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Elections in Colorado |
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The 1948 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election. State voters chose six [2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Colorado was won by incumbent President Harry S. Truman ( D– Missouri), running with Senator Alben W. Barkley, with 51.88% of the popular vote, against Governor Thomas Dewey ( R– New York), running with Governor Earl Warren, with 46.52% of the popular vote. [3] [4] As of the 2020 election, Truman remains the last candidate to carry Colorado without winning Larimer County, as well as the last Democrat to win the national election without Adams County. Colorado also marks Truman's strongest performance in a state that Dewey had won against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. This was the only election between 1900 and 1992 in which Colorado voted differently than neighboring Nebraska.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Harry S. Truman ( inc.) | 267,288 | 51.88% | |
Republican | Thomas Dewey | 239,714 | 46.52% | |
Progressive | Henry A. Wallace | 6,115 | 1.19% | |
Socialist | Norman Thomas | 1,678 | 0.33% | |
Socialist Workers | Farrell Dobbs | 228 | 0.04% | |
Socialist Labor | Edward A. Teichert | 214 | 0.04% | |
Total votes | 515,237 | 100% |
County |
Harry S. Truman Democratic |
Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican |
Henry Agard Wallace Progressive |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | |||||
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% | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | |
Las Animas | 67.67% | 7,586 | 30.79% | 3,452 | 1.19% | 133 | 0.35% | 39 | 36.88% | 4,134 |
Otero | 66.30% | 8,640 | 33.08% | 4,311 | 0.47% | 61 | 0.15% | 20 | 33.22% | 4,329 |
Huerfano | 63.73% | 3,448 | 34.03% | 1,841 | 2.13% | 115 | 0.11% | 6 | 29.70% | 1,607 |
Lake | 63.04% | 1,581 | 33.41% | 838 | 3.11% | 78 | 0.44% | 11 | 29.63% | 743 |
Costilla | 61.73% | 1,563 | 36.37% | 921 | 0.75% | 19 | 1.15% | 29 | 25.36% | 642 |
Pueblo | 61.75% | 21,637 | 36.40% | 12,756 | 1.63% | 572 | 0.22% | 76 | 25.34% | 8,881 |
Conejos | 58.43% | 2,236 | 40.03% | 1,532 | 0.65% | 25 | 0.89% | 34 | 18.40% | 704 |
Routt | 57.19% | 2,088 | 40.87% | 1,492 | 1.53% | 56 | 0.41% | 15 | 16.32% | 596 |
San Miguel | 56.81% | 613 | 41.80% | 451 | 1.39% | 15 | 0.00% | 0 | 15.01% | 162 |
Eagle | 55.05% | 1,008 | 40.31% | 738 | 4.37% | 80 | 0.27% | 5 | 14.75% | 270 |
Mineral | 56.72% | 190 | 42.99% | 144 | 0.30% | 1 | 0.00% | 0 | 13.73% | 46 |
Summit | 56.00% | 378 | 43.26% | 292 | 0.44% | 3 | 0.30% | 2 | 12.74% | 86 |
Bent | 55.56% | 1,658 | 43.43% | 1,296 | 0.60% | 18 | 0.40% | 12 | 12.13% | 362 |
Pitkin | 54.46% | 409 | 42.48% | 319 | 2.80% | 21 | 0.27% | 2 | 11.98% | 90 |
Mesa | 55.32% | 8,401 | 43.37% | 6,586 | 0.90% | 137 | 0.40% | 61 | 11.95% | 1,815 |
Dolores | 54.31% | 435 | 43.95% | 352 | 1.75% | 14 | 0.00% | 0 | 10.36% | 83 |
Alamosa | 54.76% | 2,395 | 44.58% | 1,950 | 0.55% | 24 | 0.11% | 5 | 10.17% | 445 |
Gunnison | 53.17% | 1,326 | 44.23% | 1,103 | 2.25% | 56 | 0.36% | 9 | 8.94% | 223 |
Denver | 52.93% | 89,489 | 45.17% | 76,364 | 1.43% | 2,420 | 0.47% | 794 | 7.76% | 13,125 |
Baca | 52.13% | 1,398 | 46.98% | 1,260 | 0.78% | 21 | 0.11% | 3 | 5.15% | 138 |
Saguache | 52.09% | 1,009 | 47.19% | 914 | 0.52% | 10 | 0.21% | 4 | 4.90% | 95 |
Cheyenne | 51.44% | 713 | 47.40% | 657 | 0.94% | 13 | 0.22% | 3 | 4.04% | 56 |
San Juan | 49.71% | 348 | 47.00% | 329 | 3.00% | 21 | 0.29% | 2 | 2.71% | 19 |
Teller | 50.36% | 779 | 48.35% | 748 | 1.03% | 16 | 0.26% | 4 | 2.00% | 31 |
Clear Creek | 50.24% | 836 | 48.68% | 810 | 0.72% | 12 | 0.36% | 6 | 1.56% | 26 |
Montrose | 49.73% | 2,544 | 48.34% | 2,473 | 1.37% | 70 | 0.57% | 29 | 1.39% | 71 |
Montezuma | 49.89% | 1,653 | 49.20% | 1,630 | 0.63% | 21 | 0.27% | 9 | 0.69% | 23 |
Delta | 49.02% | 3,171 | 48.82% | 3,158 | 1.81% | 117 | 0.36% | 23 | 0.20% | 13 |
Prowers | 49.47% | 2,497 | 49.63% | 2,505 | 0.44% | 22 | 0.46% | 23 | -0.16% | -8 |
Logan | 49.30% | 3,179 | 49.98% | 3,223 | 0.51% | 33 | 0.20% | 13 | -0.68% | -44 |
Grand | 48.85% | 763 | 49.74% | 777 | 0.77% | 12 | 0.64% | 10 | -0.90% | -14 |
Gilpin | 48.45% | 296 | 49.43% | 302 | 1.64% | 10 | 0.49% | 3 | -0.98% | -6 |
Garfield | 49.03% | 2,364 | 50.10% | 2,416 | 0.77% | 37 | 0.10% | 5 | -1.08% | -52 |
Crowley | 49.22% | 1,004 | 50.34% | 1,027 | 0.20% | 4 | 0.25% | 5 | -1.13% | -23 |
Lincoln | 48.93% | 1,231 | 50.52% | 1,271 | 0.40% | 10 | 0.16% | 4 | -1.59% | -40 |
La Plata | 47.37% | 2,536 | 51.08% | 2,735 | 1.40% | 75 | 0.15% | 8 | -3.72% | -199 |
Jefferson | 47.36% | 9,145 | 51.29% | 9,903 | 0.93% | 179 | 0.42% | 81 | -3.93% | -758 |
Fremont | 47.26% | 4,077 | 51.25% | 4,421 | 1.10% | 95 | 0.39% | 34 | -3.99% | -344 |
Jackson | 47.09% | 291 | 52.91% | 327 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | -5.83% | -36 |
Rio Grande | 46.80% | 1,814 | 52.86% | 2,049 | 0.15% | 6 | 0.18% | 7 | -6.06% | -235 |
Weld | 46.25% | 10,934 | 52.65% | 12,446 | 0.72% | 171 | 0.37% | 88 | -6.40% | -1,512 |
Arapahoe | 46.17% | 6,962 | 52.67% | 7,943 | 0.81% | 122 | 0.35% | 53 | -6.51% | -981 |
Moffat | 46.05% | 1,101 | 52.74% | 1,261 | 0.96% | 23 | 0.25% | 6 | -6.69% | -160 |
Kiowa | 46.05% | 659 | 52.97% | 758 | 0.77% | 11 | 0.21% | 3 | -6.92% | -99 |
Phillips | 45.49% | 932 | 52.51% | 1,076 | 1.56% | 32 | 0.44% | 9 | -7.03% | -144 |
Boulder | 44.32% | 8,792 | 52.09% | 10,335 | 2.46% | 488 | 1.13% | 224 | -7.78% | -1,543 |
Morgan | 45.63% | 2,912 | 53.54% | 3,417 | 0.61% | 39 | 0.22% | 14 | -7.91% | -505 |
Yuma | 45.26% | 1,907 | 54.05% | 2,277 | 0.40% | 17 | 0.28% | 12 | -8.78% | -370 |
Sedgwick | 44.67% | 834 | 54.63% | 1,020 | 0.54% | 10 | 0.16% | 3 | -9.96% | -186 |
Ouray | 44.11% | 461 | 54.93% | 574 | 0.67% | 7 | 0.29% | 3 | -10.81% | -113 |
Archuleta | 44.19% | 479 | 55.07% | 597 | 0.37% | 4 | 0.37% | 4 | -10.89% | -118 |
Washington | 44.16% | 1,308 | 55.23% | 1,636 | 0.37% | 11 | 0.24% | 7 | -11.07% | -328 |
Park | 43.84% | 505 | 55.30% | 637 | 0.78% | 9 | 0.09% | 1 | -11.46% | -132 |
El Paso | 43.25% | 12,291 | 55.26% | 15,705 | 0.91% | 258 | 0.58% | 165 | -12.01% | -3,414 |
Douglas | 43.68% | 767 | 55.75% | 979 | 0.28% | 5 | 0.28% | 5 | -12.07% | -212 |
Rio Blanco | 42.95% | 752 | 56.03% | 981 | 0.97% | 17 | 0.06% | 1 | -13.08% | -229 |
Elbert | 42.61% | 873 | 56.37% | 1,155 | 0.93% | 19 | 0.10% | 2 | -13.76% | -282 |
Larimer | 41.47% | 7,062 | 57.63% | 9,813 | 0.49% | 83 | 0.42% | 71 | -16.15% | -2,751 |
Chaffee | 41.23% | 1,476 | 57.68% | 2,065 | 0.87% | 31 | 0.22% | 8 | -16.45% | -589 |
Adams | 40.95% | 4,419 | 57.83% | 6,240 | 0.92% | 99 | 0.31% | 33 | -16.88% | -1,821 |
Custer | 40.72% | 384 | 58.01% | 547 | 1.06% | 10 | 0.21% | 2 | -17.29% | -163 |
Kit Carson | 40.27% | 1,281 | 58.88% | 1,873 | 0.53% | 17 | 0.31% | 10 | -18.61% | -592 |
Hinsdale | 36.06% | 75 | 63.94% | 133 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | -27.88% | -58 |
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The 1948 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 2, 1948, as part of the 1948 United States presidential election. State voters chose six [2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Colorado was won by incumbent President Harry S. Truman ( D– Missouri), running with Senator Alben W. Barkley, with 51.88% of the popular vote, against Governor Thomas Dewey ( R– New York), running with Governor Earl Warren, with 46.52% of the popular vote. [3] [4] As of the 2020 election, Truman remains the last candidate to carry Colorado without winning Larimer County, as well as the last Democrat to win the national election without Adams County. Colorado also marks Truman's strongest performance in a state that Dewey had won against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. This was the only election between 1900 and 1992 in which Colorado voted differently than neighboring Nebraska.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Harry S. Truman ( inc.) | 267,288 | 51.88% | |
Republican | Thomas Dewey | 239,714 | 46.52% | |
Progressive | Henry A. Wallace | 6,115 | 1.19% | |
Socialist | Norman Thomas | 1,678 | 0.33% | |
Socialist Workers | Farrell Dobbs | 228 | 0.04% | |
Socialist Labor | Edward A. Teichert | 214 | 0.04% | |
Total votes | 515,237 | 100% |
County |
Harry S. Truman Democratic |
Thomas Edmund Dewey Republican |
Henry Agard Wallace Progressive |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | |||||
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% | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | |
Las Animas | 67.67% | 7,586 | 30.79% | 3,452 | 1.19% | 133 | 0.35% | 39 | 36.88% | 4,134 |
Otero | 66.30% | 8,640 | 33.08% | 4,311 | 0.47% | 61 | 0.15% | 20 | 33.22% | 4,329 |
Huerfano | 63.73% | 3,448 | 34.03% | 1,841 | 2.13% | 115 | 0.11% | 6 | 29.70% | 1,607 |
Lake | 63.04% | 1,581 | 33.41% | 838 | 3.11% | 78 | 0.44% | 11 | 29.63% | 743 |
Costilla | 61.73% | 1,563 | 36.37% | 921 | 0.75% | 19 | 1.15% | 29 | 25.36% | 642 |
Pueblo | 61.75% | 21,637 | 36.40% | 12,756 | 1.63% | 572 | 0.22% | 76 | 25.34% | 8,881 |
Conejos | 58.43% | 2,236 | 40.03% | 1,532 | 0.65% | 25 | 0.89% | 34 | 18.40% | 704 |
Routt | 57.19% | 2,088 | 40.87% | 1,492 | 1.53% | 56 | 0.41% | 15 | 16.32% | 596 |
San Miguel | 56.81% | 613 | 41.80% | 451 | 1.39% | 15 | 0.00% | 0 | 15.01% | 162 |
Eagle | 55.05% | 1,008 | 40.31% | 738 | 4.37% | 80 | 0.27% | 5 | 14.75% | 270 |
Mineral | 56.72% | 190 | 42.99% | 144 | 0.30% | 1 | 0.00% | 0 | 13.73% | 46 |
Summit | 56.00% | 378 | 43.26% | 292 | 0.44% | 3 | 0.30% | 2 | 12.74% | 86 |
Bent | 55.56% | 1,658 | 43.43% | 1,296 | 0.60% | 18 | 0.40% | 12 | 12.13% | 362 |
Pitkin | 54.46% | 409 | 42.48% | 319 | 2.80% | 21 | 0.27% | 2 | 11.98% | 90 |
Mesa | 55.32% | 8,401 | 43.37% | 6,586 | 0.90% | 137 | 0.40% | 61 | 11.95% | 1,815 |
Dolores | 54.31% | 435 | 43.95% | 352 | 1.75% | 14 | 0.00% | 0 | 10.36% | 83 |
Alamosa | 54.76% | 2,395 | 44.58% | 1,950 | 0.55% | 24 | 0.11% | 5 | 10.17% | 445 |
Gunnison | 53.17% | 1,326 | 44.23% | 1,103 | 2.25% | 56 | 0.36% | 9 | 8.94% | 223 |
Denver | 52.93% | 89,489 | 45.17% | 76,364 | 1.43% | 2,420 | 0.47% | 794 | 7.76% | 13,125 |
Baca | 52.13% | 1,398 | 46.98% | 1,260 | 0.78% | 21 | 0.11% | 3 | 5.15% | 138 |
Saguache | 52.09% | 1,009 | 47.19% | 914 | 0.52% | 10 | 0.21% | 4 | 4.90% | 95 |
Cheyenne | 51.44% | 713 | 47.40% | 657 | 0.94% | 13 | 0.22% | 3 | 4.04% | 56 |
San Juan | 49.71% | 348 | 47.00% | 329 | 3.00% | 21 | 0.29% | 2 | 2.71% | 19 |
Teller | 50.36% | 779 | 48.35% | 748 | 1.03% | 16 | 0.26% | 4 | 2.00% | 31 |
Clear Creek | 50.24% | 836 | 48.68% | 810 | 0.72% | 12 | 0.36% | 6 | 1.56% | 26 |
Montrose | 49.73% | 2,544 | 48.34% | 2,473 | 1.37% | 70 | 0.57% | 29 | 1.39% | 71 |
Montezuma | 49.89% | 1,653 | 49.20% | 1,630 | 0.63% | 21 | 0.27% | 9 | 0.69% | 23 |
Delta | 49.02% | 3,171 | 48.82% | 3,158 | 1.81% | 117 | 0.36% | 23 | 0.20% | 13 |
Prowers | 49.47% | 2,497 | 49.63% | 2,505 | 0.44% | 22 | 0.46% | 23 | -0.16% | -8 |
Logan | 49.30% | 3,179 | 49.98% | 3,223 | 0.51% | 33 | 0.20% | 13 | -0.68% | -44 |
Grand | 48.85% | 763 | 49.74% | 777 | 0.77% | 12 | 0.64% | 10 | -0.90% | -14 |
Gilpin | 48.45% | 296 | 49.43% | 302 | 1.64% | 10 | 0.49% | 3 | -0.98% | -6 |
Garfield | 49.03% | 2,364 | 50.10% | 2,416 | 0.77% | 37 | 0.10% | 5 | -1.08% | -52 |
Crowley | 49.22% | 1,004 | 50.34% | 1,027 | 0.20% | 4 | 0.25% | 5 | -1.13% | -23 |
Lincoln | 48.93% | 1,231 | 50.52% | 1,271 | 0.40% | 10 | 0.16% | 4 | -1.59% | -40 |
La Plata | 47.37% | 2,536 | 51.08% | 2,735 | 1.40% | 75 | 0.15% | 8 | -3.72% | -199 |
Jefferson | 47.36% | 9,145 | 51.29% | 9,903 | 0.93% | 179 | 0.42% | 81 | -3.93% | -758 |
Fremont | 47.26% | 4,077 | 51.25% | 4,421 | 1.10% | 95 | 0.39% | 34 | -3.99% | -344 |
Jackson | 47.09% | 291 | 52.91% | 327 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | -5.83% | -36 |
Rio Grande | 46.80% | 1,814 | 52.86% | 2,049 | 0.15% | 6 | 0.18% | 7 | -6.06% | -235 |
Weld | 46.25% | 10,934 | 52.65% | 12,446 | 0.72% | 171 | 0.37% | 88 | -6.40% | -1,512 |
Arapahoe | 46.17% | 6,962 | 52.67% | 7,943 | 0.81% | 122 | 0.35% | 53 | -6.51% | -981 |
Moffat | 46.05% | 1,101 | 52.74% | 1,261 | 0.96% | 23 | 0.25% | 6 | -6.69% | -160 |
Kiowa | 46.05% | 659 | 52.97% | 758 | 0.77% | 11 | 0.21% | 3 | -6.92% | -99 |
Phillips | 45.49% | 932 | 52.51% | 1,076 | 1.56% | 32 | 0.44% | 9 | -7.03% | -144 |
Boulder | 44.32% | 8,792 | 52.09% | 10,335 | 2.46% | 488 | 1.13% | 224 | -7.78% | -1,543 |
Morgan | 45.63% | 2,912 | 53.54% | 3,417 | 0.61% | 39 | 0.22% | 14 | -7.91% | -505 |
Yuma | 45.26% | 1,907 | 54.05% | 2,277 | 0.40% | 17 | 0.28% | 12 | -8.78% | -370 |
Sedgwick | 44.67% | 834 | 54.63% | 1,020 | 0.54% | 10 | 0.16% | 3 | -9.96% | -186 |
Ouray | 44.11% | 461 | 54.93% | 574 | 0.67% | 7 | 0.29% | 3 | -10.81% | -113 |
Archuleta | 44.19% | 479 | 55.07% | 597 | 0.37% | 4 | 0.37% | 4 | -10.89% | -118 |
Washington | 44.16% | 1,308 | 55.23% | 1,636 | 0.37% | 11 | 0.24% | 7 | -11.07% | -328 |
Park | 43.84% | 505 | 55.30% | 637 | 0.78% | 9 | 0.09% | 1 | -11.46% | -132 |
El Paso | 43.25% | 12,291 | 55.26% | 15,705 | 0.91% | 258 | 0.58% | 165 | -12.01% | -3,414 |
Douglas | 43.68% | 767 | 55.75% | 979 | 0.28% | 5 | 0.28% | 5 | -12.07% | -212 |
Rio Blanco | 42.95% | 752 | 56.03% | 981 | 0.97% | 17 | 0.06% | 1 | -13.08% | -229 |
Elbert | 42.61% | 873 | 56.37% | 1,155 | 0.93% | 19 | 0.10% | 2 | -13.76% | -282 |
Larimer | 41.47% | 7,062 | 57.63% | 9,813 | 0.49% | 83 | 0.42% | 71 | -16.15% | -2,751 |
Chaffee | 41.23% | 1,476 | 57.68% | 2,065 | 0.87% | 31 | 0.22% | 8 | -16.45% | -589 |
Adams | 40.95% | 4,419 | 57.83% | 6,240 | 0.92% | 99 | 0.31% | 33 | -16.88% | -1,821 |
Custer | 40.72% | 384 | 58.01% | 547 | 1.06% | 10 | 0.21% | 2 | -17.29% | -163 |
Kit Carson | 40.27% | 1,281 | 58.88% | 1,873 | 0.53% | 17 | 0.31% | 10 | -18.61% | -592 |
Hinsdale | 36.06% | 75 | 63.94% | 133 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | -27.88% | -58 |