1952 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary

none June 2025 August 2020 1952 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary New Hampshire 1931 presidential no 1956 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary 1956 1952 03 11 Dwight David Eisenhower 1952 crop.jpg Dwight D. Eisenhower FF8080 Kansas 46,661 50.2% 1952 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary election results map by county.svg County results Eisenhower: #ffb2b2 40–50% #E27F7F 50–60% Robert A. Taft Ohio 35,838 38.6% RobertATaft83rdCongress.png x160px 8080FF Former Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota - Harris & Ewing (cropped).jpg Douglas MacArthur 58-61 (1).jpg ffd12b 37C871 Harold Stassen Douglas MacArthur Pennsylvania New York 6,574 3,227 7.1% 3.5% 14 0 0 0 1952 Republican Party presidential primaries The 1952 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary was held on March 11, 1952, in New Hampshire as one of the Republican Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1952 United States presidential election. General Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Senator Robert Taft of Ohio by 12 percentage points on his way to eventual nomination by the Republican Party for President and victory in the 1952 election against Democrat Adlai Stevenson.New Hampshire. Dept. of State http://archive.org/details/manualforgeneral33newh Manual for the General Court 1953 Concord, N.H. : Dept. of State University of New Hampshire Library 302-425Times John H. Fenton Special to The New York 1972-02-27 First New Hampshire Primary Put Eisenhower on Way in '52 https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/27/archives/first-new-hampshire-primary-put-eisenhower-on-way-in-52.html 2024-04-08 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 Electoral system After the 1948 presidential primary, the New Hampshire state legislature, concerned by low voter turnout, passed a law that introduced a "presidential preference primary" to the election.Secretary of State of the State of New Hampshire 1949-01-01 Laws of the state of New Hampshire, passed January session, 1949. Legislature convened January 5, adjourned July 27. https://scholars.unh.edu/lawsnh/40 Laws of the State of New Hampshire 49-50, 199-201 For the first time, ballots would include the candidates' names—voters could indicate their preference for candidates for president and vice president directly, as well as indirectly by voting for the delegates their party would sent to the convention, where the candidates for president and vice president would be nominated. Because the "direct" votes had no bearing on the election of delegates, this new feature of the election was described as a "beauty contest" between the major candidates.Dishman Robert B. 1953 How It All Began: The Eisenhower Pre-Convention Campaign in New Hampshire, 1952 https://www.jstor.org/stable/362333 The New England Quarterly 26 1 3–26 10.2307/362333 0028-4866 subscription Delegates were still elected separately, but under the new rules they could indicate their allegiance as "pledged" or "favorable" to a candidate, only the former of which was legally binding and required the candidate's written consent. All Republican delegates in 1952 ran as "favorable" or undeclared; none were "pledged" to a candidate. Results +1952 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary resultsCandidateVotesPercentageDelegatesDwight D. Eisenhower46,66150.2%14Robert A. Taft35,83838.6%0Harold Stassen6,5747.1%0Douglas MacArthur3,2273.5%0Other5650.6%0 Total 92,865 100% 14 References Republican primary New Hampshire Category:New Hampshire Republican primaries