1956 United States presidential election in Florida

none June 2025 September 2023 1956 United States presidential election 1956 United States presidential election in Florida Florida 1900 presidential no 1952 United States presidential election in Florida 1952 November 6, 1956 1960 United States presidential election in Florida 1960 x200px Dwight David Eisenhower 1952 crop.jpg Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Party (United States) PennsylvaniaAlthough 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.http://www.uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/INFORMATION/presidents.php The Presidents September 27, 2017 David Leip Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania Richard Nixon 10 643,849 57.27% President Adlai Stevenson Estes Kefauver 480,371 Democratic Party (United States) 0 Illinois 42.73% Adlai Stevenson close-up.jpg 400px County results 400px Congressional district results Eisenhower #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% Stevenson #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% #0645b4 80–90% Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican The 1956 United States presidential election in Florida was held on November 6, 1956, as part of the concurrent United States presidential election. Florida voters chose ten electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Except for the 1928 election when fierce anti-Catholicism and Prohibitionism caused Herbert Hoover to defeat the wet Catholic Al Smith,Doherty, Herbert J. (junior); 'Florida and the Presidential Election of 1928'; The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2 (October 1947), pp. 174-186 Florida since the end of Reconstruction had been a classic Southern one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. Disfranchisement of African-Americans and many poor whites had virtually eliminated the Republican Party – only nine Republicans were ever elected to the state legislature between 1890 and 1950 – while Democratic primaries were the sole competitive elections. Under the influence of Senator Claude Pepper, Florida abolished the poll tax in 1937, leading to steady increases in voter turnout during the following several elections;Poll Taxes: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on S. 1280, Seventy-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Parts 1-2, p. 289 however, there was no marked increase in African-American voting and Democratic hegemony remained unchallenged: FDR did not lose a single county in the state during his four elections.Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, p. 164-165 0786422173 However, the following two elections would see a rapid trend away from Democratic hegemony towards Republican dominance in newer, more liberal South Florida. The regions shifting rapidly towards the GOP in these two elections lacked a history of slave-based plantation farming,See Doherty, Herbert J. (junior); 'Liberal and Conservative Politics in Florida'; The Journal of Politics, vol. 14, no. 3 (August 1952), pp. 403-417 and saw Eisenhower as more favourable to business than the Democratic Party.Strong, Donald S.; 'The Presidential Election in the South, 1952'; The Journal of Politics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 343-389 They also had seen a very large inflow of elderly migrants from the Northern states who were attracted by Florida's hot climate. An example of this is Collier County in southwest Florida, home to the city of Naples, which went Republican for the first time since the county's founding in 1923 and has never voted Democratic since. Consequently, Eisenhower was able to carry Florida by a double-digit margin in 1952, in spite of losing badly in the "Hoovercrat" pineywoods and Black Belt of the Panhandle. The 1956 election saw, in general, little change from trends established during the previous two elections, with the most significant exception being a marked (though temporary) trend towards Eisenhower amongst the small but increasing number of Black voters in the state.Roady, Elston E.; 'The Expansion of Negro Suffrage in Florida', The Journal of Negro Education, vol. 26, no. 3, ('The Negro Voter in the South) (Summer, 1957), pp. 297-306 Eisenhower, aided further by increased Northerner migration, won against his rematch opponent Adlai Stevenson II by 163,474 votes or 14.54%.1956 Presidential General Election Results – Florida Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections Leip David http://uselectionatlas.org This was the first time since 1872 that a Republican carried Florida twice. This result nonetheless made Florida about 0.86% more Democratic than the nation at large. Results Dwight D. Eisenhower (incumbent) Republican 643,849 Pennsylvania 57.19% 10 Richard Nixon (incumbent) California Adlai Stevenson II Democratic 480,371 Illinois 42.67% 0 Estes Kefauver Tennessee Various candidates Write-insThese write-in votes are listed in America at the Polls, but not in Dave Leip's Atlas. 1,542 — 0.14% 0 — — 1,125,762 100.00% 10 270 Results by county County Dwight D. EisenhowerRepublican Adlai StevensonDemocratic Margin Total votes castOur Campaigns; FL US President Race, November 06, 1956 # % # % # % Alachua 7,939 53.54% 6,889 46.46% 1,050 7.08% 14,828 Baker 366 20.23% 1,443 79.77% -1,077 -59.54% 1,809 Bay 4,971 36.51% 8,645 63.49% -3,674 -26.98% 13,616 Bradford 1,203 34.07% 2,328 65.93% -1,125 -31.86% 3,531 Brevard 10,004 71.81% 3,928 28.19% 6,076 43.62% 13,932 Broward 43,552 72.45% 16,561 27.55% 26,991 44.90% 60,113 Calhoun 554 24.57% 1,701 75.43% -1,147 -50.86% 2,255 Charlotte 1,589 63.11% 929 36.89% 660 26.22% 2,518 Citrus 1,570 50.69% 1,527 49.31% 43 1.38% 3,097 Clay 2,372 53.67% 2,048 46.33% 324 7.34% 4,420 Collier 1,934 59.73% 1,304 40.27% 630 19.46% 3,238 Columbia 1,841 36.19% 3,246 63.81% -1,405 -27.62% 5,087 DeSoto 1,234 48.41% 1,315 51.59% -81 -3.18% 2,549 Dixie 370 29.04% 904 70.96% -534 -41.92% 1,274 Duval 53,481 50.17% 53,127 49.83% 354 0.34% 106,608 Escambia 13,227 37.21% 22,320 62.79% -9,093 -25.58% 35,547 Flagler 498 41.92% 690 58.08% -192 -16.16% 1,188 Franklin 571 37.34% 958 62.66% -387 -25.32% 1,529 Gadsden 1,321 36.87% 2,262 63.13% -941 -26.26% 3,583 Gilchrist 137 12.90% 925 87.10% -788 -74.20% 1,062 Glades 309 47.69% 339 52.31% -30 -4.62% 648 Gulf 570 24.12% 1,793 75.88% -1,223 -51.76% 2,363 Hamilton 464 23.71% 1,493 76.29% -1,029 -52.58% 1,957 Hardee 1,589 45.67% 1,890 54.33% -301 -8.66% 3,479 Hendry 1,071 51.64% 1,003 48.36% 68 3.28% 2,074 Hernando 1,295 47.44% 1,435 52.56% -140 -5.12% 2,730 Highlands 3,480 60.25% 2,296 39.75% 1,184 20.50% 5,776 Hillsborough 41,889 52.04% 38,610 47.96% 3,279 4.08% 80,499 Holmes 1,036 29.17% 2,516 70.83% -1,480 -41.66% 3,552 Indian River 4,059 70.49% 1,699 29.51% 2,360 40.98% 5,758 Jackson 2,543 29.86% 5,973 70.14% -3,430 -40.28% 8,516 Jefferson 540 31.02% 1,201 68.98% -661 -37.96% 1,741 Lafayette 187 15.07% 1,054 84.93% -867 -69.86% 1,241 Lake 10,888 71.57% 4,326 28.43% 6,562 43.14% 15,214 Lee 7,565 62.60% 4,520 37.40% 3,045 25.20% 12,085 Leon 6,828 49.30% 7,022 50.70% -194 -1.40% 13,850 Levy 934 33.90% 1,821 66.10% -887 -32.20% 2,755 Liberty 238 21.48% 870 78.52% -632 -57.04% 1,108 Madison 1,017 33.01% 2,064 66.99% -1,047 -33.98% 3,081 Manatee 11,904 68.82% 5,394 31.18% 6,510 37.64% 17,298 Marion 6,362 50.99% 6,114 49.01% 248 1.98% 12,476 Martin 2,997 68.36% 1,387 31.64% 1,610 36.72% 4,384 Miami-Dade 130,938 55.37% 105,559 44.63% 25,379 10.74% 236,497 Monroe 3,337 43.54% 4,327 56.46% -990 -12.92% 7,664 Nassau 1,717 38.31% 2,765 61.69% -1,048 -23.38% 4,482 Okaloosa 2,788 32.66% 5,748 67.34% -2,960 -34.68% 8,536 Okeechobee 575 40.78% 835 59.22% -260 -18.44% 1,410 Orange 37,482 72.06% 14,532 27.94% 22,950 44.12% 52,014 Osceola 3,602 65.19% 1,923 34.81% 1,679 30.38% 5,525 Palm Beach 35,746 71.40% 14,321 28.60% 21,425 42.80% 50,067 Pasco 5,501 56.82% 4,181 43.18% 1,320 13.64% 9,682 Pinellas 74,314 72.55% 28,113 27.45% 46,201 45.10% 102,427 Polk 23,682 55.98% 18,626 44.02% 5,056 11.96% 42,308 Putnam 4,212 56.58% 3,232 43.42% 980 13.16% 7,444 St. Johns 5,104 56.44% 3,940 43.56% 1,164 12.88% 9,044 St. Lucie 5,435 66.56% 2,731 33.44% 2,704 33.12% 8,166 Santa Rosa 1,909 31.54% 4,144 68.46% -2,235 -36.92% 6,053 Sarasota 13,937 73.40% 5,052 26.60% 8,885 46.80% 18,989 Seminole 5,841 65.15% 3,125 34.85% 2,716 30.30% 8,966 Sumter 1,061 31.30% 2,329 68.70% -1,268 -37.40% 3,390 Suwannee 1,046 24.85% 3,163 75.15% -2,117 -50.30% 4,209 Taylor 776 28.52% 1,945 71.48% -1,169 -42.96% 2,721 Union 218 18.54% 958 81.46% -740 -62.92% 1,176 Volusia 25,103 63.40% 14,489 36.60% 10,614 26.80% 39,592 Wakulla 393 26.79% 1,074 73.21% -681 -46.42% 1,467 Walton 1,606 33.24% 3,225 66.76% -1,619 -33.52% 4,831 Washington 1,027 32.18% 2,164 67.82% -1,137 -35.64% 3,191Totals643,84957.27%480,37142.73%163,47814.54%1,124,220 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Clay Duval Citrus Collier Hendry Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Flagler Hernando Results by congressional district Eisenhower won 6 out of 8 of Florida's congressional districts, including 4 held by Democrats.1956 United States Presidential Election, Results by Congressional District https://wwu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/minimalist/index.html?appid=210a8e47ad3644798f210ef98680ff6c August 13, 2024 Western Washington University DistrictEisenhowerStevenson1st63%37%2nd50.3%49.7%3rd35.9%64.1%4th55%45%5th65.4%34.6%6th69.7%30.3%7th61.8%38.2%8th39.6%60.4% Notes References 2 Florida Category:1956 Florida elections Category:United States presidential elections in Florida