1948 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

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1948 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
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Nominee Harry S. Truman Thomas E. Dewey
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Missouri New York
Running mate Alben W. Barkley Earl Warren
Electoral vote100
Popular vote452,782268,817
Percentage62.75%37.25%
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County Results

The 1948 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 2, 1948. All forty-eight states were part of the 1948 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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Incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman won Oklahoma by a landslide 25.5 percentage points. [1] This made Oklahoma the fourth most Democratic state in the nation, and 21 percent more Democratic than the nation as a whole. This makes it the third best performance (after Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1932 and 1936 landslides) of any Democratic nominee in the state. [2]

Up to this election, Oklahoma was a reliably Democratic state, with the party winning all but two of the first eleven presidential elections in the state. However, like other states in this Solid South, Oklahoma has since become a Republican bastion. In Dwight D. Eisenhower's landslide elections of 1952 and 1956, Adlai Stevenson II lost every antebellum free-soil or postbellum state, however Oklahoma remained more Democratic than the nation as a whole. [2] In 1960, John F. Kennedy lost most postbellum states, including Oklahoma, due to anti-Catholic sentiment. [3] In 1964, Lyndon Johnson became the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state, [4] with only Jimmy Carter in 1976 subsequently reaching even 45% of the vote, and no Democrat after 2000 reaching 35% of the vote or even winning a single county in the state. [5]

Truman won all but 10 counties in the state; of the 10, only Grant has voted Democratic since. This is the last occasion in which the contiguous counties of Texas, Beaver, Harper and Woods – which now form one of the most conservative regions in the nation – have voted Democratic, as well as the last time that Kay County has. [5] As a result, this is also the last time that a Democrat has swept every county in the Oklahoma Panhandle. This is also the most recent election in which Oklahoma voted for a different candidate than neighboring Kansas.

Results

1948 United States presidential election in Oklahoma [1]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic Harry S. Truman (incumbent)452,78262.75%10
Republican Thomas E. Dewey 268,81737.25%0
Totals721,599100.0%10
Voter turnout (Voting age)52.5% [6]

Results by county

CountyHarry S. Truman

Democratic

Thomas Edmund Dewey

Republican

Total votes cast [7]
# %# %
Adair 3,06756.03%2,40743.97%5,474
Alfalfa 1,83839.93%2,76560.07%4,603
Atoka 3,10475.03%1,03324.97%4,137
Beaver 1,59652.92%1,42047.08%3,016
Beckham 4,54477.62%1,31022.38%5,854
Blaine 2,59547.79%2,83552.21%5,430
Bryan 7,74885.01%1,36614.99%9,114
Caddo 8,11068.13%3,79331.87%11,903
Canadian 5,56859.89%3,72940.11%9,297
Carter 9,47481.52%2,14718.48%11,621
Cherokee 4,24960.41%2,78539.59%7,034
Choctaw 4,75082.09%1,03617.91%5,786
Cimarron 89457.90%65042.10%1,544
Cleveland 6,55664.10%3,67135.90%10,227
Coal 2,12482.07%46417.93%2,588
Comanche 7,95574.06%2,78725.94%10,742
Cotton 2,61377.98%73822.02%3,351
Craig 4,18259.84%2,80740.16%6,989
Creek 9,19858.47%6,53241.53%15,730
Custer 4,61864.26%2,56835.74%7,186
Delaware 3,15757.40%2,34342.60%5,500
Dewey 2,04957.83%1,49442.17%3,543
Ellis 1,42048.27%1,52251.73%2,942
Garfield 8,21744.25%10,35255.75%18,569
Garvin 6,77980.13%1,68119.87%8,460
Grady 8,13673.84%2,88226.16%11,018
Grant 2,12646.25%2,47153.75%4,597
Greer 3,04481.02%71318.98%3,757
Harmon 2,34089.79%26610.21%2,606
Harper 1,28151.20%1,22148.80%2,502
Haskell 3,20669.76%1,39030.24%4,596
Hughes 5,49276.62%1,67623.38%7,168
Jackson 5,45085.52%92314.48%6,373
Jefferson 3,32685.68%55614.32%3,882
Johnston 2,93683.41%58416.59%3,520
Kay 10,11952.98%8,98247.02%19,101
Kingfisher 2,48845.91%2,93154.09%5,419
Kiowa 4,26373.59%1,53026.41%5,793
Latimer 2,53673.40%91926.60%3,455
Le Flore 6,78670.64%2,82129.36%9,607
Lincoln 4,91355.76%3,89844.24%8,811
Logan 4,10951.84%3,81748.16%7,926
Love 2,19189.80%24910.20%2,440
Major 1,22733.22%2,46766.78%3,694
Marshall 2,45583.96%46916.04%2,924
Mayes 4,20159.55%2,85440.45%7,055
McClain 3,45179.17%90820.83%4,359
McCurtain 6,22385.08%1,09114.92%7,314
McIntosh 3,67471.81%1,44228.19%5,116
Murray 3,05479.28%79820.72%3,852
Muskogee 13,86067.77%6,59232.23%20,452
Noble 2,77053.27%2,43046.73%5,200
Nowata 2,68855.92%2,11944.08%4,807
Okfuskee 3,33567.25%1,62432.75%4,959
Oklahoma 59,95459.89%40,16140.11%100,115
Okmulgee 10,46770.56%4,36829.44%14,835
Osage 7,15664.43%3,95135.57%11,107
Ottawa 7,24362.73%4,30437.27%11,547
Pawnee 2,72150.65%2,65149.35%5,372
Payne 7,39056.03%5,79943.97%13,189
Pittsburg 9,57676.80%2,89323.20%12,469
Pontotoc 7,75077.20%2,28922.80%10,039
Pottawatomie 10,22068.22%4,76031.78%14,980
Pushmataha 2,97779.05%78920.95%3,766
Roger Mills 2,17681.04%50918.96%2,685
Rogers 4,19759.57%2,84940.43%7,046
Seminole 8,12270.35%3,42329.65%11,545
Sequoyah 4,44968.17%2,07731.83%6,526
Stephens 6,70277.83%1,90922.17%8,611
Texas 2,69361.64%1,67638.36%4,369
Tillman 4,07179.37%1,05820.63%5,129
Tulsa 38,54847.33%42,89252.67%81,440
Wagoner 3,38955.97%2,66644.03%6,055
Washington 5,50847.71%6,03652.29%11,544
Washita 4,32672.55%1,63727.45%5,963
Woods 2,88250.10%2,87149.90%5,753
Woodward 2,18047.69%2,39152.31%4,571
Totals452,78262.75%268,81737.25%721,599

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References

  1. 1 2 "1948 Presidential General Election Results – Oklahoma". uselectionatlas.org.
  2. 1 2 Counting the Votes; Oklahoma
  3. ↑ Menendez, Albert J.; The Religious Factor in the 1960 Presidential Election: An Analysis of the Kennedy Victory over Anti-Catholic Prejudice; pp. 79, 117 ISBN   0786460377
  4. ↑ Gust, Steve (October 6, 2012). "Oklahoma student who attended Democratic National Convention anticipates lifetime in politics". The Oklahoman . Retrieved November 9, 2016.
  5. 1 2 Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  6. ↑ Gans, Curtis and Mulling, Matthew; Voter Turnout in the United States, 1788-2009, p. 481 ISBN   9781604265958
  7. ↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 363-364 ISBN   0405077114
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