The outcome of the presidential election which took place in the United States during the year of 1940 was that Franklin Delano Roosevelt ran for a third time and won against a Republican, from the same state as him (New York), Wendell Willkie. This was a majority victory for Roosevelt who promised non-intervention in foreign wars as the United States had emerged from the Great Depression and was in the shadow of finishing up World War Two. Wendell Wilkie was seen as a dark horse during this election, who tried to make Roosevelt responsible for war faring and the Great Depression.