1956 United States presidential election in Alabama
The 1956 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. Alabama voters chose eleven[3] 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.
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Alabama was won by Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator Estes Kefauver, with 56.52 percent of the popular vote against incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Pennsylvania), running with Vice President Richard Nixon, with 39.39% of the popular vote. Stevenson received ten of Alabama's eleven electoral votes; the eleventh was cast by a faithless elector for Walter B. Jones.[4][5]
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Macon County voted for a Republican nominee, and the only election since Reconstruction that this majority-black county has voted Republican.[lower-alpha 2] It is also the last time that Houston County voted for a Democratic nominee,[6] and the last time that the state has supported a losing Democrat for president.
Results
| Party | Pledged to | Elector | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | Jasse Brown | 280,844 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | J. E. Brantley | 280,549 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | H. Tom Cochran | 280,366 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | William M. Kelly, Jr. | 280,159 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | Lawrence E. McNeil | 279,999 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | Ben F. Ray | 279,878 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | Wilma K. Butts | 279,811 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | Henry H. Sweet | 279,774 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | Wesley Winchell Acee, Jr. | 279,542 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II[lower-alpha 3] | W. F. Turner | 279,484 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | H. Floyd Sherrod | 279,398 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | William H. Albritton | 195,694 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Herman E. Dean, Jr. | 195,200 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Charles H. Chapman, Jr. | 195,175 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Robert M. Guthrie | 195,012 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Neil Morgan | 194,991 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | W. M. Russell | 194,898 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | George Stiefelmeyer | 194,708 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | I. L. Smith, Jr. | 194,699 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | R. S. Cartledge | 194,687 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Thomas G. McNaron | 194,629 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | George Witcher | 194,014 | |
| Dixiecrat | Unpledged | Thomas Bellsnyder, Jr. | 20,323 | |
| Dixiecrat | Unpledged | Russell Carter | 20,279 | |
| Dixiecrat | Unpledged | Tom C. King | 20,271 | |
| Dixiecrat | Unpledged | M. L. Griffin | 20,210 | |
| Dixiecrat | Unpledged | Jack S. Riley | 20,149 | |
| Dixiecrat | Unpledged | Edwin T. Parker | 20,112 | |
| Dixiecrat | Unpledged | J. S. Payne | 20,111 | |
| Dixiecrat | Unpledged | John Frederick Duggar, III | 20,082 | |
| Dixiecrat | Unpledged | Joseph S. Mead | 20,081 | |
| Dixiecrat | Unpledged | John C. Eagerton, III | 20,027 | |
| Dixiecrat | Unpledged | Llewellyn Duggar | 19,971 | |
| Write-in | Ace Carter | 8 | ||
| Write-in | Jim Sherrill | 2 | ||
| Total votes | 496,871 | |||
Results by county
| County | Adlai Stevenson II Democratic |
Dwight David Eisenhower Republican |
Unpledged electors States’ Rights |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Autauga | 1,161 | 50.77% | 857 | 37.47% | 269 | 11.76% | 304 | 13.30% | 2,287 |
| Baldwin | 3,878 | 46.08% | 4,293 | 51.02% | 244 | 2.90% | -415 | -4.94% | 8,415 |
| Barbour | 2,530 | 73.35% | 777 | 22.53% | 142 | 4.12% | 1,753 | 50.82% | 3,449 |
| Bibb | 1,471 | 56.97% | 1,004 | 38.88% | 107 | 4.14% | 467 | 18.09% | 2,582 |
| Blount | 3,208 | 54.17% | 2,628 | 44.38% | 86 | 1.45% | 580 | 9.79% | 5,922 |
| Bullock | 812 | 64.86% | 304 | 24.28% | 136 | 10.86% | 508 | 40.58% | 1,252 |
| Butler | 1,958 | 55.42% | 1,324 | 37.48% | 251 | 7.10% | 634 | 17.94% | 3,533 |
| Calhoun | 9,069 | 65.24% | 4,473 | 32.18% | 358 | 2.58% | 4,596 | 33.06% | 13,900 |
| Chambers | 5,165 | 76.67% | 1,448 | 21.49% | 124 | 1.84% | 3,717 | 55.18% | 6,737 |
| Cherokee | 2,661 | 75.75% | 845 | 24.05% | 7 | 0.20% | 1,816 | 51.70% | 3,513 |
| Chilton | 1,891 | 36.73% | 3,139 | 60.98% | 118 | 2.29% | -1,248 | -24.25% | 5,148 |
| Choctaw | 1,250 | 70.26% | 457 | 25.69% | 72 | 4.05% | 793 | 44.57% | 1,779 |
| Clarke | 1,962 | 57.91% | 1,246 | 36.78% | 180 | 5.31% | 716 | 21.13% | 3,388 |
| Clay | 1,677 | 50.47% | 1,597 | 48.06% | 49 | 1.47% | 80 | 2.41% | 3,323 |
| Cleburne | 1,407 | 56.96% | 1,056 | 42.75% | 7 | 0.28% | 351 | 14.21% | 2,470 |
| Coffee | 4,163 | 79.02% | 973 | 18.47% | 132 | 2.51% | 3,190 | 60.55% | 5,268 |
| Colbert | 7,007 | 78.40% | 1,819 | 20.35% | 111 | 1.24% | 5,188 | 58.05% | 8,937 |
| Conecuh | 1,687 | 61.26% | 885 | 32.14% | 182 | 6.61% | 802 | 29.12% | 2,754 |
| Coosa | 1,411 | 56.01% | 1,070 | 42.48% | 38 | 1.51% | 341 | 13.53% | 2,519 |
| Covington | 4,887 | 65.25% | 2,257 | 30.13% | 346 | 4.62% | 2,630 | 35.12% | 7,490 |
| Crenshaw | 2,252 | 75.70% | 567 | 19.06% | 156 | 5.24% | 1,685 | 56.64% | 2,975 |
| Cullman | 5,510 | 55.49% | 4,381 | 44.12% | 38 | 0.38% | 1,129 | 11.37% | 9,929 |
| Dale | 2,318 | 62.45% | 1,284 | 34.59% | 110 | 2.96% | 1,034 | 27.86% | 3,712 |
| Dallas | 2,121 | 39.59% | 2,324 | 43.37% | 913 | 17.04% | -203 | -3.78% | 5,358 |
| DeKalb | 5,768 | 50.30% | 5,684 | 49.56% | 16 | 0.14% | 84 | 0.74% | 11,468 |
| Elmore | 3,353 | 62.16% | 1,619 | 30.01% | 422 | 7.82% | 1,734 | 32.15% | 5,394 |
| Escambia | 3,437 | 64.86% | 1,529 | 28.85% | 333 | 6.28% | 1,908 | 36.01% | 5,299 |
| Etowah | 12,374 | 62.22% | 7,198 | 36.20% | 314 | 1.58% | 5,176 | 26.02% | 19,886 |
| Fayette | 1,956 | 49.80% | 1,948 | 49.59% | 24 | 0.61% | 8 | 0.21% | 3,928 |
| Franklin | 3,354 | 49.55% | 3,399 | 50.21% | 16 | 0.24% | -45 | -0.66% | 6,769 |
| Geneva | 2,841 | 68.99% | 1,179 | 28.63% | 98 | 2.38% | 1,662 | 40.36% | 4,118 |
| Greene | 691 | 66.19% | 309 | 29.60% | 44 | 4.21% | 382 | 36.59% | 1,044 |
| Hale | 1,314 | 68.54% | 504 | 26.29% | 99 | 5.16% | 810 | 42.25% | 1,917 |
| Henry | 2,127 | 78.40% | 429 | 15.81% | 157 | 5.79% | 1,698 | 62.59% | 2,713 |
| Houston | 3,630 | 53.06% | 2,632 | 38.47% | 579 | 8.46% | 998 | 14.59% | 6,841 |
| Jackson | 4,758 | 71.58% | 1,868 | 28.10% | 21 | 0.32% | 2,890 | 43.48% | 6,647 |
| Jefferson | 38,604 | 44.11% | 43,695 | 49.93% | 5,214 | 5.96% | -5,091 | -5.82% | 87,513 |
| Lamar | 2,501 | 73.58% | 867 | 25.51% | 31 | 0.91% | 1,634 | 48.07% | 3,399 |
| Lauderdale | 9,150 | 78.26% | 2,458 | 21.02% | 84 | 0.72% | 6,692 | 57.24% | 11,692 |
| Lawrence | 2,961 | 70.75% | 1,197 | 28.60% | 27 | 0.65% | 1,764 | 42.15% | 4,185 |
| Lee | 3,302 | 65.37% | 1,586 | 31.40% | 163 | 3.23% | 1,716 | 33.97% | 5,051 |
| Limestone | 4,145 | 87.26% | 589 | 12.40% | 16 | 0.34% | 3,556 | 74.86% | 4,750 |
| Lowndes | 623 | 52.27% | 326 | 27.35% | 243 | 20.39% | 297 | 24.92% | 1,192 |
| Macon | 1,024 | 46.69% | 1,067 | 48.65% | 102 | 4.65% | -43 | -1.96% | 2,193 |
| Madison | 9,054 | 74.52% | 2,993 | 24.63% | 103 | 0.85% | 6,061 | 49.89% | 12,150 |
| Marengo | 1,858 | 60.88% | 1,009 | 33.06% | 185 | 6.06% | 849 | 27.82% | 3,052 |
| Marion | 2,849 | 52.67% | 2,536 | 46.88% | 24 | 0.44% | 313 | 5.79% | 5,409 |
| Marshall | 6,329 | 66.66% | 3,071 | 32.34% | 95 | 1.00% | 3,258 | 34.32% | 9,495 |
| Mobile | 17,163 | 43.41% | 20,639 | 52.21% | 1,732 | 4.38% | -3,476 | -8.80% | 39,534 |
| Monroe | 2,069 | 69.95% | 759 | 25.66% | 130 | 4.39% | 1,310 | 44.29% | 2,958 |
| Montgomery | 6,890 | 36.57% | 8,727 | 46.32% | 3,224 | 17.11% | -1,837 | -9.75% | 18,841 |
| Morgan | 7,671 | 70.56% | 2,974 | 27.35% | 227 | 2.09% | 4,697 | 43.21% | 10,872 |
| Perry | 974 | 53.75% | 613 | 33.83% | 225 | 12.42% | 361 | 19.92% | 1,812 |
| Pickens | 1,660 | 58.78% | 993 | 35.16% | 171 | 6.06% | 667 | 23.62% | 2,824 |
| Pike | 2,631 | 68.53% | 997 | 25.97% | 211 | 5.50% | 1,634 | 42.56% | 3,839 |
| Randolph | 3,151 | 66.18% | 1,584 | 33.27% | 26 | 0.55% | 1,567 | 32.91% | 4,761 |
| Russell | 3,060 | 68.32% | 1,265 | 28.24% | 154 | 3.44% | 1,795 | 40.08% | 4,479 |
| St. Clair | 2,420 | 48.64% | 2,441 | 49.07% | 114 | 2.29% | -399 | -7.15% | 4,975 |
| Shelby | 2,502 | 44.83% | 2,901 | 51.98% | 178 | 3.19% | -21 | -0.43% | 5,581 |
| Sumter | 981 | 58.71% | 578 | 34.59% | 112 | 6.70% | 403 | 24.12% | 1,671 |
| Talladega | 5,243 | 54.63% | 4,197 | 43.73% | 157 | 1.64% | 1,046 | 10.90% | 9,597 |
| Tallapoosa | 5,070 | 72.00% | 1,879 | 26.68% | 93 | 1.32% | 3,191 | 45.32% | 7,042 |
| Tuscaloosa | 8,186 | 59.33% | 4,994 | 36.19% | 618 | 4.48% | 3,192 | 23.14% | 13,798 |
| Walker | 7,661 | 59.30% | 5,179 | 40.09% | 79 | 0.61% | 2,482 | 19.21% | 12,919 |
| Washington | 1,705 | 66.37% | 777 | 30.25% | 87 | 3.39% | 928 | 36.12% | 2,569 |
| Wilcox | 778 | 52.78% | 499 | 33.85% | 197 | 13.36% | 279 | 18.93% | 1,474 |
| Winston | 1,570 | 34.35% | 2,998 | 65.60% | 2 | 0.04% | -1,428 | -31.25% | 4,570 |
| Totals | 280,844 | 56.52% | 195,694 | 39.39% | 20,323 | 4.09% | 85,150 | 17.13% | 496,861 |
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.
- This county also voted Republican in the Reconstruction Era elections of 1868 and 1872.
- Faithless elector W. F. Turner voted for Walter Burgwyn Jones and Herman Talmadge.
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 - Alabama". Retrieved June 10, 2017.
- "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1956". Retrieved June 10, 2017.
- Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016.
- Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1963. Montgomery, Alabama: Walker Printing Co. 1963. pp. 607–610. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 33-34 ISBN 0405077114
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