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Pike County, presidential election of 1948

Pike County

63.06%Harry S. Truman (D), the most votes7,161Votes counted for president

Every election in Pike County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1948

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What this is

Pike County counted 7,161 votes for president across 3 candidates in 1948. 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
Harry S. TrumanDemocratic4,51663.06%
Thomas E. DeweyRepublican2,63936.85%
Henry A. WallaceProgressive60.08%

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 Harry S. Truman (Democratic) with 49.48%, a 0.2-point margin over Thomas E. Dewey. The country elected Harry S. Truman.
Against the state
Pike County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+26.2 against Ohio's D+0.2: 26.0 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 87th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1944
From 1944 to 1948 the county's lean moved 14.2 points toward the Democrats, from D+12.0 to D+26.2.
Matched
Pike County voted with 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: 1948 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1948 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1948-11-02 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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