1948 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
County Results
Dewey
50-60%
60-70%
70-80%
Truman
50-60%
The 1948 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election , held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
New Hampshire was won by the Republican nominees, former Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and his running mate Governor Earl Warren of California . Dewey and Warren defeated the Democratic nominees, incumbent President Harry S. Truman of Missouri and his running mate Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky . Also in the running was the Progressive Party candidate, former Democratic Vice President Henry A. Wallace , who ran with former Senator Glen H. Taylor of Idaho .
Dewey took 52.41% of the vote to Truman's 46.66%, a margin of 5.75%. Wallace came in a distant third, with 0.85%.
Dewey won seven counties to Truman's three; however, the race was kept closed statewide by Truman's victories in the state's more populous counties.
Since Franklin D. Roosevelt won them in 1932 , the counties of Hillsborough County , Strafford County , and Coos County had become reliable New Deal Democratic base counties, voting for Roosevelt all four times. Truman's most significant victory was winning a majority in populous Hillsborough County, home to Manchester and Nashua , which had been a reliable Democratic bastion since voting for Democrat Al Smith in 1928 .
Carroll County had long been the most Republican county in New Hampshire, voting 60% against FDR all four times, and would vote over 70% for Thomas E. Dewey.
As Truman narrowly won an upset victory over Dewey nationally, New Hampshire's result would make the state about ten percentage points more Republican than the national average. Dewey's 52.41% of the popular vote made New Hampshire his fifth strongest state after Vermont , Maine , Nebraska and Kansas .[ 1]
Results
Results by county
County
Thomas E. Dewey
Harry S. Truman
Henry A. Wallace
Various candidates
Margin
Total votes cast[ 3]
#
%
#
%
#
%
#
%
#
%
#
Belknap
7,152
64.79%
3,822
34.62%
53
0.48%
12
0.11%
3,330
30.17%
11,039
Carroll
6,127
76.11%
1,869
23.22%
48
0.60%
6
0.07%
4,258
52.89%
8,050
Cheshire
9,043
58.32%
6,337
40.87%
116
0.75%
10
0.06%
2,706
17.45%
15,506
Coös
7,005
46.19%
7,930
52.29%
221
1.46%
9
0.06%
-925
-6.10%
15,165
Grafton
12,248
63.52%
6,841
35.48%
154
0.80%
38
0.20%
5,407
28.04%
19,281
Hillsborough
28,257
39.95%
41,789
59.07%
647
0.91%
46
0.07%
-13,532
-19.12%
70,739
Merrimack
16,586
59.37%
11,171
39.99%
161
0.58%
17
0.06%
5,415
19.38%
27,935
Rockingham
18,890
60.68%
11,937
38.35%
292
0.94%
9
0.03%
6,953
22.33%
31,128
Strafford
9,988
45.87%
11,603
53.29%
179
0.82%
3
0.01%
-1,615
-7.42%
21,773
Sullivan
6,003
55.50%
4,696
43.41%
99
0.92%
19
0.18%
1,307
12.09%
10,817
Totals
121,299
52.41%
107,995
46.66%
1,970
0.85%
176
0.08%
13,304
5.75%
231,440
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
See also
References
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