Cracked BuckeyeCracked Buckeye

A county result

Stark County, presidential election of 1940

Stark County

56.19%Franklin D. Roosevelt (D), the most votes105,880Votes counted for president

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

Correct this page · hello@crackedbuckeye.com

What this is

Stark County counted 105,880 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
Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic59,49656.19%
Wendell WillkieRepublican46,38443.81%

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
Stark County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+12.4 against Ohio's D+4.4: 8.0 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 78th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1936
From 1936 to 1940 the county's lean moved 11.7 points toward the Republicans, from D+24.1 to D+12.4.
Matched
Stark County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

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

Not yet researched

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

Cite and data

Cite this page as:

Cracked Buckeye, "Stark County, presidential election of 1940", https://crackedbuckeye.com/county/stark/president/1940/, built 2026-10-20, accessed [date].

How to cite · Report a correction · Built 2026-10-20