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Election 1948 Results

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1948 presidential election in Vermont

Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) beat Harry S. Truman (Democrat) in Vermont in 1948, 61.5% to 36.9%, a margin of 24.6 points and 30,369 votes.

Vermont voted 29.1 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+4.5.

The Republican hold continued from 1944, when Thomas E. Dewey also won.

Republicans led in 11 of the 14 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 3. The largest, Chittenden, cast 17,739 votes and went to the Democrat by 2.2 points. The closest was Grand Isle, where 98 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
Thomas E. Dewey won Republican 75,926 61.5%
Harry S. Truman Democratic 45,557 36.9%
All other candidates 1,899 1.5%
Total123,382

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Chittenden 8,903 50.2% 8,509 48.0% 327 17,739 D+2.2
Rutland 6,452 38.3% 10,206 60.6% 195 16,853 R+22.3
Windsor 3,736 27.5% 9,626 70.9% 206 13,568 R+43.4
Washington 4,839 37.6% 7,720 59.9% 323 12,882 R+22.4
Franklin 5,455 52.2% 4,897 46.9% 92 10,444 D+5.3
Windham 2,770 27.3% 7,148 70.5% 222 10,140 R+43.2
Bennington 3,340 35.6% 5,840 62.3% 195 9,375 R+26.7
Caledonia 2,585 30.3% 5,873 68.8% 84 8,542 R+38.5
Orleans 2,204 36.7% 3,775 62.9% 24 6,003 R+26.2
Addison 1,615 27.5% 4,148 70.7% 106 5,869 R+43.2
Orange 1,139 21.6% 4,061 77.0% 76 5,276 R+55.4
Lamoille 816 25.7% 2,344 73.7% 21 3,181 R+48.0
Essex 881 45.3% 1,055 54.2% 10 1,946 R+8.9
Grand Isle 822 52.6% 724 46.3% 17 1,563 D+6.3

Counties as they stood in 1948; 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