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The1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 4, 1952. All 48 States were part of the1952 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in theElectoral College, which voted forPresident andVice President.
New Mexico was won byWorld War II hero and supreme allied commanderDwight D. Eisenhower by a wide 11 percentage point margin. Running against Eisenhower wasGovernor of IllinoisAdlai Stevenson, who carried only the majority of theAmerican South during his two runs for the presidency.[2] Starting with this election,Valencia County would back the national winner in every election until2020.
This was the last election in which voters in New Mexico chose presidential electors directly. Starting in1956, the state adopted the modern "short ballot" where voters could only choose between the actual candidates' names, with the understanding that a vote for a candidate was a vote for their party's entire slate of electors.
| Party | Pledged to | Elector | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Mrs. Luis E. Armijo | 132,170 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Louis A. McRae | 131,515 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | C. C. Bacon | 131,112 | |
| Republican Party | Dwight D. Eisenhower | W. Fields Walker | 131,110 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | Mike F. Apodaca | 105,661 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | W. W. Nichols | 105,435 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | Mary J. Sweeney | 105,386 | |
| Democratic Party | Adlai Stevenson II | Alice Woolston | 104,914 | |
| Prohibition Party | Stuart Hamblen | Lewis A. Myers | 297 | |
| Prohibition Party | Stuart Hamblen | Luther B. Mitchell | 287 | |
| Prohibition Party | Stuart Hamblen | Sadie E. Evans | 273 | |
| Prohibition Party | Stuart Hamblen | Mrs. Forrest E. Wilson | 271 | |
| Progressive Party | Vincent Hallinan | Vincente B. Becerra | 225 | |
| Christian Nationalist Party | Douglas MacArthur | Everyl G. Gore | 220 | |
| Christian Nationalist Party | Douglas MacArthur | Florence Porterfield | 217 | |
| Christian Nationalist Party | Douglas MacArthur | Oralee Porter | 215 | |
| Christian Nationalist Party | Douglas MacArthur | J. Earl Syling | 215 | |
| Progressive Party | Vincent Hallinan | Virginia L. Chacon | 212 | |
| Progressive Party | Vincent Hallinan | Ruth S. Young | 212 | |
| Progressive Party | Vincent Hallinan | Helen Mallery | 199 | |
| Socialist Labor Party | Eric Hass | Paris W. Linam | 35 | |
| Socialist Labor Party | Eric Hass | Jeannete Reynolds | 34 | |
| Socialist Labor Party | Eric Hass | James William Peach | 34 | |
| Socialist Labor Party | Eric Hass | Dallas Reynolds | 32 | |
| Votes cast[a] | 238,608 | |||
| County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | Adlai Stevenson Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Bernalillo | 33,964 | 59.38% | 23,164 | 40.50% | 72 | 0.12% | 10,800 | 18.88% | 57,200 |
| Catron | 741 | 61.49% | 464 | 38.51% | 0 | 0.00% | 277 | 22.98% | 1,205 |
| Chaves | 7,018 | 63.92% | 3,880 | 35.34% | 81 | 0.74% | 3,138 | 28.58% | 10,979 |
| Colfax | 3,397 | 51.58% | 3,184 | 48.34% | 5 | 0.08% | 213 | 3.24% | 6,586 |
| Curry | 5,023 | 59.38% | 3,422 | 40.45% | 14 | 0.17% | 1,601 | 18.93% | 8,459 |
| De Baca | 782 | 57.25% | 581 | 42.53% | 3 | 0.22% | 201 | 14.72% | 1,366 |
| Dona Ana | 5,902 | 56.33% | 4,556 | 43.48% | 20 | 0.19% | 1,346 | 12.85% | 10,478 |
| Eddy | 6,041 | 44.45% | 7,495 | 55.15% | 55 | 0.40% | -1,454 | -10.70% | 13,591 |
| Grant | 3,421 | 43.18% | 4,315 | 54.47% | 186 | 2.35% | -894 | -11.29% | 7,922 |
| Guadalupe | 1,575 | 53.90% | 1,347 | 46.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 228 | 7.80% | 2,922 |
| Harding | 760 | 63.49% | 436 | 36.42% | 1 | 0.09% | 324 | 27.07% | 1,197 |
| Hidalgo | 781 | 50.58% | 757 | 49.03% | 6 | 0.39% | 24 | 1.55% | 1,544 |
| Lea | 4,738 | 47.52% | 5,204 | 52.19% | 29 | 0.29% | -466 | -4.67% | 9,971 |
| Lincoln | 2,004 | 64.52% | 1,095 | 35.25% | 7 | 0.23% | 909 | 29.27% | 3,106 |
| Los Alamos | 2,226 | 49.30% | 2,281 | 50.52% | 8 | 0.18% | -55 | -1.22% | 4,515 |
| Luna | 1,729 | 55.86% | 1,332 | 43.04% | 34 | 1.10% | 397 | 12.82% | 3,095 |
| McKinley | 3,091 | 49.80% | 3,097 | 49.90% | 19 | 0.30% | -6 | -0.10% | 6,207 |
| Mora | 1,849 | 56.61% | 1,413 | 43.26% | 4 | 0.13% | 436 | 13.35% | 3,266 |
| Otero | 2,456 | 53.16% | 2,162 | 46.80% | 2 | 0.04% | 294 | 6.36% | 4,620 |
| Quay | 2,711 | 53.00% | 2,375 | 46.43% | 29 | 0.57% | 336 | 6.57% | 5,115 |
| Rio Arriba | 4,336 | 48.69% | 4,564 | 51.25% | 5 | 0.06% | -228 | -2.56% | 8,905 |
| Roosevelt | 3,030 | 56.74% | 2,298 | 43.03% | 12 | 0.23% | 732 | 13.71% | 5,340 |
| San Juan | 3,864 | 69.73% | 1,659 | 29.94% | 18 | 0.33% | 2,205 | 39.79% | 5,541 |
| San Miguel | 5,360 | 54.59% | 4,451 | 45.34% | 7 | 0.07% | 909 | 9.25% | 9,818 |
| Sandoval | 1,795 | 52.06% | 1,647 | 47.77% | 6 | 0.17% | 148 | 4.29% | 3,448 |
| Santa Fe | 9,011 | 56.62% | 6,786 | 42.64% | 119 | 0.74% | 2,225 | 13.98% | 15,916 |
| Sierra | 2,033 | 63.61% | 1,158 | 36.23% | 5 | 0.16% | 875 | 27.38% | 3,196 |
| Socorro | 2,224 | 55.52% | 1,777 | 44.36% | 5 | 0.12% | 447 | 11.16% | 4,006 |
| Taos | 2,763 | 48.94% | 2,877 | 50.96% | 6 | 0.10% | -114 | -2.02% | 5,646 |
| Torrance | 1,747 | 54.99% | 1,422 | 44.76% | 8 | 0.25% | 325 | 10.23% | 3,177 |
| Union | 1,988 | 63.39% | 1,142 | 36.42% | 6 | 0.19% | 846 | 26.97% | 3,136 |
| Valencia | 3,810 | 53.47% | 3,310 | 46.46% | 5 | 0.07% | 500 | 7.01% | 7,125 |
| Totals | 132,170 | 55.39% | 105,661 | 44.28% | 777 | 0.33% | 26,509 | 11.11% | 238,608 |
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
