Franklin D. Roosevelt carried Texas D+54.8.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) vs Thomas E. Dewey (R) in Texas, 1944. The state ran 47.3 points more Democratic than the nation (D+7.5 nationally).

Nominees: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) · Thomas E. Dewey (R)

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Texas result

1,150,334 votes counted

Roosevelt (D)

821,605

71.4%

Dewey (R)

191,423

16.6%

All others

137,306

11.9%

Margin

D+54.8

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1944 presidential election

Texas, 1944

RooseveltD+54.8

How it voted

Share of the 1944 vote

Franklin D. Roosevelt ✓Democratic	71.4%	821,605
Thomas E. DeweyRepublican	16.6%	191,423
OtherAll other candidates	11.9%	137,306

D+60

R+60

254 counties, each filled by 1944 D-vs-R margin. Hover any county for its result.

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Texas's presidential margins

1912–2024, the 1944 contest in context

Texas's presidential margins

Year	Margin (D minus R)
1912	+63.2%
1916	+59.6%
1920	+36.6%
1924	+52.6%
1928	−3.9%
1932	+77.0%
1936	+74.8%
1940	+62.0%
1944	+54.8%
1948	+41.7%
1952	−6.4%
1956	−11.3%
1960	+2.0%
1964	+26.8%
1968	+1.3%
1972	−33.0%
1976	+3.2%
1980	−13.9%
1984	−27.5%
1988	−12.6%
1992	−3.5%
1996	−4.9%
2000	−21.3%
2004	−22.9%
2008	−11.8%
2012	−15.8%
2016	−9.0%
2020	−5.6%
2024	−13.7%

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County results — 1944

254 counties; every row links to the county's full page.

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County	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
Anderson County	D	+70.8%	4,342	467	5,474
Andrews County	D	+69.6%	329	48	404
Angelina County	D	+57.4%	4,387	1,001	5,898
Aransas County	D	+49.3%	456	150	621
Archer County	D	+70.6%	1,674	194	2,097
Armstrong County	D	+61.4%	623	132	800
Atascosa County	D	+40.5%	1,757	685	2,646
Austin County	D	+21.9%	1,316	619	3,184
Bailey County	D	+40.1%	943	358	1,458
Bandera County	R	−8.1%	532	634	1,258
Bastrop County	D	+67.5%	2,604	385	3,289
Baylor County	D	+81.9%	1,568	102	1,789
Bee County	D	+19.0%	1,306	848	2,411
Bell County	D	+69.2%	6,960	763	8,955
Bexar County	D	+18.9%	35,024	23,588	60,427
Blanco County	D	+20.7%	846	533	1,512
Borden County	D	+65.9%	237	34	308
Bosque County	D	+59.9%	2,502	504	3,335
Bowie County	D	+70.3%	7,045	790	8,902
Brazoria County	D	+61.0%	5,543	850	7,691
Brazos County	D	+66.1%	3,358	464	4,375
Brewster County	D	+52.9%	864	237	1,186
Briscoe County	D	+64.6%	615	80	828
Brooks County	D	+41.1%	403	142	635
Brown County	D	+56.3%	2,426	430	3,544
Burleson County	D	+76.2%	1,992	158	2,407
Burnet County	D	+69.6%	1,697	228	2,112
Caldwell County	D	+56.9%	2,916	704	3,888
Calhoun County	D	+53.5%	732	158	1,073
Callahan County	D	+70.6%	1,962	224	2,463
Cameron County	D	+5.8%	5,998	5,309	11,846
Camp County	D	+58.3%	977	180	1,368
Carson County	D	+43.7%	1,216	446	1,763
Cass County	D	+62.1%	2,866	541	3,742
Castro County	D	+51.2%	838	222	1,203
Chambers County	D	+64.6%	1,038	179	1,329
Cherokee County	D	+64.5%	3,918	598	5,146
Childress County	D	+71.4%	2,295	299	2,797
Clay County	D	+67.0%	2,307	311	2,980
Cochran County	D	+59.3%	716	123	1,000
Coke County	D	+79.1%	824	65	959
Coleman County	D	+64.5%	2,887	498	3,704
Collin County	D	+67.1%	6,574	974	8,344
Collingsworth County	D	+67.7%	1,725	261	2,162
Colorado County	D	+28.4%	1,517	638	3,098
Comal County	R	−41.3%	787	2,021	2,989
Comanche County	D	+68.3%	2,941	356	3,787
Concho County	D	+68.8%	1,090	151	1,364
Cooke County	D	+47.6%	3,270	919	4,938
Coryell County	D	+66.6%	2,518	413	3,159
Cottle County	D	+87.2%	2,551	130	2,776
Crane County	D	+77.3%	552	58	639
Crockett County	D	+42.9%	323	112	492
Crosby County	D	+70.1%	1,691	201	2,127
Culberson County	D	+72.9%	200	17	251
Dallam County	D	+49.4%	1,118	323	1,610
Dallas County	D	+42.3%	60,909	21,099	94,036
Dawson County	D	+58.4%	2,149	472	2,872
Deaf Smith County	D	+33.7%	1,117	508	1,805
Delta County	D	+79.2%	1,706	133	1,987
Denton County	D	+67.7%	5,584	771	7,110
DeWitt County	D	+0.1%	1,884	1,879	4,187
Dickens County	D	+78.6%	1,617	141	1,879
Dimmit County	D	+23.1%	554	328	977
Donley County	D	+57.0%	1,170	280	1,562
Duval County	D	+91.4%	3,353	136	3,518
Eastland County	D	+65.3%	4,607	643	6,072
Ector County	D	+59.3%	2,265	432	3,091
Edwards County	D	+27.5%	348	187	586
El Paso County	D	+59.5%	11,426	2,072	15,718
Ellis County	D	+77.1%	7,065	666	8,304
Erath County	D	+70.0%	3,330	411	4,171
Falls County	D	+66.7%	3,191	377	4,219
Fannin County	D	+74.1%	5,984	677	7,163
Fayette County	D	+25.6%	3,156	1,611	6,030
Fisher County	D	+80.9%	2,041	154	2,332
Floyd County	D	+56.6%	1,756	370	2,448
Foard County	D	+77.9%	925	84	1,080
Fort Bend County	D	+58.8%	2,781	442	3,980
Franklin County	D	+74.3%	1,336	147	1,601
Freestone County	D	+71.1%	2,427	277	3,022
Frio County	D	+48.1%	951	293	1,369
Gaines County	D	+68.0%	1,173	173	1,471
Galveston County	D	+67.7%	11,748	1,542	15,074
Garza County	D	+60.2%	842	144	1,159
Gillespie County	R	−73.2%	333	2,950	3,573
Glasscock County	D	+56.1%	185	34	269
Goliad County	D	+2.4%	641	609	1,348
Gonzales County	D	+49.2%	2,804	841	3,987
Gray County	D	+26.6%	3,067	1,739	4,989
Grayson County	D	+72.9%	11,636	1,372	14,070
Gregg County	D	+55.0%	6,401	1,412	9,077
Grimes County	D	+72.2%	1,559	137	1,970
Guadalupe County	R	−22.4%	1,583	2,556	4,343
Hale County	D	+53.8%	3,066	712	4,379
Hall County	D	+78.2%	1,812	164	2,108
Hamilton County	D	+57.9%	1,790	344	2,499
Hansford County	D	+46.0%	590	203	842
Hardeman County	D	+70.5%	1,756	223	2,173
Hardin County	D	+76.4%	2,632	243	3,126
Harris County	D	+56.9%	71,077	11,843	104,119
Harrison County	D	+59.3%	3,588	619	5,009
Hartley County	D	+88.1%	484	26	520
Haskell County	D	+75.0%	2,573	261	3,083
Hays County	D	+49.2%	1,690	495	2,428
Hemphill County	D	+45.3%	792	274	1,143
Henderson County	D	+66.2%	3,219	427	4,220
Hidalgo County	D	+25.9%	7,250	4,080	12,234
Hill County	D	+72.9%	4,876	516	5,984
Hockley County	D	+69.0%	2,641	319	3,367
Hood County	D	+71.8%	1,203	146	1,472
Hopkins County	D	+70.7%	3,981	533	4,876
Houston County	D	+66.6%	2,329	233	3,146
Howard County	D	+75.1%	3,588	334	4,334
Hudspeth County	D	+75.3%	333	35	396
Hunt County	D	+68.3%	6,200	714	8,037
Hutchinson County	D	+49.6%	2,760	864	3,826
Irion County	D	+68.2%	363	54	453
Jack County	D	+64.5%	1,484	217	1,964
Jackson County	D	+59.4%	1,708	344	2,296
Jasper County	D	+62.2%	1,850	341	2,427
Jeff Davis County	D	+67.1%	331	51	417
Jefferson County	D	+60.3%	22,066	4,525	29,080
Jim Hogg County	D	+76.2%	620	77	713
Jim Wells County	D	+24.9%	1,908	1,113	3,191
Johnson County	D	+71.4%	4,757	546	5,896
Jones County	D	+74.2%	3,417	361	4,117
Karnes County	D	+43.0%	1,920	692	2,856
Kaufman County	D	+74.4%	4,251	430	5,136
Kendall County	R	−58.3%	309	1,337	1,762
Kenedy County	R	−53.7%	16	60	82
Kent County	D	+82.2%	572	31	658
Kerr County	D	+0.6%	1,377	1,358	2,943
Kimble County	D	+52.5%	880	225	1,247
King County	D	+84.0%	228	13	256
Kinney County	D	+33.4%	401	200	602
Kleberg County	D	+53.8%	1,473	421	1,957
Knox County	D	+76.1%	1,785	156	2,142
La Salle County	D	+65.7%	692	127	860
Lamar County	D	+71.7%	6,283	725	7,747
Lamb County	D	+52.0%	2,407	616	3,444
Lampasas County	D	+71.7%	1,693	212	2,066
Lavaca County	D	+49.4%	3,406	960	4,955
Lee County	D	+8.3%	953	771	2,196
Leon County	D	+75.3%	1,569	140	1,898
Liberty County	D	+64.4%	2,561	336	3,455
Limestone County	D	+80.3%	4,299	239	5,058
Lipscomb County	D	+15.0%	551	396	1,032
Live Oak County	D	+6.7%	642	548	1,405
Llano County	D	+65.1%	1,199	198	1,538
Loving County	D	+50.0%	60	18	84
Lubbock County	D	+59.7%	7,654	1,169	10,856
Lynn County	D	+68.4%	1,968	263	2,493
Madison County	D	+80.3%	1,115	65	1,307
Marion County	D	+60.7%	1,057	219	1,381
Martin County	D	+63.6%	758	131	986
Mason County	D	+26.9%	822	420	1,496
Matagorda County	D	+47.0%	1,854	412	3,067
Maverick County	D	+43.2%	787	302	1,122
McCulloch County	D	+58.0%	2,088	463	2,804
McLennan County	D	+73.4%	15,336	1,668	18,631
McMullen County	D	+31.2%	223	106	375
Medina County	R	−4.1%	1,469	1,607	3,389
Menard County	D	+60.6%	776	96	1,122
Midland County	D	+47.3%	1,688	302	2,929
Milam County	D	+58.6%	3,537	623	4,974
Mills County	D	+69.1%	1,428	172	1,817
Mitchell County	D	+77.6%	2,215	218	2,573
Montague County	D	+66.6%	2,900	429	3,710
Montgomery County	D	+74.1%	2,902	219	3,620
Moore County	D	+49.2%	999	313	1,394
Morris County	D	+77.7%	1,269	122	1,476
Motley County	D	+68.1%	744	107	935
Nacogdoches County	D	+69.5%	3,226	319	4,182
Navarro County	D	+79.0%	6,298	449	7,401
Newton County	D	+59.1%	910	187	1,224
Nolan County	D	+73.4%	3,071	322	3,747
Nueces County	D	+46.1%	11,091	3,819	15,773
Ochiltree County	D	+42.5%	863	307	1,309
Oldham County	D	+45.0%	277	93	409
Orange County	D	+61.5%	4,500	910	5,840
Palo Pinto County	D	+69.7%	3,291	416	4,126
Panola County	D	+75.3%	2,106	221	2,502
Parker County	D	+64.6%	3,503	559	4,555
Parmer County	D	+28.5%	810	415	1,384
Pecos County	D	+55.7%	1,226	305	1,653
Polk County	D	+73.8%	1,817	154	2,254
Potter County	D	+37.3%	6,519	2,759	10,084
Presidio County	D	+42.7%	648	211	1,024
Rains County	D	+53.6%	628	137	916
Randall County	D	+48.7%	1,439	409	2,115
Reagan County	D	+71.7%	426	53	520
Real County	D	+29.7%	326	163	549
Red River County	D	+66.0%	2,991	466	3,823
Reeves County	D	+63.3%	1,157	201	1,510
Refugio County	D	+41.9%	991	376	1,468
Roberts County	D	+47.8%	289	89	418
Robertson County	D	+84.0%	2,681	126	3,042
Rockwall County	D	+77.7%	1,153	98	1,358
Runnels County	D	+52.1%	2,657	685	3,787
Rusk County	D	+67.1%	5,232	637	6,844
Sabine County	D	+66.7%	1,169	203	1,449
San Augustine County	D	+84.0%	1,176	102	1,278
San Jacinto County	D	+65.1%	522	53	720
San Patricio County	D	+47.7%	2,712	878	3,841
San Saba County	D	+80.7%	2,109	177	2,393
Schleicher County	D	+62.7%	520	84	695
Scurry County	D	+67.8%	1,761	285	2,176
Shackelford County	D	+65.1%	1,007	135	1,339
Shelby County	D	+70.1%	2,927	428	3,564
Sherman County	D	+61.1%	454	97	584
Smith County	D	+60.1%	6,671	936	9,538
Somervell County	D	+51.4%	406	87	621
Starr County	D	+89.2%	1,312	68	1,395
Stephens County	D	+67.3%	2,104	217	2,804
Sterling County	D	+87.2%	330	18	358
Stonewall County	D	+75.3%	902	89	1,080
Sutton County	D	+52.0%	449	118	636
Swisher County	D	+51.9%	1,275	331	1,819
Tarrant County	D	+64.0%	36,791	4,113	51,065
Taylor County	D	+75.7%	7,975	602	9,742
Terrell County	D	+34.3%	329	156	504
Terry County	D	+73.1%	2,304	273	2,780
Throckmorton County	D	+75.5%	970	76	1,184
Titus County	D	+75.5%	2,612	265	3,107
Tom Green County	D	+62.0%	6,272	1,125	8,306
Travis County	D	+62.7%	14,384	2,324	19,230
Trinity County	D	+64.9%	1,132	127	1,548
Tyler County	D	+57.6%	1,037	219	1,421
Upshur County	D	+57.1%	2,369	446	3,369
Upton County	D	+69.6%	742	105	915
Uvalde County	D	+19.8%	1,322	856	2,356
Val Verde County	D	+26.9%	1,210	676	1,985
Van Zandt County	D	+62.7%	3,139	503	4,205
Victoria County	D	+37.9%	2,331	936	3,684
Walker County	D	+73.3%	1,638	145	2,037
Waller County	D	+56.9%	1,007	190	1,436
Ward County	D	+64.9%	1,448	268	1,819
Washington County	O	+21.2%	1,387	534	4,025
Webb County	D	+71.2%	4,742	776	5,571
Wharton County	D	+64.0%	3,754	529	5,042
Wheeler County	D	+51.9%	1,869	511	2,615
Wichita County	D	+67.0%	11,392	1,597	14,616
Wilbarger County	D	+64.8%	3,382	517	4,419
Willacy County	D	+5.3%	846	754	1,737
Williamson County	D	+54.4%	5,284	1,239	7,431
Wilson County	D	+56.3%	2,666	676	3,533
Winkler County	D	+74.1%	1,004	120	1,193
Wise County	D	+67.1%	3,114	444	3,979
Wood County	D	+63.4%	3,045	485	4,041
Yoakum County	D	+64.4%	646	106	839
Young County	D	+69.4%	3,183	327	4,114
Zapata County	D	+83.7%	501	43	547
Zavala County	D	+31.4%	696	342	1,129