1952 United States presidential election in Vermont

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1952 United States presidential election in Vermont

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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 vote 3 0 Popular vote 109,717 43,355 Percentage 71.45% 28.23%

County results Municipality results Eisenhower   50-60%   60-70%   70-80%   80-90%   90-100% Stevenson   50-60%   60-70%   70-80%

President before election Harry S. Truman Democratic Elected President Dwight Eisenhower Republican

The 1952 United States presidential election in Vermont 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 three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for the president and vice president.

Vermont voted overwhelmingly for the Republican nominee, General Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York, over the Democratic nominee, former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Eisenhower ran with Senator Richard Nixon of California, while Stevenson's running mate was Senator John Sparkman of Alabama.

Eisenhower took a landslide 71.45% of the vote to Stevenson’s 28.23%, a victory margin of 43.22%. Vermont historically was a bastion of Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1952 Vermont had gone Republican in every presidential election since the founding of the Republican Party. From 1856 to 1948, Vermont had had the longest streak of voting Republican of any state, having never voted Democratic before, and this tradition easily continued in 1952 with Eisenhower’s landslide win.

Even as Eisenhower won a comfortable victory nationally, Vermont weighed in as a whopping 32% more Republican than the national average and with 71.45% of the popular vote, this made Vermont the most Republican in the union in the 1952 election. ^[2]

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. While Vermont was one of the only two states in the nation (along with Maine) to vote against Franklin Roosevelt all 4 times, the GOP margins in the state had narrowed substantially in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly due to the strong Democratic presence in the northwestern part of the state. However, Eisenhower's unique personal appeal brought even that region back into the GOP coalition, and allowed him to break 70% in the state in both 1952 and 1956 (Eisenhower's would win with a slightly larger margin in 1956), the first Republican to do so since Calvin Coolidge in 1924, and the last to date.

Results

1952 United States presidential election in Vermont [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Dwight D. Eisenhower	109,717	71.45%	3
	Democratic	Adlai Stevenson	43,355	28.23%	0
	Progressive	Vincent Hallinan	282	0.18%	0
	Socialist	Darlington Hoopes	185	0.12%	0
	N/A	Write-ins	18	0.01%	0
Totals			153,557	100.00%	3

Results by county

County	Dwight David Eisenhower Republican		Adlai Stevenson II Democratic		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast [4]
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Addison	6,057	78.18%	1,667	21.52%	24	0.31%	4,390	56.66%	7,748
Bennington	8,385	73.31%	3,018	26.39%	34	0.30%	5,367	46.93%	11,437
Caledonia	7,595	80.60%	1,807	19.18%	21	0.22%	5,788	61.42%	9,423
Chittenden	13,533	57.87%	9,746	41.68%	106	0.45%	3,787	16.19%	23,385
Essex	1,592	69.04%	705	30.57%	9	0.39%	887	38.46%	2,306
Franklin	6,949	57.82%	5,018	41.75%	51	0.42%	1,931	16.07%	12,018
Grand Isle	976	59.15%	665	40.30%	9	0.55%	311	18.85%	1,650
Lamoille	3,516	84.52%	633	15.22%	11	0.26%	2,883	69.30%	4,160
Orange	5,610	83.49%	1,082	16.10%	27	0.40%	4,528	67.39%	6,719
Orleans	5,830	74.19%	2,003	25.49%	25	0.32%	3,827	48.70%	7,858
Rutland	13,980	69.95%	5,970	29.87%	36	0.18%	8,010	40.08%	19,986
Washington	11,979	72.59%	4,460	27.03%	64	0.39%	7,519	45.56%	16,503
Windham	9,774	77.60%	2,790	22.15%	31	0.25%	6,984	55.45%	12,595
Windsor	13,941	78.46%	3,791	21.33%	37	0.21%	10,150	57.12%	17,769
Totals	109,717	71.45%	43,355	28.23%	485	0.32%	66,362	43.22%	153,557

Analysis

Eisenhower swept every county in Vermont, breaking 70% in 9 of the 14 counties. The three northwestern counties of Vermont had long been Democratic enclaves in an otherwise Republican state through the 1930s and 1940s, but Eisenhower finally won them back for the GOP. The region still remained the most Democratic in the state, as Eisenhower received less than 60% of the vote in Chittenden County, Franklin County and Grand Isle County, while every county outside the northwest broke 60% for Eisenhower and three broke 80%. With that, Eisenhower became the first Republican candidate since Coolidge to carry Chittenden County as well as the first since Herbert Hoover in 1928 to carry Franklin and Grand Isle Counties. ^[5]

See also

• United States presidential elections in Vermont

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 Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
3. "1952 Presidential General Election Results - Vermont". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
4. Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 466 ISBN   0405077114
5. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 321-322 ISBN   0786422173