United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 1952

United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 1952

November 4, 1952

Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson Party Republican Democratic Home state New York Illinois Running mate Richard Nixon John Sparkman Electoral vote 16 0 Popular vote 1,292,325 1,083,525 Percentage 54.2% 45.5%

County Results   Stevenson – 50–60%   Eisenhower – 50–60%   Eisenhower – 60–70%   Eisenhower – 70–80%   Eisenhower – 80–90%

President before election Harry S. Truman Democratic Elected President Dwight Eisenhower Republican

The 1952 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 16 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Massachusetts voted for the Republican nominee, General Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York, over the Democratic nominee, former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Eisenhower ran with the Senator Richard Nixon of California, while Stevenson's running mate was Senator John Sparkman of Alabama.

Eisenhower carried the state with 54.22% of the vote to Stevenson's 45.46%, a Republican victory margin of 8.76%.

As Eisenhower won a comfortable victory nationwide, Massachusetts still weighed in for this election as about 2% more Democratic than the national average.

Once a typical Yankee Republican bastion in the wake of the Civil War, Massachusetts, had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, when a coalition of Irish Catholic and other ethnic immigrant voters primarily based in urban areas turned Massachusetts and neighboring Rhode Island into New England's only reliably Democratic states. Massachusetts voted for Al Smith in 1928, for Franklin D. Roosevelt four times in the 1930s and 1940s, and for Harry S. Truman in 1948. However General Dwight Eisenhower, a war hero and moderate Republican who pledged to support and continue popular New Deal Democratic policies, was finally able to appeal to a broad enough coalition both to win back the White House and to flip Massachusetts back into the Republican column.

Eisenhower carried 13 of the state's 14 counties, Stevenson's only victory coming from urban Suffolk County, home to the state's capital and largest city, Boston. Suffolk County has not been carried by a Republican presidential nominee since 1924, and remained an obstacle to Republican success in the state, however Eisenhower was able to sweep the rest of the state by large enough margins to overcome Boston's strong Democratic lean.

Results

United States presidential election in Massachusetts, 1952[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1,292,325	54.22%	16
	Democratic	Adlai Stevenson	1,083,525	45.46%	0
	Progressive	Vincent Hallinan	4,636	0.19%	0
	Socialist Labor	Eric Hass	1,957	0.08%	0
	Prohibition	Stuart Hamblen	886	0.04%	0
	Write-ins	Write-ins	69	0.00%	0
Totals			2,383,398	100.00%	16

References

1. "1952 Presidential General Election Results - Massachusetts". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2013-02-07.

See also