1948 United States presidential election in Massachusetts

none June 2025 September 2023 August 2013 August 2013 1948 United States presidential election 1948 United States presidential election in Massachusetts Massachusetts 1908 presidential no 1944 United States presidential election in Massachusetts 1944 1952 United States presidential election in Massachusetts 1952 86.74%https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/elections/research-and-statistics/voter-turnout-statistics.htm Voter Turnout Statistics Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts November 2, 1948 x200px Harry S Truman, bw half-length photo portrait, facing front, 1945 (cropped).jpg Harry S. Truman Democratic Party (United States) Missouri Alben W. Barkley 16 1,151,788 54.66% Thomas Dewey (3x4 crop).jpg Thomas E. Dewey Republican Party (United States) New York Earl Warren 0 909,370 43.16% 350px County results 350px| Municipality results 1 350px Truman #B9D7FF 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666CB 70–80% Dewey #F2B3BE 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #D40000 70–80% #AA0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% President Harry S. Truman Democratic Party (United States) Harry S. Truman Democratic Party (United States) The 1948 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 16 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Massachusetts voted for the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Harry S. Truman of Missouri, over the Republican nominee, former Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Truman ran with Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, while Dewey's running mate was Governor Earl Warren of California. Truman carried the state with 54.66% of the vote to Dewey's 43.16%, a Democratic victory margin of 11.50%. Progressive Party candidate Henry A. Wallace came in a distant third, with 1.81%. As Truman narrowly won an upset victory over Dewey nationally, Massachusetts weighed in as 7% more Democratic than the national average. Once a typical Yankee Republican bastion in the wake of the Civil War, Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, when a coalition of Irish Catholic and other ethnic immigrant voters primarily based in urban areas turned Massachusetts and neighboring Rhode Island into New England's only reliably Democratic states. Massachusetts voted for Al Smith in 1928 and for Franklin D. Roosevelt four times in the 1930s and 1940s. Truman's victory thus marked the Democratic Party's sixth straight win in Massachusetts. Despite the national race being much closer, Truman in 1948 outperformed any of Roosevelt's four victories in the state of Massachusetts. FDR had never won the state with more than a single-digit margin; Roosevelt's largest margin of victory was by 9.46% in 1936 and he never took a vote share higher than the 53.11% he received in 1940. In 1944, Roosevelt carried Massachusetts with 52.80% to Dewey's 46.99%, a fairly close margin of only 5.81%. Truman's victory four years later taking 54.66% and winning by 11.50% thus made 1948 the strongest showing ever by a Democratic presidential candidate in Massachusetts up to that point, a record that would stand until John F. Kennedy ran from Massachusetts in 1960.September 2020 Truman would carry 8 of the state's 14 counties, including the most heavily populated parts of the state surrounding the cities of Boston, Worcester, and Springfield. Notably, Truman flipped highly populated Middlesex County, in which did not vote for any of Franklin Roosevelt's four victories in the state, into the Democratic column.http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-votes.html Middlesex County, Massachusetts The Political Graveyard Massachusetts and neighboring Rhode Island were the only states in the Northeast to favor Truman over Dewey in 1948, the same split that had occurred in 1928. Both states had large urban Irish Catholic populations, who remained loyal Democrats in the wake of 1928, even as other groups defected back to the GOP. Results 1948 United States presidential election in Massachusettshttp://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1948&fips=25&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1948 Presidential General Election Results - Massachusetts 2013-02-07 Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential ElectionsPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Harry S. Truman (incumbent) 1,151,788 54.66% 16 Republican Thomas E. Dewey 909,370 43.16% 0 Progressive Henry A. Wallace 38,157 1.81% 0 Socialist Labor Edward A. Teichert 5,535 0.26% 0 Prohibition Claude A. Watson 1,663 0.08% 0 Write-ins Write-ins 633 0.03% 0 Totals 2,107,146 100.00% 16 Results by county CountyOur Campaigns https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2672 MA US President — November 02, 1948Harry S. TrumanDemocraticThomas E. DeweyRepublicanHenry WallaceProgressiveVarious candidatesOther partiesMarginTotal votes cast # % # % # % # % # %Barnstable4,61623.68%14,63375.08%1830.94%580.30% -10,017 -51.40% 19,490Berkshire30,66851.75%27,48246.37%7381.25%3790.64% 3,186 5.38% 59,267Bristol106,74161.86%63,21636.64%1,9141.11%6800.39% 43,525 25.22% 172,551Dukes72028.99%1,73169.69%261.05%70.28% -1,011 -40.70% 2,484Essex132,01653.58%108,89444.20%4,4831.82%9780.40% 23,122 9.38% 246,371Franklin9,23137.87%14,91961.21%1300.53%930.38% -5,688 -23.34% 24,373Hampden94,60956.41%70,25641.89%2,3021.37%5530.33% 24,353 14.52% 167,720Hampshire18,01250.27%17,33148.37%3130.87%1770.49% 681 1.90% 35,833Middlesex248,24051.09%228,26246.98%7,6011.56%1,8050.37% 19,978 4.11% 485,908Nantucket40928.36%1,01370.25%140.97%60.42% -604 -41.89% 1,442Norfolk72,32740.92%100,28056.74%3,4201.94%7100.40% -27,953 -15.82% 176,737Plymouth34,76540.83%48,92557.46%1,2811.50%1750.21% -14,160 -16.63% 85,146Suffolk265,61168.98%105,67127.44%12,3603.21%1,4250.37% 159,940 41.54% 385,067Worcester133,82354.68%106,75743.62%3,3821.38%7850.32% 27,066 11.06% 244,757Totals1,151,78854.66%909,37043.16%38,1571.81%7,8310.37%242,41811.50%2,107,146 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Middlesex See also United States presidential elections in Massachusetts References expanded Massachusetts 1948 Category:1948 Massachusetts elections