Presidential election in the United States in 1956

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43rd presidential election
November 6, 1956
			Republican Party
			Dwight Eisenhower / Richard Nixon
			electors					457
			be right				35,579,180
									57.4%
			Democratic Party
			Adlai Stevenson / Estes Kefauver
			electors					73
			be right				26,028,028
									42.0%
Election results by state
41 states   Eisenhower / Nixon						7 states   Stevenson / Kefauver
President of the United States
Before the election Dwight Eisenhower Republican Party						Elected Dwight Eisenhower Republican Party

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
		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. ).

Web links

Commons : 1956 US Presidential Election  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Winner and Defeated , Spiegel-Online, January 2008.