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Election 1944 Results

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1944 presidential election in Nevada

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) in Nevada in 1944, 54.6% to 45.4%, a margin of 9.2 points and 5,012 votes.

Nevada voted 1.7 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 9 of the 17 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 8. The largest, Washoe, cast 17,408 votes and went to the Republican by 3.7 points. The closest was Storey, where 10 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 29,623 54.6%
Thomas E. Dewey Republican 24,611 45.4%
Total54,234

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Washoe 8,384 48.2% 9,024 51.8% 17,408 R+3.7
Clark 7,350 61.8% 4,543 38.2% 11,893 D+23.6
White Pine 2,812 64.4% 1,554 35.6% 4,366 D+28.8
Elko 2,280 58.1% 1,642 41.9% 3,922 D+16.3
Churchill 1,046 48.1% 1,130 51.9% 2,176 R+3.9
Mineral 1,344 64.2% 751 35.8% 2,095 D+28.3
Humboldt 994 54.3% 835 45.7% 1,829 D+8.7
Lincoln 1,295 71.2% 524 28.8% 1,819 D+42.4
Nye 943 56.6% 723 43.4% 1,666 D+13.2
Lyon 708 44.2% 895 55.8% 1,603 R+11.7
Ormsby (Ext) 665 44.2% 841 55.8% 1,506 R+11.7
Pershing 524 49.3% 538 50.7% 1,062 R+1.3
Douglas 282 33.7% 556 66.3% 838 R+32.7
Lander 383 47.4% 425 52.6% 808 R+5.2
Eureka 217 40.6% 317 59.4% 534 R+18.7
Esmeralda 223 59.8% 150 40.2% 373 D+19.6
Storey 173 51.5% 163 48.5% 336 D+3.0

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.

Nevada in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+3.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+2.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+2.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+6.7
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+12.5
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+2.6
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+1.0
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+2.6
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+20.9
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+33.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+35.6
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+4.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.4
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+8.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+17.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+15.9
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+22.9
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+3.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.2
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+20.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+45.6
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+38.8
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+13.1
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+19.8
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+20.7
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+17.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+23.8
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+1.8
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+23.8
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+24.5
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+62.3
1892 Third party (other)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+15.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+12.5
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+4.8
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+5.5
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+14.9
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+10.8