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| Turnout | 86.13% (of registered voters) 4.69pp65.72% (of eligible voters)  12.6pp[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The1944 United States presidential election in California took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose 25 representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.California voted for theDemocraticincumbent,Franklin Roosevelt, in a landslide over theRepublican challenger,New York GovernorThomas E. Dewey.
Democrats would not winSan Diego County again until 1992.
| 1944 United States presidential election in California[2] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) | 1,988,564 | 56.48% | 25 | |
| Republican | Thomas E. Dewey | 1,512,965 | 42.97% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Claude A. Watson | 14,770 | 0.42% | 0 | |
| No Party | Norman Thomas (write-in) | 2,515 | 0.07% | 0 | |
| No Party | Darlington Hoopes (write-in) | 1,408 | 0.04% | 0 | |
| No Party | Edward A. Teichert (write-in) | 180 | 0.01% | 0 | |
| No Party | Aria A. Albaugh (write-in) | 147 | 0.00% | 0 | |
| No Party | Scattering | 326 | 0.01% | 0 | |
| Invalid or blank votes | — | ||||
| Totals | 3,520,875 | 100.00% | 25 | ||
| Voter turnout | — | ||||
| County | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | Thomas E. Dewey Republican | Claude A. Watson Prohibition | Scattering Write-in[a] | Margin | Total votes cast[2] | |||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Alameda | 169,631 | 57.70% | 122,982 | 41.83% | 721 | 0.25% | 653[b] | 0.22% | 46,649 | 15.87% | 293,987 |
| Alpine | 45 | 31.47% | 98 | 68.53% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -53 | -37.06% | 143 |
| Amador | 1,976 | 61.69% | 1,191 | 37.18% | 36 | 1.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 785 | 24.51% | 3,203 |
| Butte | 8,811 | 52.55% | 7,852 | 46.83% | 105 | 0.63% | 0 | 0.00% | 959 | 5.72% | 16,768 |
| Calaveras | 1,893 | 56.19% | 1,455 | 43.19% | 21 | 0.62% | 0 | 0.00% | 438 | 13.00% | 3,369 |
| Colusa | 2,090 | 56.81% | 1,579 | 42.92% | 10 | 0.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 511 | 13.89% | 3,679 |
| Contra Costa | 47,831 | 63.96% | 26,816 | 35.86% | 138 | 0.18% | 0 | 0.00% | 21,015 | 28.10% | 74,785 |
| Del Norte | 818 | 44.70% | 1,011 | 55.25% | 1 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | -193 | -10.55% | 1,830 |
| El Dorado | 3,016 | 59.95% | 1,990 | 39.55% | 25 | 0.50% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,026 | 20.39% | 5,031 |
| Fresno | 40,769 | 63.84% | 22,668 | 35.50% | 425 | 0.67% | 0 | 0.00% | 18,101 | 28.34% | 63,862 |
| Glenn | 2,452 | 50.20% | 2,409 | 49.32% | 23 | 0.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 43 | 0.88% | 4,884 |
| Humboldt | 12,083 | 56.83% | 9,127 | 42.93% | 50 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,956 | 13.90% | 21,260 |
| Imperial | 5,085 | 45.76% | 5,979 | 53.81% | 48 | 0.43% | 0 | 0.00% | -894 | -8.05% | 11,112 |
| Inyo | 1,647 | 49.09% | 1,699 | 50.64% | 9 | 0.27% | 0 | 0.00% | -52 | -1.55% | 3,355 |
| Kern | 26,205 | 55.56% | 20,730 | 43.96% | 206 | 0.44% | 20[c] | 0.04% | 5,475 | 11.61% | 47,161 |
| Kings | 6,591 | 65.04% | 3,468 | 34.22% | 75 | 0.74% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,123 | 30.82% | 10,134 |
| Lake | 1,671 | 44.61% | 2,059 | 54.97% | 16 | 0.43% | 0 | 0.00% | -388 | -10.36% | 3,746 |
| Lassen | 3,678 | 65.81% | 1,896 | 33.92% | 15 | 0.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,782 | 31.88% | 5,589 |
| Los Angeles | 886,252 | 56.75% | 666,441 | 42.68% | 6,081 | 0.39% | 2,790[d] | 0.18% | 219,811 | 14.08% | 1,561,564 |
| Madera | 4,276 | 59.47% | 2,865 | 39.85% | 49 | 0.68% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,411 | 19.62% | 7,190 |
| Marin | 14,516 | 52.04% | 13,304 | 47.69% | 32 | 0.11% | 44[e] | 0.16% | 1,212 | 4.34% | 27,896 |
| Mariposa | 1,203 | 55.06% | 965 | 44.16% | 17 | 0.78% | 0 | 0.00% | 238 | 10.89% | 2,185 |
| Mendocino | 5,452 | 53.75% | 4,655 | 45.89% | 32 | 0.32% | 4[f] | 0.04% | 797 | 7.86% | 10,143 |
| Merced | 9,192 | 58.25% | 6,518 | 41.31% | 69 | 0.44% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,674 | 16.95% | 15,779 |
| Modoc | 1,540 | 54.28% | 1,288 | 45.40% | 9 | 0.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 252 | 8.88% | 2,837 |
| Mono | 242 | 38.97% | 378 | 60.87% | 1 | 0.16% | 0 | 0.00% | -136 | -21.90% | 621 |
| Monterey | 14,342 | 53.66% | 12,246 | 45.82% | 106 | 0.40% | 34[g] | 0.13% | 2,096 | 7.84% | 26,728 |
| Napa | 7,748 | 51.87% | 7,092 | 47.48% | 81 | 0.54% | 15[h] | 0.10% | 656 | 4.39% | 14,936 |
| Nevada | 3,266 | 54.79% | 2,648 | 44.42% | 47 | 0.79% | 0 | 0.00% | 618 | 10.37% | 5,961 |
| Orange | 28,649 | 42.47% | 38,394 | 56.92% | 407 | 0.60% | 0 | 0.00% | -9,745 | -14.45% | 67,450 |
| Placer | 7,149 | 62.66% | 4,196 | 36.78% | 64 | 0.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,953 | 25.88% | 11,409 |
| Plumas | 2,625 | 69.83% | 1,126 | 29.95% | 8 | 0.21% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,499 | 39.88% | 3,759 |
| Riverside | 19,439 | 45.26% | 23,168 | 53.94% | 346 | 0.81% | 0 | 0.00% | -3,729 | -8.68% | 42,953 |
| Sacramento | 49,204 | 66.30% | 24,611 | 33.16% | 343 | 0.46% | 60[i] | 0.08% | 24,593 | 33.14% | 74,218 |
| San Benito | 1,998 | 46.82% | 2,253 | 52.80% | 16 | 0.37% | 0 | 0.00% | -255 | -5.98% | 4,267 |
| San Bernardino | 38,530 | 52.59% | 34,084 | 46.52% | 646 | 0.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,446 | 6.07% | 73,260 |
| San Diego | 89,959 | 53.94% | 75,746 | 45.42% | 777 | 0.47% | 282[j] | 0.17% | 14,213 | 8.52% | 166,764 |
| San Francisco | 208,609 | 60.51% | 134,163 | 38.92% | 1,613 | 0.47% | 346[k] | 0.10% | 74,446 | 21.60% | 344,731 |
| San Joaquin | 27,074 | 52.48% | 24,357 | 47.21% | 125 | 0.24% | 32[l] | 0.06% | 2,717 | 5.27% | 51,588 |
| San Luis Obispo | 8,068 | 50.63% | 7,793 | 48.90% | 75 | 0.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 275 | 1.73% | 15,936 |
| San Mateo | 34,594 | 50.62% | 33,590 | 49.15% | 158 | 0.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,004 | 1.47% | 68,342 |
| Santa Barbara | 15,721 | 53.37% | 13,647 | 46.33% | 89 | 0.30% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,074 | 7.04% | 29,457 |
| Santa Clara | 43,869 | 52.36% | 39,409 | 47.04% | 297 | 0.35% | 202[m] | 0.24% | 4,460 | 5.32% | 83,777 |
| Santa Cruz | 9,357 | 45.34% | 11,102 | 53.80% | 164 | 0.79% | 14[n] | 0.07% | -1,745 | -8.46% | 20,637 |
| Shasta | 5,798 | 58.90% | 4,023 | 40.87% | 22 | 0.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,775 | 18.03% | 9,843 |
| Sierra | 662 | 59.64% | 443 | 39.91% | 5 | 0.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 219 | 19.73% | 1,110 |
| Siskiyou | 5,914 | 57.29% | 4,351 | 42.15% | 58 | 0.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,563 | 15.14% | 10,323 |
| Solano | 24,335 | 69.93% | 10,361 | 29.77% | 105 | 0.30% | 0 | 0.00% | 13,974 | 40.15% | 34,801 |
| Sonoma | 15,949 | 49.27% | 16,309 | 50.38% | 85 | 0.26% | 26[o] | 0.08% | -360 | -1.11% | 32,369 |
| Stanislaus | 15,537 | 51.33% | 14,297 | 47.23% | 399 | 1.32% | 38[p] | 0.13% | 1,240 | 4.10% | 30,271 |
| Sutter | 3,083 | 49.54% | 3,111 | 49.99% | 29 | 0.47% | 0 | 0.00% | -28 | -0.45% | 6,223 |
| Tehama | 3,130 | 51.53% | 2,903 | 47.79% | 41 | 0.68% | 0 | 0.00% | 227 | 3.74% | 6,074 |
| Trinity | 770 | 57.33% | 567 | 42.22% | 6 | 0.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 203 | 15.12% | 1,343 |
| Tulare | 16,221 | 49.97% | 16,005 | 49.30% | 238 | 0.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 216 | 0.67% | 32,464 |
| Tuolumne | 2,566 | 57.51% | 1,864 | 41.77% | 16 | 0.36% | 16[q] | 0.36% | 702 | 15.73% | 4,462 |
| Ventura | 16,342 | 59.33% | 11,071 | 40.19% | 131 | 0.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,271 | 19.14% | 27,544 |
| Yolo | 5,837 | 57.70% | 4,233 | 41.84% | 46 | 0.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,604 | 15.86% | 10,116 |
| Yuba | 3,254 | 57.63% | 2,379 | 42.14% | 13 | 0.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 875 | 15.50% | 5,646 |
| Total | 1,988,564 | 56.48% | 1,512,965 | 42.97% | 14,770 | 0.42% | 4,576 | 0.13% | 475,599 | 13.51% | 3,520,875 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt &Harry S. Truman Democratic Party | Thomas E. Dewey &John W. Bricker Republican Party | Claude A. Watson &Andrew Johnson Prohibition Party |
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