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Defying these predictions, Truman won the election with 303 electoral votes to Dewey's 189. Truman also won 49.6% of the popular vote compared to Dewey's 45.1%, while the third-party candidacies of Thurmond and Wallace each won less than 3% of the popular vote, with Thurmond carrying four southern states in the Deep South.
Truman, as it turned out, won the electoral vote with a 303–189–39 majority over Dewey and Dixiecrat candidate Strom Thurmond, though swings of less than one percent of the popular vote in Ohio, Illinois, and California would have produced a Dewey victory; the same swing in any two of these states would have forced a contingent election in ...
Electoral vote: Harry S. Truman (D) 303: Thomas E. Dewey (R) 189: Strom Thurmond : 39: 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 ...
Truman carried the popular vote by 4.5 points and won 303 electoral votes to Dewey’s 189. Roper afterward conceded that pollsters “had gotten pretty smug, and I was one of the smuggest of the ...
State voters chose 25 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. California narrowly voted for the Democratic incumbent, Harry S. Truman, over the Republican challenger, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, even though Dewey's running mate was California Governor Earl Warren. California was ...
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Voters chose 47 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New York was won by local Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who was running against incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman. Dewey ran with California Governor Earl Warren for vice president, and Truman ran with Kentucky Senator Alben W ...
State voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. South Carolina was won by States' Rights Democratic candidate Strom Thurmond, defeating the Democratic candidate, incumbent President Harry S. Truman, and New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey.