1948 United States presidential election in Missouri
The 1948 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election. Missouri voters chose fifteen[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Incumbent President Harry S. Truman, a native Missourian, won the state with 58.11% of the popular vote, against Republican Governor Thomas Dewey, with 41.49% of the popular vote.[3][4] As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Moniteau County and Cole County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[5][6]
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Harry S. Truman (inc.) | 917,315 | 58.11% | |
| Republican | Thomas 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[lower-alpha 1] | 0.00% | |
| Write-in | Claude A. Watson | 8[lower-alpha 1] | 0.00% | |
| Write-in | Edward A. Teichert | 3[lower-alpha 1] | 0.00% | |
| Write-in | — | 1[lower-alpha 1] | 0.00% | |
| Total votes | 1,578,628 | 100% | ||
Results by county
| County | Harry S. Truman[8] Democratic |
Thomas Edmund Dewey[8] Republican |
Henry Agard Wallace[9] Progressive |
Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adair | 4,136 | 50.43% | 4,024 | 49.07% | 33 | 0.40% | 8 | 0.10% | 112 | 1.37% | 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 | 2.52% | 8,533 |
| Benton | 1,360 | 32.92% | 2,768 | 67.01% | 2 | 0.05% | 1 | 0.02% | -1,408 | -34.08% | 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 | 22.90% | 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 | 6.62% | 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 | -7.29% | 4,949 |
| Dade | 1,733 | 38.33% | 2,783 | 61.56% | 1 | 0.02% | 4 | 0.09% | -1,050 | -23.22% | 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 | 4.86% | 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 | -40.41% | 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 | 45.76% | 5,693 |
| Howell | 3,599 | 44.65% | 4,427 | 54.93% | 13 | 0.16% | 21 | 0.26% | -828 | -10.27% | 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 | 2.70% | 30,078 |
| Jefferson | 10,280 | 62.55% | 6,085 | 37.02% | 47 | 0.29% | 23 | 0.14% | 4,195 | 25.52% | 16,435 |
| Johnson | 4,888 | 49.85% | 4,903 | 50.01% | 8 | 0.08% | 6 | 0.06% | -15 | -0.15% | 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 | -7.87% | 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 | 17.84% | 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 | 15.05% | 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 | 37.03% | 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 | -22.53% | 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 | -1.70% | 5,693 |
| Morgan | 1,862 | 43.94% | 2,365 | 55.80% | 4 | 0.09% | 7 | 0.17% | -503 | -11.87% | 4,238 |
| New Madrid | 8,925 | 81.00% | 2,082 | 18.90% | 6 | 0.05% | 5 | 0.05% | 6,843 | 62.11% | 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 | 44.04% | 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 | -39.12% | 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 | -15.27% | 5,043 |
| Pettis | 8,388 | 55.66% | 6,657 | 44.18% | 16 | 0.11% | 8 | 0.05% | 1,731 | 11.49% | 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 | 33.59% | 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 | -13.32% | 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 |
| Saint Charles | 6,049 | 50.14% | 5,976 | 49.54% | 23 | 0.19% | 16 | 0.13% | 73 | 0.61% | 12,064 |
| Saint Clair | 2,489 | 49.35% | 2,548 | 50.52% | 5 | 0.10% | 2 | 0.04% | -59 | -1.17% | 5,044 |
| Saint Francois | 7,276 | 53.73% | 6,234 | 46.03% | 23 | 0.17% | 9 | 0.07% | 1,042 | 7.69% | 13,542 |
| Saint Louis County | 62,684 | 47.00% | 69,592 | 52.17% | 700 | 0.52% | 407 | 0.31% | -6,908 | -5.18% | 133,383 |
| Saint Louis City | 220,654 | 64.19% | 120,656 | 35.10% | 1638 | 0.48% | 822 | 0.24% | 99,998 | 29.09% | 343,770 |
| Sainte 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 | -42.61% | 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 | 41.50% | 3,998 | 0.25% | 2,222 | 0.14% | 262,276 | 16.61% | 1,578,574 |
Notes
- 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.
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- Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
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