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The1944 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose 28[2] representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Illinois was won byincumbent PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt (D–New York), running withSenatorHarry S. Truman, with 51.52% of the popular vote, againstGovernorThomas E. Dewey (R–New York), running withGovernorJohn W. Bricker, with 48.05% of the popular vote.[3][4] Illinois was one of six states that became more Democratic compared to 1940, alongside Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, and Rhode Island.
The primaries and general elections coincided with those for other federal offices (Senate andHouse), as well asthose for state offices.[5]
The total vote in the state-run primary elections (Democratic and Republican) was 646,993.[5]
The total vote in the general election was 4,036,061.[5] Both major parties held non-binding state-run preferential primaries on April 11.[5]
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The1944 Illinois Democratic presidential primary was held on April 11, 1944, in the U.S. state ofIllinois as one of theDemocratic Party's state primaries ahead of the 1944 presidential election.
The popular vote was a non-binding "beauty contest". Delegates were instead elected by direct votes by congressional district on delegate candidates.[5]
| Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 48,561 | 99.30 |
| Scattering | 343 | 0.70 |
| Total | 48,904 | 100 |
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The1944 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on April 11, 1944, in the U.S. state ofIllinois as one of theRepublican Party's state primaries ahead of the 1944 presidential election.
The preference vote was a "beauty contest". Delegates were instead selected by direct-vote in each congressional districts on delegate candidates.[5]
Douglas MacArthur won the primary. Illinois businessmanRiley A. Bender placed second, running as afavorite son.
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Douglas MacArthur | 550,354 | 92.02 |
| Riley A. Bender | 37,575 | 6.28 |
| Thomas Dewey | 9,192 | 1.54 |
| Everett Dirksen | 581 | 0.10 |
| John Bricker | 148 | 0.03 |
| Harold E. Stassen | 111 | 0.02 |
| Wendell Willkie | 107 | 0.02 |
| Scattering | 21 | 0.00 |
| Total | 598,089 | 100 |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (inc.) | 2,079,479 | 51.52% | |
| Republican | Thomas E. Dewey | 1,939,314 | 48.05% | |
| Socialist Labor | Edward Teichert | 9,677 | 0.24% | |
| Prohibition | Claude Watson | 7,411 | 0.18% | |
| Write-in | Norman Thomas | 180 | 0.00% | |
| Total votes | 4,036,061 | 100% | ||
| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic | Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast[6] | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 13,733 | 46.65% | 15,564 | 52.87% | 142 | 0.48% | -1,831 | -6.22% | 29,439 |
| Alexander | 4,767 | 49.47% | 4,792 | 49.73% | 78 | 0.81% | -25 | -0.26% | 9,637 |
| Bond | 2,607 | 38.86% | 3,907 | 58.24% | 194 | 2.89% | -1,300 | -19.38% | 6,708 |
| Boone | 2,074 | 26.59% | 5,708 | 73.18% | 18 | 0.23% | -3,634 | -46.59% | 7,800 |
| Brown | 1,849 | 51.26% | 1,738 | 48.18% | 20 | 0.55% | 111 | 3.08% | 3,607 |
| Bureau | 6,976 | 37.05% | 11,802 | 62.68% | 51 | 0.27% | -4,826 | -25.63% | 18,829 |
| Calhoun | 1,271 | 39.22% | 1,956 | 60.35% | 14 | 0.43% | -685 | -21.14% | 3,241 |
| Carroll | 2,843 | 31.72% | 6,101 | 68.08% | 18 | 0.20% | -3,258 | -36.35% | 8,962 |
| Cass | 3,909 | 51.54% | 3,641 | 48.00% | 35 | 0.46% | 268 | 3.53% | 7,585 |
| Champaign | 13,842 | 42.00% | 18,935 | 57.46% | 177 | 0.54% | -5,093 | -15.45% | 32,954 |
| Christian | 9,360 | 50.77% | 8,995 | 48.79% | 82 | 0.44% | 365 | 1.98% | 18,437 |
| Clark | 3,619 | 40.02% | 5,373 | 59.41% | 52 | 0.57% | -1,754 | -19.39% | 9,044 |
| Clay | 3,531 | 43.54% | 4,484 | 55.29% | 95 | 1.17% | -953 | -11.75% | 8,110 |
| Clinton | 3,944 | 36.69% | 6,753 | 62.82% | 53 | 0.49% | -2,809 | -26.13% | 10,750 |
| Coles | 8,936 | 48.40% | 9,473 | 51.31% | 54 | 0.29% | -537 | -2.91% | 18,463 |
| Cook | 1,275,367 | 57.81% | 924,659 | 41.91% | 6,165 | 0.28% | 350,708 | 15.90% | 2,206,191 |
| Crawford | 4,482 | 42.22% | 6,056 | 57.04% | 79 | 0.74% | -1,574 | -14.83% | 10,617 |
| Cumberland | 2,391 | 46.83% | 2,700 | 52.88% | 15 | 0.29% | -309 | -6.05% | 5,106 |
| DeKalb | 6,004 | 32.97% | 12,157 | 66.76% | 49 | 0.27% | -6,153 | -33.79% | 18,210 |
| DeWitt | 3,658 | 43.77% | 4,630 | 55.40% | 69 | 0.83% | -972 | -11.63% | 8,357 |
| Douglas | 3,323 | 41.36% | 4,684 | 58.29% | 28 | 0.35% | -1,361 | -16.94% | 8,035 |
| DuPage | 18,711 | 30.79% | 41,890 | 68.93% | 174 | 0.29% | -23,179 | -38.14% | 60,775 |
| Edgar | 5,054 | 41.88% | 6,961 | 57.68% | 54 | 0.45% | -1,907 | -15.80% | 12,069 |
| Edwards | 1,197 | 28.16% | 3,016 | 70.96% | 37 | 0.87% | -1,819 | -42.80% | 4,250 |
| Effingham | 4,587 | 45.33% | 5,441 | 53.77% | 91 | 0.90% | -854 | -8.44% | 10,119 |
| Fayette | 5,435 | 45.72% | 6,332 | 53.27% | 120 | 1.01% | -897 | -7.55% | 11,887 |
| Ford | 2,270 | 29.85% | 5,317 | 69.91% | 18 | 0.24% | -3,047 | -40.07% | 7,605 |
| Franklin | 11,663 | 50.24% | 11,377 | 49.01% | 173 | 0.75% | 286 | 1.23% | 23,213 |
| Fulton | 8,946 | 44.22% | 11,117 | 54.96% | 166 | 0.82% | -2,171 | -10.73% | 20,229 |
| Gallatin | 2,175 | 50.64% | 2,073 | 48.27% | 47 | 1.09% | 102 | 2.37% | 4,295 |
| Greene | 4,268 | 49.78% | 4,261 | 49.70% | 45 | 0.52% | 7 | 0.08% | 8,574 |
| Grundy | 3,544 | 35.88% | 6,310 | 63.89% | 22 | 0.22% | -2,766 | -28.01% | 9,876 |
| Hamilton | 2,914 | 44.48% | 3,582 | 54.68% | 55 | 0.84% | -668 | -10.20% | 6,551 |
| Hancock | 5,338 | 39.90% | 7,972 | 59.59% | 68 | 0.51% | -2,634 | -19.69% | 13,378 |
| Hardin | 1,370 | 39.85% | 2,037 | 59.25% | 31 | 0.90% | -667 | -19.40% | 3,438 |
| Henderson | 1,550 | 36.43% | 2,695 | 63.34% | 10 | 0.24% | -1,145 | -26.91% | 4,255 |
| Henry | 9,130 | 40.11% | 13,539 | 59.48% | 92 | 0.40% | -4,409 | -19.37% | 22,761 |
| Iroquois | 5,168 | 33.03% | 10,389 | 66.39% | 91 | 0.58% | -5,221 | -33.37% | 15,648 |
| Jackson | 6,735 | 40.11% | 10,002 | 59.57% | 54 | 0.32% | -3,267 | -19.46% | 16,791 |
| Jasper | 3,142 | 47.43% | 3,453 | 52.13% | 29 | 0.44% | -311 | -4.70% | 6,624 |
| Jefferson | 8,496 | 51.33% | 7,916 | 47.83% | 139 | 0.84% | 580 | 3.50% | 16,551 |
| Jersey | 2,910 | 44.87% | 3,546 | 54.67% | 30 | 0.46% | -636 | -9.81% | 6,486 |
| Jo Daviess | 3,298 | 33.66% | 6,465 | 65.99% | 34 | 0.35% | -3,167 | -32.33% | 9,797 |
| Johnson | 1,522 | 31.49% | 3,298 | 68.24% | 13 | 0.27% | -1,776 | -36.75% | 4,833 |
| Kane | 23,362 | 37.54% | 38,689 | 62.16% | 185 | 0.30% | -15,327 | -24.63% | 62,236 |
| Kankakee | 11,342 | 42.50% | 15,256 | 57.16% | 90 | 0.34% | -3,914 | -14.67% | 26,688 |
| Kendall | 1,673 | 29.35% | 4,022 | 70.55% | 6 | 0.11% | -2,349 | -41.20% | 5,701 |
| Knox | 10,070 | 38.49% | 15,964 | 61.02% | 126 | 0.48% | -5,894 | -22.53% | 26,160 |
| Lake | 25,453 | 41.52% | 35,674 | 58.19% | 183 | 0.30% | -10,221 | -16.67% | 61,310 |
| LaSalle | 21,489 | 41.42% | 28,179 | 54.32% | 2,210 | 4.26% | -6,690 | -12.90% | 51,878 |
| Lawrence | 4,003 | 43.02% | 5,191 | 55.79% | 111 | 1.19% | -1,188 | -12.77% | 9,305 |
| Lee | 4,899 | 31.98% | 10,397 | 67.88% | 21 | 0.14% | -5,498 | -35.89% | 15,317 |
| Livingston | 6,231 | 33.29% | 12,436 | 66.44% | 52 | 0.28% | -6,205 | -33.15% | 18,719 |
| Logan | 4,868 | 37.88% | 7,955 | 61.90% | 29 | 0.23% | -3,087 | -24.02% | 12,852 |
| Macon | 22,808 | 53.58% | 19,608 | 46.06% | 153 | 0.36% | 3,200 | 7.52% | 42,569 |
| Macoupin | 11,951 | 50.46% | 11,572 | 48.86% | 160 | 0.68% | 379 | 1.60% | 23,683 |
| Madison | 40,114 | 58.24% | 28,399 | 41.23% | 359 | 0.52% | 11,715 | 17.01% | 68,872 |
| Marion | 10,079 | 51.32% | 9,408 | 47.90% | 153 | 0.78% | 671 | 3.42% | 19,640 |
| Marshall | 2,596 | 38.17% | 4,195 | 61.68% | 10 | 0.15% | -1,599 | -23.51% | 6,801 |
| Mason | 3,282 | 45.19% | 3,959 | 54.52% | 21 | 0.29% | -677 | -9.32% | 7,262 |
| Massac | 1,758 | 31.13% | 3,814 | 67.53% | 76 | 1.35% | -2,056 | -36.40% | 5,648 |
| McDonough | 4,497 | 33.03% | 9,028 | 66.30% | 91 | 0.67% | -4,531 | -33.28% | 13,616 |
| McHenry | 5,567 | 26.14% | 15,666 | 73.55% | 66 | 0.31% | -10,099 | -47.42% | 21,299 |
| McLean | 14,011 | 41.75% | 19,366 | 57.70% | 185 | 0.55% | -5,355 | -15.96% | 33,562 |
| Menard | 1,888 | 38.33% | 3,013 | 61.17% | 25 | 0.51% | -1,125 | -22.84% | 4,926 |
| Mercer | 3,277 | 36.50% | 5,667 | 63.12% | 34 | 0.38% | -2,390 | -26.62% | 8,978 |
| Monroe | 2,068 | 33.85% | 4,032 | 66.00% | 9 | 0.15% | -1,964 | -32.15% | 6,109 |
| Montgomery | 7,855 | 46.08% | 8,989 | 52.74% | 201 | 1.18% | -1,134 | -6.65% | 17,045 |
| Morgan | 6,965 | 43.72% | 8,923 | 56.01% | 42 | 0.26% | -1,958 | -12.29% | 15,930 |
| Moultrie | 2,853 | 46.93% | 3,180 | 52.31% | 46 | 0.76% | -327 | -5.38% | 6,079 |
| Ogle | 3,951 | 26.86% | 10,680 | 72.59% | 81 | 0.55% | -6,729 | -45.74% | 14,712 |
| Peoria | 32,837 | 48.83% | 34,171 | 50.81% | 243 | 0.36% | -1,334 | -1.98% | 67,251 |
| Perry | 4,677 | 42.73% | 6,236 | 56.97% | 33 | 0.30% | -1,559 | -14.24% | 10,946 |
| Piatt | 2,641 | 40.09% | 3,912 | 59.38% | 35 | 0.53% | -1,271 | -19.29% | 6,588 |
| Pike | 5,833 | 50.58% | 5,633 | 48.85% | 66 | 0.57% | 200 | 1.73% | 11,532 |
| Pope | 813 | 25.74% | 2,305 | 72.99% | 40 | 1.27% | -1,492 | -47.25% | 3,158 |
| Pulaski | 2,311 | 41.28% | 3,248 | 58.02% | 39 | 0.70% | -937 | -16.74% | 5,598 |
| Putnam | 865 | 36.10% | 1,521 | 63.48% | 10 | 0.42% | -656 | -27.38% | 2,396 |
| Randolph | 6,199 | 45.06% | 7,518 | 54.65% | 39 | 0.28% | -1,319 | -9.59% | 13,756 |
| Richland | 2,858 | 38.04% | 4,577 | 60.91% | 79 | 1.05% | -1,719 | -22.88% | 7,514 |
| Rock Island | 30,102 | 55.48% | 23,980 | 44.19% | 180 | 0.33% | 6,122 | 11.28% | 54,262 |
| Saline | 7,351 | 44.45% | 9,083 | 54.92% | 105 | 0.63% | -1,732 | -10.47% | 16,539 |
| Sangamon | 28,713 | 46.50% | 32,871 | 53.24% | 161 | 0.26% | -4,158 | -6.73% | 61,745 |
| Schuyler | 2,555 | 47.27% | 2,801 | 51.82% | 49 | 0.91% | -246 | -4.55% | 5,405 |
| Scott | 1,864 | 45.93% | 2,185 | 53.84% | 9 | 0.22% | -321 | -7.91% | 4,058 |
| Shelby | 5,919 | 48.35% | 6,201 | 50.65% | 123 | 1.00% | -282 | -2.30% | 12,243 |
| St. Clair | 48,325 | 58.78% | 33,557 | 40.82% | 327 | 0.40% | 14,768 | 17.96% | 82,209 |
| Stark | 1,401 | 31.43% | 3,050 | 68.42% | 7 | 0.16% | -1,649 | -36.99% | 4,458 |
| Stephenson | 7,755 | 39.13% | 11,948 | 60.28% | 118 | 0.60% | -4,193 | -21.15% | 19,821 |
| Tazewell | 14,412 | 53.30% | 12,531 | 46.34% | 96 | 0.36% | 1,881 | 6.96% | 27,039 |
| Union | 4,367 | 51.21% | 4,114 | 48.25% | 46 | 0.54% | 253 | 2.97% | 8,527 |
| Vermilion | 18,387 | 46.60% | 20,794 | 52.70% | 273 | 0.69% | -2,407 | -6.10% | 39,454 |
| Wabash | 3,026 | 45.83% | 3,496 | 52.95% | 81 | 1.23% | -470 | -7.12% | 6,603 |
| Warren | 3,926 | 35.53% | 7,085 | 64.12% | 39 | 0.35% | -3,159 | -28.59% | 11,050 |
| Washington | 2,723 | 33.26% | 5,428 | 66.31% | 35 | 0.43% | -2,705 | -33.04% | 8,186 |
| Wayne | 4,019 | 41.17% | 5,683 | 58.21% | 61 | 0.62% | -1,664 | -17.04% | 9,763 |
| White | 4,822 | 47.97% | 5,139 | 51.12% | 91 | 0.91% | -317 | -3.15% | 10,052 |
| Whiteside | 5,555 | 27.93% | 14,162 | 71.21% | 171 | 0.86% | -8,607 | -43.28% | 19,888 |
| Will | 27,085 | 47.14% | 30,058 | 52.32% | 310 | 0.54% | -2,973 | -5.17% | 57,453 |
| Williamson | 9,974 | 43.99% | 12,594 | 55.55% | 103 | 0.45% | -2,620 | -11.56% | 22,671 |
| Winnebago | 27,831 | 47.22% | 30,837 | 52.31% | 277 | 0.47% | -3,006 | -5.10% | 58,945 |
| Woodford | 3,514 | 35.90% | 6,237 | 63.73% | 36 | 0.37% | -2,723 | -27.82% | 9,787 |
| Totals | 2,079,479 | 51.52% | 1,939,314 | 48.05% | 17,088 | 0.42% | 140,165 | 3.47% | 4,035,881 |
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