1944 United States presidential election in Alabama
The 1944 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose 11 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. In Alabama, voters voted for electors individually instead of as a slate, as in the other states.
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Alabama was won in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Senator Harry S. Truman, with 81.28 percent of the popular vote, against Governor Thomas E. Dewey (R–New York), running with Governor John W. Bricker, with 18.20 percent of the popular vote, a margin of 63.08 percent. Third-party candidates only managed to pick up 0.53 percent of the vote.[1]
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) | 198,918 | 81.28% | |
| Republican | Thomas E. Dewey | 44,540 | 18.20% | |
| Prohibition | Claude A. Watson | 1,095 | 0.45% | |
| Socialist | Norman Thomas | 190 | 0.08% | |
| Total votes | 244,743 | 100% | ||
Results by individual elector
Results by county
| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic |
Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican |
Claude A. Watson[4] Prohibition |
Norman Mattoon Thomas[4] Socialist |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Autauga | 1,242 | 91.06% | 117 | 8.58% | 5 | 0.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,125 | 82.48% | 1,364 |
| Baldwin | 2,002 | 73.41% | 695 | 25.49% | 22 | 0.81% | 8 | 0.29% | 1,308 | 47.95% | 2,727 |
| Barbour | 2,237 | 94.91% | 67 | 2.84% | 53 | 2.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,170 | 92.07% | 2,357 |
| Bibb | 1,287 | 83.25% | 244 | 15.78% | 10 | 0.65% | 2 | 0.13% | 1,043 | 67.60% | 1,546 |
| Blount | 2,134 | 67.85% | 998 | 31.73% | 10 | 0.32% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,135 | 36.12% | 3,145 |
| Bullock | 1,056 | 97.78% | 24 | 2.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,032 | 95.56% | 1,080 |
| Butler | 1,915 | 95.75% | 80 | 4.00% | 5 | 0.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,835 | 91.75% | 2,000 |
| Calhoun | 4,308 | 85.65% | 694 | 13.80% | 26 | 0.52% | 2 | 0.04% | 3,614 | 71.85% | 5,030 |
| Chambers | 3,458 | 94.43% | 194 | 5.30% | 9 | 0.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,264 | 89.16% | 3,662 |
| Cherokee | 1,774 | 80.64% | 408 | 18.55% | 17 | 0.77% | 1 | 0.05% | 1,366 | 62.09% | 2,200 |
| Chilton | 1,984 | 58.77% | 1,385 | 41.02% | 6 | 0.18% | 1 | 0.03% | 599 | 17.74% | 3,376 |
| Choctaw | 1,243 | 93.32% | 86 | 6.46% | 3 | 0.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,158 | 86.87% | 1,332 |
| Clarke | 2,263 | 93.98% | 142 | 5.90% | 3 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,121 | 88.08% | 2,408 |
| Clay | 1,535 | 67.03% | 741 | 32.36% | 13 | 0.57% | 1 | 0.04% | 794 | 34.67% | 2,290 |
| Cleburne | 948 | 65.02% | 504 | 34.57% | 6 | 0.41% | 0 | 0.00% | 443 | 30.36% | 1,458 |
| Coffee | 2,846 | 96.02% | 115 | 3.88% | 3 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,731 | 92.14% | 2,964 |
| Colbert | 3,386 | 87.07% | 496 | 12.75% | 6 | 0.15% | 2 | 0.05% | 2,890 | 74.29% | 3,889 |
| Conecuh | 1,498 | 91.34% | 127 | 7.74% | 9 | 0.55% | 6 | 0.37% | 1,371 | 83.60% | 1,640 |
| Coosa | 1,079 | 72.86% | 394 | 26.60% | 5 | 0.34% | 3 | 0.20% | 685 | 46.25% | 1,481 |
| Covington | 2,972 | 91.98% | 256 | 7.92% | 2 | 0.06% | 1 | 0.03% | 2,716 | 84.06% | 3,231 |
| Crenshaw | 1,980 | 94.06% | 118 | 5.61% | 6 | 0.29% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,862 | 88.50% | 2,105 |
| Cullman | 3,898 | 63.43% | 2,202 | 35.83% | 41 | 0.67% | 4 | 0.07% | 1,696 | 27.60% | 6,145 |
| Dale | 2,094 | 85.57% | 325 | 13.28% | 8 | 0.33% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,769 | 72.86% | 2,447 |
| Dallas | 2,883 | 94.74% | 149 | 4.90% | 5 | 0.16% | 5 | 0.16% | 2,735 | 89.88% | 3,043 |
| DeKalb | 4,366 | 62.35% | 2,627 | 37.52% | 9 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,739 | 24.84% | 7,002 |
| Elmore | 3,108 | 94.32% | 184 | 5.58% | 3 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,924 | 88.74% | 3,295 |
| Escambia | 2,077 | 88.20% | 266 | 11.30% | 12 | 0.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,811 | 76.90% | 2,355 |
| Etowah | 5,895 | 78.38% | 1,525 | 20.28% | 89 | 1.18% | 12 | 0.16% | 4,370 | 58.10% | 7,521 |
| Fayette | 1,648 | 64.10% | 913 | 35.51% | 10 | 0.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 735 | 28.59% | 2,571 |
| Franklin | 2,709 | 59.30% | 1,853 | 40.56% | 6 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 856 | 18.74% | 4,568 |
| Geneva | 2,004 | 83.36% | 385 | 16.01% | 15 | 0.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,619 | 67.35% | 2,404 |
| Greene | 676 | 93.63% | 45 | 6.23% | 1 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 631 | 87.40% | 722 |
| Hale | 1,265 | 97.46% | 33 | 2.54% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,232 | 94.92% | 1,298 |
| Henry | 1,635 | 97.15% | 46 | 2.73% | 2 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,589 | 94.41% | 1,683 |
| Houston | 3,349 | 91.80% | 282 | 7.73% | 16 | 0.44% | 1 | 0.03% | 3,067 | 84.07% | 3,648 |
| Jackson | 2,967 | 74.18% | 1,026 | 25.65% | 6 | 0.15% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,941 | 48.53% | 4,000 |
| Jefferson | 31,101 | 80.40% | 7,409 | 19.15% | 157 | 0.41% | 17 | 0.04% | 23,692 | 61.24% | 38,684 |
| Lamar | 2,025 | 86.10% | 310 | 13.18% | 16 | 0.68% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,715 | 72.92% | 2,352 |
| Lauderdale | 4,001 | 86.77% | 590 | 12.80% | 19 | 0.41% | 1 | 0.02% | 3,411 | 73.98% | 4,611 |
| Lawrence | 1,893 | 76.86% | 565 | 22.94% | 5 | 0.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,328 | 53.92% | 2,463 |
| Lee | 2,011 | 93.49% | 134 | 6.23% | 5 | 0.23% | 1 | 0.05% | 1,878 | 87.27% | 2,151 |
| Limestone | 2,605 | 94.93% | 129 | 4.70% | 10 | 0.36% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,476 | 90.23% | 2,744 |
| Lowndes | 802 | 97.92% | 16 | 1.95% | 1 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 786 | 95.97% | 819 |
| Macon | 1,032 | 92.56% | 82 | 7.35% | 1 | 0.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 951 | 85.37% | 1,115 |
| Madison | 4,951 | 91.33% | 455 | 8.39% | 11 | 0.20% | 4 | 0.07% | 4,496 | 82.94% | 5,421 |
| Marengo | 1,746 | 94.69% | 89 | 4.83% | 7 | 0.38% | 2 | 0.11% | 1,657 | 89.86% | 1,844 |
| Marion | 1,866 | 59.48% | 1,260 | 40.17% | 10 | 0.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 607 | 19.36% | 3,137 |
| Marshall | 3,356 | 73.58% | 1,200 | 26.31% | 5 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,156 | 47.27% | 4,561 |
| Mobile | 9,439 | 75.98% | 2,867 | 23.08% | 86 | 0.69% | 25 | 0.20% | 6,570 | 52.92% | 12,423 |
| Monroe | 1,991 | 97.55% | 46 | 2.25% | 4 | 0.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,945 | 95.30% | 2,041 |
| Montgomery | 9,143 | 95.62% | 381 | 3.98% | 32 | 0.33% | 9 | 0.09% | 8,748 | 91.57% | 9,562 |
| Morgan | 4,124 | 85.24% | 664 | 13.72% | 49 | 1.01% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,461 | 71.57% | 4,838 |
| Perry | 1,004 | 95.35% | 47 | 4.46% | 2 | 0.19% | 0 | 0.00% | 957 | 90.88% | 1,053 |
| Pickens | 1,482 | 87.23% | 209 | 12.30% | 8 | 0.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,273 | 74.93% | 1,699 |
| Pike | 2,328 | 93.87% | 90 | 3.63% | 31 | 1.25% | 30 | 1.21% | 2,238 | 90.28% | 2,480 |
| Randolph | 1,785 | 71.06% | 702 | 27.95% | 25 | 1.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,083 | 43.11% | 2,512 |
| Russell | 2,109 | 94.66% | 115 | 5.16% | 4 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,994 | 89.50% | 2,228 |
| Shelby | 1,955 | 67.11% | 945 | 32.44% | 8 | 0.27% | 2 | 0.07% | 1,009 | 34.66% | 2,913 |
| St. Clair | 1,819 | 61.66% | 1,117 | 37.86% | 13 | 0.44% | 1 | 0.03% | 702 | 23.80% | 2,950 |
| Sumter | 1,075 | 95.05% | 53 | 4.69% | 3 | 0.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,022 | 90.36% | 1,131 |
| Talladega | 3,102 | 81.50% | 675 | 17.74% | 25 | 0.66% | 2 | 0.05% | 2,428 | 63.84% | 3,806 |
| Tallapoosa | 3,326 | 95.88% | 136 | 3.92% | 7 | 0.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,190 | 91.96% | 3,469 |
| Tuscaloosa | 4,939 | 88.62% | 584 | 10.48% | 20 | 0.36% | 4 | 0.07% | 4,355 | 78.51% | 5,573 |
| Walker | 4,619 | 66.87% | 2,241 | 32.45% | 32 | 0.46% | 12 | 0.17% | 2,379 | 34.46% | 6,907 |
| Washington | 1,447 | 92.28% | 115 | 7.33% | 6 | 0.38% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,332 | 84.95% | 1,568 |
| Wilcox | 1,209 | 97.42% | 30 | 2.42% | 2 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,179 | 95.00% | 1,241 |
| Winston | 912 | 37.07% | 1,538 | 62.52% | 10 | 0.41% | 0 | 0.00% | -626 | -25.45% | 2,460 |
| Totals | 198,918 | 81.28% | 44,540 | 18.20% | 1,095 | 0.45% | 190 | 0.08% | 154,378 | 63.08% | 244,743 |
References
- "1944 Presidential General Election Results – Alabama". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
- Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1947. Montgomery, Alabama: Walker Printing Company. pp. 455–465.
- Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 31–32 ISBN 0405077114
- "AL US President Race, November 07, 1944". Our Campaigns.
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