1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey

1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Eisenhower 50-60% 60-70% 70-80%	Stevenson 40-50% 50-60%
President before election; Harry S. Truman ; Democratic	Elected President; Dwight Eisenhower ; Republican

Last updated December 25, 2024

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.

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 D. 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
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1,374,613	56.81%	16
	Democratic	Adlai Stevenson	1,015,902	41.99%	0
	Socialist	Darlington Hoopes	8,593	0.36%	0
	Socialist Labor	Eric Hass	5,815	0.24%	0
	Progressive	Vincent Hallinan	5,589	0.23%	0
	Poor Man's Party	Henry B. Krajewski	4,203	0.17%	0
	Socialist Workers	Farrell Dobbs	3,850	0.16%	0
	Prohibition	Stuart Hamblen	989	0.04%	0
Totals			2,419,554	100.0%	16

Results by county

County	Dwight David Eisenhower Republican		Adlai Stevenson II Democratic		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast^[3]
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast^[3]
Atlantic	40,259	58.03%	28,953	41.73%	163	0.23%	11,306	16.30%	69,375
Bergen	212,842	69.22%	93,373	30.37%	1,287	0.42%	119,469	38.85%	307,502
Burlington	30,202	54.18%	25,482	45.71%	60	0.11%	4,720	8.47%	55,744
Camden	72,335	46.81%	81,444	52.70%	762	0.49%	-9,109	-5.89%	154,541
Cape May	15,218	68.52%	6,984	31.45%	7	0.03%	8,234	37.08%	22,209
Cumberland	21,819	53.40%	18,929	46.33%	111	0.27%	2,890	7.07%	40,859
Essex	219,863	53.94%	180,501	44.28%	7,271	1.78%	39,362	9.66%	407,635
Gloucester	25,103	54.89%	20,536	44.90%	98	0.21%	4,567	9.99%	45,737
Hudson	153,583	47.36%	161,469	49.79%	9,228	2.85%	-7,886	-2.43%	324,280
Hunterdon	14,439	67.47%	6,878	32.14%	83	0.39%	7,561	35.33%	21,400
Mercer	50,423	46.40%	57,751	53.15%	488	0.45%	-7,328	-6.74%	108,662
Middlesex	73,577	50.32%	70,234	48.03%	2,413	1.65%	3,343	2.29%	146,224
Monmouth	73,228	66.28%	37,006	33.49%	257	0.23%	36,222	32.78%	110,491
Morris	62,847	72.55%	23,662	27.31%	120	0.14%	39,185	45.23%	86,629
Ocean	23,490	72.80%	8,660	26.84%	117	0.36%	14,830	45.96%	32,267
Passaic	89,083	54.26%	70,727	43.08%	4,380	2.67%	18,356	11.18%	164,190
Salem	12,026	51.30%	11,362	48.47%	54	0.23%	664	2.83%	23,442
Somerset	31,239	63.34%	18,007	36.51%	74	0.15%	13,232	26.83%	49,320
Sussex	13,415	74.68%	4,534	25.24%	14	0.08%	8,881	49.44%	17,963
Union	122,885	60.46%	78,336	38.54%	2,024	1.00%	44,549	21.92%	203,245
Warren	15,737	58.63%	11,074	41.26%	28	0.10%	4,663	17.37%	26,839
Totals	1,373,613	56.79%	1,015,902	42.00%	24,372	1.20%	29,039	14.79%	2,418,554

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Results by congressional districts

Eisenhower won 11 out of 14 of New Jersey's congressional districts while Stevenson won the other 3 congressional districts.^[4]

District^[4]	Eisenhower	Stevenson
1st	48.1%	51.9%
2nd	58.5%	41.5%
3rd	62.9%	37.1%
4th	49.2%	50.8%
5th	62.4%	37.6%
6th	61.1%	38.9%
7th	68.5%	31.5%
8th	55.7%	44.3%
9th	67.6%	32.4%
10th	54.3%	45.7%
11th	53.1%	46.9%
12th	55.5%	44.5%
13th	44.8%	55.2%
14th	51.9%	48.1%

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References

↑ "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
↑ "1952 Presidential General Election Results - New Jersey". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved November 28, 2013.
↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 300 ISBN 0405077114
1 2 "1952 United States Presidential Election, Results by Congressional District". Western Washington University. Retrieved December 18, 2024.

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[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 November 28, 2013.

[3] Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 300 ISBN 0405077114

[:0-4] 1 2 "1952 United States Presidential Election, Results by Congressional District". Western Washington University. Retrieved December 18, 2024.

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