1948 United States presidential election in Idaho
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The 1948 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election. State voters chose four[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
In his four election campaigns, Franklin D. Roosevelt had carried Idaho each time, though by steadily decreasing margins. After beating Alf Landon by 29.77 percentage points in 1936, Wendell Willkie lost by only 9.05 percentage points in 1940 and Dewey by only 3.49 percentage points in 1944. However, Oregon Senator Wayne Morse said that Dewey would fail to maintain these gains in the West if Bureau of Reclamation programs were cut as demanded by the House Appropriations Committee.[3] Truman campaigned heavily in the West, including Idaho, arguing that the region was an economic colony of Wall Street under the GOP and that only the Democratic Party could give the West direct access to its natural resources.[4] While in Pocatello, Truman also defended himself against charges of corruption by machine politics from his days in Kansas City.[5]
Vote[]
Idaho was won by incumbent President Harry S. Truman (D–Missouri), running with Senator Alben W. Barkley, with 49.98% of the popular vote, against Governor Thomas Dewey (R–New York), running with Governor Earl Warren, with 47.26% of the popular vote.[6][7]
This election marks the last before Idaho would turn from a swing state into a Republican Party bastion, which was to be inaugurated with a large-scale landslide in the 1950 state elections.[8] The solitary subsequent Democrat to carry Idaho has been Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and he did so by only 1.83 percentage points in a huge national landslide, while only John F. Kennedy has otherwise passed forty percent of the statewide vote in the subsequent seventeen elections. This is the last election in which the southeastern Mormon counties of Bonneville, Bingham, Jefferson, Madison, Minidoka and Oneida voted for a Democratic presidential candidate,[9] and like several analogous counties in the Texas Panhandle,[a] these counties have frequently battled for the title of "most Republican in the nation" since the 1970s.
Results[]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Democratic | Harry S. Truman (inc.) | 107,370 | 49.98% | |
| Republican | Thomas Dewey | 101,514 | 47.26% | |
| Progressive | Henry A. Wallace | 4,972 | 2.31% | |
| Prohibition | Claude A. Watson | 628 | 0.29% | |
| Socialist | Norman Thomas | 332 | 0.15% | |
| Total votes | 214,816 | 100.00% | ||
Results by county[]
| County | Harry S. Truman Democratic |
Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican |
Henry Agard Wallace[10] Progressive |
Claude A. Watson[11] Prohibition |
Norman Mattoon Thomas[11] Socialist |
Margin | Total votes cast[12] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Ada | 11,253 | 42.14% | 14,972 | 56.06% | 389 | 1.46% | 48 | 0.18% | 43 | 0.16% | -3,719 | -13.93% | 26,705 |
| Adams | 647 | 50.78% | 603 | 47.33% | 19 | 1.49% | 4 | 0.31% | 1 | 0.08% | 44 | 3.45% | 1,274 |
| Bannock | 9,679 | 62.20% | 5,580 | 35.86% | 289 | 1.86% | 4 | 0.03% | 8 | 0.05% | 4,099 | 26.34% | 15,560 |
| Bear Lake | 1,664 | 50.73% | 1,590 | 48.48% | 25 | 0.76% | 1 | 0.03% | 0 | 0.00% | 74 | 2.26% | 3,280 |
| Benewah | 1,590 | 58.22% | 1,038 | 38.01% | 85 | 3.11% | 11 | 0.40% | 7 | 0.26% | 552 | 20.21% | 2,731 |
| Bingham | 3,197 | 49.58% | 3,162 | 49.04% | 84 | 1.30% | 5 | 0.08% | 0 | 0.00% | 35 | 0.54% | 6,448 |
| Blaine | 1,182 | 54.67% | 945 | 43.71% | 34 | 1.57% | 1 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | 237 | 10.96% | 2,162 |
| Boise | 479 | 50.96% | 437 | 46.49% | 24 | 2.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 42 | 4.47% | 940 |
| Bonner | 2,916 | 49.70% | 2,666 | 45.44% | 268 | 4.57% | 8 | 0.14% | 9 | 0.15% | 250 | 4.26% | 5,867 |
| Bonneville | 5,382 | 53.81% | 4,499 | 44.99% | 100 | 1.00% | 3 | 0.03% | 17 | 0.17% | 883 | 8.83% | 10,001 |
| Boundary | 1,029 | 49.02% | 910 | 43.35% | 142 | 6.77% | 2 | 0.10% | 16 | 0.76% | 119 | 5.67% | 2,099 |
| Butte | 426 | 50.35% | 412 | 48.70% | 8 | 0.95% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 14 | 1.65% | 846 |
| Camas | 278 | 48.35% | 289 | 50.26% | 8 | 1.39% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -11 | -1.91% | 575 |
| Canyon | 7,903 | 43.04% | 9,700 | 52.82% | 389 | 2.12% | 323 | 1.76% | 43 | 0.23% | -1,797 | -9.79% | 18,363 |
| Caribou | 475 | 51.08% | 447 | 48.06% | 7 | 0.75% | 1 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 28 | 3.01% | 930 |
| Cassia | 2,178 | 46.63% | 2,424 | 51.89% | 63 | 1.35% | 3 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.06% | -246 | -5.27% | 4,671 |
| Clark | 165 | 38.19% | 262 | 60.65% | 4 | 0.93% | 1 | 0.23% | 0 | 0.00% | -97 | -22.45% | 432 |
| Clearwater | 1,571 | 61.63% | 820 | 32.17% | 132 | 5.18% | 20 | 0.78% | 6 | 0.24% | 751 | 29.46% | 2,549 |
| Custer | 625 | 49.72% | 612 | 48.69% | 16 | 1.27% | 4 | 0.32% | 0 | 0.00% | 13 | 1.03% | 1,257 |
| Elmore | 1,589 | 63.48% | 854 | 34.12% | 51 | 2.04% | 5 | 0.20% | 4 | 0.16% | 735 | 29.36% | 2,503 |
| Franklin | 1,763 | 46.24% | 2,028 | 53.19% | 21 | 0.55% | 1 | 0.03% | 0 | 0.00% | -265 | -6.95% | 3,813 |
| Fremont | 2,014 | 52.85% | 1,777 | 46.63% | 16 | 0.42% | 4 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 237 | 6.22% | 3,811 |
| Gem | 1,724 | 50.32% | 1,585 | 46.26% | 85 | 2.48% | 29 | 0.85% | 3 | 0.09% | 139 | 4.06% | 3,426 |
| Gooding | 1,844 | 45.93% | 2,111 | 52.58% | 51 | 1.27% | 6 | 0.15% | 3 | 0.07% | -267 | -6.65% | 4,015 |
| Idaho | 2,300 | 54.53% | 1,790 | 42.44% | 117 | 2.77% | 7 | 0.17% | 4 | 0.09% | 510 | 12.09% | 4,218 |
| Jefferson | 2,017 | 56.53% | 1,490 | 41.76% | 56 | 1.57% | 5 | 0.14% | 0 | 0.00% | 527 | 14.77% | 3,568 |
| Jerome | 2,124 | 49.34% | 2,128 | 49.43% | 48 | 1.11% | 2 | 0.05% | 3 | 0.07% | -4 | -0.09% | 4,305 |
| Kootenai | 5,284 | 51.49% | 4,265 | 41.56% | 668 | 6.51% | 13 | 0.13% | 32 | 0.31% | 1,019 | 9.93% | 10,262 |
| Latah | 3,810 | 48.30% | 3,805 | 48.23% | 225 | 2.85% | 31 | 0.39% | 18 | 0.23% | 5 | 0.06% | 7,889 |
| Lemhi | 864 | 44.58% | 1,037 | 53.51% | 36 | 1.86% | 1 | 0.05% | 0 | 0.00% | -173 | -8.93% | 1,938 |
| Lewis | 1,224 | 69.43% | 487 | 27.62% | 46 | 2.61% | 3 | 0.17% | 3 | 0.17% | 737 | 41.80% | 1,763 |
| Lincoln | 748 | 46.26% | 851 | 52.63% | 18 | 1.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | -103 | -6.37% | 1,617 |
| Madison | 2,024 | 55.50% | 1,602 | 43.93% | 21 | 0.58% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 422 | 11.57% | 3,647 |
| Minidoka | 1,668 | 48.60% | 1,654 | 48.19% | 101 | 2.94% | 4 | 0.12% | 5 | 0.15% | 14 | 0.41% | 3,432 |
| Nez Perce | 5,747 | 61.65% | 3,168 | 33.98% | 357 | 3.83% | 27 | 0.29% | 23 | 0.25% | 2,579 | 27.67% | 9,322 |
| Oneida | 1,008 | 50.86% | 962 | 48.54% | 10 | 0.50% | 2 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 46 | 2.32% | 1,982 |
| Owyhee | 925 | 47.75% | 969 | 50.03% | 32 | 1.65% | 9 | 0.46% | 2 | 0.10% | -44 | -2.27% | 1,937 |
| Payette | 1,568 | 38.42% | 2,430 | 59.54% | 58 | 1.42% | 16 | 0.39% | 9 | 0.22% | -862 | -21.12% | 4,081 |
| Power | 795 | 47.29% | 875 | 52.05% | 7 | 0.42% | 4 | 0.24% | 0 | 0.00% | -80 | -4.76% | 1,681 |
| Shoshone | 4,472 | 54.13% | 3,200 | 38.74% | 569 | 6.89% | 8 | 0.10% | 12 | 0.15% | 1,272 | 15.40% | 8,261 |
| Teton | 672 | 52.83% | 593 | 46.62% | 4 | 0.31% | 1 | 0.08% | 2 | 0.16% | 79 | 6.21% | 1,272 |
| Twin Falls | 6,019 | 42.81% | 7,833 | 55.71% | 172 | 1.22% | 21 | 0.15% | 16 | 0.11% | -1,814 | -12.90% | 14,061 |
| Valley | 828 | 44.98% | 939 | 51.00% | 65 | 3.53% | 3 | 0.16% | 6 | 0.33% | -111 | -6.03% | 1,841 |
| Washington | 1,700 | 48.84% | 1,713 | 49.21% | 52 | 1.49% | 10 | 0.29% | 6 | 0.17% | -13 | -0.37% | 3,481 |
| Totals | 107,370 | 49.98% | 101,514 | 47.26% | 4,972 | 2.31% | 628 | 0.29% | 332 | 0.15% | 5,856 | 2.73% | 214,816 |
Notes[]
- ^ Texas Panhandle counties last voting Democrat in 1948 and frequently on Republican “Top 10” lists since 1968 include Gray, Hansford, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree and Roberts.
References[]
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1948 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved October 25, 2017.
- ^ "1948 Election for the Forty-First Term (1949-53)". Retrieved October 25, 2017.
- ^ Donaldson, Gary; Truman Defeats Dewey; p. 43 ISBN 081312851X
- ^ Truman, Harry S.; Miracle of '48: Harry Truman's Major Campaign Speeches & Selected Whistle-stops; pp. 86-89 ISBN 0809325578
- ^ Goldzwig, Steven R.; Truman's Whistle-stop Campaign, pp. 26-27 ISBN 1603440062
- ^ "1948 Presidential General Election Results - Idaho". Retrieved October 25, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1948". Retrieved October 25, 2017.
- ^ Weatherby, James B. and Stapilus, Randy; Governing Idaho: Politics, People and Power, p. 44 ISBN 0870045210
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ Géoelections; Popular Vote for Henry Wallace (.xlsx file for €15)
- ^ a b Our Campaigns; ID US President November 02, 1948
- ^ Géoelections; 1948 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)
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