1944 United States presidential election in Louisiana

none June 2025 September 2023 1944 United States presidential election 1944 United States presidential election in Louisiana Louisiana 1912 presidential no 1940 United States presidential election in Louisiana 1940 November 7, 1944 1948 United States presidential election in Louisiana 1948 x200px 1944 portrait of FDR (1)(small).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York Harry Truman 10 281,564 80.59% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Thomas E. Dewey Republican Party (United States) John Bricker 0 19.39% 67,750 New York Dewey circa 1946 (cropped).jpg 1944 United States presidential election in Louisiana results map by parish.svg 350px Parish results Roosevelt #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% The 1944 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose tenhttps://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1941_1953.html#1944 1944 Election for the Fortieth Term (1945-1949) 2018-04-03 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Ever since the passage of a new constitution in 1898, Louisiana had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party became moribund due to the disenfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as Louisiana completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority November 23, 2014 208, 210 Princeton University Press 9780691163246 Despite this absolute single-party dominance, non-partisan tendencies remained strong among wealthy sugar planters in Acadiana and within the business elite of New Orleans.Schott Matthew J. Progressives against Democracy: Electoral Reform in Louisiana, 1894-1921 Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 20 3 Summer 1979 247–260 Until the rise of Huey P. Long, post-disenfranchisement Louisiana politics was dominated by the New Orleans–based "Choctaw Club",Wall Bennett H. Rodriguez John C. Louisiana: A History 274–275 1118619293 which overcame Socialist, Wobbly, and Progressive challenges from the outlying upcountry, Imperial Calcasieu and Acadiana regions between the late 1900s and early 1920s.Collin Richard H. Theodore Roosevelt's Visit to New Orleans and the Progressive Campaign of 1914 Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 12 1 Winter 1971 5–19 The three presidential elections between 1916 and 1924 saw a rebellion in Acadiana over sugar tariffs and Woodrow Wilson's foreign and domestic policies; however, the nomination of Catholic Al Smith in 1928 rapidly restored their Democratic loyalty without causing significant upheaval in the remainder of the state, which was too focused on control of black labour to worry about Smith's Catholicism.Barbara C. Wingo The 1928 Presidential Election in Louisiana Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 18 4 Autumn 1977 405–435 Louisiana Historical Association Following the 1928 gubernatorial primary, Louisiana politics until Brown v. Board of Education would be governed by a system of coherent "Long" and "anti-Long" Democratic factionalism,Hansen John Mark Shigeo Hirano Snyder Jr. James M. Parties within Parties: Parties, Factions, and Coordinated Politics, 1900-1980 Gerber Alan S. Schickler Eric Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America February 27, 2017 165–168 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09509-0 as the administration of Huey Long introduced significant economic reforms, which were strongly opposed by the remnants of the old Choctaws. During the first term of Roosevelt, Long sought to capture the Presidency for himself under a "Share-Our-Wealth" program involving the confiscation of wealthy fortunes, family allowances, and government storage of agricultural surpluses.Sindler Allan P. Huey Long's Louisiana: State politics, 1920-1952 1956 Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore 84–85 The Long and anti-Long factions would compete intensely in subsequent primaries, with many controversies, most critically involving New Orleans election officer Patrick Classic's attempt to count ninety-seven ballots for anti-Long Hale Boggs in a House of Representatives primary in September 1940,Baker Liva 1996 The second battle of New Orleans: the hundred-year struggle to integrate the schools New York City HarperCollinsPublishers 97–99 0060168080 which reached the Supreme Court and established the right to regulate primary elections. Three years later, Louisiana's lily-white one-party politics was shaken by Smith v. Allwright, which ruled white-only primaries as unconstitutional, and to which Governor Sam Jones responded saying: We've always handled that question [black disenfranchisement]—and always will.Garson Robert A. The Democratic Party and the politics of sectionalism, 1941-1948 1974 Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge, Louisiana 0807100706 90–91 Results 1944 United States presidential election in Louisiana Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) Democratic Party (United States) 281,564 80.59% Thomas Dewey Republican Party (United States) 67,750 19.39% #FFFFFF — Write-ins 69 0.02% 349,383 100% Results by parish ParishFranklin D. RooseveltDemocraticThomas E. DeweyRepublicanVarious candidatesWrite-insMarginTotal votes cast#%#%#%#%Acadia4,43981.27%1,02318.73% 3,41662.54%5,462Allen2,20586.78%33613.22% 1,86973.55%2,541Ascension2,29186.29%36413.71% 1,92772.58%2,655Assumption1,41976.91%42623.09% 99353.82%1,845Avoyelles3,78992.53%3067.47% 3,48385.05%4,095Beauregard2,22674.57%75925.43% 1,46749.15%2,985Bienville1,80171.87%70528.13% 1,09643.74%2,506Bossier2,43079.59%62220.37% 1 0.03%1,80859.22%3,053Caddo12,89668.56%5,88531.29% 29 0.15%7,01137.27%18,810Calcasieu7,86180.81%1,86719.19% 5,99461.62%9,728Caldwell1,14269.34%50530.66% 63738.68%1,647Cameron1,02592.26%867.74% 93984.52%1,111Catahoula1,20880.59%29119.41% 91761.17%1,499Claiborne2,26679.68%57820.32% 1,68859.35%2,844Concordia97482.89%20117.11% 77365.79%1,175DeSoto1,85877.55%53822.45% 1,32055.09%2,396East Baton Rouge14,75782.99%3,02517.01% 11,73265.98%17,782East Carroll92572.15%35727.85% 56844.31%1,282East Feliciana86979.80%22020.20% 64959.60%1,089Evangeline3,02991.68%2758.32% 2,75483.35%3,304Franklin2,47680.57%59719.43% 1,87961.15%3,073Grant1,93977.72%55622.28% 1,38355.43%2,495Iberia3,66176.24%1,14123.76% 2,52052.48%4,802Iberville2,26583.98%43216.02% 1,83367.96%2,697Jackson1,84081.52%41418.34% 3 0.13%1,42663.18%2,257Jefferson10,26885.21%1,78214.79% 8,48670.42%12,050Jefferson Davis2,32966.83%1,15633.17% 1,17333.66%3,485Lafayette4,80186.61%74213.39% 4,05973.23%5,543Lafourche4,98085.06%87514.94% 4,10570.11%5,855LaSalle2,01879.20%50419.78% 26 1.02%1,51459.42%2,548Lincoln1,70562.29%1,03237.71% 67324.59%2,737Livingston2,46087.76%34312.24% 2,11775.53%2,803Madison76469.33%33830.67% 42638.66%1,102Morehouse1,85979.55%47820.45% 1,38159.09%2,337Natchitoches2,53669.59%1,10530.32% 3 0.08%1,43139.27%3,644Orleans90,41181.74%20,19018.25% 7 0.01%70,22163.49%110,608Ouachita6,32970.67%2,62729.33% 3,70241.34%8,956Plaquemines1,75583.97%33516.03% 1,42067.94%2,090Pointe Coupee1,43684.12%27115.88% 1,16568.25%1,707Rapides9,13284.21%1,71215.79% 7,42068.42%10,844Red River97570.45%40929.55% 56640.90%1,384Richland2,08781.05%48818.95% 1,59962.10%2,575Sabine2,04866.34%1,03933.66% 1,00932.69%3,087St. Bernard2,04496.23%803.77% 1,96492.47%2,124St. Charles1,94591.79%1748.21% 1,77183.58%2,119St. Helena68386.35%10813.65% 57572.69%791St. James1,38783.96%26516.04% 1,12267.92%1,652St. John the Baptist1,32487.16%19512.84% 1,12974.33%1,519St. Landry4,42384.94%78415.06% 3,63969.89%5,207St. Martin2,38493.97%1536.03% 2,23187.94%2,537St. Mary3,59186.97%53813.03% 3,05373.94%4,129St. Tammany3,45083.07%70316.93% 2,74766.14%4,153Tangipahoa4,41973.76%1,57226.24% 2,84747.52%5,991Tensas63879.95%16020.05% 47859.90%798Terrebonne3,53986.55%55013.45% 2,98973.10%4,089Union1,76568.73%80331.27% 96237.46%2,568Vermilion4,68487.39%67612.61% 4,00874.78%5,360Vernon3,07575.05%1,02224.95% 2,05350.11%4,097Washington4,81092.22%4067.78% 4,40484.43%5,216Webster3,65580.26%89919.74% 2,75660.52%4,554West Baton Rouge1,04592.31%877.69% 95884.63%1,132West Carroll1,39070.52%58129.48% 80941.05%1,971West Feliciana42670.53%17829.47% 24841.06%604Winn1,40361.43%88138.57% 52222.85%2,284Totals281,56480.59%67,75019.39%690.02%213,81461.20%349,383 Analysis Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt carried Louisiana in a landslide, defeating Republican New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey by a margin of 61.20 points,http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1944 The American Presidency Project — Election of 1944 2018-04-03 and sweeping every parish in the state. Nevertheless, indications of protest against Roosevelt's policies were seen in the rural hill parishes where the Long dynasty had been strongest in the preceding fifteen yearsHoward Perry H. 1956 Political Tendencies in Louisiana, 1812-1952; An Ecological Analysis of Voting Behavior Longism: An Appraisal LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Louisiana State University 194–198—for instance in Long's ancestral home of Winn Parish, Dewey won almost two-fifths of the vote, and in Winn and nearby Lincoln Parish, the Democratic vote share fell by almost one quarter from the 1940 election.LA US President Race, November 07, 1944 https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2768 Our Campaigns As of 2024, this election marks the last time that a Democratic presidential nominee has carried Bossier Parish.Menendez Albert J. 2005 The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004 215–218 McFarland 0786422173 Plaquemines Parish and Lincoln Parish have both voted for a Democratic presidential candidate only once since—for Bill Clinton in 1996—whilst Caddo Parish and Claiborne Parish would not vote Democratic again until Clinton in 1992. It also marked the end of a 64-year Democratic voting streak; four years later, the state would back Dixiecrat candidate Strom Thurmond instead of Democratic nominee Harry S. Truman. As such, this marks the last time that any presidential candidate would carry every parish in the state. See also United States presidential elections in Louisiana References Louisiana 1944 Category:1944 Louisiana elections