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Election 1944 Results

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1944 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) in Pennsylvania in 1944, 51.1% to 48.4%, a margin of 2.8 points and 105,425 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 4.7 points more Republican 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.

Republicans led in 51 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 16. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 845,630 votes and went to the Democrat by 17.7 points. The closest was Clinton, where 212 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 1,940,479 51.1%
Thomas E. Dewey Republican 1,835,054 48.4%
All other candidates 19,260 0.5%
Total3,794,793

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 496,367 58.7% 346,380 41.0% 2,883 845,630 D+17.7
Allegheny 350,690 57.1% 261,218 42.5% 2,393 614,301 D+14.6
Delaware 64,021 44.7% 78,533 54.8% 755 143,309 R+10.1
Luzerne 73,674 51.8% 67,984 47.8% 541 142,199 D+4.0
Montgomery 47,815 37.7% 78,260 61.7% 752 126,827 R+24.0
Lackawanna 59,190 55.5% 47,261 44.3% 127 106,578 D+11.2
Westmoreland 61,057 58.2% 43,202 41.2% 705 104,964 D+17.0
Berks 43,891 53.9% 35,274 43.3% 2,247 81,412 D+10.6
Schuylkill 35,852 46.7% 40,671 53.0% 221 76,744 R+6.3
Dauphin 30,684 40.5% 44,725 59.0% 333 75,742 R+18.5
Washington 46,023 62.2% 27,615 37.3% 392 74,030 D+24.9
Lancaster 27,353 37.6% 44,888 61.8% 432 72,673 R+24.1
York 38,226 53.7% 32,617 45.8% 315 71,158 D+7.9
Erie 32,912 48.0% 35,247 51.4% 419 68,578 R+3.4
Cambria 39,676 58.2% 28,203 41.4% 264 68,143 D+16.8
Lehigh 29,134 47.7% 31,584 51.7% 315 61,033 R+4.0
Northampton 32,584 54.7% 26,643 44.8% 292 59,519 D+10.0
Fayette 35,093 61.0% 21,945 38.2% 451 57,489 D+22.9
Beaver 32,743 57.8% 23,555 41.6% 360 56,658 D+16.2
Chester 18,548 40.8% 26,655 58.7% 208 45,411 R+17.9
Bucks 17,823 40.8% 25,634 58.6% 270 43,727 R+17.9
Blair 18,003 41.8% 24,925 57.8% 178 43,106 R+16.1
Northumberland 20,333 47.9% 21,995 51.8% 122 42,450 R+3.9
Lawrence 17,331 47.3% 18,886 51.6% 404 36,621 R+4.2
Mercer 16,589 45.6% 19,606 53.9% 212 36,407 R+8.3
Lycoming 15,658 43.8% 19,886 55.6% 197 35,741 R+11.8
Butler 12,377 38.7% 19,341 60.5% 226 31,944 R+21.8
Cumberland 12,068 40.2% 17,782 59.3% 134 29,984 R+19.1
Clearfield 13,617 48.9% 13,986 50.2% 233 27,836 R+1.3
Lebanon 11,818 43.5% 15,206 56.0% 129 27,153 R+12.5
Somerset 10,287 39.0% 16,039 60.7% 79 26,405 R+21.8
Crawford 9,216 37.5% 15,205 61.8% 170 24,591 R+24.4
Armstrong 10,202 42.5% 13,656 56.9% 126 23,984 R+14.4
Indiana 8,863 37.8% 14,388 61.4% 175 23,426 R+23.6
Franklin 8,807 39.6% 13,380 60.1% 63 22,250 R+20.6
Venango 6,426 29.7% 14,916 68.9% 304 21,646 R+39.2
Carbon 11,060 52.7% 9,837 46.9% 73 20,970 D+5.8
Bradford 5,523 28.9% 13,472 70.4% 142 19,137 R+41.5
Columbia 9,647 50.6% 9,336 49.0% 70 19,053 D+1.6
McKean 6,492 34.9% 11,988 64.4% 121 18,601 R+29.5
Centre 8,064 44.2% 10,048 55.1% 130 18,242 R+10.9
Jefferson 6,425 36.6% 10,970 62.5% 152 17,547 R+25.9
Adams 5,881 39.9% 8,787 59.6% 67 14,735 R+19.7
Greene 8,392 59.1% 5,747 40.5% 53 14,192 D+18.6
Bedford 5,175 37.1% 8,703 62.4% 68 13,946 R+25.3
Warren 4,440 32.1% 9,276 67.0% 137 13,853 R+34.9
Tioga 3,248 23.7% 10,381 75.7% 79 13,708 R+52.0
Clarion 5,263 39.1% 8,098 60.2% 99 13,460 R+21.1
Susquehanna 4,212 32.2% 8,819 67.4% 49 13,080 R+35.2
Huntingdon 4,131 33.5% 8,106 65.8% 83 12,320 R+32.3
Mifflin 5,693 47.6% 6,205 51.9% 54 11,952 R+4.3
Elk 6,097 51.6% 5,645 47.8% 67 11,809 D+3.8
Monroe 5,490 46.8% 6,202 52.9% 37 11,729 R+6.1
Clinton 5,703 48.8% 5,915 50.7% 57 11,675 R+1.8
Wayne 2,793 25.2% 8,242 74.4% 39 11,074 R+49.2
Perry 3,265 36.2% 5,722 63.4% 43 9,030 R+27.2
Snyder 1,795 23.9% 5,696 75.8% 23 7,514 R+51.9
Union 1,704 23.2% 5,585 76.2% 41 7,330 R+52.9
Wyoming 1,982 30.1% 4,581 69.6% 19 6,582 R+39.5
Potter 1,894 29.6% 4,474 69.9% 36 6,404 R+40.3
Juniata 2,666 43.0% 3,512 56.7% 15 6,193 R+13.7
Montour 2,212 44.7% 2,727 55.1% 8 4,947 R+10.4
Pike 1,408 34.3% 2,674 65.2% 19 4,101 R+30.9
Fulton 1,758 45.6% 2,084 54.0% 15 3,857 R+8.5
Sullivan 1,329 41.6% 1,858 58.2% 8 3,195 R+16.6
Cameron 1,115 39.1% 1,729 60.6% 9 2,853 R+21.5
Forest 673 33.0% 1,344 65.9% 21 2,038 R+32.9

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4