1948 United States presidential election

1948 United States presidential election
November 2, 1948
All 531 electoral votes of the Electoral College
266 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout53.0%[1] 2.9 pp
 
Nominee Harry S. Truman Thomas E. Dewey Strom Thurmond
Party Democratic Republican Dixiecrat
Home state Missouri New York South Carolina
Running mate Alben W. Barkley Earl Warren Fielding L. Wright
Electoral vote 303 189 39
States carried 28 16 4
Popular vote 24,179,347 21,991,292 1,175,930
Percentage 49.6% 45.1% 2.4%
Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Truman/Barkley; Red denotes those won by Dewey/Warren; Orange denotes those won by Thurmond/Wright (including a faithless elector in Tennessee). Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
President before election

Harry S. Truman
Democratic

Elected President

Harry S. Truman
Democratic

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The 1948 United States presidential election happened on November 2, 1948. This election was between Harry S. Truman (president at that time) and Thomas E. Dewey (the Governor of New York). Truman won by 303 electoral votes. Dewey got 189 electoral votes. Thurmond got 39 electoral votes including a faithless elector in Tennessee.

This election is best known as an upset because of the election results. Predictions showed that Dewey would beat Truman at the polls. For example, a newspaper in Chicago printed an issue in advance which said that Dewey had won the election. However, Truman won the election instead.

Candidates

Democratic Party

1948 Democratic Party Ticket
Harry S. Truman Alben W. Barkley
for President for Vice President
33th
President of the United States
(1945-1953) 		U.S. Senator
from Kentucky
(1927-1949)

Democratic candidates:

Republican Party

1948 Republican Party ticket
Thomas E. Dewey Earl Warren
for President for Vice President
47th
Governor of New York
(1943-1954) 		30th
Governor of California
(1943-1953)

Republican candidates:

Dixiecrat Ticket

1948 Dixiecrat Party ticket
Strom Thurmond Fielding L. Wright
for President for Vice President
103rd
Governor of South Carolina
(1947–1951) 		49th and 50th[2]
Governor of Mississippi
(1946–1952)

References

  1. ↑ "Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections". The American Presidency Project. UC Santa Barbara.
  2. ↑ Mississippi numbers Wright as the 49th governor (1946–1948; completing his predecessor's term) and the 50th governor (1948–1952); serving his own full term.

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