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Turnout | 51.1% (voting age population)[1] 2.9 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Dewey/Warren, blue denotes those won by Truman/Barkley, orange denotes those won by Thurmond/Wright, including a Tennessee faithless elector. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- ^ "Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections". The American Presidency Project. UC Santa Barbara.