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The 1944 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 7, 1944. All contemporary forty-eight states took part, and Utah voters selected four voters to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
The Democratic Party candidate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt , won the state of Utah with 60.44 percent of the popular vote. The Republican Party candidate, Thomas E. Dewey , garnered 39.42 percent of the popular vote. As of the 2016 presidential election [update] , this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Democratic presidential candidate: Washington , Millard , Box Elder , Cache , and Rich .[1]
Results
Results by county
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic
Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican
Norman Thomas Socialist
Margin
Total votes cast[3]
County
#
%
#
%
#
%
#
%
#
Beaver
1,128
54.02%
958
45.88%
2
0.10%
170
8.14%
2,088
Box Elder
4,138
57.46%
3,058
42.47%
5
0.07%
1,080
15.00%
7,201
Cache
6,998
58.57%
4,938
41.33%
12
0.10%
2,060
17.24%
11,948
Carbon
5,364
69.70%
2,318
30.12%
14
0.18%
3,046
39.58%
7,696
Daggett
98
56.65%
75
43.35%
0
0.00%
23
13.29%
173
Davis
5,179
58.51%
3,663
41.39%
9
0.10%
1,516
17.13%
8,851
Duchesne
1,629
58.83%
1,140
41.17%
0
0.00%
489
17.66%
2,769
Emery
1,427
59.41%
974
40.55%
1
0.04%
453
18.86%
2,402
Garfield
559
39.87%
842
60.06%
1
0.07%
-283
-20.19%
1,402
Grand
380
46.74%
428
52.64%
5
0.62%
-48
-5.90%
813
Iron
1,677
46.31%
1,930
53.30%
14
0.39%
-253
-6.99%
3,621
Juab
1,483
55.34%
1,192
44.48%
5
0.19%
291
10.86%
2,680
Kane
244
26.93%
662
73.07%
0
0.00%
-418
-46.14%
906
Millard
1,909
50.20%
1,889
49.67%
5
0.13%
20
0.53%
3,803
Morgan
671
55.64%
535
44.36%
0
0.00%
136
11.28%
1,206
Piute
346
47.59%
381
52.41%
0
0.00%
-35
-4.81%
727
Rich
395
50.06%
394
49.94%
0
0.00%
1
0.13%
789
Salt Lake
66,114
62.61%
39,327
37.24%
157
0.15%
26,787
25.37%
105,598
San Juan
367
41.66%
513
58.23%
1
0.11%
-146
-16.57%
881
Sanpete
3,071
49.00%
3,196
51.00%
0
0.00%
-125
-1.99%
6,267
Sevier
2,095
47.13%
2,345
52.76%
5
0.11%
-250
-5.62%
4,445
Summit
1,761
54.32%
1,479
45.62%
2
0.06%
282
8.70%
3,242
Tooele
2,802
61.46%
1,753
38.45%
4
0.09%
1,049
23.01%
4,559
Uintah
1,519
50.63%
1,479
49.30%
2
0.07%
40
1.33%
3,000
Utah
15,722
61.14%
9,946
38.68%
45
0.18%
5,776
22.46%
25,713
Wasatch
1,249
54.09%
1,058
45.82%
2
0.09%
191
8.27%
2,309
Washington
1,694
51.80%
1,575
48.17%
1
0.03%
119
3.64%
3,270
Wayne
430
56.95%
325
43.05%
0
0.00%
105
13.91%
755
Weber
19,639
67.25%
9,518
32.59%
48
0.16%
10,121
34.66%
29,205
Totals
150,088
60.44%
97,891
39.42%
340
0.14%
52,197
21.02%
248,319
References