Election in New Mexico
Main article: 1952 United States presidential election
1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Nominee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Party
Republican
Democratic
Home state
New York [1]
Illinois
Running mate
Richard Nixon
John Sparkman
Electoral vote
4
0
Popular vote
132,170
105,661
Percentage
55.4%
44.3%
County Results
Eisenhower
50-60%
60-70%
Stevenson
40-50%
50-60%
President before election
Harry S. Truman
Democratic
Elected President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
The 1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 4, 1952. All 48 States were part of the 1952 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 World War II hero and supreme allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower by a wide 11 percentage point margin. Running against Eisenhower was Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson , who carried only the majority of the American South during his two runs for the presidency.[2] This was the tenth consecutive U.S. Presidential Election which New Mexico participated in.
Results [ ]
Electoral results
Presidential candidate
Party
Home state
Popular vote
Electoral vote
Running mate
Count
Percentage
Vice-presidential candidate
Home state
Electoral vote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
New York
132,170
55.39%
4
Richard Nixon
California
4
Adlai Stevenson II
Democratic
Illinois
105,661
44.28%
0
John Sparkman
Alabama
0
Stuart Hamblen
Prohibition
Texas
297
0.12%
0
Enoch Holtwick
Illinois
0
Vincent Hallinan
Progressive
California
225
0.09%
0
Charlotta Bass
New York
0
Douglas MacArthur
Christian Nationalist
Arkansas
220
0.09%
0
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
0
Eric Hass
Socialist Labor
New York
35
0.01%
0
Stephen Emery
New York
0
Total
238,608
100%
4
4
Needed to win
266
266
Results by county [ ]
County
Dwight David Eisenhower Republican[3]
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic[3]
Various candidates Other parties
Margin
%
#
%
#
%
#
%
#
San Juan
69.73%
3,864
29.94%
1,659
0.32%
18
39.79%
2,205
Lincoln
64.52%
2,004
35.25%
1,095
0.23%
7
29.27%
909
Chaves
63.92%
7,018
35.34%
3,880
0.74%
81
28.58%
3,138
Sierra
63.61%
2,033
36.23%
1,158
0.16%
5
27.38%
875
Harding
63.49%
760
36.42%
436
0.08%
1
27.07%
324
Union
63.39%
1,988
36.42%
1,142
0.19%
6
26.98%
846
Catron
61.49%
741
38.51%
464
0.00%
0
22.99%
277
Curry
59.38%
5,023
40.45%
3,422
0.17%
14
18.93%
1,601
Bernalillo
59.38%
33,964
40.50%
23,164
0.13%
72
18.88%
10,800
De Baca
57.25%
782
42.53%
581
0.22%
3
14.71%
201
Santa Fe
56.62%
9,011
42.64%
6,786
0.75%
119
13.98%
2,225
Roosevelt
56.74%
3,030
43.03%
2,298
0.22%
12
13.71%
732
Mora
56.61%
1,849
43.26%
1,413
0.12%
4
13.35%
436
Doña Ana
56.33%
5,902
43.48%
4,556
0.19%
20
12.85%
1,346
Luna
55.86%
1,729
43.04%
1,332
1.10%
34
12.83%
397
Socorro
55.52%
2,224
44.36%
1,777
0.12%
5
11.16%
447
Torrance
54.99%
1,747
44.76%
1,422
0.25%
8
10.23%
325
San Miguel
54.59%
5,360
45.34%
4,451
0.07%
7
9.26%
909
Guadalupe
53.90%
1,575
46.10%
1,347
0.00%
0
7.80%
228
Valencia
53.47%
3,810
46.46%
3,310
0.07%
5
7.02%
500
Quay
53.00%
2,711
46.43%
2,375
0.57%
29
6.57%
336
Otero
53.16%
2,456
46.80%
2,162
0.04%
2
6.36%
294
Sandoval
52.06%
1,795
47.77%
1,647
0.17%
6
4.29%
148
Colfax
51.58%
3,397
48.34%
3,184
0.08%
5
3.23%
213
Hidalgo
50.58%
781
49.03%
757
0.39%
6
1.55%
24
McKinley
49.80%
3,091
49.90%
3,097
0.31%
19
-0.10%
-6
Los Alamos
49.30%
2,226
50.52%
2,281
0.18%
8
-1.22%
-55
Taos
48.94%
2,763
50.96%
2,877
0.11%
6
-2.02%
-114
Rio Arriba
48.69%
4,336
51.25%
4,564
0.06%
5
-2.56%
-228
Lea
47.52%
4,738
52.19%
5,204
0.29%
29
-4.67%
-466
Eddy
44.45%
6,041
55.15%
7,495
0.40%
55
-10.70%
-1,454
Grant
43.18%
3,421
54.47%
4,315
2.35%
186
-11.29%
-894
References [ ]
^ "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 Mexico" . Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-02-14 .
^ a b Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964 ; p. 308 ISBN 0405077114
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