The 1944 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Maine was won by Republican Party candidate New York governor Thomas E. Dewey over Democratic candidate, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt also remains the most recent Democratic president to win more than one term without carrying Maine once.

Dewey won Maine by a narrow margin of 4.99%, making it one of the tighter statewide races in the election.

Along with Vermont, Maine is one of two states that never voted for President Franklin D. Roosevelt in any of his four victorious presidential campaigns.

Results

Results by county CountyThomas Edmund Dewey RepublicanFranklin Delano Roosevelt DemocraticEdward A. Teichert Socialist LaborMarginTotal votes castScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 203 # % # % # %#% Androscoggin 10,927 36.38% 19,078 63.51% 34 0.11%-8,151-27.13% 30,037 Aroostook 11,678 59.23% 8,017 40.66% 22 0.11% 3,661 18.57% 19,717 Cumberland 29,349 52.15% 26,857 47.72% 72 0.13% 2,492 4.43% 56,278 Franklin 4,127 60.90% 2,646 39.04% 4 0.06% 1,481 21.86% 6,777 Hancock 7,143 68.71% 3,241 31.18% 12 0.12% 3,902 37.53% 10,396 Kennebec 14,335 50.42% 14,070 49.49% 25 0.09% 265 0.93% 28,430 Knox 5,590 59.70% 3,758 40.14% 15 0.16% 1,832 19.56% 9,363 Lincoln 4,919 69.97% 2,102 29.90% 9 0.13% 2,817 40.07% 7,030 Oxford 8,053 55.76% 6,377 44.16% 12 0.08% 1,676 11.60% 14,442 Penobscot 16,934 55.95% 13,292 43.92% 38 0.13% 3,642 12.03% 30,264 Piscataquis 3,536 54.45% 2,957 45.53% 1 0.02% 579 8.92% 6,494 Sagadahoc 3,883 49.22% 4,003 50.74% 3 0.04%-120-1.52% 7,889 Somerset 7,167 57.23% 5,331 42.57% 25 0.20% 1,836 14.66% 12,523 Waldo 4,291 70.30% 1,807 29.60% 6 0.10% 2,484 40.70% 6,104 Washington 5,380 48.44% 5,709 51.40% 18 0.16%-329-2.96% 11,107 York 18,122 45.82% 21,386 54.08% 39 0.10%-3,264-8.26% 39,547Totals155,43452.44%140,63147.45%3350.11%14,8034.99%296,400

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Kennebec

See also United States presidential elections in Maine%

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