1944 United States presidential election in New Jersey

none June 2025 September 2023 1944 United States presidential election 1944 United States presidential election in New Jersey New Jersey 1896 presidential no 1940 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1940 1948 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1948 November 7, 1944 83.07%https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4046194&seq=650 Manual of the legislature of New Jersey, 1953 NJ State Library ( 2.45%) 1944 portrait of FDR (1)(small).jpg Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) New York Harry S. Truman 16 987,874 50.31% Dewey circa 1946 (cropped).jpg Thomas E. Dewey Republican Party (United States) New York John W. Bricker 0 961,335 48.95% 1944 United States presidential election in New Jersey results map by county.svg 405px County results Roosevelt #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% Dewey #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% President Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic Party (United States) The 1944 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 7, 1944. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1944 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New Jersey was won by the Democratic nominees, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and his running mate Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri. Roosevelt and Truman defeated the Republican nominees, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and his running mate Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio. Roosevelt narrowly carried New Jersey with 50.31% of the vote to Dewey's 48.95%, a margin of 1.35%.1944 Presidential General Election Results - New Jersey http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1944&fips=34&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 29 November 2013 Reflecting the closeness of the statewide result, Roosevelt and Dewey virtually split the state's 21 counties: Roosevelt won 10 counties to Dewey's 11. Despite winning 1 less county, Roosevelt edged out Dewey statewide with decisive victories in some of the most heavily populated parts of the state, while keeping the results close in heavily populated counties that he lost. In North Jersey, Roosevelt maintained his dominance in heavily populated Hudson County, part of the New York City metro area where the New Deal Coalition was very strong, breaking 60% of the vote in the county for the fourth election in a row. Roosevelt also won heavily populated Middlesex County, Mercer County, and Passaic County, although Dewey won majorities in Bergen County, Union County, and Morris County. Dewey also narrowly won Essex County with a plurality. Roosevelt performed much more strongly overall in South Jersey, winning majorities in 6 out of 7 of the southernmost counties in the state; his strongest county win there was urban Camden County, where he broke 60% of the vote. In South Jersey, Dewey won only rural Cape May County. Besides his victories in North Jersey, Dewey also won Monmouth County and Ocean County in the central portion of the state. New Jersey in this era was usually a swing state with a Republican lean, and its results in 1944 adhered to that pattern. Roosevelt had carried the state in the midst of all three of his preceding nationwide victories, but with the exception of his 1936 landslide, always by very narrow margins. As Roosevelt decisively won re-election to an unprecedented fourth term, carrying 36 out of 48 states, New Jersey was his second-narrowest victory in the nation. FDR's close 1.35% margin of victory in New Jersey made the state about 6% more Republican than the national average. Roosevelt was the first Democrat ever to win the presidency without Warren County. Results 1944 United States presidential election in New JerseyPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) 987,874 50.31% 16 Republican Thomas E. Dewey 961,335 48.95% 0 Socialist Labor Edward A. Teichert 6,939 0.35% 0 National Prohibition Claude A. Watson 4,255 0.22% 0 Socialist Norman Thomas 3,358 0.17% 0 Totals 1,963,761 100.0% 16 Results by county County Franklin D. RooseveltOur Campaigns; NJ US President Race, November 07, 1944Democratic Thomas E. DeweyRepublican Edward A. TeichertSocialist Labor Claude A. WatsonNational Prohibition Norman M. ThomasSocialist Margin Total votescast # % # % # % # % # % # % Atlantic 28,972 52.87% 25,593 46.71% 155 0.28% 67 0.12% 7 0.01% 3,379 6.17% 54,794 Bergen 76,350 34.74% 142,836 65.00% 45 0.02% 150 0.07% 371 0.17% -66,486 -30.26% 219,752 Burlington 22,623 54.57% 18,765 45.26% 4 0.01% 18 0.04% 50 0.12% 3,858 9.31% 41,460 Camden 85,691 66.76% 42,197 32.87% 13 0.01% 163 0.13% 293 0.23% 43,494 33.89% 128,357 Cape May 6,385 43.54% 8,252 56.27% 11 0.08% 5 0.03% 11 0.08% -1,867 -12.73% 14,664 Cumberland 15,674 51.87% 14,477 47.91% 7 0.02% 37 0.12% 23 0.08% 1,197 3.96% 30,218 Essex 174,320 48.32% 178,989 49.62% 6,276 1.74% 206 0.06% 951 0.26% -4,669 -1.29% 360,742 Gloucester 17,758 51.39% 16,684 48.28% 3 0.01% 55 0.16% 55 0.16% 1,074 3.11% 34,555 Hudson 191,354 61.90% 117,087 37.88% 78 0.03% 357 0.12% 259 0.08% 74,267 24.02% 309,135 Hunterdon 6,774 40.68% 9,843 59.11% 8 0.05% 10 0.06% 17 0.10% -3,069 -18.43% 16,652 Mercer 52,383 58.61% 36,844 41.23% 13 0.01% 19 0.02% 112 0.13% 15,539 17.39% 89,371 Middlesex 60,504 56.35% 45,232 42.12% 130 0.12% 1,332 1.24% 180 0.17% 15,272 14.22% 107,378 Monmouth 34,720 41.27% 49,349 58.66% 5 0.01% 6 0.01% 42 0.05% -14,629 -17.39% 84,122 Morris 21,454 34.96% 39,732 64.74% 13 0.02% 21 0.03% 152 0.25% -18,278 -29.78% 61,372 Ocean 7,683 36.53% 13,317 63.32% 2 0.01% 11 0.05% 19 0.09% -5,634 -26.79% 21,032 Passaic 68,737 50.11% 67,856 49.46% 59 0.04% 275 0.20% 255 0.19% 881 0.64% 137,182 Salem 10,345 56.50% 7,942 43.38% 1 0.01% 10 0.05% 12 0.07% 2,403 13.12% 18,310 Somerset 14,467 41.61% 20,266 58.29% 2 0.01% 35 0.10% 0 0.00% -5,799 -16.68% 34,770 Sussex 5,237 37.23% 8,817 62.68% 2 0.01% 10 0.07% 0 0.00% -3,580 -25.45% 14,066 Union 75,969 46.15% 86,543 52.57% 114 0.07% 1,506 0.91% 493 0.30% -10,574 -6.42% 164,625 Warren 10,024 48.30% 10,714 51.62% 2 0.01% 3 0.01% 11 0.05% -690 -3.32% 20,754Totals987,87450.31%961,33548.95%6,9390.35%4,2550.22%3,3580.17%26,5391.35%1,963,761 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Warren See also Presidency of Franklin D. 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