1948 United States presidential election in Louisiana

1948 United States presidential election in Louisiana
All 10 Louisiana votes to the Electoral College
President before election; Harry S. Truman ; Democratic	Elected President; Harry S. Truman ; Democratic

Last updated October 19, 2023

The 1948 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election. State voters chose ten^[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Louisiana was won by Governor Strom Thurmond (DX–South Carolina), running with Governor Fielding L. Wright, with 49.07% of the popular vote, against incumbent President Harry S. Truman (D–Missouri), running with Senator Alben W. Barkley, with 32.75% of the popular vote, and Governor Thomas Dewey (R–New York), running with Governor Earl Warren, with 17.45% of the popular vote.^[4]^[5]

This marked the first time since 1876 that Louisiana failed to back the Democratic nominee in a presidential election, and the first time ever that a Democrat won the presidency without carrying the state.

52% of white voters supported Thurmond.^[6]

Results

1948 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Dixiecrat	Strom Thurmond	204,290	49.07%
	Democratic	Harry S. Truman (inc.)	136,344	32.75%
	Republican	Thomas Dewey	72,657	17.45%
	Progressive	Henry A. Wallace	3,035	0.73%
	Write-in		10	0.00%
Total votes			416,336	100%

Results by parish

Parish	Harry S. Truman Democratic		Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican		James Strom Thurmond States’ Rights		Henry Agard Wallace Progressive		Margin^{[lower-alpha 1]}		Total votes cast^[8]
Parish	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast^[8]
Acadia	2,382	35.67%	784	11.74%	3,497	52.37%	14	0.21%	-1,115	-16.70%	6,678^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Allen	1,996	62.01%	241	7.49%	980	30.44%	2	0.06%	1,016	31.56%	3,219
Ascension	1,126	37.75%	433	14.52%	1,420	47.60%	4	0.13%	-294	-9.86%	2,983
Assumption	362	19.74%	469	25.57%	1,000	54.53%	3	0.16%	-531^{[lower-alpha 3]}	-28.95%	1,834
Avoyelles	1,356	19.09%	285	4.01%	5,417	76.24%	44	0.62%	-4,061	-57.16%	7,105^{[lower-alpha 4]}
Beauregard	1,653	47.60%	449	12.93%	1,365	39.30%	6	0.17%	288	8.29%	3,473
Bienville	421	14.14%	191	6.42%	2,362	79.34%	3	0.10%	-1,941	-65.20%	2,977
Bossier	1,147	29.59%	338	8.72%	2,390	61.66%	1	0.03%	-1,243	-32.07%	3,876
Caddo	5,985	27.06%	4,777	21.60%	11,292	51.06%	63	0.28%	-5,307	-24.00%	22,117
Calcasieu	7,074	56.87%	1,940	15.60%	3,400	27.34%	24	0.19%	3,674	29.54%	12,438
Caldwell	777	44.45%	151	8.64%	818	46.80%	2	0.11%	-41	-2.35%	1,748
Cameron	742	66.07%	87	7.75%	293	26.09%	1	0.09%	449	39.98%	1,123
Catahoula	515	30.91%	86	5.16%	1,062	63.75%	3	0.18%	-547	-32.83%	1,666
Claiborne	457	16.40%	265	9.51%	2,061	73.98%	3	0.11%	-1,604	-57.57%	2,786
Concordia	329	21.00%	98	6.25%	1,140	72.75%	0	0.00%	-811	-51.75%	1,567
De Soto	617	22.21%	270	9.72%	1,889	68.00%	2	0.07%	-1,272	-45.79%	2,778
East Baton Rouge	8,560	39.88%	4,585	21.36%	8,166	38.05%	153	0.71%	394	1.84%	21,464
East Carroll	323	29.26%	116	10.51%	663	60.05%	2	0.18%	-340	-30.80%	1,104
East Feliciana	267	21.64%	127	10.29%	839	67.99%	1	0.08%	-572	-46.35%	1,234
Evangeline	1,149	19.90%	206	3.57%	4,415	76.48%	3	0.05%	-3,266	-56.57%	5,773
Franklin	1,857	47.80%	149	3.84%	1,872	48.19%	7	0.18%	-15	-0.39%	3,885
Grant	1,120	39.44%	273	9.61%	1,439	50.67%	8	0.28%	-319	-11.23%	2,840
Iberia	1,015	16.49%	2,910	47.26%	2,224	36.12%	8	0.13%	686^{[lower-alpha 3]}	11.14%	6,157
Iberville	1,697	55.33%	506	16.50%	856	27.91%	8	0.26%	841	27.42%	3,067
Jackson	713	31.15%	169	7.38%	1,400	61.16%	7	0.31%	-687	-30.01%	2,289
Jefferson	4,654	28.79%	2,620	16.20%	8,822	54.56%	72	0.45%	-4,168	-25.78%	16,168
Jefferson Davis	1,717	47.16%	793	21.78%	1,122	30.82%	9	0.25%	595	16.34%	3,641
Lafayette	1,787	23.52%	2,068	27.21%	3,724	49.01%	20	0.26%	-1,656^{[lower-alpha 3]}	-21.79%	7,599
Lafourche	1,586	26.82%	1,247	21.09%	3,052	51.62%	28	0.47%	-1,466	-24.79%	5,913
LaSalle	716	26.03%	266	9.67%	1,767	64.23%	2	0.07%	-1,051	-38.20%	2,751
Lincoln	625	19.53%	353	11.03%	2,196	68.60%	27	0.84%	-1,571	-49.08%	3,201
Livingston	1,841	53.04%	264	7.61%	1,351	38.92%	15	0.43%	490	14.12%	3,471
Madison	197	14.42%	127	9.30%	1,033	75.62%	9	0.66%	-836	-61.20%	1,366
Morehouse	1,177	41.83%	242	8.60%	1,391	49.43%	4	0.14%	-214	-7.60%	2,814
Natchitoches	1,692	31.61%	763	14.26%	2,887	53.94%	10	0.19%	-1,195	-22.33%	5,352
Orleans	41,900	33.85%	29,442	23.78%	50,234	40.58%	2,203	1.78%	-8,334	-6.73%	123,785^{[lower-alpha 5]}
Ouachita	4,213	39.00%	1,729	16.01%	4,848	44.88%	12	0.11%	-635	-5.88%	10,802
Plaquemines	77	2.78%	90	3.24%	2,597	93.62%	10	0.36%	-2,507^{[lower-alpha 3]}	-90.37%	2,774
Pointe Coupee	402	20.31%	198	10.01%	1,375	69.48%	4	0.20%	-973	-49.17%	1,979
Rapides	4,730	36.22%	1,707	13.07%	6,581	50.39%	42	0.32%	-1,851	-14.17%	13,060
Red River	452	21.46%	113	5.37%	1,535	72.89%	6	0.28%	-1,083	-51.42%	2,106
Richland	960	37.87%	119	4.69%	1,448	57.12%	8	0.32%	-488	-19.25%	2,535
Sabine	1,405	34.05%	469	11.37%	2,249	54.51%	3	0.07%	-844	-20.46%	4,126
Saint Bernard	91	3.72%	107	4.38%	2,242	91.70%	5	0.20%	-2,135^{[lower-alpha 3]}	-87.32%	2,445
Saint Charles	914	37.93%	286	11.87%	1,206	50.04%	4	0.17%	-292	-12.12%	2,410
Saint Helena	469	39.38%	59	4.95%	662	55.58%	1	0.08%	-193	-16.20%	1,191
Saint James	859	40.58%	453	21.40%	800	37.79%	5	0.24%	59	2.79%	2,117
Saint John the Baptist	799	42.50%	379	20.16%	695	36.97%	7	0.37%	104	5.53%	1,880
Saint Landry	1,179	15.22%	829	10.70%	5,730	73.96%	9	0.12%	-4,551	-58.75%	7,747
Saint Martin	307	8.03%	688	17.99%	2,822	73.80%	7	0.18%	-2,134^{[lower-alpha 3]}	-55.81%	3,824
Saint Mary	918	26.21%	824	23.52%	1,751	49.99%	10	0.29%	-833	-23.78%	3,503
Saint Tammany	1,164	23.09%	790	15.67%	3,063	60.76%	24	0.48%	-1,899	-37.67%	5,041
Tangipahoa	2,184	29.48%	1,287	17.37%	3,919	52.90%	18	0.24%	-1,735	-23.42%	7,408
Tensas	239	22.87%	72	6.89%	732	70.05%	2	0.19%	-493	-47.18%	1,045
Terrebonne	1,262	29.12%	1,048	24.18%	2,011	46.40%	13	0.30%	-749	-17.28%	4,334
Union	724	25.33%	259	9.06%	1,872	65.50%	3	0.10%	-1,148	-40.17%	2,858
Vermilion	1,806	28.85%	1,212	19.36%	3,236	51.69%	7	0.11%	-1,430	-22.84%	6,261
Vernon	1,939	42.32%	296	6.46%	2,331	50.87%	16	0.35%	-392	-8.56%	4,582
Washington	3,267	41.88%	371	4.76%	4,141	53.08%	22	0.28%	-874	-11.20%	7,801
Webster	1,933	36.53%	455	8.60%	2,895	54.72%	8	0.15%	-962	-18.18%	5,291
West Baton Rouge	557	47.73%	141	12.08%	466	39.93%	3	0.26%	91	7.80%	1,167
West Carroll	921	40.10%	151	6.57%	1,221	53.16%	4	0.17%	-300	-13.06%	2,297
West Feliciana	101	17.35%	102	17.53%	377	64.78%	2	0.34%	-275^{[lower-alpha 3]}	-47.25%	582
Winn	940	32.08%	333	11.37%	1,648	56.25%	9	0.31%	-708	-24.16%	2,930
Totals	136,344	32.75%	72,657	17.45%	204,290	49.07%	3,035	0.73%	-67,946	-16.32%	416,336

Notes

↑ Although Thurmond was given the traditional Democratic Party symbol of the rooster in Louisiana,^[7] he was still listed under the “States’ Rights” label. Hence, margins given are Truman vote minus Thurmond vote and percentage margins Truman percentage minus Thurmond percentage unless otherwise stated for the parish in question.
↑ One write-in vote was recorded from this parish.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 In this parish where Truman ran third behind Thurmond and Dewey, margin given is Dewey vote minus Thurmond vote and percentage margin Dewey percentage minus Thurmond percentage.
↑ 3 write-in votes were recorded from this parish
↑ 6 write-in votes were recorded from this parish.

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References

↑ "United States Presidential election of 1948 - Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved December 20, 2017.
↑ See ‘The Gallup Poll: Dewey May Get Just Less Than 50 Percent of the Popular Vote but Is the Winner’; The Clarion-Ledger , November 1, 1948, p. 1
↑ "1948 Election for the Forty-First Term (1949-53)" . Retrieved December 20, 2017.
↑ "1948 Presidential General Election Results - Louisiana" . Retrieved December 20, 2017.
↑ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1948" . Retrieved December 20, 2017.
↑ Black & Black 1992, p. 147.
↑ See ‘The Gallup Poll: Dewey May Get Just Less Than 50 Percent of the Popular Vote but Is the Winner’; The Clarion-Ledger , November 1, 1948, p. 1
↑ "LA US President Race, November 02, 1948". Our Campaigns.

Works cited

Black, Earl; Black, Merle (1992). The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674941306.

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[8] Although Thurmond was given the traditional Democratic Party symbol of the rooster in Louisiana,^[7] he was still listed under the “States’ Rights” label. Hence, margins given are Truman vote minus Thurmond vote and percentage margins Truman percentage minus Thurmond percentage unless otherwise stated for the parish in question.

[10] One write-in vote was recorded from this parish.

[DeweydTruman-11] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 In this parish where Truman ran third behind Thurmond and Dewey, margin given is Dewey vote minus Thurmond vote and percentage margin Dewey percentage minus Thurmond percentage.

[12] 3 write-in votes were recorded from this parish

[13] 6 write-in votes were recorded from this parish.

[1] "United States Presidential election of 1948 - Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved December 20, 2017.

[2] See ‘The Gallup Poll: Dewey May Get Just Less Than 50 Percent of the Popular Vote but Is the Winner’; The Clarion-Ledger , November 1, 1948, p. 1

[3] "1948 Election for the Forty-First Term (1949-53)" . Retrieved December 20, 2017.

[4] "1948 Presidential General Election Results - Louisiana" . Retrieved December 20, 2017.

[5] "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1948" . Retrieved December 20, 2017.

[FOOTNOTEBlackBlack1992147-6] Black & Black 1992, p. 147.

[7] See ‘The Gallup Poll: Dewey May Get Just Less Than 50 Percent of the Popular Vote but Is the Winner’; The Clarion-Ledger , November 1, 1948, p. 1

[Our-9] "LA US President Race, November 02, 1948". Our Campaigns.

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