1944 United States presidential election in Kansas explained

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The 1944 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight^[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Kansas was won by Governor Thomas E. Dewey (R–New York), running with Governor John Bricker, with 60.25 percent of the popular vote, against incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running with Senator Harry S. Truman, with 39.18 percent of the popular vote.^{[3] [4]} Dewey's margin was the largest against Roosevelt in any state in any of the four elections that he contested, despite carrying the state by comfortable margins in both 1932 and 1936.^[5] The 104 counties (all except Wyandotte) that Roosevelt lost is the most he lost in any state during his four elections to the White House.

Results

Results by county

1944 United States presidential election in Kansas by county[6] [7]
County	Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican		Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic		Claude A. Watson Prohibition		Norman Mattoon Thomas Socialist		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%			%
	Allen		5,032		68.56%		2,262		30.82%		35		0.48%		11		0.15%		2,770		37.74%		7,340
	Anderson		3,060		64.89%		1,649		34.97%		3		0.06%		4		0.08%		1,411		29.92%		4,716
	Atchison		4,731		58.58%		3,325		41.17%		4		0.05%		16		0.20%		1,406		17.41%		8,076
	Barber		2,140		58.28%		1,501		40.88%		18		0.49%		13		0.35%		639		17.40%		3,672
	Barton		5,547		59.36%		3,761		40.25%		20		0.21%		17		0.18%		1,786		19.11%		9,345
	Bourbon		4,790		56.68%		3,622		42.86%		30		0.35%		9		0.11%		1,168		13.82%		8,451
	Brown		4,947		72.98%		1,817		26.80%		11		0.16%		4		0.06%		3,130		46.17%		6,779
	Butler		7,064		53.50%		6,084		46.08%		39		0.30%		16		0.12%		980		7.42%		13,203
	Chase		1,510		59.99%		998		39.65%		5		0.20%		4		0.16%		512		20.34%		2,517
	Chautauqua		2,305		67.38%		1,106		32.33%		6		0.18%		4		0.12%		1,199		35.05%		3,421
	Cherokee		5,458		54.65%		4,468		44.73%		24		0.24%		38		0.38%		990		9.91%		9,988
	Cheyenne		1,610		67.99%		736		31.08%		16		0.68%		6		0.25%		874		36.91%		2,368
	Clark		950		55.69%		741		43.43%		11		0.64%		4		0.23%		209		12.25%		1,706
	Clay		4,101		74.01%		1,391		25.10%		35		0.63%		14		0.25%		2,710		48.91%		5,541
	Cloud		4,377		63.67%		2,391		34.78%		78		1.13%		29		0.42%		1,986		28.89%		6,875
	Coffey		3,461		67.28%		1,660		32.27%		15		0.29%		8		0.16%		1,801		35.01%		5,144
	Comanche		1,048		61.47%		642		37.65%		15		0.88%		0		0.00%		406		23.81%		1,705
	Cowley		8,453		55.91%		6,577		43.50%		61		0.40%		29		0.19%		1,876		12.41%		15,120
	Crawford		9,017		52.09%		8,211		47.43%		27		0.16%		56		0.32%		806		4.66%		17,311
	Decatur		1,758		59.92%		1,159		39.50%		12		0.41%		5		0.17%		599		20.42%		2,934
	Dickinson		6,227		65.92%		3,190		33.77%		19		0.20%		10		0.11%		3,037		32.15%		9,446
	Doniphan		3,230		71.92%		1,261		28.08%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,969		43.84%		4,491
	Douglas		8,224		67.47%		3,886		31.88%		30		0.25%		49		0.40%		4,338		35.59%		12,189
	Edwards		1,669		65.09%		876		34.17%		11		0.43%		8		0.31%		793		30.93%		2,564
	Elk		2,283		70.33%		954		29.39%		7		0.22%		2		0.06%		1,329		40.94%		3,246
	Ellis		3,369		60.13%		2,218		39.59%		9		0.16%		7		0.12%		1,151		20.54%		5,603
	Ellsworth		2,290		57.62%		1,678		42.22%		2		0.05%		4		0.10%		612		15.40%		3,974
	Finney		2,366		58.20%		1,667		41.01%		23		0.57%		9		0.22%		699		17.20%		4,065
	Ford		4,110		57.23%		2,994		41.69%		60		0.84%		17		0.24%		1,116		15.54%		7,181
	Franklin		5,375		64.68%		2,880		34.66%		38		0.46%		17		0.20%		2,495		30.02%		8,310
	Geary		2,833		56.97%		2,107		42.37%		21		0.42%		12		0.24%		726		14.60%		4,973
	Gove		1,125		72.02%		420		26.89%		6		0.38%		11		0.70%		705		45.13%		1,562
	Graham		1,651		66.52%		814		32.80%		13		0.52%		4		0.16%		837		33.72%		2,482
	Grant		566		66.35%		282		33.06%		3		0.35%		2		0.23%		284		33.29%		853
	Gray		1,057		57.01%		775		41.80%		17		0.92%		5		0.27%		282		15.21%		1,854
	Greeley		378		63.00%		215		35.83%		7		1.17%		0		0.00%		163		27.17%		600
	Greenwood		3,959		63.99%		2,187		35.35%		26		0.42%		15		0.24%		1,772		28.64%		6,187
	Hamilton		795		62.35%		471		36.94%		4		0.31%		5		0.39%		324		25.41%		1,275
	Harper		2,849		63.76%		1,573		35.21%		33		0.74%		13		0.29%		1,276		28.56%		4,468
	Harvey		5,339		61.35%		3,300		37.92%		26		0.30%		38		0.44%		2,039		23.43%		8,703
	Haskell		520		59.91%		342		39.40%		6		0.69%		0		0.00%		178		20.51%		868
	Hodgeman		982		66.31%		490		33.09%		1		0.07%		8		0.54%		492		33.22%		1,481
	Jackson		3,665		69.72%		1,567		29.81%		15		0.29%		10		0.19%		2,098		39.91%		5,257
	Jefferson		3,504		68.73%		1,575		30.89%		6		0.12%		13		0.26%		1,929		37.84%		5,098
	Jewell		3,754		74.20%		1,216		24.04%		80		1.58%		9		0.18%		2,538		50.17%		5,059
	Johnson		11,951		67.24%		5,771		32.47%		29		0.16%		22		0.12%		6,180		34.77%		17,773
	Kearny		612		62.45%		365		37.24%		1		0.10%		2		0.20%		247		25.20%		980
	Kingman		2,827		63.74%		1,579		35.60%		22		0.50%		7		0.16%		1,248		28.14%		4,435
	Kiowa		1,479		69.60%		618		29.08%		26		1.22%		2		0.09%		861		40.52%		2,125
	Labette		7,480		57.87%		5,398		41.76%		26		0.20%		22		0.17%		2,082		16.11%		12,926
	Lane		773		65.90%		388		33.08%		4		0.34%		8		0.68%		385		32.82%		1,173
	Leavenworth		7,282		58.55%		5,097		40.98%		25		0.20%		34		0.27%		2,185		17.57%		12,438
	Lincoln		2,405		72.03%		910		27.25%		15		0.45%		9		0.27%		1,495		44.77%		3,339
	Linn		3,185		68.54%		1,442		31.03%		8		0.17%		12		0.26%		1,743		37.51%		4,647
	Logan		1,107		72.92%		406		26.75%		4		0.26%		1		0.07%		701		46.18%		1,518
	Lyon		5,710		52.88%		4,984		46.15%		77		0.71%		28		0.26%		726		6.72%		10,799
	Marion		5,219		72.64%		1,925		26.79%		15		0.21%		26		0.36%		3,294		45.85%		7,185
	Marshall		6,184		69.59%		2,681		30.17%		12		0.14%		9		0.10%		3,503		39.42%		8,886
	McPherson		5,840		62.31%		3,321		35.44%		136		1.45%		75		0.80%		2,519		26.88%		9,372
	Meade		1,424		68.23%		631		30.23%		30		1.44%		2		0.10%		793		38.00%		2,087
	Miami		4,326		57.28%		3,217		42.60%		5		0.07%		4		0.05%		1,109		14.68%		7,552
	Mitchell		3,238		66.67%		1,579		32.51%		28		0.58%		12		0.25%		1,659		34.16%		4,857
	Montgomery		11,738		62.29%		7,063		37.48%		29		0.15%		14		0.07%		4,675		24.81%		18,844
	Morris		2,628		62.11%		1,584		37.44%		10		0.24%		9		0.21%		1,044		24.68%		4,231
	Morton		617		62.51%		367		37.18%		3		0.30%		0		0.00%		250		25.33%		987
	Nemaha		4,277		66.44%		2,149		33.39%		2		0.03%		9		0.14%		2,128		33.06%		6,437
	Neosho		5,420		62.45%		3,233		37.25%		19		0.22%		7		0.08%		2,187		25.20%		8,679
	Ness		1,745		65.45%		876		32.86%		32		1.20%		13		0.49%		869		32.60%		2,666
	Norton		2,890		70.87%		1,159		28.42%		16		0.39%		13		0.32%		1,731		42.45%		4,078
	Osage		4,107		64.40%		2,212		34.69%		39		0.61%		19		0.30%		1,895		29.72%		6,377
	Osborne		2,827		71.52%		1,078		27.27%		34		0.86%		14		0.35%		1,749		44.24%		3,953
	Ottawa		2,428		63.11%		1,378		35.82%		29		0.75%		12		0.31%		1,050		27.29%		3,847
	Pawnee		2,057		54.05%		1,727		45.38%		14		0.37%		8		0.21%		330		8.67%		3,806
	Phillips		3,053		72.74%		1,098		26.16%		34		0.81%		12		0.29%		1,955		46.58%		4,197
	Pottawatomie		4,074		70.01%		1,727		29.68%		12		0.21%		6		0.10%		2,347		40.33%		5,819
	Pratt		2,658		52.85%		2,334		46.41%		26		0.52%		11		0.22%		324		6.44%		5,029
	Rawlins		1,569		61.72%		955		37.57%		9		0.35%		9		0.35%		614		24.15%		2,542
	Reno		11,004		58.71%		7,604		40.57%		95		0.51%		40		0.21%		3,400		18.14%		18,743
	Republic		3,802		66.53%		1,891		33.09%		16		0.28%		6		0.10%		1,911		33.44%		5,715
	Rice		4,024		61.12%		2,505		38.05%		34		0.52%		21		0.32%		1,519		23.07%		6,584
	Riley		6,511		70.43%		2,659		28.76%		39		0.42%		35		0.38%		3,852		41.67%		9,244
	Rooks		2,361		66.53%		1,166		32.85%		18		0.51%		4		0.11%		1,195		33.67%		3,549
	Rush		2,193		66.80%		1,076		32.77%		4		0.12%		10		0.30%		1,117		34.02%		3,283
	Russell		3,344		67.56%		1,583		31.98%		14		0.28%		9		0.18%		1,761		35.58%		4,950
	Saline		7,571		59.51%		5,097		40.06%		36		0.28%		19		0.15%		2,474		19.45%		12,723
	Scott		903		60.93%		565		38.12%		10		0.67%		4		0.27%		338		22.81%		1,482
	Sedgwick		38,896		52.78%		34,442		46.73%		188		0.26%		172		0.23%		4,454		6.04%		73,698
	Seward		1,590		53.92%		1,342		45.51%		13		0.44%		4		0.14%		248		8.41%		2,949
	Shawnee		21,396		59.03%		14,678		40.49%		108		0.30%		65		0.18%		6,718		18.53%		36,247
	Sheridan		1,342		66.87%		658		32.79%		3		0.15%		4		0.20%		684		34.08%		2,007
	Sherman		1,608		60.07%		1,021		38.14%		29		1.08%		19		0.71%		587		21.93%		2,677
	Smith		3,282		69.93%		1,377		29.34%		30		0.64%		4		0.09%		1,905		40.59%		4,693
	Stafford		2,493		56.25%		1,908		43.05%		20		0.45%		11		0.25%		585		13.20%		4,432
	Stanton		398		61.71%		240		37.21%		5		0.78%		2		0.31%		158		24.50%		645
	Stevens		760		64.63%		414		35.20%		2		0.17%		0		0.00%		346		29.42%		1,176
	Sumner		6,343		59.87%		4,187		39.52%		38		0.36%		26		0.25%		2,156		20.35%		10,594
	Thomas		1,631		59.14%		1,097		39.78%		19		0.69%		11		0.40%		534		19.36%		2,758
	Trego		1,459		61.98%		883		37.51%		4		0.17%		8		0.34%		576		24.47%		2,354
	Wabaunsee		2,839		75.95%		873		23.35%		8		0.21%		18		0.48%		1,966		52.59%		3,738
	Wallace		720		70.80%		292		28.71%		5		0.49%		0		0.00%		428		42.08%		1,017
	Washington		5,040		77.11%		1,455		22.26%		24		0.37%		17		0.26%		3,585		54.85%		6,536
	Wichita		604		64.32%		329		35.04%		6		0.64%		0		0.00%		275		29.29%		939
	Wilson		4,248		68.57%		1,912		30.86%		17		0.27%		18		0.29%		2,336		37.71%		6,195
	Woodson		2,308		69.56%		999		30.11%		2		0.06%		9		0.27%		1,309		39.45%		3,318
	Wyandotte		26,817		44.74%		32,914		54.91%		128		0.21%		86		0.14%		-6,097		-10.17%		59,945
Totals	442,096	60.25%	287,458	39.18%	2,609	0.36%	1,613	0.22%	154,638	21.07%	733,776

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• • • Crawford Cherokee Clark
• Sedgewick

See also

• United States presidential elections in Kansas

Notes and References

1. Web site: United States Presidential election of 1944 — Encyclopædia Britannica. December 22, 2017.
2. Web site: 1944 Election for the Fortieth Term (1945-49). December 22, 2017.
3. Web site: 1944 Presidential General Election Results — Kansas. December 22, 2017.
4. Web site: The American Presidency Project — Election of 1944. December 22, 2017.
5. Web site: 1944 Presidential Election Statistics. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2018-03-05.
6. Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 169-170
7. Web site: KS US President Race, November 07, 1944. Our Campaigns.