The 1956 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. Georgia voters chose 12[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Georgia was won by Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator Estes Kefauver, with 66.48% of the popular vote against incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Pennsylvania), running with Vice President Richard Nixon, with 32.65% of the popular vote.[4][5] Eisenhower also remains the most recent Republican president to win more than one term without carrying Georgia once. This was the last time until 2016 a Republican won the White House without carrying Cobb County. This was also the last time until 2016 that a losing Democrat would carry the suburban Atlanta Counties of Gwinnett, Douglas, Rockdale, and the aforementioned Cobb and the last time until 2020 that a Republican president would not carry these counties in either of their of elections.
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 441,094 | 66.48% | |
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower (inc.) | 216,652 | 32.65% | |
| Write-ins | — | 5,734 | 0.86% | |
| Total votes | 663,480 | 100% | ||
Results by county
edit| County[7] | Adlai Stevenson Democratic |
Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican |
Various candidates Write-ins |
Margin | Total votes cast[8] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Appling | 1,719 | 77.26% | 506 | 22.74% | 1,213 | 54.52% | 2,225 | ||
| Atkinson | 1,719 | 93.37% | 122 | 6.63% | 1,597 | 86.74% | 1,841 | ||
| Bacon | 2,445 | 86.12% | 394 | 13.88% | 2,051 | 72.24% | 2,839 | ||
| Baker | 783 | 96.07% | 32 | 3.93% | 751 | 92.14% | 815 | ||
| Baldwin | 2,275 | 67.81% | 1,080 | 32.19% | 1,195 | 35.62% | 3,355 | ||
| Banks | 989 | 84.10% | 187 | 15.90% | 802 | 68.20% | 1,176 | ||
| Barrow | 2,266 | 83.68% | 442 | 16.32% | 1,824 | 67.36% | 2,708 | ||
| Bartow | 3,640 | 70.32% | 1,536 | 29.68% | 2,104 | 40.64% | 5,176 | ||
| Ben Hill | 2,150 | 79.51% | 554 | 20.49% | 1,596 | 59.02% | 2,704 | ||
| Berrien | 2,398 | 93.56% | 165 | 6.44% | 2,233 | 87.12% | 2,563 | ||
| Bibb | 14,966 | 67.39% | 7,242 | 32.61% | 7,724 | 34.78% | 22,208 | ||
| Bleckley | 1,537 | 91.87% | 136 | 8.13% | 1,401 | 83.74% | 1,673 | ||
| Brantley | 1,208 | 84.12% | 228 | 15.88% | 980 | 68.24% | 1,436 | ||
| Brooks | 1,936 | 78.38% | 534 | 21.62% | 1,402 | 56.76% | 2,470 | ||
| Bryan | 1,242 | 78.96% | 331 | 21.04% | 911 | 57.92% | 1,573 | ||
| Bulloch | 3,414 | 79.12% | 901 | 20.88% | 2,513 | 58.24% | 4,315 | ||
| Burke | 1,300 | 64.32% | 721 | 35.68% | 579 | 28.64% | 2,021 | ||
| Butts | 1,885 | 85.37% | 323 | 14.63% | 1,562 | 70.74% | 2,208 | ||
| Calhoun | 1,094 | 91.09% | 107 | 8.91% | 987 | 82.18% | 1,201 | ||
| Camden | 1,178 | 53.74% | 1,014 | 46.26% | 164 | 7.48% | 2,192 | ||
| Candler | 996 | 76.39% | 308 | 23.61% | 688 | 52.78% | 1,304 | ||
| Carroll | 4,855 | 73.93% | 1,712 | 26.07% | 3,143 | 47.86% | 6,567 | ||
| Catoosa | 2,163 | 61.82% | 1,336 | 38.18% | 827 | 23.64% | 3,499 | ||
| Charlton | 750 | 78.62% | 204 | 21.38% | 546 | 57.24% | 954 | ||
| Chatham | 8,698 | 37.46% | 14,520 | 62.54% | -5,822 | -25.08% | 23,218 | ||
| Chattahoochee | 107 | 71.33% | 43 | 28.67% | 64 | 42.66% | 150 | ||
| Chattooga | 3,823 | 69.45% | 1,682 | 30.55% | 2,141 | 38.90% | 5,505 | ||
| Cherokee | 2,110 | 53.57% | 1,829 | 46.43% | 281 | 7.14% | 3,939 | ||
| Clarke | 4,257 | 66.89% | 2,107 | 33.11% | 2,150 | 33.78% | 6,364 | ||
| Clay | 390 | 79.11% | 103 | 20.89% | 287 | 58.22% | 493 | ||
| Clayton | 5,522 | 77.61% | 1,593 | 22.39% | 3,929 | 55.22% | 7,115 | ||
| Clinch | 1,577 | 75.27% | 518 | 24.73% | 1,059 | 50.54% | 2,095 | ||
| Cobb | 11,696 | 63.24% | 6,798 | 36.76% | 4,898 | 26.48% | 18,494 | ||
| Coffee | 3,199 | 84.79% | 574 | 15.21% | 2,625 | 69.58% | 3,773 | ||
| Colquitt | 4,412 | 76.76% | 1,336 | 23.24% | 3,076 | 53.52% | 5,748 | ||
| Columbia | 866 | 65.16% | 463 | 34.84% | 403 | 30.32% | 1,329 | ||
| Cook | 2,100 | 89.55% | 245 | 10.45% | 1,855 | 79.10% | 2,345 | ||
| Coweta | 3,003 | 77.94% | 850 | 22.06% | 2,153 | 55.88% | 3,853 | ||
| Crawford | 779 | 87.73% | 109 | 12.27% | 670 | 75.46% | 888 | ||
| Crisp | 2,526 | 75.16% | 835 | 24.84% | 1,691 | 50.32% | 3,361 | ||
| Dade | 863 | 54.41% | 723 | 45.59% | 140 | 8.82% | 1,586 | ||
| Dawson | 721 | 54.05% | 613 | 45.95% | 108 | 8.10% | 1,334 | ||
| Decatur | 3,699 | 77.69% | 1,062 | 22.31% | 2,637 | 55.38% | 4,761 | ||
| DeKalb | 29,915 | 65.56% | 15,718 | 34.44% | 14,197 | 31.12% | 46,633 | ||
| Dodge | 3,479 | 82.50% | 738 | 17.50% | 2,741 | 65.00% | 4,217 | ||
| Dooly | 1,851 | 91.41% | 174 | 8.59% | 1,677 | 82.82% | 2,025 | ||
| Dougherty | 4,126 | 55.95% | 3,248 | 44.05% | 878 | 11.90% | 7,374 | ||
| Douglas | 2,111 | 67.83% | 1,001 | 32.17% | 1,110 | 35.66% | 3,112 | ||
| Early | 1,818 | 90.40% | 193 | 9.60% | 1,625 | 80.80% | 2,011 | ||
| Echols | 528 | 79.76% | 134 | 20.24% | 394 | 59.52% | 662 | ||
| Effingham | 611 | 48.96% | 637 | 51.04% | -26 | -2.08% | 1,248 | ||
| Elbert | 3,635 | 89.05% | 447 | 10.95% | 3,188 | 78.10% | 4,082 | ||
| Emanuel | 2,373 | 77.78% | 678 | 22.22% | 1,695 | 55.56% | 3,051 | ||
| Evans | 1,152 | 76.39% | 356 | 23.61% | 796 | 52.78% | 1,508 | ||
| Fannin | 1,945 | 35.58% | 3,521 | 64.42% | -1,576 | -28.84% | 5,466 | ||
| Fayette | 1,308 | 90.46% | 138 | 9.54% | 1,170 | 80.92% | 1,446 | ||
| Floyd | 6,633 | 52.69% | 5,955 | 47.31% | 678 | 5.38% | 12,588 | ||
| Forsyth | 1,998 | 63.85% | 1,131 | 36.15% | 867 | 27.70% | 3,129 | ||
| Franklin | 2,968 | 92.15% | 253 | 7.85% | 2,715 | 84.30% | 3,221 | ||
| Fulton | 51,098 | 57.79% | 37,326 | 42.21% | 13,772 | 15.58% | 88,424 | ||
| Gilmer | 1,275 | 40.71% | 1,857 | 59.29% | -582 | -18.58% | 3,132 | ||
| Glascock | 314 | 74.06% | 110 | 25.94% | 204 | 48.12% | 424 | ||
| Glynn | 3,071 | 49.78% | 3,098 | 50.22% | -27 | -0.44% | 6,169 | ||
| Gordon | 1,970 | 65.80% | 1,024 | 34.20% | 946 | 31.60% | 2,994 | ||
| Grady | 2,697 | 84.47% | 496 | 15.53% | 2,201 | 68.94% | 3,193 | ||
| Greene | 2,012 | 78.81% | 541 | 21.19% | 1,471 | 57.62% | 2,553 | ||
| Gwinnett | 5,687 | 79.76% | 1,443 | 20.24% | 4,244 | 59.52% | 7,130 | ||
| Habersham | 2,276 | 72.69% | 855 | 27.31% | 1,421 | 45.38% | 3,131 | ||
| Hall | 5,989 | 68.52% | 2,752 | 31.48% | 3,237 | 37.04% | 8,741 | ||
| Hancock | 860 | 70.84% | 354 | 29.16% | 506 | 41.68% | 1,214 | ||
| Haralson | 2,472 | 52.71% | 2,218 | 47.29% | 254 | 5.42% | 4,690 | ||
| Harris | 1,327 | 70.21% | 563 | 29.79% | 764 | 40.42% | 1,890 | ||
| Hart | 1,139 | 91.41% | 107 | 8.59% | 1,032 | 82.82% | 1,246 | ||
| Heard | 1,106 | 85.08% | 194 | 14.92% | 912 | 70.16% | 1,300 | ||
| Henry | 2,636 | 75.66% | 848 | 24.34% | 1,788 | 51.32% | 3,484 | ||
| Houston | 4,483 | 80.88% | 1,060 | 19.12% | 3,423 | 61.76% | 5,543 | ||
| Irwin | 1,554 | 83.28% | 312 | 16.72% | 1,242 | 66.56% | 1,866 | ||
| Jackson | 3,100 | 87.62% | 438 | 12.38% | 2,662 | 75.24% | 3,538 | ||
| Jasper | 962 | 76.96% | 288 | 23.04% | 674 | 53.92% | 1,250 | ||
| Jeff Davis | 1,656 | 87.02% | 247 | 12.98% | 1,409 | 74.04% | 1,903 | ||
| Jefferson | 1,351 | 72.52% | 512 | 27.48% | 839 | 45.04% | 1,863 | ||
| Jenkins | 1,000 | 79.30% | 261 | 20.70% | 739 | 58.60% | 1,261 | ||
| Johnson | 1,607 | 89.98% | 179 | 10.02% | 1,428 | 79.96% | 1,786 | ||
| Jones | 1,208 | 75.97% | 382 | 24.03% | 826 | 51.94% | 1,590 | ||
| Lamar | 1,531 | 73.39% | 555 | 26.61% | 976 | 46.78% | 2,086 | ||
| Lanier | 890 | 85.41% | 152 | 14.59% | 738 | 70.82% | 1,042 | ||
| Laurens | 5,085 | 81.05% | 1,189 | 18.95% | 3,896 | 62.10% | 6,274 | ||
| Lee | 532 | 87.07% | 79 | 12.93% | 453 | 74.14% | 611 | ||
| Liberty | 892 | 47.98% | 967 | 52.02% | -75 | -4.04% | 1,859 | ||
| Lincoln | 696 | 81.79% | 155 | 18.21% | 541 | 63.58% | 851 | ||
| Long | 1,195 | 80.96% | 281 | 19.04% | 914 | 61.92% | 1,476 | ||
| Lowndes | 3,936 | 64.83% | 2,135 | 35.17% | 1,801 | 29.66% | 6,071 | ||
| Lumpkin | 693 | 58.78% | 486 | 41.22% | 207 | 17.56% | 1,179 | ||
| McDuffie | 1,039 | 61.55% | 649 | 38.45% | 390 | 23.10% | 1,688 | ||
| McIntosh | 624 | 41.32% | 886 | 58.68% | -262 | -17.36% | 1,510 | ||
| Macon | 1,984 | 84.53% | 363 | 15.47% | 1,621 | 69.06% | 2,347 | ||
| Madison | 2,222 | 93.24% | 161 | 6.76% | 2,061 | 86.48% | 2,383 | ||
| Marion | 618 | 79.64% | 158 | 20.36% | 460 | 59.28% | 776 | ||
| Meriwether | 3,137 | 84.12% | 592 | 15.88% | 2,545 | 68.24% | 3,729 | ||
| Miller | 1,563 | 77.99% | 441 | 22.01% | 1,122 | 55.98% | 2,004 | ||
| Mitchell | 2,735 | 87.74% | 382 | 12.26% | 2,353 | 75.48% | 3,117 | ||
| Monroe | 1,545 | 75.33% | 506 | 24.67% | 1,039 | 50.66% | 2,051 | ||
| Montgomery | 1,052 | 79.52% | 271 | 20.48% | 781 | 59.04% | 1,323 | ||
| Morgan | 1,492 | 85.85% | 246 | 14.15% | 1,246 | 71.70% | 1,738 | ||
| Murray | 1,819 | 61.39% | 1,144 | 38.61% | 675 | 22.78% | 2,963 | ||
| Muscogee | 8,160 | 49.95% | 8,176 | 50.05% | -16 | -0.10% | 16,336 | ||
| Newton | 3,232 | 85.87% | 532 | 14.13% | 2,700 | 71.74% | 3,764 | ||
| Oconee | 1,156 | 78.64% | 314 | 21.36% | 842 | 57.28% | 1,470 | ||
| Oglethorpe | 1,404 | 89.37% | 167 | 10.63% | 1,237 | 78.74% | 1,571 | ||
| Paulding | 1,599 | 62.98% | 940 | 37.02% | 659 | 25.96% | 2,539 | ||
| Peach | 1,541 | 76.97% | 461 | 23.03% | 1,080 | 53.94% | 2,002 | ||
| Pickens | 1,236 | 34.55% | 2,341 | 65.45% | -1,105 | -30.90% | 3,577 | ||
| Pierce | 1,766 | 85.56% | 298 | 14.44% | 1,468 | 71.12% | 2,064 | ||
| Pike | 1,067 | 83.56% | 210 | 16.44% | 857 | 67.12% | 1,277 | ||
| Polk | 4,502 | 68.21% | 2,098 | 31.79% | 2,404 | 36.42% | 6,600 | ||
| Pulaski | 1,422 | 89.27% | 171 | 10.73% | 1,251 | 78.54% | 1,593 | ||
| Putnam | 1,093 | 80.31% | 268 | 19.69% | 825 | 60.62% | 1,361 | ||
| Quitman | 355 | 91.97% | 31 | 8.03% | 324 | 83.94% | 386 | ||
| Rabun | 1,391 | 77.11% | 413 | 22.89% | 978 | 54.22% | 1,804 | ||
| Randolph | 1,582 | 74.31% | 547 | 25.69% | 1,035 | 48.62% | 2,129 | ||
| Richmond | 6,819 | 39.95% | 10,251 | 60.05% | -3,432 | -20.10% | 17,070 | ||
| Rockdale | 1,779 | 78.61% | 484 | 21.39% | 1,295 | 57.22% | 2,263 | ||
| Schley | 441 | 79.03% | 117 | 20.97% | 324 | 58.06% | 558 | ||
| Screven | 1,332 | 71.88% | 521 | 28.12% | 811 | 43.76% | 1,853 | ||
| Seminole | 1,343 | 91.24% | 129 | 8.76% | 1,214 | 82.48% | 1,472 | ||
| Spalding | 4,853 | 76.90% | 1,458 | 23.10% | 3,395 | 53.80% | 6,311 | ||
| Stephens | 2,595 | 79.14% | 684 | 20.86% | 1,911 | 58.28% | 3,279 | ||
| Stewart | 692 | 74.65% | 235 | 25.35% | 457 | 49.30% | 927 | ||
| Sumter | 2,149 | 74.64% | 730 | 25.36% | 1,419 | 49.28% | 2,879 | ||
| Talbot | 710 | 83.92% | 136 | 16.08% | 574 | 67.84% | 846 | ||
| Taliaferro | 599 | 78.92% | 160 | 21.08% | 439 | 57.84% | 759 | ||
| Tattnall | 1,881 | 81.04% | 440 | 18.96% | 1,441 | 62.08% | 2,321 | ||
| Taylor | 1,359 | 83.12% | 276 | 16.88% | 1,083 | 66.24% | 1,635 | ||
| Telfair | 2,075 | 87.96% | 284 | 12.04% | 1,791 | 75.92% | 2,359 | ||
| Terrell | 1,300 | 86.49% | 203 | 13.51% | 1,097 | 72.98% | 1,503 | ||
| Thomas | 3,522 | 61.12% | 2,240 | 38.88% | 1,282 | 22.24% | 5,762 | ||
| Tift | 3,123 | 76.49% | 960 | 23.51% | 2,163 | 52.98% | 4,083 | ||
| Toombs | 2,397 | 80.93% | 565 | 19.07% | 1,832 | 61.86% | 2,962 | ||
| Towns | 885 | 44.67% | 1,096 | 55.33% | -211 | -10.66% | 1,981 | ||
| Treutlen | 960 | 89.14% | 117 | 10.86% | 843 | 78.28% | 1,077 | ||
| Troup | 6,162 | 73.57% | 2,214 | 26.43% | 3,948 | 47.14% | 8,376 | ||
| Turner | 1,398 | 79.79% | 354 | 20.21% | 1,044 | 59.58% | 1,752 | ||
| Twiggs | 1,002 | 85.64% | 168 | 14.36% | 834 | 71.28% | 1,170 | ||
| Union | 1,386 | 50.47% | 1,360 | 49.53% | 26 | 0.94% | 2,746 | ||
| Upson | 3,422 | 82.78% | 712 | 17.22% | 2,710 | 65.56% | 4,134 | ||
| Walker | 3,693 | 51.19% | 3,522 | 48.81% | 171 | 2.38% | 7,215 | ||
| Walton | 3,271 | 87.44% | 470 | 12.56% | 2,801 | 74.88% | 3,741 | ||
| Ware | 5,888 | 72.12% | 2,276 | 27.88% | 3,612 | 44.24% | 8,164 | ||
| Warren | 674 | 81.60% | 152 | 18.40% | 522 | 63.20% | 826 | ||
| Washington | 2,530 | 80.78% | 602 | 19.22% | 1,928 | 61.56% | 3,132 | ||
| Wayne | 2,084 | 68.69% | 950 | 31.31% | 1,134 | 37.38% | 3,034 | ||
| Webster | 295 | 85.26% | 51 | 14.74% | 244 | 70.52% | 346 | ||
| Wheeler | 992 | 86.94% | 149 | 13.06% | 843 | 73.88% | 1,141 | ||
| White | 1,099 | 70.09% | 469 | 29.91% | 630 | 40.18% | 1,568 | ||
| Whitfield | 4,264 | 50.35% | 4,205 | 49.65% | 59 | 0.70% | 8,469 | ||
| Wilcox | 1,686 | 87.90% | 232 | 12.10% | 1,454 | 75.80% | 1,918 | ||
| Wilkes | 1,714 | 84.94% | 304 | 15.06% | 1,410 | 69.88% | 2,018 | ||
| Wilkinson | 1,299 | 76.77% | 393 | 23.23% | 906 | 53.54% | 1,692 | ||
| Worth | 2,078 | 87.64% | 293 | 12.36% | 1,785 | 75.28% | 2,371 | ||
| Totals | 441,094 | 66.48% | 216,652 | 32.65% | 5,734[b] | 0.86% | 224,442 | 33.83% | 663,480 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
editNotes
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ These write-in votes were listed only as a statewide total and not separated by county.
References
edit- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1956 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved June 10, 2017.
- ^ "The Presidents". David Leip. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
- ^ "1956 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65)". Retrieved June 10, 2017.
- ^ "1956 Presidential General Election Results - Georgia". Retrieved June 10, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1956". Retrieved June 10, 2017.
- ^ Georgia's Official Register, 1951-1952 (PDF). Atlanta, Georgia. pp. 786–789.
- ^ Fortson, Ben W. (1956). Official state of Georgia tabulation by counties for Presidential Electors, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representatives, state officers and constitutional amendments, General Election November 6, 1956 (PDF) (Report). Georgia Secretary of State. Retrieved August 12, 2024 – via Digital Library of Georgia.
- ^ Our Campaigns; GA US President Race, November 06, 1956