1944 United States presidential election#Republican Party
{{short description|40th quadrennial U.S. presidential election}}
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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 1944 United States presidential election
| country = United States
| flag_year = 1912
| type = presidential
| previous_election = 1940 United States presidential election
| previous_year = 1940
| election_date = November 7, 1944
| next_election = 1948 United States presidential election
| next_year = 1948
| votes_for_election = 531 members of the Electoral College
| needed_votes = 266 electoral
| turnout = 55.9%{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/turnout.php|title=Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections|work=The American Presidency Project|publisher=UC Santa Barbara}} {{decrease}} 6.6 pp
| image_size = x200px
| image1 = 1944 portrait of FDR (1)(small).jpg
| nominee1 = Franklin D. Roosevelt
| party1 = Democratic Party (United States)
| home_state1 = New York
| running_mate1 = Harry S. Truman
| electoral_vote1 = 432
| states_carried1 = 36
| popular_vote1 = 25,612,916
| percentage1 = {{percent| 25,612,916| 47,977,063|1|pad=yes}}
| image2 = Dewey circa 1946 (cropped).jpg
| nominee2 = Thomas E. Dewey
| party2 = Republican Party (United States)
| home_state2 = New York
| running_mate2 = John W. Bricker
| electoral_vote2 = 99
| states_carried2 = 12
| popular_vote2 = 22,017,929
| percentage2 = {{percent| 22,017,929| 47,977,063|1|pad=yes}}
| map_size = 350px
| map = {{1944 United States presidential election imagemap}}
| map_caption = Presidential election results map. Blue denotes those won by Roosevelt/Truman, red denotes states won by Dewey/Bricker. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
| title = President
| before_election = Franklin D. Roosevelt
| before_party = Democratic Party (United States)
| after_election = Franklin D. Roosevelt
| after_party = Democratic Party (United States)
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Presidential elections were held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. The election took place during World War II, which ended the following year. Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey to win an unprecedented fourth term. It was also the fifth presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state; the others have been in 1860, 1904, 1920, 1940, and 2016. Though the margin of victory was still a landslide, this was Roosevelt's weakest performance in his four elections, and the popular vote split was less lopsided.
Roosevelt had become the first president to win a third term with his victory in the 1940 presidential election, with little doubt that he would seek a fourth term. Unlike in 1940, Roosevelt faced little opposition within his own party, and he easily won the presidential nomination of the 1944 Democratic National Convention. Concerned that Roosevelt's ill health would mean the vice president would likely become president, the convention dropped Roosevelt's vice president Henry A. Wallace in favor of the lesser known Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri.{{Cite book|last=Smith|first=Jean Edward|title=FDR|url=https://archive.org/details/fdr00smit|url-access=registration|publisher=Random House|year=2007|isbn=978-1-4000-6121-1|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/fdr00smit/page/617 617]–619|oclc=71350593}} Governor Dewey of New York emerged as the front-runner for the Republican nomination after his victory in the Wisconsin primary, and he defeated conservative Governor John W. Bricker at the 1944 Republican National Convention.
As World War II was going well for the United States and the Allies, Roosevelt remained popular despite his long tenure. Dewey campaigned against the New Deal and for a smaller government, but was ultimately unsuccessful in convincing the country to change course. The election was closer than Roosevelt's other presidential campaigns, but Roosevelt still won by a 7.5 percentage point margin in the popular vote and by a wide margin in the Electoral College. Rumors of Roosevelt's ill health, although somewhat dispelled by his vigorous campaigning, proved to be prescient; Roosevelt died less than three months into his fourth term and was succeeded by Truman.
Nominations
=Democratic Party nomination=
{{main|1944 Democratic National Convention|1944 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection}}
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style="background:#f1f1f1;" colspan="30"|File:Democratic Disc.svg1944 Democratic Party ticket |
style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#3333FF; width:200px;"| Franklin D. Roosevelt
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#3333FF; width:200px;"| Harry S. Truman |
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| style="width:3em; font-size:100%; color:#000; background:#C8EBFF; width:200px;"|for Vice President |
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| File:Harry S Truman, bw half-length photo portrait, facing front, 1945 (cropped).jpg |
32nd President of the United States (1933–1945) | U.S. Senator from Missouri |
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| colspan="11" style="text-align:center; width:700px; font-size:120%; color:white; background:{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" |In Order of Delegates and Votes Won. |
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! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Franklin D. Roosevelt ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Harry F. Byrd ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |James Farley ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Joseph T. Ferguson ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Fred H. Hildebrandt ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Cordell Hull ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Paul V. McNutt |
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|File:Harry F. Byrd headshot.jpg | |
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|U.S. President from New York (1933–1945) |U.S. Senator from Virginia (1933–1965) |U.S. Postmaster General from New York (1933–1940) |State Auditor from Ohio |U.S. Representative from South Dakota (1933–1939) |United States Secretary of State from Tennessee (1933– |High Commissioner to the Philippines from Indiana (1937–1939) |
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|1,3 |109,000 votes89 {{abbr|PD|Pledged Delegates}} |76,919 votes1 {{abbr|PD|Pledged Delegates}} |0 {{abbr|PD|Pledged Delegates}} |0 {{abbr|PD|Pledged Delegates}} |0 {{abbr|PD|Pledged Delegates}} |0 {{abbr|PD|Pledged Delegates}} |
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|+Convention vote ! colspan="2" |President ! colspan="2" |Vice President |
{{Y}} Franklin D. Roosevelt
|1,086 |{{Y}} Harry S. Truman |626 |
Harry F. Byrd
|89 |329 |
James Farley
|1 |26 |
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|Scattering/Other |7 |
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President Roosevelt was the popular, wartime incumbent and faced little formal opposition. Although many Southern Democrats mistrusted Roosevelt's racial policies, he brought enormous war activities to the region and the end of its marginal status was in sight. No major figure opposed Roosevelt publicly, and he was re-nominated easily when the Democratic Convention met in Chicago. Some pro-segregationist delegates tried to unite behind Virginia senator Harry F. Byrd, but he refused to campaign actively against Roosevelt, and did not get enough delegates to seriously threaten the President's chances.
The obvious physical decline in the president's appearance, as well as rumors of secret health problems, led many delegates and party leaders to strongly oppose Vice President Henry A. Wallace for a second term. Opposition to Wallace came especially from Catholic leaders in big cities and moderate Democrats. Wallace, who had been Roosevelt's vice president since January 1941, was regarded by most conservatives as being too left-wing and personally eccentric to be next in line for the presidency. He had performed so poorly as economic coordinator that Roosevelt had to remove him from that post. Numerous moderate party leaders privately sent word to Roosevelt that they would fight Wallace's re-nomination as vice president and proposed instead Senator Harry S. Truman, a moderate from Missouri. Truman was highly visible as the chairman of a Senate wartime committee investigating fraud and inefficiency in the war program. Roosevelt, who personally liked Wallace and knew little about Truman, agreed reluctantly to accept Truman as his running mate to preserve party unity.Alonzo L. Hamby, Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995) ch 17 Even so, many delegates on the left refused to abandon Wallace, and they voted for him on the first ballot.Miles S. Richards, “The Progressive Democrats in Chicago, July 1944,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 102 (July 2001), 219–37. However, enough large Northern, Midwestern, and Southern states supported Truman to give him victory on the second ballot. The fight over the vice-presidential nomination proved to be consequential; the ticket won and Roosevelt died in April 1945, and Truman instead of Wallace became the nation's thirty-third President.Weintraub, Stanley. Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign, pp. 29-59 {{ISBN|0306821133}}
=Republican Party=
{{Main|1944 Republican Party presidential primaries}}
{{further|1944 Republican National Convention}}
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style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#E81B23; width:200px;"| Thomas E. Dewey
! style="width:3em; font-size:135%; background:#E81B23; width:200px;"| John W. Bricker |
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| style="width:3em; width:200px;"|for President | style="width:3em; width:200px;"|for Vice President |
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47th Governor of New York (1943–1954) | 54th |
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| colspan="11" style="text-align:center; width:700px; font-size:120%; color:white; background:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}};" |In Order of Delegates and Votes Won. |
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! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Thomas E. Dewey ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Douglas MacArthur ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Earl Warren ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |John W. Bricker ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Harold Stassen ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Wendell Willkie ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Charles A. Christopherson ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Everett Dirksen ! scope="col" style="width:10em; font-size:120%;" |Chapman Revercomb |
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|File:Dewey circa 1946 (cropped).jpg |File:Douglas MacArthur 58-61 (1).jpg |File:Earl Warren Portrait, half figure, seated, facing front, as Governor.jpg |File:John William Bricker (Gov., Sen. OH).jpg |
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(1943–1954) (1918–1951) |Governor of California (1943–1953) (1943–1953) (1939–1943) |Businessman from New York |Representative from South Dakota |Representative from Illinois |U.S. Senator from West Virginia (1943–1949; 1956-1959) |
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|278 | |594,439 votes |366,444 votes |67,508 votes |0 votes0 {{abbr|PD|Pledged Delegates}} |0 votes0 {{abbr|PD|Pledged Delegates}} |0 votes0 {{abbr|PD|Pledged Delegates}} |0 votes0 {{abbr|PD|Pledged Delegates}} |
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|+Convention vote ! colspan="2" |President ! colspan="2" |Vice President |
{{Y}} Thomas E. Dewey
|1,056 |{{Y}} John W. Bricker |1,057 |
Douglas MacArthur
|1 |Abstaining |2 |
As 1944 began, the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 nominee, Senator Robert A. Taft from Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U.S. naval officer in the Pacific. Taft surprised many by declining to run for president as he wanted to remain in the Senate; instead, he voiced his support for a fellow Ohio conservative, Governor John W. Bricker.Taft, Robert Alphonso and Wunderlin, Clarence E.; The Papers of Robert A. Taft: 1939-1944, p. 397 {{ISBN|0873386795}}
With Taft out of the race some Republican conservatives favored General MacArthur. However, MacArthur's chances were limited by the fact that he was leading Allied forces against Japan, and thus could not campaign for the nomination. His supporters entered his name in the Wisconsin primary nonetheless. The Wisconsin primary proved to be the key contest, as Dewey won by a surprisingly wide margin. He took fourteen delegates to four for Harold Stassen, while MacArthur won the three remaining delegates. Willkie was shut out in the Wisconsin primary; he did not win a single delegate. His unexpectedly poor showing in Wisconsin forced him to withdraw as a candidate for the nomination. However, at the time of his sudden death in early October 1944, Willkie had endorsed neither Dewey nor Roosevelt. At the 1944 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Dewey easily overcame Bricker and was nominated for president on the first ballot. Dewey, a moderate to liberal Republican, chose the conservative Bricker as his running mate. Dewey originally preferred fellow liberal California Governor Earl Warren, but agreed on Bricker to preserve party unity (Warren would go on to run with Dewey in the 1948 election). Bricker was nominated for vice president by acclamation.
General election
=Polling=
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style="padding: 0 5px;" | {{color box|#3333FF}} Franklin Roosevelt |
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style="padding: 0 5px;" | {{color box|Silver}} Undecided |
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! Poll Source ! Field Date(s) ! Sample Size ! Franklin Roosevelt ! Thomas Dewey ! Others ! Undecided ! Leading by |
Election Results
! colspan=2 | November 7, 1944 |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|53.4% |align="center" | 45.9% |align="center" | 0.7% |align="center" | - | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|7.5 |
Fortune{{Cite news|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/11/06/84005184.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|title=Roosevelt Is Favored In Final Fortune Poll|work=The New York Times }}
|November 5, 1944 | |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|50.9% |align="center" | 44.1% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 5.0% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|~7 |
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|November 3, 1944 |3,085 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|46.5% |align="center" | 45.6% |align="center" | 0.4% |align="center" | 7.6% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|0.9 |
Fortune{{Cite news|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/07/21/86727017.html?pageNumber=10|title=FORTUNE POLL GIVES EDGE TO ROOSEVELT|work=The New York Times }}
|October 20, 1944 | |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|? |align="center" | ? |align="center" | - |align="center" | ? | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|7.0 |
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|October 17, 1944 |2,404 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|47.8% |align="center" | 42.5% |align="center" | 0.3% |align="center" | 9.5% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|5.2 |
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|October 12, 1944 |2,743 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|46.1% |align="center" | 43.1% |align="center" | 0.4% |align="center" | 10.3% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|3.0 |
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|October 6, 1944 |2,616 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|48.6% |align="center" | 40.0% |align="center" | 0.3% |align="center" | 11.1% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|8.6 |
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|October 3, 1944 |2,601 (A) |align="center" | 44.2% |align="center" {{party shading/Republican}}| 44.4% |align="center" | 0.4% |align="center" | 9.8% | {{party shading/Republican}} align=center|0.2 |
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|September 20, 1944 |2,988 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|47.0% |align="center" | 43.2% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 9.8% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|3.9 |
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|rowspan=2|September 14, 1944 |2,917 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|48.6% |align="center" | 40.7% |align="center" | 0.7% |align="center" | 10.1% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|7.8 |
Fortune{{Cite news|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/09/15/87468539.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|title=Sharp Drop in Popularity of Roosevelt Sequel to Liberation of Paris, Poll Finds|work=The New York Times }}
| |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|49.3% |align="center" | 44.4% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 6.3% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|4.9 |
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|September 6, 1944 |615 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|44.6% |align="center" | 34.6% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 20.8% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|9.9 |
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|August 29, 1944 |3,021 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|46.4% |align="center" | 42.3% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 11.3% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|4.1 |
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|rowspan=2|August 16, 1944 |1,171 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|48.8% |align="center" | 38.2% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 13.1% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|10.6 |
Fortune{{Cite news|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/08/17/87464683.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|title=ROOSEVELT GAINS IN FORTUNE'S POLL; Re-election Is Found Favored by 52.5%, Against 43.9% for Governor Dewey|work=The New York Times }}
| |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|52.5% |align="center" | 43.9% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 3.6% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|8.6 |
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|August 1, 1944 |1,231 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|46.8% |align="center" | 41.7% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 11.5% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|5.1 |
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|July 20, 1944 | |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|50.8% |align="center" | 42.2% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 7.0% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|8.6 |
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|July 18, 1944 |3,020 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|49.5% |align="center" | 41.0% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 9.6% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|8.5 |
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|June 20, 1944 |2,910 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|51.0% |align="center" | 43.5% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 5.5% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|7.5 |
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|June 7, 1944 |2,718 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|50.6% |align="center" | 45.1% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 4.3% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|5.4 |
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|May 23, 1944 |3,009 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|50.3% |align="center" | 44.7% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 5.0% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|5.6 |
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|May 9, 1944 |2,631 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|51.2% |align="center" | 42.9% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 5.9% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|8.3 |
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|April 25, 1944 |1,566 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|48.0% |align="center" | 46.2% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 5.8% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|1.9 |
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|March 29, 1944 |2,982 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|51.2% |align="center" | 41.2% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 7.6% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|10.1 |
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|March 15, 1944 |1,400 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|53.4% |align="center" | 42.4% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 4.2% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|11.0 |
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|March 1, 1944 |1,643 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|53.1% |align="center" | 42.2% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 4.7% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|11.0 |
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|February 1, 1944 |2,980 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|48.8%{{efn|With Henry Wallace}} |align="center" | 44.6%{{efn|With Douglas MacArthur}} |align="center" | - |align="center" | 6.6% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|4.2 |
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|January 4, 1944 |3,006 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|54.3% |align="center" | 37.3% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 8.4% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|17.0 |
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|November 9, 1943 |3,026 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|53.9% |align="center" | 39.9% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 6.2% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|14.0 |
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|October 26, 1943 |2,918 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|48.5%{{efn|With Henry Wallace}} |align="center" | 43.4%{{efn|With Douglas MacArthur}} |align="center" | - |align="center" | 8.1% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|5.1 |
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|September 14, 1943 |2,645 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|58.0% |align="center" | 33.7% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 8.3% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|24.3 |
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|July 7, 1943 |3,033 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|52.3% |align="center" | 38.3% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 9.5% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|14.0 |
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|June 2, 1943 |1,442 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|51.9%{{efn|With Henry Wallace}} |align="center" | 40.2%{{efn|With Douglas MacArthur}} |align="center" | - |align="center" | 7.9% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|11.8 |
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|May 12, 1943 |1,497 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|47.1%{{efn|With Henry Wallace}} |align="center" | 36.3%{{efn|With Douglas MacArthur}} |align="center" | - |align="center" | 16.6% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|10.8 |
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|April 27, 1943 |1,486 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|51.6%{{efn|With Henry Wallace}} |align="center" | 36.8%{{efn|With Douglas MacArthur}} |align="center" | - |align="center" | 11.6% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|14.7 |
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|January 7, 1943 |2,808 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|49.7% |align="center" | 32.7% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 17.6% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|17.0 |
Gallup Poll News Service
|December 15, 1942 |1,380 (A) |align="center" {{party shading/Democratic}}|41.1% |align="center" | 35.8% |align="center" | - |align="center" | 23.1% | {{party shading/Democratic}} align=center|5.3 |
=Fall campaign=
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The Republicans campaigned against the New Deal,Jordan, David M.; FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944, pp. 119 {{ISBN|0253356830}} seeking a smaller government and less-regulated economy as the end of the war seemed in sight. Nonetheless, Roosevelt's continuing popularity was the main theme of the campaign. To quiet rumors of his poor health, Roosevelt insisted on making a vigorous campaign swing in October and rode in an open car through city streets.
Numerous campaign songs for F.D.R. were written, possibly in an effort to advertise on radio during radio's Golden Age. These included 1940's "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again" and "Mister Roosevelt, Won't You Please Run Again." In 1944, Broadway actress Mary Crane Hone[https://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nr_nomntns_03_09_2017_SRB_drafts/Acorn%20Hall%20(Addl%20Doc)_2017-01-03_WEB.pdf Acorn Hall's National Register of Historic Places Registration Form], National Park Service, USDotI"[http://www.lorraineash.com/acorn_hall_a7_2015-7-26.pdf History]", Daily Record, July 26, 2015. published piano march "Let's Re-Re-Re-Elect Roosevelt."{{Cite web |title=Let's Re-Re-Re-Elect Roosevelt-5075 |url=https://www.legacyamericana.com/Lets-Re-Re-Re-Elect-Roosevelt_p_806.html |access-date=August 10, 2022 |website=Legacy Americana |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Holloway |first=Diane |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zj5QxjMh9aAC&dq=%22Let%27s+Re-Re-Re-Elect+Roosevelt%22&pg=PA459 |title=American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945 |date=2001 |publisher=Authors Choice Press |isbn=978-0-595-19331-8 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Archivist |first=Morristown |date=July 30, 2015 |title=Morristown National Historical Park Museum and Library: Acorn Hall Book Promotes Morristown History Beyond Washington |url=http://morristownnhpmuseum.blogspot.com/2015/07/acorn-hall-book-promotes-morristown.html |access-date=August 10, 2022 |website=Morristown National Historical Park Museum and Library}} Its lyrics were:
Let's make each one of our blows feltfile:Independent-Voters-Committee-of-the-Arts-and-Sciences-for-Roosevelt-poster.jpgFor the causes of humanity and war.
With world peace just around the corner,
His leadership is necessary still.
A high point of the campaign occurred when Roosevelt, speaking to a meeting of labor union leaders, gave a speech carried on national radio in which he ridiculed Republican claims that his administration was corrupt and wasteful with tax money.Nash, Gerald D.; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, p. 66 {{ISBN|0133305147}} He particularly derided a Republican claim that he had sent a US Navy warship to pick up his Scottish Terrier Fala in Alaska, noting that "Fala was furious" at such rumors.Weintraub; Final Victory, pp. 144-149 {{ISBN|0306821133}} The speech was met with loud laughter and applause from the labor leaders. In response, Governor Dewey gave a blistering partisan speech in Oklahoma City a few days later on national radio, in which he accused Roosevelt of being "indispensable" to corrupt big-city Democratic organizations and American Communists;Jordan; FDR, Dewey and the Election of 1944, p. 266 he also referred to members of Roosevelt's cabinet as a "motley crew". However, American battlefield successes in Europe and the Pacific during the campaign, such as the liberation of Paris in August 1944 and the successful Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines in October 1944, made President Roosevelt unbeatable.{{cite web |title=On this day: Term limits for American Presidents |url=https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-we-wound-up-with-the-constitutions-only-term-limits-amendment |website=constitutioncenter.org |date=February 27, 2023 |access-date=April 12, 2023}}
=Results=
Throughout the campaign, Roosevelt led Dewey in all the polls by varying margins. On election day, the Democratic incumbent scored a fairly comfortable victory over his Republican challenger. Roosevelt took 36 states for 432 electoral votes (266 were needed to win), while Dewey won twelve states and 99 electoral votes. In the popular vote, Roosevelt won 25,612,916 (53.4%) votes to Dewey's 22,017,929 (45.9%). Dewey conceded in a radio address the following morning, but declined to personally call or to send a telegram to President Roosevelt. Roosevelt sent Dewey a telegram reading, "I thank you for your statement, which I heard over the air a few minutes ago."{{cite web |title=No modern presidential candidate has refused to concede. Here's why that matters. |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/11/no-modern-presidential-candidate-refused-to-concede-heres-why-that-matters/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107025510/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/11/no-modern-presidential-candidate-refused-to-concede-heres-why-that-matters/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 7, 2020 |website=History & Culture |date=November 8, 2020 |access-date=November 14, 2020}} Roosevelt's victory made him the only person ever to win the presidential popular vote four times, and neither party would again win the popular vote four consecutive times until the Democrats did so in all four elections from 2008 to 2020.
The important question had been which leader,Jordan; FDR, Dewey and the Election of 1944; pp. 111, 214 Roosevelt or Dewey, should be chosen for the critical days of peacemaking and reconstruction following the war's conclusion. Most American voters concluded that they should retain the governing party, and particularly the president who represented it. They also felt it unsafe to do so in "wartime", in view of ever-increasing domestic disagreements.
Dewey did better against Roosevelt than any of Roosevelt's previous three Republican opponents: Roosevelt's percentage and margin of the total vote were both less than in 1940. Dewey flipped the states of Wyoming, Wisconsin, and Ohio from the previous election, while Roosevelt flipped Michigan. Dewey also gained the personal satisfaction of finishing ahead of Roosevelt in his hometown of Hyde Park, New York, and ahead of Truman in his hometown of Independence, Missouri.{{cite web |title=Franklin D. Roosevelt: Campaigns and Elections |url=https://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/campaigns-and-elections |website=Miller Center |date=October 4, 2016}} Dewey would again become the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, challenging President Truman (who had assumed that office on FDR's death), and would again lose, though by somewhat smaller popular- and electoral-vote margins.
Roosevelt's net vote totals in the twelve largest cities increased from 2,112,000 votes in the 1940 election to 2,230,000 votes.{{cite book |last=Murphy |first=Paul |date=1974 |title=Political Parties In American History, Volume 3, 1890-present |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons}} Of the 3,095 counties/independent cities making returns, Roosevelt won the most popular votes in 1,751 (56.58%) while Dewey carried 1,343 (43.39%). The Texas Regular ticket carried one county (0.03%). In New York, only the combined support of the American Labor and Liberal parties (pledged to Roosevelt but otherwise independent of the Democrats to maintain their identities) enabled Roosevelt to win the electoral votes of his home state.
In 1944, the constantly growing Southern protest against Roosevelt's leadership became clearest in Texas, where 135,553 people voted against Roosevelt but not for the Republican ticket. The Texas Regular ticket resulted from a split in the Democratic Party in its two state conventions, May 23 and September 12, 1944. This ticket, which represented the Democratic element opposing the re-election of President Roosevelt, called for the "restoration of states' rights which have been destroyed by the Communist New Deal" and "restoration of the supremacy of the white race".Cunningham, Sean; Cowboy Conservatism and the Rise of the Modern Right; p. 26 {{ISBN|081317371X}} Its electors were uninstructed.
Results
Until 1996 this was the last time in which an incumbent Democratic president won re-election after serving a full term in office. This was also the last election until 2012 in which the incumbent Democratic president received over 50 percent of the popular vote after receiving over 50 percent of it in the previous election. As of 2025, this was the most recent presidential election in which a Democratic ticket has won every state of the former Confederacy as well as the entire southern region. This was the first election since 1892 that a Democrat won without taking Wyoming and Ohio. Roosevelt is the only president to serve for more than two terms; in 1951, the Twenty-second Amendment was ratified, limiting the number of terms a person may be president.
As he had in 1940, Roosevelt was the third of just four presidents in United States history to win re-election with a lower percentage of the electoral vote than in their prior elections; the other three are James Madison in 1812, Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and Barack Obama in 2012. Additionally, Roosevelt was the fourth of only five presidents to win re-election with a smaller percentage of the popular vote than in prior elections; the other four are Madison in 1812, Andrew Jackson in 1832, Grover Cleveland in 1892, and Obama in 2012.
This is the last election in which New Hampshire and Oregon voted Democratic until 1964 and the last in which Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania did so until 1960.
The 432 electoral votes received by Roosevelt, added to the 449 electoral votes he received in 1940, and the 523 electoral votes he received in 1936, and the 472 electoral votes he received in 1932, gave him the most total electoral votes received by any candidate who was elected to the office of president since he is the only president to serve more than two terms (1,876).
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{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Norman Mattoon Thomas| party=Socialist| state=New York| pv=79,017| pv_pct=0.16%| ev=0| vp_name=Darlington Hoopes| vp_state=Pennsylvania}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Claude A. Watson| party=Prohibition| state=California| pv=74,758| pv_pct=0.16%| ev=0| vp_name=Andrew Nathan Johnson| vp_state=Kentucky}}
{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Edward A. Teichert| party=Socialist Labor| state=Pennsylvania| pv=45,188| pv_pct=0.09%| ev=0| vp_name=Arla Arbaugh| vp_state=Ohio}}
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=Geography of results=
Image:1944 United States presidential election results map by county.svg|Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote
==Gallery of maps==
Image:PresidentialCounty1944Colorbrewer.gif|Presidential election results by county
Image:DemocraticPresidentialCounty1944Colorbrewer.gif|Democratic presidential election results by county
Image:RepublicanPresidentialCounty1944Colorbrewer.gif|Republican presidential election results by county
Image:OtherPresidentialCounty1944Colorbrewer.gif|"Other" presidential election results by county
==Results by state==
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| style="text-align:center;" | Alabama | style="text-align:center;" | 11 |198,918 | 81.28 | 11 | 44,540 | 18.20| |
|190 | 0.08| | |||
|1,095 | 0.45| | |||
|154,378 | 63.08 | 244,743
|AL | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Arizona | style="text-align:center;" | 4 |80,926 | 58.80 | 4 | 56,287 | 40.90| |
|421 | 0.31| | |||
|24,639 | 17.90 | 137,634
|AZ | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Arkansas | style="text-align:center;" | 9 |148,965 | 69.95 | 9 | 63,551 | 29.84| |
|438 | 0.21| | |||
|85,414 | 40.11 | 212,954
|AR | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | California | style="text-align:center;" | 25 |1,988,564 | 56.48 | 25 | 1,512,965 | 42.97| |
|2,515 | 0.07| | |||
|16,831 | 0.48| | |||
|475,599 | 13.51 | 3,520,875
|CA | ||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Colorado | style="text-align:center;" | 6 |234,331 | 46.40| | |||
|268,731 | 53.21 | 6| | ||
|1,977 | 0.39| | |||
34,400| | ||||
6.81 | 505,039
|CO | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Connecticut | style="text-align:center;" | 8 |435,146 | 52.30 | 8 | 390,527 | 46.94| |
|5,097 | 0.61| | |||
|1,220 | 0.15| | |||
|44,619 | 5.36 | 831,990
|CT | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Delaware | style="text-align:center;" | 3 |68,166 | 54.38 | 3 | 56,747 | 45.27| |
|154 | 0.12| | |||
|294 | 0.23| | |||
|11,419 | 9.11 | 125,361
|DE | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Florida | style="text-align:center;" | 8 |339,377 | 70.32 | 8 | 143,215 | 29.68| |
|196,162 | 40.65 | 482,592
|FL | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Georgia | style="text-align:center;" | 12 |268,187 | 81.74 | 12 | 59,880 | 18.25| |
|6 | 0.00| | |||
|36 | 0.01| | |||
|208,307 | 63.49 | 328,109
|GA | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Idaho | style="text-align:center;" | 4 |107,399 | 51.55 | 4 | 100,137 | 48.07| |
|282 | 0.14| | |||
|503 | 0.24| | |||
|7,262 | 3.49 | 208,321
|ID | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Illinois | style="text-align:center;" | 28 |2,079,479 | 51.52 | 28 | 1,939,314 | 48.05| |
|180 | 0.00| | |||
|17,088 | 0.42| | |||
|140,165 | 3.47 | 4,036,061
|IL | ||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Indiana | style="text-align:center;" | 13 |781,403 | 46.73| | |||
|875,891 | 52.38 | 13| | ||
|2,223 | 0.13| | |||
|12,574 | 0.75| | |||
94,488| | ||||
5.65 | 1,672,091
|IN | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Iowa | style="text-align:center;" | 10 |499,876 | 47.49| | |||
|547,267 | 51.99 | 10| | ||
|1,511 | 0.14| | |||
|3,945 | 0.37| | |||
47,391| | ||||
4.50 | 1,052,599
|IA | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Kansas | style="text-align:center;" | 8 |287,458 | 39.18| | |||
|442,096 | 60.25 | 8| | ||
|1,613 | 0.22| | |||
|2,609 | 0.36| | |||
154,638| | ||||
21.07 | 733,776
|KS | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Kentucky | style="text-align:center;" | 11 |472,589 | 54.45 | 11 | 392,448 | 45.22| |
|535 | 0.06| | |||
|2,349 | 0.27| | |||
|80,141 | 9.23 | 867,921
|KY | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Louisiana | style="text-align:center;" | 10 |281,564 | 80.59 | 10 | 67,750 | 19.39| |
|69 | 0.02| | |||
|213,814 | 61.20 | 349,383
|LA | ||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Maine | style="text-align:center;" | 5 |140,631 | 47.45| | |||
|155,434 | 52.44 | 5| | ||
|335 | 0.11| | |||
14,803| | ||||
4.99 | 296,400
|ME | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Maryland | style="text-align:center;" | 8 |315,490 | 51.85 | 8 | 292,949 | 48.15| |
|22,541 | 3.70 | 608,439
|MD | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Massachusetts | style="text-align:center;" | 16 |1,035,296 | 52.80 | 16 | 921,350 | 46.99| |
|4,019 | 0.21| | |||
|113,946 | 5.81 | 1,960,665
|MA | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Michigan | style="text-align:center;" | 19 |1,106,899 | 50.19 | 19 | 1,084,423 | 49.18| |
|4,598 | 0.21| | |||
|9,303 | 0.42| | |||
|22,476 | 1.02 | 2,205,223
|MI | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Minnesota | style="text-align:center;" | 11 |589,864 | 52.41 | 11 | 527,416 | 46.86| |
|5,073 | 0.45| | |||
|3,176 | 0.28| | |||
|62,448 | 5.55 | 1,125,529
|MN | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Mississippi | style="text-align:center;" | 9 |168,479 | 93.56 | 9 | 11,601 | 6.44| |
|156,878 | 87.12 | 180,080
|MS | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Missouri | style="text-align:center;" | 15 |807,804 | 51.37 | 15 | 761,524 | 48.43| |
|1,751 | 0.11| | |||
|1,395 | 0.09| | |||
|46,280 | 2.94 | 1,572,474
|MO | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Montana | style="text-align:center;" | 4 |112,556 | 54.28 | 4 | 93,163 | 44.93| |
|1,296 | 0.63| | |||
|340 | 0.16| | |||
|19,393 | 9.35 | 207,355
|MT | ||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Nebraska | style="text-align:center;" | 6 |233,246 | 41.42| | |||
|329,880 | 58.58 | 6| | ||
96,634| | ||||
17.16 | 563,126
|NE | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Nevada | style="text-align:center;" | 3 |29,623 | 54.62 | 3 | 24,611 | 45.38| |
|5,012 | 9.24 | 54,234
|NV | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | New Hampshire | style="text-align:center;" | 4 |119,663 | 52.11 | 4 | 109,916 | 47.87| |
|46 | 0.02| | |||
|9,747 | 4.24 | 229,625
|NH | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | New Jersey | style="text-align:center;" | 16 |987,874 | 50.31 | 16 | 961,335 | 48.95| |
|3,358 | 0.17| | |||
|11,194 | 0.57| | |||
|26,539 | 1.35 | 1,963,761
|NJ | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | New Mexico | style="text-align:center;" | 4 |81,389 | 53.47 | 4 | 70,688 | 46.44| |
|148 | 0.10| | |||
|10,701 | 7.03 | 152,225
|NM | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | New York | style="text-align:center;" | 47 |3,304,238 | 52.31 | 47 | 2,987,647 | 47.30| |
|10,553 | 0.17| | |||
|14,352 | 0.23| | |||
|316,591 | 5.01 | 6,316,790
|NY | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | North Carolina | style="text-align:center;" | 14 |527,399 | 66.71 | 14 | 263,155 | 33.29| |
|264,244 | 33.43 | 790,554
|NC | ||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | North Dakota | style="text-align:center;" | 4 |100,144 | 45.48| | |||
|118,535 | 53.84 | 4| | ||
|943 | 0.43| | |||
|549 | 0.25| | |||
18,391| | ||||
8.35 | 220,171
|ND | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Ohio | style="text-align:center;" | 25 |1,570,763 | 49.82| | |||
|1,582,293 | 50.18 | 25| | ||
11,530| | ||||
0.37 | 3,153,056
|OH | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Oklahoma | style="text-align:center;" | 10 |401,549 | 55.57 | 10 | 319,424 | 44.20| |
|1,663 | 0.23| | |||
|82,125 | 11.36 | 722,636
|OK | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Oregon | style="text-align:center;" | 6 |248,635 | 51.78 | 6 | 225,365 | 46.94| |
|3,785 | 0.79| | |||
|2,362 | 0.49| | |||
|23,270 | 4.85 | 480,147
|OR | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Pennsylvania | style="text-align:center;" | 35 |1,940,479 | 51.14 | 35 | 1,835,054 | 48.36| |
|11,721 | 0.31| | |||
|7,539 | 0.20| | |||
|105,425 | 2.78 | 3,794,793
|PA | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Rhode Island | style="text-align:center;" | 4 |175,356 | 58.59 | 4 | 123,487 | 41.26| |
|433 | 0.14| | |||
|51,869 | 17.33 | 299,276
|RI | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | South Carolina | style="text-align:center;" | 8 |90,601 | 87.64 | 8 | 4,610 | 4.46| |
|7,799 | 7.54| | |||
|365 | 0.35| | |||
|82,802 | 80.10 | 103,375
|SC | ||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | South Dakota | style="text-align:center;" | 4 |96,711 | 41.67| | |||
|135,365 | 58.33 | 4| | ||
38,654| | ||||
16.66 | 232,076
|SD | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Tennessee | style="text-align:center;" | 12 |308,707 | 60.45 | 12 | 200,311 | 39.22| |
|792 | 0.16| | |||
|882 | 0.17| | |||
|108,396 | 21.23 | 510,692
|TN | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Texas | style="text-align:center;" | 23 |821,605 | 71.42 | 23 | 191,425 | 16.64| |
|135,439 | 11.77| | |||
|594 | 0.05| | |||
|1,268 | 0.11| | |||
|630,180 | 54.78 | 1,150,331
|TX | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Utah | style="text-align:center;" | 4 |150,088 | 60.44 | 4 | 97,891 | 39.42| |
|340 | 0.14| | |||
|52,197 | 21.02 | 248,319
|UT | ||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Vermont | style="text-align:center;" | 3 |53,820 | 42.93| | |||
|71,527 | 57.06 | 3| | ||
|14 | 0.01| | |||
17,707| | ||||
14.12 | 125,361
|VT | |||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Virginia | style="text-align:center;" | 11 |242,276 | 62.36 | 11 | 145,243 | 37.39| |
|417 | 0.11| | |||
|549 | 0.14| | |||
|97,033 | 24.98 | 388,485
|VA | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Washington | style="text-align:center;" | 8 |486,774 | 56.84 | 8 | 361,689 | 42.24| |
|3,824 | 0.45| | |||
|4,041 | 0.47| | |||
|125,085 | 14.61 | 856,328
|WA | ||
{{Party shading/Democratic}}
| style="text-align:center;" | West Virginia | style="text-align:center;" | 8 |392,777 | 54.89 | 8 | 322,819 | 45.11| |
|69,958 | 9.78 | 715,596
|WV | ||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Wisconsin | style="text-align:center;" | 12 |650,413 | 48.57| | |||
|674,532 | 50.37 | 12| | ||
|13,205 | 0.99| | |||
|1,002 | 0.07| | |||
24,119| | ||||
1.80 | 1,339,152
|WI | |||
{{Party shading/Republican}}
| style="text-align:center;" | Wyoming | style="text-align:center;" | 3 |49,419 | 48.77| | |||
|51,921 | 51.23 | 3| | ||
2,502| | ||||
2.47 | 101,340
|WY | |||
Totals:||531
!25,612,916||53.39||432 !22,017,929||45.89||99 !143,238||0.30| | ||||
79,017||0.16| | ||||
123,963||0.26| | ||||
3,594,987||7.49||47,977,063
|US |
==States that flipped from Democratic to Republican==
==States that flipped from Republican to Democratic==
==Close states==
Margin of victory less than 1% (25 electoral votes):
- Ohio, 0.37% (11,530 votes)
Margin of victory less than 5% (165 electoral votes):
- Michigan, 1.02% (22,476 votes)
- New Jersey, 1.35% (26,539 votes)
- Wisconsin, 1.80% (24,119 votes)
- Wyoming, 2.47% (2,502 votes)
- Pennsylvania, 2.78% (105,425 votes)
- Missouri, 2.94% (46,280 votes)
- Illinois, 3.47% (140,165 votes)
- Idaho, 3.49% (7,262 votes)
- Maryland, 3.70% (22,541 votes)
- New Hampshire, 4.24% (9,747 votes)
- Iowa, 4.50% (47,391 votes)
- Oregon, 4.85% (23,270 votes)
- Maine, 4.99% (14,803 votes)
Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (138 electoral votes):
- New York, 5.01% (316,591 votes) (tipping point state)
- Connecticut, 5.36% (44,619 votes)
- Minnesota, 5.55% (62,448 votes)
- Indiana, 5.65% (94,488 votes)
- Massachusetts, 5.81% (113,946 votes)
- Colorado, 6.81% (34,400 votes)
- New Mexico, 7.03% (10,701 votes)
- North Dakota, 8.35% (18,391 votes)
- Delaware, 9.11% (11,419 votes)
- Kentucky, 9.23% (80,141 votes)
- Nevada, 9.24% (5,012 votes)
- Montana, 9.35% (19,393 votes)
- West Virginia, 9.78% (69,958 votes)
==Statistics==
Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Democratic)
- Armstrong County, South Dakota 100.00%
- Leake County, Mississippi 99.15%
- Chesterfield County, South Carolina 98.77%
- Taliaferro County, Georgia 98.48%
- Barnwell County, South Carolina 98.41%
Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Republican)
- McIntosh County, North Dakota 91.98%
- Jackson County, Kentucky 91.56%
- Sevier County, Tennessee 87.24%
- Logan County, North Dakota 86.47%
- Owsley County, Kentucky 86.11%
See also
Notes
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References
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Further reading
- Anderson, Michael James. "The presidential election of 1944" (PhD thesis University of Cincinnati ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1990. 9108602).
- Briggs, Philip J. "General MacArthur and the Presidential Election of 1944." Presidential Studies Quarterly (1992): 31-46. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/27550902 online]
- Davis, Michael. Politics as Usual: Thomas Dewey, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Wartime Presidential Campaign of 1944 (Cornell UP, 2014).
- Divine, Robert A. Foreign policy and U.S. presidential elections, 1940-1948 (1974) [https://archive.org/details/foreignpolicyusp0000divi online free to borrow] pp 91 to 166 on 1944.
- Evans, Hugh E. The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election (ME Sharpe, 2002).
- Friedman, Leon. "The Election of 1944" in Arthur M. Schlesinger, ed. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–1968 (1971)
- Hamby, Alonzo L. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman (1995), chapter 17.
- Heaster, Brenda L. "Who's on Second: The 1944 Democratic Vice Presidential Nomination." Missouri Historical Review 80.2 (1986): 156-175.
- Jeffries, John W. Testing the Roosevelt coalition: Connecticut society and politics, 1940-1946 (Yale University, 1973).
- {{cite book |first1=David M. |last1=Jordan |title=FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944 |url=https://archive.org/details/fdrdeweyelection0000jord |url-access=registration |location=Bloomington, Indiana |publisher=Indiana University Press |year=2011}}
- Kennedy, Patrick D. "Chicago's Irish Americans and the Candidacies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932-1944." Illinois Historical Journal 88.4 (1995): 263-278 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40192982 online].
- Luconi, Stefano. "The Impact of World War II on the Political Behavior of the Italian-American Electorate in New York City." New York History (2002): 404-417 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42677818 online].
- Norpoth, Helmut. Unsurpassed: The Popular Appeal of Franklin Roosevelt (Oxford University Press, 2018).
- Overacker, Louise. "Presidential Campaign Funds, 19441." American Political Science Review 39.5 (1945): 899-925.
- Johnstone, Andrew , and Andrew Priest, eds. US Presidential Elections and Foreign Policy: Candidates, Campaigns, and Global Politics from FDR to Bill Clinton (2017) pp 40-60.[https://muse.jhu.edu/book/50578/ online]
- Rovin, Fern Rochelle. "Politics and the Presidential Election of 1944" (PhD dissertation Indiana University 1973) (ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1973, 7414183).
- Savage, Sean J. "The 1936-1944 Campaigns", in William D. Pederson, ed. A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt (2011) pp 96–113
- Smith, Richard Norton. Thomas E. Dewey and His Times (1984), a standard scholarly biography
= Primary sources =
- Cantril, Hadley and Mildred Strunk, eds.; Public Opinion, 1935–1946 (1951), massive compilation of many public opinion polls from USA [https://archive.org/details/publicopinion19300unse online]
- Gallup, George H. ed. The Gallup Poll, Volume One 1935–1948 (1972) statistical reports on each poll
- Chester, Edward W A guide to political platforms (1977) [https://archive.org/details/guidetopolitical0000ches online]
- Porter, Kirk H. and Donald Bruce Johnson, eds. National party platforms, 1840-1964 (1965) [https://archive.org/details/nationalpartypla00port online 1840-1956]
External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqFI8wl3J9w Tuesday In November: The 1944 Presidential Election]
- [http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1944.htm 1944 popular vote by counties]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042328/http://www.countingthevotes.com/1944/ Election of 1944 in Counting the Votes]
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