1952 United States presidential election in Indiana

1952 United States presidential election in Indiana
All 13 Indiana votes to the Electoral College
Eisenhower 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80%	Stevenson 40–50% 50–60%
President before election; Harry S. Truman ; Democratic	Elected President; Dwight D. Eisenhower ; Republican

Last updated October 06, 2025

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.^[3]

Indiana was won by Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–New York), running with Senator Richard Nixon, with 58.11% of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator John Sparkman, with 40.99% of the popular vote. Eisenhower was the first Republican presidential candidate ever to carry German Catholic Brown County and Dubois County,^[4] which alongside his triumph in Illinois’ Union County ^[5] meant that every antebellum free state county had as of 1952 voted for a Republican presidential candidate at least once.^[a] This is also the last election until 2020 that Vigo County voted for the losing candidate.

Results

1952 United States presidential election in Indiana^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1,136,259	58.11%
	Democratic	Adlai Stevenson	801,530	40.99%
	Prohibition	Stuart Hamblen	15,335	0.78%
	Progressive	Vincent Hallinan	1,222	0.16%
	Socialist Labor	Eric Hass	979	0.05%
Total votes			1,955,325	100%

Results by county

County	Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican		Adlai Stevenson Democratic		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast
Adams	6,204	59.61%	3,744	35.97%	460	4.42%	2,460	23.64%	10,408
Allen	54,877	66.16%	27,506	33.16%	558	0.67%	27,371	33.00%	82,941
Bartholomew	11,462	58.77%	7,844	40.22%	196	1.01%	3,618	18.55%	19,502
Benton	4,125	69.25%	1,815	30.47%	17	0.29%	2,310	38.78%	5,957
Blackford	3,759	53.20%	3,144	44.49%	163	2.31%	615	8.71%	7,066
Boone	8,619	63.04%	4,986	36.47%	68	0.50%	3,633	26.57%	13,673
Brown	1,517	51.18%	1,414	47.71%	33	1.11%	103	3.47%	2,964
Carroll	5,902	64.31%	3,208	34.95%	68	0.74%	2,694	29.36%	9,178
Cass	12,296	60.32%	7,982	39.16%	107	0.52%	4,314	21.16%	20,385
Clark	11,190	48.60%	11,703	50.83%	132	0.57%	-513	-2.23%	23,025
Clay	7,118	53.31%	6,078	45.52%	155	1.16%	1,040	7.79%	13,351
Clinton	10,057	60.14%	6,469	38.68%	198	1.18%	3,588	21.46%	16,724
Crawford	2,750	51.85%	2,457	46.32%	97	1.83%	293	5.53%	5,304
Daviess	8,328	60.89%	5,247	38.37%	101	0.74%	3,081	22.52%	13,676
Dearborn	7,091	54.82%	5,810	44.92%	33	0.26%	1,281	9.90%	12,934
Decatur	6,490	65.15%	3,393	34.06%	78	0.78%	3,097	31.09%	9,961
DeKalb	8,713	64.66%	4,347	32.26%	416	3.09%	4,366	32.40%	13,476
Delaware	24,272	55.68%	18,733	42.98%	585	1.34%	5,539	12.70%	43,590
Dubois	6,538	53.47%	5,658	46.27%	31	0.25%	880	7.20%	12,227
Elkhart	25,277	66.33%	12,002	31.49%	829	2.18%	13,275	34.84%	38,108
Fayette	7,000	57.05%	5,178	42.20%	92	0.75%	1,822	14.85%	12,270
Floyd	11,608	51.79%	10,368	46.25%	439	1.96%	1,240	5.54%	22,415
Fountain	6,208	61.35%	3,871	38.25%	40	0.40%	2,337	23.10%	10,119
Franklin	4,630	64.04%	2,548	35.24%	52	0.72%	2,082	28.80%	7,230
Fulton	6,247	68.09%	2,799	30.51%	129	1.41%	3,448	37.58%	9,175
Gibson	9,171	53.99%	7,617	44.84%	198	1.17%	1,554	9.15%	16,986
Grant	16,678	59.73%	10,646	38.13%	599	2.15%	6,032	21.60%	27,923
Greene	8,620	53.25%	7,417	45.82%	152	0.94%	1,203	7.43%	16,189
Hamilton	10,843	69.69%	4,564	29.33%	153	0.98%	6,279	40.36%	15,560
Hancock	6,964	59.94%	4,539	39.07%	116	1.00%	2,425	20.87%	11,619
Harrison	5,069	53.62%	4,213	44.56%	172	1.82%	856	9.06%	9,454
Hendricks	9,712	66.58%	4,793	32.86%	81	0.56%	4,919	33.72%	14,586
Henry	14,184	61.99%	8,378	36.61%	320	1.40%	5,806	25.38%	22,882
Howard	15,212	53.34%	12,938	45.37%	367	1.29%	2,274	7.97%	28,517
Huntington	10,508	61.98%	6,114	36.06%	331	1.95%	4,394	25.92%	16,953
Jackson	8,067	55.14%	6,460	44.16%	103	0.70%	1,607	10.98%	14,630
Jasper	5,556	72.23%	2,102	27.33%	34	0.44%	3,454	44.90%	7,692
Jay	7,270	58.96%	4,764	38.63%	297	2.41%	2,506	20.33%	12,331
Jefferson	6,169	58.90%	4,251	40.59%	53	0.51%	1,918	18.31%	10,473
Jennings	4,460	61.21%	2,777	38.11%	49	0.67%	1,683	23.10%	7,286
Johnson	9,119	60.46%	5,909	39.18%	54	0.36%	3,210	21.28%	15,082
Knox	12,786	57.30%	9,384	42.05%	146	0.65%	3,402	15.25%	22,316
Kosciusko	11,521	68.95%	4,677	27.99%	512	3.06%	6,844	40.96%	16,710
LaGrange	3,822	68.80%	1,604	28.87%	129	2.32%	2,218	39.93%	5,555
Lake	74,073	44.66%	90,721	54.70%	1,051	0.63%	-16,648	-10.04%	165,845
LaPorte	22,576	59.83%	15,011	39.78%	146	0.39%	7,565	20.05%	37,733
Lawrence	11,296	64.64%	6,044	34.59%	135	0.77%	5,252	30.05%	17,475
Madison	28,730	52.84%	25,125	46.21%	519	0.95%	3,605	6.63%	54,374
Marion	164,466	60.48%	106,387	39.12%	1,086	0.40%	58,079	21.36%	271,939
Marshall	9,990	63.12%	5,538	34.99%	300	1.90%	4,452	28.13%	15,828
Martin	2,757	51.71%	2,546	47.75%	29	0.54%	211	3.96%	5,332
Miami	9,254	58.97%	6,264	39.91%	176	1.12%	2,990	19.06%	15,694
Monroe	12,072	60.59%	7,745	38.87%	108	0.54%	4,327	21.72%	19,925
Montgomery	10,569	65.89%	5,386	33.58%	86	0.54%	5,183	32.31%	16,041
Morgan	8,222	62.90%	4,755	36.38%	95	0.73%	3,467	26.52%	13,072
Newton	4,159	74.79%	1,373	24.69%	29	0.52%	2,786	50.10%	5,561
Noble	8,203	65.39%	4,151	33.09%	190	1.51%	4,052	32.30%	12,544
Ohio	1,219	51.92%	1,119	47.66%	10	0.43%	100	4.26%	2,348
Orange	5,551	62.38%	3,272	36.77%	75	0.84%	2,279	25.61%	8,898
Owen	3,713	58.37%	2,577	40.51%	71	1.12%	1,136	17.86%	6,361
Parke	5,069	58.33%	3,574	41.13%	47	0.54%	1,495	17.20%	8,690
Perry	4,816	54.53%	4,001	45.30%	15	0.17%	815	9.23%	8,832
Pike	4,253	54.26%	3,478	44.37%	107	1.37%	775	9.89%	7,838
Porter	13,194	68.75%	5,909	30.79%	87	0.45%	7,285	37.96%	19,190
Posey	5,293	57.61%	3,835	41.74%	59	0.64%	1,458	15.87%	9,187
Pulaski	4,030	63.10%	2,244	35.13%	113	1.77%	1,786	27.97%	6,387
Putnam	6,632	59.65%	4,446	39.99%	40	0.36%	2,186	19.66%	11,118
Randolph	9,150	65.42%	4,461	31.90%	375	2.68%	4,689	33.52%	13,986
Ripley	6,650	62.00%	4,031	37.59%	44	0.41%	2,619	24.41%	10,725
Rush	6,918	66.82%	3,348	32.34%	87	0.84%	3,570	34.48%	10,353
St. Joseph	53,537	49.74%	53,269	49.49%	826	0.77%	268	0.25%	107,632
Scott	2,984	50.08%	2,931	49.19%	44	0.74%	53	0.89%	5,959
Shelby	8,961	57.18%	6,552	41.81%	158	1.01%	2,409	15.37%	15,671
Spencer	5,497	61.48%	3,401	38.04%	43	0.48%	2,096	23.44%	8,941
Starke	4,871	59.43%	3,274	39.95%	51	0.62%	1,597	19.48%	8,196
Steuben	5,322	73.02%	1,886	25.88%	80	1.10%	3,436	47.14%	7,288
Sullivan	5,929	45.65%	6,964	53.62%	95	0.73%	-1,035	-7.97%	12,988
Switzerland	2,070	48.42%	2,167	50.69%	38	0.89%	-97	-2.27%	4,275
Tippecanoe	23,447	70.53%	9,678	29.11%	121	0.36%	13,769	41.42%	33,246
Tipton	5,299	60.59%	3,362	38.44%	84	0.96%	1,937	22.15%	8,745
Union	2,159	67.24%	1,029	32.05%	23	0.72%	1,130	35.19%	3,211
Vanderburgh	42,010	58.20%	29,718	41.17%	459	0.64%	12,292	17.03%	72,187
Vermillion	5,283	47.84%	5,708	51.69%	52	0.47%	-425	-3.85%	11,043
Vigo	25,806	49.74%	25,841	49.81%	231	0.45%	-35	-0.07%	51,878
Wabash	9,980	67.94%	4,395	29.92%	315	2.14%	5,585	38.02%	14,690
Warren	3,191	70.16%	1,332	29.29%	25	0.55%	1,859	40.87%	4,548
Warrick	6,064	56.35%	4,639	43.11%	59	0.55%	1,425	13.24%	10,762
Washington	4,849	55.45%	3,844	43.96%	52	0.59%	1,005	11.49%	8,745
Wayne	20,068	62.36%	11,819	36.73%	293	0.91%	8,249	25.63%	32,180
Wells	5,380	55.85%	3,963	41.14%	290	3.01%	1,417	14.71%	9,633
White	6,795	67.60%	3,211	31.94%	46	0.46%	3,584	35.66%	10,052
Whitley	5,893	60.28%	3,755	38.41%	128	1.31%	2,138	21.87%	9,776
Totals	1,136,259	58.11%	801,530	40.99%	17,536	0.90%	334,729	17.12%	1,955,325

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Notes

↑ These three counties, and Wells County which flipped Republican in 1944, were the only antebellum free state counties to vote Democratic in all three landslide losses in 1920 (only 41 counties outside antebellum slave states voted for James M. Cox), 1924 and 1928.

References

↑ "United States Presidential election of 1952 - Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved July 25, 2017.
↑ "U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013. Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination
1 2 "1952 Presidential Election Results Indiana".
↑ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 187-192 ISBN 0786422173
↑ Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, pp. 180-187

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[6] These three counties, and Wells County which flipped Republican in 1944, were the only antebellum free state counties to vote Democratic in all three landslide losses in 1920 (only 41 counties outside antebellum slave states voted for James M. Cox), 1924 and 1928.

[1] "United States Presidential election of 1952 - Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved July 25, 2017.

[2] "U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013. Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination

[results-3] 1 2 "1952 Presidential Election Results Indiana".

[4] Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 187-192 ISBN 0786422173

[5] Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, pp. 180-187

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