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1944 presidential election in Vermont

Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) beat Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) in Vermont in 1944, 57.1% to 42.9%, a margin of 14.1 points and 17,707 votes.

Vermont voted 21.6 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+7.5.

The Republican hold continued from 1940, when Wendell Willkie won.

Republicans led in 10 of the 14 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 4. The largest, Chittenden, cast 18,278 votes and went to the Democrat by 17.8 points. The closest was Essex, where 62 votes separated the two parties.

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Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Thomas E. Dewey won Republican 71,527 57.1%
Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic 53,820 42.9%
All other candidates 14 0.0%
Total125,361

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Chittenden 10,769 58.9% 7,509 41.1% 18,278 D+17.8
Rutland 7,108 42.7% 9,542 57.3% 16,650 R+14.6
Windsor 5,091 33.9% 9,916 66.1% 15,007 R+32.2
Washington 5,761 44.6% 7,149 55.4% 12,910 R+10.8
Franklin 6,035 58.0% 4,366 42.0% 1 10,402 D+16.0
Windham 3,376 33.5% 6,689 66.4% 5 10,070 R+32.9
Bennington 3,709 41.4% 5,246 58.6% 8,955 R+17.2
Caledonia 2,802 35.6% 5,076 64.4% 7,878 R+28.9
Orleans 2,658 41.2% 3,788 58.8% 6,446 R+17.5
Addison 2,078 33.6% 4,090 66.2% 8 6,176 R+32.6
Orange 1,464 26.3% 4,112 73.7% 5,576 R+47.5
Lamoille 1,030 31.8% 2,206 68.2% 3,236 R+36.3
Essex 1,126 51.4% 1,064 48.6% 2,190 D+2.8
Grand Isle 799 54.5% 667 45.5% 1,466 D+9.0

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.

Vermont in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+31.5
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+35.4
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+26.4
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+35.6
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+37.0
2004 John Kerry (D) D+20.1
2000 Al Gore (D) D+9.9
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+22.3
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.7
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.5
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+17.1
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+6.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.2
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+26.2
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+32.6
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+44.4
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+43.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+24.6
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+14.1
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+9.9
1936 Alf Landon (R) R+13.2
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+16.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+34.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+62.5
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+52.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+27.2
1912 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.7
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+53.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+59.1
1900 William McKinley (R) R+52.9
1896 William McKinley (R) R+63.4
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+38.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+43.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+37.4
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+41.9
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+37.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+57.1