1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey

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1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey
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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 vote160
Popular vote1,374,6131,015,902
Percentage56.81%41.99%
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County Results
President before election

Harry S. Truman
Democratic

Elected President

Dwight Eisenhower
Republican

The 1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 4, 1952. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1952 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

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New Jersey 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 carried New Jersey with 56.81% of the vote to Stevenson's 41.99%, a margin of 14.83%. [2] Eisenhower won 18 of the state's 21 counties, breaking 60% of the vote in 9 of them, and even breaking 70% in 3 of those. Stevenson for his part carried 3 urban counties; he won with majorities in Mercer County and Camden County, and won with a plurality in Hudson County. Eisenhower ultimately won election to the White House as a war hero, a political outsider, and a moderate Republican who pledged to protect and support popular New Deal Democratic policies, finally ending 20 years of Democratic control of the White House.

New Jersey in this era was usually a swing state with a slight Republican lean, and its results in 1952 adhered to that pattern. Democrat Franklin Roosevelt had won New Jersey in all 4 of his decisive nationwide victories in the 1930s and 1940s, but with the exception of his 1936 landslide, always by very narrow margins. In 1948, New Jersey had been narrowly won by Republican Thomas E. Dewey, even as he lost the election nationally. With Eisenhower's personal popularity propelling him to a decisive nationwide victory in 1952, New Jersey easily remained in the Republican column, its results making it about 4% more Republican than the national average.

Republicans won Passaic, Salem, and Middlesex counties for the first time since 1928. This was the first election since 1868 that a Republican won the election without Mercer County, and the first since 1860 to do so without Camden County.

Results

1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower 1,374,61356.81%16
Democratic Adlai Stevenson 1,015,90241.99%0
Socialist Darlington Hoopes 8,5930.36%0
Socialist Labor Eric Hass 5,8150.24%0
Progressive Vincent Hallinan 5,5890.23%0
Poor Man's Party Henry B. Krajewski 4,2030.17%0
Socialist Workers Farrell Dobbs 3,8500.16%0
Prohibition Stuart Hamblen 9890.04%0
Totals2,419,554100.0%16

Results by county

CountyDwight David Eisenhower
Republican		Adlai Stevenson II
Democratic		Various candidates
Other parties		MarginTotal votes cast [3]
# %# %# %# %
Atlantic 40,25958.03%28,95341.73%1630.23%11,30616.30%69,375
Bergen 212,84269.22%93,37330.37%1,2870.42%119,46938.85%307,502
Burlington 30,20254.18%25,48245.71%600.11%4,7208.47%55,744
Camden 72,33546.81%81,44452.70%7620.49%-9,109-5.89%154,541
Cape May 15,21868.52%6,98431.45%70.03%8,23437.08%22,209
Cumberland 21,81953.40%18,92946.33%1110.27%2,8907.07%40,859
Essex 219,86353.94%180,50144.28%7,2711.78%39,3629.66%407,635
Gloucester 25,10354.89%20,53644.90%980.21%4,5679.99%45,737
Hudson 153,58347.36%161,46949.79%9,2282.85%-7,886-2.43%324,280
Hunterdon 14,43967.47%6,87832.14%830.39%7,56135.33%21,400
Mercer 50,42346.40%57,75153.15%4880.45%-7,328-6.74%108,662
Middlesex 73,57750.32%70,23448.03%2,4131.65%3,3432.29%146,224
Monmouth 73,22866.28%37,00633.49%2570.23%36,22232.78%110,491
Morris 62,84772.55%23,66227.31%1200.14%39,18545.23%86,629
Ocean 23,49072.80%8,66026.84%1170.36%14,83045.96%32,267
Passaic 89,08354.26%70,72743.08%4,3802.67%18,35611.18%164,190
Salem 12,02651.30%11,36248.47%540.23%6642.83%23,442
Somerset 31,23963.34%18,00736.51%740.15%13,23226.83%49,320
Sussex 13,41574.68%4,53425.24%140.08%8,88149.44%17,963
Union 122,88560.46%78,33638.54%2,0241.00%44,54921.92%203,245
Warren 15,73758.63%11,07441.26%280.10%4,66317.37%26,839
Totals1,373,61356.79%1,015,90242.00%24,3721.20%29,03914.79%2,418,554

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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 Jersey". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  3. ↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 300 ISBN   0405077114
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