1944 United States presidential election in Montana
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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.[1]
Roosevelt remains the last Democratic presidential candidate to have carried Montana more than once.
Results
[edit]| 1944 United States presidential election in Montana[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral 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
[edit]| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic | Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast[3] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| 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% | 16,925 |
| Totals | 112,556 | 54.28% | 93,163 | 44.93% | 1,636 | 0.79% | 19,393 | 9.35% | 207,355 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
[edit]- Big Horn
- Carbon
- Broadwater
- Dawson
- Garfield
- Flathead
- Granite
- Madison
- Meagher
- Park
- Petroleum
- Ravalli
- Rosebud
- Wibaux
- Treasure
- Wheatland
- Yellowstone
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 247-249 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ David Leip. "1944 Presidential General Election Results – Montana". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
- ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 272 ISBN 0405077114
