1944 United States presidential election in Vermont

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1944 United States presidential election in Vermont
Flag of Vermont.svg
  1940 November 7, 1944 1948  
  Dewey circa 1946 (cropped).jpg 1944 portrait of FDR (1)(small).jpg
Nominee Thomas E. Dewey Franklin D. Roosevelt
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York New York
Running mate John W. Bricker Harry S. Truman
Electoral vote30
Popular vote71,52753,820
Percentage57.06%42.93%

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Vermont Presidential Election Results 1944 by Municipality.svg

President before election

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The 1944 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election which was held throughout all 48 states. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Vermont voted for the Republican nominee, former Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, over the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York. Dewey's running mate was Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, while Roosevelt ran with Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri.

Dewey took 57.06% of the vote, to Roosevelt's 42.93%, a margin of 14.12%.

Vermont historically was a bastion of Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1944 it had gone Republican in every presidential election since the founding of the Republican Party. From 1856 to 1940, Vermont had the longest streak of voting Republican of any state, having never voted Democratic before, and this tradition continued in 1944 with Dewey's decisive win.

Vermont had been one of only two states (along with nearby Maine) to reject Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt in all four of his presidential campaigns, even in the nationwide Democratic landslides of 1932 and 1936.

However 1940 had been Roosevelt's high point in Vermont. In 1940, Roosevelt had improved on his previous showings in Vermont, coming within 10 points of winning the state, and thus Dewey's more comfortable win in 1944 represented a shift back toward the GOP. Dewey's 57.06% of the popular vote in Vermont made it his fourth strongest state after Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. [1]

Dewey carried ten of the state's 14 counties, breaking 60% in 6 and 70% in Orange. However, the three northwestern counties of Vermont had been Democratic enclaves in an otherwise Republican state throughout the 1930s and 1940s, and Roosevelt once again won Chittenden County, Franklin County and Grand Isle County for the Democrats. Roosevelt also once again carried rural Essex County in the northeast of the state, as he had first done 4 years earlier. Roosevelt also remains the most recent Democratic president to win more than one term without carrying Vermont once. This also marks the last time Vermont would be carried by a different candidate from neighboring New Hampshire until 2000.

Results

1944 United States presidential election in Vermont [2]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican Thomas E. Dewey 71,52757.06%3
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent)53,82042.93%0
N/A Write-ins 140.01%0
Totals125,361100.00%3

Results by county

CountyThomas Edmund Dewey
Republican
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democratic
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast [3]
# %# %# %# %
Addison 4,09766.25%2,07933.62%80.13%2,01832.63%6,184
Bennington 5,25258.61%3,70941.39%1,54317.22%8,961
Caledonia 5,08664.46%2,80435.54%2,28228.92%7,890
Chittenden 7,51341.05%10,78858.95%-3,275-17.90%18,301
Essex 1,06448.58%1,12651.42%-62-2.83%2,190
Franklin 4,37442.01%6,03657.98%10.01%-1,662-15.96%10,411
Grand Isle 66745.44%80154.56%-134-9.13%1,468
Lamoille 2,21268.21%1,03131.79%1,18136.42%3,243
Orange 4,11773.77%1,46426.23%2,65347.54%5,581
Orleans 3,80158.86%2,65741.14%1,14417.71%6,458
Rutland 9,54457.30%7,11142.70%2,43314.61%16,655
Washington 7,16255.47%5,74944.53%1,41310.94%12,911
Windham 6,70866.49%3,37633.46%50.05%3,33233.03%10,089
Windsor 9,93066.12%5,08933.88%4,84132.23%15,019
Totals71,52757.06%53,82042.93%140.01%17,70714.12%125,361

See also

References

  1. "1944 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  2. "1944 Presidential General Election Results - Vermont". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
  3. Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 465 ISBN   0405077114