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Election 1944 Results

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1944 presidential election in California

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) in California in 1944, 56.5% to 43.0%, a margin of 13.5 points and 475,599 votes.

California voted 6.0 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+7.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 1940, when Franklin D. Roosevelt also won.

Democrats led in 46 of the 58 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 12. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 1,561,564 votes and went to the Democrat by 14.1 points. The closest was Sutter, where 28 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Franklin D. Roosevelt won Democratic 1,988,564 56.5%
Thomas E. Dewey Republican 1,512,965 43.0%
All other candidates 19,346 0.5%
Total3,520,875

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 886,252 56.8% 666,441 42.7% 8,871 1,561,564 D+14.1
San Francisco 208,609 60.5% 134,163 38.9% 1,959 344,731 D+21.6
Alameda 169,631 57.7% 122,982 41.8% 1,374 293,987 D+15.9
San Diego 89,959 53.9% 75,746 45.4% 1,059 166,764 D+8.5
Santa Clara 43,869 52.4% 39,409 47.0% 499 83,777 D+5.3
Contra Costa 47,831 64.0% 26,816 35.9% 138 74,785 D+28.1
Sacramento 49,204 66.3% 24,611 33.2% 403 74,218 D+33.1
San Bernardino 38,530 52.6% 34,084 46.5% 646 73,260 D+6.1
San Mateo 34,594 50.6% 33,590 49.1% 158 68,342 D+1.5
Orange 28,649 42.5% 38,394 56.9% 407 67,450 R+14.4
Fresno 40,769 63.8% 22,668 35.5% 425 63,862 D+28.3
San Joaquin 27,074 52.5% 24,357 47.2% 157 51,588 D+5.3
Kern 26,205 55.6% 20,730 44.0% 226 47,161 D+11.6
Riverside 19,439 45.3% 23,168 53.9% 346 42,953 R+8.7
Solano 24,335 69.9% 10,361 29.8% 105 34,801 D+40.2
Tulare 16,221 50.0% 16,005 49.3% 238 32,464 D+0.7
Sonoma 15,949 49.3% 16,309 50.4% 111 32,369 R+1.1
Stanislaus 15,537 51.3% 14,297 47.2% 437 30,271 D+4.1
Santa Barbara 15,721 53.4% 13,647 46.3% 89 29,457 D+7.0
Marin 14,516 52.0% 13,304 47.7% 76 27,896 D+4.3
Ventura 16,342 59.3% 11,071 40.2% 131 27,544 D+19.1
Monterey 14,342 53.7% 12,246 45.8% 140 26,728 D+7.8
Humboldt 12,083 56.8% 9,127 42.9% 50 21,260 D+13.9
Santa Cruz 9,357 45.3% 11,102 53.8% 178 20,637 R+8.5
Butte 8,811 52.5% 7,852 46.8% 105 16,768 D+5.7
San Luis Obispo 8,068 50.6% 7,793 48.9% 75 15,936 D+1.7
Merced 9,192 58.3% 6,518 41.3% 69 15,779 D+16.9
Napa 7,748 51.9% 7,092 47.5% 96 14,936 D+4.4
Placer 7,149 62.7% 4,196 36.8% 64 11,409 D+25.9
Imperial 5,085 45.8% 5,979 53.8% 48 11,112 R+8.0
Siskiyou 5,914 57.3% 4,351 42.1% 58 10,323 D+15.1
Mendocino 5,452 53.8% 4,655 45.9% 36 10,143 D+7.9
Kings 6,591 65.0% 3,468 34.2% 75 10,134 D+30.8
Yolo 5,837 57.7% 4,233 41.8% 46 10,116 D+15.9
Shasta 5,798 58.9% 4,023 40.9% 22 9,843 D+18.0
Madera 4,276 59.5% 2,865 39.8% 49 7,190 D+19.6
Sutter 3,083 49.5% 3,111 50.0% 29 6,223 R+0.4
Tehama 3,130 51.5% 2,903 47.8% 41 6,074 D+3.7
Nevada 3,266 54.8% 2,648 44.4% 47 5,961 D+10.4
Yuba 3,254 57.6% 2,379 42.1% 13 5,646 D+15.5
Lassen 3,678 65.8% 1,896 33.9% 15 5,589 D+31.9
El Dorado 3,016 59.9% 1,990 39.6% 25 5,031 D+20.4
Glenn 2,452 50.2% 2,409 49.3% 23 4,884 D+0.9
Tuolumne 2,566 57.5% 1,864 41.8% 32 4,462 D+15.7
San Benito 1,998 46.8% 2,253 52.8% 16 4,267 R+6.0
Plumas 2,625 69.8% 1,126 30.0% 8 3,759 D+39.9
Lake 1,671 44.6% 2,059 55.0% 16 3,746 R+10.4
Colusa 2,090 56.8% 1,579 42.9% 10 3,679 D+13.9
Calaveras 1,893 56.2% 1,455 43.2% 21 3,369 D+13.0
Inyo 1,647 49.1% 1,699 50.6% 9 3,355 R+1.5
Amador 1,976 61.7% 1,191 37.2% 36 3,203 D+24.5
Modoc 1,540 54.3% 1,288 45.4% 9 2,837 D+8.9
Mariposa 1,203 55.1% 965 44.2% 17 2,185 D+10.9
Del Norte 818 44.7% 1,011 55.2% 1 1,830 R+10.5
Trinity 770 57.3% 567 42.2% 6 1,343 D+15.1
Sierra 662 59.6% 443 39.9% 5 1,110 D+19.7
Mono 242 39.0% 378 60.9% 1 621 R+21.9
Alpine 45 31.5% 98 68.5% 143 R+37.1

Counties as they stood in 1944; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

California in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+20.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+29.2
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+30.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+24.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.9
2000 Al Gore (D) D+11.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+12.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.2
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.3
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+0.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.6
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+35.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.5
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+49.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.9
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.4
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+22.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+34.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+13.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+0.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+6.6
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+1.8
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+0.5