1952 United States presidential election in Indiana

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1952 United States presidential election in Indiana
Flag of Indiana.svg
  1948 November 4, 1952 [1] 1956  

All 13 Indiana votes to the Electoral College
  Dwight David Eisenhower 1952 crop.jpg Adlai Stevenson close-up.jpg
Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York [2] Illinois
Running mate Richard Nixon John Sparkman
Electoral vote130
Popular vote1,136,259801,530
Percentage58.11%40.99%

Indiana Presidential Election Results 1952.svg
County Results

President before election

Harry S. Truman
Democratic

Elected President

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

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]

Contents

Indiana was won by Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (RNew York), running with Senator Richard Nixon, with 58.11% of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (DIllinois), 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]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower 1,136,259 58.11%
Democratic Adlai Stevenson 801,53040.99%
Prohibition Stuart Hamblen 15,3350.78%
Progressive Vincent Hallinan 1,2220.16%
Socialist Labor Eric Hass 9790.05%
Total votes1,955,325 100%

Results by county

CountyDwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
Adlai Stevenson
Democratic
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
#%#%#%#%
Adams 6,20459.61%3,74435.97%4604.42%2,46023.64%10,408
Allen 54,87766.16%27,50633.16%5580.67%27,37133.00%82,941
Bartholomew 11,46258.77%7,84440.22%1961.01%3,61818.55%19,502
Benton 4,12569.25%1,81530.47%170.29%2,31038.78%5,957
Blackford 3,75953.20%3,14444.49%1632.31%6158.71%7,066
Boone 8,61963.04%4,98636.47%680.50%3,63326.57%13,673
Brown 1,51751.18%1,41447.71%331.11%1033.47%2,964
Carroll 5,90264.31%3,20834.95%680.74%2,69429.36%9,178
Cass 12,29660.32%7,98239.16%1070.52%4,31421.16%20,385
Clark 11,19048.60%11,70350.83%1320.57%-513-2.23%23,025
Clay 7,11853.31%6,07845.52%1551.16%1,0407.79%13,351
Clinton 10,05760.14%6,46938.68%1981.18%3,58821.46%16,724
Crawford 2,75051.85%2,45746.32%971.83%2935.53%5,304
Daviess 8,32860.89%5,24738.37%1010.74%3,08122.52%13,676
Dearborn 7,09154.82%5,81044.92%330.26%1,2819.90%12,934
Decatur 6,49065.15%3,39334.06%780.78%3,09731.09%9,961
DeKalb 8,71364.66%4,34732.26%4163.09%4,36632.40%13,476
Delaware 24,27255.68%18,73342.98%5851.34%5,53912.70%43,590
Dubois 6,53853.47%5,65846.27%310.25%8807.20%12,227
Elkhart 25,27766.33%12,00231.49%8292.18%13,27534.84%38,108
Fayette 7,00057.05%5,17842.20%920.75%1,82214.85%12,270
Floyd 11,60851.79%10,36846.25%4391.96%1,2405.54%22,415
Fountain 6,20861.35%3,87138.25%400.40%2,33723.10%10,119
Franklin 4,63064.04%2,54835.24%520.72%2,08228.80%7,230
Fulton 6,24768.09%2,79930.51%1291.41%3,44837.58%9,175
Gibson 9,17153.99%7,61744.84%1981.17%1,5549.15%16,986
Grant 16,67859.73%10,64638.13%5992.15%6,03221.60%27,923
Greene 8,62053.25%7,41745.82%1520.94%1,2037.43%16,189
Hamilton 10,84369.69%4,56429.33%1530.98%6,27940.36%15,560
Hancock 6,96459.94%4,53939.07%1161.00%2,42520.87%11,619
Harrison 5,06953.62%4,21344.56%1721.82%8569.06%9,454
Hendricks 9,71266.58%4,79332.86%810.56%4,91933.72%14,586
Henry 14,18461.99%8,37836.61%3201.40%5,80625.38%22,882
Howard 15,21253.34%12,93845.37%3671.29%2,2747.97%28,517
Huntington 10,50861.98%6,11436.06%3311.95%4,39425.92%16,953
Jackson 8,06755.14%6,46044.16%1030.70%1,60710.98%14,630
Jasper 5,55672.23%2,10227.33%340.44%3,45444.90%7,692
Jay 7,27058.96%4,76438.63%2972.41%2,50620.33%12,331
Jefferson 6,16958.90%4,25140.59%530.51%1,91818.31%10,473
Jennings 4,46061.21%2,77738.11%490.67%1,68323.10%7,286
Johnson 9,11960.46%5,90939.18%540.36%3,21021.28%15,082
Knox 12,78657.30%9,38442.05%1460.65%3,40215.25%22,316
Kosciusko 11,52168.95%4,67727.99%5123.06%6,84440.96%16,710
LaGrange 3,82268.80%1,60428.87%1292.32%2,21839.93%5,555
Lake 74,07344.66%90,72154.70%1,0510.63%-16,648-10.04%165,845
LaPorte 22,57659.83%15,01139.78%1460.39%7,56520.05%37,733
Lawrence 11,29664.64%6,04434.59%1350.77%5,25230.05%17,475
Madison 28,73052.84%25,12546.21%5190.95%3,6056.63%54,374
Marion 164,46660.48%106,38739.12%1,0860.40%58,07921.36%271,939
Marshall 9,99063.12%5,53834.99%3001.90%4,45228.13%15,828
Martin 2,75751.71%2,54647.75%290.54%2113.96%5,332
Miami 9,25458.97%6,26439.91%1761.12%2,99019.06%15,694
Monroe 12,07260.59%7,74538.87%1080.54%4,32721.72%19,925
Montgomery 10,56965.89%5,38633.58%860.54%5,18332.31%16,041
Morgan 8,22262.90%4,75536.38%950.73%3,46726.52%13,072
Newton 4,15974.79%1,37324.69%290.52%2,78650.10%5,561
Noble 8,20365.39%4,15133.09%1901.51%4,05232.30%12,544
Ohio 1,21951.92%1,11947.66%100.43%1004.26%2,348
Orange 5,55162.38%3,27236.77%750.84%2,27925.61%8,898
Owen 3,71358.37%2,57740.51%711.12%1,13617.86%6,361
Parke 5,06958.33%3,57441.13%470.54%1,49517.20%8,690
Perry 4,81654.53%4,00145.30%150.17%8159.23%8,832
Pike 4,25354.26%3,47844.37%1071.37%7759.89%7,838
Porter 13,19468.75%5,90930.79%870.45%7,28537.96%19,190
Posey 5,29357.61%3,83541.74%590.64%1,45815.87%9,187
Pulaski 4,03063.10%2,24435.13%1131.77%1,78627.97%6,387
Putnam 6,63259.65%4,44639.99%400.36%2,18619.66%11,118
Randolph 9,15065.42%4,46131.90%3752.68%4,68933.52%13,986
Ripley 6,65062.00%4,03137.59%440.41%2,61924.41%10,725
Rush 6,91866.82%3,34832.34%870.84%3,57034.48%10,353
St. Joseph 53,53749.74%53,26949.49%8260.77%2680.25%107,632
Scott 2,98450.08%2,93149.19%440.74%530.89%5,959
Shelby 8,96157.18%6,55241.81%1581.01%2,40915.37%15,671
Spencer 5,49761.48%3,40138.04%430.48%2,09623.44%8,941
Starke 4,87159.43%3,27439.95%510.62%1,59719.48%8,196
Steuben 5,32273.02%1,88625.88%801.10%3,43647.14%7,288
Sullivan 5,92945.65%6,96453.62%950.73%-1,035-7.97%12,988
Switzerland 2,07048.42%2,16750.69%380.89%-97-2.27%4,275
Tippecanoe 23,44770.53%9,67829.11%1210.36%13,76941.42%33,246
Tipton 5,29960.59%3,36238.44%840.96%1,93722.15%8,745
Union 2,15967.24%1,02932.05%230.72%1,13035.19%3,211
Vanderburgh 42,01058.20%29,71841.17%4590.64%12,29217.03%72,187
Vermillion 5,28347.84%5,70851.69%520.47%-425-3.85%11,043
Vigo 25,80649.74%25,84149.81%2310.45%-35-0.07%51,878
Wabash 9,98067.94%4,39529.92%3152.14%5,58538.02%14,690
Warren 3,19170.16%1,33229.29%250.55%1,85940.87%4,548
Warrick 6,06456.35%4,63943.11%590.55%1,42513.24%10,762
Washington 4,84955.45%3,84443.96%520.59%1,00511.49%8,745
Wayne 20,06862.36%11,81936.73%2930.91%8,24925.63%32,180
Wells 5,38055.85%3,96341.14%2903.01%1,41714.71%9,633
White 6,79567.60%3,21131.94%460.46%3,58435.66%10,052
Whitley 5,89360.28%3,75538.41%1281.31%2,13821.87%9,776
Totals1,136,25958.11%801,53040.99%17,5360.90%334,72917.12%1,955,325

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

See also

Notes

  1. 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

  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
  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