1948 United States presidential election in Utah
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The 1948 United States presidential election in Utah was held on November 2, 1948. Utah voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Democratic Party candidate Harry S. Truman won the state with 53.98% of the popular vote, winning Utah's four electoral votes.[1] As of the 2016 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Davis County and Uintah County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[2]
Results
United States presidential election in Utah, 1948 | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Harry S. Truman | 149,151 | 53.98% | 4 | |
Republican | Thomas E. Dewey | 124,402 | 45.02% | 0 | |
Progressive | Henry A. Wallace | 2,679 | 0.97% | 0 | |
Socialist Workers | Farrell Dobbs | 73 | 0.03% | 0 | |
Totals | 276,305 | 100.0% | 4 |
Results by county
Harry S. Truman[3] Democratic |
Thomas Edmund Dewey[3] Republican |
Henry Agard Wallace[4] Other parties |
Farrell Dobbs[4] Socialist Workers’ |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
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County | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # |
Beaver | 1,190 | 52.56% | 1,057 | 46.69% | 17 | 0.75% | 0 | 0.00% | 133 | 5.87% | 2,264 |
Box Elder | 3,667 | 49.06% | 3,790 | 50.70% | 18 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | -123 | -1.65% | 7,475 |
Cache | 6,383 | 49.30% | 6,514 | 50.32% | 46 | 0.36% | 3 | 0.02% | -131 | -1.01% | 12,946 |
Carbon | 6,397 | 68.34% | 2,704 | 28.89% | 254 | 2.71% | 5 | 0.05% | 3,693 | 39.46% | 9,360 |
Daggett | 95 | 57.58% | 69 | 41.82% | 1 | 0.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 26 | 15.76% | 165 |
Davis | 6,147 | 56.21% | 4,718 | 43.14% | 71 | 0.65% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,429 | 13.07% | 10,936 |
Duchesne | 1,588 | 55.33% | 1,266 | 44.11% | 16 | 0.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 322 | 11.22% | 2,870 |
Emery | 1,511 | 56.53% | 1,147 | 42.91% | 14 | 0.52% | 1 | 0.04% | 364 | 13.62% | 2,673 |
Garfield | 642 | 40.97% | 924 | 58.97% | 1 | 0.06% | 0 | 0.00% | -282 | -18.00% | 1,567 |
Grand | 400 | 48.37% | 418 | 50.54% | 9 | 1.09% | 0 | 0.00% | -18 | -2.18% | 827 |
Iron | 1,596 | 40.81% | 2,289 | 58.53% | 24 | 0.61% | 2 | 0.05% | -693 | -17.72% | 3,911 |
Juab | 1,501 | 51.55% | 1,396 | 47.94% | 13 | 0.45% | 2 | 0.07% | 105 | 3.61% | 2,912 |
Kane | 220 | 22.24% | 769 | 77.76% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -549 | -55.51% | 989 |
Millard | 1,817 | 45.10% | 2,184 | 54.21% | 26 | 0.65% | 2 | 0.05% | -367 | -9.11% | 4,029 |
Morgan | 670 | 52.96% | 587 | 46.40% | 7 | 0.55% | 1 | 0.08% | 83 | 6.56% | 1,265 |
Piute | 315 | 41.28% | 440 | 57.67% | 8 | 1.05% | 0 | 0.00% | -125 | -16.38% | 763 |
Rich | 366 | 47.78% | 399 | 52.09% | 1 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | -33 | -4.31% | 766 |
Salt Lake | 62,957 | 53.85% | 52,479 | 44.89% | 1,453 | 1.24% | 28 | 0.02% | 10,478 | 8.96% | 116,917 |
San Juan | 418 | 42.52% | 558 | 56.77% | 5 | 0.51% | 2 | 0.20% | -140 | -14.24% | 983 |
Sanpete | 3,041 | 47.42% | 3,336 | 52.02% | 32 | 0.50% | 4 | 0.06% | -295 | -4.60% | 6,413 |
Sevier | 1,943 | 40.91% | 2,791 | 58.76% | 15 | 0.32% | 1 | 0.02% | -848 | -17.85% | 4,750 |
Summit | 1,556 | 48.53% | 1,617 | 50.44% | 33 | 1.03% | 0 | 0.00% | -61 | -1.90% | 3,206 |
Tooele | 2,798 | 57.29% | 2,036 | 41.69% | 48 | 0.98% | 2 | 0.04% | 762 | 15.60% | 4,884 |
Uintah | 1,622 | 51.44% | 1,513 | 47.99% | 17 | 0.54% | 1 | 0.03% | 109 | 3.46% | 3,153 |
Utah | 16,191 | 54.18% | 13,395 | 44.82% | 296 | 0.99% | 4 | 0.01% | 2,796 | 9.36% | 29,886 |
Wasatch | 1,219 | 51.03% | 1,165 | 48.77% | 5 | 0.21% | 0 | 0.00% | 54 | 2.26% | 2,389 |
Washington | 1,580 | 43.68% | 2,029 | 56.10% | 6 | 0.17% | 2 | 0.06% | -449 | -12.41% | 3,617 |
Wayne | 460 | 55.35% | 367 | 44.16% | 4 | 0.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 93 | 11.19% | 831 |
Weber | 20,861 | 62.16% | 12,445 | 37.08% | 239 | 0.71% | 14 | 0.04% | 8,416 | 25.08% | 33,559 |
Totals | 149,151 | 53.98% | 124,402 | 45.02% | 2,679 | 0.97% | 74 | 0.03% | 24,749 | 8.96% | 276,306 |
References
- ^ "1948 Presidential General Election Results - Utah". Retrieved October 19, 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 Géoelections; 1948 Presidential Election Popular Vote (xlsx file for €15)
- ^ a b Géoelections; Popular Vote for Henry Wallace (xlsx file for €15)