United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1948

United States presidential election in Minnesota, 1948

November 2, 1948
Nominee Harry S. Truman Thomas E. Dewey Party Democratic Republican Home state Missouri New York Running mate Alben W. Barkley Earl Warren Electoral vote 11 0 Popular vote 692,966 483,617 Percentage 57.2% 39.9%
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President before election Harry S. Truman Democratic Elected President Harry S. Truman Democratic

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The 1948 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 2, 1948 in Minnesota as part of the 1948 United States presidential election.

The Democratic candidate, incumbent President Harry S. Truman, who had assumed the presidency following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, won the state over New York governor Thomas E. Dewey by a margin of 209,349 votes, or 17.27%. Nationally, the election was the greatest election upset in American history; nearly every prediction forecast that Truman would be defeated by Dewey, but in the end, Truman won the election with 303 electoral votes and a comfortable 4.5% lead over Dewey in the popular vote.

The election was the first presidential election since 1932 which did not feature Roosevelt as the Democratic nominee. It was also the last of six presidential elections in which Norman Thomas was the nominee of the Socialist Party of America, and the last presidential election in which the Socialist Party (which was once very popular in the state) attained ballot access in Minnesota, prior to its 1973 split.

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