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Ashland County, presidential election of 1940

Ashland County

52.40%Wendell Willkie (R), the most votes16,459Votes counted for president

Every election in Ashland County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1940

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What this is

Ashland County counted 16,459 votes for president across 2 candidates in 1940. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.

The count, as certified

Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Wendell WillkieRepublican8,62452.40%
Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic7,83547.60%

Turnout: None found in the records checked

This year in context

Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.

Ohio that year
Ohio went to Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) with 52.20%, a 4.4-point margin over Wendell Willkie. The country elected Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Against the state
Ashland County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+4.8 against Ohio's D+4.4: 9.2 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 54th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1936
From 1936 to 1940 the county's lean moved 22.1 points toward the Republicans, from D+17.3 to R+4.8.
Matched
Ashland County parted from Ohio and did not vote for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.

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Where this appears

The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.

Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1940 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1940 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1940-11-05 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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