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Presidential elections were held on Tuesday, November 7, 1944. The election took place duringWorld War II which ended the following year. TheDemocratic ticket of incumbent PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt and SenatorHarry Truman defeated theRepublican ticket ofNew York GovernorThomas E. Dewey andOhio GovernorJohn Bricker to win an unprecedented fourth term. It was also the fifth presidential election in which both major party candidates were registered in the same home state; the others have been in1860,1904,1920,1940, and2016. Though the margin of victory was still a landslide, this was Roosevelt's weakest performance in his four elections, and the popular vote split was less lopsided.
Roosevelt had become the first president to win a third term with his victory in the1940 presidential election, with little doubt that he would seek a fourth term. Unlike in 1940, Roosevelt faced little opposition within his own party, and he easily won the presidential nomination of the1944 Democratic National Convention. Concerned that Roosevelt's ill health would mean the vice president would likely become president, the conventiondropped Roosevelt's vice presidentHenry A. Wallace in favor of the lesser known SenatorHarry S. Truman of Missouri.[2] Governor Dewey of New York emerged as the front-runner for the Republican nomination after his victory in the Wisconsin primary, and he defeated conservative GovernorJohn W. Bricker at the1944 Republican National Convention.
As World War II was going well for the United States and theAllies, Roosevelt remained popular despite his long tenure. Dewey campaigned against theNew Deal and for a smaller government, but was ultimately unsuccessful in convincing the country to change course. The election was closer than Roosevelt's other presidential campaigns, but Roosevelt still won by a 7.5 percentage point margin in the popular vote and by a wide margin in theElectoral College. Rumors of Roosevelt's ill health, although somewhat dispelled by his vigorous campaigning, proved to be prescient; Roosevelt died less than three months into his fourth term and was succeeded by Truman. Roosevelt would be the last major party candidate to have been nominated by their party for three or more consecutive elections untilDonald Trump in2024.
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Harry F. Byrd | James Farley | Joseph T. Ferguson | Fred H. Hildebrandt | Cordell Hull | Paul V. McNutt | ||||
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| U.S. President fromNew York (1933–1945) | U.S. Senator fromVirginia (1933–1965) | U.S. Postmaster General fromNew York (1933–1940) | State Auditor fromOhio (1936–1940) | U.S. Representative fromSouth Dakota (1933–1939) | United States Secretary of State fromTennessee(1933–1944) | High Commissioner to the Philippines fromIndiana (1937–1939) | ||||
| 1,324,006 votes1,086PD | 109,000 votes89PD | 76,919 votes1PD | 0PD | 0PD | 0PD | 0PD | ||||
| President | Vice President | ||
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 YFranklin D. Roosevelt | 1,086 | YHarry S. Truman | 626 |
| Harry F. Byrd | 89 | Henry A. Wallace | 329 |
| James Farley | 1 | Prentice Cooper | 26 |
| Scattering/Other | 7 | ||
| Alben W. Barkley | 6 | ||
| Paul V. McNutt | 1 | ||
| John H. Bankhead II | 0 | ||
| Scott W. Lucas | 0 | ||
| J. Melville Broughton | 0 | ||
President Roosevelt was the popular, wartime incumbent and faced little formal opposition. Although many Southern Democrats mistrusted Roosevelt's racial policies, he brought enormous war activities to the region and the end of its marginal status was in sight. No major figure opposed Roosevelt publicly, and he was re-nominated easily when the Democratic Convention met inChicago. Some pro-segregationist delegates tried to unite behind Virginia senatorHarry F. Byrd, but he refused to campaign actively against Roosevelt, and did not get enough delegates to seriously threaten the President's chances.
The obvious physical decline in the president's appearance, as well as rumors of secret health problems, led many delegates and party leaders to strongly oppose Vice PresidentHenry A. Wallace for a second term. Opposition to Wallace came especially from Catholic leaders in big cities and moderate Democrats. Wallace, who had been Roosevelt'svice president since January 1941, was regarded by most conservatives as being tooleft-wing and personally eccentric to be next in line for the presidency. He had performed so poorly as economic coordinator that Roosevelt had to remove him from that post. Numerous moderate party leaders privately sent word to Roosevelt that they would fight Wallace's re-nomination as vice president and proposed instead SenatorHarry S. Truman, a moderate from Missouri. Truman was highly visible as the chairman of a Senate wartime committee investigating fraud and inefficiency in the war program. Roosevelt, who personally liked Wallace and knew little about Truman, agreed reluctantly to accept Truman as his running mate to preserve party unity.[3] Even so, many delegates on the left refused to abandon Wallace, and they voted for him on the first ballot.[4] However, enough large Northern, Midwestern, and Southern states supported Truman to give him victory on the second ballot. The fight over the vice-presidential nomination proved to be consequential; the ticket won and Roosevelt died in April 1945, and Truman instead of Wallace became the nation's thirty-third President.[5]
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| Thomas E. Dewey | Douglas MacArthur | Earl Warren | John W. Bricker | Harold Stassen | Wendell Willkie | Charles A. Christopherson | Everett Dirksen | Chapman Revercomb | ||
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| Governor ofNew York (1943–1954) | General fromArkansas (1918–1951) | Governor ofCalifornia (1943–1953) | Governor ofOhio (1943–1953) | FormerGovernor ofMinnesota (1939–1943) | Businessman fromNew York | Representative fromSouth Dakota | Representative fromIllinois | U.S. Senator fromWest Virginia (1943–1949; 1956–1959) | ||
| 278,272votes1,056PD | 662,127 votes1PD | 594,439 votes | 366,444 votes | 67,508 votes | 0 votes0PD | 0 votes0PD | 0 votes0PD | 0 votes0PD | ||
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| YThomas E. Dewey | 1,056 | YJohn W. Bricker | 1,057 |
| Douglas MacArthur | 1 | Abstaining | 2 |
As 1944 began, the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to beWendell Willkie, the party's 1940 nominee, SenatorRobert A. Taft from Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York GovernorThomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's moderate eastern establishment, GeneralDouglas MacArthur, then serving as anAllied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota GovernorHarold Stassen, then serving as a U.S. naval officer in the Pacific. Taft surprised many by declining to run for president as he wanted to remain in the Senate; instead, he voiced his support for a fellow Ohio conservative, GovernorJohn W. Bricker.[6]
With Taft out of the race some Republican conservatives favored General MacArthur. However, MacArthur's chances were limited by the fact that he was leading Allied forces against Japan, and thus could not campaign for the nomination. His supporters entered his name in the Wisconsin primary nonetheless. The Wisconsin primary proved to be the key contest, as Dewey won by a surprisingly wide margin. He took fourteen delegates to four for Harold Stassen, while MacArthur won the three remaining delegates. Willkie was shut out in the Wisconsin primary; he did not win a single delegate. His unexpectedly poor showing in Wisconsin forced him to withdraw as a candidate for the nomination. However, at the time of his sudden death in early October 1944, Willkie had endorsed neither Dewey nor Roosevelt. At the1944 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Dewey easily overcame Bricker and was nominated for president on the first ballot. Dewey, a moderate to liberal Republican, chose the conservative Bricker as his running mate. Dewey originally preferred fellow liberal California GovernorEarl Warren, but agreed on Bricker to preserve party unity (Warren would go on to run with Dewey in the1948 election). Bricker was nominated for vice president byacclamation.
| Candidates |
| Franklin Roosevelt |
| Thomas Dewey |
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| Poll Source | Field Date(s) | Sample Size | Franklin Roosevelt Democratic | Thomas Dewey Republican | Others | Undecided | Leading by (points) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Election Results | November 7, 1944 | 53.4% | 45.9% | 0.7% | - | 7.5 | |
| Fortune[7] | November 5, 1944 | 50.9% | 44.1% | - | 5.0% | ~7 | |
| Gallup Poll News Service | November 3, 1944 | 3,085 (A) | 46.5% | 45.6% | 0.4% | 7.6% | 0.9 |
| Fortune[8] | October 20, 1944 | ? | ? | - | ? | 7.0 | |
| Gallup Poll News Service | October 17, 1944 | 2,404 (A) | 47.8% | 42.5% | 0.3% | 9.5% | 5.2 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | October 12, 1944 | 2,743 (A) | 46.1% | 43.1% | 0.4% | 10.3% | 3.0 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | October 6, 1944 | 2,616 (A) | 48.6% | 40.0% | 0.3% | 11.1% | 8.6 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | October 3, 1944 | 2,601 (A) | 44.2% | 44.4% | 0.4% | 9.8% | 0.2 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | September 20, 1944 | 2,988 (A) | 47.0% | 43.2% | - | 9.8% | 3.9 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | September 14, 1944 | 2,917 (A) | 48.6% | 40.7% | 0.7% | 10.1% | 7.8 |
| Fortune[9] | 49.3% | 44.4% | - | 6.3% | 4.9 | ||
| Gallup Poll News Service | September 6, 1944 | 615 (A) | 44.6% | 34.6% | - | 20.8% | 9.9 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | August 29, 1944 | 3,021 (A) | 46.4% | 42.3% | - | 11.3% | 4.1 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | August 16, 1944 | 1,171 (A) | 48.8% | 38.2% | - | 13.1% | 10.6 |
| Fortune[10] | 52.5% | 43.9% | - | 3.6% | 8.6 | ||
| Gallup Poll News Service | August 1, 1944 | 1,231 (A) | 46.8% | 41.7% | - | 11.5% | 5.1 |
| Fortune[8] | July 20, 1944 | 50.8% | 42.2% | - | 7.0% | 8.6 | |
| Gallup Poll News Service | July 18, 1944 | 3,020 (A) | 49.5% | 41.0% | - | 9.6% | 8.5 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | June 20, 1944 | 2,910 (A) | 51.0% | 43.5% | - | 5.5% | 7.5 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | June 7, 1944 | 2,718 (A) | 50.6% | 45.1% | - | 4.3% | 5.4 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | May 23, 1944 | 3,009 (A) | 50.3% | 44.7% | - | 5.0% | 5.6 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | May 9, 1944 | 2,631 (A) | 51.2% | 42.9% | - | 5.9% | 8.3 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | April 25, 1944 | 1,566 (A) | 48.0% | 46.2% | - | 5.8% | 1.9 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | March 29, 1944 | 2,982 (A) | 51.2% | 41.2% | - | 7.6% | 10.1 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | March 15, 1944 | 1,400 (A) | 53.4% | 42.4% | - | 4.2% | 11.0 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | March 1, 1944 | 1,643 (A) | 53.1% | 42.2% | - | 4.7% | 11.0 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | February 1, 1944 | 2,980 (A) | 48.8%[a] | 44.6%[b] | - | 6.6% | 4.2 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | January 4, 1944 | 3,006 (A) | 54.3% | 37.3% | - | 8.4% | 17.0 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | November 9, 1943 | 3,026 (A) | 53.9% | 39.9% | - | 6.2% | 14.0 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | October 26, 1943 | 2,918 (A) | 48.5%[c] | 43.4%[d] | - | 8.1% | 5.1 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | September 14, 1943 | 2,645 (A) | 58.0% | 33.7% | - | 8.3% | 24.3 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | July 7, 1943 | 3,033 (A) | 52.3% | 38.3% | - | 9.5% | 14.0 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | June 2, 1943 | 1,442 (A) | 51.9%[e] | 40.2%[f] | - | 7.9% | 11.8 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | May 12, 1943 | 1,497 (A) | 47.1%[g] | 36.3%[h] | - | 16.6% | 10.8 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | April 27, 1943 | 1,486 (A) | 51.6%[i] | 36.8%[j] | - | 11.6% | 14.7 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | January 7, 1943 | 2,808 (A) | 49.7% | 32.7% | - | 17.6% | 17.0 |
| Gallup Poll News Service | December 15, 1942 | 1,380 (A) | 41.1% | 35.8% | - | 23.1% | 5.3 |
The Republicans campaigned against theNew Deal,[11] seeking a smaller government and less-regulated economy as the end of the war seemed in sight. Nonetheless, Roosevelt's continuing popularity was the main theme of the campaign. To quiet rumors of his poor health, Roosevelt insisted on making a vigorous campaign swing in October and rode in an open car through city streets.
Numerous campaign songs for F.D.R. were written, possibly in an effort to advertise on radio duringradio's Golden Age. These included 1940's "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again" and "Mister Roosevelt, Won't You Please Run Again." In 1944, Broadway actressMary Crane Hone[12][13] published piano march "Let's Re-Re-Re-Elect Roosevelt."[14][15][16] Its lyrics were:
Let's make each one of our blows felt
For the causes of humanity and war.
Withworld peace just around the corner,
His leadership is necessary still.
So - Let's Re-Re-Re-Elect Roosevelt...[14]
A high point of the campaign occurred when Roosevelt, speaking to a meeting oflabor union leaders, gave a speech carried on national radio in which he ridiculed Republican claims that his administration was corrupt and wasteful with tax money.[17] He particularly derided a Republican claim that he had sent a US Navy warship to pick up hisScottish TerrierFala in Alaska, noting that "Fala was furious" at such rumors.[18] The speech was met with loud laughter and applause from the labor leaders. In response, Governor Dewey gave a blistering partisan speech inOklahoma City a few days later on national radio, in which he accused Roosevelt of being "indispensable" to corrupt big-city Democratic organizations andAmerican Communists;[19] he also referred to members of Roosevelt's cabinet as a "motley crew". However, American battlefield successes in Europe and the Pacific during the campaign, such as theliberation of Paris in August 1944 and the successfulBattle of Leyte Gulf in thePhilippines in October 1944, made President Roosevelt unbeatable.[20]
Throughout the campaign, Roosevelt led Dewey in all thepolls by varying margins. On election day, the Democratic incumbent scored a fairly comfortable victory over his Republican challenger. Roosevelt took 36 states for 432 electoral votes (266 were needed to win), while Dewey won twelve states and 99 electoral votes. In the popular vote, Roosevelt won 25,612,916 (53.4%) votes to Dewey's 22,017,929 (45.9%). Dewey conceded in a radio address the following morning, but declined to personally call or to send a telegram to President Roosevelt. Roosevelt sent Dewey a telegram reading, "I thank you for your statement, which I heard over the air a few minutes ago."[21] Roosevelt's victory made him the only person ever to win the presidential popular vote four times, and neither party would again win the popular vote four consecutive times until the Democrats did so in all four elections from2008 to2020.
The important question had been which leader,[22] Roosevelt or Dewey, should be chosen for the critical days of peacemaking and reconstruction following the war's conclusion. Most American voters concluded that they should retain the governing party, and particularly the president who represented it. They also felt it unsafe to do so in "wartime", in view of ever-increasing domestic disagreements.
Dewey did better against Roosevelt than any of Roosevelt's previous three Republican opponents: Roosevelt's percentage and margin of the total vote were both less than in 1940. Dewey flipped the states of Wyoming, Wisconsin, and Ohio from the previous election, while Roosevelt flipped Michigan. Dewey also gained the personal satisfaction of finishing ahead of Roosevelt in his hometown ofHyde Park, New York, and ahead of Truman in his hometown ofIndependence, Missouri.[23] Dewey would again become the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, challenging President Truman (who had assumed that office on FDR's death), and would again lose, though by somewhat smaller popular- and electoral-vote margins.
Roosevelt's net vote totals in the twelve largest cities increased from 2,112,000 votes in the 1940 election to 2,230,000 votes.[24] Of the 3,095 counties/independent cities making returns, Roosevelt won the most popular votes in 1,751 (56.58%) while Dewey carried 1,343 (43.39%). The Texas Regular ticket carriedone county (0.03%). In New York, only the combined support of the American Labor and Liberal parties (pledged to Roosevelt but otherwise independent of the Democrats to maintain their identities) enabled Roosevelt to win the electoral votes of his home state.
In 1944, the constantly growing Southern protest against Roosevelt's leadership became clearest in Texas, where 135,553 people voted against Roosevelt but not for the Republican ticket. The Texas Regular ticket resulted from a split in the Democratic Party in its two state conventions, May 23 and September 12, 1944. This ticket, which represented the Democratic element opposing the re-election of President Roosevelt, called for the "restoration ofstates' rights which have been destroyed by the Communist New Deal" and "restoration ofthe supremacy of the white race".[25] Its electors were uninstructed.
Until1996 this was the last time in which an incumbent Democratic president won re-election after serving a full term in office. This was also the last election until 2012 in which the incumbent Democratic president received over 50 percent of the popular vote after receiving over 50 percent of it in the previous election. As of 2025, this was the most recent presidential election in which a Democratic ticket has won every state of the former Confederacy as well as the entire southern region. This was the first election since1892 that a Democrat won without taking Wyoming and Ohio. Roosevelt is the only president to serve for more than two terms; in 1951, theTwenty-second Amendment was ratified, limiting the number of terms a person may be president.
As he had in1940, Roosevelt was the third of just four presidents in United States history to win re-election with a lower percentage of the electoral vote than in their prior elections; the other three areJames Madison in1812,Woodrow Wilson in1916, andBarack Obama in 2012. Additionally, Roosevelt was the fourth of only five presidents to win re-election with a smaller percentage of the popular vote than in prior elections; the other four are Madison in 1812,Andrew Jackson in1832,Grover Cleveland in 1892, and Obama in 2012.
This is the last election in which New Hampshire and Oregon voted Democratic until1964 and the last in which Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania did so until1960.
The 432 electoral votes received by Roosevelt, added to the 449 electoral votes he received in1940, and the 523 electoral votes he received in1936, and the 472 electoral votes he received in1932, gave him the most total electoral votes received by any candidate who was elected to the office of president since he is the only president to serve more than two terms (1,876).
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | |||
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| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Incumbent) | Democratic | New York | 25,612,916 | 53.39% | 432 | Harry S. Truman | Missouri | 432 |
| Thomas Edmund Dewey | Republican | New York | 22,017,929 | 45.89% | 99 | John William Bricker | Ohio | 99 |
| None | Texas Regulars | (n/a) | 143,238 | 0.30% | 0 | None | (n/a) | 0 |
| Norman Mattoon Thomas | Socialist | New York | 79,017 | 0.16% | 0 | Darlington Hoopes | Pennsylvania | 0 |
| Claude A. Watson | Prohibition | California | 74,758 | 0.16% | 0 | Andrew Nathan Johnson | Kentucky | 0 |
| Edward A. Teichert | Socialist Labor | Pennsylvania | 45,188 | 0.09% | 0 | Arla Arbaugh | Ohio | 0 |
| Other | 11,816 | 0.02% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 47,977,063 | 100% | 531 | 531 | ||||
| Needed to win | 266 | 266 | ||||||
Source (Popular Vote):Leip, David."1944 Presidential Election Results".Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. RetrievedAugust 1, 2005.Source (Electoral Vote):"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996".National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedAugust 1, 2005.
| Roosevelt | 53.39% | |||
| Dewey | 45.89% | |||
| No Candidate | 0.28% | |||
| Thomas | 0.16% | |||
| Others | 0.28% | |||
| Roosevelt | 81.36% | |||
| Dewey | 18.64% | |||
| States/districts won byRoosevelt/Truman |
| States/districts won byDewey/Bricker |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | Thomas E. Dewey Republican | No Candidate Southern Democrat/ Texas Regulars | Norman Thomas Socialist | Other | Margin | State total | ||||||||||||||
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| State | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | electoral votes | # | % | # | |
| Alabama | 11 | 198,918 | 81.28 | 11 | 44,540 | 18.20 | - | - | - | - | 190 | 0.08 | - | 1,095 | 0.45 | - | 154,378 | 63.08 | 244,743 | AL |
| Arizona | 4 | 80,926 | 58.80 | 4 | 56,287 | 40.90 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 421 | 0.31 | - | 24,639 | 17.90 | 137,634 | AZ |
| Arkansas | 9 | 148,965 | 69.95 | 9 | 63,551 | 29.84 | - | - | - | - | 438 | 0.21 | - | - | - | - | 85,414 | 40.11 | 212,954 | AR |
| California | 25 | 1,988,564 | 56.48 | 25 | 1,512,965 | 42.97 | - | - | - | - | 2,515 | 0.07 | - | 16,831 | 0.48 | - | 475,599 | 13.51 | 3,520,875 | CA |
| Colorado | 6 | 234,331 | 46.40 | - | 268,731 | 53.21 | 6 | - | - | - | 1,977 | 0.39 | - | - | - | - | -34,400 | -6.81 | 505,039 | CO |
| Connecticut | 8 | 435,146 | 52.30 | 8 | 390,527 | 46.94 | - | - | - | - | 5,097 | 0.61 | - | 1,220 | 0.15 | - | 44,619 | 5.36 | 831,990 | CT |
| Delaware | 3 | 68,166 | 54.38 | 3 | 56,747 | 45.27 | - | - | - | - | 154 | 0.12 | - | 294 | 0.23 | - | 11,419 | 9.11 | 125,361 | DE |
| Florida | 8 | 339,377 | 70.32 | 8 | 143,215 | 29.68 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 196,162 | 40.65 | 482,592 | FL |
| Georgia | 12 | 268,187 | 81.74 | 12 | 59,880 | 18.25 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 0.00 | - | 36 | 0.01 | - | 208,307 | 63.49 | 328,109 | GA |
| Idaho | 4 | 107,399 | 51.55 | 4 | 100,137 | 48.07 | - | - | - | - | 282 | 0.14 | - | 503 | 0.24 | - | 7,262 | 3.49 | 208,321 | ID |
| Illinois | 28 | 2,079,479 | 51.52 | 28 | 1,939,314 | 48.05 | - | - | - | - | 180 | 0.00 | - | 17,088 | 0.42 | - | 140,165 | 3.47 | 4,036,061 | IL |
| Indiana | 13 | 781,403 | 46.73 | - | 875,891 | 52.38 | 13 | - | - | - | 2,223 | 0.13 | - | 12,574 | 0.75 | - | -94,488 | -5.65 | 1,672,091 | IN |
| Iowa | 10 | 499,876 | 47.49 | - | 547,267 | 51.99 | 10 | - | - | - | 1,511 | 0.14 | - | 3,945 | 0.37 | - | -47,391 | -4.50 | 1,052,599 | IA |
| Kansas | 8 | 287,458 | 39.18 | - | 442,096 | 60.25 | 8 | - | - | - | 1,613 | 0.22 | - | 2,609 | 0.36 | - | -154,638 | -21.07 | 733,776 | KS |
| Kentucky | 11 | 472,589 | 54.45 | 11 | 392,448 | 45.22 | - | - | - | - | 535 | 0.06 | - | 2,349 | 0.27 | - | 80,141 | 9.23 | 867,921 | KY |
| Louisiana | 10 | 281,564 | 80.59 | 10 | 67,750 | 19.39 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 69 | 0.02 | - | 213,814 | 61.20 | 349,383 | LA |
| Maine | 5 | 140,631 | 47.45 | - | 155,434 | 52.44 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 335 | 0.11 | - | -14,803 | -4.99 | 296,400 | ME |
| Maryland | 8 | 315,490 | 51.85 | 8 | 292,949 | 48.15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 22,541 | 3.70 | 608,439 | MD |
| Massachusetts | 16 | 1,035,296 | 52.80 | 16 | 921,350 | 46.99 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4,019 | 0.21 | - | 113,946 | 5.81 | 1,960,665 | MA |
| Michigan | 19 | 1,106,899 | 50.19 | 19 | 1,084,423 | 49.18 | - | - | - | - | 4,598 | 0.21 | - | 9,303 | 0.42 | - | 22,476 | 1.02 | 2,205,223 | MI |
| Minnesota | 11 | 589,864 | 52.41 | 11 | 527,416 | 46.86 | - | - | - | - | 5,073 | 0.45 | - | 3,176 | 0.28 | - | 62,448 | 5.55 | 1,125,529 | MN |
| Mississippi | 9 | 168,479 | 93.56 | 9 | 11,601 | 6.44 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 156,878 | 87.12 | 180,080 | MS |
| Missouri | 15 | 807,804 | 51.37 | 15 | 761,524 | 48.43 | - | - | - | - | 1,751 | 0.11 | - | 1,395 | 0.09 | - | 46,280 | 2.94 | 1,572,474 | MO |
| Montana | 4 | 112,556 | 54.28 | 4 | 93,163 | 44.93 | - | - | - | - | 1,296 | 0.63 | - | 340 | 0.16 | - | 19,393 | 9.35 | 207,355 | MT |
| Nebraska | 6 | 233,246 | 41.42 | - | 329,880 | 58.58 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -96,634 | -17.16 | 563,126 | NE |
| Nevada | 3 | 29,623 | 54.62 | 3 | 24,611 | 45.38 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5,012 | 9.24 | 54,234 | NV |
| New Hampshire | 4 | 119,663 | 52.11 | 4 | 109,916 | 47.87 | - | - | - | - | 46 | 0.02 | - | - | - | - | 9,747 | 4.24 | 229,625 | NH |
| New Jersey | 16 | 987,874 | 50.31 | 16 | 961,335 | 48.95 | - | - | - | - | 3,358 | 0.17 | - | 11,194 | 0.57 | - | 26,539 | 1.35 | 1,963,761 | NJ |
| New Mexico | 4 | 81,389 | 53.47 | 4 | 70,688 | 46.44 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 148 | 0.10 | - | 10,701 | 7.03 | 152,225 | NM |
| New York | 47 | 3,304,238 | 52.31 | 47 | 2,987,647 | 47.30 | - | - | - | - | 10,553 | 0.17 | - | 14,352 | 0.23 | - | 316,591 | 5.01 | 6,316,790 | NY |
| North Carolina | 14 | 527,399 | 66.71 | 14 | 263,155 | 33.29 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 264,244 | 33.43 | 790,554 | NC |
| North Dakota | 4 | 100,144 | 45.48 | - | 118,535 | 53.84 | 4 | - | - | - | 943 | 0.43 | - | 549 | 0.25 | - | -18,391 | -8.35 | 220,171 | ND |
| Ohio | 25 | 1,570,763 | 49.82 | - | 1,582,293 | 50.18 | 25 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -11,530 | -0.37 | 3,153,056 | OH |
| Oklahoma | 10 | 401,549 | 55.57 | 10 | 319,424 | 44.20 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,663 | 0.23 | - | 82,125 | 11.36 | 722,636 | OK |
| Oregon | 6 | 248,635 | 51.78 | 6 | 225,365 | 46.94 | - | - | - | - | 3,785 | 0.79 | - | 2,362 | 0.49 | - | 23,270 | 4.85 | 480,147 | OR |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | 1,940,479 | 51.14 | 35 | 1,835,054 | 48.36 | - | - | - | - | 11,721 | 0.31 | - | 7,539 | 0.20 | - | 105,425 | 2.78 | 3,794,793 | PA |
| Rhode Island | 4 | 175,356 | 58.59 | 4 | 123,487 | 41.26 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 433 | 0.14 | - | 51,869 | 17.33 | 299,276 | RI |
| South Carolina | 8 | 90,601 | 87.64 | 8 | 4,610 | 4.46 | - | 7,799 | 7.54 | - | - | - | - | 365 | 0.35 | - | 82,802 | 80.10 | 103,375 | SC |
| South Dakota | 4 | 96,711 | 41.67 | - | 135,365 | 58.33 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -38,654 | -16.66 | 232,076 | SD |
| Tennessee | 12 | 308,707 | 60.45 | 12 | 200,311 | 39.22 | - | - | - | - | 792 | 0.16 | - | 882 | 0.17 | - | 108,396 | 21.23 | 510,692 | TN |
| Texas | 23 | 821,605 | 71.42 | 23 | 191,425 | 16.64 | - | 135,439 | 11.77 | - | 594 | 0.05 | - | 1,268 | 0.11 | - | 630,180 | 54.78 | 1,150,331 | TX |
| Utah | 4 | 150,088 | 60.44 | 4 | 97,891 | 39.42 | - | - | - | - | 340 | 0.14 | - | - | - | - | 52,197 | 21.02 | 248,319 | UT |
| Vermont | 3 | 53,820 | 42.93 | - | 71,527 | 57.06 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | 0.01 | - | -17,707 | -14.12 | 125,361 | VT |
| Virginia | 11 | 242,276 | 62.36 | 11 | 145,243 | 37.39 | - | - | - | - | 417 | 0.11 | - | 549 | 0.14 | - | 97,033 | 24.98 | 388,485 | VA |
| Washington | 8 | 486,774 | 56.84 | 8 | 361,689 | 42.24 | - | - | - | - | 3,824 | 0.45 | - | 4,041 | 0.47 | - | 125,085 | 14.61 | 856,328 | WA |
| West Virginia | 8 | 392,777 | 54.89 | 8 | 322,819 | 45.11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 69,958 | 9.78 | 715,596 | WV |
| Wisconsin | 12 | 650,413 | 48.57 | - | 674,532 | 50.37 | 12 | - | - | - | 13,205 | 0.99 | - | 1,002 | 0.07 | - | -24,119 | -1.80 | 1,339,152 | WI |
| Wyoming | 3 | 49,419 | 48.77 | - | 51,921 | 51.23 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -2,502 | -2.47 | 101,340 | WY |
| Totals: | 531 | 25,612,916 | 53.39 | 432 | 22,017,929 | 45.89 | 99 | 143,238 | 0.30 | - | 79,017 | 0.16 | - | 123,963 | 0.26 | - | 3,594,987 | 7.49 | 47,977,063 | US |
Margin of victory less than 1% (25 electoral votes):
Margin of victory less than 5% (165 electoral votes):
Margin of victory between 5% and 10% (138 electoral votes):
Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Democratic)
Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Republican)
