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1944 United States presidential election in Montana Montana 1905 presidential no 1940 United States presidential election in Montana 1940 1948 United States presidential election in Montana 1948 1944 11 07 x200px 1944 portrait of FDR (1)(small).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York Harry S. Truman 4 112,556 54.28% Dewey circa 1946 (cropped).jpg Thomas E. Dewey Republican Party (United States) New York John W. Bricker 0 93,163 44.93% 350px 350px County results
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1944 United States presidential election
The 1944 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Montana voted to give Democratic nominee, President Franklin D. Roosevelt a record fourth term, over the Republican nominee, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Roosevelt won Montana by the substantial margin of 9.35%. This was the last occasion Gallatin County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate until Barack Obama carried the county in 2008, as well as the last time until that election that Montana would back a different presidential candidate than Colorado.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 247-249 0786422173
Roosevelt remains the last Democratic presidential candidate to have carried Montana more than once.
Results
1944 United States presidential election in MontanaDavid Leip Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1944&fips=30&f=1&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1944 Presidential General Election Results – Montana 2018-03-19PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) 112,556 54.28% 4 Republican Thomas E. Dewey 93,163 44.93% 0 Socialist Norman Thomas 1,296 0.63% 0 Prohibition Claude Watson 340 0.16% 0 Totals 207,355 100.00% 4
Results by county
County Franklin Delano RooseveltDemocratic Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes castScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 272 0405077114 # % # % # % # % Beaverhead 1,263 44.60% 1,556 54.94% 13 0.46% -293 -10.35% 2,832 Big Horn 1,289 47.83% 1,394 51.73% 12 0.45% -105 -3.90% 2,695 Blaine 1,469 59.26% 990 39.94% 20 0.81% 479 19.32% 2,479 Broadwater 558 42.18% 760 57.45% 5 0.38% -202 -15.27% 1,323 Carbon 2,073 49.01% 2,126 50.26% 31 0.73% -53 -1.25% 4,230 Carter 610 54.56% 507 45.35% 1 0.09% 103 9.21% 1,118 Cascade 10,924 62.65% 6,372 36.54% 141 0.81% 4,552 26.11% 17,437 Chouteau 1,906 60.45% 1,220 38.69% 27 0.86% 686 21.76% 3,153 Custer 2,038 52.30% 1,830 46.96% 29 0.74% 208 5.34% 3,897 Daniels 824 54.35% 680 44.85% 12 0.79% 144 9.50% 1,516 Dawson 1,362 46.53% 1,549 52.92% 16 0.55% -187 -6.39% 2,927 Deer Lodge 4,347 66.31% 2,176 33.19% 33 0.50% 2,171 33.11% 6,556 Fallon 494 36.03% 870 63.46% 7 0.51% -376 -27.43% 1,371 Fergus 3,164 58.35% 2,229 41.11% 29 0.53% 935 17.24% 5,422 Flathead 3,608 46.34% 4,066 52.22% 112 1.44% -458 -5.88% 7,786 Gallatin 3,479 52.46% 3,120 47.04% 33 0.50% 359 5.41% 6,632 Garfield 478 46.27% 553 53.53% 2 0.19% -75 -7.26% 1,033 Glacier 2,142 63.39% 1,228 36.34% 9 0.27% 914 27.05% 3,379 Golden Valley 266 40.18% 395 59.67% 1 0.15% -129 -19.49% 662 Granite 574 44.57% 702 54.50% 12 0.93% -128 -9.94% 1,288 Hill 2,986 63.95% 1,646 35.25% 37 0.79% 1,340 28.70% 4,669 Jefferson 803 50.09% 797 49.72% 3 0.19% 6 0.37% 1,603 Judith Basin 1,049 60.05% 691 39.55% 7 0.40% 358 20.49% 1,747 Lake 1,750 43.11% 2,265 55.80% 44 1.08% -515 -12.69% 4,059 Lewis and Clark 4,737 51.17% 4,482 48.41% 39 0.42% 255 2.75% 9,258 Liberty 440 52.26% 393 46.67% 9 1.07% 47 5.58% 842 Lincoln 1,445 55.81% 1,109 42.84% 35 1.35% 336 12.98% 2,589 Madison 1,022 44.19% 1,278 55.25% 13 0.56% -256 -11.07% 2,313 McCone 763 57.80% 526 39.85% 31 2.35% 237 17.95% 1,320 Meagher 482 48.54% 509 51.26% 2 0.20% -27 -2.72% 993 Mineral 401 50.63% 380 47.98% 11 1.39% 21 2.65% 792 Missoula 5,558 50.40% 5,371 48.70% 99 0.90% 187 1.70% 11,028 Musselshell 1,342 56.51% 1,004 42.27% 29 1.22% 338 14.23% 2,375 Park 2,245 48.00% 2,396 51.23% 36 0.77% -151 -3.23% 4,677 Petroleum 225 46.78% 253 52.60% 3 0.62% -28 -5.82% 481 Phillips 1,435 56.43% 1,089 42.82% 19 0.75% 346 13.61% 2,543 Pondera 1,448 61.33% 890 37.70% 23 0.97% 558 23.63% 2,361 Powder River 476 41.86% 650 57.17% 11 0.97% -174 -15.30% 1,137 Powell 1,527 57.73% 1,100 41.59% 18 0.68% 427 16.14% 2,645 Prairie 468 43.58% 598 55.68% 8 0.74% -130 -12.10% 1,074 Ravalli 1,926 44.68% 2,342 54.33% 43 1.00% -416 -9.65% 4,311 Richland 1,777 56.22% 1,347 42.61% 37 1.17% 430 13.60% 3,161 Roosevelt 1,848 58.33% 1,281 40.44% 39 1.23% 567 17.90% 3,168 Rosebud 1,114 48.41% 1,154 50.15% 33 1.43% -40 -1.74% 2,301 Sanders 1,184 51.98% 1,070 46.97% 24 1.05% 114 5.00% 2,278 Sheridan 1,713 67.23% 791 31.04% 44 1.73% 922 36.19% 2,548 Silver Bow 13,228 62.87% 7,610 36.17% 202 0.96% 5,618 26.70% 21,040 Stillwater 934 43.60% 1,201 56.07% 7 0.33% -267 -12.46% 2,142 Sweet Grass 533 37.01% 897 62.29% 10 0.69% -364 -25.28% 1,440 Teton 1,508 57.98% 1,074 41.29% 19 0.73% 434 16.69% 2,601 Toole 1,545 57.91% 1,113 41.72% 10 0.37% 432 16.19% 2,668 Treasure 282 49.21% 287 50.09% 4 0.70% -5 -0.87% 573 Valley 2,196 61.31% 1,341 37.44% 45 1.26% 855 23.87% 3,582 Wheatland 733 48.35% 767 50.59% 16 1.06% -34 -2.24% 1,516 Wibaux 425 49.48% 432 50.29% 2 0.23% -7 -0.81% 859 Yellowstone 8,140 48.09% 8,706 51.44% 79 0.47% -566 -3.34% 16,925Totals112,55654.28%93,16344.93%1,6360.79%19,3939.35%207,355
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
20em
Big Horn
Carbon
Broadwater
Dawson
Garfield
Flathead
Granite
Madison
Meagher
Park
Petroleum
Ravalli
Rosebud
Wibaux
Treasure
Wheatland
Yellowstone
See also
United States presidential elections in Montana
References
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