THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1948
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1948
General Labels
Party Candidate Electoral Vote (Share) Popular Vote (Share)
Democrat Truman 303 (57%) 24,105,695 (49.7%)
Republican Dewey 189 (36%) 21,969,170 (45.3%)
States’ Rights Thurmond 39 (7%) 1,169,021 (2.4%)
Progressive Wallace 1,157,172 (2.4%)
Other candidates (Socialist, Prohibition, Socialist Labor, Socialist Workers) 272,713
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