However, his strong Catholic appeal meant that Eisenhower gained substantially in the heavily Irish mining counties of the west.[3] His 48.61% in Deer Lodge County is the best by a Republican there since Warren G. Harding in 1920, and as of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the only election since 1920 in which Silver Bow County voted for a Republican Presidential candidate.[4] In addition to that, this is the only election since 1924, as of 2020, in which neighboring Deer Lodge and Silver Bow counties voted for different candidates, the two normally being Democratic strongholds.
Results
1956 United States presidential election in Montana[5]
^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
^"The Presidents". David Leip. Retrieved September 27, 2017. Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
^Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 317, 436 ISBN978-0-691-16324-6
^Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 394
