1944 United States presidential election in Georgia

none June 2025 September 2023 1944 United States presidential election in Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) 1920 presidential Popular no 1940 United States presidential election in Georgia 1940 1944 11 7 1948 United States presidential election in Georgia 1948 x200px 1944 portrait of FDR (1)(small).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York Harry S. Truman 12 268,187 81.74% Dewey circa 1946 (cropped).jpg Thomas E. Dewey Republican Party (United States) New York John W. Bricker 0 59,880 18.25% 1944 United States presidential election in Georgia results map by county.svg 290px County results Roosevelt #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% #002b84 90–100% Dewey #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% President Franklin Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Elected President Franklin Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) 1944 United States presidential election The 1944 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the wider United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. With the exception of a handful of historically Unionist North Georgia counties – chiefly Fannin but also to a lesser extent Pickens, Gilmer and Towns – Georgia since the 1880s had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. Disfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and most poor whites had made the Republican Party virtually nonexistent outside of local governments in those few hill counties,Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 208, 210 9780691163246 and the national Democratic Party served as the guardian of white supremacy against a Republican Party historically associated with memories of Reconstruction. The only competitive elections were Democratic primaries, which state laws restricted to whites on the grounds of the Democratic Party being legally a private club.Springer, Melanie Jean; How the States Shaped the Nation: American Electoral Institutions and Voter Turnout, 1920-2000, p. 155 022611435X 1944 saw the beginning of the breakdown of this single-party political system when the Supreme Court in Smith v. Allwright ruled against the white primary system.Klarman, Michael J.; ‘The Legal and Political Context of Smith v. Allwright and the Subsequent History of the White Primary’; Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 29, No. 55, pp. 61-69 During the period between Smith and the 1944 election, further challenges from blacks occurred after the state announced that coming primaries would remain all-white.Mickey, Robert W.; ‘The Beginning of the End for Authoritarian Rule in America: Smith v. Allwright and the Abolition of the White Primary in the Deep South, 1944–1948’; Studies in American Political Development, vol. 22 (Fall 2008), pp. 143-182 Despite some opposition amongst the Southern ruling elite to Roosevelt – mitigated by the replacement of Henry A. Wallace as vice-presidential nominee – the incumbent president again overwhelmingly carried the state, losing only 3 percent on his 1940 vote share. Georgia had lowered its voting age from twenty-one to eighteen in 1943.Wayne Stephen 2008 Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process Fifth Edition Rowman & Littlefield Results 1944 United States presidential election in GeorgiaGeorgia's Official Register, 1939-1941-1943 http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statreg-images/pdfs/1945.pdf#page=432 Atlanta, Georgia 430–433 PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Franklin Roosevelt (incumbent) 268,187 81.74% 12 Republican Thomas E. Dewey 59,880Dewey total is a fusion of 56,507 Republican votes and 3,373 votes cast by a slate of "Independent Democrats".https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2761 Our Campaigns GA US President Race, November 07, 1944 18.25% 0 Prohibition Claude Watson 36 0.01% 0 Socialist Norman Thomas 6 0.00% 0 Results by county CountyFranklin Delano RooseveltDemocraticThomas Edmund DeweyRepublican/Independent DemocraticVarious candidatesOther partiesMarginTotal votes castGéoelections http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1944.htm 1944 Presidential Election Popular Vote # % # % # % # % Appling 1,318 77.30% 387 22.70% 0 0.00% 931 54.60% 1,705 Atkinson 766 89.49% 90 10.51% 0 0.00% 676 78.97% 856 Bacon 763 77.62% 220 22.38% 0 0.00% 543 55.24% 983 Baker 478 93.91% 31 6.09% 0 0.00% 447 87.82% 509 Baldwin 1,307 80.98% 307 19.02% 0 0.00% 1,000 61.96% 1,614 Banks 490 79.16% 125 20.19% 4 0.65% 365 58.97% 619 Barrow 1,513 85.48% 257 14.52% 0 0.00% 1,256 70.96% 1,770 Bartow 1,915 79.10% 506 20.90% 0 0.00% 1,409 58.20% 2,421 Ben Hill 1,046 84.56% 190 15.36% 1 0.08% 856 69.20% 1,237 Berrien 1,481 87.22% 217 12.78% 0 0.00% 1,264 74.44% 1,698 Bibb 5,352 73.96% 1,884 26.04% 0 0.00% 3,468 47.93% 7,236 Bleckley 815 79.28% 213 20.72% 0 0.00% 602 58.56% 1,028 Brantley 540 81.33% 124 18.67% 0 0.00% 416 62.65% 664 Brooks 1,381 83.19% 279 16.81% 0 0.00% 1,102 66.39% 1,660 Bryan 688 88.43% 90 11.57% 0 0.00% 598 76.86% 778 Bulloch 1,921 87.52% 274 12.48% 0 0.00% 1,647 75.03% 2,195 Burke 909 85.59% 153 14.41% 0 0.00% 756 71.19% 1,062 Butts 1,330 93.99% 85 6.01% 0 0.00% 1,245 87.99% 1,415 Calhoun 736 95.21% 37 4.79% 0 0.00% 699 90.43% 773 Camden 556 87.97% 76 12.03% 0 0.00% 480 75.95% 632 Candler 653 82.55% 138 17.45% 0 0.00% 515 65.11% 791 Carroll 3,331 82.55% 704 17.45% 0 0.00% 2,627 65.11% 4,035 Catoosa 1,453 78.63% 395 21.37% 0 0.00% 1,058 57.25% 1,848 Charlton 462 83.85% 89 16.15% 0 0.00% 373 67.70% 551 Chatham 8,725 80.91% 2,058 19.09% 0 0.00% 6,667 61.83% 10,783 Chattahoochee 100 84.03% 19 15.97% 0 0.00% 81 68.07% 119 Chattooga 2,495 89.68% 287 10.32% 0 0.00% 2,208 79.37% 2,782 Cherokee 1,348 56.00% 1,059 44.00% 0 0.00% 289 12.01% 2,407 Clarke 3,112 91.91% 274 8.09% 0 0.00% 2,838 83.82% 3,386 Clay 442 92.66% 35 7.34% 0 0.00% 407 85.32% 477 Clayton 1,828 88.14% 245 11.81% 1 0.05% 1,583 76.33% 2,074 Clinch 582 90.09% 64 9.91% 0 0.00% 518 80.19% 646 Cobb 5,000 78.75% 1,349 21.25% 0 0.00% 3,651 57.51% 6,349 Coffee 1,625 81.62% 366 18.38% 0 0.00% 1,259 63.23% 1,991 Colquitt 2,308 76.83% 696 23.17% 0 0.00% 1,612 53.66% 3,004 Columbia 508 87.59% 72 12.41% 0 0.00% 436 75.17% 580 Cook 1,155 84.99% 204 15.01% 0 0.00% 951 69.98% 1,359 Coweta 2,649 95.32% 130 4.68% 0 0.00% 2,519 90.64% 2,779 Crawford 375 71.56% 149 28.44% 0 0.00% 226 43.13% 524 Crisp 1,199 84.68% 217 15.32% 0 0.00% 982 69.35% 1,416 Dade 943 84.80% 169 15.20% 0 0.00% 774 69.60% 1,112 Dawson 469 57.83% 342 42.17% 0 0.00% 127 15.66% 811 De Kalb 12,069 82.52% 2,555 17.47% 1 0.01% 9,514 65.05% 14,625 Decatur 1,606 84.53% 294 15.47% 0 0.00% 1,312 69.05% 1,900 Dodge 1,437 85.84% 237 14.16% 0 0.00% 1,200 71.68% 1,674 Dooly 845 90.67% 87 9.33% 0 0.00% 758 81.33% 932 Dougherty 3,199 90.44% 338 9.56% 0 0.00% 2,861 80.89% 3,537 Douglas 828 74.73% 280 25.27% 0 0.00% 548 49.46% 1,108 Early 1,753 95.79% 77 4.21% 0 0.00% 1,676 91.58% 1,830 Echols 466 91.73% 42 8.27% 0 0.00% 424 83.46% 508 Effingham 433 54.26% 365 45.74% 0 0.00% 68 8.52% 798 Elbert 1,564 80.79% 370 19.11% 2 0.10% 1,194 61.67% 1,936 Emanuel 1,635 83.72% 317 16.23% 1 0.05% 1,318 67.49% 1,953 Evans 756 86.50% 117 13.39% 1 0.11% 639 73.11% 874 Fannin 1,298 39.60% 1,980 60.40% 0 0.00% -682 -20.81% 3,278 Fayette 782 88.86% 98 11.14% 0 0.00% 684 77.73% 880 Floyd 4,764 80.92% 1,123 19.08% 0 0.00% 3,641 61.85% 5,887 Forsyth 1,047 60.10% 695 39.90% 0 0.00% 352 20.21% 1,742 Franklin 1,377 80.76% 328 19.24% 0 0.00% 1,049 61.52% 1,705 Fulton 37,161 82.86% 7,687 17.14% 0 0.00% 29,474 65.72% 44,848 Gilmer 884 52.71% 793 47.29% 0 0.00% 91 5.43% 1,677 Glascock 318 66.39% 161 33.61% 0 0.00% 157 32.78% 479 Glynn 1,995 83.82% 385 16.18% 0 0.00% 1,610 67.65% 2,380 Gordon 1,457 70.22% 617 29.73% 1 0.05% 840 40.48% 2,075 Grady 1,661 88.16% 223 11.84% 0 0.00% 1,438 76.33% 1,884 Greene 1,246 89.38% 144 10.33% 4 0.29% 1,102 79.05% 1,394 Gwinnett 3,339 82.40% 713 17.60% 0 0.00% 2,626 64.81% 4,052 Habersham 1,842 78.52% 504 21.48% 0 0.00% 1,338 57.03% 2,346 Hall 3,066 79.37% 796 20.61% 1 0.03% 2,270 58.76% 3,863 Hancock 380 77.71% 109 22.29% 0 0.00% 271 55.42% 489 Haralson 1,248 57.80% 911 42.20% 0 0.00% 337 15.61% 2,159 Harris 893 91.87% 79 8.13% 0 0.00% 814 83.74% 972 Hart 1,161 86.38% 183 13.62% 0 0.00% 978 72.77% 1,344 Heard 557 75.07% 185 24.93% 0 0.00% 372 50.13% 742 Henry 1,461 90.58% 152 9.42% 0 0.00% 1,309 81.15% 1,613 Houston 535 73.79% 190 26.21% 0 0.00% 345 47.59% 725 Irwin 862 76.90% 259 23.10% 0 0.00% 603 53.79% 1,121 Jackson 1,754 88.81% 221 11.19% 0 0.00% 1,533 77.62% 1,975 Jasper 777 90.03% 86 9.97% 0 0.00% 691 80.07% 863 Jeff Davis 737 86.00% 120 14.00% 0 0.00% 617 72.00% 857 Jefferson 1,043 79.20% 274 20.80% 0 0.00% 769 58.39% 1,317 Jenkins 698 87.36% 101 12.64% 0 0.00% 597 74.72% 799 Johnson 978 76.29% 304 23.71% 0 0.00% 674 52.57% 1,282 Jones 661 76.95% 196 22.82% 2 0.23% 465 54.13% 859 Lamar 1,015 87.65% 143 12.35% 0 0.00% 872 75.30% 1,158 Lanier 625 93.98% 40 6.02% 0 0.00% 585 87.97% 665 Laurens 2,544 83.63% 498 16.37% 0 0.00% 2,046 67.26% 3,042 Lee 447 94.30% 27 5.70% 0 0.00% 420 88.61% 474 Liberty 481 79.77% 122 20.23% 0 0.00% 359 59.54% 603 Lincoln 444 72.91% 165 27.09% 0 0.00% 279 45.81% 609 Long 318 71.14% 129 28.86% 0 0.00% 189 42.28% 447 Lowndes 2,092 83.91% 401 16.09% 0 0.00% 1,691 67.83% 2,493 Lumpkin 896 80.87% 212 19.13% 0 0.00% 684 61.73% 1,108 Macon 889 84.11% 168 15.89% 0 0.00% 721 68.21% 1,057 Madison 1,235 82.22% 265 17.64% 2 0.13% 970 64.58% 1,502 Marion 501 87.74% 70 12.26% 0 0.00% 431 75.48% 571 McDuffie 795 80.96% 187 19.04% 0 0.00% 608 61.91% 982 McIntosh 406 72.76% 149 26.70% 3 0.54% 257 46.06% 558 Meriwether 2,187 92.05% 189 7.95% 0 0.00% 1,998 84.09% 2,376 Miller 809 93.20% 59 6.80% 0 0.00% 750 86.41% 868 Mitchell 2,179 90.60% 226 9.40% 0 0.00% 1,953 81.21% 2,405 Monroe 1,132 73.41% 410 26.59% 0 0.00% 722 46.82% 1,542 Montgomery 575 85.82% 94 14.03% 1 0.15% 481 71.79% 670 Morgan 1,166 95.50% 51 4.18% 4 0.33% 1,115 91.32% 1,221 Murray 1,375 67.20% 671 32.80% 0 0.00% 704 34.41% 2,046 Muscogee 6,498 82.86% 1,344 17.14% 0 0.00% 5,154 65.72% 7,842 Newton 2,022 94.27% 123 5.73% 0 0.00% 1,899 88.53% 2,145 Oconee 570 74.51% 195 25.49% 0 0.00% 375 49.02% 765 Oglethorpe 922 84.20% 173 15.80% 0 0.00% 749 68.40% 1,095 Paulding 1,355 63.53% 775 36.33% 3 0.14% 580 27.19% 2,133 Peach 919 79.57% 236 20.43% 0 0.00% 683 59.13% 1,155 Pickens 780 49.52% 795 50.48% 0 0.00% -15 -0.95% 1,575 Pierce 1,069 86.63% 165 13.37% 0 0.00% 904 73.26% 1,234 Pike 742 84.80% 133 15.20% 0 0.00% 609 69.60% 875 Polk 2,698 85.35% 463 14.65% 0 0.00% 2,235 70.71% 3,161 Pulaski 592 91.50% 55 8.50% 0 0.00% 537 83.00% 647 Putnam 701 90.45% 74 9.55% 0 0.00% 627 80.90% 775 Quitman 355 95.69% 16 4.31% 0 0.00% 339 91.37% 371 Rabun 1,247 87.08% 185 12.92% 0 0.00% 1,062 74.16% 1,432 Randolph 1,159 91.62% 106 8.38% 0 0.00% 1,053 83.24% 1,265 Richmond 6,918 85.72% 1,152 14.28% 0 0.00% 5,766 71.45% 8,070 Rockdale 946 90.79% 96 9.21% 0 0.00% 850 81.57% 1,042 Schley 329 89.89% 37 10.11% 0 0.00% 292 79.78% 366 Screven 895 81.96% 197 18.04% 0 0.00% 698 63.92% 1,092 Seminole 1,076 92.84% 83 7.16% 0 0.00% 993 85.68% 1,159 Spalding 2,805 92.79% 217 7.18% 1 0.03% 2,588 85.61% 3,023 Stephens 1,158 84.53% 212 15.47% 0 0.00% 946 69.05% 1,370 Stewart 597 88.44% 78 11.56% 0 0.00% 519 76.89% 675 Sumter 1,550 88.88% 194 11.12% 0 0.00% 1,356 77.75% 1,744 Talbot 832 94.87% 45 5.13% 0 0.00% 787 89.74% 877 Taliaferro 389 98.48% 6 1.52% 0 0.00% 383 96.96% 395 Tattnall 1,215 71.09% 494 28.91% 0 0.00% 721 42.19% 1,709 Taylor 773 74.18% 269 25.82% 0 0.00% 504 48.37% 1,042 Telfair 1,187 87.22% 174 12.78% 0 0.00% 1,013 74.43% 1,361 Terrell 1,639 97.10% 49 2.90% 0 0.00% 1,590 94.19% 1,688 Thomas 1,747 75.79% 557 24.16% 1 0.04% 1,190 51.63% 2,305 Tift 1,630 80.45% 396 19.55% 0 0.00% 1,234 60.91% 2,026 Toombs 1,825 88.51% 237 11.49% 0 0.00% 1,588 77.01% 2,062 Towns 1,137 62.78% 674 37.22% 0 0.00% 463 25.57% 1,811 Treutlen 893 94.30% 54 5.70% 0 0.00% 839 88.60% 947 Troup 3,233 90.43% 342 9.57% 0 0.00% 2,891 80.87% 3,575 Turner 797 70.41% 334 29.51% 1 0.09% 463 40.90% 1,132 Twiggs 457 72.89% 170 27.11% 0 0.00% 287 45.77% 627 Union 1,288 62.89% 760 37.11% 0 0.00% 528 25.78% 2,048 Upson 2,362 90.67% 243 9.33% 0 0.00% 2,119 81.34% 2,605 Walker 2,753 78.23% 765 21.74% 1 0.03% 1,988 56.49% 3,519 Walton 2,046 92.25% 172 7.75% 0 0.00% 1,874 84.49% 2,218 Ware 2,306 83.34% 459 16.59% 2 0.07% 1,847 66.75% 2,767 Warren 449 74.46% 152 25.21% 2 0.33% 297 49.25% 603 Washington 1,094 75.71% 351 24.29% 0 0.00% 743 51.42% 1,445 Wayne 978 79.51% 252 20.49% 0 0.00% 726 59.02% 1,230 Webster 284 81.38% 65 18.62% 0 0.00% 219 62.75% 349 Wheeler 517 77.40% 151 22.60% 0 0.00% 366 54.79% 668 White 706 81.24% 161 18.53% 2 0.23% 545 62.72% 869 Whitfield 2,827 73.26% 1,032 26.74% 0 0.00% 1,795 46.51% 3,859 Wilcox 1,364 86.88% 206 13.12% 0 0.00% 1,158 73.76% 1,570 Wilkes 946 85.61% 159 14.39% 0 0.00% 787 71.22% 1,105 Wilkinson 763 73.79% 271 26.21% 0 0.00% 492 47.58% 1,034 Worth 1,096 83.41% 218 16.59% 0 0.00% 878 66.82% 1,314Totals268,18781.73%59,90018.26%420.01%208,28763.48%328,129 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Pickens Notes References 2 Georgia 1944 Category:1944 Georgia (U.S. state) elections