1952 United States presidential election in Missouri

1952 United States presidential election in Missouri

← 1948 November 4, 1952[1] 1956 →
 
Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York[2] Illinois
Running mate Richard Nixon John Sparkman
Electoral vote 13 0
Popular vote 959,429 929,830
Percentage 50.71% 49.14%

County Results

President before election

Harry S. Truman
Democratic

Elected President

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

The 1952 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[3]

Missouri was won by Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (RNew York), running with Senator Richard Nixon, with 50.71 percent of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (DIllinois), running with Senator John Sparkman, with 49.14 percent of the popular vote.

Missouri weighed in for this election as slightly over 9 points more Democratic than the nation-at-large. It would become the only state which Eisenhower won in 1952 but would flip to Stevenson four years later.

  1. ^ "United States Presidential election of 1952 — Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  2. ^ "U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved 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
  3. ^ "1952 Presidential Election Results — Missouri".

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