1952 United States presidential election in West Virginia

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

All 8 West Virginia votes to the Electoral College
  Adlai Stevenson close-up.jpg Dwight David Eisenhower 1952 crop.jpg
Nominee Adlai Stevenson Dwight D. Eisenhower
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Illinois New York [2]
Running mate John Sparkman Richard Nixon
Electoral vote80
Popular vote453,578419,970
Percentage51.92%48.08%

West Virginia 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 West Virginia took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose eight [3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

West Virginia was won by Adlai Stevenson (DIllinois), running with Senator John Sparkman, with 51.92 percent of the popular vote, against Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (RNew York), running with California Senator Richard Nixon, with 48.08 percent of the popular vote. [4] [5]

Even in the midst of a national landslide for Eisenhower, this was the first time a losing Democrat carried West Virginia since 1888, and the first time a Democrat who lost the popular vote carried West Virginia since 1880. West Virginia's Democratic tilt displayed the strong Democratic lean the state would have for the rest of the 20th century, voting Republican only three times between 1932 and 1996 (in the Republican landslides of 1956, 1972, and 1984).

West Virginia and Kentucky were the only states outside of the former Confederacy (though Kentucky also had a Confederate government that controlled half the state early on) carried by the Democratic Party in 1952.

Results

1952 United States presidential election in West Virginia
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Adlai Stevenson 453,578 51.92%
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower 419,97048.08%
Total votes873,548 100.00%

Results by county

County [6] Adlai Stevenson
Democratic
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %
Barbour 4,48949.92%4,50450.08%-15-0.16%8,993
Berkeley 7,11146.60%8,14953.40%-1,038-6.80%15,260
Boone 8,20966.69%4,10033.31%4,10933.38%12,309
Braxton 4,25955.74%3,38244.26%87711.48%7,641
Brooke 7,59159.94%5,07340.06%2,51819.88%12,664
Cabell 22,17944.68%27,46155.32%-5,282-10.64%49,640
Calhoun 2,13850.44%2,10149.56%370.88%4,239
Clay 2,81452.62%2,53447.38%2805.24%5,348
Doddridge 1,04027.51%2,74172.49%-1,701-44.98%3,781
Fayette 22,30770.82%9,19029.18%13,11741.64%31,497
Gilmer 2,29155.82%1,81344.18%47811.64%4,104
Grant 67417.04%3,28282.96%-2,608-65.92%3,956
Greenbrier 8,08652.30%7,37447.70%7124.60%15,460
Hampshire 2,39152.39%2,17347.61%2184.78%4,564
Hancock 9,77259.98%6,52040.02%3,25219.96%16,292
Hardy 2,41154.20%2,03745.80%3748.40%4,448
Harrison 20,52749.20%21,19350.80%-666-1.60%41,720
Jackson 2,59734.90%4,84565.10%-2,248-30.20%7,442
Jefferson 4,03656.29%3,13443.71%90212.58%7,170
Kanawha 54,54048.96%56,86151.04%-2,321-2.08%111,401
Lewis 3,28034.40%6,25465.60%-2,974-31.20%9,534
Lincoln 5,09951.59%4,78448.41%3153.18%9,883
Logan 19,30267.85%9,14832.15%10,15435.70%28,450
Marion 19,89057.04%14,97942.96%4,91114.08%34,869
Marshall 8,68948.38%9,27151.62%-582-3.24%17,960
Mason 3,82438.53%6,10261.47%-2,278-22.94%9,926
McDowell 24,65769.81%10,66330.19%13,99439.62%35,320
Mercer 16,69453.92%14,26746.08%2,4277.84%30,961
Mineral 4,54544.81%5,59855.19%-1,053-10.38%10,143
Mingo 12,85665.23%6,85234.77%6,00430.46%19,708
Monongalia 13,15250.08%13,11149.92%410.16%26,263
Monroe 2,85645.31%3,44754.69%-591-9.38%6,303
Morgan 1,11429.22%2,69970.78%-1,585-41.56%3,813
Nicholas 5,61556.14%4,38643.86%1,22912.28%10,001
Ohio 16,54644.57%20,57555.43%-4,029-10.86%37,121
Pendleton 1,99151.71%1,85948.29%1323.42%3,850
Pleasants 1,63246.21%1,90053.79%-268-7.58%3,532
Pocahontas 2,74349.12%2,84150.88%-98-1.76%5,584
Preston 4,27834.68%8,05965.32%-3,781-30.64%12,337
Putnam 4,80249.27%4,94450.73%-142-1.46%9,746
Raleigh 22,70461.85%14,00538.15%8,69923.70%36,709
Randolph 6,97656.13%5,45243.87%1,52412.26%12,428
Ritchie 1,66528.21%4,23871.79%-2,573-43.58%5,903
Roane 3,60342.26%4,92257.74%-1,319-15.48%8,525
Summers 4,46356.07%3,49643.93%96712.14%7,959
Taylor 3,75244.33%4,71155.67%-959-11.34%8,463
Tucker 2,57753.55%2,23546.45%3427.10%4,812
Tyler 1,52330.39%3,48869.61%-1,965-39.22%5,011
Upshur 2,23427.34%5,93872.66%-3,704-45.32%8,172
Wayne 8,67955.15%7,05944.85%1,62010.30%15,738
Webster 3,76762.83%2,22937.17%1,53825.66%5,996
Wetzel 4,37549.43%4,47650.57%-101-1.14%8,851
Wirt 1,05041.60%1,47458.40%-424-16.80%2,524
Wood 14,15441.54%19,91758.46%-5,763-16.92%34,071
Wyoming 9,02959.59%6,12440.41%2,90519.18%15,153
Totals453,57851.92%419,97048.08%33,6083.84%873,548

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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