1956 United States presidential election

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1956 United States presidential election

November 6, 1956
All 531 electoral votes of the Electoral College 266 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout	60.6% 2.7 pp
Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson Party Republican Democratic Home state Pennsylvania Illinois Running mate Richard Nixon Estes Kefauver Electoral vote 457 73 States carried 41 7 Popular vote 35,579,180 26,028,028 Percentage 57.4% 42.0%
Template:1956 United States presidential election imagemap Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Eisenhower/Nixon, blue denotes those won by Stevenson/Kefauver, orange is the electoral vote for Walter B. Jones by an Alabama faithless elector. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
President before election Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican

The 1956 United States presidential election was the 43rd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1956. The popular incumbent President, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, successfully ran for re-election. The election was a re-match of 1952, for Eisenhower's opponent in 1956 was Adlai Stevenson, a former Illinois governor whom he had defeated four years earlier.

Eisenhower, who had first become famous for his military leadership in World War II, remained widely popular. A heart attack in 1955 provoked speculation that he would not seek a second term, but his health recovered and he was unopposed at the 1956 Republican National Convention. Stevenson remained popular with a core of liberal Democrats, but held no office and had no real base. He defeated New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and several other candidates on the first presidential ballot of the 1956 Democratic National Convention. Stevenson called for a significant increase in government spending on social programs and a decrease in military spending.

As the country enjoyed peace—Eisenhower had ended the Korean War—and the economy was growing, few doubted a successful re-election for the charismatic Eisenhower. His voters were less likely to bring up his leadership record. Instead, what stood out this time "was the response to personal qualities—to his sincerity, his integrity and sense of duty, his virtue as a family man, his religious devotion, and his sheer likeableness." The weeks before the election saw two major international crises in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and Eisenhower's handling of the crises boosted his popularity.

Eisenhower slightly improved upon his 1952 majorities in both the popular and electoral vote. He maintained his 1952 gains among Democrats, especially white urban Southerners and Northern Catholics. Compared to the 1952 election, Eisenhower gained Kentucky, Louisiana, and West Virginia from Stevenson, while losing Missouri. This was the last presidential election before the admissions of Alaska and Hawaii in 1959, the last election in which any of the major candidates had been born in the 19th century, and the most recent election to have been a rematch of a previous election.

Nominations

Republican Party

Main article: Republican Party presidential primaries, 1956

Further information: 1956 Republican National Convention

Republican Party Ticket, 1956
Dwight D. Eisenhower	Richard Nixon
for President	for Vice President
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34th President of the United States (1953–1961)	36th Vice President of the United States (1953–1961)
Campaign

Republican candidates

• Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States

Early in 1956, there was speculation that President Eisenhower would not run for a second term because of concerns about his health. In 1955, Eisenhower had suffered a serious heart attack. However, he soon recovered, and after being cleared by his doctors, he decided to run for a second term. (In June 1956 he also underwent surgery for ileitis) Given Eisenhower's enormous popularity, he was re-nominated with no opposition at the 1956 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, California.

The only question among Republicans was whether Vice-President Richard Nixon would again be Eisenhower's running mate. There is some evidence that Eisenhower would have preferred a less controversial running mate, such as Governor Christian Herter of Massachusetts. According to some historians (such as Stephen E. Ambrose), Eisenhower privately offered Nixon another position in his cabinet, such as Secretary of Defense. Harold Stassen was the only Republican to publicly oppose Nixon's re-nomination for Vice-President, and Nixon remained highly popular among the Republican rank-and-file voters. Nixon had also reshaped the vice-presidency, using it as a platform to campaign for Republican state and local candidates across the country, and these candidates came to his defense. In the spring of 1956, Eisenhower publicly announced that Nixon would again be his running mate, and Stassen was forced to second Nixon's nomination at the Republican Convention. Unlike 1952, conservative Republicans (who had supported Robert A. Taft against Eisenhower in 1952) did not attempt to shape the platform. At the convention, one delegate voted for a fictitious "Joe Smith" for Vice-President to prevent a unanimous vote.

Democratic Party

Main article: Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1956

1956 Democratic Party nominees
Adlai Stevenson II	Estes Kefauver
for President	for Vice President
31st Governor of Illinois (1949–1953)	U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1949–1963)
Campaign

Democratic Candidates

Candidate	Current position
100px Adlai Stevenson	Former Governor of Illinois
Estes Kefauver	U.S. Senator from Tennessee
W. Averell Harriman	Governor of New York

Primaries

Results of the 1956 Democratic Presidential Primaries.

Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic Party's 1952 nominee, fought a tight primary battle with populist Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver for the 1956 nomination. Kefauver won the New Hampshire primary unopposed (though Stevenson won 15% on write-ins). After Kefauver upset Stevenson in the Minnesota primary, Stevenson, realizing that he was in trouble, agreed to debate Kefauver in Florida. Stevenson and Kefauver held the first televised presidential debate on May 21, 1956, before the Florida primary. Stevenson carried Florida by a 52-48% margin. By the time of the California primary in June 1956, Kefauver's campaign had run low on money and could not compete for publicity and advertising with the well-funded Stevenson. Stevenson won the California primary by a 63-37% margin, and Kefauver soon withdrew from the race.

Popular vote results

• Adlai Stevenson - 3,069,504 (50.70%)
• Estes Kefauver - 2,283,172 (37.71%)
• Unpledged - 380,300 (6.28%)
• Frank Lausche - 278,074 (4.59%)
• John William McCormack - 26,128 (0.43%)

Source

Democratic National Convention

At the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, New York Governor W. Averell Harriman, who was backed by former President Harry S. Truman, challenged Stevenson for the nomination. However, Stevenson's delegate lead was much too large for Harriman to overcome, and Stevenson won the nomination on the first ballot.

The roll call, as reported in Richard C. Bain and Judith H. Parris, Convention Decisions and Voting Records, pp. 294–298:

Presidential Balloting, DNC 1956
Contender	Vote
Adlai Stevenson	905.5
W. Averell Harriman	210
Lyndon B. Johnson	80
Stuart Symington	45.5
Happy Chandler	36.5
James C. Davis	33
John S. Battle	32.5
George Bell Timmerman, Jr.	23.5
Frank Lausche	5.5

Vice-Presidential Nomination

Candidate	Current position
Estes Kefauver	U.S. Senator from Tennessee
John F. Kennedy	U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
Albert Gore Sr.	U.S. Senator from Tennessee
Robert F. Wagner Jr.	Mayor of New York City
100px Hubert Humphrey	U.S. Senator from Minnesota

The highlight of the 1956 Democratic Convention came when Stevenson, to create excitement for the ticket, made the surprise announcement that the convention's delegates would choose his running mate. This set off a desperate scramble among several candidates to win the nomination. Potential vice-presidential candidates had only one hectic day to campaign among the delegates before the voting began. The two leading contenders were Senator Kefauver, who retained the support of his primary delegates, and young Senator John F. Kennedy from Massachusetts, who was relatively unknown at that point. Although Stevenson privately preferred Senator Kennedy to be his running mate, he did not attempt to influence the balloting for Kennedy in any way. Kennedy surprised the experts by surging into the lead on the second ballot; at one point, he was only 15 votes shy of winning. However, a number of states then left their "favorite son" candidates and switched to Kefauver, giving him the victory. Kennedy then gave a gracious concession speech. The defeat was a boost for Kennedy's long-term presidential chances: as a serious contender, he gained favorable national publicity, yet by losing to Kefauver he avoided blame for Stevenson's loss to Eisenhower in November. The vote totals in the vice-presidential balloting are recorded in the following table, which also comes from Bain & Parris.

Vice Presidential Balloting, DNC 1956
Ballot	1	2 before shifts	2 after shifts
Estes Kefauver	466.5	551.5	755.5
John F. Kennedy	294.5	618	589
Albert Gore, Sr.	178	110.5	13.5
Robert F. Wagner, Jr.	162.5	9.5	6
Hubert Humphrey	134	74.5	2
Luther H. Hodges	40	0.5	0
P.T. Maner	33	0	0
LeRoy Collins	29	0	0
Clinton Presba Anderson	16	0	0
Frank G. Clement	14	0	0
Pat Brown	1	0	0
Lyndon B. Johnson	1	0	0
Stuart Symington	1	0	0

General election

Campaign

Stevenson campaigned hard against Eisenhower, with television ads for the first time being the dominant medium for both sides. Eisenhower's 1952 election victory had been due in large part to winning the female vote; hence, during this campaign there was a plethora of "housewife"-focused ads. Some commentators at the time also argued that television's new prominence was a major factor in Eisenhower's decision to run for a second term at the age of 66, considering his weak health after the heart attack in 1955. Television allowed Eisenhower to reach people across the country without enduring the strain of repeated coast-to-coast travel, making a national campaign more feasible.

Results by county explicitly indicating the percentage for the winning candidate. Shades of red are for Eisenhower (Republican), shades of blue are for Stevenson (Democratic), and shades of green are for Unpledged Electors/Andrews (Independent/States' Rights).

Stevenson proposed significant increases in government spending for social programs and treaties with the Soviet Union to lower military spending and end nuclear testing on both sides. He also proposed to end the military draft and switch to an "all-volunteer" military. Eisenhower publicly opposed these ideas, even though in private he was working on a proposal to ban atmospheric nuclear testing. Eisenhower had retained the enormous personal and political popularity he had earned during World War II, and he maintained a comfortable lead in the polls throughout the campaign.

Eisenhower was also helped by his handling of two developing foreign-policy crises that occurred in the weeks before the election. In the Soviet-occupied People's Republic of Hungary, many citizens had risen in revolt in the Revolution of 1956 against Soviet domination, but the Soviets responded by invading the country on October 26. Three days later, a combined force of Israeli, British, and French troops invaded Egypt to topple Gamal Abdel Nasser and seize the recently nationalized Suez Canal. The resolution of the latter crisis rapidly moved to the United Nations, and the Hungarian revolt was brutally crushed within a few days by re-deployed Soviet troops. Eisenhower condemned both actions, but was unable to help Hungary; he did, however, forcefully pressure the western forces to withdraw from Egypt.

While these two events led many Americans to rally in support of the president and swelled his expected margin of victory, the campaign was seen differently by some foreign governments. The Eisenhower administration had also supported the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954; this ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court ended legal segregation in public schools. Meanwhile, Stevenson voiced disapproval about federal court intervention in segregation, saying about Brown that "we don't need reforms or groping experiments." This was an about-face from the national Democratic party platform's endorsement of civil rights in the 1948 campaign. Although Eisenhower "avoid[ed] a clear stand on the Brown decision" during the campaign, in the contest with Stevenson, he won the support of nearly 40% of black voters; he was the last Republican presidential candidate to receive such a level of support from black voters.

Results

Eisenhower led all opinion polls by large margins throughout the campaign. On Election Day Eisenhower took over 57% of the popular vote and won 41 of the 48 states. Stevenson won only six Southern states and the border state of Missouri, becoming the first losing candidate since William Jennings Bryan in 1900 to carry Missouri. Eisenhower carried Louisiana, making him the first Republican presidential candidate to carry the state, or any state in the Deep South for that matter, since Rutherford Hayes had done so in 1876 during Reconstruction.

Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Popular vote		Electoral vote	Running mate
			Count	Pct		Vice-presidential candidate	Home state	Elect. vote
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Incumbent)	Republican	Pennsylvania	35,579,180	57.37%	457	Richard Nixon	California	457
Adlai Stevenson	Democratic	Illinois	26,028,028	41.97%	73	Estes Kefauver	Tennessee	73
(Unpledged electors)	(n/a)	(n/a)	196,318	0.32%	0	(n/a)	(n/a)	0
T. Coleman Andrews	States' Rights	Virginia	108,956	0.18%	0	Thomas Werdel	California	0
Eric Hass	Socialist Labor	New York	44,300	0.07%	0	Georgia Cozzini	Wisconsin	0
Enoch A. Holtwick	Prohibition	Illinois	41,937	0.07%	0	Edwin M. Cooper	California	0
Farrell Dobbs	Socialist Workers	New York	7,797	0.01%	0	Myra Tanner Weiss	California	0
Harry F. Byrd	States' Rights	Virginia	2,657	<0.01%	0	William E. Jenner	Indiana	0
Darlington Hoopes	Socialist	Pennsylvania	2,128	<0.01%	0	Samuel H. Friedman	New York	0
Henry B. Krajewski	American Third	New Jersey	1,829	<0.01%	0	Anna Yezo	New Jersey	0
Gerald L. K. Smith	Christian Nationalist	Michigan	8	<0.01%	0	Charles Robertson	Michigan	0
Walter Burgwyn Jones	Democratic	Alabama	—(a)	—(a)	1	Herman Talmadge	Georgia	1
Other			8,691	0.01%	—	Other		—
Total			62,021,328	100%	531			531
Needed to win					266			266

Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote):

Popular vote
Eisenhower			57.37%
Stevenson			41.97%
Unpledged			0.32%
Others			0.34%

Electoral vote
Eisenhower			86.06%
Stevenson			13.75%
Jones			0.19%

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  Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote

Results by state

States won by Eisenhower/Nixon

States won by Stevenson/Kefauver

		Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican			Adlai Stevenson Democratic			T. Coleman Andrews/Unpledged Electors States' Rights			Eric Hass Socialist Labor			Margin		State Total
State	electoral votes	#	%	electoral votes	#	%	electoral votes	#	%	electoral votes	#	%	electoral votes	#	%	#
Alabama	11	195,694	39.39	-	280,844	56.52	10	20,323	4.09	-	-	-	-	-85,150	-17.13	496,698	AL
Arizona	4	176,990	60.99	4	112,880	38.90	-	303	0.10	-	-	-	-	64,110	22.09	290,173	AZ
Arkansas	8	186,287	45.82	-	213,277	52.46	8	7,008	1.72	-	-	-	-	-26,990	-6.64	406,572	AR
California	32	3,027,668	55.39	32	2,420,135	44.27	-	6,087	0.11	-	300	0.01	-	607,533	11.11	5,466,355	CA
Colorado	6	394,479	59.49	6	263,997	39.81	-	759	0.11	-	3,308	0.50	-	130,482	19.68	663,074	CO
Connecticut	8	711,837	63.72	8	405,079	36.26	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	306,758	27.46	1,117,121	CT
Delaware	3	98,057	55.09	3	79,421	44.62	-	-	-	-	110	0.06	-	18,636	10.47	177,988	DE
Florida	10	643,849	57.27	10	480,371	42.73	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	163,478	14.54	1,124,220	FL
Georgia	12	216,652	32.65	-	441,094	66.48	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-224,442	-33.83	663,480	GA
Idaho	4	166,979	61.17	4	105,868	38.78	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	61,111	22.39	272,989	ID
Illinois	27	2,623,327	59.52	27	1,775,682	40.29	-	-	-	-	8,342	0.19	-	847,645	19.23	4,407,407	IL
Indiana	13	1,182,811	59.90	13	783,908	39.70	-	-	-	-	1,334	0.07	-	398,903	20.20	1,974,607	IN
Iowa	10	729,187	59.06	10	501,858	40.65	-	3,202	0.26	-	125	0.01	-	227,329	18.41	1,234,564	IA
Kansas	8	566,878	65.44	8	296,317	34.21	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	270,561	31.23	866,243	KS
Kentucky	10	572,192	54.30	10	476,453	45.21	-	-	-	-	358	0.03	-	95,739	9.09	1,053,805	KY
Louisiana	10	329,047	53.28	10	243,977	39.51	-	44,520	7.21	-	-	-	-	85,070	13.78	617,544	LA
Maine	5	249,238	70.87	5	102,468	29.13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	146,770	41.73	351,706	ME
Maryland	9	559,738	60.04	9	372,613	39.96	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	187,125	20.07	932,351	MD
Massachusetts	16	1,393,197	59.32	16	948,190	40.37	-	-	-	-	5,573	0.24	-	445,007	18.95	2,348,506	MA
Michigan	20	1,713,647	55.63	20	1,359,898	44.15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	353,749	11.48	3,080,468	MI
Minnesota	11	719,302	53.68	11	617,525	46.08	-	-	-	-	2,080	0.16	-	101,777	7.60	1,340,005	MN
Mississippi	8	60,685	24.46	-	144,498	58.23	8	42,966	17.31	-	-	-	-	-83,813	-33.78	248,149	MS
Missouri	13	914,289	49.89	-	918,273	50.11	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-3,984	-0.22	1,832,562	MO
Montana	4	154,933	57.13	4	116,238	42.87	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	38,695	14.27	271,171	MT
Nebraska	6	378,108	65.51	6	199,029	34.49	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	179,079	31.03	577,137	NE
Nevada	3	56,049	57.97	3	40,640	42.03	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15,409	15.94	96,689	NV
New Hampshire	4	176,519	66.11	4	90,364	33.84	-	111	0.04	-	-	-	-	86,155	32.27	266,994	NH
New Jersey	16	1,606,942	64.68	16	850,337	34.23	-	5,317	0.21	-	6,736	0.27	-	756,605	30.46	2,484,312	NJ
New Mexico	4	146,788	57.81	4	106,098	41.78	-	364	0.14	-	69	0.03	-	40,690	16.02	253,926	NM
New York	45	4,340,340	61.19	45	2,750,769	38.78	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1,589,571	22.41	7,092,860	NY
North Carolina	14	575,062	49.34	-	590,530	50.66	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-15,468	-1.33	1,165,592	NC
North Dakota	4	156,766	61.72	4	96,742	38.09	-	483	0.19	-	-	-	-	60,024	23.63	253,991	ND
Ohio	25	2,262,610	61.11	25	1,439,655	38.89	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	822,955	22.23	3,702,265	OH
Oklahoma	8	473,769	55.13	8	385,581	44.87	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	88,188	10.26	859,350	OK
Oregon	6	406,393	55.25	6	329,204	44.75	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	77,189	10.49	735,597	OR
Pennsylvania	32	2,585,252	56.49	32	1,981,769	43.30	-	-	-	-	7,447	0.16	-	603,483	13.19	4,576,503	PA
Rhode Island	4	225,819	58.26	4	161,790	41.74	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	64,029	16.52	387,609	RI
South Carolina	8	75,700	25.18	-	136,372	45.37	8	88,511	29.45	-	-	-	-	-47,863	-15.92	300,583	SC
South Dakota	4	171,569	58.39	4	122,288	41.61	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	49,281	16.77	293,857	SD
Tennessee	11	462,288	49.21	11	456,507	48.60	-	19,820	2.11	-	-	-	-	5,781	0.62	939,404	TN
Texas	24	1,080,619	55.26	24	859,958	43.98	-	14,591	0.75	-	-	-	-	220,661	11.28	1,955,545	TX
Utah	4	215,631	64.56	4	118,364	35.44	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	97,267	29.12	333,995	UT
Vermont	3	110,390	72.16	3	42,549	27.81	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	67,841	44.35	152,978	VT
Virginia	12	386,459	55.37	12	267,760	38.36	-	42,964	6.16	-	351	0.05	-	118,699	17.01	697,978	VA
Washington	9	620,430	53.91	9	523,002	45.44	-	-	-	-	7,457	0.65	-	97,428	8.47	1,150,889	WA
West Virginia	8	449,297	54.08	8	381,534	45.92	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	67,763	8.16	830,831	WV
Wisconsin	12	954,844	61.58	12	586,768	37.84	-	6,918	0.45	-	710	0.05	-	368,076	23.74	1,550,558	WI
Wyoming	3	74,573	60.08	3	49,554	39.92	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	25,019	20.16	124,127	WY
TOTALS:	531	35,579,180	57.37	457	26,028,028	41.97	73	301,417	0.49	-	44,300	0.07	-	9,551,152	15.40	62,021,328	US

Close states (margin of victory less than 1%, totaling 24 electoral votes)

1. Missouri, 0.22%
2. Tennessee, 0.62%

Close state (margin of victory less than 5%, totaling 14 electoral votes)

1. North Carolina, 1.33%

Close states (margin of victory more than 5%, but less than 10%, totaling 46 electoral votes)

1. Arkansas, 6.64%
2. Minnesota, 7.60%
3. West Virginia, 8.16%
4. Washington, 8.47%
5. Kentucky, 9.09%

^(a) Alabama faithless elector W. F. Turner, who was pledged to Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver, instead cast his votes for Walter Burgwyn Jones, who was a circuit court judge in Turner's home town, and Herman Talmadge, governor of the neighboring state of Georgia.

Because of the admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states in 1959, the 1956 presidential election was the last in which there were 531 electoral votes.

Electoral eccentricities

• The 1956 election was the last time in which the election was a rematch of the election held four years earlier. (Rematches also occurred in 1800, 1828, 1840, 1892, and 1900.) Not until 1996 would two major candidates would again face each other twice, with Democrat Bill Clinton facing third-party candidate Ross Perot.
• The 1956 Democratic vice presidential vote was the last time any convention voting went to a second ballot.
• Missouri was often considered to be a "bellwether" state because it voted for the winner of nearly every Presidential election in the century between 1904 and 2004. 1956 constituted the only exception, as it voted for Stevenson despite Eisenhower's convincing nationwide victory (albeit by only 3,984 votes out of more than 1.8 million cast; most of this margin being provided by the City of St. Louis). After 1956, the state reverted to "bellwether" status and voted for the presidential winner in every election until 2008 and 2012, when it voted for losing Republican candidates over a victorious Barack Obama.
• Eisenhower came in third in South Carolina, behind Stevenson and "unpledged electors", the first incumbent to have this status since William Howard Taft in 1912. This next happened to George Bush in 1992 when he finished third place in Maine behind Bill Clinton and Ross Perot.
• With this election, Eisenhower became the first Republican to carry these states twice in Presidential elections: Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
• Eisenhower was the last Republican until Ronald Reagan in 1984 to win every Northeastern state.
• As of 2016, the 1956 election was the last time the Republican candidate carried all six of the following states in the same election: Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, which have all since become solid blue states except for Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Since 1956, the only Republican victories in any of these states have been in 1972 (Richard Nixon won all except Massachusetts), 1980 (Ronald Reagan won Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania), 1984 (Reagan won all except Minnesota), 1988 (George H. W. Bush won Maryland and Pennsylvania), and 2016 (Donald Trump won Pennsylvania).
• This is one of the last elections where the Democrats had their post Civil War dominance of the Deep South; most of these states have become solid red states in the present day.
• This election marks the first time since 1924 that a sitting Republican president won re-election. Eisenhower was also the first Republican to serve two complete terms since Ulysses S. Grant.
• This was the last election in which Massachusetts voted Republican until 1980, the last in which Alabama and Mississippi voted Democratic until 1976, the last in which Connecticut, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and West Virginia voted Republican until 1972, and the last in which Delaware, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, and New Mexico voted Republican until 1968.
• This election is the last time that a Republican won the presidency without winning Missouri, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
• This is the last election in which Baltimore voted for the Republican presidential candidate, with the city having since returned to its status as a powerful Democratic bastion.
• This is the last election that San Francisco County, California as well as Alameda County, California voted for a Republican candidate.

See also

• 1956 United States gubernatorial elections
• 1956 United States House of Representatives elections
• 1956 United States Senate elections
• History of the United States (1945-1964)
• Second inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower

References

• Campaign commercials from the 1956 election

Further reading

• Converse, Philip E., Warren E. Miller, Donald E. Stokes, Angus Campbell. The American Voter (1964) the classic political science study of voters in 1952 and 1956
• vol 2
• Martin, John Bartlow. Adlai Stevenson and the World: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson (1977).
• Nichols, David A. Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War (2012).

External links

• United States presidential election of 1956 at Encyclopædia Britannica
• The Election Wall's 1956 Election Video Page
• 1956 popular vote by counties
• The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials: 1952 – 2004
• How close was the 1956 election? — Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Eisenhower's 1956 presidential campaign, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
• A film clip It's Ike and Nixon! 1956/08/23 (1956)" is available at the Internet Archive
• A film clip Landslide for Eisenhower, 1956/11/08 (1956)" is available at the Internet Archive
• A film clip Eisenhower Re-Elected, 1956/11/05 (1956)" is available at the Internet Archive
• Election of 1956 in Counting the Votes