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1944 United States presidential election in California

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1944 United States presidential election in California

← 1940 November 7, 1944 1948 →
Turnout86.13% (of registered voters) Increase 4.69 pp
65.72% (of eligible voters) Decrease 12.6 pp[1]
 
Nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt Thomas E. Dewey
Party Democratic Republican
Home state New York New York
Running mate Harry S. Truman John W. Bricker
Electoral vote 25 0
Popular vote 1,988,564 1,512,965
Percentage 56.48% 42.97%

County Results

President before election

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

Elected President

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic

The 1944 United States presidential election in California took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose 25 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. California voted for the Democratic incumbent, Franklin Roosevelt, in a landslide over the Republican challenger, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey.

Democrats would not win San Diego County again until 1992.

Results

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1944 United States presidential election in California[2]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) 1,988,564 56.48% 25
Republican Thomas E. Dewey 1,512,965 42.97% 0
Prohibition Claude A. Watson 14,770 0.42% 0
No Party Norman Thomas (write-in) 2,515 0.07% 0
No Party Darlington Hoopes (write-in) 1,408 0.04% 0
No Party Edward A. Teichert (write-in) 180 0.01% 0
No Party Aria A. Albaugh (write-in) 147 0.00% 0
No Party Scattering 326 0.01% 0
Invalid or blank votes
Totals 3,520,875 100.00% 25
Voter turnout

Results by county

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County Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic
Thomas E. Dewey
Republican
Claude A. Watson
Prohibition
Scattering
Write-in[a]
Margin Total votes cast[2]
# % # % # % # % # %
Alameda 169,631 57.70% 122,982 41.83% 721 0.25% 653[b] 0.22% 46,649 15.87% 293,987
Alpine 45 31.47% 98 68.53% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -53 -37.06% 143
Amador 1,976 61.69% 1,191 37.18% 36 1.12% 0 0.00% 785 24.51% 3,203
Butte 8,811 52.55% 7,852 46.83% 105 0.63% 0 0.00% 959 5.72% 16,768
Calaveras 1,893 56.19% 1,455 43.19% 21 0.62% 0 0.00% 438 13.00% 3,369
Colusa 2,090 56.81% 1,579 42.92% 10 0.27% 0 0.00% 511 13.89% 3,679
Contra Costa 47,831 63.96% 26,816 35.86% 138 0.18% 0 0.00% 21,015 28.10% 74,785
Del Norte 818 44.70% 1,011 55.25% 1 0.05% 0 0.00% -193 -10.55% 1,830
El Dorado 3,016 59.95% 1,990 39.55% 25 0.50% 0 0.00% 1,026 20.39% 5,031
Fresno 40,769 63.84% 22,668 35.50% 425 0.67% 0 0.00% 18,101 28.34% 63,862
Glenn 2,452 50.20% 2,409 49.32% 23 0.47% 0 0.00% 43 0.88% 4,884
Humboldt 12,083 56.83% 9,127 42.93% 50 0.24% 0 0.00% 2,956 13.90% 21,260
Imperial 5,085 45.76% 5.979 53.81% 48 0.43% 0 0.00% -894 -8.05% 11,112
Inyo 1,647 49.09% 1,699 50.64% 9 0.27% 0 0.00% -52 -1.55% 3,355
Kern 26,205 55.56% 20,730 43.96% 206 0.44% 20[c] 0.04% 5,475 11.61% 47,161
Kings 6,591 65.04% 3,468 34.22% 75 0.74% 0 0.00% 3,123 30.82% 10,134
Lake 1,671 44.61% 2,059 54.97% 16 0.43% 0 0.00% -388 -10.36% 3,746
Lassen 3,678 65.81% 1,896 33.92% 15 0.27% 0 0.00% 1,782 31.88% 5,589
Los Angeles 886,252 56.75% 666,441 42.68% 6,081 0.39% 2,790[d] 0.18% 219,811 14.08% 1,561,564
Madera 4,276 59.47% 2,865 39.85% 49 0.68% 0 0.00% 1,411 19.62% 7,190
Marin 14,516 52.04% 13,304 47.69% 32 0.11% 44[e] 0.16% 1,212 4.34% 27,896
Mariposa 1,203 55.06% 965 44.16% 17 0.78% 0 0.00% 238 10.89% 2,185
Mendocino 5,452 53.75% 4,655 45.89% 32 0.32% 4[f] 0.04% 797 7.86% 10,143
Merced 9,192 58.25% 6,518 41.31% 69 0.44% 0 0.00% 2,674 16.95% 15,779
Modoc 1,540 54.28% 1,288 45.40% 9 0.32% 0 0.00% 252 8.88% 2,837
Mono 242 38.97% 378 60.87% 1 0.16% 0 0.00% -136 -21.90% 621
Monterey 14,342 53.66% 12,246 45.82% 106 0.40% 34[g] 0.13% 2,096 7.84% 26,728
Napa 7,748 51.87% 7,092 47.48% 81 0.54% 15[h] 0.10% 656 4.39% 14,936
Nevada 3,266 54.79% 2,648 44.42% 47 0.79% 0 0.00% 618 10.37% 5,961
Orange 28,649 42.47% 38,394 56.92% 407 0.60% 0 0.00% -9,745 -14.45% 67,450
Placer 7,149 62.66% 4,196 36.78% 64 0.56% 0 0.00% 2,953 25.88% 11,409
Plumas 2,625 69.83% 1,126 29.95% 8 0.21% 0 0.00% 1,499 39.88% 3,759
Riverside 19,439 45.26% 23,168 53.94% 346 0.81% 0 0.00% -3,729 -8.68% 42,953
Sacramento 49,204 66.30% 24,611 33.16% 343 0.46% 60[i] 0.08% 24,593 33.14% 74,218
San Benito 1,998 46.82% 2,253 52.80% 16 0.37% 0 0.00% -255 -5.98% 4,267
San Bernardino 38,530 52.59% 34,084 46.52% 646 0.88% 0 0.00% 4,446 6.07% 73,260
San Diego 89,959 53.94% 75,746 45.42% 777 0.47% 282[j] 0.17% 14,213 8.52% 166,764
San Francisco 208,609 60.51% 134,163 38.92% 1,613 0.47% 346[k] 0.10% 74,446 21.60% 344,731
San Joaquin 27,074 52.48% 24,357 47.21% 125 0.24% 32[l] 0.06% 2,717 5.27% 51,588
San Luis Obispo 8,068 50.63% 7,793 48.90% 75 0.47% 0 0.00% 275 1.73% 15,936
San Mateo 34,594 50.62% 33,590 49.15% 158 0.23% 0 0.00% 1,004 1.47% 68,342
Santa Barbara 15,721 53.37% 13,647 46.33% 89 0.30% 0 0.00% 2,074 7.04% 29,457
Santa Clara 43,869 52.36% 39,409 47.04% 297 0.35% 202[m] 0.24% 4,460 5.32% 83,777
Santa Cruz 9,357 45.34% 11.102 53.80% 164 0.79% 14[n] 0.07% -1,745 -8.46% 20,637
Shasta 5,798 58.90% 4,023 40.87% 22 0.22% 0 0.00% 1,775 18.03% 9,843
Sierra 662 59.64% 443 39.91% 5 0.45% 0 0.00% 219 19.73% 1,110
Siskiyou 5,914 57.29% 4,351 42.15% 58 0.56% 0 0.00% 1,563 15.14% 10,323
Solano 24,335 69.93% 10,361 29.77% 105 0.30% 0 0.00% 13,974 40.15% 34,801
Sonoma 15,949 49.27% 16,309 50.38% 85 0.26% 26[o] 0.08% -360 -1.11% 32,369
Stanislaus 15,537 51.33% 14,297 47.23% 399 1.32% 38[p] 0.13% 1,240 4.10% 30,271
Sutter 3,083 49.54% 3,111 49.99% 29 0.47% 0 0.00% -28 -0.45% 6,223
Tehama 3,130 51.53% 2,903 47.79% 41 0.68% 0 0.00% 227 3.74% 6,074
Trinity 770 57.33% 567 42.22% 6 0.45% 0 0.00% 203 15.12% 1,343
Tulare 16,221 49.97% 16,005 49.30% 238 0.73% 0 0.00% 216 0.67% 32,464
Tuolumne 2,566 57.51% 1,864 41.77% 16 0.36% 16[q] 0.36% 702 15.73% 4,462
Ventura 16,342 59.33% 11,071 40.19% 131 0.48% 0 0.00% 5,271 19.14% 27,544
Yolo 5,837 57.70% 4,233 41.84% 46 0.45% 0 0.00% 1,604 15.86% 10,116
Yuba 3,254 57.63% 2,379 42.14% 13 0.23% 0 0.00% 875 15.50% 5,646
Total 1,988,564 56.48% 1,5121,965 42.97% 14,770 0.42% 4,576 0.13% 475,599 13.51% 3,520,875

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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Electors

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
& Harry S. Truman
Democratic Party
Thomas E. Dewey
& John W. Bricker
Republican Party
Claude A. Watson
& Andrew Johnson
Prohibition Party
  • L. G. Hitchcock
  • Gertrude V. Clark
  • Angus Madden
  • Jerome Politzer
  • Lucretia del Valle Grady
  • William H. Hollander
  • James K. Moffit
  • Thomas S. Barclay
  • Sam L. Heisinger
  • Cammie B. Haden
  • A. Edwin Fisher
  • Clayton L. Howland
  • Cornelius J. Haggerty
  • John B. Pelletier
  • Anna Brownyard
  • Lucile Webster Gleason
  • Vincent Thomas
  • Ralph C. Dills
  • Elwyn S. Bennett
  • Zachary T. Malaby
  • Allen Miller
  • Claudia Worswick
  • Vincent T. Godfrey
  • Augustus F. Hawkins
  • James G. Thimmes
  • Earl Warren
  • Mary Pickford Rogers
  • Edward H. Tickle
  • Edward Arnold
  • William F. Reichel
  • Walter E. Disney
  • Jeannette P. Andross
  • Milton D. Sapiro
  • Edward B. Baron
  • P. M. Sanford
  • James H. Quinn
  • Gerald R. Johnson
  • George Hallock
  • Mrs. Randolph Madison
  • Charles G. Connors
  • S. F. B. Morse
  • William Nickerson Jr.
  • Raymond Haight
  • Sue C. Weiss
  • Leo E. Anderson
  • John S. Barcome
  • Keith Spaulding
  • Gwendolyn Smith
  • Fern L. Young
  • James R. Scott
  • Gilbert O. Hudson
  • Fred L. Robinson
  • Louise J. Taft
  • John B. Lord
  • Ida B. Stein
  • Rowena Pestana
  • Jesse W. Farr
  • Stanley B. Paul
  • William H. Easterling
  • Alfred Randall
  • Mrs. J. H. Van Tassel
  • Iner S. Christensen
  • Harold Daniels
  • W. T. Rutledge
  • George C. Post
  • Fred M. Barney
  • John T. Maret
  • Ernest O. Bachman
  • Hazel G. Edwards
  • G. R. Saunders
  • C. S. Hicks
  • Donald Hamm
  • Capitola Goodell
  • Laura M. Powley
  • Margaret Rosendahl

Notes

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  1. ^ Includes votes for Thomas, Hoopes, Teichert, and Albaugh
  2. ^ 375 for Thomas, 202 for Hoopes, 28 for Teichert, 25 for Albaugh, 23 Scattering
  3. ^ 20 Scattering
  4. ^ 1,513 for Thomas, 884 for Hoopes, 145 for Teichert, 122 for Albaugh, 126 Scattering
  5. ^ 35 for Thomas, 9 Scattering
  6. ^ 3 for Thomas, 1 for Hoopes
  7. ^ 34 Scattering
  8. ^ 6 for Thomas, 9 Scattering
  9. ^ 60 Scattering
  10. ^ 186 for Thomas, 96 for Hoopes
  11. ^ 173 for Thomas, 173 for Hoopes
  12. ^ 32 for Thomas
  13. ^ 148 for Thomas, 39 for Hoopes, 7 for Teichert, 8 Scattering
  14. ^ 14 Scattering
  15. ^ 22 for Thomas, 4 Scattering
  16. ^ 22 for Thomas, 13 for Hoopes, 3 Scattering
  17. ^ 16 Scattering

References

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  1. ^ "Historical Voter Registration and Participation in Statewide General Elections 1910–2018" (PDF). California Secretary of State. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
  2. ^ a b California Secretary of State. State of California Statement of Vote, General Election, November 7, 1944. Sacramento, California: State Printing Office. pp. 4–6. Retrieved July 18, 2024.