1948 United States presidential election in New Mexico explained

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Election Name:	1948 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Country:	New Mexico
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1944 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Previous Year:	1944
Next Election:	1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Next Year:	1952
Election Date:	November 2, 1948
Image1:	Harry S Truman, bw half-length photo portrait, facing front, 1945 (cropped).jpg
Nominee1:	Harry S. Truman
Party1:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1:	Missouri
Running Mate1:	Alben W. Barkley
Electoral Vote1:	4
Popular Vote1:	105,464
Percentage1:	56.38%
Nominee2:	Thomas E. Dewey
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:	New York
Running Mate2:	Earl Warren
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	80,303
Percentage2:	42.93%
Map Size:	265px

The 1948 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 2, 1948. All 48 states were part of the 1948 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President.

New Mexico was won by incumbent President Harry S. Truman,^[1] who took the Oval Office after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Running against Truman was Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey, who was strongly predicted to win the contest.^[2] Dixiecrat candidate Strom Thurmond took portions of the South, but was not even on the ballot in New Mexico and other Western states.

, this is the last election in which Union County and Harding County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate and the last until 2020 in which Valencia County voted for a losing candidate.^[3]

Results

+ General Election Results^[4] ^[5] ^[6]	Party		Pledged to	Elector	Votes
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Harry S. Truman	Luis C. De Baca	105,464
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Harry S. Truman	Max I. Meadors	105,240
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Harry S. Truman	Mrs. W. F. Coe	105,107
bgcolor=		Democratic Party	Harry S. Truman	Mrs. Juan N. Vigil	105,031
	Republican Party	Thomas E. Dewey	John J. Emmons	80,303
	Republican Party	Thomas E. Dewey	Filemon T. Martinez	79,860
	Republican Party	Thomas E. Dewey	Jerome O. Eddy	79,760
	Republican Party	Thomas E. Dewey	Mrs. Seth Alston	79,659
bgcolor=		New Party	Henry A. Wallace	Prospero Jaramillo	1,037
bgcolor=		New Party	Henry A. Wallace	Fred Calkins	983
bgcolor=		New Party	Henry A. Wallace	Mildred Smothermon	978
bgcolor=		New Party	Henry A. Wallace	John C. Waite	956
bgcolor=		Prohibition Party	Claude A. Watson	Q. B. Stanfield	127
bgcolor=		Prohibition Party	Claude A. Watson	S. P. Crouch	124
bgcolor=		Prohibition Party	Claude A. Watson	Sadie E. Evans	122
bgcolor=		Prohibition Party	Claude A. Watson	Sarah D. Ulmer	122
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Richard Barrett	83
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Lee Wright	80
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Inez Bushner	77
bgcolor=		Socialist Party	Norman Thomas	Cora Amos Walker	77
bgcolor=		Socialist Labor Party	Edward A. Teichert	Clifford Oles	49
bgcolor=		Socialist Labor Party	Edward A. Teichert	Eleanor Berkman	35
bgcolor=		Socialist Labor Party	Edward A. Teichert	Jack I. Berkman	35
bgcolor=		Socialist Labor Party	Edward A. Teichert	James William Peach	35
Votes cast				187,063

Results by county

County	Harry S. Truman Democratic		Thomas E. Dewey Republican		Henry A. Wallace New		Claude A. Watson Prohibition		Norman Thomas Socialist		Edward A. Teichert Socialist Labor		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%		%		%		%
	Bernalillo		18,305		51.76%		16,668		47.13%	328	0.93%		17		0.05%		31		0.09%		15		0.04%		1,637		4.63%		35,364
	Catron		648		55.24%		521		44.42%	3	0.26%		1		0.09%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		127		10.83%		1,173
	Chaves		4,569		59.15%		3,123		40.43%	21	0.27%		8		0.10%		3		0.04%		1		0.01%		1,446		18.72%		7,725
	Colfax		3,871		59.74%		2,575		39.74%	25	0.39%		3		0.05%		5		0.08%		1		0.02%		1,296		20.00%		6,480
	Curry		5,759		72.52%		2,132		26.85%	43	0.54%		5		0.06%		2		0.03%		0		0.00%		3,627		45.67%		7,941
	De Baca		670		59.24%		458		40.50%	2	0.18%		1		0.09%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		212		18.74%		1,131
	Doña Ana		5,116		59.54%		3,440		40.03%	32	0.37%		2		0.02%		2		0.02%		1		0.01%		1,676		19.50%		8,593
	Eddy		7,593		75.77%		2,305		23.00%	104	1.04%		8		0.08%		5		0.05%		6		0.06%		5,288		52.77%		10,021
	Grant		3,592		62.72%		1,999		34.90%	130	2.27%		2		0.03%		2		0.03%		2		0.03%		1,593		27.82%		5,727
	Guadalupe		1,550		49.76%		1,565		50.24%	0	0.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		-15		-0.48%		3,115
	Harding		653		49.96%		649		49.66%	3	0.23%		0		0.00%		1		0.08%		1		0.08%		4		0.31%		1,307
	Hidalgo		859		69.16%		374		30.11%	5	0.40%		2		0.16%		0		0.00%		2		0.16%		485		39.05%		1,242
	Lea		4,708		78.14%		1,273		21.13%	26	0.43%		16		0.27%		1		0.02%		1		0.02%		3,435		57.01%		6,025
	Lincoln		1,406		46.79%		1,575		52.41%	14	0.47%		7		0.23%		2		0.07%		1		0.03%		-169		-5.62%		3,005
	Luna		1,629		63.04%		941		36.42%	9	0.35%		4		0.15%		0		0.00%		1		0.04%		688		26.63%		2,584
	McKinley		2,995		58.17%		2,109		40.96%	37	0.72%		6		0.12%		1		0.02%		1		0.02%		886		17.21%		5,149
	Mora		1,541		44.84%		1,893		55.08%	3	0.09%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		-352		-10.24%		3,437
	Otero		2,361		63.25%		1,354		36.27%	13	0.35%		3		0.08%		0		0.00%		2		0.05%		1,007		26.98%		3,733
	Quay		3,063		68.17%		1,392		30.98%	22	0.49%		13		0.29%		2		0.04%		1		0.02%		1,671		37.19%		4,493
	Rio Arriba		4,753		52.56%		4,273		47.25%	16	0.18%		1		0.01%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		480		5.31%		9,043
	Roosevelt		3,087		75.75%		956		23.46%	23	0.56%		8		0.20%		1		0.02%		0		0.00%		2,131		52.29%		4,075
	San Juan		1,544		38.94%		2,407		60.71%	8	0.20%		5		0.13%		1		0.03%		0		0.00%		-863		-21.77%		3,965
	San Miguel		4,953		51.44%		4,655		48.34%	18	0.19%		0		0.00%		2		0.02%		1		0.01%		298		3.09%		9,629
	Sandoval		1,851		52.30%		1,675		47.33%	7	0.20%		1		0.03%		4		0.11%		1		0.03%		176		4.97%		3,539
	Santa Fe		6,172		44.95%		7,491		54.56%	55	0.40%		2		0.01%		6		0.04%		5		0.04%		-1,319		-9.61%		13,731
	Sierra		1,389		51.83%		1,274		47.54%	13	0.49%		1		0.04%		1		0.04%		2		0.07%		115		4.29%		2,680
	Socorro		1,650		43.44%		2,139		56.32%	8	0.21%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1		0.03%		-489		-12.88%		3,798
	Taos		2,977		50.72%		2,852		48.59%	35	0.60%		0		0.00%		5		0.09%		1		0.02%		125		2.13%		5,870
	Torrance		1,696		49.71%		1,709		50.09%	4	0.12%		2		0.06%		1		0.03%		0		0.00%		-13		-0.38%		3,412
	Union		1,590		55.81%		1,246		43.73%	7	0.25%		6		0.21%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		344		12.07%		2,849
	Valencia		2,914		46.80%		3,280		52.67%	23	0.37%		3		0.05%		5		0.08%		2		0.03%		-366		-5.88%		6,227
Total	105,464	56.38%	80,303	42.93%	1,037	0.55%	127	0.07%	83	0.04%	49	0.03%	25,161	13.45%	187,063

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• Catron
• Harding
• Sandoval
• Sierra
• Taos
• Union

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1948 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2018-02-11.
2. The Nation: Independence Day . https://web.archive.org/web/20090703163059/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,853326,00.html . dead . July 3, 2009 . Time . 1948-11-08 . 2013-04-28.
3. Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
4. New Mexico State Records Center & Archives, Canvass of Returns of General Election Held November 2, 1948
5. Book: New Mexico Secretary of State. Official Returns of the 1948 Elections. 6-8. Santa Fe, New Mexico .
6. Book: New Mexico Secretary of State. New Mexico Election Returns 1911-1969. Santa Fe, New Mexico.