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Ross County, presidential election of 1944

Ross County

53.50%Thomas E. Dewey (R), the most votes21,352Votes counted for president

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

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What this is

Ross County counted 21,352 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. DeweyRepublican11,42453.50%
Franklin D. RooseveltDemocratic9,92846.50%

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
Ross County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+7.0 against Ohio's R+0.4: 6.6 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 64th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1940
From 1940 to 1944 the county's lean moved 9.8 points toward the Republicans, from D+2.8 to R+7.0.
Matched
Ross 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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