The 1956 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. State voters chose 27[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Illinois was won by incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Pennsylvania), running with Vice President Richard Nixon, with 59.52% of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator Estes Kefauver, with 40.29% of the popular vote.[4][5]
Primaries
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editThe primaries and general elections coincided with those for other federal offices (Senate and House), as well as those for state offices.[6]
Turnout in the state-run primary elections (Democratic and Republican) was 31.69% with a total of 1,577,163 votes cast.[6][7]
Turnout during the general election was 84.47%, with 4,407,407 votes cast.[6][8] Both major parties held non-binding state-run preferential primaries on April 10.[6]
Democratic
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The 1956 Illinois Democratic presidential primary was held on April 10, 1956, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Democratic Party's state primaries ahead of the 1956 presidential election.
The popular vote was a non-binding "beauty contest". Delegates were instead elected by direct votes by congressional district on delegate candidates.[6]
All candidates besides Adlai Stevenson II, who won a landslide victory, were write-ins.[6][9]
| Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Adlai E. Stevenson | 717,742 | 95.26 |
| Estes Kefauver (write-in) | 34,092 | 4.53 |
| Frank Lausche (write-in) | 1,146 | 0.15 |
| Stuart Symington (write-in) | 232 | 0.03 |
| Averell Harriman (write-in) | 134 | 0.02 |
| Other write-ins | 128 | 0.02 |
| Total | 753,474 | 100 |
Republican
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The 1956 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on April 10, 1956, in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's state primaries ahead of the 1956 presidential election.
The preference vote was a "beauty contest". Delegates were instead selected by direct-vote in each congressional districts on delegate candidates.[6]
| Candidate | Votes | % |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower (incumbent) | 781,710 | 94.90 |
| William F. Knowland | 33,534 | 4.07 |
| Lar "America First" Daly | 8,354 | 1.01 |
| Write-ins | 91 | 0.01 |
| Total | 823,689 | 100 |
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower (inc.) | 2,623,327 | 59.52% | |
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 1,775,682 | 40.29% | |
| Socialist Labor | Eric Hass | 8,342 | 0.19% | |
| Write-in | Others | 56 | 0.00% | |
| Total votes | 4,407,407 | 100% | ||
Results by county
edit| County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican |
Adlai Stevenson Democratic |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast[10] | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 19,569 | 63.12% | 11,402 | 36.78% | 32 | 0.10% | 8,167 | 26.34% | 31,003 |
| Alexander | 4,425 | 51.38% | 4,167 | 48.38% | 21 | 0.24% | 258 | 3.00% | 8,613 |
| Bond | 4,342 | 60.41% | 2,834 | 39.43% | 11 | 0.15% | 1,508 | 20.98% | 7,187 |
| Boone | 6,706 | 77.96% | 1,890 | 21.97% | 6 | 0.07% | 4,816 | 55.99% | 8,602 |
| Brown | 2,026 | 53.67% | 1,748 | 46.30% | 1 | 0.03% | 278 | 7.37% | 3,775 |
| Bureau | 13,909 | 70.56% | 5,781 | 29.33% | 21 | 0.11% | 8,128 | 41.23% | 19,711 |
| Calhoun | 1,892 | 55.79% | 1,498 | 44.18% | 1 | 0.03% | 394 | 11.61% | 3,391 |
| Carroll | 6,503 | 70.60% | 2,693 | 29.24% | 15 | 0.16% | 3,810 | 41.36% | 9,211 |
| Cass | 4,125 | 54.97% | 3,368 | 44.88% | 11 | 0.15% | 757 | 10.09% | 7,504 |
| Champaign | 28,190 | 67.06% | 13,799 | 32.82% | 51 | 0.12% | 14,391 | 34.24% | 42,040 |
| Christian | 10,282 | 52.91% | 9,093 | 46.79% | 59 | 0.30% | 1,189 | 6.12% | 19,434 |
| Clark | 5,451 | 60.74% | 3,519 | 39.21% | 4 | 0.04% | 1,932 | 21.53% | 8,974 |
| Clay | 5,079 | 58.73% | 3,553 | 41.08% | 16 | 0.19% | 1,526 | 17.65% | 8,648 |
| Clinton | 7,378 | 63.46% | 4,242 | 36.48% | 7 | 0.06% | 3,136 | 26.98% | 11,627 |
| Coles | 12,436 | 62.13% | 7,569 | 37.82% | 10 | 0.05% | 4,867 | 24.31% | 20,015 |
| Cook | 1,293,223 | 56.80% | 977,821 | 42.95% | 5,800 | 0.25% | 315,402 | 13.85% | 2,276,844 |
| Crawford | 6,747 | 63.28% | 3,906 | 36.63% | 9 | 0.08% | 2,841 | 26.65% | 10,662 |
| Cumberland | 3,235 | 58.69% | 2,272 | 41.22% | 5 | 0.09% | 963 | 17.47% | 5,512 |
| DeKalb | 15,078 | 75.66% | 4,826 | 24.22% | 25 | 0.13% | 10,252 | 51.44% | 19,929 |
| DeWitt | 5,307 | 63.15% | 3,093 | 36.80% | 4 | 0.05% | 2,214 | 26.35% | 8,404 |
| Douglas | 5,559 | 66.66% | 2,774 | 33.27% | 6 | 0.07% | 2,785 | 33.39% | 8,339 |
| DuPage | 91,834 | 79.76% | 23,103 | 20.06% | 207 | 0.18% | 68,731 | 59.70% | 115,144 |
| Edgar | 7,942 | 64.52% | 4,362 | 35.44% | 5 | 0.04% | 3,580 | 29.08% | 12,309 |
| Edwards | 3,339 | 73.38% | 1,210 | 26.59% | 1 | 0.02% | 2,129 | 46.79% | 4,550 |
| Effingham | 6,904 | 60.67% | 4,455 | 39.15% | 21 | 0.18% | 2,449 | 21.52% | 11,380 |
| Fayette | 6,739 | 57.81% | 4,914 | 42.15% | 5 | 0.04% | 1,825 | 15.66% | 11,658 |
| Ford | 6,027 | 73.66% | 2,152 | 26.30% | 3 | 0.04% | 3,875 | 47.36% | 8,182 |
| Franklin | 11,761 | 50.98% | 11,308 | 49.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 453 | 1.96% | 23,069 |
| Fulton | 12,375 | 58.58% | 8,702 | 41.19% | 48 | 0.23% | 3,673 | 17.39% | 21,125 |
| Gallatin | 2,179 | 49.35% | 2,230 | 50.51% | 6 | 0.14% | -51 | -1.16% | 4,415 |
| Greene | 4,718 | 54.57% | 3,909 | 45.21% | 19 | 0.22% | 809 | 9.36% | 8,646 |
| Grundy | 7,640 | 74.46% | 2,618 | 25.51% | 3 | 0.03% | 5,022 | 48.95% | 10,261 |
| Hamilton | 3,675 | 57.75% | 2,685 | 42.19% | 4 | 0.06% | 990 | 15.56% | 6,364 |
| Hancock | 8,431 | 63.41% | 4,854 | 36.50% | 12 | 0.09% | 3,577 | 26.91% | 13,297 |
| Hardin | 1,919 | 56.93% | 1,444 | 42.84% | 8 | 0.24% | 475 | 14.09% | 3,371 |
| Henderson | 2,743 | 65.08% | 1,469 | 34.85% | 3 | 0.07% | 1,274 | 30.23% | 4,215 |
| Henry | 15,896 | 65.46% | 8,349 | 34.38% | 39 | 0.16% | 7,547 | 31.08% | 24,284 |
| Iroquois | 12,104 | 72.88% | 4,487 | 27.02% | 18 | 0.11% | 7,617 | 45.86% | 16,609 |
| Jackson | 10,526 | 58.72% | 7,391 | 41.23% | 10 | 0.06% | 3,135 | 17.49% | 17,927 |
| Jasper | 3,107 | 51.77% | 2,895 | 48.23% | 0 | 0.00% | 212 | 3.54% | 6,002 |
| Jefferson | 9,637 | 54.36% | 8,090 | 45.64% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,547 | 8.72% | 17,727 |
| Jersey | 4,220 | 55.24% | 3,415 | 44.70% | 5 | 0.07% | 805 | 10.54% | 7,640 |
| Jo Daviess | 6,762 | 69.81% | 2,906 | 30.00% | 18 | 0.19% | 3,856 | 39.81% | 9,686 |
| Johnson | 2,973 | 65.72% | 1,549 | 34.24% | 2 | 0.04% | 1,424 | 31.48% | 4,524 |
| Kane | 56,009 | 72.82% | 20,848 | 27.10% | 59 | 0.08% | 35,161 | 45.72% | 76,916 |
| Kankakee | 21,993 | 66.39% | 11,088 | 33.47% | 47 | 0.14% | 10,905 | 32.92% | 33,128 |
| Kendall | 5,057 | 78.15% | 1,407 | 21.74% | 7 | 0.11% | 3,650 | 56.41% | 6,471 |
| Knox | 18,656 | 66.04% | 9,558 | 33.83% | 37 | 0.13% | 9,098 | 32.21% | 28,251 |
| Lake | 66,781 | 67.33% | 32,279 | 32.54% | 129 | 0.13% | 34,502 | 34.79% | 99,189 |
| LaSalle | 33,461 | 64.52% | 18,318 | 35.32% | 83 | 0.16% | 15,143 | 29.20% | 51,862 |
| Lawrence | 6,104 | 61.89% | 3,751 | 38.03% | 7 | 0.07% | 2,353 | 23.86% | 9,862 |
| Lee | 11,653 | 71.98% | 4,531 | 27.99% | 5 | 0.03% | 7,122 | 43.99% | 16,189 |
| Livingston | 13,939 | 72.82% | 5,197 | 27.15% | 7 | 0.04% | 8,742 | 45.67% | 19,143 |
| Logan | 9,589 | 66.61% | 4,793 | 33.29% | 14 | 0.10% | 4,796 | 33.32% | 14,396 |
| Macon | 27,673 | 54.53% | 23,066 | 45.45% | 8 | 0.02% | 4,607 | 9.08% | 50,747 |
| Macoupin | 12,290 | 49.84% | 12,303 | 49.89% | 66 | 0.27% | -13 | -0.05% | 24,659 |
| Madison | 39,413 | 45.10% | 47,897 | 54.80% | 88 | 0.10% | -8,484 | -9.70% | 87,398 |
| Marion | 10,813 | 55.75% | 8,551 | 44.09% | 32 | 0.16% | 2,262 | 11.66% | 19,396 |
| Marshall | 4,764 | 67.64% | 2,245 | 31.88% | 34 | 0.48% | 2,519 | 35.76% | 7,043 |
| Mason | 4,677 | 58.73% | 3,199 | 40.17% | 88 | 1.10% | 1,478 | 18.56% | 7,964 |
| Massac | 4,265 | 64.18% | 2,359 | 35.50% | 21 | 0.32% | 1,906 | 28.68% | 6,645 |
| McDonough | 9,725 | 71.50% | 3,872 | 28.47% | 5 | 0.04% | 5,853 | 43.03% | 13,602 |
| McHenry | 24,912 | 78.48% | 6,820 | 21.48% | 13 | 0.04% | 18,092 | 57.00% | 31,745 |
| McLean | 25,758 | 67.62% | 12,332 | 32.37% | 5 | 0.01% | 13,426 | 35.25% | 38,095 |
| Menard | 3,188 | 63.44% | 1,833 | 36.48% | 4 | 0.08% | 1,355 | 26.96% | 5,025 |
| Mercer | 5,732 | 65.82% | 2,969 | 34.10% | 7 | 0.08% | 2,763 | 31.72% | 8,708 |
| Monroe | 4,715 | 64.03% | 2,648 | 35.96% | 1 | 0.01% | 2,067 | 28.07% | 7,364 |
| Montgomery | 9,945 | 56.36% | 7,692 | 43.59% | 8 | 0.05% | 2,253 | 12.77% | 17,645 |
| Morgan | 10,262 | 61.82% | 6,327 | 38.11% | 11 | 0.07% | 3,935 | 23.71% | 16,600 |
| Moultrie | 3,756 | 57.65% | 2,751 | 42.23% | 8 | 0.12% | 1,005 | 15.42% | 6,515 |
| Ogle | 13,194 | 78.21% | 3,660 | 21.70% | 16 | 0.09% | 9,534 | 56.51% | 16,870 |
| Peoria | 50,888 | 62.72% | 30,145 | 37.15% | 108 | 0.13% | 20,743 | 25.57% | 81,141 |
| Perry | 6,513 | 57.06% | 4,901 | 42.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,612 | 14.12% | 11,414 |
| Piatt | 4,622 | 66.23% | 2,356 | 33.76% | 1 | 0.01% | 2,266 | 32.47% | 6,979 |
| Pike | 5,920 | 52.31% | 5,382 | 47.55% | 16 | 0.14% | 538 | 4.76% | 11,318 |
| Pope | 1,842 | 66.62% | 922 | 33.35% | 1 | 0.04% | 920 | 33.27% | 2,765 |
| Pulaski | 2,966 | 56.74% | 2,246 | 42.97% | 15 | 0.29% | 720 | 13.77% | 5,227 |
| Putnam | 1,724 | 65.28% | 913 | 34.57% | 4 | 0.15% | 811 | 30.71% | 2,641 |
| Randolph | 8,439 | 55.44% | 6,778 | 44.53% | 4 | 0.03% | 1,661 | 10.91% | 15,221 |
| Richland | 5,304 | 68.05% | 2,485 | 31.88% | 5 | 0.06% | 2,819 | 36.17% | 7,794 |
| Rock Island | 31,342 | 51.72% | 29,145 | 48.09% | 118 | 0.19% | 2,197 | 3.63% | 60,605 |
| Saline | 8,481 | 53.96% | 7,215 | 45.91% | 20 | 0.13% | 1,266 | 8.05% | 15,716 |
| Sangamon | 42,951 | 59.71% | 28,949 | 40.24% | 35 | 0.05% | 14,002 | 19.47% | 71,935 |
| Schuyler | 3,068 | 58.22% | 2,189 | 41.54% | 13 | 0.25% | 879 | 16.68% | 5,270 |
| Scott | 2,303 | 60.91% | 1,478 | 39.09% | 0 | 0.00% | 825 | 21.82% | 3,781 |
| Shelby | 7,075 | 56.94% | 5,337 | 42.95% | 13 | 0.10% | 1,738 | 13.99% | 12,425 |
| St. Clair | 41,528 | 42.77% | 55,295 | 56.94% | 283 | 0.29% | -13,767 | -14.17% | 97,106 |
| Stark | 3,241 | 74.32% | 1,118 | 25.64% | 2 | 0.05% | 2,123 | 48.68% | 4,361 |
| Stephenson | 14,245 | 69.10% | 6,349 | 30.80% | 20 | 0.10% | 7,896 | 38.30% | 20,614 |
| Tazewell | 23,690 | 59.27% | 16,230 | 40.61% | 50 | 0.13% | 7,460 | 18.66% | 39,970 |
| Union | 4,204 | 49.06% | 4,359 | 50.87% | 6 | 0.07% | -155 | -1.81% | 8,569 |
| Vermilion | 26,534 | 59.51% | 17,991 | 40.35% | 60 | 0.13% | 8,543 | 19.16% | 44,585 |
| Wabash | 4,425 | 61.92% | 2,713 | 37.97% | 8 | 0.11% | 1,712 | 23.95% | 7,146 |
| Warren | 7,580 | 71.63% | 2,996 | 28.31% | 6 | 0.06% | 4,584 | 43.32% | 10,582 |
| Washington | 5,299 | 65.14% | 2,820 | 34.67% | 16 | 0.20% | 2,479 | 30.47% | 8,135 |
| Wayne | 6,286 | 61.37% | 3,942 | 38.49% | 14 | 0.14% | 2,344 | 22.88% | 10,242 |
| White | 6,128 | 56.13% | 4,778 | 43.77% | 11 | 0.10% | 1,350 | 12.36% | 10,917 |
| Whiteside | 17,589 | 73.95% | 6,158 | 25.89% | 37 | 0.16% | 11,431 | 48.06% | 23,784 |
| Will | 45,628 | 64.34% | 25,188 | 35.52% | 100 | 0.14% | 20,440 | 28.82% | 70,916 |
| Williamson | 13,438 | 56.44% | 10,345 | 43.45% | 27 | 0.11% | 3,093 | 12.99% | 23,810 |
| Winnebago | 48,332 | 62.38% | 29,063 | 37.51% | 89 | 0.11% | 19,269 | 24.87% | 77,484 |
| Woodford | 8,505 | 72.18% | 3,257 | 27.64% | 21 | 0.18% | 5,248 | 44.54% | 11,783 |
| Totals | 2,623,327 | 59.52% | 1,775,682 | 40.29% | 8,398 | 0.19% | 847,645 | 19.23% | 4,407,407 |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
editCounties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
editSee also
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 9, 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 9, 2017.
- ^ "1956 Presidential General Election Results – Illinois". Retrieved July 9, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1956". Retrieved July 9, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "OFFICIAL VOTE of the STATE OF ILLINOIS Cast at the GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 6, 1956 JUDICIAL ELECTION, 1955, 1956 • PRIMARY ELECTION GENERAL PRIMARY, APRIL 10 1958" (PDF). Illinois State Board of Elections. Retrieved July 4, 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "OFFICIAL VOTE Cast at the PRIMARY ELECTION MARCH 16, 1982" (PDF). www.elections.il.gov. Illinois State Board of Elections. Retrieved July 4, 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "OFFICIAL VOTE Cast at the GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 2, 1982" (PDF). www.elections.il.gov. Illinois State Board of Elections. Retrieved July 4, 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c Illinois Blue Book 1955-1956. Illinois Secretary of State. p. 815. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
- ^ Our Campaigns; IL US President Race, November 06, 1956