Elections / 1956 · President

Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson.

Adlai Stevenson (D) vs Dwight D. Eisenhower (R). Every state below links to its full contest page with county-level results.

Nominees: Adlai Stevenson (D) · Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)

National popular vote

62,010,138 votes counted

Stevenson (D)

26,026,787

42.0%

Eisenhower (R)

35,577,531

57.4%

All others

405,822

0.7%

Margin

R+15.4

The county map

3,095 county-level results on record for 1956

Democrats carried 923 counties, Republicans 2,138, third-party candidates 34. 329 counties flipped parties from the previous cycle.

Biggest county swings: McPherson County, SD (D+73.9 swing) · Calhoun County, SC (D+65.0 swing) · Swisher County, TX (D+60.8 swing) · St. Charles Parish, LA (R+60.2 swing) · Dorchester County, SC (D+57.4 swing) · Lee County, SC (D+56.7 swing)

Results by state

Every row links to the state's contest page with its county map.

State	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
Alabama	D	+17.1%	280,844	195,694	496,688
Arkansas	D	+6.6%	213,277	186,287	406,572
Arizona	R	−22.1%	112,880	176,990	290,173
California	R	−11.1%	2,420,135	3,027,668	5,466,355
Colorado	R	−19.7%	263,997	394,479	663,074
Connecticut	R	−27.5%	405,072	711,817	1,116,887
Delaware	R	−10.5%	79,421	98,057	177,988
Florida	R	−14.5%	480,371	643,849	1,124,220
Georgia	D	+34.1%	441,094	216,662	657,756
Iowa	R	−18.4%	501,858	729,187	1,234,564
Idaho	R	−22.4%	105,868	166,979	272,847
Illinois	R	−19.2%	1,775,682	2,623,327	4,407,407
Indiana	R	−20.2%	783,908	1,182,811	1,974,607
Kansas	R	−31.2%	296,317	566,878	866,243
Kentucky	R	−9.1%	476,453	572,192	1,053,805
Louisiana	R	−13.8%	243,977	329,047	617,544
Massachusetts	R	−18.9%	948,190	1,393,197	2,348,506
Maryland	R	−20.1%	372,613	559,738	932,351
Maine	R	−41.7%	102,468	249,238	351,706
Michigan	R	−11.5%	1,359,898	1,713,647	3,080,468
Minnesota	R	−7.6%	617,525	719,302	1,340,005
Missouri	D	+0.2%	918,273	914,289	1,832,562
Mississippi	D	+33.8%	144,453	60,685	248,104
Montana	R	−14.3%	116,238	154,933	271,171
North Carolina	D	+1.3%	590,530	575,062	1,165,592
North Dakota	R	−23.6%	96,742	156,766	253,991
Nebraska	R	−31.0%	199,029	378,108	577,137
New Hampshire	R	−32.3%	90,364	176,519	266,994
New Jersey	R	−30.5%	850,337	1,606,942	2,484,312
New Mexico	R	−16.0%	106,098	146,788	253,926
Nevada	R	−15.9%	40,640	56,049	96,689
New York	R	−22.4%	2,750,769	4,340,340	7,091,109
Ohio	R	−22.2%	1,439,655	2,262,610	3,702,265
Oklahoma	R	−10.3%	385,581	473,769	859,350
Oregon	R	−10.5%	329,204	406,393	735,597
Pennsylvania	R	−13.2%	1,981,769	2,585,252	4,576,503
Rhode Island	R	−16.5%	161,790	225,819	387,611
South Carolina	D	+20.2%	136,372	75,700	300,583
South Dakota	R	−16.8%	122,288	171,569	293,857
Tennessee	R	−0.6%	456,507	462,288	939,404
Texas	R	−11.3%	859,958	1,080,619	1,955,168
Utah	R	−29.1%	118,364	215,631	333,995
Virginia	R	−17.0%	266,571	384,820	695,069
Vermont	R	−44.3%	42,549	110,390	152,978
Washington	R	−8.5%	523,002	620,430	1,150,889
Wisconsin	R	−23.7%	586,768	954,844	1,550,558
West Virginia	R	−8.2%	381,534	449,297	830,831
Wyoming	R	−20.2%	49,554	74,573	124,127