1952 United States presidential election in Indiana
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All 13 Indiana votes to the Electoral College
 
Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York[2] Illinois
Running mate Richard Nixon John Sparkman
Electoral vote 13 0
Popular vote 1,136,259 801,530
Percentage 58.11% 40.99%
County Results
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Elected President

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

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The 1952 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[3]

Indiana was won by Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–New York), running with Senator Richard Nixon, with 58.11% of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator John Sparkman, with 40.99% of the popular vote. Eisenhower was the first Republican presidential candidate ever to carry German Catholic Brown County and Dubois County,[4] which alongside his triumph in Illinois’ Union County[5] meant that every antebellum free state county had as of 1952 voted for a Republican presidential candidate at least once.[a] This is also the last election until 2020 that Vigo County voted for the losing candidate.

Results

1952 United States presidential election in Indiana[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower 1,136,259 58.11%
Democratic Adlai Stevenson 801,530 40.99%
Prohibition Stuart Hamblen 15,335 0.78%
Progressive Vincent Hallinan 1,222 0.16%
Socialist Labor Eric Hass 979 0.05%
Total votes 1,955,325 100%

Results by county

County Dwight David Eisenhower
Republican 		Adlai Ewing Stevenson II
Democratic 		Various candidates
Other parties 		Margin Total votes cast[6]
# % # % # % # %
Adams 6,204 59.61% 3,744 35.97% 460 4.42% 2,460 23.64% 10,408
Allen 54,877 66.16% 27,506 33.16% 558 0.67% 27,371 33.00% 82,941
Bartholomew 11,462 58.77% 7,844 40.22% 196 1.01% 3,618 18.55% 19,502
Benton 4,125 69.25% 1,815 30.47% 17 0.29% 2,310 38.78% 5,957
Blackford 3,759 53.20% 3,144 44.49% 163 2.31% 615 8.70% 7,066
Boone 8,619 63.04% 4,986 36.47% 68 0.50% 3,633 26.57% 13,673
Brown 1,517 51.18% 1,414 47.71% 33 1.11% 103 3.48% 2,964
Carroll 5,902 64.31% 3,208 34.95% 68 0.74% 2,694 29.35% 9,178
Cass 12,296 60.32% 7,982 39.16% 107 0.52% 4,314 21.16% 20,385
Clark 11,190 48.60% 11,703 50.83% 132 0.57% -513 -2.23% 23,025
Clay 7,118 53.31% 6,078 45.52% 155 1.16% 1,040 7.79% 13,351
Clinton 10,057 60.14% 6,469 38.68% 198 1.18% 3,588 21.45% 16,724
Crawford 2,750 51.85% 2,457 46.32% 97 1.83% 293 5.52% 5,304
Daviess 8,328 60.89% 5,247 38.37% 101 0.74% 3,081 22.53% 13,676
Dearborn 7,091 54.82% 5,810 44.92% 33 0.26% 1,281 9.90% 12,934
Decatur 6,490 65.15% 3,393 34.06% 78 0.78% 3,097 31.09% 9,961
De Kalb 8,713 64.66% 4,347 32.26% 416 3.09% 4,366 32.40% 13,476
Delaware 24,272 55.68% 18,733 42.98% 585 1.34% 5,539 12.71% 43,590
Dubois 6,538 53.47% 5,658 46.27% 31 0.25% 880 7.20% 12,227
Elkhart 25,277 66.33% 12,002 31.49% 829 2.18% 13,275 34.84% 38,108
Fayette 7,000 57.05% 5,178 42.20% 92 0.75% 1,822 14.85% 12,270
Floyd 11,608 52.43% 10,368 46.83% 163 0.74% 1,240 5.60% 22,139
Fountain 6,208 61.35% 3,871 38.25% 40 0.40% 2,337 23.10% 10,119
Franklin 4,630 64.04% 2,548 35.24% 52 0.72% 2,082 28.80% 7,230
Fulton 6,247 68.09% 2,799 30.51% 129 1.41% 3,448 37.58% 9,175
Gibson 9,171 53.99% 7,617 44.84% 198 1.17% 1,554 9.15% 16,986
Grant 16,678 59.73% 10,646 38.13% 599 2.15% 6,032 21.60% 27,923
Greene 8,620 53.25% 7,417 45.82% 152 0.94% 1,203 7.43% 16,189
Hamilton 10,843 69.69% 4,564 29.33% 153 0.98% 6,279 40.35% 15,560
Hancock 6,964 59.94% 4,539 39.07% 116 1.00% 2,425 20.87% 11,619
Harrison 5,069 53.62% 4,213 44.56% 172 1.82% 856 9.05% 9,454
Hendricks 9,712 66.58% 4,793 32.86% 81 0.56% 4,919 33.72% 14,586
Henry 14,184 61.99% 8,378 36.61% 320 1.40% 5,806 25.37% 22,882
Howard 15,212 53.34% 12,938 45.37% 367 1.29% 2,274 7.97% 28,517
Huntington 10,508 61.98% 6,114 36.06% 331 1.95% 4,394 25.92% 16,953
Jackson 8,067 55.14% 6,460 44.16% 103 0.70% 1,607 10.98% 14,630
Jasper 5,556 72.23% 2,102 27.33% 34 0.44% 3,454 44.90% 7,692
Jay 7,270 58.96% 4,764 38.63% 297 2.41% 2,506 20.32% 12,331
Jefferson 6,169 58.90% 4,251 40.59% 53 0.51% 1,918 18.31% 10,473
Jennings 4,460 61.21% 2,777 38.11% 49 0.67% 1,683 23.10% 7,286
Johnson 9,119 60.46% 5,909 39.18% 54 0.36% 3,210 21.28% 15,082
Knox 12,786 57.30% 9,384 42.05% 146 0.65% 3,402 15.24% 22,316
Kosciusko 11,521 68.95% 4,677 27.99% 512 3.06% 6,844 40.96% 16,710
Lagrange 3,822 68.80% 1,604 28.87% 129 2.32% 2,218 39.93% 5,555
Lake 74,073 44.66% 90,721 54.70% 1,051 0.63% -16,648 -10.04% 165,845
La Porte 22,576 59.83% 15,011 39.78% 146 0.39% 7,565 20.05% 37,733
Lawrence 11,296 64.64% 6,044 34.59% 135 0.77% 5,252 30.05% 17,475
Madison 28,730 52.84% 25,125 46.21% 519 0.95% 3,605 6.63% 54,374
Marion 164,466 60.48% 106,387 39.12% 1,086 0.40% 58,079 21.36% 271,939
Marshall 9,990 63.12% 5,538 34.99% 300 1.90% 4,452 28.13% 15,828
Martin 2,757 51.71% 2,546 47.75% 29 0.54% 211 3.96% 5,332
Miami 9,254 58.97% 6,264 39.91% 176 1.12% 2,990 19.05% 15,694
Monroe 12,072 60.59% 7,745 38.87% 108 0.54% 4,327 21.72% 19,925
Montgomery 10,569 65.89% 5,386 33.58% 86 0.54% 5,183 32.31% 16,041
Morgan 8,222 62.90% 4,755 36.38% 95 0.73% 3,467 26.52% 13,072
Newton 4,159 74.79% 1,373 24.69% 29 0.52% 2,786 50.10% 5,561
Noble 8,203 65.39% 4,151 33.09% 190 1.51% 4,052 32.30% 12,544
Ohio 1,219 51.92% 1,119 47.66% 10 0.43% 100 4.26% 2,348
Orange 5,551 62.38% 3,272 36.77% 75 0.84% 2,279 25.61% 8,898
Owen 3,713 58.37% 2,577 40.51% 71 1.12% 1,136 17.86% 6,361
Parke 5,069 58.33% 3,574 41.13% 47 0.54% 1,495 17.20% 8,690
Perry 4,816 54.53% 4,001 45.30% 15 0.17% 815 9.23% 8,832
Pike 4,253 54.26% 3,478 44.37% 107 1.37% 775 9.89% 7,838
Porter 13,194 68.75% 5,909 30.79% 87 0.45% 7,285 37.96% 19,190
Posey 5,293 57.61% 3,835 41.74% 59 0.64% 1,458 15.87% 9,187
Pulaski 4,030 63.10% 2,244 35.13% 113 1.77% 1,786 27.96% 6,387
Putnam 6,632 59.65% 4,446 39.99% 40 0.36% 2,186 19.66% 11,118
Randolph 9,150 65.42% 4,461 31.90% 375 2.68% 4,689 33.53% 13,986
Ripley 6,650 62.00% 4,031 37.59% 44 0.41% 2,619 24.42% 10,725
Rush 6,918 66.82% 3,348 32.34% 87 0.84% 3,570 34.48% 10,353
St. Joseph 53,537 49.49% 53,269 49.74% 826 0.77% 268 0.25% 107,632
Scott 2,984 50.08% 2,931 49.19% 44 0.74% 53 0.89% 5,959
Shelby 8,961 57.18% 6,552 41.81% 158 1.01% 2,409 15.37% 15,671
Spencer 5,497 61.48% 3,401 38.04% 43 0.48% 2,096 23.44% 8,941
Starke 4,871 59.43% 3,274 39.95% 51 0.62% 1,597 19.49% 8,196
Steuben 5,322 73.02% 1,886 25.88% 80 1.10% 3,436 47.15% 7,288
Sullivan 5,929 45.65% 6,964 53.62% 95 0.73% -1,035 -7.97% 12,988
Switzerland 2,070 48.42% 2,167 50.69% 38 0.89% -97 -2.27% 4,275
Tippecanoe 23,447 70.53% 9,678 29.11% 121 0.36% 13,769 41.42% 33,246
Tipton 5,299 60.59% 3,362 38.44% 84 0.96% 1,937 22.15% 8,745
Union 2,159 67.24% 1,029 32.05% 23 0.72% 1,130 35.19% 3,211
Vanderburgh 42,010 58.20% 29,718 41.17% 459 0.64% 12,292 17.03% 72,187
Vermillion 5,283 47.84% 5,708 51.69% 52 0.47% -425 -3.85% 11,043
Vigo 25,806 49.74% 25,841 49.81% 231 0.45% -35 -0.07% 51,878
Wabash 9,980 67.94% 4,395 29.92% 315 2.14% 5,585 38.02% 14,690
Warren 3,191 70.16% 1,332 29.29% 25 0.55% 1,859 40.88% 4,548
Warrick 6,064 56.35% 4,639 43.11% 59 0.55% 1,425 13.24% 10,762
Washington 4,849 55.45% 3,844 43.96% 52 0.59% 1,005 11.49% 8,745
Wayne 20,068 62.36% 11,819 36.73% 293 0.91% 8,249 25.63% 32,180
Wells 5,380 55.85% 3,963 41.14% 290 3.01% 1,417 14.71% 9,633
White 6,795 67.60% 3,211 31.94% 46 0.46% 3,584 35.65% 10,052
Whitley 5,893 60.28% 3,755 38.41% 128 1.31% 2,138 21.87% 9,776
Totals 1,136,259 58.12% 801,530 41.00% 17,260 0.88% 334,729 17.12% 1,955,049

See also

Notes

  1. ^ These three counties, and Wells County which flipped Republican in 1944, were the only antebellum free state counties to vote Democratic in all three landslide losses in 1920 (only 41 counties outside antebellum slave states voted for James M. Cox), 1924 and 1928.

References

  1. ^ "United States Presidential election of 1952 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  2. ^ "U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013. Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination
  3. ^ a b "1952 Presidential Election Results Indiana".
  4. ^ Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 187-192 ISBN 0786422173
  5. ^ Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, pp. 180-187
  6. ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 145-146 ISBN 0405077114
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