See main article: 1944 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1944 United States presidential election in Montana |
| Country: | Montana |
| Flag Year: | 1905 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1940 United States presidential election in Montana |
| Previous Year: | 1940 |
| Next Election: | 1948 United States presidential election in Montana |
| 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 S. Truman |
| Electoral Vote1: | 4 |
| Popular Vote1: | 112,556 |
| Percentage1: | 54.28% |
| Nominee2: | Thomas E. Dewey |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | New York |
| Running Mate2: | John W. Bricker |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 93,163 |
| Percentage2: | 44.93% |
| Map Size: | 350px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 1944 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 7, 1944 as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Montana voted to give Democratic nominee, President Franklin D. Roosevelt a record fourth term, over the Republican nominee, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Roosevelt won Montana by the substantial margin of 9.35%. This was the last occasion Gallatin County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate until Barack Obama carried the county in 2008, as well as the last time until that election that Montana would back a different presidential candidate than Colorado.[1]
Roosevelt remains the last Democratic presidential candidate to have carried Montana more than once.
| 1944 United States presidential election in Montana[2] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||
| Democratic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) | 112,556 | 54.28% | 4 | ||
| Republican | Thomas E. Dewey | 93,163 | 44.93% | 0 | ||
| Socialist | Norman Thomas | 1,296 | 0.63% | 0 | ||
| Prohibition | Claude Watson | 340 | 0.16% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 207,355 | 100.00% | 4 | |||
| County | Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic | Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast[3] | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Beaverhead | 1,263 | 44.60% | 1,556 | 54.94% | 13 | 0.46% | -293 | -10.35% | 2,832 | ||||||||||
| Big Horn | 1,289 | 47.83% | 1,394 | 51.73% | 12 | 0.45% | -105 | -3.90% | 2,695 | ||||||||||
| Blaine | 1,469 | 59.26% | 990 | 39.94% | 20 | 0.81% | 479 | 19.32% | 2,479 | ||||||||||
| Broadwater | 558 | 42.18% | 760 | 57.45% | 5 | 0.38% | -202 | -15.27% | 1,323 | ||||||||||
| Carbon | 2,073 | 49.01% | 2,126 | 50.26% | 31 | 0.73% | -53 | -1.25% | 4,230 | ||||||||||
| Carter | 610 | 54.56% | 507 | 45.35% | 1 | 0.09% | 103 | 9.21% | 1,118 | ||||||||||
| Cascade | 10,924 | 62.65% | 6,372 | 36.54% | 141 | 0.81% | 4,552 | 26.11% | 17,437 | ||||||||||
| Chouteau | 1,906 | 60.45% | 1,220 | 38.69% | 27 | 0.86% | 686 | 21.76% | 3,153 | ||||||||||
| Custer | 2,038 | 52.30% | 1,830 | 46.96% | 29 | 0.74% | 208 | 5.34% | 3,897 | ||||||||||
| Daniels | 824 | 54.35% | 680 | 44.85% | 12 | 0.79% | 144 | 9.50% | 1,516 | ||||||||||
| Dawson | 1,362 | 46.53% | 1,549 | 52.92% | 16 | 0.55% | -187 | -6.39% | 2,927 | ||||||||||
| Deer Lodge | 4,347 | 66.31% | 2,176 | 33.19% | 33 | 0.50% | 2,171 | 33.11% | 6,556 | ||||||||||
| Fallon | 494 | 36.03% | 870 | 63.46% | 7 | 0.51% | -376 | -27.43% | 1,371 | ||||||||||
| Fergus | 3,164 | 58.35% | 2,229 | 41.11% | 29 | 0.53% | 935 | 17.24% | 5,422 | ||||||||||
| Flathead | 3,608 | 46.34% | 4,066 | 52.22% | 112 | 1.44% | -458 | -5.88% | 7,786 | ||||||||||
| Gallatin | 3,479 | 52.46% | 3,120 | 47.04% | 33 | 0.50% | 359 | 5.41% | 6,632 | ||||||||||
| Garfield | 478 | 46.27% | 553 | 53.53% | 2 | 0.19% | -75 | -7.26% | 1,033 | ||||||||||
| Glacier | 2,142 | 63.39% | 1,228 | 36.34% | 9 | 0.27% | 914 | 27.05% | 3,379 | ||||||||||
| Golden Valley | 266 | 40.18% | 395 | 59.67% | 1 | 0.15% | -129 | -19.49% | 662 | ||||||||||
| Granite | 574 | 44.57% | 702 | 54.50% | 12 | 0.93% | -128 | -9.94% | 1,288 | ||||||||||
| Hill | 2,986 | 63.95% | 1,646 | 35.25% | 37 | 0.79% | 1,340 | 28.70% | 4,669 | ||||||||||
| Jefferson | 803 | 50.09% | 797 | 49.72% | 3 | 0.19% | 6 | 0.37% | 1,603 | ||||||||||
| Judith Basin | 1,049 | 60.05% | 691 | 39.55% | 7 | 0.40% | 358 | 20.49% | 1,747 | ||||||||||
| Lake | 1,750 | 43.11% | 2,265 | 55.80% | 44 | 1.08% | -515 | -12.69% | 4,059 | ||||||||||
| Lewis and Clark | 4,737 | 51.17% | 4,482 | 48.41% | 39 | 0.42% | 255 | 2.75% | 9,258 | ||||||||||
| Liberty | 440 | 52.26% | 393 | 46.67% | 9 | 1.07% | 47 | 5.58% | 842 | ||||||||||
| Lincoln | 1,445 | 55.81% | 1,109 | 42.84% | 35 | 1.35% | 336 | 12.98% | 2,589 | ||||||||||
| Madison | 1,022 | 44.19% | 1,278 | 55.25% | 13 | 0.56% | -256 | -11.07% | 2,313 | ||||||||||
| McCone | 763 | 57.80% | 526 | 39.85% | 31 | 2.35% | 237 | 17.95% | 1,320 | ||||||||||
| Meagher | 482 | 48.54% | 509 | 51.26% | 2 | 0.20% | -27 | -2.72% | 993 | ||||||||||
| Mineral | 401 | 50.63% | 380 | 47.98% | 11 | 1.39% | 21 | 2.65% | 792 | ||||||||||
| Missoula | 5,558 | 50.40% | 5,371 | 48.70% | 99 | 0.90% | 187 | 1.70% | 11,028 | ||||||||||
| Musselshell | 1,342 | 56.51% | 1,004 | 42.27% | 29 | 1.22% | 338 | 14.23% | 2,375 | ||||||||||
| Park | 2,245 | 48.00% | 2,396 | 51.23% | 36 | 0.77% | -151 | -3.23% | 4,677 | ||||||||||
| Petroleum | 225 | 46.78% | 253 | 52.60% | 3 | 0.62% | -28 | -5.82% | 481 | ||||||||||
| Phillips | 1,435 | 56.43% | 1,089 | 42.82% | 19 | 0.75% | 346 | 13.61% | 2,543 | ||||||||||
| Pondera | 1,448 | 61.33% | 890 | 37.70% | 23 | 0.97% | 558 | 23.63% | 2,361 | ||||||||||
| Powder River | 476 | 41.86% | 650 | 57.17% | 11 | 0.97% | -174 | -15.30% | 1,137 | ||||||||||
| Powell | 1,527 | 57.73% | 1,100 | 41.59% | 18 | 0.68% | 427 | 16.14% | 2,645 | ||||||||||
| Prairie | 468 | 43.58% | 598 | 55.68% | 8 | 0.74% | -130 | -12.10% | 1,074 | ||||||||||
| Ravalli | 1,926 | 44.68% | 2,342 | 54.33% | 43 | 1.00% | -416 | -9.65% | 4,311 | ||||||||||
| Richland | 1,777 | 56.22% | 1,347 | 42.61% | 37 | 1.17% | 430 | 13.60% | 3,161 | ||||||||||
| Roosevelt | 1,848 | 58.33% | 1,281 | 40.44% | 39 | 1.23% | 567 | 17.90% | 3,168 | ||||||||||
| Rosebud | 1,114 | 48.41% | 1,154 | 50.15% | 33 | 1.43% | -40 | -1.74% | 2,301 | ||||||||||
| Sanders | 1,184 | 51.98% | 1,070 | 46.97% | 24 | 1.05% | 114 | 5.00% | 2,278 | ||||||||||
| Sheridan | 1,713 | 67.23% | 791 | 31.04% | 44 | 1.73% | 922 | 36.19% | 2,548 | ||||||||||
| Silver Bow | 13,228 | 62.87% | 7,610 | 36.17% | 202 | 0.96% | 5,618 | 26.70% | 21,040 | ||||||||||
| Stillwater | 934 | 43.60% | 1,201 | 56.07% | 7 | 0.33% | -267 | -12.46% | 2,142 | ||||||||||
| Sweet Grass | 533 | 37.01% | 897 | 62.29% | 10 | 0.69% | -364 | -25.28% | 1,440 | ||||||||||
| Teton | 1,508 | 57.98% | 1,074 | 41.29% | 19 | 0.73% | 434 | 16.69% | 2,601 | ||||||||||
| Toole | 1,545 | 57.91% | 1,113 | 41.72% | 10 | 0.37% | 432 | 16.19% | 2,668 | ||||||||||
| Treasure | 282 | 49.21% | 287 | 50.09% | 4 | 0.70% | -5 | -0.87% | 573 | ||||||||||
| Valley | 2,196 | 61.31% | 1,341 | 37.44% | 45 | 1.26% | 855 | 23.87% | 3,582 | ||||||||||
| Wheatland | 733 | 48.35% | 767 | 50.59% | 16 | 1.06% | -34 | -2.24% | 1,516 | ||||||||||
| Wibaux | 425 | 49.48% | 432 | 50.29% | 2 | 0.23% | -7 | -0.81% | 859 | ||||||||||
| Yellowstone | 8,140 | 48.09% | 8,706 | 51.44% | 79 | 0.47% | -566 | -3.34% | 16,925 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 112,556 | 54.28% | 93,163 | 44.93% | 1,636 | 0.79% | 19,393 | 9.35% | 207,355 | ||||||||||