1956 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

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1956 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
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  1952 November 6, 1956 [1] 1960  

All 8 Oklahoma votes to the Electoral College
  Dwight David Eisenhower 1952 crop.jpg Adlai Stevenson close-up.jpg
Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Pennsylvania [2] [3] Illinois
Running mate Richard Nixon Estes Kefauver
Electoral vote80
Popular vote473,769385,581
Percentage55.13%44.87%

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County Results

President before election

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

Elected President

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

The 1956 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight [4] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Contents

Oklahoma was won by incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (RPennsylvania), running with Vice President Richard Nixon, with 55.13 percent of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (DIllinois), running with Senator Estes Kefauver, with 44.87 percent of the popular vote. [5] [6] As of 2020, this is the last time Oklahoma has voted more Democratic than the nation as a whole. This was the first time that a Republican carried Oklahoma twice or that the state voted Republican in back-to-back elections.

Results

1956 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower (inc.) 473,769 55.13%
Democratic Adlai Stevenson 385,58144.87%
Total votes859,350 100%

Results by county

CountyDwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
Adlai Stevenson
Democratic
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %
Adair 3,15256.59%2,41843.41%73413.18%5,570
Alfalfa 3,25170.34%1,37129.66%1,88040.68%4,622
Atoka 1,73141.66%2,42458.34%-693-16.68%4,155
Beaver 2,04668.38%94631.62%1,10036.76%2,992
Beckham 3,19447.28%3,56152.72%-367-5.44%6,755
Blaine 3,85567.64%1,84432.36%2,01135.28%5,699
Bryan 2,93933.91%5,72966.09%-2,790-32.18%8,668
Caddo 5,33147.53%5,88452.47%-553-4.94%11,215
Canadian 5,70259.41%3,89640.59%1,80618.82%9,598
Carter 5,97439.01%9,34160.99%-3,367-21.98%15,315
Cherokee 3,27752.28%2,99147.72%2864.56%6,268
Choctaw 2,20638.87%3,46961.13%-1,263-22.26%5,675
Cimarron 1,05356.46%81243.54%24112.92%1,865
Cleveland 7,76656.47%5,98743.53%1,77912.94%13,753
Coal 92036.57%1,59663.43%-676-26.86%2,516
Comanche 7,53246.24%8,75653.76%-1,224-7.52%16,288
Cotton 1,39842.53%1,88957.47%-491-14.94%3,287
Craig 3,54353.29%3,10646.71%4376.58%6,649
Creek 8,29553.87%7,10246.13%1,1937.74%15,397
Custer 4,18258.02%3,02641.98%1,15616.04%7,208
Delaware 3,07853.47%2,67946.53%3996.94%5,757
Dewey 1,89656.70%1,44843.30%44813.40%3,344
Ellis 1,91667.56%92032.44%99635.12%2,836
Garfield 15,34869.39%6,76930.61%8,57938.78%22,117
Garvin 3,85037.38%6,45162.62%-2,601-25.24%10,301
Grady 5,19143.39%6,77356.61%-1,582-13.22%11,964
Grant 2,78858.81%1,95341.19%83517.62%4,741
Greer 1,49944.01%1,90755.99%-408-11.98%3,406
Harmon 83732.44%1,74367.56%-906-35.12%2,580
Harper 1,59668.44%73631.56%86036.88%2,332
Haskell 1,75842.47%2,38157.53%-623-15.06%4,139
Hughes 2,78339.41%4,27860.59%-1,495-21.18%7,061
Jackson 2,34334.57%4,43565.43%-2,092-30.86%6,778
Jefferson 1,18631.84%2,53968.16%-1,353-36.32%3,725
Johnston 1,15734.14%2,23265.86%-1,075-31.72%3,389
Kay 14,83764.77%8,07135.23%6,76629.54%22,908
Kingfisher 3,93570.23%1,66829.77%2,26740.46%5,603
Kiowa 2,71344.59%3,37155.41%-658-10.82%6,084
Latimer 1,38741.02%1,99458.98%-607-17.96%3,381
LeFlore 4,31044.96%5,27655.04%-966-10.08%9,586
Lincoln 4,99356.09%3,90943.91%1,08412.18%8,902
Logan 5,32664.94%2,87535.06%2,45129.88%8,201
Love 73129.39%1,75670.61%-1,025-41.22%2,487
Major 2,82674.82%95125.18%1,87549.64%3,777
Marshall 1,15135.40%2,10064.60%-949-29.20%3,251
Mayes 4,67755.43%3,76044.57%91710.86%8,437
McClain 2,08141.11%2,98158.89%-900-17.78%5,062
McCurtain 2,70736.25%4,76163.75%-2,054-27.50%7,468
McIntosh 2,14944.06%2,72855.94%-579-11.88%4,877
Murray 1,80942.16%2,48257.84%-673-15.68%4,291
Muskogee 11,05751.50%10,41348.50%6443.00%21,470
Noble 3,53663.68%2,01736.32%1,51927.36%5,553
Nowata 3,16858.28%2,26841.72%90016.56%5,436
Okfuskee 2,29949.65%2,33150.35%-32-0.70%4,630
Oklahoma 85,39559.76%57,51240.24%27,88319.52%142,907
Okmulgee 6,70346.78%7,62653.22%-923-6.44%14,329
Osage 7,29655.13%5,93944.87%1,35710.26%13,235
Ottawa 6,73054.05%5,72145.95%1,0098.10%12,451
Pawnee 3,39059.96%2,26440.04%1,12619.92%5,654
Payne 9,38159.75%6,32040.25%3,06119.50%15,701
Pittsburg 5,23938.46%8,38261.54%-3,143-23.08%13,621
Pontotoc 4,81444.72%5,95055.28%-1,136-10.56%10,764
Pottawatomie 8,49648.85%8,89551.15%-399-2.30%17,391
Pushmataha 1,49939.74%2,27360.26%-774-20.52%3,772
Roger Mills 1,07243.95%1,36756.05%-295-12.10%2,439
Rogers 4,48758.49%3,18541.51%1,30216.98%7,672
Seminole 5,23047.00%5,89753.00%-667-6.00%11,127
Sequoyah 3,33048.33%3,56051.67%-230-3.34%6,890
Stephens 6,32445.67%7,52454.33%-1,200-8.66%13,848
Texas 3,32063.77%1,88636.23%1,43427.54%5,206
Tillman 1,81034.97%3,36665.03%-1,556-30.06%5,176
Tulsa 83,21965.51%43,80534.49%39,41431.02%127,024
Wagoner 3,53758.16%2,54441.84%99316.32%6,081
Washington 12,48869.31%5,52930.69%6,95938.62%18,017
Washita 2,55244.44%3,19155.56%-639-11.12%5,743
Woods 3,78764.08%2,12335.92%1,66428.16%5,910
Woodward 3,40567.79%1,61832.21%1,78735.58%5,023
Totals473,76955.13%385,58144.87%88,18810.26%859,350

Counties that flipped Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped Democratic to Republican

See also

References

  1. "United States Presidential election of 1956 - Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  2. Although he was born in Texas and grew up in Kansas before his military career, at the time of the 1952 election Eisenhower was president of Columbia University and was, officially, a resident of New York. During his first term as president, he moved his private residence to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and officially changed his residency to Pennsylvania.
  3. "The Presidents". David Leip. Retrieved September 27, 2017. Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
  4. "1956 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65)" . Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  5. "1956 Presidential General Election Results - Oklahoma" . Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  6. "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1956" . Retrieved July 22, 2017.