The 1956 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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 County Results
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Maryland was won by incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Pennsylvania), running with Vice President Richard Nixon, with 60.04% of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator Estes Kefauver, with 39.96% of the popular vote.[4][5]
By winning all 24 county-equivalents, Eisenhower became and remains the solitary presidential candidate to sweep all Maryland's counties and Baltimore City in a contested election.[6] As of the 2020 election, this is the last election in which the City of Baltimore voted for a Republican presidential candidate, and by extension, the last election in which a presidential candidate won all of the state's counties.[7] Eisenhower is also the last Republican to carry the state twice.[8]
George Washington in 1792 is the only other candidate who swept all of Maryland's existing counties, though at the time several did not yet exist.[9] In 1789 and 1820, the other two elections in which a candidate ran virtually unopposed, unpledged slates of electors ran as opposition in both elections: Anti-Federalist electors in 1789, and Federalist electors in 1820.[10][11] These electors supported Washington and James Monroe, but supported different vice presidential candidates. Thus, it is a debatable topic whether these count as total sweeps or not (In 1789, the Anti-Federalist electors won Baltimore and Anne Arundel county, and in 1820 St. Mary's and Charles counties). Nevertheless, Eisenhower remains the only candidate in the modern party system to win all of Maryland's counties, and the only to win all of the presently existing ones.
In this election, Maryland voted 4.67% to the right of the nation at-large.[12]
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower (inc.) | 559,738 | 60.04% | |
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 372,613 | 39.96% | |
| Total votes | 932,351 | 100% | ||
Results by county
edit| County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican |
Adlai Stevenson Democratic |
Margin | Total votes cast[13] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Allegany | 20,239 | 65.26% | 10,775 | 34.74% | 9,464 | 30.52% | 31,014 |
| Anne Arundel | 28,622 | 64.30% | 15,888 | 35.70% | 12,734 | 28.60% | 44,510 |
| Baltimore | 104,021 | 68.30% | 48,270 | 31.70% | 55,751 | 36.60% | 152,291 |
| Baltimore City | 178,244 | 55.90% | 140,603 | 44.10% | 37,641 | 11.80% | 318,847 |
| Calvert | 2,764 | 58.44% | 1,966 | 41.56% | 798 | 16.88% | 4,730 |
| Caroline | 4,208 | 60.90% | 2,702 | 39.10% | 1,506 | 21.80% | 6,910 |
| Carroll | 11,749 | 72.65% | 4,423 | 27.35% | 7,326 | 45.30% | 16,172 |
| Cecil | 7,217 | 59.38% | 4,936 | 40.62% | 2,281 | 18.76% | 12,153 |
| Charles | 5,088 | 56.41% | 3,931 | 43.59% | 1,157 | 12.82% | 9,019 |
| Dorchester | 5,809 | 60.88% | 3,733 | 39.12% | 2,076 | 21.76% | 9,542 |
| Frederick | 14,387 | 65.38% | 7,619 | 34.62% | 6,768 | 30.76% | 22,006 |
| Garrett | 5,555 | 73.09% | 2,045 | 26.91% | 3,510 | 46.18% | 7,600 |
| Harford | 12,657 | 65.77% | 6,588 | 34.23% | 6,069 | 31.54% | 19,245 |
| Howard | 6,534 | 64.48% | 3,599 | 35.52% | 2,935 | 28.96% | 10,133 |
| Kent | 3,747 | 61.18% | 2,378 | 38.82% | 1,369 | 22.36% | 6,125 |
| Montgomery | 56,501 | 57.01% | 42,606 | 42.99% | 13,895 | 14.02% | 99,107 |
| Prince George's | 40,654 | 50.86% | 39,280 | 49.14% | 1,374 | 1.72% | 79,934 |
| Queen Anne's | 3,321 | 55.70% | 2,641 | 44.30% | 680 | 11.40% | 5,962 |
| Somerset | 4,770 | 61.15% | 3,031 | 38.85% | 1,739 | 22.30% | 7,801 |
| St. Mary's | 4,336 | 55.74% | 3,443 | 44.26% | 893 | 11.48% | 7,779 |
| Talbot | 6,018 | 68.75% | 2,735 | 31.25% | 3,283 | 37.50% | 8,753 |
| Washington | 19,455 | 62.72% | 11,562 | 37.28% | 7,893 | 25.44% | 31,017 |
| Wicomico | 9,377 | 63.94% | 5,289 | 36.06% | 4,088 | 27.88% | 14,666 |
| Worcester | 4,465 | 63.47% | 2,570 | 36.53% | 1,895 | 26.94% | 7,035 |
| Totals | 559,738 | 60.04% | 372,613 | 39.96% | 187,125 | 20.08% | 932,351 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
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editNotes
edit- ^ 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.
References
edit- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1956 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved July 10, 2017.
- ^ "The Presidents". David Leip. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
- ^ "1956 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65)". Retrieved July 10, 2017.
- ^ "1956 Presidential General Election Results - Maryland". Retrieved July 10, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1956". Retrieved July 10, 2017.
- ^ Thomas, G. Scott; The Pursuit of the White House: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics and History, p. 433 ISBN 0313257957
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
- ^ "Our Campaigns - MD US President Race - Nov 00, 1792". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ "A New Nation Votes". elections.lib.tufts.edu. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ "A New Nation Votes". elections.lib.tufts.edu. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
- ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
- ^ Our Campaigns; MD US President Race, November 06, 1956