 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 32.5% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 County Results[1] Roosevelt 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% 90–100%
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The1944 United States presidential election in Florida was held on November 7, 1944. Voters chose eight electors, or representatives to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
IncumbentFranklin D. Roosevelt carried Florida by a landslide large margin of 40.64 percentage points, or 196,162 votes, over RepublicanThomas Dewey, receiving Florida's eight electoral votes. This constitutes the last time that a Democratic presidential nominee has won more than 52% of the vote in Florida, as well as the last time that a Democrat has swept every county in the state.
This election marked the end of Florida's status as a one-party Democratic "Solid South" state. The subsequent combination of mass migration–especially of retirees–from the historically Republican North,[2] in addition to increasing Democraticliberalism on racial policies, would gradually turn the state into abellwether starting in1948. This trend was already evident in some counties in South and Central Florida, however, with Roosevelt narrowly carryingBroward County by just 5% despite winning every county by double digits in his previous 3 presidential runs.
As of2020[update], this remains the last time that the following counties have ever supported a Democratic presidential nominee:Indian River,Lake,Lee,Manatee,Martin andSarasota.[3]Orange County, containingOrlando, would not vote Democratic again until2000, whilePalm Beach County would not vote Democratic again until1992, andBroward County not until1976.[3]
| 1944 United States presidential election in Florida[4] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) | 339,377 | 70.29% | 8 | |
| Republican | Thomas E. Dewey | 143,215 | 29.66% | 0 | |
| Write-ins | Scattered | 211[a] | 0.04% | 0 | |
| Totals | 482,803 | 100.00% | 8 | ||
| Voter turnout (Voting age) | 32.5%[5] | ||||
| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic | Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican | Margin | Total votes cast[4] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Alachua | 5,755 | 77.30% | 1,690 | 22.70% | 4,065 | 54.60% | 7,445 |
| Baker | 1,137 | 89.95% | 127 | 10.05% | 1,010 | 79.90% | 1,264 |
| Bay | 6,317 | 84.87% | 1,126 | 15.13% | 5,191 | 69.74% | 7,443 |
| Bradford | 1,775 | 83.33% | 355 | 16.67% | 1,420 | 66.66% | 2,130 |
| Brevard | 2,651 | 59.98% | 1,769 | 40.02% | 882 | 19.96% | 4,420 |
| Broward | 6,183 | 52.55% | 5,583 | 47.45% | 600 | 5.10% | 11,766 |
| Calhoun | 1,504 | 87.90% | 207 | 12.10% | 1,297 | 75.80% | 1,711 |
| Charlotte | 789 | 66.14% | 404 | 33.86% | 385 | 32.28% | 1,193 |
| Citrus | 1,328 | 83.42% | 264 | 16.58% | 1,064 | 66.84% | 1,592 |
| Clay | 1,251 | 70.64% | 520 | 29.36% | 731 | 41.28% | 1,771 |
| Collier | 640 | 78.05% | 180 | 21.95% | 460 | 56.10% | 820 |
| Columbia | 2,467 | 82.12% | 537 | 17.88% | 1,930 | 64.24% | 3,004 |
| Dade | 60,100 | 66.44% | 30,357 | 33.56% | 29,743 | 32.88% | 90,457 |
| De Soto | 1,722 | 76.03% | 543 | 23.97% | 1,179 | 52.06% | 2,265 |
| Dixie | 1,104 | 92.93% | 84 | 7.07% | 1,020 | 85.86% | 1,188 |
| Duval | 36,867 | 75.11% | 12,220 | 24.89% | 24,647 | 50.22% | 49,087 |
| Escambia | 16,240 | 83.58% | 3,191 | 16.42% | 13,049 | 67.16% | 19,431 |
| Flagler | 401 | 77.86% | 114 | 22.14% | 287 | 55.72% | 515 |
| Franklin | 1,176 | 92.02% | 102 | 7.98% | 1,074 | 84.04% | 1,278 |
| Gadsden | 2,574 | 84.78% | 462 | 15.22% | 2,112 | 69.56% | 3,036 |
| Gilchrist | 862 | 91.41% | 81 | 8.59% | 781 | 82.82% | 943 |
| Glades | 373 | 69.46% | 164 | 30.54% | 209 | 38.92% | 537 |
| Gulf | 1,267 | 93.85% | 83 | 6.15% | 1,184 | 87.70% | 1,350 |
| Hamilton | 1,200 | 82.08% | 262 | 17.92% | 938 | 64.16% | 1,462 |
| Hardee | 2,156 | 75.28% | 708 | 24.72% | 1,448 | 50.56% | 2,864 |
| Hendry | 933 | 72.89% | 347 | 27.11% | 586 | 45.78% | 1,280 |
| Hernando | 1,002 | 74.33% | 346 | 25.67% | 656 | 48.66% | 1,348 |
| Highlands | 2,113 | 70.74% | 874 | 29.26% | 1,239 | 41.48% | 2,987 |
| Hillsborough | 31,146 | 75.24% | 10,252 | 24.76% | 20,894 | 50.48% | 41,398 |
| Holmes | 2,652 | 74.49% | 908 | 25.51% | 1,744 | 48.98% | 3,560 |
| Indian River | 1,292 | 62.99% | 759 | 37.01% | 533 | 25.98% | 2,051 |
| Jackson | 4,633 | 82.97% | 951 | 17.03% | 3,682 | 65.94% | 5,584 |
| Jefferson | 1,071 | 85.07% | 188 | 14.93% | 883 | 70.14% | 1,259 |
| Lafayette | 825 | 85.49% | 140 | 14.51% | 685 | 70.98% | 965 |
| Lake | 4,323 | 61.62% | 2,693 | 38.38% | 1,630 | 23.24% | 7,016 |
| Lee | 3,353 | 64.26% | 1,865 | 35.74% | 1,488 | 28.52% | 5,218 |
| Leon | 4,505 | 84.36% | 835 | 15.64% | 3,670 | 68.72% | 5,340 |
| Levy | 2,107 | 90.35% | 225 | 9.65% | 1,882 | 80.70% | 2,332 |
| Liberty | 626 | 94.28% | 38 | 5.72% | 588 | 88.56% | 664 |
| Madison | 1,914 | 86.72% | 293 | 13.28% | 1,621 | 73.44% | 2,207 |
| Manatee | 4,544 | 67.20% | 2,218 | 32.80% | 2,326 | 34.40% | 6,762 |
| Marion | 5,597 | 77.32% | 1,642 | 22.68% | 3,955 | 54.64% | 7,239 |
| Martin | 960 | 64.43% | 530 | 35.57% | 430 | 28.86% | 1,490 |
| Monroe | 3,882 | 87.28% | 566 | 12.72% | 3,316 | 74.56% | 4,448 |
| Nassau | 1,892 | 78.21% | 527 | 21.79% | 1,365 | 56.42% | 2,419 |
| Okaloosa | 2,877 | 82.13% | 626 | 17.87% | 2,251 | 64.26% | 3,503 |
| Okeechobee | 753 | 86.35% | 119 | 13.65% | 634 | 72.70% | 872 |
| Orange | 12,008 | 57.64% | 8,826 | 42.36% | 3,182 | 15.28% | 20,834 |
| Osceola | 1,763 | 55.74% | 1,400 | 44.26% | 363 | 11.48% | 3,163 |
| Palm Beach | 11,093 | 59.25% | 7,628 | 40.75% | 3,465 | 18.50% | 18,721 |
| Pasco | 2,523 | 65.11% | 1,352 | 34.89% | 1,171 | 30.22% | 3,875 |
| Pinellas | 19,574 | 57.72% | 14,340 | 42.28% | 5,234 | 15.44% | 33,914 |
| Polk | 13,152 | 71.86% | 5,150 | 28.14% | 8,002 | 43.72% | 18,302 |
| Putnam | 2,926 | 71.56% | 1,163 | 28.44% | 1,763 | 43.12% | 4,089 |
| St. John's | 3,764 | 70.41% | 1,582 | 29.59% | 2,182 | 40.82% | 5,346 |
| St. Lucie | 2,129 | 69.83% | 920 | 30.17% | 1,209 | 39.66% | 3,049 |
| Santa Rosa | 2,607 | 75.15% | 862 | 24.85% | 1,745 | 50.30% | 3,469 |
| Sarasota | 3,443 | 62.01% | 2,109 | 37.99% | 1,334 | 24.02% | 5,552 |
| Seminole | 2,940 | 68.50% | 1,352 | 31.50% | 1,588 | 37.00% | 4,292 |
| Sumter | 1,838 | 86.94% | 276 | 13.06% | 1,562 | 73.88% | 2,114 |
| Suwannee | 2,526 | 83.95% | 483 | 16.05% | 2,043 | 67.90% | 3,009 |
| Taylor | 1,828 | 91.72% | 165 | 8.28% | 1,663 | 83.44% | 1,993 |
| Union | 905 | 89.87% | 102 | 10.13% | 803 | 79.74% | 1,007 |
| Volusia | 8,233 | 57.20% | 6,161 | 42.80% | 2,072 | 14.40% | 14,394 |
| Wakulla | 1,018 | 93.31% | 73 | 6.69% | 945 | 86.62% | 1,091 |
| Walton | 2,569 | 78.85% | 689 | 21.15% | 1,880 | 57.70% | 3,258 |
| Washington | 1,699 | 77.02% | 507 | 22.98% | 1,192 | 54.04% | 2,206 |
| Totals | 339,377 | 70.29% | 143,215 | 29.66% | 196,162 | 40.63% | 482,803 |
State and district results of the1944 United States presidential election | ||
|---|---|---|
|  | |
(small).jpg)
.jpg)
