1944 United States presidential election in Louisiana explained

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Election Name:1944 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Country:Louisiana
Flag Year:1912
Type:presidential
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:1940 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Previous Year:1940
Election Date:November 7, 1944
Next Election:1948 United States presidential election in Louisiana
Next Year:1948
Image1:1944 portrait of FDR (1)(small).jpg
Nominee1:Franklin D. Roosevelt
Party1:Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1:New York
Running Mate1:Harry Truman
Electoral Vote1:10
Popular Vote1:281,564
Percentage1:80.59%
President
Before Election:Franklin D. Roosevelt
Before Party:Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:Franklin D. Roosevelt
After Party:Democratic
Nominee2:Thomas E. Dewey
Party2:Republican Party (United States)
Running Mate2:John Bricker
Electoral Vote2:0
Percentage2:19.39%
Popular Vote2:67,750
Home State2:New York
Map Size:350px

The 1944 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose ten[1] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Ever since the passage of a new constitution in 1898, Louisiana had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party became moribund due to the disenfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as Louisiana completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.[2] Despite this absolute single-party dominance, non-partisan tendencies remained strong among wealthy sugar planters in Acadiana and within the business elite of New Orleans.[3]

Until the rise of Huey P. Long, post-disenfranchisement Louisiana politics was dominated by the New Orleans-based “Choctaw Club”,[4] which overcame Socialist, Wobbly, and Progressive challenges from the outlying upcountry, Imperial Calcasieu and Acadiana regions between the late 1900s and early 1920s.[5] The three presidential elections between 1916 and 1924 saw a rebellion in Acadiana over sugar tariffs and Woodrow Wilson’s foreign and domestic policies; however, the nomination of Catholic Al Smith in 1928 rapidly restored their Democratic loyalty without causing significant upheaval in the remainder of the state, which was too focused on control of black labour to worry about Smith’s Catholicism.[6]

Following the 1928 gubernatorial primary, Louisiana politics until Brown v. Board of Education would be governed by a system of coherent “Long” and “anti-Long” Democratic factionalism,[7] as the administration of Huey Long introduced significant economic reforms, which were strongly opposed by the remnants of the old Choctaws. During the first term of Roosevelt, Long sought to capture the Presidency for himself under a “Share-Our-Wealth” program involving the confiscation of wealthy fortunes, family allowances, and government storage of agricultural surpluses.[8] The Long and anti-Long factions would compete intensely in subsequent primaries, with many controversies, most critically involving New Orleans election officer Patrick Classic’s attempt to count ninety-seven ballots for anti-Long Hale Boggs in a House of Representatives primary in September 1940,[9] which reached the Supreme Court and established the right to regulate primary elections. Three years later, Louisiana’s lily-white one-party politics was shaken by Smith v. Allwright, which ruled white-only primaries as unconstitutional, and to which Governor Sam Jones responded saying

Incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt carried Louisiana in a landslide, defeating Republican New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey by a margin of 61.20 points,[10] and sweeping every parish in the state. Nevertheless, indications of protest against Roosevelt’s policies were seen in the rural hill parishes where the Long dynasty had been strongest in the preceding fifteen years[11] — for instance in Long’s ancestral home of Winn Parish, Dewey won almost two-fifths of the vote, and in Winn and nearby Lincoln Parish, the Democratic vote share fell by almost one quarter from the 1940 election.[12]

As of 2020, this election marks the last time that a Democratic presidential nominee has carried Bossier Parish.[13] Plaquemines Parish and Lincoln Parish have both voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate only once since – for Bill Clinton in 1996 – whilst Caddo Parish and Claiborne Parish would not vote Democratic again until Clinton in 1992.[13] It also marked the end of a 64-year Democratic voting streak; four years later, the state would back Dixiecrat candidate Strom Thurmond instead of Democratic nominee Harry S. Truman. As such, this marks the last time that any presidential candidate would carry every parish in the state.

Results

Results by parish

1944 United States presidential election in Louisiana by parish! rowspan="2"
Parish
Democratic
Republican
Margin
data-sort-type="number" data-sort-type="number" %data-sort-type="number" data-sort-type="number" %data-sort-type="number" width="8%"data-sort-type="number" width="8%"%data-sort-type="number" data-sort-type="number" %
Acadia4,43981.27%1,02318.73%3,41662.54%5,462
Allen2,20586.78%33613.22%1,86973.55%2,541
Ascension2,29186.29%36413.71%1,92772.58%2,655
Assumption1,41976.91%42623.09%99353.82%1,845
Avoyelles3,78992.53%3067.47%3,48385.05%4,095
Beauregard2,22674.57%75925.43%1,46749.15%2,985
Bienville1,80171.87%70528.13%1,09643.74%2,506
Bossier2,43079.59%62220.37%10.03%1,80859.22%3,053
Caddo12,89668.56%5,88531.29%290.15%7,01137.27%18,810
Calcasieu7,86180.81%1,86719.19%5,99461.62%9,728
Caldwell1,14269.34%50530.66%63738.68%1,647
Cameron1,02592.26%867.74%93984.52%1,111
Catahoula1,20880.59%29119.41%91761.17%1,499
Claiborne2,26679.68%57820.32%1,68859.35%2,844
Concordia97482.89%20117.11%77365.79%1,175
DeSoto1,85877.55%53822.45%1,32055.09%2,396
14,75782.99%3,02517.01%11,73265.98%17,782
92572.15%35727.85%56844.31%1,282
86979.80%22020.20%64959.60%1,089
Evangeline3,02991.68%2758.32%2,75483.35%3,304
Franklin2,47680.57%59719.43%1,87961.15%3,073
Grant1,93977.72%55622.28%1,38355.43%2,495
Iberia3,66176.24%1,14123.76%2,52052.48%4,802
Iberville2,26583.98%43216.02%1,83367.96%2,697
Jackson1,84081.52%41418.34%30.13%1,42663.18%2,257
Jefferson10,26885.21%1,78214.79%8,48670.42%12,050
2,32966.83%1,15633.17%1,17333.66%3,485
Lafayette4,80186.61%74213.39%4,05973.23%5,543
Lafourche4,98085.06%87514.94%4,10570.11%5,855
LaSalle2,01879.20%50419.78%261.02%1,51459.42%2,548
Lincoln1,70562.29%1,03237.71%67324.59%2,737
Livingston2,46087.76%34312.24%2,11775.53%2,803
Madison76469.33%33830.67%42638.66%1,102
Morehouse1,85979.55%47820.45%1,38159.09%2,337
Natchitoches2,53669.59%1,10530.32%30.08%1,43139.27%3,644
Orleans90,41181.74%20,19018.25%70.01%70,22163.49%110,608
Ouachita6,32970.67%2,62729.33%3,70241.34%8,956
Plaquemines1,75583.97%33516.03%1,42067.94%2,090
1,43684.12%27115.88%1,16568.25%1,707
Rapides9,13284.21%1,71215.79%7,42068.42%10,844
97570.45%40929.55%56640.90%1,384
Richland2,08781.05%48818.95%1,59962.10%2,575
Sabine2,04866.34%1,03933.66%1,00932.69%3,087
2,04496.23%803.77%1,96492.47%2,124
1,94591.79%1748.21%1,77183.58%2,119
68386.35%10813.65%57572.69%791
1,38783.96%26516.04%1,12267.92%1,652
1,32487.16%19512.84%1,12974.33%1,519
4,42384.94%78415.06%3,63969.89%5,207
2,38493.97%1536.03%2,23187.94%2,537
3,59186.97%53813.03%3,05373.94%4,129
3,45083.07%70316.93%2,74766.14%4,153
Tangipahoa4,41973.76%1,57226.24%2,84747.52%5,991
Tensas63879.95%16020.05%47859.90%798
Terrebonne3,53986.55%55013.45%2,98973.10%4,089
Union1,76568.73%80331.27%96237.46%2,568
Vermilion4,68487.39%67612.61%4,00874.78%5,360
Vernon3,07575.05%1,02224.95%2,05350.11%4,097
Washington4,81092.22%4067.78%4,40484.43%5,216
Webster3,65580.26%89919.74%2,75660.52%4,554
1,04592.31%877.69%95884.63%1,132
1,39070.52%58129.48%80941.05%1,971
42670.53%17829.47%24841.06%604
Winn1,40361.43%88138.57%52222.85%2,284
Totals281,56480.59%67,75019.39%690.02%213,81461.20%349,383

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1944 Election for the Fortieth Term (1945-1949). 2018-04-03.
  2. Book: [[Kevin Phillips (political commentator)|Phillips]], Kevin P.. The Emerging Republican Majority. 208, 210. 9780691163246.
  3. Schott. Matthew J.. Progressives against Democracy: Electoral Reform in Louisiana, 1894-1921. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 20. 3. Summer 1979. 247–260.
  4. Book: Wall. Bennett H.. Rodriguez. John C.. Louisiana: A History. 274–275. 1118619293.
  5. Collin. Richard H.. Theodore Roosevelt's Visit to New Orleans and the Progressive Campaign of 1914. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 12. 1. Winter 1971. 5–19.
  6. Barbara C.. Wingo. The 1928 Presidential Election in Louisiana. Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 18. 4. Autumn 1977. 405–435. Louisiana Historical Association.
  7. Book: Hansen. John Mark. Shigeo. Hirano. Snyder Jr.. James M.. Parties within Parties: Parties, Factions, and Coordinated Politics, 1900-1980. Gerber. Alan S.. Schickler. Eric. Governing in a Polarized Age: Elections, Parties, and Political Representation in America. 165–168. 978-1-107-09509-0.
  8. Book: Sindler, Allan P.. Huey Long’s Louisiana: State politics, 1920-1952. 1956. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore. 84–85.
  9. Book: Baker, Liva. 1996. The second battle of New Orleans: the hundred-year struggle to integrate the schools. New York City. HarperCollinsPublishers. 97–99. 0060168080.
  10. Web site: The American Presidency Project — Election of 1944. 2018-04-03.
  11. Howard. Perry H.. 1956. Political Tendencies in Louisiana, 1812-1952; An Ecological Analysis of Voting Behavior. Longism: An Appraisal. LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. Louisiana State University. 194-198.
  12. Web site: LA US President Race, November 07, 1944. Our Campaigns.
  13. Book: Menendez, Albert J.. 2005. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. 215–218. 0786422173.

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