1944 United States presidential election in New Mexico
The 1944 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 7, 1944. All forty-eight contemporary States were part of the 1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President. A larger relative population in New Mexico increased the number of presidential electors from the state to four, from three in the previous election cycle.
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 County Results
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New Mexico was won by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt,[1] against Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey, who was making his first bid for the presidency.
Results
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic | New York | 81,389 | 53.47% | 4 | Harry S. Truman | Missouri | 4 |
| Thomas E. Dewey | Republican | New York | 70,688 | 46.44% | 0 | John W. Bricker | Ohio | 0 |
| Claude A. Watson | Prohibition | California | 148 | 0.10% | 0 | Andrew N. Johnson | Kentucky | 0 |
| Total | 152,225 | 100% | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Needed to win | 266 | 266 | ||||||
Results by county
| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt[2] Democratic |
Thomas Edmund Dewey[2] Republican |
Claude A. Watson Prohibition |
Margin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | |
| Eddy | 71.35% | 5,228 | 28.43% | 2,083 | 0.22% | 16 | 42.92% | 3,145 |
| Lea | 70.49% | 2,938 | 29.44% | 1,227 | 0.07% | 3 | 41.05% | 1,711 |
| Hidalgo | 68.74% | 807 | 31.26% | 367 | 0.00% | 0 | 37.48% | 440 |
| Grant | 63.75% | 3,472 | 36.17% | 1,970 | 0.07% | 4 | 27.58% | 1,502 |
| Quay | 60.88% | 2,272 | 38.83% | 1,449 | 0.29% | 11 | 22.05% | 823 |
| Roosevelt | 59.44% | 2,359 | 40.56% | 1,610 | 0.00% | 0 | 18.87% | 749 |
| McKinley | 58.78% | 2,210 | 41.14% | 1,547 | 0.08% | 3 | 17.63% | 663 |
| Curry | 58.32% | 3,271 | 41.47% | 2,326 | 0.21% | 12 | 16.85% | 945 |
| Doña Ana | 56.94% | 4,172 | 42.98% | 3,149 | 0.08% | 6 | 13.96% | 1,023 |
| Otero | 56.28% | 1,892 | 43.63% | 1,467 | 0.09% | 3 | 12.64% | 425 |
| Luna | 56.24% | 1,383 | 43.68% | 1,074 | 0.08% | 2 | 12.57% | 309 |
| De Baca | 54.28% | 660 | 45.56% | 554 | 0.16% | 2 | 8.72% | 106 |
| San Miguel | 53.83% | 4,684 | 46.13% | 4,014 | 0.05% | 4 | 7.70% | 670 |
| Colfax | 53.07% | 3,017 | 46.81% | 2,661 | 0.12% | 7 | 6.26% | 356 |
| Rio Arriba | 51.75% | 3,792 | 48.21% | 3,532 | 0.04% | 3 | 3.55% | 260 |
| Chaves | 51.41% | 3,350 | 48.33% | 3,149 | 0.26% | 17 | 3.08% | 201 |
| Bernalillo | 51.16% | 12,229 | 48.79% | 11,662 | 0.05% | 13 | 2.37% | 567 |
| Taos | 49.67% | 2,525 | 50.30% | 2,557 | 0.04% | 2 | -0.63% | -32 |
| Socorro | 49.18% | 1,967 | 50.75% | 2,030 | 0.08% | 3 | -1.57% | -63 |
| Sandoval | 48.44% | 1,354 | 51.48% | 1,439 | 0.07% | 2 | -3.04% | -85 |
| Guadalupe | 48.27% | 1,539 | 51.73% | 1,649 | 0.00% | 0 | -3.45% | -110 |
| Lincoln | 47.91% | 1,342 | 51.95% | 1,455 | 0.14% | 4 | -4.03% | -113 |
| Sierra | 47.37% | 1,008 | 52.26% | 1,112 | 0.38% | 8 | -4.89% | -104 |
| Santa Fe | 47.27% | 4,915 | 52.73% | 5,482 | 0.00% | 0 | -5.45% | -567 |
| Valencia | 47.06% | 2,461 | 52.88% | 2,765 | 0.06% | 3 | -5.81% | -304 |
| Catron | 45.69% | 589 | 54.23% | 699 | 0.08% | 1 | -8.53% | -110 |
| Union | 45.62% | 1,350 | 54.21% | 1,604 | 0.17% | 5 | -8.58% | -254 |
| Mora | 44.41% | 1,425 | 55.56% | 1,783 | 0.03% | 1 | -11.16% | -358 |
| Harding | 44.10% | 647 | 55.90% | 820 | 0.00% | 0 | -11.79% | -173 |
| San Juan | 43.03% | 1,093 | 56.61% | 1,438 | 0.35% | 9 | -13.58% | -345 |
| Torrance | 41.61% | 1,438 | 58.28% | 2,014 | 0.12% | 4 | -16.67% | -576 |
References
- "1944 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
- Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 307 ISBN 0405077114
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