1948 United States presidential election in Minnesota explained

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Election Name:	1948 United States presidential election in Minnesota
Country:	Minnesota
Flag Year:	1893
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1944 United States presidential election in Minnesota
Previous Year:	1944
Next Election:	1952 United States presidential election in Minnesota
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:	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party
Home State1:	Missouri
Running Mate1:	Alben W. Barkley
Electoral Vote1:	11
Popular Vote1:	692,966
Percentage1:	57.16%
Nominee2:	Thomas E. Dewey
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:	New York
Running Mate2:	Earl Warren
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	483,617
Percentage2:	39.89%
Map Size:	350px
President
Before Election:	Harry S. Truman
Before Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:	Harry S. Truman
After Party:	Democratic Party (United States)

The 1948 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election. Voters chose 11 electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Minnesota was won by the Democratic candidate, incumbent President Harry S. Truman, who had assumed the presidency following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, won the state over New York governor Thomas E. Dewey by a margin of 209,349 votes, or 17.27%. Nationally, the election was the greatest election upset in American history; nearly every prediction forecast that Truman would be defeated by Dewey, but in the end, Truman won the election with 303 electoral votes and a comfortable 4.5% lead over Dewey in the popular vote.

Results

1948 United States presidential election in Minnesota^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic (DFL)	Harry S. Truman (incumbent)	692,966	57.16%	11
	Republican	Thomas E. Dewey	483,617	39.89%	0
	Progressive	Henry A. Wallace	27,866	2.30%	0
	Socialist	Norman Thomas	4,646	0.38%	0
	Socialist Labor	Edward A. Teichert	2,525	0.21%	0
	Socialist Workers	Farrell Dobbs	606	0.05%	0
Totals			1,212,226	100.00%	11

Results by county

County^[2]	Harry S. Truman DFL		Thomas E. Dewey Republican		Henry A. Wallace Progressive		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%		%
	Aitkin		3,277		54.55%		2,466		41.05%		227		3.78%		37		0.62%		811		13.50%		6,007
	Anoka		7,730		64.80%		3,853		32.30%		291		2.44%		55		0.46%		3,877		32.50%		11,929
	Becker		5,885		60.50%		3,495		35.93%		314		3.23%		33		0.34%		2,390		24.57%		9,727
	Beltrami		6,020		62.84%		3,126		32.63%		405		4.23%		29		0.30%		2,894		30.21%		9,580
	Benton		3,632		60.38%		2,297		38.19%		66		1.10%		20		0.33%		1,335		22.19%		6,015
	Big Stone		2,466		63.46%		1,321		33.99%		81		2.08%		18		0.46%		1,145		29.47%		3,886
	Blue Earth		7,272		48.63%		7,520		50.29%		109		0.73%		53		0.35%		-248		-1.66%		14,954
	Brown		4,804		47.96%		5,068		50.60%		80		0.80%		64		0.64%		-264		-2.64%		10,016
	Carlton		6,967		68.59%		2,742		27.00%		404		3.98%		44		0.43%		4,225		41.59%		10,157
	Carver		2,816		37.64%		4,582		61.24%		60		0.80%		24		0.32%		-1,766		-23.60%		7,482
	Cass		3,933		54.04%		3,179		43.68%		141		1.94%		25		0.34%		754		10.36%		7,278
	Chippewa		3,888		58.50%		2,569		38.65%		163		2.45%		26		0.39%		1,319		19.85%		6,646
	Chisago		3,184		52.50%		2,704		44.58%		160		2.64%		17		0.28%		480		7.92%		6,065
	Clay		6,624		59.43%		4,302		38.60%		176		1.58%		43		0.39%		2,322		20.83%		11,145
	Clearwater		2,793		66.31%		1,171		27.80%		230		5.46%		18		0.43%		1,622		38.51%		4,212
	Cook		688		48.93%		674		47.94%		38		2.70%		6		0.43%		14		0.99%		1,406
	Cottonwood		3,333		50.26%		3,222		48.58%		40		0.60%		37		0.56%		111		1.68%		6,632
	Crow Wing		6,773		57.18%		4,702		39.70%		325		2.74%		45		0.38%		2,071		17.48%		11,845
	Dakota		12,487		63.63%		6,819		34.75%		229		1.17%		88		0.45%		5,668		28.88%		19,623
	Dodge		2,523		50.86%		2,381		47.99%		39		0.79%		18		0.36%		142		2.87%		4,961
	Douglas		5,022		55.97%		3,744		41.73%		178		1.98%		29		0.32%		1,278		14.24%		8,973
	Faribault		5,261		52.54%		4,619		46.13%		93		0.93%		41		0.41%		642		6.41%		10,014
	Fillmore		4,414		43.58%		5,587		55.16%		104		1.03%		23		0.23%		-1,173		-11.58%		10,128
	Freeborn		7,825		58.94%		5,238		39.45%		171		1.29%		42		0.32%		2,587		19.49%		13,276
	Goodhue		7,313		51.42%		6,704		47.14%		141		0.99%		64		0.45%		609		4.28%		14,222
	Grant		2,378		54.19%		1,789		40.77%		211		4.81%		10		0.23%		589		13.42%		4,388
	Hennepin		151,920		53.83%		121,169		42.93%		7,090		2.51%		2,055		0.73%		30,751		10.90%		282,234
	Houston		2,623		42.10%		3,540		56.81%		41		0.66%		27		0.43%		-917		-14.71%		6,231
	Hubbard		2,044		48.20%		2,071		48.83%		112		2.64%		14		0.33%		-27		-0.63%		4,241
	Isanti		2,758		55.23%		1,918		38.41%		208		4.16%		110		2.20%		840		16.82%		4,994
	Itasca		9,653		65.60%		4,334		29.45%		638		4.34%		91		0.62%		5,319		36.15%		14,716
	Jackson		4,541		65.16%		2,288		32.83%		112		1.61%		28		0.40%		2,253		32.33%		6,969
	Kanabec		2,305		58.06%		1,531		38.56%		104		2.62%		30		0.76%		774		19.50%		3,970
	Kandiyohi		7,204		62.14%		3,666		31.62%		679		5.86%		44		0.38%		3,538		30.52%		11,593
	Kittson		2,970		71.00%		1,035		24.74%		160		3.83%		18		0.43%		1,935		46.26%		4,183
	Koochiching		4,968		71.30%		1,718		24.66%		247		3.54%		35		0.50%		3,250		46.64%		6,968
	Lac qui Parle		3,690		60.49%		2,330		38.20%		65		1.07%		15		0.25%		1,360		22.29%		6,100
	Lake		2,555		68.52%		924		24.78%		216		5.79%		34		0.91%		1,631		43.74%		3,729
	Lake of the Woods		1,302		64.94%		583		29.08%		101		5.04%		19		0.95%		719		35.86%		2,005
	Le Sueur		4,890		55.39%		3,858		43.70%		53		0.60%		27		0.31%		1,032		11.69%		8,828
	Lincoln		2,694		65.87%		1,312		32.08%		60		1.47%		24		0.59%		1,382		33.79%		4,090
	Lyon		6,144		66.16%		3,054		32.89%		61		0.66%		27		0.29%		3,090		33.27%		9,286
	Mahnomen		2,125		76.58%		579		20.86%		61		2.20%		10		0.36%		1,546		55.72%		2,775
	Marshall		4,126		63.41%		2,090		32.12%		266		4.09%		25		0.38%		2,036		31.29%		6,507
	Martin		6,015		55.88%		4,662		43.31%		58		0.54%		29		0.27%		1,353		12.57%		10,764
	McLeod		3,987		45.74%		4,623		53.04%		74		0.85%		32		0.37%		-636		-7.30%		8,716
	Meeker		4,333		53.73%		3,620		44.89%		89		1.10%		23		0.29%		713		8.84%		8,065
	Mille Lacs		3,343		55.36%		2,502		41.43%		163		2.70%		31		0.51%		841		13.93%		6,039
	Morrison		6,026		59.71%		3,922		38.86%		105		1.04%		39		0.39%		2,104		20.85%		10,092
	Mower		9,468		61.88%		5,672		37.07%		104		0.68%		57		0.37%		3,796		24.81%		15,301
	Murray		3,594		64.16%		1,951		34.83%		40		0.71%		17		0.30%		1,643		29.33%		5,602
	Nicollet		3,663		50.01%		3,576		48.82%		57		0.78%		29		0.40%		87		1.19%		7,325
	Nobles		5,090		60.73%		3,203		38.21%		66		0.79%		23		0.27%		1,887		22.52%		8,382
	Norman		3,245		62.92%		1,695		32.87%		186		3.61%		31		0.60%		1,550		30.05%		5,157
	Olmsted		9,155		52.41%		8,131		46.55%		112		0.64%		69		0.40%		1,024		5.86%		17,467
	Otter Tail		6,546		36.02%		11,131		61.25%		437		2.40%		58		0.32%		-4,585		-25.23%		18,172
	Pennington		3,402		60.66%		1,759		31.37%		416		7.42%		31		0.55%		1,643		29.29%		5,608
	Pine		4,978		59.21%		3,069		36.51%		320		3.81%		40		0.48%		1,909		22.70%		8,407
	Pipestone		2,804		54.13%		2,281		44.03%		74		1.43%		21		0.41%		523		10.10%		5,180
	Polk		9,279		63.64%		4,662		31.98%		573		3.93%		66		0.45%		4,617		31.66%		14,580
	Pope		3,251		59.52%		2,114		38.70%		78		1.43%		19		0.35%		1,137		20.82%		5,462
	Ramsey		88,528		62.84%		48,142		34.17%		2,485		1.76%		1,732		1.23%		40,386		28.67%		140,887
	Red Lake		1,771		71.76%		592		23.99%		95		3.85%		10		0.41%		1,179		47.77%		2,468
	Redwood		4,182		49.52%		4,160		49.26%		70		0.83%		33		0.39%		22		0.26%		8,445
	Renville		5,227		54.00%		4,297		44.40%		115		1.19%		40		0.41%		930		9.60%		9,679
	Rice		5,832		47.33%		6,301		51.14%		110		0.89%		78		0.63%		-469		-3.81%		12,321
	Rock		2,134		50.40%		2,035		48.06%		56		1.32%		9		0.21%		99		2.34%		4,234
	Roseau		3,674		66.46%		1,458		26.37%		381		6.89%		15		0.27%		2,216		40.09%		5,528
	St. Louis		62,553		64.29%		28,490		29.28%		5,154		5.30%		1,095		1.13%		34,063		35.01%		97,292
	Scott		4,278		61.69%		2,583		37.25%		45		0.65%		29		0.42%		1,695		24.44%		6,935
	Sherburne		1,958		50.27%		1,828		46.93%		98		2.52%		11		0.28%		130		3.34%		3,895
	Sibley		2,818		45.77%		3,260		52.95%		51		0.83%		28		0.45%		-442		-7.18%		6,157
	Stearns		15,261		59.37%		10,153		39.50%		202		0.79%		90		0.35%		5,108		19.87%		25,706
	Steele		4,305		48.83%		4,451		50.49%		38		0.43%		22		0.25%		-146		-1.66%		8,816
	Stevens		2,313		54.00%		1,928		45.02%		31		0.72%		11		0.26%		385		8.98%		4,283
	Swift		4,082		63.11%		2,109		32.61%		254		3.93%		23		0.36%		1,973		30.50%		6,468
	Todd		5,157		54.08%		4,166		43.69%		155		1.63%		57		0.60%		991		10.39%		9,535
	Traverse		2,151		66.74%		1,008		31.28%		49		1.52%		15		0.47%		1,143		35.46%		3,223
	Wabasha		3,730		52.52%		3,297		46.42%		42		0.59%		33		0.46%		433		6.10%		7,102
	Wadena		2,556		51.98%		2,272		46.21%		76		1.55%		13		0.26%		284		5.77%		4,917
	Waseca		3,120		46.71%		3,511		52.56%		28		0.42%		21		0.31%		-391		-5.85%		6,680
	Washington		8,039		57.54%		5,686		40.70%		175		1.25%		70		0.50%		2,353		16.84%		13,970
	Watonwan		3,039		53.33%		2,581		45.30%		52		0.91%		26		0.46%		458		8.03%		5,698
	Wilkin		2,291		56.43%		1,700		41.87%		58		1.43%		11		0.27%		591		14.56%		4,060
	Winona		8,281		54.08%		6,880		44.93%		66		0.43%		86		0.56%		1,401		9.15%		15,313
	Wright		5,523		48.89%		5,589		49.47%		145		1.28%		40		0.35%		-66		-0.58%		11,297
	Yellow Medicine		4,164		59.38%		2,693		38.41%		133		1.90%		22		0.31%		1,471		20.97%		7,012
Totals	692,966	57.16%	483,617	39.89%	27,866	2.30%	7,777	0.64%	209,349	17.27%	1,212,226

See also

• United States presidential elections in Minnesota

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1948 Presidential Election Results – Minnesota . 2016-10-04 . Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas.
2. Our Campaigns; MN US President Race, November 02, 1948