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The1944 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
Maine was won byRepublican Party candidateNew YorkgovernorThomas E. Dewey overDemocratic candidate,incumbentPresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt also remains the most recent Democratic president to win more than one term without carrying Maine once.
Dewey won Maine by a narrow margin of 4.99%. Making it one of the tighter statewide races in the election.
Along withVermont, Maine is one of two states that never voted forPresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt in any of his four victorious presidential campaigns.
| 1944 United States presidential election in Maine[1] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | Thomas Edmund Dewey ofNew York | John William Bricker ofOhio | 155,434 | 52.44% | 5 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | Franklin Delano Roosevelt ofNew York | Harry S. Truman ofMissouri | 140,631 | 47.45% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Socialist Labor | Edward A. Teichert ofPennsylvania | Arla Arbaugh ofOhio | 335 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 296,400 | 100.00% | 5 | 100.00% | ||||
| County | Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic | Edward A. Teichert Socialist Labor | Margin | Total votes cast[2] | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Androscoggin | 10,927 | 36.38% | 19,078 | 63.51% | 34 | 0.11% | -8,151 | -27.13% | 30,037 |
| Aroostook | 11,678 | 59.23% | 8,017 | 40.66% | 22 | 0.11% | 3,661 | 18.57% | 19,717 |
| Cumberland | 29,349 | 52.15% | 26,857 | 47.72% | 72 | 0.13% | 2,492 | 4.43% | 56,278 |
| Franklin | 4,127 | 60.90% | 2,646 | 39.04% | 4 | 0.06% | 1,481 | 21.86% | 6,777 |
| Hancock | 7,143 | 68.71% | 3,241 | 31.18% | 12 | 0.12% | 3,902 | 37.53% | 10,396 |
| Kennebec | 14,335 | 50.42% | 14,070 | 49.49% | 25 | 0.09% | 265 | 0.93% | 28,430 |
| Knox | 5,590 | 59.70% | 3,758 | 40.14% | 15 | 0.16% | 1,832 | 19.56% | 9,363 |
| Lincoln | 4,919 | 69.97% | 2,102 | 29.90% | 9 | 0.13% | 2,817 | 40.07% | 7,030 |
| Oxford | 8,053 | 55.76% | 6,377 | 44.16% | 12 | 0.08% | 1,676 | 11.60% | 14,442 |
| Penobscot | 16,934 | 55.95% | 13,292 | 43.92% | 38 | 0.13% | 3,642 | 12.03% | 30,264 |
| Piscataquis | 3,536 | 54.45% | 2,957 | 45.53% | 1 | 0.02% | 579 | 8.92% | 6,494 |
| Sagadahoc | 3,883 | 49.22% | 4,003 | 50.74% | 3 | 0.04% | -120 | -1.52% | 7,889 |
| Somerset | 7,167 | 57.23% | 5,331 | 42.57% | 25 | 0.20% | 1,836 | 14.66% | 12,523 |
| Waldo | 4,291 | 70.30% | 1,807 | 29.60% | 6 | 0.10% | 2,484 | 40.70% | 6,104 |
| Washington | 5,380 | 48.44% | 5,709 | 51.40% | 18 | 0.16% | -329 | -2.96% | 11,107 |
| York | 18,122 | 45.82% | 21,386 | 54.08% | 39 | 0.10% | -3,264 | -8.26% | 39,547 |
| Totals | 155,434 | 52.44% | 140,631 | 47.45% | 335 | 0.11% | 14,803 | 4.99% | 296,400 |
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