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Butler County, presidential election of 1944

Butler County

54.04%Franklin D. Roosevelt (D), the most votes49,400Votes counted for president

Every election in Butler County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1944

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What this is

Butler County counted 49,400 votes for president across 2 candidates in 1944. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.

The count, as certified

Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic26,69854.04%
Thomas E. DeweyRepublican22,70245.96%

Turnout: None found in the records checked

This year in context

Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.

Ohio that year
Ohio went to Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) with 50.18%, a 0.4-point margin over Franklin D. Roosevelt. The country elected Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Against the state
Butler County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+8.1 against Ohio's R+0.4: 8.4 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 80th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1940
From 1940 to 1944 the county's lean moved 5.6 points toward the Republicans, from D+13.7 to D+8.1.
Matched
Butler County parted from Ohio and voted for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.

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Where this appears

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Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1944 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1944 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1944-11-07 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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