The 1944 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
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Rhode Island voted Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, over the Republican candidate, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Roosevelt ran with Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri as his running mate, while Dewey ran with Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio as his running mate.
Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 17.33%. Rhode Island was one of six states that became more Democratic compared to 1940, alongside Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, and Illinois.
Results
edit| 1944 United States presidential election in Rhode Island[1] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Democratic | Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York | Harry S. Truman of Missouri | 175,356 | 58.59% | 4 | 100.00% | ||
| Republican | Thomas Edmund Dewey of New York | John William Bricker of Ohio | 123,487 | 41.26% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Prohibition | Claude A. Watson of California | Andrew Nathan Johnson of Kentucky | 433 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 299,276 | 100.00% | 4 | 100.00% | ||||
By county
edit| 1944 United States presidential election in Rhode Island (by county) [2] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic |
Thomas Dewey
Republican |
Other candidates
Various parties |
Total | ||||
| % | # | % | # | % | # | # | ||
| Bristol | 56.0% | 6,287 | 43.8% | 4,919 | 0.1% | 16 | 11,222 | |
| Kent | 50.5% | 14,059 | 49.3% | 13,710 | 0.2% | 57 | 27,826 | |
| Newport | 54.6% | 11,375 | 45.3% | 9,435 | 0.1% | 21 | 20,831 | |
| Providence | 61.1% | 137,216 | 38.8% | 87,190 | 0.1% | 321 | 224,727 | |
| Washington | 43.8% | 6,419 | 56.1% | 8,233 | 0.1% | 18 | 14,670 | |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "1944 Presidential General Election Results - Rhode Island". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.
- ^ "RI.gov: Election Results". www.ri.gov. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
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