1952 United States presidential election in Alabama

none June 2025 September 2023 1952 United States presidential election in Alabama Alabama presidential no 1948 United States presidential election in Alabama 1948 1956 United States presidential election in Alabama 1956 All 11 Alabama votes to the Electoral College November 4, 1952https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1952 United States Presidential election of 1952 — Encyclopædia Britannica July 25, 2017 x200px AdlaiEStevenson1900-1965.jpg Adlai Stevenson Democratic Party (United States) Illinois John Sparkman 11 275,075 64.55% General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower 1947.jpg Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Party (United States) New Yorkhttp://www.fofweb.com/History/HistRefMain.asp?iPin=EAPPE0334&SID=2&DatabaseName=American+History+Online&InputText=%22presidential+election+1952%22&SearchStyle=&dTitle=U.S.+presidential+election%2C+1952&TabRecordType=Subject+Entry&BioCountPass=0&SubCountPass=1&DocCountPass=0&ImgCountPass=0&MapCountPass=0&FedCountPass=&MedCountPass=0&NewsCountPass=0&RecPosition=1&AmericanData=Set U.S. presidential election, 1952 Facts on File 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 https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195323/http://www.fofweb.com/History/HistRefMain.asp?iPin=EAPPE0334&SID=2&DatabaseName=American+History+Online&InputText=%22presidential+election+1952%22&SearchStyle=&dTitle=U.S.+presidential+election%2C+1952&TabRecordType=Subject+Entry&BioCountPass=0&SubCountPass=1&DocCountPass=0&ImgCountPass=0&MapCountPass=0&FedCountPass=&MedCountPass=0&NewsCountPass=0&RecPosition=1&AmericanData=Set October 29, 2013 dead Richard Nixon 0 149,231 35.02% 1952 United States presidential election in Alabama results map by county.svg 300px County results Stevenson #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% Eisenhower #e27f90 50–60% President Harry S. Truman Democratic Party (United States) Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Party (United States) 1952 United States presidential election The 1952 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose elevenhttps://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1953_1957.html#1952 1952 Election for the Forty-Second Term (1953-57) July 25, 2017 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. In Alabama, voters voted for electors individually instead of as a slate, as in the other states. Since the 1890s, Alabama had been effectively a one-party state ruled by the Democratic Party. Disenfranchisement of almost all African-Americans and a large proportion of poor whites via poll taxes, literacy testsPerman Michael Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888–1908 University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill, NC 2001 Introduction and informal harassment had essentially eliminated opposition parties outside of Unionist Winston County and presidential campaigns in a few nearby northern hill counties. The only competitive statewide elections during this period were thus Democratic Party primaries — limited to white voters until the landmark court case of Smith v. Allwright, following which Alabama introduced the Boswell Amendment — ruled unconstitutional in Davis v. Schnell in 1949,Voter mobilization and the politics of race: the South and universal suffrage, 1952-1984 Stanley Harold Watkins 1987 100 Bloomsbury Academic 0275926737 although substantial increases in black voter registration would not occur until after the late 1960s Voting Rights Act. Unlike other Deep South states, soon after black disenfranchisement Alabama's remaining white Republicans made rapid efforts to expel blacks from the state Republican Party,Heersink Jenkins Boris Jeffery A. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 251–253 9781107158436 2020 Cambridge University Press and under Oscar D. Street, who ironically was appointed state party boss as part of the pro-Taft “black and tan” faction in 1912,Paul D. Casdorph Republicans, Negroes, and Progressives in the South, 1912-1916 The University of Alabama Press 1981 70, 94–95 0817300481 the state GOP would permanently turn “lily-white”, with the last black delegates at any Republican National Convention serving in 1920. However, with two exceptions the Republicans were unable to gain from their hard lily-white policy. The first was when they exceeded forty percent in the 1920 House of Representatives races for the 4th, 7th and 10th congressional districts,Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority 255 1969 Arlington House 0870000586 and the second was 1928 presidential election when Senator James Thomas Heflin embarked on a nationwide speaking tour, partially funded by the Ku Klux Klan, against Roman Catholic Democratic nominee Al Smith and supported Republican Herbert Hoover,Chiles Robert The Revolution of '28: Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New Deal 2018 Cornell University Press 9781501705502 115 who went on to lose the state that year by only seven thousand votes. Following Smith, Alabama's loyalty to the national Democratic Party would be broken when Harry S. Truman, seeking a strategy to win the Cold War against the radically egalitarian rhetoric of Communism,Geselbracht Raymond H. The Civil Rights Legacy of Harry S. Truman 2007 53 Truman State University Press 978-1931112673 launched the first Civil Rights bill since Reconstruction. Southern Democrats became enraged and for the 1948 presidential election, Alabama's Democratic presidential elector primary chose electors who were pledged to not vote for incumbent President Truman,Ray Jenkins Blind Vengeance: The Roy Moody Mail Bomb Murders 38 978-0820341019 2012 University of Georgia Press while the state Supreme Court ruled that any statute requiring party presidential electors to vote for that party's national nominee was void, with the result that Truman was entirely excluded from the Alabama ballotKey, V.O. junior; Southern Politics in State and Nation; p. 340 087049435X despite a “Loyalist” group petitioning incumbent governor "Big Jim" Folsom to allow Truman electors on the ballot alongside the “Democratic” electors pledged to States’ Rights nominee Strom Thurmond.Barnard William D. Dixiecrats and Democrats: Alabama Politics 1942-50 November 30, 1984 123 University of Alabama Press 0817302557 After Thurmond, running as the “Democratic” nominee, carried Alabama by a margin only slightly smaller than Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four victories, Dixiecrats would lose control of the state party to loyalists in 1950. For 1952, these loyalists would pledge state Democrats to support the national nominees, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson and running mate, US Senator John Sparkman,Barnard. Dixiecrats and Democrats. p. 142 whilst unlike the other three states who voted for Thurmond, few Alabama Democrats would support Republican nominees Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower and California Senator Richard Nixon.Pursuit of Unity: A Political History of the American South Michael Perman 2009 University of North Carolina Press 274 978-0807833247 Despite this, Eisenhower did briefly visit the state during September, and gained some public support over issues of taxation and the stalemated Korean War.Cornell Douglas B. Most Southern States Continue to Back Demos Despite Sizeable Republican Inroads — GOP Has Even Chance to Carry Virginia, Texas, Florida Lubbock Morning Avalanche Lubbock, Texas 1952-10-24 11 Polls SourceRankingAs ofLansing State JournalCornell Douglas B. September 17, 1952 Ike Given 50–50 Chance To Break into Solid South 7, 16 Lansing State Journal Lansing, MichiganSafe D(Flip)September 17, 1952The Montgomery AdvertiserSimms Leroy October 23, 1952 State Tagged for Democrats: Adlai Given 67 to 33 Advantage over Ike 2–A The Montgomery Advertiser Montgomery, AlabamaSafe D(Flip)October 23, 1952Lubbock Morning AvalancheSafe D(Flip)October 24, 1952The Salt Lake TribuneCornell Douglas B. October 24, 1952 Journalists Bet 50–50 Ike Will Dent South 1–2 The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake CitySafe D(Flip)October 24, 1952The Greeneville SunOctober 25, 1952 US Poll Shows — Eisenhower Leading Stevenson in Electoral Votes, but Governor Has More States in His Column 1, 8 The Greeneville Sun Greeneville, Tennessee Princeton Research ServiceCertain D(Flip)October 25, 1952The Modesto BeeOctober 27, 1952 NY Times Survey Indicates Close Election Tuesday 8 The Modesto Bee Modesto, CaliforniaSafe D(Flip)October 27, 1952 Results + General election resultsAlabama Official and Statistical Register, 1955 1955 Wetumpka Printing Co. Wetumpka, Alabama 507–515 https://archive.org/details/alabama-official-statistical-register-1955/page/n498/mode/1up Party Pledged to Elector Votes Democratic Party Adlai Stevenson II Miles C. Allgood275,075 Democratic Party Adlai Stevenson II DeWitt Carmichael274,971 Democratic Party Adlai Stevenson II James J. Mayfield274,930 Democratic Party Adlai Stevenson II J. E. Brantley274,915 Democratic Party Adlai Stevenson II Samuel W. Cleveland274,853 Democratic Party Adlai Stevenson II Roy Davis McCord274,830 Democratic Party Adlai Stevenson II Luther Patrick274,828 Democratic Party Adlai Stevenson II W. W. Malone274,777 Democratic Party Adlai Stevenson II W. D. Partlow Jr.274,536 Democratic Party Adlai Stevenson II Frank Embry274,461 Democratic Party Adlai Stevenson II William C. Taylor274,429 Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower William E. Brooks Jr.149,231 Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower L. A. Carroll148,994 Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower John B. Byrd148,976 Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower Paul G. Parsons148,936 Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower J. F. Moore148,914 Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower John A. Posey148,906 Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower Offa B. Cosby148,902 Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower Leander Isbell148,890 Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower Arthur South148,872 Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower Roberts S. Cartledge148,794 Republican Party Dwight D. Eisenhower Carl Wiegand148,783 Prohibition Party Stuart Hamblen Leon Browning1,814 Prohibition Party Stuart Hamblen C. B. Davis1,719 Prohibition Party Stuart Hamblen W. C. Eubank1,716 Prohibition Party Stuart Hamblen J. A. Fields1,713 Prohibition Party Stuart Hamblen Thomas G. Jones1,696 Prohibition Party Stuart Hamblen Jack Moore1,693 Prohibition Party Stuart Hamblen J. B. Lockhart1,689 Prohibition Party Stuart Hamblen Cora H. McAdory1,685 Prohibition Party Stuart Hamblen Glenn V. Tingley1,681 Prohibition Party Stuart Hamblen Eulalia Vess1,678 Prohibition Party Stuart Hamblen G. D. Lewis1,677Total votes 426,120 Results by county County Adlai StevensonDemocratic Dwight D. EisenhowerRepublican Stuart HamblenProhibition Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Autauga 1,505 65.21% 787 34.10% 16 0.69% 718 31.11% 2,308 Baldwin 3,386 51.17% 3,179 48.04% 52 0.79% 207 3.13% 6,617 Barbour 2,250 73.77% 798 26.16% 2 0.07% 1,452 47.61% 3,050 Bibb 1,971 71.18% 784 28.31% 14 0.51% 1,187 42.87% 2,769 Blount 3,161 64.67% 1,720 35.19% 7 0.14% 1,441 29.48% 4,888 Bullock 918 67.50% 442 32.50% 0 0.00% 476 35.00% 1,360 Butler 2,440 69.16% 1,087 30.81% 1 0.03% 1,353 38.35% 3,528 Calhoun 8,023 71.68% 3,064 27.37% 106 0.95% 4,959 44.31% 11,193 Chambers 6,155 85.61% 990 13.77% 45 0.63% 5,165 71.84% 7,190 Cherokee 2,664 82.96% 539 16.79% 8 0.25% 2,125 66.17% 3,211 Chilton 2,269 46.84% 2,563 52.91% 12 0.25% -294 -6.07% 4,844 Choctaw 1,583 72.45% 593 27.14% 9 0.41% 990 45.31% 2,185 Clarke 3,121 70.53% 1,303 29.45% 1 0.02% 1,818 41.08% 4,425 Clay 1,972 62.33% 1,183 37.39% 9 0.28% 789 24.94% 3,164 Cleburne 1,557 66.14% 792 33.64% 5 0.21% 765 32.50% 2,354 Coffee 3,919 84.83% 699 15.13% 2 0.04% 3,220 69.70% 4,620 Colbert 5,920 81.01% 1,381 18.90% 7 0.10% 4,539 62.11% 7,308 Conecuh 1,678 68.27% 749 30.47% 31 1.26% 929 37.80% 2,458 Coosa 1,501 65.52% 788 34.40% 2 0.09% 713 31.12% 2,291 Covington 4,956 75.57% 1,581 24.11% 21 0.32% 3,375 51.46% 6,558 Crenshaw 2,485 81.96% 544 17.94% 3 0.10% 1,941 64.02% 3,032 Cullman 5,254 60.62% 3,391 39.13% 22 0.25% 1,863 21.49% 8,667 Dale 2,669 70.93% 1,073 28.51% 21 0.56% 1,596 42.42% 3,763 Dallas 2,082 44.95% 2,550 55.05% 0 0.00% -468 -10.10% 4,632 DeKalb 5,209 56.52% 3,997 43.37% 11 0.12% 1,212 13.15% 9,217 Elmore 4,199 76.10% 1,315 23.83% 4 0.07% 2,884 52.27% 5,518 Escambia 3,385 73.86% 1,187 25.90% 11 0.24% 2,198 47.96% 4,583 Etowah 10,997 70.06% 4,634 29.52% 66 0.42% 6,363 40.54% 15,697 Fayette 2,287 60.52% 1,481 39.19% 11 0.29% 806 21.33% 3,779 Franklin 3,461 58.73% 2,424 41.13% 8 0.14% 1,037 17.60% 5,893 Geneva 2,703 73.93% 950 25.98% 3 0.08% 1,753 47.95% 3,656 Greene 674 61.00% 430 38.91% 1 0.09% 244 22.09% 1,105 Hale 1,210 61.36% 758 38.44% 4 0.20% 452 22.92% 1,972 Henry 1,966 82.19% 421 17.60% 5 0.21% 1,545 64.59% 2,392 Houston 3,779 59.38% 2,517 39.55% 68 1.07% 1,262 19.83% 6,364 Jackson 3,677 74.15% 1,272 25.65% 10 0.20% 2,405 48.50% 4,959 Jefferson 38,111 53.85% 32,254 45.58% 401 0.57% 5,857 8.27% 70,766 Lamar 2,512 80.56% 605 19.40% 1 0.03% 1,907 61.16% 3,118 Lauderdale 7,097 78.62% 1,910 21.16% 20 0.22% 5,187 57.46% 9,027 Lawrence 2,651 76.49% 809 23.34% 6 0.17% 1,842 53.15% 3,466 Lee 2,803 63.22% 1,626 36.67% 5 0.11% 1,177 26.55% 4,434 Limestone 3,844 87.24% 549 12.46% 13 0.30% 3,295 74.78% 4,406 Lowndes 809 56.06% 631 43.73% 3 0.21% 178 12.33% 1,443 Macon 1,457 70.08% 621 29.87% 1 0.05% 836 40.21% 2,079 Madison 8,216 82.82% 1,623 16.36% 81 0.82% 6,593 66.46% 9,920 Marengo 1,790 56.79% 1,362 43.21% 0 0.00% 428 13.58% 3,152 Marion 2,850 65.55% 1,489 34.25% 9 0.21% 1,361 31.30% 4,348 Marshall 6,011 74.22% 2,069 25.55% 19 0.23% 3,942 48.67% 8,099 Mobile 14,473 50.40% 14,153 49.29% 89 0.31% 320 1.11% 28,715 Monroe 2,587 80.07% 637 19.72% 7 0.22% 1,950 60.35% 3,231 Montgomery 9,234 52.68% 8,102 46.22% 193 1.10% 1,132 6.46% 17,529 Morgan 7,029 74.94% 2,335 24.89% 16 0.17% 4,694 50.05% 9,380 Perry 1,352 64.02% 756 35.80% 4 0.19% 596 28.22% 2,112 Pickens 1,519 62.20% 905 37.06% 18 0.74% 614 25.14% 2,442 Pike 2,546 72.45% 965 27.46% 3 0.09% 1,581 44.99% 3,514 Randolph 2,964 73.77% 1,047 26.06% 7 0.17% 1,917 47.71% 4,018 Russell 3,564 80.38% 867 19.55% 3 0.07% 2,697 60.83% 4,434 St. Clair 2,326 59.31% 1,590 40.54% 6 0.15% 736 18.77% 3,922 Shelby 2,473 53.34% 2,156 46.51% 7 0.15% 317 6.83% 4,636 Sumter 894 55.91% 702 43.90% 3 0.19% 192 12.01% 1,599 Talladega 5,028 58.18% 3,588 41.52% 26 0.30% 1,440 16.66% 8,642 Tallapoosa 5,055 80.89% 1,187 19.00% 7 0.11% 3,868 61.89% 6,249 Tuscaloosa 7,677 65.50% 3,872 33.04% 171 1.46% 3,805 32.46% 11,720 Walker 6,862 65.78% 3,490 33.45% 80 0.77% 3,372 32.33% 10,432 Washington 1,977 75.83% 623 23.90% 7 0.27% 1,354 51.93% 2,607 Wilcox 988 57.64% 725 42.30% 1 0.06% 263 15.34% 1,714Winston 1,390 40.69% 2,017 59.05% 9 0.26% -627 -18.36% 3,416Totals275,07564.55%149,23135.02%1,8140.43%125,84429.53%426,120 Counties that flipped from Dixiecrat to Democratic 20em Autauga Baldwin Barbour Bibb Blount Butler Calhoun Chambers Choctaw Clarke Clay Cleburne Coffee Conecuh Coosa Covington Crenshaw Cullman Dale DeKalb Elmore Escambia Etowah Fayette Franklin Geneva Hale Henry Houston Jefferson Lee Lawrence Madison Marengo Marion Marshall Monroe Morgan Mobile Montgomery Shelby Perry Pickens Pike Randolph Russell St. Clair Talladega Tallapoosa Tuscaloosa Walker Washington Bullock Lowndes Wilcox Greene Sumter Macon Cherokee Colbert Jackson Lauderdale Limestone Counties that flipped from Dixiecrat to Republican Chilton Dallas Results by congressional district Adlai Stevenson won the majority of the vote in all of Alabama's congressional districts in 1952. Candidate who won nationally is placed first in the table listed below. District1952 United States Presidential Election, Results by Congressional District https://wwu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/minimalist/index.html?appid=944fef544d2e4f9fadd4d60a3ee4ddb9 December 18, 2024 Western Washington UniversityStevensonEisenhower1st57.8%42.2%2nd63.2%36.8%3rd72.2%27.8%4th64.1%35.9%5th72.7%27.3%6th61.3%38.7%7th62.6%37.4%8th79.6%20.4%9th54.2%45.8% Analysis Much as polls suggested, Alabama was won by Stevenson with 64.55 percent of the popular vote, against Eisenhower's 35.02 percent.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=1&year=1952 1952 Presidential General Election Results – Alabama July 25, 2017https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showelection.php?year=1952 The American Presidency Project — Election of 1952 July 25, 2017 Eisenhower, although not to the same degree as in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, did gain substantial support from Black Belt whites who could no longer accept the position of the national Democratic Party on civil rights, although this was largely confined to the central part of that region.Strong Donald S. August 1955 The Presidential Election in the South, 1952 The Journal of Politics 17 3 343–389 10.1017/S0022381600091064 Eisenhower's victory in Dallas County was the first Republican victory in this county since Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876.Menendez Albert J. 2005 The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004 146–147 McFarland 0786422173 In contrast, the northern hill country remained very loyal to Stevenson, and in some counties with traditionally substantial Republican votes like Winston and DeKalb Eisenhower actually did worse than Thomas E. Dewey in 1948. 1952 would mark the last time Montgomery and Jefferson counties would vote Democratic in a presidential election until 1996 and 2008 respectively, as both would become epicenters of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. See also United States presidential elections in Alabama References Alabama 1952 Category:1952 Alabama elections