1948 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
The 1948 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 2, 1948. All forty-eight states were part of the 1948 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Incumbent President Harry S. Truman won Oklahoma by a landslide 25.5 percent margin of victory.[1] This made Oklahoma the fourth most Democratic state in the nation, and 21.01 percent more Democratic than the nation as a whole. Apart from the FDR landslides of 1932 and 1936 it remains the best performance by a Democrat in Oklahoma’s history as a state, and only in 1932, 1924 and 1920 was Oklahoma more Democratic relative to the nation at-large.[2]
Up to this election, Oklahoma was a reliably Democratic state, with the party nominee winning all of the first eleven elections held in the state except for James M. Cox in 1920 and Catholic Al Smith in 1928. Subsequently, like other states of the Solid South, Oklahoma has turned into a Republican bastion. In the landslide election of 1952 and 1956, Adlai Stevenson II won no antebellum free-soil or postbellum state; however Oklahoma remained more Democratic than the nation as a whole.[2] In 1960, John F. Kennedy lost Oklahoma, and indeed most postbellum states, badly due to anti-Catholic sentiment.[3] In 1964, Lyndon Johnson became the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state,[4] with only Jimmy Carter in 1976 subsequently reaching 45 percent of the vote, and the past four Democratic nominees not winning one single county between them.[5]
At county level in 1948, Truman won all the counties in the state except for two clusters near the Kansas border totaling ten counties, of which only Grant in 1964 and 1976 has voted Democratic since. This is the last occasion the four contiguous counties of Texas, Beaver, Harper and Woods – now forming part of the most Republican as well as politically and socially conservative region in the nation – have voted Democratic, and also the last time the Democratic Party won Kay County.[5] As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion where Oklahoma did not go for the same candidate as neighboring Kansas.
Results
| 1948 United States presidential election in Oklahoma[1] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Harry S. Truman | 452,782 | 62.75% | 10 | |
| Republican | Thomas E. Dewey | 268,817 | 37.25% | 0 | |
| Totals | 721,599 | 100.0% | 10 | ||
| Voter turnout (Voting age) | 52.5%[6] | ||||
Results by county
| County | Harry S. Truman
Democratic |
Thomas Edmund Dewey
Republican |
Total votes cast[7] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | ||
| Adair | 3,067 | 56.03% | 2,407 | 43.97% | 5,474 |
| Alfalfa | 1,838 | 39.93% | 2,765 | 60.07% | 4,603 |
| Atoka | 3,104 | 75.03% | 1,033 | 24.97% | 4,137 |
| Beaver | 1,596 | 52.92% | 1,420 | 47.08% | 3,016 |
| Beckham | 4,544 | 77.62% | 1,310 | 22.38% | 5,854 |
| Blaine | 2,595 | 47.79% | 2,835 | 52.21% | 5,430 |
| Bryan | 7,748 | 85.01% | 1,366 | 14.99% | 9,114 |
| Caddo | 8,110 | 68.13% | 3,793 | 31.87% | 11,903 |
| Canadian | 5,568 | 59.89% | 3,729 | 40.11% | 9,297 |
| Carter | 9,474 | 81.52% | 2,147 | 18.48% | 11,621 |
| Cherokee | 4,249 | 60.41% | 2,785 | 39.59% | 7,034 |
| Choctaw | 4,750 | 82.09% | 1,036 | 17.91% | 5,786 |
| Cimarron | 894 | 57.90% | 650 | 42.10% | 1,544 |
| Cleveland | 6,556 | 64.10% | 3,671 | 35.90% | 10,227 |
| Coal | 2,124 | 82.07% | 464 | 17.93% | 2,588 |
| Comanche | 7,955 | 74.06% | 2,787 | 25.94% | 10,742 |
| Cotton | 2,613 | 77.98% | 738 | 22.02% | 3,351 |
| Craig | 4,182 | 59.84% | 2,807 | 40.16% | 6,989 |
| Creek | 9,198 | 58.47% | 6,532 | 41.53% | 15,730 |
| Custer | 4,618 | 64.26% | 2,568 | 35.74% | 7,186 |
| Delaware | 3,157 | 57.40% | 2,343 | 42.60% | 5,500 |
| Dewey | 2,049 | 57.83% | 1,494 | 42.17% | 3,543 |
| Ellis | 1,420 | 48.27% | 1,522 | 51.73% | 2,942 |
| Garfield | 8,217 | 44.25% | 10,352 | 55.75% | 18,569 |
| Garvin | 6,779 | 80.13% | 1,681 | 19.87% | 8,460 |
| Grady | 8,136 | 73.84% | 2,882 | 26.16% | 11,018 |
| Grant | 2,126 | 46.25% | 2,471 | 53.75% | 4,597 |
| Greer | 3,044 | 81.02% | 713 | 18.98% | 3,757 |
| Harmon | 2,340 | 89.79% | 266 | 10.21% | 2,606 |
| Harper | 1,281 | 51.20% | 1,221 | 48.80% | 2,502 |
| Haskell | 3,206 | 69.76% | 1,390 | 30.24% | 4,596 |
| Hughes | 5,492 | 76.62% | 1,676 | 23.38% | 7,168 |
| Jackson | 5,450 | 85.52% | 923 | 14.48% | 6,373 |
| Jefferson | 3,326 | 85.68% | 556 | 14.32% | 3,882 |
| Johnston | 2,936 | 83.41% | 584 | 16.59% | 3,520 |
| Kay | 10,119 | 52.98% | 8,982 | 47.02% | 19,101 |
| Kingfisher | 2,488 | 45.91% | 2,931 | 54.09% | 5,419 |
| Kiowa | 4,263 | 73.59% | 1,530 | 26.41% | 5,793 |
| Latimer | 2,536 | 73.40% | 919 | 26.60% | 3,455 |
| Le Flore | 6,786 | 70.64% | 2,821 | 29.36% | 9,607 |
| Lincoln | 4,913 | 55.76% | 3,898 | 44.24% | 8,811 |
| Logan | 4,109 | 51.84% | 3,817 | 48.16% | 7,926 |
| Love | 2,191 | 89.80% | 249 | 10.20% | 2,440 |
| Major | 1,227 | 33.22% | 2,467 | 66.78% | 3,694 |
| Marshall | 2,455 | 83.96% | 469 | 16.04% | 2,924 |
| Mayes | 4,201 | 59.55% | 2,854 | 40.45% | 7,055 |
| McClain | 3,451 | 79.17% | 908 | 20.83% | 4,359 |
| McCurtain | 6,223 | 85.08% | 1,091 | 14.92% | 7,314 |
| McIntosh | 3,674 | 71.81% | 1,442 | 28.19% | 5,116 |
| Murray | 3,054 | 79.28% | 798 | 20.72% | 3,852 |
| Muskogee | 13,860 | 67.77% | 6,592 | 32.23% | 20,452 |
| Noble | 2,770 | 53.27% | 2,430 | 46.73% | 5,200 |
| Nowata | 2,688 | 55.92% | 2,119 | 44.08% | 4,807 |
| Okfuskee | 3,335 | 67.25% | 1,624 | 32.75% | 4,959 |
| Oklahoma | 59,954 | 59.89% | 40,161 | 40.11% | 100,115 |
| Okmulgee | 10,467 | 70.56% | 4,368 | 29.44% | 14,835 |
| Osage | 7,156 | 64.43% | 3,951 | 35.57% | 11,107 |
| Ottawa | 7,243 | 62.73% | 4,304 | 37.27% | 11,547 |
| Pawnee | 2,721 | 50.65% | 2,651 | 49.35% | 5,372 |
| Payne | 7,390 | 56.03% | 5,799 | 43.97% | 13,189 |
| Pittsburg | 9,576 | 76.80% | 2,893 | 23.20% | 12,469 |
| Pontotoc | 7,750 | 77.20% | 2,289 | 22.80% | 10,039 |
| Pottawatomie | 10,220 | 68.22% | 4,760 | 31.78% | 14,980 |
| Pushmataha | 2,977 | 79.05% | 789 | 20.95% | 3,766 |
| Roger Mills | 2,176 | 81.04% | 509 | 18.96% | 2,685 |
| Rogers | 4,197 | 59.57% | 2,849 | 40.43% | 7,046 |
| Seminole | 8,122 | 70.35% | 3,423 | 29.65% | 11,545 |
| Sequoyah | 4,449 | 68.17% | 2,077 | 31.83% | 6,526 |
| Stephens | 6,702 | 77.83% | 1,909 | 22.17% | 8,611 |
| Texas | 2,693 | 61.64% | 1,676 | 38.36% | 4,369 |
| Tillman | 4,071 | 79.37% | 1,058 | 20.63% | 5,129 |
| Tulsa | 38,548 | 47.33% | 42,892 | 52.67% | 81,440 |
| Wagoner | 3,389 | 55.97% | 2,666 | 44.03% | 6,055 |
| Washington | 5,508 | 47.71% | 6,036 | 52.29% | 11,544 |
| Washita | 4,326 | 72.55% | 1,637 | 27.45% | 5,963 |
| Woods | 2,882 | 50.10% | 2,871 | 49.90% | 5,753 |
| Woodward | 2,180 | 47.69% | 2,391 | 52.31% | 4,571 |
| Totals | 452,782 | 62.75% | 268,817 | 37.25% | 721,599 |
References
- "1948 Presidential General Election Results – Oklahoma". uselectionatlas.org.
- Counting the Votes; Oklahoma
- Menendez, Albert J.; The Religious Factor in the 1960 Presidential Election: An Analysis of the Kennedy Victory over Anti-Catholic Prejudice; pp. 79, 117 ISBN 0786460377
- Gust, Steve (October 6, 2012). "Oklahoma student who attended Democratic National Convention anticipates lifetime in politics". The Oklahoman. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
- Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- Gans, Curtis and Mulling, Matthew; Voter Turnout in the United States, 1788-2009, p. 481 ISBN 9781604265958
- Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 363-364 ISBN 0405077114
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