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From March 12 to May 17, 1940, voters of the Republican Party chose delegates to nominate a candidate for president at the 1940 Republican National Convention. The nominee was selected at the convention in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania from June 24–28, 1940.
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
The 1940 Republican National Convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from June 24 to June 28, 1940. It nominated Wendell Willkie of New York for president and Senator Charles McNary of Oregon for vice president. The contest for the 1940 Republican presidential nomination was wide-open.
Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral vote Running mate Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) Democratic: New York: 27,313,945 54.74% 449 Henry A. Wallace: Iowa: 449 Wendell Willkie: Republican: New York: 22,347,744 44.78% 82 Charles L. McNary: Oregon ...
This is a list of the candidates for the offices of president of the United States and vice president of the United States of the Republican Party, either duly preselected and nominated, or the presumptive nominees of a future preselection and election. Opponents who received over one percent of the popular vote or ran an official campaign that ...
There were no major party candidates for president in the presidential election of 1789 and the presidential election of 1792, [c] both of which were won by George Washington. [4] In the 1812 presidential election , DeWitt Clinton served as the de facto Federalist nominee even though he was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party; Clinton ...
For the first time in modern Republican primary history, three different candidates won the three key early contests: Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses (though Romney was originally believed to have won before a recount), Mitt Romney in the New Hampshire primary, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in the ...
3.2.1 Republican Party candidates. ... 1940 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Wendell L. Willkie ... for the people" – 1992 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of ...