1952 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary

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1952 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary
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March 11, 1952 (1952-03-11) 1956  
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Candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower Robert A. Taft
Home state Kansas Ohio
Popular vote46,66135,838
Percentage50.2%38.6%

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Candidate Harold Stassen Douglas MacArthur
Home state Pennsylvania New York
Popular vote6,5743,227
Percentage7.1%3.5%

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Margin by county

The 1952 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary was held on March 11, 1952, in New Hampshire as one of the Republican Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1952 United States presidential election. General Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Senator Robert Taft of Ohio by 12 percentage points on his way to eventual nomination by the Republican Party for President and victory in the 1952 election against Democrat Adlai Stevenson. [1] [2] This was the first time that voters participating in the New Hampshire primary could vote directly for candidates, rather than for delegates to the Republican National Convention. [3]

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References

  1. New Hampshire. Dept. of State (1953). Manual for the General Court. University of New Hampshire Library. Concord, N.H. : Dept. of State. p. 307.
  2. Times, John H. Fenton Special to The New York (February 27, 1972). "First New Hampshire Primary Put Eisenhower on Way in '52". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved April 8, 2024.
  3. "New Hampshire: A Proven Primary Tradition". New Hampshire Historical Society. Retrieved February 8, 2024.