1956 Republican Party presidential primaries

1956 Republican Party presidential primaries

← 1952 March 11 to June 5, 1956 1960 →

Candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower John W. Bricker Home state Kansas Ohio Contests won 16 0 Popular vote 5,008,132 478,453 Percentage 85.9% 8.21%

Previous Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower

From March 11 to June 5, 1956, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1956 United States presidential election. Incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1956 Republican National Convention held from August 20 to August 23, 1956, in San Francisco, California.^[1]

Eisenhower sought re-nomination and faced no formidable opposition. He swept the primaries without difficulty. Senator William F. Knowland of California was on the ballot for a number of them. Knowland had announced he would run if Ike would not, and the president announced so late that there was no time for Knowland to withdraw.