Eurith D. Rivers Democratic Eugene Talmadge Democratic The 1940 Georgia gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1940, in order to elect the governor of Georgia.

Incumbent Democratic governor Eurith D. Rivers was term-limited, and ineligible to run for a third term until spending four years out of office (thus in 1944).

[1] As was common at the time, the Democratic candidate ran with only token opposition in the general election so therefore the Democratic primary was the real contest, and winning the primary was considered tantamount to election.

As Talmadge won a majority of county unit votes, there was no run-off.

[2] The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, but in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties.