1944 Democratic Party presidential primaries

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March 14 to May 19, 1944

1948 →


Candidate	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Joseph T. Ferguson	Harry F. Byrd
Home state	New York	Ohio	Virginia
Contests won	7	0	0
Popular vote	1,324,006	164,915	109,000
Percentage	79.2%	8.34%	5.51%

Previous Democratic nominee

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democratic nominee

Franklin D. Roosevelt

From March 14 to May 19, 1944, voters of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1944 Democratic National Convention where the party chose its nominee for president in the 1944 United States presidential election. The very popular incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated at the convention.

References

Kalb, Deborah (2016-02-19). Guide to U.S. Elections - Google Books. ISBN 9781483380353. Retrieved 2016-02-19.

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(← 1940) 1944 United States presidential election (→ 1948)

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Nominees	President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (incumbent) Vice President: Harry Truman
Other candidates	Harry F. Byrd James Farley

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Nominees	President: Thomas E. Dewey Vice President: John W. Bricker
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America First Party	Nominee: Gerald L. K. Smith
Prohibition Party	Nominee: Claude A. Watson
Socialist Party	Nominee: Norman Thomas VP nominee: Darlington Hoopes

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