1956 United States presidential election in New Mexico

The 1956 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 6, 1956. All 48 states were part of the 1956 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President.

1956 United States presidential election in New Mexico

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Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Pennsylvania[a][1] Illinois
Running mate Richard Nixon Estes Kefauver
Electoral vote 4 0
Popular vote 146,788 106,098
Percentage 57.81% 41.78%

County Results

President before election

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

Elected President

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

New Mexico was won by incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower by a 16-point landslide. Running against Eisenhower was former Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson, whom Eisenhower had earlier defeated for the Presidency in 1952.[2] This election reflected one of the last election cycles where the Democratic Party still had their post Civil War political domination of the Deep South. This was also the last United States presidential election when either major party nominee was born in the nineteenth century.

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Rio Arriba County and San Miguel County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[3]

Results

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1956 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican
146,788 57.81% +2.42
Democratic 106,098 41.78% −2.50
Prohibition
607 0.24% +0.12
Dixiecrat 364 0.14% N/A
Socialist Labor 69 0.03% +0.02
Total votes 253,926 100.00%
Republican win

Results by county

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County[4] Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
Adlai Stevenson
Democratic
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
Bernalillo 41,893 64.31% 22,954 35.24% 296 0.45% 18,939 29.07% 65,143
Catron 711 59.85% 477 40.15% 0 0.00% 234 19.70% 1,188
Chaves 7,538 63.37% 4,270 35.89% 88 0.74% 3,268 27.48% 11,896
Colfax 2,959 54.71% 2,450 45.29% 0 0.00% 509 9.42% 5,409
Curry 4,826 57.27% 3,545 42.07% 56 0.66% 1,281 15.20% 8,427
De Baca 779 59.33% 528 40.21% 6 0.46% 251 19.12% 1,313
Dona Ana 7,025 58.59% 4,918 41.01% 48 0.40% 2,107 17.58% 11,991
Eddy 6,691 45.77% 7,820 53.50% 107 0.73% -1,129 -7.73% 14,618
Grant 3,224 43.70% 4,122 55.88% 31 0.42% -898 -12.18% 7,377
Guadalupe 1,529 56.15% 1,191 43.74% 3 0.11% 338 12.41% 2,723
Harding 671 61.96% 412 38.04% 0 0.00% 259 23.92% 1,083
Hidalgo 790 50.51% 771 49.30% 3 0.19% 19 1.21% 1,564
Lea 5,661 47.66% 6,140 51.69% 78 0.65% -479 -4.03% 11,879
Lincoln 1,956 64.77% 1,059 35.07% 5 0.16% 897 29.70% 3,020
Los Alamos 2,406 51.98% 2,214 47.83% 9 0.19% 192 4.15% 4,629
Luna 1,526 49.76% 1,506 49.10% 35 1.14% 20 0.66% 3,067
McKinley 4,450 56.97% 3,331 42.64% 30 0.39% 1,119 14.33% 7,811
Mora 1,736 58.47% 1,233 41.53% 0 0.00% 503 16.94% 2,969
Otero 3,919 60.45% 2,558 39.46% 6 0.09% 1,361 20.99% 6,483
Quay 2,311 53.52% 1,988 46.04% 19 0.44% 323 7.48% 4,318
Rio Arriba 4,566 51.53% 4,291 48.43% 3 0.04% 275 3.10% 8,860
Roosevelt 2,708 54.56% 2,247 45.28% 8 0.16% 461 9.28% 4,963
San Juan 5,194 67.54% 2,425 31.53% 71 0.93% 2,769 36.01% 7,690
San Miguel 5,083 55.86% 4,014 44.11% 3 0.03% 1,069 11.75% 9,100
Sandoval 1,979 55.68% 1,574 44.29% 1 0.03% 405 11.39% 3,554
Santa Fe 9,359 56.92% 6,997 42.56% 85 0.52% 2,362 14.36% 16,441
Sierra 1,954 65.00% 1,035 34.43% 17 0.57% 919 30.57% 3,006
Socorro 2,365 61.57% 1,476 38.43% 0 0.00% 889 23.14% 3,841
Taos 3,100 53.02% 2,743 46.91% 4 0.07% 357 6.11% 5,847
Torrance 1,567 56.23% 1,201 43.09% 19 0.68% 366 13.14% 2,787
Union 1,649 60.83% 1,061 39.14% 1 0.03% 588 21.69% 2,711
Valencia 4,663 56.74% 3,547 43.16% 8 0.10% 1,116 13.58% 8,218
Totals 146,788 57.81% 106,098 41.78% 1,040 0.41% 40,690 16.03% 253,926

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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Notes

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  1. ^ 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

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  1. ^ "The Presidents". David Leip. Retrieved September 27, 2017. Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
  2. ^ "1956 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
  3. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  4. ^ "NM US President Race - Nov 06, 1956". Our Campaigns. Retrieved June 29, 2020.