United States presidential election in New Jersey, 1952

United States presidential election in New Jersey, 1952
New Jersey
November 4, 1952
 
Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York Illinois
Running mate Richard Nixon John Sparkman
Electoral vote 16 0
Popular vote 1,374,613 1,015,902
Percentage 56.8% 42.0%

County Results
  Stevenson—50-60%
  Stevenson—<50%
  Eisenhower—50-60%
  Eisenhower—60-70%
  Eisenhower—70-80%
President before election

Harry S. Truman
Democratic

 Elected President

Dwight Eisenhower
Republican

The 1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 4, 1952. All contemporary 48 states, were part of the 1952 United States presidential election. New Jersey voters chose 16 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President.

New Jersey was won by the Republican nominees, General Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York and his running mate Senator Richard Nixon of California. Eisenhower and Nixon defeated the Democratic nominees, former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois and his running mate Senator John Sparkman of Alabama.

Eisenhower carried New Jersey with 56.81% of the vote to Stevenson's 41.99%, a margin of 14.83%.[1]

Eisenhower won 18 of the state's 21 counties, breaking 60% of the vote in 9 of them, and even breaking 70% in 3 of those. Stevenson for his part carried 3 urban counties; he won with majorities in Mercer County and Camden County, and won with a plurality in Hudson County.

Eisenhower ultimately won 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, finally ending 20 years of Democratic control of the White House.

New Jersey in this era was usually a swing state with a slight Republican lean, and its results in 1952 adhered to that pattern. Democrat Franklin Roosevelt had won New Jersey in all 4 of his decisive nationwide victories in the 1930s and 1940s, but with the exception of his 1936 landslide, always by very narrow margins. In 1948, New Jersey had been narrowly won by Republican Thomas E. Dewey, even as he lost the election nationally. With Eisenhower's personal popularity propelling him to a decisive nationwide victory in 1952, New Jersey easily remained in the Republican column, its results making it about 4% more Republican than the national average.

Results

United States presidential election in New Jersey, 1952
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower 1,374,613 56.81% 16
Democratic Adlai Stevenson 1,015,902 41.99% 0
Socialist Darlington Hoopes 8,593 0.36% 0
Socialist Labor Eric Hass 5,815 0.24% 0
Progressive Vincent Hallinan 5,589 0.23% 0
Poor Man's Party Henry B. Krajewski 4,203 0.17% 0
Socialist Workers Farrell Dobbs 3,850 0.16% 0
Prohibition Stuart Hamblen 989 0.04% 0
Totals 2,419,554 100.0% 16

See also

References

  1. ↑ "1952 Presidential General Election Results - New Jersey". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 28 November 2013.

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