Dwight D. Eisenhower carried Texas R+11.3.

Adlai Stevenson (D) vs Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) in Texas, 1956. The state ran 4.1 points more Democratic than the nation (R+15.4 nationally).

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

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Texas result

1,955,168 votes counted

Stevenson (D)

859,958

44.0%

Eisenhower (R)

1,080,619

55.3%

All others

14,591

0.7%

Margin

R+11.3

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1956 presidential election

Texas, 1956

EisenhowerR+11.3

How it voted

Share of the 1956 vote

Dwight D. Eisenhower ✓Republican	55.3%	1,080,619
Adlai StevensonDemocratic	44.0%	859,958
OtherAll other candidates	0.7%	14,591

D+60

R+60

254 counties, each filled by 1956 D-vs-R margin. Hover any county for its result.

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Texas's presidential margins

1912–2024, the 1956 contest in context

Texas's presidential margins

Year	Margin (D minus R)
1912	+63.2%
1916	+59.6%
1920	+36.6%
1924	+52.6%
1928	−3.9%
1932	+77.0%
1936	+74.8%
1940	+62.0%
1944	+54.8%
1948	+41.7%
1952	−6.4%
1956	−11.3%
1960	+2.0%
1964	+26.8%
1968	+1.3%
1972	−33.0%
1976	+3.2%
1980	−13.9%
1984	−27.5%
1988	−12.6%
1992	−3.5%
1996	−4.9%
2000	−21.3%
2004	−22.9%
2008	−11.8%
2012	−15.8%
2016	−9.0%
2020	−5.6%
2024	−13.7%

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County results — 1956

254 counties; every row links to the county's full page.

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County	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
Anderson County	R	−21.3%	2,710	4,181	6,914
Andrews County	R	−7.7%	968	1,131	2,113
Angelina County	R	−4.9%	4,781	5,274	10,096
Aransas County	R	−27.9%	425	757	1,189
Archer County	D	+12.7%	1,067	825	1,899
Armstrong County	D	+6.3%	422	372	798
Atascosa County	R	−9.4%	1,492	1,804	3,307
Austin County	R	−34.5%	1,215	2,501	3,726
Bailey County	D	+18.7%	1,274	871	2,151
Bandera County	R	−52.5%	336	1,083	1,424
Bastrop County	D	+24.1%	2,504	1,531	4,045
Baylor County	D	+18.8%	1,047	715	1,766
Bee County	R	−10.9%	1,929	2,401	4,345
Bell County	D	+38.2%	9,603	4,285	13,932
Bexar County	R	−16.9%	46,790	65,901	113,331
Blanco County	R	−12.8%	615	796	1,418
Borden County	D	+30.7%	240	127	368
Bosque County	D	+0.5%	1,670	1,654	3,331
Bowie County	D	+5.8%	7,675	6,823	14,602
Brazoria County	R	−14.2%	7,137	9,536	16,881
Brazos County	R	−17.5%	3,463	4,942	8,436
Brewster County	R	−27.0%	479	837	1,324
Briscoe County	D	+28.9%	648	357	1,008
Brooks County	D	+15.9%	1,108	802	1,920
Brown County	R	−6.8%	3,195	3,664	6,880
Burleson County	D	+19.0%	1,726	1,173	2,915
Burnet County	D	+10.0%	1,422	1,163	2,590
Caldwell County	D	+18.0%	2,513	1,747	4,265
Calhoun County	R	−28.2%	1,067	1,912	2,992
Callahan County	D	+2.5%	1,199	1,140	2,353
Cameron County	R	−14.9%	8,829	11,952	21,022
Camp County	D	+4.7%	1,053	958	2,029
Carson County	R	−4.2%	976	1,061	2,044
Cass County	R	−10.6%	2,395	2,970	5,409
Castro County	D	+30.3%	1,305	697	2,006
Chambers County	R	−27.6%	860	1,520	2,393
Cherokee County	R	−15.9%	2,912	4,022	6,961
Childress County	D	+8.5%	1,503	1,268	2,780
Clay County	D	+29.3%	1,813	990	2,808
Cochran County	D	+21.3%	923	599	1,523
Coke County	D	+11.3%	690	549	1,245
Coleman County	R	−17.4%	1,577	2,247	3,841
Collin County	D	+15.9%	5,280	3,823	9,137
Collingsworth County	D	+20.1%	1,229	815	2,055
Colorado County	R	−23.9%	1,648	2,691	4,367
Comal County	R	−49.5%	1,140	3,397	4,557
Comanche County	D	+1.6%	1,962	1,900	3,878
Concho County	R	−0.6%	567	574	1,142
Cooke County	R	−29.2%	2,272	4,164	6,473
Coryell County	D	+22.2%	2,372	1,509	3,883
Cottle County	D	+55.1%	1,138	329	1,469
Crane County	D	+6.0%	707	626	1,348
Crockett County	R	−39.3%	305	702	1,009
Crosby County	D	+43.8%	1,804	704	2,514
Culberson County	R	−9.2%	269	324	596
Dallam County	D	+2.7%	1,074	1,018	2,103
Dallas County	R	−31.1%	65,472	125,361	192,695
Dawson County	D	+11.8%	2,049	1,615	3,670
Deaf Smith County	R	−10.6%	1,361	1,685	3,055
Delta County	D	+35.0%	1,262	605	1,877
Denton County	R	−3.7%	4,972	5,350	10,346
DeWitt County	R	−40.5%	1,435	3,401	4,849
Dickens County	D	+37.5%	1,243	565	1,808
Dimmit County	R	−24.4%	427	705	1,139
Donley County	D	+4.4%	903	826	1,731
Duval County	D	+36.1%	3,110	1,459	4,575
Eastland County	R	−17.5%	2,512	3,580	6,108
Ector County	R	−26.2%	5,109	8,805	14,108
Edwards County	R	−59.8%	133	533	669
El Paso County	R	−10.0%	15,157	18,532	33,882
Ellis County	D	+18.4%	5,211	3,585	8,820
Erath County	R	−7.7%	2,377	2,775	5,171
Falls County	D	+19.0%	2,674	1,819	4,507
Fannin County	D	+40.4%	4,504	1,910	6,420
Fayette County	R	−21.9%	2,282	3,574	5,904
Fisher County	D	+42.3%	1,664	673	2,343
Floyd County	D	+10.0%	1,767	1,445	3,221
Foard County	D	+47.6%	687	243	932
Fort Bend County	R	−20.8%	2,464	3,779	6,316
Franklin County	D	+32.1%	1,082	556	1,641
Freestone County	D	+5.4%	1,813	1,627	3,455
Frio County	D	+3.5%	886	825	1,721
Gaines County	D	+10.2%	1,527	1,244	2,779
Galveston County	R	−5.9%	15,603	17,567	33,506
Garza County	D	+11.2%	786	628	1,415
Gillespie County	R	−85.4%	240	3,070	3,315
Glasscock County	R	−12.6%	174	224	398
Goliad County	R	−45.2%	338	902	1,247
Gonzales County	D	+12.2%	2,260	1,767	4,037
Gray County	R	−24.7%	3,034	5,047	8,153
Grayson County	D	+9.0%	8,876	7,402	16,330
Gregg County	R	−31.4%	4,881	9,440	14,519
Grimes County	R	−8.5%	1,079	1,281	2,374
Guadalupe County	R	−34.2%	2,099	4,296	6,425
Hale County	D	+0.6%	3,848	3,804	7,663
Hall County	D	+36.7%	1,487	687	2,179
Hamilton County	R	−20.6%	1,124	1,709	2,843
Hansford County	R	−25.5%	545	919	1,465
Hardeman County	D	+6.7%	1,281	1,119	2,409
Hardin County	D	+5.3%	2,371	2,130	4,520
Harris County	R	−24.2%	93,961	155,555	254,549
Harrison County	R	−30.5%	2,668	5,048	7,795
Hartley County	D	+11.8%	448	353	803
Haskell County	D	+40.3%	2,340	993	3,341
Hays County	D	+3.7%	2,017	1,873	3,904
Hemphill County	R	−21.4%	401	620	1,022
Henderson County	D	+10.5%	3,065	2,479	5,569
Hidalgo County	R	−14.9%	9,804	13,270	23,327
Hill County	D	+25.5%	4,199	2,487	6,707
Hockley County	D	+22.6%	3,175	2,001	5,186
Hood County	D	+18.6%	1,095	751	1,852
Hopkins County	D	+17.1%	3,118	2,206	5,347
Houston County	D	+1.4%	1,998	1,941	3,958
Howard County	D	+19.2%	4,506	3,051	7,571
Hudspeth County	D	+7.5%	368	316	692
Hunt County	R	−5.3%	4,051	4,508	8,592
Hutchinson County	R	−9.9%	4,184	5,110	9,336
Irion County	R	−17.1%	178	252	432
Jack County	R	−14.1%	997	1,327	2,347
Jackson County	R	−17.9%	1,571	2,259	3,852
Jasper County	R	−13.3%	1,856	2,430	4,308
Jeff Davis County	R	−18.2%	165	239	407
Jefferson County	R	−9.1%	25,057	30,102	55,429
Jim Hogg County	D	+37.0%	617	282	906
Jim Wells County	R	−9.7%	2,752	3,348	6,122
Johnson County	R	−2.6%	3,560	3,750	7,340
Jones County	D	+11.1%	2,594	2,073	4,677
Karnes County	R	−3.7%	1,636	1,764	3,417
Kaufman County	D	+1.5%	2,902	2,816	5,750
Kendall County	R	−62.9%	341	1,519	1,873
Kenedy County	R	−85.2%	10	125	135
Kent County	D	+37.7%	519	234	755
Kerr County	R	−55.1%	1,025	3,555	4,594
Kimble County	R	−25.8%	484	821	1,307
King County	D	+58.5%	177	46	224
Kinney County	R	−12.0%	289	368	660
Kleberg County	D	+6.9%	2,436	2,121	4,572
Knox County	D	+20.3%	1,262	835	2,100
La Salle County	D	+12.2%	574	449	1,024
Lamar County	D	+0.6%	4,202	4,154	8,381
Lamb County	D	+28.7%	3,325	1,840	5,177
Lampasas County	R	−7.1%	1,134	1,308	2,447
Lavaca County	R	−2.0%	2,412	2,509	4,941
Lee County	R	−6.1%	1,061	1,200	2,274
Leon County	D	+7.7%	1,260	1,079	2,346
Liberty County	R	−27.8%	2,318	4,129	6,503
Limestone County	D	+18.8%	3,067	2,097	5,171
Lipscomb County	R	−39.9%	345	806	1,154
Live Oak County	R	−33.9%	521	1,077	1,639
Llano County	D	+21.2%	1,034	672	1,709
Loving County	R	−20.9%	36	55	91
Lubbock County	R	−5.4%	12,540	13,970	26,576
Lynn County	D	+35.2%	1,800	861	2,667
Madison County	R	−1.4%	713	733	1,458
Marion County	R	−22.6%	709	1,126	1,848
Martin County	D	+47.7%	903	318	1,227
Mason County	R	−27.4%	504	885	1,390
Matagorda County	R	−34.2%	1,904	3,927	5,909
Maverick County	D	+6.3%	820	721	1,560
McCulloch County	R	−5.5%	1,158	1,292	2,455
McLennan County	D	+1.9%	16,181	15,561	31,853
McMullen County	R	−9.9%	185	226	413
Medina County	R	−27.4%	1,516	2,668	4,201
Menard County	R	−31.8%	318	614	932
Midland County	R	−40.7%	3,468	8,287	11,841
Milam County	D	+8.8%	2,969	2,486	5,466
Mills County	R	−10.7%	735	912	1,648
Mitchell County	D	+26.8%	1,891	1,091	2,982
Montague County	D	+8.1%	2,358	2,003	4,372
Montgomery County	R	−13.2%	2,572	3,360	5,974
Moore County	D	+9.9%	2,219	1,820	4,049
Morris County	D	+4.2%	1,592	1,463	3,075
Motley County	D	+10.8%	511	411	926
Nacogdoches County	R	−7.0%	2,855	3,285	6,165
Navarro County	D	+19.3%	4,723	3,193	7,931
Newton County	D	+0.3%	1,037	1,030	2,076
Nolan County	D	+6.3%	2,535	2,232	4,780
Nueces County	R	−0.2%	19,912	19,985	40,059
Ochiltree County	R	−40.1%	512	1,209	1,740
Oldham County	D	+1.7%	294	284	578
Orange County	D	+3.6%	5,910	5,501	11,462
Palo Pinto County	R	−8.6%	2,369	2,818	5,199
Panola County	R	−6.5%	2,225	2,538	4,836
Parker County	R	−3.4%	3,165	3,390	6,588
Parmer County	D	+13.9%	1,362	1,028	2,404
Pecos County	R	−20.9%	931	1,425	2,367
Polk County	R	−6.3%	1,465	1,663	3,144
Potter County	R	−15.6%	8,720	11,943	20,712
Presidio County	D	+2.3%	517	494	1,019
Rains County	D	+10.2%	524	427	952
Randall County	R	−24.8%	2,774	4,609	7,400
Reagan County	R	−27.0%	384	669	1,054
Real County	R	−29.4%	191	350	541
Red River County	D	+13.5%	2,567	1,956	4,534
Reeves County	R	−4.8%	1,356	1,492	2,856
Refugio County	R	−6.5%	1,188	1,355	2,552
Roberts County	R	−40.4%	118	279	399
Robertson County	D	+26.4%	2,212	1,285	3,508
Rockwall County	D	+16.6%	920	657	1,583
Runnels County	R	−25.2%	1,442	2,416	3,863
Rusk County	R	−20.5%	3,381	5,140	8,573
Sabine County	D	+6.5%	913	801	1,715
San Augustine County	D	+9.3%	1,086	900	1,997
San Jacinto County	D	+14.3%	755	565	1,329
San Patricio County	D	+6.0%	3,728	3,302	7,052
San Saba County	D	+28.0%	1,419	797	2,222
Schleicher County	R	−16.6%	336	471	811
Scurry County	D	+8.9%	2,691	2,250	4,949
Shackelford County	R	−20.9%	555	849	1,409
Shelby County	D	+26.0%	3,403	1,988	5,440
Sherman County	R	−11.3%	383	481	869
Smith County	R	−30.8%	6,468	12,255	18,792
Somervell County	R	−20.2%	309	467	781
Starr County	D	+66.6%	2,727	547	3,274
Stephens County	R	−23.8%	1,126	1,832	2,971
Sterling County	R	−19.6%	150	223	373
Stonewall County	D	+46.0%	829	306	1,138
Sutton County	R	−30.5%	290	546	838
Swisher County	D	+34.5%	1,802	876	2,684
Tarrant County	R	−20.2%	43,922	66,329	111,197
Taylor County	R	−13.8%	7,177	9,488	16,699
Terrell County	R	−23.4%	217	350	569
Terry County	D	+16.4%	2,050	1,473	3,526
Throckmorton County	D	+16.9%	656	466	1,127
Titus County	D	+7.7%	2,301	1,971	4,305
Tom Green County	R	−29.6%	4,923	9,070	14,033
Travis County	R	−8.2%	19,982	23,551	43,631
Trinity County	D	+11.5%	1,091	865	1,967
Tyler County	R	−36.9%	797	1,734	2,541
Upshur County	R	−15.6%	1,995	2,737	4,764
Upton County	R	−9.0%	834	999	1,840
Uvalde County	R	−42.0%	994	2,449	3,463
Val Verde County	R	−1.9%	1,598	1,660	3,267
Van Zandt County	D	+15.3%	2,919	2,142	5,070
Victoria County	R	−26.0%	3,280	5,596	8,904
Walker County	R	−21.2%	1,287	1,991	3,326
Waller County	R	−20.7%	929	1,426	2,397
Ward County	R	−3.9%	1,638	1,772	3,432
Washington County	R	−52.1%	933	2,975	3,923
Webb County	D	+35.9%	5,827	2,744	8,587
Wharton County	R	−15.5%	3,439	4,714	8,203
Wheeler County	D	+3.0%	1,252	1,178	2,443
Wichita County	D	+2.2%	12,726	12,181	24,948
Wilbarger County	D	+2.6%	2,347	2,230	4,587
Willacy County	R	−13.4%	1,261	1,656	2,948
Williamson County	D	+19.8%	4,402	2,947	7,367
Wilson County	D	+17.1%	2,149	1,519	3,678
Winkler County	R	−6.6%	1,287	1,471	2,777
Wise County	D	+8.5%	2,443	2,058	4,524
Wood County	R	−6.5%	2,199	2,508	4,722
Yoakum County	D	+3.4%	989	923	1,915
Young County	R	−1.3%	2,028	2,083	4,130
Zapata County	D	+16.3%	886	637	1,524
Zavala County	R	−25.8%	528	896	1,427