1940 Republican Party presidential primaries information
Selection of Republican US presidential candidate
1940 Republican Party presidential primaries
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March 12 to May 17, 1940
1944 →
1,000 delegates to the 1940 Republican National Convention 501 (majority) votes needed to win
Nominee
Thomas E. Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Wendell Willkie
Home state
New York
Ohio
New York
Delegate count
371[1]
242[1]
178[1]
Contests won
5
1
0
Popular vote
1,605,754
516,428
21,140
Percentage
49.76%
16.00%
0.66%
First place by first-instance vote
First place by convention roll call
Dewey Taft Willkie Vandenberg MacNider Martin Bridges Various[a]
Previous Republican nominee
Alfred Landon
Republican nominee
Wendell Willkie
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.[2]
The primaries were contested mainly by Manhattan District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey and Senators Robert A. Taft and Arthur Vandenberg, though only a few states' primaries featured two or more of these men.
By the start of the convention, only 300 of the 1,000 convention delegates had been pledged to a candidate, far fewer than was necessary to determine a victor. Estimates of delegate loyalty placed Dewey first, Taft second, and Wendell Willkie, an internationalist businessman, third.[1] Late momentum following the escalation of World War II allowed Willkie to take the nomination on the sixth ballot at the convention.
^ abcd"Willkie Reported "Practical" on G.O.P. Patronage". Cincinnati Enquirer. 24 Jun 1940. Retrieved 17 Dec 2022.
^Kalb, Deborah (2016-02-19). Guide to U.S. Elections - Google Books. ISBN 9781483380353. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
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