Presidential election in the United States in 1956
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43rd presidential election | |||||||||||
November 6, 1956 | |||||||||||
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Republican Party | |||||||||||
Dwight Eisenhower / Richard Nixon | |||||||||||
electors | 457 | ||||||||||
be right | 35,579,180 | ||||||||||
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57.4% | ||||||||||
Democratic Party | |||||||||||
Adlai Stevenson / Estes Kefauver | |||||||||||
electors | 73 | ||||||||||
be right | 26,028,028 | ||||||||||
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42.0% | ||||||||||
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Election results by state | |||||||||||
41 states
Eisenhower / Nixon |
7 states
Stevenson / Kefauver |
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President of the United States | |||||||||||
The 43rd election of the President of the United States took place on November 6, 1956 . The incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower won over his challenger Adlai Stevenson II .
Candidates
Eisenhower was nominated as incumbent by the Republicans without any problems. Richard Nixon remained his vice-president , although this was controversial within the party. Stevenson, who had already lost to Eisenhower in 1952, had to actively seek the Democratic nomination this time (in 1952 he had been called upon by the party) and was only able to prevail against Senator Estes Kefauver after a few setbacks . He did not determine his running mate himself, but had him chosen by the party congress . Kefauver won just ahead of Senator John F. Kennedy , whose unexpectedly strong performance was considered the real surprise of the party congress.
result
candidate | Political party | be right | electors | |
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number | percent | |||
Dwight D. Eisenhower | republican | 35 579 180 | 57.37% | 457 |
Adlai Stevenson | democrat | 26 028 028 | 41.97% | 73 |
T. Coleman Andrews | States ′ Rights | 0.17% | 0 | |
Walter Burgwyn Jones | democrat | 0% | 1 | |
Eric Hass | Socialist Labor | 0.07% | 0 |
Eisenhower won the election with 35,579,180 votes (57.4%), far ahead of Stevenson's 26,028,028 (42.0%). It looked even clearer with the electors, Eisenhower had 457, Stevenson only 73. 266 votes were necessary for the election to the president.
literature
- Donald Richard Deskins, Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2010, ISBN 978-0-472-11697-3 , pp. 407-416 (= Chapter 45: Dwight D. Eisenhower's Reelection. ).