Who won Mississippi in the 1944 presidential election?

Roosevelt (Democratic) carried Mississippi in 1944, winning its 9 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Mississippi have in 1944?

Mississippi cast 9 electoral votes in the 1944 presidential election.

Did Mississippi vote for the national winner in 1944?

Yes. Mississippi backed Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won the presidency that year.

New Deal CoalitionMS · 9 EV

1944

Mississippi: Roosevelt carries 9 EV.

Mississippi cast its 9 electoral votes for Roosevelt (Democratic). National winner: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) — Mississippi voted with the national winner this cycle.

Reading the 1944 result in Mississippi

Mississippi backed Roosevelt (Democratic) in the 1944 presidential election, casting 9 electoral votes for the ticket. Mississippi ended up on the winning side — Franklin D. Roosevelt captured the White House that year.

It marked the 18th consecutive election in which Mississippi backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1876. Mississippi did not move alone — neighboring Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Alabama broke the same way in 1944. Across the 51 presidential elections Mississippi has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (30 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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