1952 United States presidential election in New York
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The 1952 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 4, 1952. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1952 United States presidential election. Voters chose 45 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
New York was won by former Supreme Allied Commander and World War II hero, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was running against Democratic Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson. Eisenhower ran with California Senator Richard Nixon as Vice President, and Stevenson ran with Alabama Senator John Sparkman.
Eisenhower carried New York with 55.45% of the vote to Stevenson's 43.55%, a victory margin of 11.90%. New York weighed in for this election as 1% more Republican than the national average.[3] Eisenhower proved to be very popular in many of the Northern and Mid-West States, and took nearly every county in the State of New York, with the exception of a handful of counties conglomerate with New York City. The only counties in the state to vote for Stevenson were the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, allowing Stevenson to win New York City overall. Eisenhower ultimately won the election to the White House in 1952 as a war hero, a political outsider, and a moderate Republican who pledged to protect and support popular New Deal Democratic policies, ending twenty years of Democratic control of the White House.
Eisenhower won the election in New York (his home state in the election) by a decisive 12-point margin. National turnout for the presidential election of 1952 is evident of the contemporary, lingering Democratic stronghold in the Deep South, which was the only region to vote primarily for Stevenson. Eisenhower was the first presidential candidate in United States history (and largely, globally as well) who targeted a large portion of his campaign to women voters.[4] Dwindling popularity for the administration of Truman[5] during the months following the conflict in Korea, and coupled with the relatively progressive agenda and campaign strategy laid down by the Republican Party, contributed to Eisenhower's powerful rise across the country.
Results
[edit]1952 United States presidential election in New York | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 3,952,815 | 55.45% | 45 | |
Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 2,687,890 | 37.71% | ||
Liberal | Adlai Stevenson | 416,711 | 5.85% | ||
Total | Adlai Stevenson | 3,104,601 | 43.55% | 0 | |
American Labor[a] | Vincent Hallinan | 64,211 | 0.90% | 0 | |
Socialist | Darlington Hoopes | 2,664 | 0.04% | 0 | |
Socialist Workers | Farrell Dobbs | 2,212 | 0.03% | 0 | |
Socialist Labor | Eric Hass | 1,560 | 0.02% | 0 | |
Write-ins | 178 | <0.01% | 0 | ||
Totals | 7,128,241 | 100.0% | 45 |
New York City results
[edit]1952 Presidential Election in New York City | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | |||
Democratic- Liberal |
Adlai Stevenson | 446,727 | 392,477 | 656,229 | 331,217 | 28,280 | 1,854,930 | 54.37% | |
58.38% | 60.50% | 58.42% | 41.94% | 33.42% | |||||
Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 300,284 | 241,898 | 446,708 | 450,610 | 55,993 | 1,495,493 | 43.84% | |
39.24% | 37.29% | 39.77% | 57.06% | 66.18% | |||||
American Labor | Vincent Hallinan | 16,974 | 13,420 | 18,765 | 7,194 | 294 | 56,647 | 1.66% | |
2.22% | 2.07% | 1.67% | 0.91% | 0.35% | |||||
Socialist Workers | Farrell Dobbs | 531 | 348 | 572 | 288 | 6 | 1,745 | 0.05% | |
0.07% | 0.05% | 0.05% | 0.04% | 0.01% | |||||
Socialist | Darlington Hoopes | 441 | 366 | 662 | 175 | 16 | 1,660 | 0.05% | |
0.06% | 0.06% | 0.06% | 0.02% | 0.02% | |||||
Socialist Labor | Eric Hass | 200 | 225 | 307 | 133 | 16 | 881 | 0.02% | |
0.03% | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.02% | 0.02% | |||||
TOTAL | 765,155 | 648,753 | 1,123,249 | 789,682 | 84,606 | 3,411,445 | 100.00% |
Results by county
[edit]County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican |
Adlai Stevenson Democratic |
Vincent Hallinan American Labor[a] |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Albany | 79,871 | 52.28% | 72,633 | 47.54% | 266 | 0.18% | 7,238 | 4.74% | 152,770 | ||
Allegany | 16,365 | 80.54% | 3,943 | 19.41% | 10 | 0.05% | 12,422 | 61.13% | 20,318 | ||
Bronx | 241,898 | 37.34% | 392,477 | 60.59% | 13,420 | 2.07% | -150,579 | -23.25% | 647,795 | ||
Broome | 64,738 | 71.38% | 25,833 | 28.48% | 119 | 0.13% | 38,905 | 42.90% | 90,690 | ||
Cattaraugus | 24,808 | 68.58% | 11,333 | 31.33% | 34 | 0.09% | 13,509 | 37.25% | 36,175 | ||
Cayuga | 25,037 | 68.08% | 11,695 | 31.80% | 46 | 0.12% | 13,342 | 36.28% | 36,778 | ||
Chautauqua | 42,043 | 64.14% | 23,427 | 35.74% | 79 | 0.12% | 18,616 | 28.40% | 65,549 | ||
Chemung | 30,188 | 68.57% | 13,729 | 31.19% | 79 | 0.18% | 16,459 | 37.41% | 43,996 | ||
Chenango | 16,062 | 79.66% | 4,089 | 20.28% | 13 | 0.06% | 11,973 | 59.38% | 20,164 | ||
Clinton | 14,535 | 64.50% | 7,963 | 35.34% | 37 | 0.16% | 6,572 | 29.16% | 22,535 | ||
Columbia | 17,539 | 74.16% | 6,075 | 25.69% | 35 | 0.15% | 11,464 | 48.47% | 23,649 | ||
Cortland | 13,985 | 77.32% | 4,079 | 22.55% | 24 | 0.13% | 9,906 | 54.77% | 18,088 | ||
Delaware | 17,737 | 81.10% | 4,116 | 18.82% | 18 | 0.08% | 13,621 | 62.28% | 21,871 | ||
Dutchess | 46,381 | 71.17% | 18,644 | 28.61% | 142 | 0.22% | 27,737 | 42.56% | 65,167 | ||
Erie | 253,927 | 56.32% | 196,378 | 43.56% | 550 | 0.12% | 57,549 | 12.76% | 450,855 | ||
Essex | 12,800 | 75.53% | 4,130 | 24.37% | 16 | 0.10% | 8,670 | 51.16% | 16,946 | ||
Franklin | 12,212 | 64.89% | 6,591 | 35.02% | 17 | 0.09% | 5,621 | 29.87% | 18,820 | ||
Fulton | 18,068 | 70.31% | 7,570 | 29.46% | 58 | 0.23% | 10,498 | 40.85% | 25,696 | ||
Genesee | 16,606 | 70.85% | 6,819 | 29.10% | 12 | 0.05% | 9,787 | 41.75% | 23,437 | ||
Greene | 12,907 | 74.07% | 4,504 | 25.85% | 15 | 0.08% | 8,403 | 48.22% | 17,426 | ||
Hamilton | 2,615 | 82.65% | 546 | 17.26% | 3 | 0.09% | 2,069 | 65.39% | 3,164 | ||
Herkimer | 20,980 | 64.26% | 11,599 | 35.53% | 70 | 0.21% | 9,381 | 28.73% | 32,649 | ||
Jefferson | 27,932 | 69.88% | 12,026 | 30.09% | 13 | 0.03% | 15,906 | 39.79% | 39,971 | ||
Kings | 446,708 | 39.82% | 656,229 | 58.50% | 18,765 | 1.68% | -209,521 | -18.68% | 1,121,702 | ||
Lewis | 7,622 | 72.14% | 2,927 | 27.70% | 17 | 0.16% | 4,695 | 44.44% | 10,566 | ||
Livingston | 14,760 | 71.37% | 5,901 | 28.53% | 19 | 0.09% | 8,859 | 42.84% | 20,680 | ||
Madison | 17,715 | 76.73% | 5,353 | 23.19% | 19 | 0.08% | 12,362 | 53.54% | 23,087 | ||
Monroe | 159,172 | 58.89% | 110,723 | 40.97% | 370 | 0.14% | 48,449 | 17.92% | 270,265 | ||
Montgomery | 19,554 | 60.13% | 12,934 | 39.77% | 31 | 0.10% | 6,620 | 20.36% | 32,519 | ||
Nassau | 305,900 | 69.87% | 130,267 | 29.75% | 1,669 | 0.38% | 175,633 | 40.12% | 437,836 | ||
New York | 300,284 | 39.30% | 446,727 | 58.47% | 16,974 | 2.23% | -146,443 | -19.17% | 763,985 | ||
Niagara | 54,843 | 59.97% | 36,504 | 39.91% | 108 | 0.12% | 18,339 | 20.06% | 91,455 | ||
Oneida | 69,652 | 60.98% | 44,438 | 38.90% | 134 | 0.12% | 25,214 | 22.08% | 114,224 | ||
Onondaga | 119,268 | 64.96% | 64,022 | 34.87% | 302 | 0.17% | 55,246 | 30.09% | 183,592 | ||
Ontario | 21,659 | 71.15% | 8,763 | 28.79% | 18 | 0.06% | 12,896 | 42.36% | 30,440 | ||
Orange | 51,217 | 71.23% | 20,585 | 28.63% | 98 | 0.14% | 30,632 | 42.60% | 71,900 | ||
Orleans | 11,686 | 74.97% | 3,893 | 24.98% | 8 | 0.05% | 7,793 | 49.99% | 15,587 | ||
Oswego | 27,609 | 70.66% | 11,444 | 29.29% | 19 | 0.05% | 16,165 | 41.37% | 39,072 | ||
Otsego | 20,304 | 76.78% | 6,115 | 23.12% | 27 | 0.10% | 14,189 | 53.66% | 26,446 | ||
Putnam | 11,038 | 68.57% | 5,001 | 31.07% | 58 | 0.36% | 6,037 | 37.50% | 16,097 | ||
Queens | 450,610 | 57.11% | 331,217 | 41.98% | 7,194 | 0.91% | 119,393 | 15.13% | 789,021 | ||
Rensselaer | 51,453 | 66.57% | 25,734 | 33.29% | 109 | 0.14% | 25,719 | 33.28% | 77,296 | ||
Richmond | 55,993 | 66.21% | 28,280 | 33.44% | 294 | 0.35% | 27,713 | 32.77% | 84,567 | ||
Rockland | 27,657 | 64.39% | 15,084 | 35.12% | 212 | 0.49% | 12,573 | 29.27% | 42,953 | ||
Saratoga | 29,712 | 72.17% | 11,413 | 27.72% | 43 | 0.11% | 18,299 | 44.45% | 41,168 | ||
Schenectady | 54,272 | 66.48% | 27,157 | 33.27% | 208 | 0.25% | 27,115 | 33.21% | 81,637 | ||
Schoharie | 8,972 | 71.78% | 3,509 | 28.07% | 18 | 0.15% | 5,463 | 43.71% | 12,499 | ||
Schuyler | 5,604 | 75.68% | 1,784 | 24.09% | 17 | 0.23% | 3,820 | 51.59% | 7,405 | ||
Seneca | 9,669 | 69.01% | 4,328 | 30.89% | 15 | 0.10% | 5,341 | 38.12% | 14,012 | ||
St. Lawrence | 28,036 | 68.27% | 13,000 | 31.65% | 32 | 0.08% | 15,036 | 36.62% | 41,068 | ||
Steuben | 32,123 | 74.14% | 11,154 | 25.74% | 49 | 0.12% | 20,969 | 48.40% | 43,326 | ||
Suffolk | 115,570 | 74.58% | 39,120 | 25.25% | 262 | 0.17% | 76,450 | 49.33% | 154,952 | ||
Sullivan | 14,926 | 63.26% | 8,421 | 35.69% | 247 | 1.05% | 6,505 | 27.57% | 23,594 | ||
Tioga | 11,799 | 78.19% | 3,259 | 21.60% | 32 | 0.21% | 8,540 | 56.59% | 15,090 | ||
Tompkins | 18,673 | 74.66% | 6,285 | 25.13% | 54 | 0.21% | 12,388 | 49.53% | 25,012 | ||
Ulster | 36,141 | 69.44% | 15,733 | 30.23% | 171 | 0.33% | 20,408 | 39.21% | 52,045 | ||
Warren | 17,046 | 77.06% | 5,051 | 22.84% | 22 | 0.10% | 11,995 | 54.22% | 22,119 | ||
Washington | 17,551 | 73.80% | 6,210 | 26.11% | 22 | 0.09% | 11,341 | 47.69% | 23,783 | ||
Wayne | 21,693 | 76.53% | 6,621 | 23.36% | 33 | 0.11% | 15,072 | 53.17% | 28,347 | ||
Westchester | 237,105 | 67.38% | 113,358 | 32.21% | 1,454 | 0.41% | 123,747 | 35.17% | 351,917 | ||
Wyoming | 12,154 | 75.05% | 4,038 | 24.94% | 2 | 0.01% | 8,116 | 50.11% | 16,194 | ||
Yates | 7,831 | 81.07% | 1,820 | 18.84% | 9 | 0.09% | 6,011 | 62.23% | 9,660 | ||
Totals | 3,952,815 | 55.45% | 3,104,601 | 43.55% | 64,211 | 0.90% | 6,614[b] | 0.09% | 848,214 | 11.90% | 7,128,241 |
See also
[edit]- United States presidential elections in New York
- History of nuclear weapons
- "I Like Ike"
- Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The Korean War
- The McCarthy Era
- Women's Suffrage
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Although he ran under the “Progressive” label in other states, in New York Hallinan was endorsed by the American Labor Party and ran under that party’s banner.
- ^ Not all counties recorded votes for candidates other than Eisenhower, Stevenson and Hallinan separately, so votes for the remaining three on-ballot candidates and scattered write-in candidates have been listed only as a state-wide total.
References
[edit]- ^ Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072.
- ^ "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
- ^ "1952 Presidential General Election Results - New York". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
- ^ "1952: The Election of a Military Hero". The Press and the Presidency. Kennesaw State University, Department of Political Science & International Affairs. Archived from the original on April 20, 2009. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
- ^ Time: "The Corruption Issue: A Pandora's Box," September 24, 1956|accessdate=2013-05-17