1944 United States presidential election in New York

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1944 United States presidential election in New York

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Turnout	70.9% [1] 4.8 pp
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Thomas E. Dewey Party Democratic Republican Alliance Parties American Labor Liberal Home state New York New York Running mate Harry S. Truman John W. Bricker Electoral vote 47 0 Popular vote 3,304,238 2,987,647 Percentage 52.31% 47.30%
County results Roosevelt   50–60%   60–70% Dewey   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%
President before election Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic

World War II was a huge factor in President Roosevelt's race for the presidency in 1944. Here Roosevelt can be seen meeting with other Allied leaders at the 1943 Cairo Conferences, about 1 year before D-Day.

The 1944 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 7, 1944. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1944 United States presidential election. Voters chose 47 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New York was the home state of both major party nominees. It was won by incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was running against incumbent Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Roosevelt ran with U.S. Senator from Missouri Harry S. Truman, and Dewey ran with Ohio Governor John W. Bricker, an opponent during the 1944 Republican primaries, as vice president.

New York weighed in for this election as 2% more Republican than the national average. The presidential election of 1944 was a very partisan for New York, with more than 99.6% of the electorate casting votes for either the Democratic Party or the Republican. ^[2] In typical form for the time, the highly populated centers of New York City, Albany, Buffalo, and Rochester voted primarily Democratic, while the majority of smaller counties in New York turned out for Dewey as the Republican candidate. Much of Roosevelt's margin of victory was provided by his dominance in New York City. Roosevelt took over 60% of the vote in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, and decisively won New York City as a whole, although the boroughs of Queens and Staten Island remained Republican as they had voted in 1940.

Any advantage Dewey might have otherwise had by virtue of being the incumbent governor was nullified by New York being Roosevelt's home state as well. A former governor himself, the immensely popular Roosevelt won the election in New York by a solid five-point margin. Dewey campaigned hard against much of President Roosevelt's New Deal, claiming that it suffocated job growth in the country, ^[3] while Roosevelt's campaign focused on maintaining the New Deal and putting an end to the war with Japan and Germany as quickly as possible. Governor Dewey's stance on the New Deal put him and his campaign in sharp contradiction with the majority of voters across the country, including states such as New York, which had suffered through years of over 15% unemployment during the Great Depression, and who largely attributed the economic recovery to Roosevelt's leadership, and heightened federal regulation and spending.

The 1944 presidential election was the last time until 2016 in which both major party candidates declared New York as their home state. Along with his first run for governor in 1938, the 1944 presidential election marked the only time that Dewey lost a statewide vote in New York. The 1944 presidential election was the only time that Dewey lost a statewide vote in New York during his time as governor, as Dewey would carry New York State in 1948 against Roosevelt's successor Harry S. Truman. Subsequent to 1944, Dewey would be reelected as governor in 1946 and 1950 before not seeking reelection in 1954. New York was one of six states that became more Democratic compared to 1940, alongside Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, North Dakota, and Rhode Island.

Results

1944 United States presidential election in New York
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Franklin D. Roosevelt	2,478,598	39.24%
	American Labor	Franklin D. Roosevelt	496,405	7.86%
	Liberal	Franklin D. Roosevelt	329,235	5.21%
	Total	Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent)	3,304,238	52.31%	47
	Republican	Thomas E. Dewey	2,987,647	47.30%	0
	Socialist Labor	Edward A. Teichert	14,352	0.23%	0
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	10,553	0.17%	0
Totals			6,316,790	100.0%	47

New York City results

1944 Presidential Election in New York City			Manhattan	The Bronx	Brooklyn	Queens	Staten Island	Total
	Democratic- American Labor- Liberal	Franklin D. Roosevelt	509,263	450,525	758,270	292,940	31,502	2,042,500	61.33%
			65.90%	67.74%	65.46%	44.36%	42.62%
	Republican	Thomas E. Dewey	258,650	211,158	393,926	365,365	42,188	1,271,287	38.17%
			33.47%	31.75%	34.01%	55.33%	57.07%
	Socialist Labor	Edward A. Teichert	3,226	2,416	4,209	1,013	106	10,970	0.33%
			0.42%	0.36%	0.36%	0.15%	0.14%
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	1,622	936	1,959	1,057	119	5,693	0.17%
			0.21%	0.14%	0.17%	0.16%	0.16%
TOTAL			772,777	665,035	1,158,364	660,376	73,918	3,330,470	100.00%

Results by county

County	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic/American Labor/Liberal		Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast [4]
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Albany	71,128	53.90%	60,543	45.88%	289	0.22%	10,585	8.02%	131,960
Allegany	4,786	26.18%	13,454	73.60%	39	0.21%	-8,668	-47.42%	18,279
Bronx	450,525	67.74%	211,158	31.75%	3,352	0.50%	239,367	35.99%	665,035
Broome	31,056	41.29%	44,013	58.52%	137	0.18%	-12,957	-17.23%	75,206
Cattaraugus	11,787	37.07%	19,907	62.61%	101	0.32%	-8,120	-25.54%	31,795
Cayuga	13,849	42.44%	18,680	57.25%	100	0.31%	-4,831	-14.81%	32,629
Chautauqua	22,086	40.03%	32,824	59.49%	264	0.48%	-10,738	-19.46%	55,174
Chemung	15,064	40.32%	22,198	59.42%	97	0.26%	-7,134	-19.10%	37,359
Chenango	4,997	28.11%	12,745	71.69%	37	0.21%	-7,748	-43.58%	17,779
Clinton	9,996	53.15%	8,775	46.66%	35	0.19%	1,221	6.49%	18,806
Columbia	6,969	34.71%	13,055	65.02%	54	0.27%	-6,086	-30.31%	20,078
Cortland	4,967	32.17%	10,450	67.68%	24	0.16%	-5,483	-35.51%	15,441
Delaware	5,128	25.55%	14,916	74.32%	25	0.12%	-9,788	-48.77%	20,069
Dutchess	22,778	40.80%	32,890	58.92%	158	0.28%	-10,112	-18.11%	55,826
Erie	195,905	51.12%	185,975	48.53%	1,355	0.35%	9,930	2.59%	383,235
Essex	4,637	31.34%	10,128	68.44%	33	0.22%	-5,491	-37.11%	14,798
Franklin	8,060	46.53%	9,225	53.25%	39	0.23%	-1,165	-6.72%	17,324
Fulton	8,813	39.93%	13,195	59.79%	62	0.28%	-4,382	-19.86%	22,070
Genesee	6,796	33.44%	13,478	66.32%	50	0.25%	-6,682	-32.88%	20,324
Greene	5,231	34.73%	9,807	65.10%	26	0.17%	-4,576	-30.38%	15,064
Hamilton	830	31.05%	1,834	68.61%	9	0.34%	-1,004	-37.56%	2,673
Herkimer	12,381	44.08%	15,656	55.75%	48	0.17%	-3,275	-11.66%	28,085
Jefferson	14,449	39.77%	21,834	60.10%	46	0.13%	-7,385	-20.33%	36,329
Kings	758,270	65.46%	393,926	34.01%	6,168	0.53%	364,344	31.45%	1,158,364
Lewis	3,441	35.42%	6,256	64.40%	18	0.19%	-2,815	-28.98%	9,715
Livingston	6,351	35.73%	11,383	64.04%	41	0.23%	-5,032	-28.31%	17,775
Madison	6,109	31.31%	13,369	68.51%	36	0.18%	-7,260	-37.20%	19,514
Monroe	119,672	51.52%	111,725	48.10%	876	0.38%	7,947	3.42%	232,273
Montgomery	14,400	49.33%	14,726	50.45%	63	0.22%	-326	-1.12%	29,189
Nassau	78,512	32.88%	159,713	66.88%	576	0.24%	-81,201	-34.00%	238,801
New York	509,263	65.90%	258,650	33.47%	4,864	0.63%	250,613	32.43%	772,777
Niagara	34,850	47.96%	37,614	51.76%	202	0.28%	-2,764	-3.80%	72,666
Oneida	48,371	49.69%	48,749	50.08%	224	0.23%	-378	-0.39%	97,344
Onondaga	73,562	47.57%	80,507	52.06%	569	0.37%	-6,945	-4.49%	154,638
Ontario	9,437	35.80%	16,859	63.95%	68	0.26%	-7,422	-28.15%	26,364
Orange	24,059	38.03%	39,041	61.71%	162	0.26%	-14,982	-23.68%	63,262
Orleans	4,006	28.56%	9,998	71.28%	22	0.16%	-5,992	-42.72%	14,026
Oswego	12,593	38.92%	19,733	60.99%	29	0.09%	-7,140	-22.07%	32,355
Otsego	7,849	33.67%	15,427	66.17%	37	0.16%	-7,578	-32.51%	23,313
Putnam	4,251	37.64%	7,010	62.07%	33	0.29%	-2,759	-24.43%	11,294
Queens	292,940	44.36%	365,365	55.33%	2,071	0.31%	-72,425	-10.97%	660,376
Rensselaer	30,173	44.29%	37,819	55.51%	139	0.20%	-7,646	-11.22%	68,131
Richmond	31,502	42.62%	42,188	57.07%	228	0.31%	-10,686	-14.46%	73,918
Rockland	13,437	40.72%	19,471	59.00%	91	0.28%	-6,034	-18.29%	32,999
Saratoga	13,788	40.45%	20,197	59.26%	98	0.29%	-6,409	-18.80%	34,083
Schenectady	33,397	48.49%	35,178	51.08%	294	0.43%	-1,781	-2.59%	68,869
Schoharie	4,219	39.06%	6,546	60.61%	36	0.33%	-2,327	-21.54%	10,801
Schuyler	1,767	28.14%	4,506	71.76%	6	0.10%	-2,739	-43.62%	6,279
Seneca	4,236	36.24%	7,424	63.52%	28	0.24%	-3,188	-27.28%	11,688
St. Lawrence	15,223	40.90%	21,919	58.89%	77	0.21%	-6,696	-17.99%	37,219
Steuben	13,461	34.45%	25,538	65.36%	73	0.19%	-12,077	-30.91%	39,072
Suffolk	31,231	32.15%	65,650	67.59%	253	0.26%	-34,419	-35.43%	97,134
Sullivan	8,836	43.81%	11,258	55.82%	73	0.36%	-2,422	-12.01%	20,167
Tioga	3,831	29.95%	8,934	69.85%	25	0.20%	-5,103	-39.90%	12,790
Tompkins	7,174	35.78%	12,805	63.86%	74	0.37%	-5,631	-28.08%	20,053
Ulster	16,943	38.72%	26,703	61.02%	117	0.27%	-9,760	-22.30%	43,763
Warren	6,716	35.54%	12,144	64.26%	37	0.20%	-5,428	-28.72%	18,897
Washington	7,100	33.82%	13,861	66.03%	31	0.15%	-6,761	-32.21%	20,992
Wayne	6,999	28.50%	17,523	71.36%	33	0.13%	-10,524	-42.86%	24,555
Westchester	107,591	38.02%	174,635	61.71%	756	0.27%	-67,044	-23.69%	282,982
Wyoming	4,455	30.33%	10,219	69.57%	15	0.10%	-5,764	-39.24%	14,689
Yates	2,005	24.01%	6,338	75.89%	9	0.11%	-4,333	-51.88%	8,352
Totals	3,304,238	52.31%	2,987,647	47.30%	24,932	0.39%	316,591	5.01%	6,316,817

See also

• United States presidential elections in New York
• Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Presidency of Harry S. Truman
• World War II
• Hell-Bent for Election

References

1. Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072.
2. "1944 Presidential General Election Results – New York". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
3. Smith, pp. 389-391
4. Géoelections; 1944 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)