1948 United States presidential election in New York

none June 2025 September 2023 1948 United States presidential election 1948 United States presidential election in New York New York Flag of New York (1901-2020).svg presidential no 1944 United States presidential election in New York 1944 1952 United States presidential election in New York 1952 65.0%Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072. 5.9 pp November 2, 1948 x160px Thomas Dewey (3x4 crop).jpg Thomas E. Dewey Republican Party (United States) New York Earl Warren 47 2,841,163 45.99% Harry S Truman, bw half-length photo portrait, facing front, 1945 (cropped).jpg Harry S. Truman Democratic Party (United States) Liberal Missouri Alben W. Barkley 0 2,780,204 45.01% Henry-A.-Wallace-Townsend (cropped 3x4).jpeg Henry A. Wallace American Labor Party New York Glen H. Taylor FF6347 0 509,559 8.25% 400px 440px County results Dewey #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% Truman #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% President Harry S. Truman Democratic Party (United States) Harry S. Truman Democratic Party (United States) The 1948 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 2, 1948. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1948 United States presidential election. Voters chose 47 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New York was won by local Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who was running against incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman. Dewey ran with California Governor Earl Warren for vice president, and Truman ran with Kentucky Senator Alben W. Barkley. Dewey took 45.99% of the vote to Truman's 45.01%, a margin of 0.98%. Progressive Party candidate Henry A. Wallace, a former Democratic Vice President who ran to the left of Truman and was nominated by the local American Labor Party, finished a strong third, with 8.25%. New York weighed in for this election as 1% more third-party than the national average, and less Democratic and Republican than the national average, despite New York being Governor Dewey's home state. The presidential election of 1948 was a very multi-partisan election for New York, with more than nine percent of the people who voted doing so for third parties.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1948&fips=36&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1948 Presidential General Election Results – New York Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2013-07-25 In typical form for the time, the highly populated urban centers of New York City, Buffalo, and Albany, voted primarily Democratic, while most of the smaller counties in New York turned out for Dewey as the Republican candidate. Henry Wallace's relatively strong third party support as a Progressive candidate was concentrated in the New York City area; in the three Democratic boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx), Wallace took percentages in the double digits. Wallace's vote splitting among left-leaning voters in New York City contributed to Dewey narrowly defeating Truman in the state, after New York had voted Democratic for Franklin D. Roosevelt—himself a former governor and favorite son—in the preceding four elections. Although Truman lost the state, he did pick up Oneida County, which Roosevelt had lost in all his four elections and which had last been won for the Democrats by Woodrow Wilson in the three-way 1912 election, and before that by Grover Cleveland in 1884. Dewey won the election in New York by a narrow margin of less than one percentage point, despite it being his home state, and more importantly despite not facing a local opponent like he had four years earlier when he was defeated by the then-incumbent President (and former New York Governor) Franklin D. Roosevelt. For the first presidential election since 1916, New York did not back the winning candidate. This was also the first election wherein the losing major-party candidate carried their home state since Charles Evans Hughes carried New York in 1916, and the only instance between that election and 1960. Alongside Strom Thurmond’s win in South Carolina, this was the first time since Robert M. La Follette carried Wisconsin in 1924 that any losing candidate had done so. Truman is the last Democrat to win a presidential election without winning New York, and Dewey's victory made him the third and final Republican presidential candidate to win New York without winning the election, the first being John C. Frémont in 1856 and the second Hughes in 1916. Dewey's victory was the first of three consecutive Republican victories in the state, as New York would not vote Democratic again until John F. Kennedy won the state in 1960. Results 1948 United States presidential election in New YorkPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Thomas E. Dewey 2,841,163 45.99% 47 Democratic Harry S. Truman 2,557,642 41.40% 0 Liberal Harry S. Truman 222,562 3.60% 0 Total Harry S. Truman (incumbent) 2,780,204 45.01% 0 American Labor (Progressive)"AmericanLabor" Although he ran under the “Progressive” label in other states, in New York Wallace was endorsed by the American Labor Party and ran under that party’s banner. Henry A. Wallace 509,559 8.25% 0 Socialist Norman Thomas 40,879 0.66% 0 Socialist Labor Edward Teichert 2,729 0.04% 0 Socialist Workers Farrell Dobbs 2,675 0.04% 0 Write-ins 128 <0.01% 0 Totals 6,177,337 100.0% 47 New York City results 1948 Presidential Election in New York CityManhattanThe BronxBrooklynQueens Staten IslandTotal Democratic-LiberalHarry S. Truman380,310337,129579,922268,74230,4421,596,54550.57%51.52%54.17%53.51%42.02%41.62% RepublicanThomas E. Dewey241,752173,044330,494323,45939,5391,108,28835.10%32.75%27.80%30.49%50.58%54.06% American LaborHenry A. Wallace106,509106,762163,89642,4092,779422,35513.38%14.43%17.15%15.12%6.63%3.80% SocialistNorman Thomas8,6854,6497,7344,58034925,9970.82%1.18%0.75%0.71%0.72%0.48% Socialist WorkersFarrell Dobbs4933871,12210892,1190.06%0.07%0.06%0.10%0.02%0.01% Socialist LaborEdward A. Teichert488384535245161,6680.05%0.07%0.06%0.05%0.04%0.02%TOTAL738,237622,3551,083,801639,54373,1343,157,070100.00% Results by county County Thomas E. DeweyGéoelections; 1948 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)Republican Harry S. TrumanDemocratic/Liberal Henry A. WallaceGéoelections; Popular Vote for Henry Wallace (.xlsx file for €15)American Labor"AmericanLabor" Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votescast # % # % # % # % # % Albany 59,96542.61%75,41953.59%4,9033.48% 4430.31% -15,454 -10.98%140,730 Allegany 12,68971.94%4,71126.71%1680.95% 710.40%7,97845.23%17,639 Bronx 173,04427.80%337,12954.17%106,76217.15% 5,4200.87% -164,085 -26.37%622,355 Broome 43,11060.73%25,65436.14%1,9922.81% 2300.32%17,45624.59%70,986 Cattaraugus 18,24660.03%11,28937.14%7522.47% 1060.35%6,95722.89%30,393 Cayuga 19,01756.35%14,31742.42%2930.87% 1200.36%4,70013.93%33,747 Chautauqua 29,96957.47%20,68339.67%1,2512.40% 2410.46%9,28617.81%52,144 Chemung 22,75461.63%13,35236.17%6731.82% 1400.38%9,40225.47%36,919 Chenango 11,98870.59%4,76428.05%1751.03% 550.32%7,22442.54%16,982 Clinton 9,69449.07%9,35747.37%6463.27% 580.29%3371.71%19,755 Columbia 13,75865.89%6,52731.26%5222.50% 730.35%7,23134.63%20,880 Cortland 10,43368.27%4,61430.19%1891.24% 470.31%5,81938.07%15,283 Delaware 14,22673.05%4,96525.50%2201.13% 630.32%9,26147.56%19,474 Dutchess 34,06764.23%17,43932.88%1,2402.34% 2930.55%16,62831.35%53,039 Erie 175,11845.68%197,61851.55%8,8852.32% 1,7510.46% -22,500 -5.87%383,372 Essex 10,28769.90%4,08827.78%2972.02% 450.31%6,19942.12%14,717 Franklin 8,99355.17%6,79941.71%4542.78% 560.34%2,19413.46%16,302 Fulton 12,78760.50%7,66736.28%6002.84% 800.38%5,12024.23%21,134 Genesee 12,65062.80%7,02434.87%4152.06% 530.26%5,62627.93%20,142 Greene 10,56666.52%4,95531.20%3212.02% 410.26%5,61135.33%15,883 Hamilton 2,00071.68%74426.67%411.47% 50.18%1,25645.02%2,790 Herkimer 14,68851.83%12,57744.38%1,0023.54% 710.25%2,1117.45%28,338 Jefferson 19,66158.95%13,17639.51%4121.24% 1020.31%6,48519.44%33,351 Kings 330,49430.49%579,92253.51%163,89615.12% 9,4890.88% -249,428 -23.01%1,083,801 Lewis 5,69262.70%3,21135.37%1471.62% 280.31%2,48127.33%9,078 Livingston 11,31062.62%6,40935.48%2821.56% 610.34%4,90127.13%18,062 Madison 13,41368.23%5,93730.20%1981.01% 1100.56%7,47638.03%19,658 Monroe 109,60848.12%110,64148.57%6,4612.84% 1,0800.47% -1,033 -0.45%227,790 Montgomery 14,21248.90%14,08548.46%6962.39% 710.24%1270.44%29,064 Nassau 184,28469.48%70,49226.58%8,1213.06% 2,3410.88%113,79242.90%265,238 New York 241,75232.75%380,31051.52%106,50914.43% 9,6661.31% -138,558 -18.77%738,237 Niagara 35,85849.65%34,11947.24%2,0462.83% 1960.27%1,7392.41%72,219 Oneida 46,75547.90%48,33249.51%2,2692.32% 2570.26% -1,577 -1.62%97,613 Onondaga 84,37053.86%66,29542.32%4,9713.17% 1,0120.65%18,07511.54%156,648 Ontario 16,15663.51%8,85234.80%3331.31% 980.39%7,30428.71%25,439 Orange 38,35163.08%20,63833.95%1,5592.56% 2480.41%17,71329.14%60,796 Orleans 9,56669.15%4,00928.98%2331.68% 260.19%5,55740.17%13,834 Oswego 19,09558.03%12,82038.96%8842.69% 1050.32%6,27519.07%32,904 Otsego 15,43766.55%7,17430.93%4952.13% 910.39%8,26335.62%23,197 Putnam 8,22263.85%4,01231.16%5043.91% 1391.08%4,21032.69%12,877 Queens 323,45950.58%268,74242.02%42,4096.63% 4,9330.77%54,7178.56%639,543 Rensselaer 40,37556.71%28,46839.98%2,0802.92% 2740.38%11,90716.72%71,197 Richmond 39,53954.06%30,44241.62%2,7793.80% 3740.51%9,09712.44%73,134 Rockland 20,66157.90%13,06636.62%1,5834.44% 3711.04%7,59521.29%35,681 St. Lawrence 21,16060.59%13,20037.80%4711.35% 940.27%7,96022.79%34,925 Saratoga 20,70661.50%11,45734.03%1,3544.02% 1490.44%9,24927.47%33,666 Schenectady 35,49552.67%28,22541.88%3,0934.59% 5780.86%7,27010.79%67,391 Schoharie 6,75161.27%4,03236.59%2081.89% 280.25%2,71924.68%11,019 Schuyler 4,45269.23%1,86829.05%971.51% 140.22%2,58440.18%6,431 Seneca 7,26658.05%4,89739.13%3182.54% 350.28%2,36918.93%12,516 Steuben 22,93862.44%12,89535.10%7892.15% 1140.31%10,04327.34%36,736 Suffolk 75,51969.75%29,10426.88%2,8422.63% 8000.74%46,41542.87%108,265 Sullivan 11,25353.20%7,65436.19%2,1079.96% 1380.65%3,59917.01%21,152 Tioga 8,67370.16%3,38527.38%2582.09% 460.37%5,28842.78%12,362 Tompkins 13,71967.11%5,72127.98%6563.21% 3481.70%7,99839.12%20,444 Ulster 28,94164.30%14,44132.08%1,4073.13% 2230.50%14,50032.21%45,012 Warren 12,88468.89%5,48629.33%2741.47% 590.32%7,39839.56%18,703 Washington 13,97568.29%6,01729.40%3961.94% 760.37%7,95838.89%20,464 Wayne 16,16769.48%6,74929.00%2911.25% 630.27%9,41840.47%23,270 Westchester 177,07761.11%95,68133.02%14,0844.86% 2,9231.01%81,39628.09%289,765 Wyoming 9,87167.78%4,50830.95%1551.06% 300.21%5,36336.82%14,564 Yates 5,99773.50%2,04025.00%911.12% 310.38%3,95748.50%8,159Totals2,841,16345.99%2,780,20445.01%509,5598.25%46,2830.75%60,9590.99%6,177,209 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Clinton Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Oneida See also Civil rights movement Cold War Korean War Presidency of Harry S. 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