1948 United States presidential election in Tennessee
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The 1948 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 12[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Tennessee was won by incumbent President Harry S. Truman (D–Missouri), running with Senator Alben W. Barkley, with 49.14% of the popular vote, against Governor Thomas Dewey (R–New York), running with Governor Earl Warren, with 36.87% of the popular vote.[3][4] Truman received eleven of Tennessee's twelve electoral votes, the other was cast in favor of Strom Thurmond by a faithless elector. As of the 2016 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Hamilton County voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate.[5]
Results
| 1948 United States presidential election in Tennessee | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Harry S. Truman (inc.) | 270,402 | 49.14% | 11 | |
| Dixiecrat | Strom Thurmond | 73,815 | 13.41% | 1 | |
| Republican | Thomas Dewey | 202,914 | 36.87% | 0 | |
| Progressive | Henry A. Wallace | 1,864 | 0.34% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Norman Thomas | 1,288 | 0.23% | 0 | |
| Totals | 550,283 | 100.00% | 12 | ||
Results by county
| County | Harry S. Truman[6] Democratic |
Thomas Edmund Dewey[6] Republican |
James Strom Thurmond[6] States’ Rights Democratic |
Henry Agard Wallace[6] Progressive |
Norman Mattoon Thomas[6] Socialist |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Anderson | 5,915 | 49.97% | 5,372 | 45.38% | 433 | 3.66% | 53 | 0.45% | 64 | 0.54% | 543 | 4.59% | 11,837 |
| Bedford | 2,393 | 55.64% | 771 | 17.93% | 1,127 | 26.20% | 4 | 0.09% | 6 | 0.14% | 1,266[a] | 29.44% | 4,301 |
| Benton | 1,757 | 63.02% | 908 | 32.57% | 116 | 4.16% | 6 | 0.22% | 1 | 0.04% | 849 | 30.45% | 2,788 |
| Bledsoe | 1,092 | 48.58% | 1,103 | 49.07% | 49 | 2.18% | 4 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | -11 | -0.49% | 2,248 |
| Blount | 3,141 | 32.91% | 6,152 | 64.47% | 214 | 2.24% | 13 | 0.14% | 23 | 0.24% | -3,011 | -31.55% | 9,543 |
| Bradley | 2,036 | 39.52% | 2,942 | 57.10% | 164 | 3.18% | 6 | 0.12% | 4 | 0.08% | -906 | -17.59% | 5,152 |
| Campbell | 2,267 | 42.61% | 2,922 | 54.92% | 87 | 1.64% | 31 | 0.58% | 13 | 0.24% | -655 | -12.31% | 5,320 |
| Cannon | 1,408 | 66.20% | 558 | 26.23% | 141 | 6.63% | 10 | 0.47% | 10 | 0.47% | 850 | 39.96% | 2,127 |
| Carroll | 2,818 | 45.65% | 2,651 | 42.95% | 606 | 9.82% | 52 | 0.84% | 46 | 0.75% | 167 | 2.71% | 6,173 |
| Carter | 1,809 | 25.96% | 4,943 | 70.94% | 179 | 2.57% | 13 | 0.19% | 24 | 0.34% | -3,134 | -44.98% | 6,968 |
| Cheatham | 2,731 | 88.58% | 193 | 6.26% | 150 | 4.87% | 8 | 0.26% | 1 | 0.03% | 2,538 | 82.32% | 3,083 |
| Chester | 980 | 50.52% | 766 | 39.48% | 193 | 9.95% | 1 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 214 | 11.03% | 1,940 |
| Claiborne | 2,068 | 44.13% | 2,507 | 53.50% | 66 | 1.41% | 33 | 0.70% | 12 | 0.26% | -439 | -9.37% | 4,686 |
| Clay | 1,146 | 60.28% | 703 | 36.98% | 46 | 2.42% | 5 | 0.26% | 1 | 0.05% | 443 | 23.30% | 1,901 |
| Cocke | 939 | 20.35% | 3,576 | 77.50% | 72 | 1.56% | 18 | 0.39% | 9 | 0.20% | -2,637 | -57.15% | 4,614 |
| Coffee | 2,041 | 56.68% | 599 | 16.63% | 933 | 25.91% | 11 | 0.31% | 17 | 0.47% | 1,108[a] | 30.77% | 3,601 |
| Crockett | 1,415 | 53.60% | 601 | 22.77% | 615 | 23.30% | 5 | 0.19% | 4 | 0.15% | 800[a] | 30.30% | 2,640 |
| Cumberland | 1,607 | 43.19% | 1,988 | 53.43% | 95 | 2.55% | 9 | 0.24% | 22 | 0.59% | -381 | -10.24% | 3,721 |
| Davidson | 20,877 | 55.46% | 8,410 | 22.34% | 8,103 | 21.53% | 169 | 0.45% | 84 | 0.22% | 12,467 | 33.12% | 37,643 |
| Decatur | 1,565 | 51.82% | 1,291 | 42.75% | 156 | 5.17% | 3 | 0.10% | 5 | 0.17% | 274 | 9.07% | 3,020 |
| DeKalb | 2,412 | 54.67% | 1,751 | 39.69% | 249 | 5.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 661 | 14.98% | 4,412 |
| Dickson | 2,337 | 74.31% | 485 | 15.42% | 315 | 10.02% | 3 | 0.10% | 5 | 0.16% | 1,852 | 58.89% | 3,145 |
| Dyer | 3,503 | 65.31% | 989 | 18.44% | 855 | 15.94% | 7 | 0.13% | 10 | 0.19% | 2,514 | 46.87% | 5,364 |
| Fayette | 226 | 12.66% | 66 | 3.70% | 1,488 | 83.36% | 2 | 0.11% | 3 | 0.17% | -1,262[a] | -70.70% | 1,785 |
| Fentress | 962 | 36.52% | 1,587 | 60.25% | 46 | 1.75% | 14 | 0.53% | 25 | 0.95% | -625 | -23.73% | 2,634 |
| Franklin | 2,948 | 66.08% | 589 | 13.20% | 892 | 20.00% | 7 | 0.16% | 25 | 0.56% | 2,056[a] | 46.09% | 4,461 |
| Gibson | 3,917 | 65.60% | 1,137 | 19.04% | 905 | 15.16% | 6 | 0.10% | 6 | 0.10% | 2,780 | 46.56% | 5,971 |
| Giles | 3,676 | 75.45% | 717 | 14.72% | 443 | 9.09% | 19 | 0.39% | 17 | 0.35% | 2,959 | 60.73% | 4,872 |
| Grainger | 644 | 25.33% | 1,824 | 71.75% | 57 | 2.24% | 8 | 0.31% | 9 | 0.35% | -1,180 | -46.42% | 2,542 |
| Greene | 3,282 | 41.68% | 4,375 | 55.56% | 154 | 1.96% | 27 | 0.34% | 37 | 0.47% | -1,093 | -13.88% | 7,875 |
| Grundy | 2,009 | 78.02% | 431 | 16.74% | 113 | 4.39% | 13 | 0.50% | 9 | 0.35% | 1,578 | 61.28% | 2,575 |
| Hamblen | 1,552 | 39.46% | 2,116 | 53.80% | 228 | 5.80% | 18 | 0.46% | 19 | 0.48% | -564 | -14.34% | 3,933 |
| Hamilton | 16,968 | 56.21% | 10,434 | 34.56% | 2,571 | 8.52% | 150 | 0.50% | 66 | 0.22% | 6,534 | 21.64% | 30,189 |
| Hancock | 416 | 20.15% | 1,598 | 77.38% | 38 | 1.84% | 2 | 0.10% | 11 | 0.53% | -1,182 | -57.24% | 2,065 |
| Hardeman | 1,609 | 48.76% | 317 | 9.61% | 1,364 | 41.33% | 3 | 0.09% | 7 | 0.21% | 245[a] | 7.42% | 3,300 |
| Hardin | 1,270 | 38.75% | 1,779 | 54.29% | 189 | 5.77% | 28 | 0.85% | 11 | 0.34% | -509 | -15.53% | 3,277 |
| Hawkins | 2,019 | 34.70% | 3,637 | 62.50% | 117 | 2.01% | 24 | 0.41% | 22 | 0.38% | -1,618 | -27.81% | 5,819 |
| Haywood | 1,050 | 49.32% | 148 | 6.95% | 931 | 43.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 119[a] | 5.59% | 2,129 |
| Henderson | 1,155 | 31.70% | 2,278 | 62.53% | 205 | 5.63% | 5 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | -1,123 | -30.83% | 3,643 |
| Henry | 3,292 | 76.99% | 604 | 14.13% | 372 | 8.70% | 6 | 0.14% | 2 | 0.05% | 2,688 | 62.86% | 4,276 |
| Hickman | 2,140 | 74.36% | 478 | 16.61% | 226 | 7.85% | 25 | 0.87% | 9 | 0.31% | 1,662 | 57.75% | 2,878 |
| Houston | 1,159 | 79.66% | 202 | 13.88% | 88 | 6.05% | 1 | 0.07% | 5 | 0.34% | 957 | 65.77% | 1,455 |
| Humphreys | 1,327 | 59.24% | 355 | 15.85% | 547 | 24.42% | 5 | 0.22% | 6 | 0.27% | 780[a] | 34.82% | 2,240 |
| Jackson | 1,502 | 68.68% | 536 | 24.51% | 142 | 6.49% | 5 | 0.23% | 2 | 0.09% | 966 | 44.17% | 2,187 |
| Jefferson | 900 | 22.39% | 2,979 | 74.12% | 121 | 3.01% | 9 | 0.22% | 10 | 0.25% | -2,079 | -51.73% | 4,019 |
| Johnson | 433 | 14.89% | 2,413 | 82.98% | 47 | 1.62% | 6 | 0.21% | 9 | 0.31% | -1,980 | -68.09% | 2,908 |
| Knox | 15,946 | 40.68% | 21,074 | 53.77% | 1,822 | 4.65% | 221 | 0.56% | 133 | 0.34% | -5,128 | -13.08% | 39,196 |
| Lake | 833 | 55.46% | 179 | 11.92% | 482 | 32.09% | 5 | 0.33% | 3 | 0.20% | 351[a] | 23.37% | 1,502 |
| Lauderdale | 2,556 | 65.89% | 298 | 7.68% | 1,007 | 25.96% | 7 | 0.18% | 11 | 0.28% | 1,549[a] | 39.93% | 3,879 |
| Lawrence | 4,854 | 53.43% | 3,837 | 42.24% | 373 | 4.11% | 13 | 0.14% | 7 | 0.08% | 1,017 | 11.20% | 9,084 |
| Lewis | 1,148 | 70.17% | 381 | 23.29% | 88 | 5.38% | 14 | 0.86% | 5 | 0.31% | 767 | 46.88% | 1,636 |
| Lincoln | 2,969 | 72.63% | 361 | 8.83% | 758 | 18.54% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,211[a] | 54.09% | 4,088 |
| Loudon | 1,673 | 37.05% | 2,605 | 57.70% | 200 | 4.43% | 19 | 0.42% | 18 | 0.40% | -932 | -20.64% | 4,515 |
| Macon | 738 | 29.40% | 1,708 | 68.05% | 59 | 2.35% | 3 | 0.12% | 2 | 0.08% | -970 | -38.65% | 2,510 |
| Madison | 4,722 | 52.48% | 1,681 | 18.68% | 2,586 | 28.74% | 1 | 0.01% | 7 | 0.08% | 2,136[a] | 23.74% | 8,997 |
| Marion | 2,554 | 57.17% | 1,738 | 38.91% | 153 | 3.43% | 16 | 0.36% | 6 | 0.13% | 816 | 18.27% | 4,467 |
| Marshall | 3,059 | 71.22% | 517 | 12.04% | 691 | 16.09% | 10 | 0.23% | 18 | 0.42% | 2,368[a] | 55.13% | 4,295 |
| Maury | 2,906 | 51.57% | 895 | 15.88% | 1,792 | 31.80% | 20 | 0.35% | 22 | 0.39% | 1,114[a] | 19.77% | 5,635 |
| McMinn | 3,016 | 39.36% | 4,432 | 57.84% | 184 | 2.40% | 14 | 0.18% | 16 | 0.21% | -1,416 | -18.48% | 7,662 |
| McNairy | 2,267 | 45.62% | 2,390 | 48.10% | 286 | 5.76% | 16 | 0.32% | 10 | 0.20% | -123 | -2.48% | 4,969 |
| Meigs | 788 | 49.56% | 748 | 47.04% | 43 | 2.70% | 8 | 0.50% | 3 | 0.19% | 40 | 2.52% | 1,590 |
| Monroe | 3,553 | 47.08% | 3,905 | 51.75% | 73 | 0.97% | 6 | 0.08% | 9 | 0.12% | -352 | -4.66% | 7,546 |
| Montgomery | 3,310 | 73.47% | 646 | 14.34% | 525 | 11.65% | 13 | 0.29% | 11 | 0.24% | 2,664 | 59.13% | 4,505 |
| Moore | 523 | 62.94% | 102 | 12.27% | 206 | 24.79% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 317[a] | 38.15% | 831 |
| Morgan | 1,500 | 48.62% | 1,570 | 50.89% | 10 | 0.32% | 5 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | -70 | -2.27% | 3,085 |
| Obion | 3,490 | 75.59% | 642 | 13.91% | 460 | 9.96% | 9 | 0.19% | 16 | 0.35% | 2,848 | 61.69% | 4,617 |
| Overton | 1,835 | 63.17% | 917 | 31.57% | 118 | 4.06% | 23 | 0.79% | 12 | 0.41% | 918 | 31.60% | 2,905 |
| Perry | 1,196 | 68.42% | 459 | 26.26% | 85 | 4.86% | 6 | 0.34% | 2 | 0.11% | 737 | 42.16% | 1,748 |
| Pickett | 566 | 39.39% | 849 | 59.08% | 19 | 1.32% | 3 | 0.21% | 0 | 0.00% | -283 | -19.69% | 1,437 |
| Polk | 1,412 | 47.22% | 1,529 | 51.14% | 26 | 0.87% | 19 | 0.64% | 4 | 0.13% | -117 | -3.91% | 2,990 |
| Putnam | 3,134 | 56.33% | 1,879 | 33.77% | 511 | 9.18% | 26 | 0.47% | 14 | 0.25% | 1,255 | 22.56% | 5,564 |
| Rhea | 1,897 | 45.70% | 2,077 | 50.04% | 159 | 3.83% | 11 | 0.26% | 7 | 0.17% | -180 | -4.34% | 4,151 |
| Roane | 2,306 | 39.89% | 3,236 | 55.98% | 218 | 3.77% | 15 | 0.26% | 6 | 0.10% | -930 | -16.09% | 5,781 |
| Robertson | 3,044 | 77.14% | 376 | 9.53% | 514 | 13.03% | 6 | 0.15% | 6 | 0.15% | 2,530[a] | 64.12% | 3,946 |
| Rutherford | 4,151 | 68.30% | 854 | 14.05% | 1,017 | 16.73% | 23 | 0.38% | 33 | 0.54% | 3,134[a] | 51.56% | 6,078 |
| Scott | 972 | 32.14% | 2,016 | 66.67% | 18 | 0.60% | 12 | 0.40% | 6 | 0.20% | -1,044 | -34.52% | 3,024 |
| Sequatchie | 907 | 66.06% | 420 | 30.59% | 41 | 2.99% | 3 | 0.22% | 2 | 0.15% | 487 | 35.47% | 1,373 |
| Sevier | 840 | 13.99% | 5,049 | 84.11% | 70 | 1.17% | 39 | 0.65% | 5 | 0.08% | -4,209 | -70.11% | 6,003 |
| Shelby | 23,854 | 36.60% | 14,566 | 22.35% | 26,396 | 40.50% | 229 | 0.35% | 131 | 0.20% | -2,542[a] | -3.90% | 65,176 |
| Smith | 1,764 | 62.38% | 773 | 27.33% | 275 | 9.72% | 9 | 0.32% | 7 | 0.25% | 991 | 35.04% | 2,828 |
| Stewart | 1,962 | 81.38% | 331 | 13.73% | 115 | 4.77% | 3 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,631 | 67.65% | 2,411 |
| Sullivan | 7,626 | 50.44% | 6,984 | 46.19% | 472 | 3.12% | 32 | 0.21% | 6 | 0.04% | 642 | 4.25% | 15,120 |
| Sumner | 3,688 | 73.67% | 793 | 15.84% | 515 | 10.29% | 10 | 0.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,895 | 57.83% | 5,006 |
| Tipton | 3,066 | 65.50% | 209 | 4.46% | 1,394 | 29.78% | 8 | 0.17% | 4 | 0.09% | 1,672[a] | 35.72% | 4,681 |
| Trousdale | 1,014 | 82.51% | 104 | 8.46% | 110 | 8.95% | 1 | 0.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 904[a] | 73.56% | 1,229 |
| Unicoi | 844 | 29.50% | 1,927 | 67.35% | 81 | 2.83% | 7 | 0.24% | 2 | 0.07% | -1,083 | -37.85% | 2,861 |
| Union | 513 | 23.79% | 1,603 | 74.35% | 19 | 0.88% | 16 | 0.74% | 5 | 0.23% | -1,090 | -50.56% | 2,156 |
| Van Buren | 636 | 65.03% | 298 | 30.47% | 39 | 3.99% | 4 | 0.41% | 1 | 0.10% | 338 | 34.56% | 978 |
| Warren | 2,969 | 66.51% | 807 | 18.08% | 667 | 14.94% | 21 | 0.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,162 | 48.43% | 4,464 |
| Washington | 4,023 | 34.80% | 7,056 | 61.04% | 426 | 3.69% | 34 | 0.29% | 20 | 0.17% | -3,033 | -26.24% | 11,559 |
| Wayne | 820 | 28.65% | 1,957 | 68.38% | 76 | 2.66% | 5 | 0.17% | 4 | 0.14% | -1,137 | -39.73% | 2,862 |
| Weakley | 3,099 | 64.02% | 1,310 | 27.06% | 418 | 8.63% | 11 | 0.23% | 3 | 0.06% | 1,789 | 36.96% | 4,841 |
| White | 1,719 | 64.09% | 635 | 23.68% | 312 | 11.63% | 11 | 0.41% | 5 | 0.19% | 1,084 | 40.42% | 2,682 |
| Williamson | 2,294 | 59.41% | 556 | 14.40% | 983 | 25.46% | 16 | 0.41% | 12 | 0.31% | 1,311[a] | 33.95% | 3,861 |
| Wilson | 3,133 | 66.67% | 854 | 18.17% | 685 | 14.58% | 12 | 0.26% | 15 | 0.32% | 2,279 | 48.50% | 4,699 |
| Totals | 270,402 | 49.14% | 202,914 | 36.87% | 73,815 | 13.41% | 1,864 | 0.34% | 1,288 | 0.23% | 67,488 | 12.26% | 550,283 |
Notes
References
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1948 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved October 31, 2017.
- ^ "1948 Election for the Forty-First Term (1949-53)". Retrieved October 31, 2017.
- ^ "1948 Presidential General Election Results – Tennessee". Retrieved October 31, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1948". Retrieved October 31, 2017.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ a b c d e Our Campaigns; TN US President, November 02, 1948
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