Who won Maine in the 1944 presidential election?

Dewey (Republican) carried Maine in 1944, winning its 5 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Maine have in 1944?

Maine cast 5 electoral votes in the 1944 presidential election.

Did Maine vote for the national winner in 1944?

No. Maine backed Dewey, while Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidency nationally.

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1944

Maine: Dewey carries 5 EV.

Maine cast its 5 electoral votes for Dewey (Republican). National winner: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) — Maine voted against the national winner this cycle.

Maine in 1944

The 1944 contest saw Maine line up behind Dewey, delivering 5 electoral votes to the Republican ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Maine among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 3rd consecutive election in which Maine backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1936. It stood apart from its neighbors: New Hampshire went the other way that year. Across the 52 presidential elections Maine has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican party (29 times). The vote fell within the New Deal Coalition — FDR, civil rights, and the long Democratic majority.

In the national count, Franklin D. Roosevelt took 432 of the 531 electoral votes, against Thomas E. Dewey's 99. Franklin D. Roosevelt led the national popular vote with 53.39% of the ballots cast.

The 1944 national map

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