1948 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

1948 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

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Nominee Harry S. Truman Thomas E. Dewey
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Missouri New York
Running mate Alben W. Barkley Earl Warren
Electoral vote 10 0
Popular vote 452,782 268,817
Percentage 62.75% 37.25%

County Results

The 1948 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 2, 1948. All forty-eight states were part of the 1948 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman won Oklahoma by a landslide 25.5 percentage points.[1] This made Oklahoma the fourth most Democratic state in the nation, and 21 percent more Democratic than the nation as a whole. This makes it the third best performance (after Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1932 and 1936 landslides) of any Democratic nominee in the state.[2]

  1. ^ "1948 Presidential General Election Results – Oklahoma". uselectionatlas.org.
  2. ^ Counting the Votes; Oklahoma