355Benton 2 442 54 59 1 962 43 86 69 1 54 480 10 73 4 473Boone 2 054 71 59 786 27 40 29 1 01 1 268 44 20 2 869Bradley 1 939 93 85 123 5 95 4 0 19 1 816 87 90 2 066Calhoun 818 94 90 44 5 10 0 0 00 774 89 79 862Carroll 1 604 59 69 1 081 40 23 2 0 07 523 19 46 2 687Chicot 1 592 90 71 161 9 17 2 0 11 1 431 81 54 1 755Clark 2 008 86 29 311 13 36 8 0 34 1 697 72 93 2 327Clay 1 676 60 31 1 029 37 03 74 2 66 647 23 28 2 779Cleburne 834 68 47 374 30 71 10 0 82 460 37 77 1 218Cleveland 989 94 37 58 5 53 1 0 10 931 88 84 1 048Columbia 2 270 93 72 149 6 15 3 0 12 2 121 87 57 2 422Conway 2 067 88 33 272 11 62 1 0 04 1 795 76 71 2 340Craighead 3 300 77 43 935 21 94 27 0 63 2 365 55 49 4 262Crawford 1 581 68 21 691 29 81 46 1 98 890 38 40 2 318Crittenden 1 966 96 37 72 3 53 2 0 10 1 894 92 84 2 040Cross 1 746 85 80 285 14 00 4 0 20 1 461 71 79 2 035Dallas 1 295 88 28 118 8 04 54 3 68 1 177 80 23 1 467Desha 1 370 89 78 146 9 57 10 0 66 1 224 80 21 1 526Drew 1 329 87 95 152 10 06 30 1 99 1 177 77 90 1 511Faulkner 2 535 82 68 519 16 93 12 0 39 2 016 65 75 3 066Franklin 1 601 83 30 319 16 60 2 0 10 1 282 66 70 1 922Fulton 838 70 84 333 28 15 12 1 01 505 42 69 1 183Garland 3 335 69 89 1 424 29 84 13 0 27 1 911 40 05 4 772Grant 1 043 86 70 160 13 30 0 0 00 883 73 40 1 203Greene 2 220 81 17 510 18 65 5 0 18 1 710 62 52 2 735Hempstead 2 814 87 15 415 12 85 0 0 00 2 399 74 30 3 229Hot Spring 1 730 78 03 482 21 74 5 0 23 1 248 56 29 2 217Howard 1 540 78 05 419 21 24 14 0 71 1 121 56 82 1 973Independence 2 276 70 68 928 28 82 16 0 50 1 348 41 86 3 220Izard 1 058 74 19 366 25 67 2 0 14 692 48 53 1 426Jackson 2 223 84 59 382 14 54 23 0 88 1 841 70 05 2 628Jefferson 3 829 86 45 587 13 25 13 0 29 3 242 73 20 4 429Johnson 1 429 81 38 318 18 11 9 0 51 1 111 63 27 1 756Lafayette 1 352 88 02 159 10 35 25 1 63 1 193 77 67 1 536Lawrence 2 484 73 93 852 25 36 24 0 71 1 632 48 57 3 360Lee 1 100 90 76 109 8 99 3 0 25 991 81 77 1 212Lincoln 916 89 37 99 9 66 10 0 98 817 79 71 1 025Little River 1 104 79 31 276 19 83 12 0 86 828 59 48 1 392Logan 2 831 72 66 1 065 27 34 0 0 00 1 766 45 33 3 896Lonoke 1 899 85 35 323 14 52 3 0 13 1 576 70 83 2 225Madison 2 196 50 97 2 107 48 91 5 0 12 89 2 07 4 308Marion 864 71 94 320 26 64 17 1 42 544 45 30 1 201Miller 3 019 83 88 563 15 64 17 0 47 2 456 68 24 3 599Mississippi 5 257 89 24 616 10 46 18 0 31 4 641 78 78 5 891Monroe 1 494 92 00 128 7 88 2 0 12 1 366 84 11 1 624Montgomery 1 012 71 42 400 28 23 5 0 35 612 43 19 1 417Nevada 1 399 85 83 224 13 74 7 0 43 1 175 72 09 1 630Newton 1 202 45 91 1 392 53 17 24 0 92 190 7 26 2 618Ouachita 2 951 91 08 284 8 77 5 0 15 2 667 82 31 3 240Perry 783 79 09 206 20 81 1 0 10 577 58 28 990Phillips 2 235 90 12 245 9 88 0 0 00 1 990 80 24 2 480Pike 974 69 13 424 30 09 11 0 78 550 39 03 1 409Poinsett 4 138 85 90 670 13 91 9 0 19 3 468 72 00 4 817Polk 1 255 67 55 585 31 49 18 0 97 670 36 06 1 858Pope 3 765 82 55 770 16 88 26 0 57 2 995 65 67 4 561Prairie 1 069 75 92 336 23 86 3 0 21 733 52 06 1 408Pulaski 14 219 82 52 2 955 17 15 56 0 33 11 264 65 37 17 230Randolph 1 687 77 42 474 21 75 18 0 83 1 213 55 67 2 179St Francis 1 671 88 23 192 10 14 31 1 64 1 479 78 09 1 894Saline 1 963 87 21 274 12 17 14 0 62 1 689 75 03 2 251Scott 992 73 32 353 26 09 8 0 59 639 47 23 1 353Searcy 982 43 11 1 292 56 72 4 0 18 310 13 61 2 278Sebastian 5 249 72 44 1 968 27 16 29 0 40 3 281 45 28 7 246Sevier 1 374 82 03 293 17 49 8 0 48 1 081 64 54 1 675Sharp 1 099 71 50 433 28 17 5 0 33 666 43 33 1 537Stone 644 60 93 406 38 41 7 0 66 238 22 52 1 057Union 4 842 90 59 489 9 15 14 0 26 4 353 81 44 5 345Van Buren 1 068 72 65 402 27 35 0 0 00 666 45 31 1 470Washington 2 873 60 48 1 819 38 29 58 1 22 1 054 22 19 4 750White 3 345 78 80 876 20 64 24 0 57 2 469 58 16 4 245Woodruff 1 280 86 43 193 13 03 8 0 54 1 087 73 40 1 481Yell 2 236 90 64 224 9 08 7 0 28 2 012 81 56 2 467Totals 157 213 78 44 42 122 21 02 1 094 0 55 115 091 57 42 200 429See also editUnited States presidential elections in ArkansasReferences edit See Urwin Cathy Kunzinger Agenda for Reform Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas 1967 71 p 32 ISBN 1557282005 Phillips Kevin P The Emerging Republican Majority pp 211 287 ISBN 978 0 691 16324 6 Barnes Kenneth C Anti Catholicism in Arkansas How Politicians the Press the Klan and Religious Leaders Imagined an Enemy 1910 1960 pp 164 165 ISBN 168226016X Whayne Jeannie M DeBlack Thomas A Sabo George Arnold Morris S Arkansas A Narrative History pp 341 342 ISBN 155728993X Grantham Dewey W The Life and Death of the Solid South A Political History p 102 ISBN 0813148723 Leuchtenburg William E The White House Looks South Franklin D Roosevelt Harry S Truman Lyndon B Johnson p 51 ISBN 0807151424 Dunn Susan 1940 FDR Willkie Lindbergh Hitler the Election Amid the Storm p 57 ISBN 0300190867 Scammon Richard M compiler America at the Polls A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920 1964 pp 48 49 ISBN 0405077114 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1940 United States presidential election in Arkansas amp oldid 1197864211, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
