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Election 1944 Results

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1944 presidential election in Mississippi

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) in Mississippi in 1944, 93.6% to 6.4%, a margin of 87.1 points and 156,878 votes.

Mississippi voted 79.6 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 82 of the 82 counties as they stood then. The largest, Hinds, cast 11,328 votes and went to the Democrat by 88.2 points. The closest was Issaquena, where 197 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Franklin D. Roosevelt won	Democratic	168,479	93.6%
Thomas E. Dewey	Republican	11,601	6.4%
Total		180,080

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Total	Margin
Hinds	10,661 94.1%	667 5.9%	11,328	D+88.2
Harrison	5,840 87.6%	828 12.4%	6,668	D+75.2
Lauderdale	5,803 91.8%	515 8.2%	6,318	D+83.7
Jones	4,806 93.4%	338 6.6%	5,144	D+86.9
Forrest	3,890 95.6%	177 4.4%	4,067	D+91.3
Lee	3,515 96.2%	140 3.8%	3,655	D+92.3
Warren	3,223 91.2%	310 8.8%	3,533	D+82.5
Monroe	3,036 92.3%	254 7.7%	3,290	D+84.6
Neshoba	2,963 94.3%	180 5.7%	3,143	D+88.5
Pike	2,968 94.6%	171 5.4%	3,139	D+89.1
Alcorn	2,695 90.7%	276 9.3%	2,971	D+81.4
Jackson	2,621 90.0%	292 10.0%	2,913	D+80.0
Bolivar	2,502 87.1%	369 12.9%	2,871	D+74.3
Sunflower	2,741 96.6%	96 3.4%	2,837	D+93.2
Leake	2,749 99.1%	25 0.9%	2,774	D+98.2
Smith	2,562 96.7%	87 3.3%	2,649	D+93.4
Lincoln	2,438 94.1%	152 5.9%	2,590	D+88.3
Tippah	2,404 92.9%	183 7.1%	2,587	D+85.9
Leflore	2,514 97.6%	62 2.4%	2,576	D+95.2
Newton	2,470 96.5%	90 3.5%	2,560	D+93.0
Coahoma	2,434 95.5%	115 4.5%	2,549	D+91.0
Lowndes	2,371 94.4%	140 5.6%	2,511	D+88.8
Marion	2,450 97.8%	56 2.2%	2,506	D+95.5
Rankin	2,401 96.2%	96 3.8%	2,497	D+92.3
Tallahatchie	2,400 96.5%	87 3.5%	2,487	D+93.0
Copiah	2,410 97.6%	59 2.4%	2,469	D+95.2
Simpson	2,392 97.0%	74 3.0%	2,466	D+94.0
Washington	2,289 94.4%	137 5.6%	2,426	D+88.7
Union	2,187 90.6%	226 9.4%	2,413	D+81.3
Yazoo	2,263 96.5%	81 3.5%	2,344	D+93.1
Pearl River	2,177 95.1%	112 4.9%	2,289	D+90.2
Scott	2,135 96.1%	87 3.9%	2,222	D+92.2
Attala	2,126 96.1%	87 3.9%	2,213	D+92.1
Lafayette	2,111 96.0%	87 4.0%	2,198	D+92.1
Calhoun	2,059 94.7%	115 5.3%	2,174	D+89.4
Chickasaw	1,970 94.2%	121 5.8%	2,091	D+88.4
Tishomingo	1,489 73.7%	531 26.3%	2,020	D+47.4
Madison	1,897 95.6%	87 4.4%	1,984	D+91.2
Oktibbeha	1,899 95.8%	84 4.2%	1,983	D+91.5
Holmes	1,928 97.5%	50 2.5%	1,978	D+94.9
Panola	1,906 96.8%	62 3.2%	1,968	D+93.7
Winston	1,894 97.3%	53 2.7%	1,947	D+94.6
Prentiss	1,729 90.1%	189 9.9%	1,918	D+80.3
Hancock	1,639 87.0%	245 13.0%	1,884	D+74.0
Adams	1,649 87.8%	230 12.2%	1,879	D+75.5
Pontotoc	1,703 92.6%	137 7.4%	1,840	D+85.1
Covington	1,654 96.6%	59 3.4%	1,713	D+93.1
Webster	1,560 91.6%	143 8.4%	1,703	D+83.2
De Soto	1,550 91.1%	152 8.9%	1,702	D+82.1
Itawamba	1,387 82.8%	289 17.2%	1,676	D+65.5
Jasper	1,628 97.2%	47 2.8%	1,675	D+94.4
Clarke	1,515 92.8%	118 7.2%	1,633	D+85.5
Lawrence	1,476 94.1%	93 5.9%	1,569	D+88.1
Amite	1,429 94.3%	87 5.7%	1,516	D+88.5
Yalobusha	1,396 92.8%	109 7.2%	1,505	D+85.5
Jefferson Davis	1,340 89.1%	164 10.9%	1,504	D+78.2
Carroll	1,434 95.5%	68 4.5%	1,502	D+90.9
Grenada	1,446 96.3%	56 3.7%	1,502	D+92.5
Marshall	1,417 95.0%	74 5.0%	1,491	D+90.1
Tate	1,436 97.1%	43 2.9%	1,479	D+94.2
Montgomery	1,358 95.0%	71 5.0%	1,429	D+90.1
Wayne	1,365 96.3%	53 3.7%	1,418	D+92.5
Kemper	1,321 94.4%	78 5.6%	1,399	D+88.8
Walthall	1,222 94.3%	74 5.7%	1,296	D+88.6
Franklin	1,150 91.3%	109 8.7%	1,259	D+82.7
Choctaw	1,105 88.8%	140 11.2%	1,245	D+77.5
Clay	1,061 87.3%	155 12.7%	1,216	D+74.5
Lamar	1,106 92.9%	84 7.1%	1,190	D+85.9
George	1,098 95.1%	56 4.9%	1,154	D+90.3
Humphreys	1,140 99.2%	9 0.8%	1,149	D+98.4
Noxubee	1,030 90.4%	109 9.6%	1,139	D+80.9
Quitman	1,098 97.0%	34 3.0%	1,132	D+94.0
Greene	929 82.7%	195 17.3%	1,124	D+65.3
Stone	981 91.6%	90 8.4%	1,071	D+83.2
Wilkinson	843 94.1%	53 5.9%	896	D+88.2
Benton	837 94.0%	53 6.0%	890	D+88.1
Perry	798 92.8%	62 7.2%	860	D+85.6
Claiborne	729 95.9%	31 4.1%	760	D+91.8
Jefferson	738 97.1%	22 2.9%	760	D+94.2
Tunica	697 95.3%	34 4.7%	731	D+90.7
Sharkey	690 97.3%	19 2.7%	709	D+94.6
Issaquena	209 94.6%	12 5.4%	221	D+89.1

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.

Mississippi in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Donald Trump (R)	R+22.9
2020	Donald Trump (R)	R+16.5
2016	Donald Trump (R)	R+17.8
2012	Mitt Romney (R)	R+11.5
2008	John McCain (R)	R+13.2
2004	George W. Bush (R)	R+19.7
2000	George W. Bush (R)	R+16.9
1996	Bob Dole (R)	R+5.1
1992	George H. W. Bush (R)	R+8.9
1988	George H. W. Bush (R)	R+20.8
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+24.5
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+1.3
1976	Jimmy Carter (D)	D+1.9
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+58.6
1968	George Wallace (other)
1964	Barry Goldwater (R)	R+74.3
1960	Unpledged electors (other)
1956	Adlai Stevenson II (D)	D+33.8
1952	Adlai Stevenson II (D)	D+20.9
1948	Strom Thurmond (other)
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+87.1
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+91.5
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+94.3
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+92.4
1928	Al Smith (D)	D+64.2
1924	John W. Davis (D)	D+81.8
1920	James M. Cox (D)	D+70.0
1916	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+87.9
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+86.5
1908	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+83.6
1904	Alton B. Parker (D)	D+85.5
1900	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+77.8
1896	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+84.1
1892	Grover Cleveland (D)	D+73.6
1888	Grover Cleveland (D)	D+47.8
1884	Grover Cleveland (D)	D+28.7
1880	Winfield Scott Hancock (D)	D+35.1
1876	Samuel J. Tilden (D)	D+36.1
1872	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+27.0

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