1948 United States presidential election in Missouri

1948 United States presidential election in Missouri
Truman 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% 80-90%	Dewey 50-60% 60-70% 70-80%
President before election; Harry S. Truman; Democratic	Elected President ; Harry S. Truman; Democratic

The 1948 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15^[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Incumbent President Harry S. Truman won his home state of Missouri with 58.11% of the popular vote against Republican Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey, who gained 41.49% of the popular vote.^[3]^[4] As of the 2020 presidential election^[update], this is the last election in which Moniteau County and Cole County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.^[5]^[6] Truman dramatically improved upon Franklin D. Roosevelt's performance in the state four years prior, winning the state by more than 16 percentage points, compared to Roosevelt's 3 percentage points.

Results

1948 United States presidential election in Missouri
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Harry S. Truman (inc.)	917,315	58.11%
	Republican	Thomas E. Dewey	655,039	41.49%
	Progressive	Henry A. Wallace	3,998	0.25%
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	2,222	0.14%
	Write-in	Strom Thurmond	42^[a]	0.00%
	Write-in	Claude A. Watson	8^[a]	0.00%
	Write-in	Edward A. Teichert	3^[a]	0.00%
	Write-in	—	1^[a]	0.00%
Total votes			1,578,628	100%

Results by county

County	Harry S. Truman Democratic		Thomas E. Dewey Republican		Henry A. Wallace Progressive		Norman Thomas Socialist		Margin		Total votes cast
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast
Adair	4,136	50.43%	4,024	49.07%	33	0.40%	8	0.10%	112	1.36%	8,201
Andrew	2,576	44.96%	3,142	54.84%	9	0.16%	2	0.03%	-566	-9.88%	5,729
Atchison	2,498	53.23%	2,190	46.67%	2	0.04%	3	0.06%	308	6.56%	4,693
Audrain	7,495	73.12%	2,739	26.72%	13	0.13%	3	0.03%	4,756	46.40%	10,250
Barry	4,724	49.54%	4,812	50.46%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-88	-0.92%	9,536
Barton	3,008	53.79%	2,577	46.08%	6	0.11%	1	0.02%	431	7.71%	5,592
Bates	4,371	51.22%	4,156	48.71%	4	0.05%	2	0.02%	215	2.51%	8,533
Benton	1,360	32.92%	2,768	67.01%	2	0.05%	1	0.02%	-1,408	-34.09%	4,131
Bollinger	2,075	48.63%	2,187	51.25%	3	0.07%	2	0.05%	-112	-2.62%	4,267
Boone	10,200	69.61%	4,289	29.27%	81	0.55%	83	0.57%	5,911	40.34%	14,653
Buchanan	22,975	63.76%	13,002	36.08%	31	0.09%	26	0.07%	9,973	27.68%	36,034
Butler	5,319	55.23%	4,276	44.40%	24	0.25%	11	0.11%	1,043	10.83%	9,630
Caldwell	1,985	42.45%	2,687	57.46%	3	0.06%	1	0.02%	-702	-15.01%	4,676
Callaway	6,215	71.78%	2,433	28.10%	6	0.07%	4	0.05%	3,782	43.68%	8,658
Camden	1,264	38.41%	2,020	61.38%	3	0.09%	4	0.12%	-756	-22.97%	3,291
Cape Girardeau	7,872	52.58%	7,084	47.32%	8	0.05%	7	0.05%	788	5.26%	14,971
Carroll	3,401	44.64%	4,212	55.29%	5	0.07%	0	0.00%	-811	-10.65%	7,618
Carter	1,255	56.10%	964	43.09%	13	0.58%	5	0.22%	291	13.01%	2,237
Cass	5,415	59.87%	3,614	39.96%	12	0.13%	4	0.04%	1,801	19.91%	9,045
Cedar	2,062	41.24%	2,928	58.56%	4	0.08%	6	0.12%	-866	-17.32%	5,000
Chariton	4,170	61.40%	2,615	38.51%	3	0.04%	3	0.04%	1,555	22.89%	6,791
Christian	1,600	33.79%	3,129	66.08%	3	0.06%	3	0.06%	-1,529	-32.29%	4,735
Clark	2,352	50.92%	2,264	49.01%	1	0.02%	2	0.04%	88	1.91%	4,619
Clay	11,855	64.77%	6,408	35.01%	21	0.11%	20	0.11%	5,447	29.76%	18,304
Clinton	3,481	60.91%	2,227	38.97%	3	0.05%	4	0.07%	1,254	21.94%	5,715
Cole	7,891	53.23%	6,909	46.60%	14	0.09%	11	0.07%	982	6.63%	14,825
Cooper	3,865	48.51%	4,094	51.38%	1	0.01%	8	0.10%	-229	-2.87%	7,968
Crawford	2,289	46.25%	2,650	53.55%	7	0.14%	3	0.06%	-361	-7.30%	4,949
Dade	1,733	38.33%	2,783	61.56%	1	0.02%	4	0.09%	-1,050	-23.23%	4,521
Dallas	1,590	37.01%	2,695	62.73%	6	0.14%	5	0.12%	-1,105	-25.72%	4,296
Daviess	2,868	50.38%	2,823	49.59%	1	0.02%	1	0.02%	45	0.79%	5,693
DeKalb	2,033	49.17%	2,098	50.74%	2	0.05%	2	0.05%	-65	-1.57%	4,135
Dent	2,973	59.58%	2,003	40.14%	9	0.18%	5	0.10%	970	19.44%	4,990
Douglas	1,163	29.71%	2,734	69.85%	7	0.18%	10	0.26%	-1,571	-40.14%	3,914
Dunklin	10,979	81.56%	2,466	18.32%	8	0.06%	8	0.06%	8,513	63.24%	13,461
Franklin	7,822	50.19%	7,725	49.57%	28	0.18%	10	0.06%	97	0.62%	15,585
Gasconade	1,204	21.95%	4,268	77.81%	10	0.18%	3	0.05%	-3,064	-55.86%	5,485
Gentry	3,410	56.42%	2,633	43.56%	0	0.00%	1	0.02%	777	12.86%	6,044
Greene	20,762	52.34%	18,836	47.49%	32	0.08%	34	0.09%	1,926	4.85%	39,664
Grundy	3,177	48.79%	3,331	51.15%	0	0.00%	4	0.06%	-154	-2.36%	6,512
Harrison	2,854	43.82%	3,646	55.98%	5	0.08%	8	0.12%	-792	-12.16%	6,513
Henry	5,551	54.56%	4,619	45.40%	1	0.01%	3	0.03%	932	9.16%	10,174
Hickory	733	29.77%	1,728	70.19%	0	0.00%	1	0.04%	-995	-40.42%	2,462
Holt	2,040	43.86%	2,607	56.05%	2	0.04%	2	0.04%	-567	-12.19%	4,651
Howard	4,143	72.77%	1,538	27.02%	7	0.12%	5	0.09%	2,605	45.75%	5,693
Howell	3,599	44.65%	4,427	54.93%	13	0.16%	21	0.26%	-828	-10.28%	8,060
Iron	2,552	63.90%	1,435	35.93%	3	0.08%	4	0.10%	1,117	27.97%	3,994
Jackson	139,186	61.44%	86,471	38.17%	634	0.28%	236	0.10%	52,715	23.27%	226,527
Jasper	15,404	51.21%	14,593	48.52%	58	0.19%	23	0.08%	811	2.69%	30,078
Jefferson	10,280	62.55%	6,085	37.02%	47	0.29%	23	0.14%	4,195	25.53%	16,435
Johnson	4,888	49.85%	4,903	50.01%	8	0.08%	6	0.06%	-15	-0.16%	9,805
Knox	2,268	58.32%	1,620	41.66%	0	0.00%	1	0.03%	648	16.66%	3,889
Laclede	3,221	45.92%	3,773	53.78%	9	0.13%	12	0.17%	-552	-7.86%	7,015
Lafayette	5,988	47.37%	6,634	52.48%	11	0.09%	9	0.07%	-646	-5.11%	12,642
Lawrence	4,649	46.22%	5,392	53.61%	10	0.10%	7	0.07%	-743	-7.39%	10,058
Lewis	3,155	66.69%	1,564	33.06%	6	0.13%	6	0.13%	1,591	33.63%	4,731
Lincoln	4,190	66.13%	2,135	33.70%	5	0.08%	6	0.09%	2,055	32.43%	6,336
Linn	5,788	58.86%	4,034	41.03%	5	0.05%	6	0.06%	1,754	17.83%	9,833
Livingston	4,182	52.07%	3,835	47.75%	6	0.07%	8	0.10%	347	4.32%	8,031
Macon	5,193	57.45%	3,833	42.41%	6	0.07%	7	0.08%	1,360	15.04%	9,039
Madison	2,509	54.56%	2,086	45.36%	1	0.02%	3	0.07%	423	9.20%	4,599
Maries	1,948	68.45%	894	31.41%	1	0.04%	3	0.11%	1,054	37.04%	2,846
Marion	9,122	70.47%	3,802	29.37%	14	0.11%	6	0.05%	5,320	41.10%	12,944
McDonald	2,925	49.45%	2,979	50.36%	8	0.14%	3	0.05%	-54	-0.91%	5,915
Mercer	1,008	38.69%	1,595	61.23%	1	0.04%	1	0.04%	-587	-22.54%	2,605
Miller	2,514	44.80%	3,088	55.03%	4	0.07%	5	0.09%	-574	-10.23%	5,611
Mississippi	4,592	77.63%	1,293	21.86%	25	0.42%	5	0.08%	3,299	55.77%	5,915
Moniteau	2,787	51.75%	2,594	48.17%	1	0.02%	3	0.06%	193	3.58%	5,385
Monroe	4,769	85.39%	809	14.49%	6	0.11%	1	0.02%	3,960	70.90%	5,585
Montgomery	2,792	49.04%	2,889	50.75%	3	0.05%	9	0.16%	-97	-1.71%	5,693
Morgan	1,862	43.94%	2,365	55.80%	4	0.09%	7	0.17%	-503	-11.86%	4,238
New Madrid	8,925	81.00%	2,082	18.90%	6	0.05%	5	0.05%	6,843	62.10%	11,018
Newton	5,598	48.92%	5,820	50.86%	15	0.13%	10	0.09%	-222	-1.94%	11,443
Nodaway	6,253	56.03%	4,886	43.78%	13	0.12%	9	0.08%	1,367	12.25%	11,161
Oregon	3,133	71.91%	1,214	27.86%	4	0.09%	6	0.14%	1,919	44.05%	4,357
Osage	2,672	51.68%	2,488	48.12%	4	0.08%	6	0.12%	184	3.56%	5,170
Ozark	859	30.33%	1,967	69.46%	2	0.07%	4	0.14%	-1,108	-39.13%	2,832
Pemiscot	10,269	81.98%	2,249	17.95%	1	0.01%	7	0.06%	8,020	64.03%	12,526
Perry	2,133	42.30%	2,903	57.56%	1	0.02%	6	0.12%	-770	-15.26%	5,043
Pettis	8,388	55.66%	6,657	44.18%	16	0.11%	8	0.05%	1,731	11.48%	15,069
Phelps	5,202	62.85%	3,053	36.89%	15	0.18%	7	0.08%	2,149	25.96%	8,277
Pike	4,934	66.68%	2,448	33.08%	7	0.09%	11	0.15%	2,486	33.60%	7,400
Platte	4,354	72.40%	1,644	27.34%	6	0.10%	10	0.17%	2,710	45.06%	6,014
Polk	3,079	43.32%	4,026	56.65%	1	0.01%	1	0.01%	-947	-13.33%	7,107
Pulaski	2,858	63.33%	1,644	36.43%	8	0.18%	3	0.07%	1,214	26.90%	4,513
Putnam	1,463	36.79%	2,499	62.84%	8	0.20%	7	0.18%	-1,036	-26.05%	3,977
Ralls	3,013	76.82%	908	23.15%	0	0.00%	1	0.03%	2,105	53.67%	3,922
Randolph	7,912	77.74%	2,256	22.17%	7	0.07%	3	0.03%	5,656	55.57%	10,178
Ray	4,826	69.57%	2,102	30.30%	4	0.06%	5	0.07%	2,724	39.27%	6,937
Reynolds	2,050	74.60%	692	25.18%	4	0.15%	2	0.07%	1,358	49.42%	2,748
Ripley	2,304	59.72%	1,533	39.74%	16	0.41%	5	0.13%	771	19.98%	3,858
St. Charles	6,049	50.14%	5,976	49.54%	23	0.19%	16	0.13%	73	0.60%	12,064
St. Clair	2,489	49.35%	2,548	50.52%	5	0.10%	2	0.04%	-59	-1.17%	5,044
St. Francois	7,276	53.73%	6,234	46.03%	23	0.17%	9	0.07%	1,042	7.70%	13,542
St. Louis	62,684	47.00%	69,592	52.17%	700	0.52%	407	0.31%	-6,908	-5.17%	133,383
St. Louis City	220,654	64.19%	120,656	35.10%	1638	0.48%	822	0.24%	99,998	29.09%	343,770
Ste. Genevieve	1,984	55.61%	1,567	43.92%	12	0.34%	5	0.14%	417	11.69%	3,568
Saline	7,185	59.73%	4,822	40.09%	13	0.11%	9	0.07%	2,363	19.64%	12,029
Schuyler	1,892	57.74%	1,377	42.02%	2	0.06%	6	0.18%	515	15.72%	3,277
Scotland	2,451	59.02%	1,693	40.77%	8	0.19%	1	0.02%	758	18.25%	4,153
Scott	8,266	76.52%	2,519	23.32%	8	0.07%	10	0.09%	5,747	53.20%	10,803
Shannon	2,352	74.10%	805	25.36%	8	0.25%	9	0.28%	1,547	48.74%	3,174
Shelby	3,400	71.43%	1,348	28.32%	11	0.23%	1	0.02%	2,052	43.11%	4,760
Stoddard	7,029	69.12%	3,117	30.65%	17	0.17%	6	0.06%	3,912	38.47%	10,169
Stone	892	28.58%	2,222	71.20%	5	0.16%	2	0.06%	-1,330	-42.62%	3,121
Sullivan	3,443	52.23%	3,140	47.63%	5	0.08%	4	0.06%	303	4.60%	6,592
Taney	1,427	37.58%	2,361	62.18%	6	0.16%	3	0.08%	-934	-24.60%	3,797
Texas	4,664	58.34%	3,320	41.53%	6	0.08%	4	0.05%	1,344	16.81%	7,994
Vernon	5,342	58.29%	3,808	41.55%	9	0.10%	5	0.05%	1,534	16.74%	9,164
Warren	1,071	30.88%	2,380	68.63%	7	0.20%	10	0.29%	-1,309	-37.75%	3,468
Washington	2,370	51.69%	2,200	47.98%	9	0.20%	6	0.13%	170	3.71%	4,585
Wayne	2,695	58.16%	1,937	41.80%	1	0.02%	1	0.02%	758	16.36%	4,634
Webster	3,292	47.78%	3,581	51.97%	9	0.13%	8	0.12%	-289	-4.19%	6,890
Worth	1,563	57.21%	1,162	42.53%	4	0.15%	3	0.11%	401	14.68%	2,732
Wright	2,505	41.35%	3,542	58.47%	8	0.13%	3	0.05%	-1,037	-17.12%	6,058
Totals	917,315	58.11%	655,039	41.49%	3,998	0.25%	2,222	0.14%	262,276	16.62%	1,578,628

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d These write-in votes were not separated by county, although different write-in candidates were separated in the statewide total.^[7]

References

^ "United States Presidential election of 1948 – Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved October 26, 2017.
^ "1948 Election for the Forty-First Term (1949-53)". Retrieved October 26, 2017.
^ "1948 Presidential General Election Results – Missouri". Retrieved October 26, 2017.
^ "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1948". Retrieved October 26, 2017.
^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 239-246 ISBN 0786422173
^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
^ "MO US President Race, November 02, 1948". Our Campaigns.

[notseparated-8] These write-in votes were not separated by county, although different write-in candidates were separated in the statewide total.^[7]

[1] "United States Presidential election of 1948 – Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved October 26, 2017.

[2] "1948 Election for the Forty-First Term (1949-53)". Retrieved October 26, 2017.

[3] "1948 Presidential General Election Results – Missouri". Retrieved October 26, 2017.

[4] "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1948". Retrieved October 26, 2017.

[Geography-5] Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 239-246 ISBN 0786422173

[How-6] Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016

[Our-7] "MO US President Race, November 02, 1948". Our Campaigns.

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