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

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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.

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

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

County Dwight David Eisenhower
Republican[4][5] 		Adlai Stevenson II
Democratic[4][5] 		Thomas Coleman Andrews
States’ Rights 		Various candidates
Other parties 		Margin
% # % # % # % # % #
San Juan 68.17% 5,194 31.83% 2,425 0.00% 0 0.01% 1 36.34% 2,769
Sierra 65.16% 1,954 34.51% 1,035 0.33% 10 0.23% 7 30.64% 919
Lincoln 64.81% 1,956 35.09% 1,059 0.10% 3 0.07% 2 29.72% 897
Bernalillo 64.54% 41,893 35.36% 22,954 0.10% 68 0.35% 228 29.18% 18,939
Chaves 63.69% 7,538 36.08% 4,270 0.24% 28 0.51% 60 27.61% 3,268
Harding 61.96% 671 38.04% 412 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 23.92% 259
Socorro 61.57% 2,365 38.43% 1,476 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 23.15% 889
Union 60.85% 1,649 39.15% 1,061 0.00% 0 0.04% 1 21.70% 588
Otero 60.48% 3,919 39.48% 2,558 0.05% 3 0.05% 3 21.00% 1,361
Catron 59.85% 711 40.15% 477 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 19.70% 234
De Baca 59.47% 779 40.31% 528 0.23% 3 0.23% 3 19.16% 251
Doña Ana 58.70% 7,025 41.09% 4,918 0.21% 25 0.19% 23 17.61% 2,107
Mora 58.47% 1,736 41.53% 1,233 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 16.94% 503
Curry 57.50% 4,826 42.24% 3,545 0.26% 22 0.41% 34 15.26% 1,281
Santa Fe 57.09% 9,359 42.69% 6,997 0.22% 36 0.30% 49 14.41% 2,362
McKinley 57.18% 4,450 42.80% 3,331 0.03% 2 0.36% 28 14.38% 1,119
Valencia 56.80% 4,663 43.20% 3,547 0.00% 0 0.10% 8 13.59% 1,116
Torrance 56.57% 1,567 43.36% 1,201 0.07% 2 0.61% 17 13.21% 366
Guadalupe 56.19% 1,529 43.77% 1,191 0.04% 1 0.07% 2 12.42% 338
San Miguel 55.67% 5,083 43.96% 4,014 0.36% 33 0.42% 38 11.71% 1,069
Sandoval 55.67% 1,979 44.28% 1,574 0.06% 2 0.03% 1 11.39% 405
Colfax 54.71% 2,959 45.29% 2,450 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 9.41% 509
Roosevelt 54.63% 2,708 45.33% 2,247 0.04% 2 0.12% 6 9.30% 461
Quay 53.66% 2,311 46.16% 1,988 0.19% 8 0.26% 11 7.50% 323
Taos 53.05% 3,100 46.95% 2,743 0.00% 0 0.07% 4 6.11% 357
Los Alamos 52.04% 2,406 47.89% 2,214 0.06% 3 0.13% 6 4.15% 192
Rio Arriba 51.55% 4,566 48.44% 4,291 0.01% 1 0.02% 2 3.10% 275
Hidalgo 50.61% 790 49.39% 771 0.00% 0 0.19% 3 1.22% 19
Luna 50.05% 1,526 49.39% 1,506 0.56% 17 0.59% 18 0.66% 20
Lea 47.87% 5,661 51.92% 6,140 0.22% 26 0.44% 52 -4.05% -479
Eddy 45.91% 6,691 53.66% 7,820 0.43% 62 0.31% 45 -7.75% -1,129
Grant 43.85% 3,224 56.06% 4,122 0.10% 7 0.33% 24 -12.21% -898

Notes

  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

  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. ^ a b Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 308 ISBN 0405077114
  5. ^ a b "NM US President Race - Nov 06, 1956". Our Campaigns. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
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