American Psephology
The 1948 Presidential Election in Alabama
On November 2, 1948, Alabama's voters voted for eleven at-large electors. Three and a half electoral slates ran.
The Democratic candidates, refusing to support Truman, the national nominee:
- Tom Abernathy - 171,443 votes
- Robert B. Albritton - 171,264 votes
- Edmund Blair - 171,212 votes
- Ben Bloodworth - 171,336 votes
- Walter C. Givhan - 171,279 votes
- Tully A. Goodwin - 171,284 votes
- Norman W. Harris - 171,272 votes
- John A. Lusk, Jr. - 171,272 votes
- Gessner T. McCorvey - 171,213 votes
- Walter F. Miller - 171,201 votes
- Horace C. Wilkinson - 171,825 votes
The Republican candidates:
- O. H. Aycock - 40,930 votes
- L. A. Carroll - 40,774 votes
- J. A. Downer - 40,853 votes
- W. H. Gillespie - 40,842 votes
- V. B. Huff - 40,811 votes
- Walter J. Kennamer - 40,811 votes
The Progressive candidates:
- Jesse L. Dansby - 1522 votes
- Joe M. Goodwin - 1459 votes
- Ralph Hopkins - 1394 votes
- Herbert P. McDonald - 1384 votes
- Frank R. McGhee - 1381 votes
- Robert D. Morgan - 1398 votes
- Johanna Newhouse - 1363 votes
- Allison H. Stanton - 1366 votes
- Vivian Thomas - 1385 votes
- Robert F. Travis, Jr. - 1377 votes
- William A. Upshaw - 1426 votes
The Prohibition candidates:
- H. P. Amos - 1026 votes
- L. E. Barton - 1038 votes
- Ethel M. Durham - 1028 votes
- Noble M. Israelson - 1001 votes
- Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis - 1036 votes
- J. B. Lockhart - 1055 votes
- Mrs. Cora McAdory - 1043 votes
- Jack Moore - 1040 votes
- M. E. Poland - 1015 votes
- Glenn V. Tingley - 1085 votes
- Eulalia R. Vess - 1085 votes
The county returns are as follows:
| Democrats | Republicans | Progressives | Prohibitionists | |
| Autauga | 1160 | 110 | 3 | 13 |
| Baldwin | 2577 | 767 | 67 | 34 |
| Barbour | 1677 | 53 | 2 | 6 |
| Bibb | 1184 | 124 | 9 | 21 |
| Blount | 1766 | 771 | 2 | 22 |
| Bullock | 799 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Butler | 1313 | 91 | 2 | 3 |
| Calhoun | 3229 | 857 | 59 | 32 |
| Chambers | 1520 | 218 | 11 | 18 |
| Cherokee | 1055 | 217 | 3 | 18 |
| Chilton | 1961 | 1584 | 5 | 14 |
| Choctaw | 1440 | 16 | 1 | 0 |
| Clarke | 2059 | 47 | 4 | 0 |
| Clay | 1106 | 387 | 2 | 7 |
| Cleburne | 700 | 317 | 7 | 3 |
| Coffee | 2031 | 113 | 7 | 1 |
| Colbert | 2610 | 487 | 14 | 13 |
| Conecuh | 1338 | 67 | 2 | 3 |
| Coosa | 840 | 275 | 3 | 6 |
| Covington | 2765 | 154 | 6 | 12 |
| Crenshaw | 1386 | 38 | 1 | 7 |
| Cullman | 3587 | 1755 | 6 | 16 |
| Dale | 1352 | 230 | 7 | 13 |
| Dallas | 2720 | 132 | 9 | 9 |
| DeKalb | 3573 | 2743 | 7 | 10 |
| Elmore | 2394 | 169 | 6 | 10 |
| Escambia | 1681 | 188 | 11 | 2 |
| Etowah | 5884 | 1606 | 78 | 44 |
| Fayette | 1023 | 580 | 7 | 12 |
| Franklin | 3226 | 2555 | 5 | 8 |
| Geneva | 1808 | 286 | 5 | 9 |
| Greene | 622 | 31 | 4 | 0 |
| Hale | 1040 | 43 | 2 | 1 |
| Henry | 1039 | 47 | 1 | 0 |
| Houston | 2711 | 427 | 18 | 6 |
| Jackson | 1726 | 603 | 3 | 15 |
| Jefferson | 30,015 | 7261 | 362 | 188 |
| Lamar | 1434 | 180 | 2 | 6 |
| Lauderdale | 3258 | 546 | 6 | 12 |
| Lawrence | 1436 | 357 | 3 | 10 |
| Lee | 1731 | 258 | 5 | 13 |
| Limestone | 1852 | 112 | 4 | 13 |
| Lowndes | 752 | 13 | 2 | 0 |
| Macon | 1099 | 110 | 3 | 0 |
| Madison | 2943 | 472 | 42 | 29 |
| Marengo | 1873 | 67 | 3 | 0 |
| Marion | 1646 | 813 | 4 | 13 |
| Marshall | 2500 | 870 | 8 | 9 |
| Mobile | 10,795 | 2599 | 253 | 68 |
| Monroe | 1688 | 31 | 2 | 4 |
| Montgomery | 6179 | 813 | 146 | 62 |
| Morgan | 3841 | 512 | 9 | 20 |
| Perry | 1032 | 30 | 6 | 14 |
| Pickens | 1423 | 91 | 5 | 5 |
| Pike | 1741 | 87 | 3 | 3 |
| Randolph | 1249 | 469 | 6 | 5 |
| Russell | 1666 | 94 | 11 | 5 |
| Shelby | 1878 | 921 | 8 | 13 |
| St. Clair | 1903 | 1063 | 3 | 11 |
| Sumter | 1058 | 52 | 3 | 0 |
| Talladega | 3059 | 593 | 16 | 20 |
| Tallapoosa | 2308 | 156 | 1 | 8 |
| Tuscaloosa | 4683 | 658 | 51 | 46 |
| Walker | 3971 | 1885 | 29 | 35 |
| Washington | 1304 | 31 | 6 | 3 |
| Wilcox | 1162 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Winston | 865 | 1588 | 4 | 11 |
| Total | 171,246 (79.84%) | 40,844 (19.04%) | 1385 (.65%) | 1014 (.47%) |
The Democratic slate was duly elected, and voted for Thurmond and Wright on December 13.