1952 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

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1952 United States presidential election in New Hampshire
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Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York [1] Illinois
Running mate Richard Nixon John Sparkman
Electoral vote40
Popular vote166,287106,663
Percentage60.92%39.08%
New Hampshire Presidential Election Results 1952.svg
County Results
President before election

Harry S. Truman
Democratic

Elected President

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

The 1952 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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New Hampshire was won by the Republican nominees, General Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York and his running mate Senator Richard Nixon of California. Eisenhower and Nixon defeated the Democratic nominees, former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois and his running mate Senator John Sparkman of Alabama.

Eisenhower took 60.92% of the vote to Stevenson's 39.08%, a margin of 21.84%. Eisenhower, a war hero and moderate Republican who had pledged to maintain popular New Deal Democratic policies, had wide appeal beyond the boundaries of the traditional Republican coalition. New Hampshire had been narrowly carried by Democrat Franklin Roosevelt three out of four times, although the state narrowly reverted to the GOP in 1948. However Eisenhower's unique personal appeal brought the state decisively back into the Republican column in 1952.

Eisenhower won nine of the state's ten counties. Since Franklin Roosevelt won them in 1932, the counties of Hillsborough County, Strafford County, and Coos County had become reliable New Deal Democratic base counties, voting for Roosevelt all four times as well as for Harry S. Truman. However Eisenhower in 1952 won back Strafford County and Coos County for the GOP, although Stevenson won a majority in Hillsborough County, home to Manchester and Nashua, which had been a reliable Democratic bastion since voting for Democrat Al Smith in 1928.

Carroll County had long been the most Republican county in New Hampshire, voting 60% against FDR all four times and over 70% for Thomas E. Dewey in 1948. Eisenhower would receive over 80% of the vote in the county in 1952. As Eisenhower won a decisive election victory nationally, New Hampshire's results would make the state almost 11% more Republican than the national average.

Results

1952 United States presidential election in New Hampshire [2]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower 166,28760.92%4
Democratic Adlai Stevenson 106,66339.08%0
Totals272,950100.00%4

Results by county

CountyDwight David Eisenhower

Republican

Adlai Stevenson II

Democratic

Total votes cast [3]
# %# %
Belknap 9,56771.81%3,75528.19%13,322
Carroll 7,49882.61%1,57817.39%9,076
Cheshire 11,89763.94%6,71036.06%18,607
Coös 9,97555.97%7,84844.03%17,823
Grafton 15,93772.24%6,12427.76%22,061
Hillsborough 41,26349.68%41,80250.32%83,065
Merrimack 21,82467.92%10,31032.08%32,134
Rockingham 26,28068.58%12,04031.42%38,320
Strafford 13,72953.88%11,75346.12%25,482
Sullivan 8,31763.68%4,74336.32%13,060
Totals166,28760.92%106,66339.08%272,950

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References

  1. ↑ "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
  2. ↑ "1952 Presidential General Election Results - New Hampshire". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2013-11-16.
  3. ↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 295 ISBN   0405077114
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