1948 United States presidential election in New Mexico
The 1948 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 2, 1948. All 48 states were part of the 1948 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President.
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New Mexico was won by incumbent President Harry S. Truman,[1] who took the Oval Office after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Running against Truman was Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey, who was strongly predicted to win the contest.[2] Dixiecrat candidate Strom Thurmond took portions of the South, but was not even on the ballot in New Mexico and other Western states.
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Union County and Harding County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate and the last until 2020 in which Valencia County voted for a losing candidate.[3]
Results
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Harry S. Truman | Democratic | Missouri | 105,464 | 56.38% | 4 | Alben Barkley | Kentucky | 4 |
| Thomas E. Dewey | Republican | New York | 80,303 | 42.93% | 0 | Earl Warren | California | 0 |
| Henry A. Wallace | New Party | Iowa | 1,037 | 0.55% | 0 | Glen Taylor | Idaho | 0 |
| Claude Watson | Prohibition | California | 127 | 0.07% | 0 | Dale H. Learn | Pennsylvania | 0 |
| Norman Thomas | Socialist | New York | 83 | 0.04% | 0 | Tucker P. Smith | Michigan | 0 |
| Edward A. Teichert | Socialist Labor | Pennsylvania | 49 | 0.03% | 0 | Stephen Emery | New York | 0 |
| Total | 100% | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Needed to win | 266 | 266 | ||||||
Results by county
| County | Harry S. Truman[4] Democratic |
Thomas Edmund Dewey[4] Republican |
Henry Agard Wallace[5] New Party |
Various candidates[5] Other parties |
Margin | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | |
| Lea | 78.14% | 4,708 | 21.13% | 1,273 | 0.43% | 26 | 0.30% | 18 | 57.01% | 3,435 |
| Eddy | 75.77% | 7,593 | 23.00% | 2,305 | 1.04% | 104 | 0.19% | 19 | 52.77% | 5,288 |
| Roosevelt | 75.75% | 3,087 | 23.46% | 956 | 0.56% | 23 | 0.22% | 9 | 52.29% | 2,131 |
| Curry | 72.52% | 5,759 | 26.85% | 2,132 | 0.54% | 43 | 0.09% | 7 | 45.67% | 3,627 |
| Hidalgo | 69.16% | 859 | 30.11% | 374 | 0.40% | 5 | 0.32% | 4 | 39.05% | 485 |
| Quay | 68.17% | 3,063 | 30.98% | 1,392 | 0.49% | 22 | 0.36% | 16 | 37.19% | 1,671 |
| Grant | 62.72% | 3,592 | 34.90% | 1,999 | 2.27% | 130 | 0.10% | 6 | 27.82% | 1,593 |
| Otero | 63.25% | 2,361 | 36.27% | 1,354 | 0.35% | 13 | 0.13% | 5 | 26.98% | 1,007 |
| Luna | 63.04% | 1,629 | 36.42% | 941 | 0.35% | 9 | 0.19% | 5 | 26.63% | 688 |
| Colfax | 59.74% | 3,871 | 39.74% | 2,575 | 0.39% | 25 | 0.14% | 9 | 20.00% | 1,296 |
| Doña Ana | 59.54% | 5,116 | 40.03% | 3,440 | 0.37% | 32 | 0.06% | 5 | 19.50% | 1,676 |
| De Baca | 59.24% | 670 | 40.50% | 458 | 0.18% | 2 | 0.09% | 1 | 18.74% | 212 |
| Chaves | 59.15% | 4,569 | 40.43% | 3,123 | 0.27% | 21 | 0.16% | 12 | 18.72% | 1,446 |
| McKinley | 58.17% | 2,995 | 40.96% | 2,109 | 0.72% | 37 | 0.16% | 8 | 17.21% | 886 |
| Union | 55.81% | 1,590 | 43.73% | 1,246 | 0.25% | 7 | 0.21% | 6 | 12.07% | 344 |
| Catron | 55.24% | 648 | 44.42% | 521 | 0.26% | 3 | 0.09% | 1 | 10.83% | 127 |
| Rio Arriba | 52.56% | 4,753 | 47.25% | 4,273 | 0.18% | 16 | 0.01% | 1 | 5.31% | 480 |
| Sandoval | 52.30% | 1,851 | 47.33% | 1,675 | 0.20% | 7 | 0.17% | 6 | 4.97% | 176 |
| Bernalillo | 51.76% | 18,305 | 47.13% | 16,668 | 0.93% | 328 | 0.18% | 63 | 4.63% | 1,637 |
| Sierra | 51.83% | 1,389 | 47.54% | 1,274 | 0.49% | 13 | 0.15% | 4 | 4.29% | 115 |
| San Miguel | 51.44% | 4,953 | 48.34% | 4,655 | 0.19% | 18 | 0.03% | 3 | 3.09% | 298 |
| Taos | 50.72% | 2,977 | 48.59% | 2,852 | 0.60% | 35 | 0.10% | 6 | 2.13% | 125 |
| Harding | 49.96% | 653 | 49.66% | 649 | 0.23% | 3 | 0.15% | 2 | 0.31% | 4 |
| Torrance | 49.71% | 1,696 | 50.09% | 1,709 | 0.12% | 4 | 0.09% | 3 | -0.38% | -13 |
| Guadalupe | 49.76% | 1,550 | 50.24% | 1,565 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | -0.48% | -15 |
| Lincoln | 46.79% | 1,406 | 52.41% | 1,575 | 0.47% | 14 | 0.33% | 10 | -5.62% | -169 |
| Valencia | 46.80% | 2,914 | 52.67% | 3,280 | 0.37% | 23 | 0.16% | 10 | -5.88% | -366 |
| Santa Fe | 44.95% | 6,172 | 54.56% | 7,491 | 0.40% | 55 | 0.09% | 13 | -9.61% | -1,319 |
| Mora | 44.84% | 1,541 | 55.08% | 1,893 | 0.09% | 3 | 0.00% | 0 | -10.24% | -352 |
| Socorro | 43.44% | 1,650 | 56.32% | 2,139 | 0.21% | 8 | 0.03% | 1 | -12.88% | -489 |
| San Juan | 38.94% | 1,544 | 60.71% | 2,407 | 0.20% | 8 | 0.15% | 6 | -21.77% | -863 |
References
- "1948 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
- "The Nation: Independence Day". Time. 1948-11-08. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
- Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- Géoelections; 1948 Presidential Election Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)
- Géoelections; Popular Vote for Henry Wallace (.xlsx file for €15)
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