1944 United States presidential election in Iowa

1944 United States presidential election in Iowa
All 10 Iowa votes to the Electoral College
Dewey 40-50% 50-60% 60-70%	Roosevelt 50-60%
President before election; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Democratic	Elected President; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Democratic

Last updated February 05, 2024

The 1944 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. Iowa voters chose ten^[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Iowa was won by Governor Thomas E. Dewey (R–New York), running with Governor John Bricker, with 51.99% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Senator Harry S. Truman, with 47.49% of the popular vote.^[3]^[4] This is the last election in which an incumbent president of either party won another term in office without winning Iowa.

Results

1944 United States presidential election in Iowa
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Thomas E. Dewey	547,267	51.99%
	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.)	499,876	47.49%
	Prohibition	Claude A. Watson	3,752	0.36%
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	1,511	0.14%
	Socialist Labor	Edward A. Teichert	193	0.02%
Total votes			1,052,599	100%

Results by county

County^[5]	Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican		Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic		Claude A. Watson Prohibition		Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist		Edward A. Teichert Socialist Labor		Margin		Total votes cast
County^[5]	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast
Adair	3,428	59.69%	2,297	40.00%	11	0.19%	4	0.07%	3	0.05%	1,131	19.69%	5,743
Adams	2,540	57.56%	1,868	42.33%	5	0.11%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	672	15.23%	4,413
Allamakee	5,017	63.27%	2,893	36.49%	9	0.11%	8	0.10%	2	0.03%	2,124	26.79%	7,929
Appanoose	4,928	49.18%	5,015	50.05%	69	0.69%	6	0.06%	2	0.02%	-87	-0.87%	10,020
Audubon	2,346	43.07%	3,094	56.80%	6	0.11%	1	0.02%	0	0.00%	-748	-13.73%	5,447
Benton	4,378	48.43%	4,619	51.10%	21	0.23%	17	0.19%	4	0.04%	-241	-2.67%	9,039
Black Hawk	15,687	48.37%	16,593	51.16%	99	0.31%	34	0.10%	21	0.06%	-906	-2.79%	32,434
Boone	4,868	44.24%	6,062	55.09%	41	0.37%	30	0.27%	2	0.02%	-1,194	-10.85%	11,003
Bremer	4,861	63.61%	2,764	36.17%	8	0.10%	9	0.12%	0	0.00%	2,097	27.44%	7,642
Buchanan	4,653	54.69%	3,841	45.15%	12	0.14%	2	0.02%	0	0.00%	812	9.54%	8,508
Buena Vista	3,993	48.06%	4,277	51.47%	26	0.31%	12	0.14%	1	0.01%	-284	-3.42%	8,309
Butler	4,182	65.03%	2,225	34.60%	13	0.20%	10	0.16%	1	0.02%	1,957	30.43%	6,431
Calhoun	3,375	48.59%	3,544	51.02%	18	0.26%	8	0.12%	1	0.01%	-169	-2.43%	6,946
Carroll	4,833	50.04%	4,799	49.68%	19	0.20%	8	0.08%	0	0.00%	34	0.35%	9,659
Cass	5,610	65.53%	2,928	34.20%	17	0.20%	6	0.07%	0	0.00%	2,682	31.33%	8,561
Cedar	4,673	63.95%	2,610	35.72%	12	0.16%	12	0.16%	0	0.00%	2,063	28.23%	7,307
Cerro Gordo	8,311	47.60%	9,088	52.05%	30	0.17%	19	0.11%	11	0.06%	-777	-4.45%	17,459
Cherokee	3,723	53.58%	3,197	46.01%	17	0.24%	10	0.14%	2	0.03%	526	7.57%	6,949
Chickasaw	3,575	51.59%	3,328	48.03%	18	0.26%	8	0.12%	0	0.00%	247	3.56%	6,929
Clarke	2,603	56.78%	1,946	42.45%	30	0.65%	5	0.11%	0	0.00%	657	14.33%	4,584
Clay	3,055	45.43%	3,639	54.12%	19	0.28%	11	0.16%	0	0.00%	-584	-8.69%	6,724
Clayton	5,855	57.61%	4,259	41.91%	45	0.44%	4	0.04%	0	0.00%	1,596	15.70%	10,163
Clinton	11,533	58.77%	8,028	40.91%	12	0.06%	32	0.16%	19	0.10%	3,505	17.86%	19,624
Crawford	4,242	56.49%	3,218	42.86%	23	0.31%	14	0.19%	12	0.16%	1,024	13.64%	7,509
Dallas	5,413	49.83%	5,316	48.93%	113	1.04%	22	0.20%	0	0.00%	97	0.89%	10,864
Davis	2,559	48.12%	2,727	51.28%	29	0.55%	2	0.04%	1	0.02%	-168	-3.16%	5,318
Decatur	2,934	46.81%	3,316	52.90%	17	0.27%	1	0.02%	0	0.00%	-382	-6.09%	6,268
Delaware	5,164	67.22%	2,498	32.52%	14	0.18%	5	0.07%	1	0.01%	2,666	34.70%	7,682
Des Moines	9,488	55.24%	7,543	43.91%	48	0.28%	96	0.56%	2	0.01%	1,945	11.32%	17,177
Dickinson	2,133	46.10%	2,473	53.45%	9	0.19%	11	0.24%	1	0.02%	-340	-7.35%	4,627
Dubuque	12,502	49.11%	12,867	50.54%	21	0.08%	58	0.23%	10	0.04%	-365	-1.43%	25,458
Emmet	2,668	50.47%	2,577	48.75%	32	0.61%	7	0.13%	2	0.04%	91	1.72%	5,286
Fayette	6,693	56.50%	5,105	43.09%	33	0.28%	15	0.13%	0	0.00%	1,588	13.41%	11,846
Floyd	5,248	60.11%	3,446	39.47%	28	0.32%	7	0.08%	2	0.02%	1,802	20.64%	8,731
Franklin	3,150	51.96%	2,851	47.03%	41	0.68%	20	0.33%	0	0.00%	299	4.93%	6,062
Fremont	3,113	52.97%	2,747	46.74%	15	0.26%	2	0.03%	0	0.00%	366	6.23%	5,877
Greene	3,437	54.88%	2,797	44.66%	19	0.30%	10	0.16%	0	0.00%	640	10.22%	6,263
Grundy	3,625	62.14%	2,191	37.56%	9	0.15%	9	0.15%	0	0.00%	1,434	24.58%	5,834
Guthrie	4,042	57.93%	2,899	41.55%	27	0.39%	8	0.11%	1	0.01%	1,143	16.38%	6,977
Hamilton	3,837	46.91%	4,302	52.59%	32	0.39%	8	0.10%	1	0.01%	-465	-5.68%	8,180
Hancock	3,114	51.87%	2,855	47.56%	24	0.40%	9	0.15%	1	0.02%	259	4.31%	6,003
Hardin	5,059	55.63%	3,975	43.71%	25	0.27%	35	0.38%	0	0.00%	1,084	11.92%	9,094
Harrison	5,059	54.35%	4,201	45.13%	44	0.47%	5	0.05%	0	0.00%	858	9.22%	9,309
Henry	5,028	64.31%	2,741	35.06%	45	0.58%	4	0.05%	0	0.00%	2,287	29.25%	7,818
Howard	2,961	48.43%	3,132	51.23%	18	0.29%	2	0.03%	1	0.02%	-171	-2.80%	6,114
Humboldt	2,525	47.73%	2,749	51.97%	13	0.25%	3	0.06%	0	0.00%	-224	-4.23%	5,290
Ida	2,640	57.38%	1,943	42.23%	13	0.28%	5	0.11%	0	0.00%	697	15.15%	4,601
Iowa	3,959	53.94%	3,119	42.49%	249	3.39%	12	0.16%	1	0.01%	840	11.44%	7,340
Jackson	4,341	55.05%	3,537	44.85%	3	0.04%	5	0.06%	0	0.00%	804	10.20%	7,886
Jasper	6,413	47.58%	6,978	51.77%	64	0.47%	22	0.16%	2	0.01%	-565	-4.19%	13,479
Jefferson	4,335	59.03%	2,926	39.84%	78	1.06%	4	0.05%	1	0.01%	1,409	19.19%	7,344
Johnson	6,396	42.93%	8,434	56.62%	35	0.23%	31	0.21%	1	0.01%	-2,038	-13.68%	14,897
Jones	4,453	55.44%	3,563	44.36%	6	0.07%	8	0.10%	2	0.02%	890	11.08%	8,032
Keokuk	4,644	53.96%	3,900	45.32%	53	0.62%	9	0.10%	0	0.00%	744	8.65%	8,606
Kossuth	4,918	47.14%	5,488	52.60%	23	0.22%	2	0.02%	2	0.02%	-570	-5.46%	10,433
Lee	9,406	53.03%	8,252	46.53%	59	0.33%	19	0.11%	0	0.00%	1,154	6.51%	17,736
Linn	21,293	50.03%	21,123	49.63%	88	0.21%	50	0.12%	8	0.02%	170	0.40%	42,562
Louisa	2,745	58.67%	1,894	40.48%	37	0.79%	3	0.06%	0	0.00%	851	18.19%	4,679
Lucas	3,139	54.94%	2,526	44.21%	44	0.77%	3	0.05%	1	0.02%	613	10.73%	5,713
Lyon	3,065	60.79%	1,970	39.07%	4	0.08%	3	0.06%	0	0.00%	1,095	21.72%	5,042
Madison	3,737	59.20%	2,550	40.39%	25	0.40%	1	0.02%	0	0.00%	1,187	18.80%	6,313
Mahaska	5,123	50.86%	4,652	46.19%	266	2.64%	29	0.29%	2	0.02%	471	4.68%	10,072
Marion	4,874	42.99%	6,365	56.14%	83	0.73%	15	0.13%	1	0.01%	-1,491	-13.15%	11,338
Marshall	7,325	55.67%	5,598	42.55%	204	1.55%	26	0.20%	4	0.03%	1,727	13.13%	13,157
Mills	3,288	60.65%	2,106	38.85%	23	0.42%	4	0.07%	0	0.00%	1,182	21.80%	5,421
Mitchell	3,406	55.54%	2,696	43.97%	19	0.31%	7	0.11%	4	0.07%	710	11.58%	6,132
Monona	3,583	48.64%	3,761	51.06%	17	0.23%	5	0.07%	0	0.00%	-178	-2.42%	7,366
Monroe	2,625	44.41%	3,258	55.12%	13	0.22%	12	0.20%	3	0.05%	-633	-10.71%	5,911
Montgomery	4,165	61.40%	2,572	37.92%	41	0.60%	4	0.06%	1	0.01%	1,593	23.49%	6,783
Muscatine	7,104	59.38%	4,801	40.13%	23	0.19%	35	0.29%	0	0.00%	2,303	19.25%	11,963
O'Brien	4,033	56.01%	3,138	43.58%	14	0.19%	16	0.22%	0	0.00%	895	12.43%	7,201
Osceola	2,100	55.29%	1,689	44.47%	6	0.16%	3	0.08%	0	0.00%	411	10.82%	3,798
Page	6,300	65.07%	3,297	34.05%	74	0.76%	9	0.09%	2	0.02%	3,003	31.02%	9,682
Palo Alto	2,772	42.43%	3,726	57.03%	25	0.38%	10	0.15%	0	0.00%	-954	-14.60%	6,533
Plymouth	6,085	67.04%	2,970	32.72%	13	0.14%	5	0.06%	3	0.03%	3,115	34.32%	9,076
Pocahontas	2,600	41.94%	3,577	57.70%	14	0.23%	8	0.13%	0	0.00%	-977	-15.76%	6,199
Polk	36,629	44.07%	46,072	55.43%	215	0.26%	183	0.22%	19	0.02%	-9,443	-11.36%	83,118
Pottawattamie	14,007	54.25%	11,752	45.52%	31	0.12%	27	0.10%	1	0.00%	2,255	8.73%	25,818
Poweshiek	4,186	49.47%	4,234	50.04%	31	0.37%	10	0.12%	0	0.00%	-48	-0.57%	8,461
Ringgold	2,767	59.35%	1,867	40.05%	26	0.56%	2	0.04%	0	0.00%	900	19.31%	4,662
Sac	3,770	53.63%	3,223	45.85%	33	0.47%	3	0.04%	1	0.01%	547	7.78%	7,030
Scott	18,015	48.58%	18,962	51.14%	16	0.04%	81	0.22%	7	0.02%	-947	-2.55%	37,081
Shelby	3,873	55.86%	2,978	42.95%	80	1.15%	2	0.03%	0	0.00%	895	12.91%	6,933
Sioux	6,552	65.92%	3,369	33.89%	13	0.13%	6	0.06%	0	0.00%	3,183	32.02%	9,940
Story	7,163	51.84%	6,554	47.43%	39	0.28%	59	0.43%	3	0.02%	609	4.41%	13,818
Tama	5,249	49.67%	5,286	50.02%	18	0.17%	14	0.13%	0	0.00%	-37	-0.35%	10,567
Taylor	3,804	61.35%	2,376	38.32%	19	0.31%	1	0.02%	0	0.00%	1,428	23.03%	6,200
Union	4,566	61.29%	2,861	38.40%	17	0.23%	5	0.07%	1	0.01%	1,705	22.89%	7,450
Van Buren	3,095	60.43%	1,997	38.99%	28	0.55%	2	0.04%	0	0.00%	1,098	21.44%	5,122
Wapello	8,244	44.02%	10,732	55.38%	79	0.42%	25	0.13%	9	0.05%	-2,128	-11.36%	18,729
Warren	4,266	55.83%	3,319	43.44%	44	0.58%	11	0.14%	1	0.01%	947	12.39%	7,641
Washington	5,308	60.57%	3,423	39.06%	28	0.32%	4	0.05%	0	0.00%	1,885	21.51%	8,763
Wayne	3,098	50.31%	3,025	49.12%	31	0.50%	4	0.06%	0	0.00%	73	1.19%	6,158
Webster	6,935	42.11%	9,477	57.55%	28	0.17%	26	0.16%	2	0.01%	-2,542	-15.44%	16,468
Winnebago	2,808	51.24%	2,654	48.43%	16	0.29%	2	0.04%	0	0.00%	154	2.81%	5,480
Winneshiek	5,318	53.76%	4,557	46.06%	9	0.09%	8	0.08%	1	0.01%	761	7.69%	9,893
Woodbury	18,544	47.43%	20,448	52.30%	47	0.12%	52	0.13%	5	0.01%	-1,904	-4.87%	39,096
Worth	2,086	44.15%	2,629	55.64%	10	0.21%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-543	-11.49%	4,725
Wright	3,916	47.86%	4,232	51.72%	24	0.29%	10	0.12%	1	0.01%	-316	-3.86%	8,183
Totals	547,267	499,876	51.99%	47.49%	3,752	0.36%	1,511	0.14%	193	0.02%	47,391	4.50%	1,052,599

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References

↑ "United States Presidential election of 1944 - Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved December 22, 2017.
↑ "1944 Election for the Fortieth Term (1945-49)" . Retrieved December 22, 2017.
↑ "1944 Presidential General Election Results - Iowa" . Retrieved December 22, 2017.
↑ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1944" . Retrieved December 22, 2017.
↑ "IA US President Race, November 07, 1944". Our Campaigns.

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[1] "United States Presidential election of 1944 - Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved December 22, 2017.

[2] "1944 Election for the Fortieth Term (1945-49)" . Retrieved December 22, 2017.

[3] "1944 Presidential General Election Results - Iowa" . Retrieved December 22, 2017.

[4] "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1944" . Retrieved December 22, 2017.

[5] "IA US President Race, November 07, 1944". Our Campaigns.

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