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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1948. Incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman defeated heavily favored Republican New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and third-party candidates, becoming the third president to succeed to the presidency upon his predecessor's death and be elected to a full term.
1948 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Dewey, blue denotes states won by Truman, and orange denotes states won by Thurmond. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. Senate elections; Overall control: Democratic gain: Seats contested: 33 of 96 seats (32 Class 2 seats + 2 special elections) [1] Net seat ...
The following elections occurred in the year 1948. Previous: List of elections in 1947. Next:List of elections in 1949. Africa. 1948 Mauritian general election;
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
Pages in category "Candidates in the 1948 United States presidential election" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The presidential election of 1948 was a very multi-partisan election for New York, with more than nine percent of the people who voted doing so for third parties. [2] In typical form for the time, the highly populated urban centers of New York City , Buffalo , and Albany , voted primarily Democratic, while most of the smaller counties in New ...
List of elections in 1948; I. 1948 International Court of Justice judges election This page was last edited on 6 September 2023, at 21:59 (UTC). Text is available ...
Despite challenges from Wallace, Republican nominee Thomas E. Dewey, and Strom Thurmond of the segregationist Dixiecrats, Truman won election to a full term in the 1948 election. Wallace won 2.4% of the vote, which was far less than the share received by Theodore Roosevelt and Robert M. La Follette , the presidential nominees of the 1912 and ...