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The 1956 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary was held on March 13, 1956, in New Hampshire as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1956 United States presidential election.
Estes Kefauver, a senator from Tennessee and the previous winner of the 1952 New Hampshire primary against incumbent President Truman, [1] defeated eventual 1956 Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson by nearly 70 percentage points. [2] Kefauver would go on to be Stevenson's running mate in the 1956 election, but the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket lost in a landslide to incumbent Republican President Eisenhower. [3]
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Estes Kefauver | 21,701 | 84.6% |
| Adlai Stevenson II | 3,806 | 14.8% |
| Other write-ins | 139 | 0.6% |
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The 1956 United States presidential election was the 43rd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1956. President Dwight D. Eisenhower successfully ran for reelection against Adlai Stevenson II, the former Illinois governor whom he had defeated four years earlier. This election saw the sixth rematch in American presidential history, the last until 2024, and the second where the winner was the same both times. This was the last election before the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment came into effect, Eisenhower being the first President elected twice to the office following the Amendment's ratification.
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. Senate from 1949 until his death in 1963.
The New Hampshire presidential primary is the first in a series of nationwide party primary elections and the second party contest, the first being the Iowa caucuses, held in the United States every four years as part of the process of choosing the delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions which choose the party nominees for the presidential elections to be held in November. Although only a few delegates are chosen in the New Hampshire primary, its real importance comes from the massive media coverage it receives, along with the first caucus in Iowa.
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Electoral history of Harry S. Truman, who served as the 33rd president of the United States (1945–1953), the 34th vice president (1945), and as a United States senator from Missouri (1935–1945)
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