1956 United States presidential election in Georgia
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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.
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]
Results[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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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[]
County | Adlai Stevenson II Democratic |
Dwight David Eisenhower Republican |
Various candidates Write-ins |
Margin | Total votes cast[6] | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Appling | 1,719 | 72.56% | 506 | 21.36% | 144 | 6.08% | 1,213 | 51.20% | 2,369 |
Atkinson | 1,719 | 93.37% | 122 | 6.63% | 1,597 | 86.75% | 1,841 | ||
Bacon | 2,445 | 86.12% | 394 | 13.88% | 2,051 | 72.24% | 2,839 | ||
Baker | 783 | 96.07% | 32 | 3.93% | 751 | 92.15% | 815 | ||
Baldwin | 2,275 | 67.69% | 1,080 | 32.13% | 6 | 0.18% | 1,195 | 35.55% | 3,361 |
Banks | 990 | 83.97% | 187 | 15.86% | 2 | 0.17% | 803 | 68.11% | 1,179 |
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 | 40.65% | 5,176 | ||
Ben Hill | 2,150 | 79.39% | 554 | 20.46% | 4 | 0.15% | 1,596 | 58.94% | 2,708 |
Berrien | 2,403 | 93.47% | 167 | 6.50% | 1 | 0.04% | 2,236 | 86.97% | 2,571 |
Bibb | 15,382 | 67.61% | 7,368 | 32.39% | 8,014 | 35.23% | 22,750 | ||
Bleckley | 1,537 | 91.87% | 136 | 8.13% | 1,401 | 83.74% | 1,673 | ||
Brantley | 1,208 | 84.12% | 228 | 15.88% | 980 | 68.25% | 1,436 | ||
Brooks | 1,936 | 77.84% | 534 | 21.47% | 17 | 0.68% | 1,402 | 56.37% | 2,487 |
Bryan | 1,242 | 78.81% | 331 | 21.00% | 3 | 0.19% | 911 | 57.80% | 1,576 |
Bulloch | 3,414 | 79.12% | 901 | 20.88% | 2,513 | 58.24% | 4,315 | ||
Burke | 1,300 | 63.45% | 721 | 35.19% | 28 | 1.37% | 579 | 28.26% | 2,049 |
Butts | 1,885 | 85.37% | 323 | 14.63% | 1,562 | 70.74% | 2,208 | ||
Calhoun | 1,094 | 90.71% | 107 | 8.87% | 5 | 0.41% | 987 | 81.84% | 1,206 |
Camden | 1,178 | 53.69% | 1,014 | 46.22% | 2 | 0.09% | 164 | 7.47% | 2,194 |
Candler | 996 | 75.57% | 308 | 23.37% | 14 | 1.06% | 688 | 52.20% | 1,318 |
Carroll | 4,855 | 73.93% | 1,712 | 26.07% | 3,143 | 47.86% | 6,567 | ||
Catoosa | 2,163 | 60.37% | 1,336 | 37.29% | 84 | 2.34% | 827 | 23.08% | 3,583 |
Charlton | 750 | 78.62% | 204 | 21.38% | 546 | 57.23% | 954 | ||
Chatham | 9,587 | 36.73% | 16,512 | 63.27% | -6,925 | -26.53% | 26,099 | ||
Chattahoochee | 107 | 71.33% | 43 | 28.67% | 64 | 42.67% | 150 | ||
Chattooga | 3,823 | 69.43% | 1,682 | 30.55% | 1 | 0.02% | 2,141 | 38.88% | 5,506 |
Cherokee | 2,110 | 53.57% | 1,829 | 46.43% | 281 | 7.13% | 3,939 | ||
Clarke | 4,257 | 66.82% | 2,107 | 33.07% | 7 | 0.11% | 2,150 | 33.75% | 6,371 |
Clay | 390 | 78.16% | 103 | 20.64% | 6 | 1.20% | 287 | 57.52% | 499 |
Clayton | 5,522 | 77.61% | 1,593 | 22.39% | 3,929 | 55.22% | 7,115 | ||
Clinch | 1,579 | 75.30% | 518 | 24.70% | 1,061 | 50.60% | 2,097 | ||
Cobb | 11,696 | 63.19% | 6,798 | 36.73% | 16 | 0.09% | 4,898 | 26.46% | 18,510 |
Coffee | 3,199 | 84.76% | 574 | 15.21% | 1 | 0.03% | 2,625 | 69.55% | 3,774 |
Colquitt | 4,412 | 76.53% | 1,336 | 23.17% | 17 | 0.29% | 3,076 | 53.36% | 5,765 |
Columbia | 866 | 65.16% | 463 | 34.84% | 403 | 30.32% | 1,329 | ||
Cook | 2,100 | 89.51% | 245 | 10.44% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,855 | 79.07% | 2,346 |
Coweta | 3,003 | 77.90% | 850 | 22.05% | 2 | 0.05% | 2,153 | 55.85% | 3,855 |
Crawford | 779 | 87.23% | 109 | 12.21% | 5 | 0.56% | 670 | 75.03% | 893 |
Crisp | 2,526 | 75.04% | 835 | 24.81% | 5 | 0.15% | 1,691 | 50.24% | 3,366 |
Dade | 863 | 54.41% | 723 | 45.59% | 140 | 8.83% | 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 | 55.39% | 4,761 | ||
DeKalb | 30,336 | 65.46% | 15,979 | 34.48% | 26 | 0.06% | 14,357 | 30.98% | 46,341 |
Dodge | 3,479 | 82.46% | 738 | 17.49% | 2 | 0.05% | 2,741 | 64.97% | 4,219 |
Dooly | 1,851 | 91.41% | 174 | 8.59% | 1,677 | 82.81% | 2,025 | ||
Dougherty | 4,126 | 54.92% | 3,248 | 43.23% | 139 | 1.85% | 878 | 11.69% | 7,513 |
Douglas | 2,111 | 67.83% | 1,001 | 32.17% | 1,110 | 35.67% | 3,112 | ||
Early | 1,818 | 90.27% | 193 | 9.58% | 3 | 0.15% | 1,625 | 80.69% | 2,014 |
Echols | 530 | 79.58% | 134 | 20.12% | 2 | 0.30% | 396 | 59.46% | 666 |
Effingham | 611 | 44.63% | 637 | 46.53% | 121 | 8.84% | -26 | -1.90% | 1,369 |
Elbert | 3,635 | 88.98% | 447 | 10.94% | 3 | 0.07% | 3,188 | 78.04% | 4,085 |
Emanuel | 2,373 | 77.75% | 679 | 22.25% | 1,694 | 55.50% | 3,052 | ||
Evans | 1,154 | 76.27% | 356 | 23.53% | 3 | 0.20% | 798 | 52.74% | 1,513 |
Fannin | 1,945 | 35.58% | 3,521 | 64.42% | -1,576 | -28.83% | 5,466 | ||
Fayette | 1,308 | 90.46% | 138 | 9.54% | 1,170 | 80.91% | 1,446 | ||
Floyd | 6,633 | 52.69% | 5,955 | 47.31% | 678 | 5.39% | 12,588 | ||
Forsyth | 1,998 | 63.85% | 1,131 | 36.15% | 867 | 27.71% | 3,129 | ||
Franklin | 2,968 | 92.03% | 253 | 7.84% | 4 | 0.12% | 2,715 | 84.19% | 3,225 |
Fulton | 52,062 | 55.85% | 40,966 | 43.95% | 191 | 0.20% | 11,096 | 11.90% | 93,219 |
Gilmer | 1,275 | 40.68% | 1,857 | 59.25% | 2 | 0.06% | -582 | -18.57% | 3,134 |
Glascock | 314 | 73.88% | 110 | 25.88% | 1 | 0.24% | 204 | 48.00% | 425 |
Glynn | 3,071 | 49.78% | 3,098 | 50.22% | -27 | -0.44% | 6,169 | ||
Gordon | 1,972 | 65.67% | 1,025 | 34.13% | 6 | 0.20% | 947 | 31.54% | 3,003 |
Grady | 2,697 | 84.47% | 496 | 15.53% | 2,201 | 68.93% | 3,193 | ||
Greene | 2,012 | 78.75% | 541 | 21.17% | 2 | 0.08% | 1,471 | 57.57% | 2,555 |
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 | 37.03% | 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 | 1,328 | 69.86% | 563 | 29.62% | 10 | 0.53% | 765 | 40.24% | 1,901 |
Hart | 2,016 | 94.51% | 117 | 5.49% | 1,899 | 89.03% | 2,133 | ||
Heard | 1,106 | 85.08% | 194 | 14.92% | 912 | 70.15% | 1,300 | ||
Henry | 2,636 | 75.66% | 848 | 24.34% | 1,788 | 51.32% | 3,484 | ||
Houston | 4,483 | 80.76% | 1,060 | 19.10% | 8 | 0.14% | 3,423 | 61.66% | 5,551 |
Irwin | 1,554 | 83.28% | 312 | 16.72% | 1,242 | 66.56% | 1,866 | ||
Jackson | 3,100 | 87.40% | 438 | 12.35% | 9 | 0.25% | 2,662 | 75.05% | 3,547 |
Jasper | 962 | 76.96% | 288 | 23.04% | 674 | 53.92% | 1,250 | ||
Jeff Davis | 1,656 | 86.84% | 247 | 12.95% | 4 | 0.21% | 1,409 | 73.89% | 1,907 |
Jefferson | 1,356 | 72.01% | 515 | 27.35% | 12 | 0.64% | 841 | 44.66% | 1,883 |
Jenkins | 1,000 | 78.62% | 261 | 20.52% | 11 | 0.86% | 739 | 58.10% | 1,272 |
Johnson | 1,607 | 85.98% | 179 | 9.58% | 83 | 4.44% | 1,428 | 76.40% | 1,869 |
Jones | 1,208 | 75.69% | 382 | 23.93% | 6 | 0.38% | 826 | 51.75% | 1,596 |
Lamar | 1,531 | 73.39% | 555 | 26.61% | 976 | 46.79% | 2,086 | ||
Lanier | 890 | 85.25% | 152 | 14.56% | 2 | 0.19% | 738 | 70.69% | 1,044 |
Laurens | 5,085 | 81.05% | 1,189 | 18.95% | 3,896 | 62.10% | 6,274 | ||
Lee | 532 | 85.81% | 79 | 12.74% | 9 | 1.45% | 453 | 73.06% | 620 |
Liberty | 892 | 47.98% | 967 | 52.02% | -75 | -4.03% | 1,859 | ||
Lincoln | 696 | 81.79% | 155 | 18.21% | 541 | 63.57% | 851 | ||
Long | 1,195 | 80.96% | 281 | 19.04% | 914 | 61.92% | 1,476 | ||
Lowndes | 3,936 | 64.66% | 2,135 | 35.07% | 16 | 0.26% | 1,801 | 29.59% | 6,087 |
Lumpkin | 693 | 58.78% | 486 | 41.22% | 207 | 17.56% | 1,179 | ||
McDuffie | 1,039 | 61.48% | 649 | 38.40% | 2 | 0.12% | 390 | 23.08% | 1,690 |
McIntosh | 624 | 41.32% | 886 | 58.68% | -262 | -17.35% | 1,510 | ||
Macon | 1,984 | 84.28% | 363 | 15.42% | 7 | 0.30% | 1,621 | 68.86% | 2,354 |
Madison | 2,222 | 93.24% | 161 | 6.76% | 2,061 | 86.49% | 2,383 | ||
Marion | 618 | 79.64% | 158 | 20.36% | 460 | 59.28% | 776 | ||
Meriwether | 3,137 | 83.97% | 592 | 15.85% | 7 | 0.19% | 2,545 | 68.12% | 3,736 |
Miller | 1,563 | 77.99% | 441 | 22.01% | 1,122 | 55.99% | 2,004 | ||
Mitchell | 2,735 | 87.35% | 382 | 12.20% | 14 | 0.45% | 2,353 | 75.15% | 3,131 |
Monroe | 1,545 | 75.33% | 506 | 24.67% | 1,039 | 50.66% | 2,051 | ||
Montgomery | 1,052 | 79.40% | 271 | 20.45% | 2 | 0.15% | 781 | 58.94% | 1,325 |
Morgan | 1,492 | 85.85% | 246 | 14.15% | 1,246 | 71.69% | 1,738 | ||
Murray | 1,819 | 61.39% | 1,144 | 38.61% | 675 | 22.78% | 2,963 | ||
Muscogee | 8,160 | 49.39% | 8,176 | 49.48% | 187 | 1.13% | -16 | -0.10% | 16,523 |
Newton | 3,232 | 85.87% | 532 | 14.13% | 2,700 | 71.73% | 3,764 | ||
Oconee | 1,159 | 78.42% | 314 | 21.24% | 5 | 0.34% | 845 | 57.17% | 1,478 |
Oglethorpe | 1,404 | 89.31% | 167 | 10.62% | 1 | 0.06% | 1,237 | 78.69% | 1,572 |
Paulding | 1,599 | 62.98% | 940 | 37.02% | 659 | 25.96% | 2,539 | ||
Peach | 1,541 | 76.86% | 461 | 22.99% | 3 | 0.15% | 1,080 | 53.87% | 2,005 |
Pickens | 1,236 | 34.55% | 2,341 | 65.45% | -1,105 | -30.89% | 3,577 | ||
Pierce | 1,766 | 82.06% | 386 | 17.94% | 1,380 | 64.13% | 2,152 | ||
Pike | 1,067 | 83.56% | 210 | 16.44% | 857 | 67.11% | 1,277 | ||
Polk | 4,502 | 68.20% | 2,098 | 31.78% | 1 | 0.02% | 2,404 | 36.42% | 6,601 |
Pulaski | 1,422 | 89.27% | 171 | 10.73% | 1,251 | 78.53% | 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 | 76.94% | 413 | 22.84% | 4 | 0.22% | 978 | 54.09% | 1,808 |
Randolph | 1,582 | 74.31% | 547 | 25.69% | 1,035 | 48.61% | 2,129 | ||
Richmond | 6,819 | 39.27% | 10,251 | 59.03% | 295 | 1.70% | -3,432 | -19.76% | 17,365 |
Rockdale | 1,779 | 78.61% | 484 | 21.39% | 1,295 | 57.22% | 2,263 | ||
Schley | 441 | 78.05% | 117 | 20.71% | 7 | 1.24% | 324 | 57.35% | 565 |
Screven | 1,332 | 71.42% | 521 | 27.94% | 12 | 0.64% | 811 | 43.49% | 1,865 |
Seminole | 1,343 | 91.11% | 129 | 8.75% | 2 | 0.14% | 1,214 | 82.36% | 1,474 |
Spalding | 4,853 | 76.68% | 1,458 | 23.04% | 18 | 0.28% | 3,395 | 53.64% | 6,329 |
Stephens | 2,595 | 79.14% | 684 | 20.86% | 1,911 | 58.28% | 3,279 | ||
Stewart | 692 | 73.70% | 235 | 25.03% | 12 | 1.28% | 457 | 48.67% | 939 |
Sumter | 2,149 | 66.45% | 730 | 22.57% | 355 | 10.98% | 1,419 | 43.88% | 3,234 |
Talbot | 710 | 83.73% | 136 | 16.04% | 2 | 0.24% | 574 | 67.69% | 848 |
Taliaferro | 599 | 78.92% | 160 | 21.08% | 439 | 57.84% | 759 | ||
Tattnall | 1,881 | 81.04% | 440 | 18.96% | 1,441 | 62.09% | 2,321 | ||
Taylor | 1,359 | 82.76% | 276 | 16.81% | 7 | 0.43% | 1,083 | 65.96% | 1,642 |
Telfair | 2,075 | 87.96% | 284 | 12.04% | 1,791 | 75.92% | 2,359 | ||
Terrell | 1,301 | 86.27% | 203 | 13.46% | 4 | 0.27% | 1,098 | 72.81% | 1,508 |
Thomas | 3,522 | 61.12% | 2,240 | 38.88% | 1,282 | 22.25% | 5,762 | ||
Tift | 3,123 | 76.49% | 960 | 23.51% | 2,163 | 52.98% | 4,083 | ||
Toombs | 2,397 | 80.90% | 565 | 19.07% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,832 | 61.83% | 2,963 |
Towns | 885 | 44.67% | 1,096 | 55.33% | -211 | -10.65% | 1,981 | ||
Treutlen | 960 | 89.14% | 117 | 10.86% | 843 | 78.27% | 1,077 | ||
Troup | 6,162 | 73.48% | 2,214 | 26.40% | 10 | 0.12% | 3,948 | 47.08% | 8,386 |
Turner | 1,398 | 79.79% | 354 | 20.21% | 1,044 | 59.59% | 1,752 | ||
Twiggs | 1,002 | 86.08% | 158 | 13.57% | 4 | 0.34% | 844 | 72.51% | 1,164 |
Union | 1,386 | 50.47% | 1,360 | 49.53% | 26 | 0.95% | 2,746 | ||
Upson | 3,422 | 82.78% | 712 | 17.22% | 2,710 | 65.55% | 4,134 | ||
Walker | 3,693 | 50.12% | 3,552 | 48.21% | 123 | 1.67% | 141 | 1.91% | 7,368 |
Walton | 3,271 | 87.37% | 470 | 12.55% | 3 | 0.08% | 2,801 | 74.81% | 3,744 |
Ware | 5,888 | 72.12% | 2,276 | 27.88% | 3,612 | 44.24% | 8,164 | ||
Warren | 675 | 79.13% | 152 | 17.82% | 26 | 3.05% | 523 | 61.31% | 853 |
Washington | 2,530 | 80.70% | 602 | 19.20% | 3 | 0.10% | 1,928 | 61.50% | 3,135 |
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 | 993 | 86.88% | 150 | 13.12% | 843 | 73.75% | 1,143 | ||
White | 1,100 | 70.11% | 469 | 29.89% | 631 | 40.22% | 1,569 | ||
Whitfield | 4,264 | 50.35% | 4,205 | 49.65% | 59 | 0.70% | 8,469 | ||
Wilcox | 1,686 | 87.90% | 232 | 12.10% | 1,454 | 75.81% | 1,918 | ||
Wilkes | 1,714 | 84.06% | 305 | 14.96% | 20 | 0.98% | 1,409 | 69.10% | 2,039 |
Wilkinson | 1,299 | 76.68% | 393 | 23.20% | 2 | 0.12% | 906 | 53.48% | 1,694 |
Worth | 2,078 | 87.49% | 293 | 12.34% | 4 | 0.17% | 1,785 | 75.16% | 2,375 |
Totals | 444,688 | 66.41% | 222,778 | 33.27% | 2,189 | 0.33% | 221,910 | 33.14% | 669,655 |
Notes[]
- ^ 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 figures differ from those in Géoelections.
References[]
- ^ "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.
- ^ Géoelections; Presidential election of 1956 Popular Vote (.xlsx file for €15)
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