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Monroe County, presidential election of 1944

Monroe County

50.30%Thomas E. Dewey (R), the most votes7,191Votes counted for president

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

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What this is

Monroe County counted 7,191 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
Thomas E. DeweyRepublican3,61750.30%
Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic3,57449.70%

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
Monroe County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+0.6 against Ohio's R+0.4: 0.2 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 74th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1940
From 1940 to 1944 the county's lean moved 4.0 points toward the Democrats, from R+4.6 to R+0.6.
Matched
Monroe County voted with Ohio and did not vote 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

The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.

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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