<page_title> 1940 United States presidential election in Vermont </page_title> <section_title> Results </section_title> <table> <cell> Wendell Willkie <col_header> United States presidential election in Vermont, 1940 </col_header> <col_header> Candidate </col_header> <row_header>  </row_header> </cell> <cell> 54.78% <col_header> United States presidential election in Vermont, 1940 </col_header> <col_header> Percentage </col_header> <row_header>  </row_header> </cell> <cell> Franklin D. Roosevelt <col_header> United States presidential election in Vermont, 1940 </col_header> <col_header> Candidate </col_header> <row_header>  </row_header> </cell> <cell> 44.92% <col_header> United States presidential election in Vermont, 1940 </col_header> <col_header> Percentage </col_header> <row_header>  </row_header> </cell> </table>
Willkie took 54.78 percent of the vote, to Roosevelt's 44.92 percent, a margin of 9.86 percentage.