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The1956 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the1956 United States presidential election. Voters chose 32 representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Pennsylvania strongly voted for theRepublican nominee,PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower, over theDemocratic nominee, formerIllinois GovernorAdlai Stevenson. Pennsylvania was the home state of President Eisenhower, as he moved to theGettysburg area afterWorld War II. Eisenhower won Pennsylvania by a solid 13.19% margin, and carried every county exceptPhiladelphia and four heavily unionized coal counties in the southwestern "Black Country". This result nonetheless made Pennsylvania 2.21% more Democratic than the nation-at-large.
This was the last time Pennsylvania voted for a Republican presidential candidate until Eisenhower's vice president,Richard Nixon, won the state in his re-election bid in1972.
| 1956 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[2] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower (incumbent) | 2,585,252 | 56.49% | 32 | |
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 1,981,769 | 43.30% | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor | Eric Hass | 7,447 | 0.16% | 0 | |
| Militant Workers | Farrell Dobbs | 2,035 | 0.04% | 0 | |
| County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | Adlai Stevenson Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 12,250 | 66.11% | 6,281 | 33.89% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,969 | 32.22% | 18,531 |
| Allegheny | 384,939 | 54.83% | 315,989 | 45.01% | 1,102 | 0.16% | 68,950 | 9.82% | 702,030 |
| Armstrong | 20,055 | 61.22% | 12,671 | 38.68% | 34 | 0.10% | 7,384 | 22.54% | 32,760 |
| Beaver | 38,263 | 51.21% | 36,373 | 48.68% | 79 | 0.11% | 1,890 | 2.53% | 74,715 |
| Bedford | 11,423 | 65.37% | 6,038 | 34.55% | 13 | 0.07% | 5,385 | 30.82% | 17,474 |
| Berks | 57,258 | 57.30% | 42,349 | 42.38% | 320 | 0.32% | 14,909 | 14.92% | 99,927 |
| Blair | 33,623 | 65.68% | 17,503 | 34.19% | 65 | 0.13% | 16,120 | 31.49% | 51,191 |
| Bradford | 15,399 | 73.57% | 5,502 | 26.29% | 30 | 0.14% | 9,897 | 47.28% | 20,931 |
| Bucks | 59,862 | 60.72% | 38,541 | 39.09% | 180 | 0.18% | 21,321 | 21.63% | 98,583 |
| Butler | 26,238 | 65.61% | 13,672 | 34.19% | 79 | 0.20% | 12,566 | 31.42% | 39,989 |
| Cambria | 46,373 | 52.55% | 41,753 | 47.31% | 123 | 0.14% | 4,620 | 5.24% | 88,249 |
| Cameron | 2,462 | 74.52% | 841 | 25.45% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,621 | 49.07% | 3,304 |
| Carbon | 13,150 | 57.27% | 9,722 | 42.34% | 89 | 0.39% | 3,428 | 14.93% | 22,961 |
| Centre | 15,412 | 67.18% | 7,483 | 32.62% | 45 | 0.20% | 7,929 | 34.56% | 22,940 |
| Chester | 47,225 | 70.24% | 19,957 | 29.68% | 50 | 0.07% | 27,268 | 40.56% | 67,232 |
| Clarion | 10,048 | 66.94% | 4,955 | 33.01% | 8 | 0.05% | 5,093 | 33.93% | 15,011 |
| Clearfield | 17,519 | 57.51% | 12,852 | 42.19% | 89 | 0.29% | 4,667 | 15.32% | 30,460 |
| Clinton | 8,250 | 60.32% | 5,411 | 39.56% | 17 | 0.12% | 2,839 | 20.76% | 13,678 |
| Columbia | 13,382 | 59.69% | 9,024 | 40.25% | 15 | 0.07% | 4,358 | 19.44% | 22,421 |
| Crawford | 18,887 | 66.65% | 9,346 | 32.98% | 104 | 0.37% | 9,541 | 33.67% | 28,337 |
| Cumberland | 29,468 | 68.10% | 13,651 | 31.55% | 153 | 0.35% | 15,817 | 36.55% | 43,272 |
| Dauphin | 61,342 | 67.45% | 29,226 | 32.14% | 375 | 0.41% | 32,116 | 35.31% | 90,943 |
| Delaware | 143,663 | 63.51% | 82,024 | 36.26% | 523 | 0.23% | 61,639 | 27.25% | 226,210 |
| Elk | 8,947 | 61.84% | 5,498 | 38.00% | 23 | 0.16% | 3,449 | 23.84% | 14,468 |
| Erie | 54,430 | 61.46% | 33,802 | 38.17% | 323 | 0.36% | 20,628 | 23.29% | 88,555 |
| Fayette | 27,857 | 41.97% | 38,312 | 57.72% | 206 | 0.31% | -10,455 | -15.75% | 66,375 |
| Forest | 1,535 | 71.13% | 622 | 28.82% | 1 | 0.05% | 913 | 42.31% | 2,158 |
| Franklin | 19,121 | 63.33% | 11,060 | 36.63% | 12 | 0.04% | 8,061 | 26.70% | 30,193 |
| Fulton | 2,370 | 56.50% | 1,819 | 43.36% | 6 | 0.14% | 551 | 13.14% | 4,195 |
| Greene | 7,562 | 43.45% | 9,827 | 56.47% | 14 | 0.08% | -2,265 | -13.02% | 17,403 |
| Huntingdon | 9,698 | 67.66% | 4,618 | 32.22% | 17 | 0.12% | 5,080 | 35.44% | 14,333 |
| Indiana | 18,593 | 62.27% | 11,268 | 37.73% | 0 | 0.00% | 7,325 | 24.54% | 29,861 |
| Jefferson | 13,051 | 66.26% | 6,627 | 33.64% | 19 | 0.10% | 6,424 | 32.62% | 19,697 |
| Juniata | 4,258 | 60.45% | 2,779 | 39.45% | 7 | 0.10% | 1,479 | 21.00% | 7,044 |
| Lackawanna | 64,386 | 53.56% | 55,741 | 46.37% | 79 | 0.07% | 8,645 | 7.19% | 120,206 |
| Lancaster | 69,026 | 72.05% | 26,538 | 27.70% | 237 | 0.25% | 42,488 | 44.35% | 95,801 |
| Lawrence | 25,037 | 55.61% | 19,923 | 44.25% | 65 | 0.14% | 5,114 | 11.36% | 45,025 |
| Lebanon | 22,556 | 68.35% | 10,406 | 31.53% | 41 | 0.12% | 12,150 | 36.82% | 33,003 |
| Lehigh | 50,564 | 63.30% | 29,067 | 36.39% | 251 | 0.31% | 21,497 | 26.91% | 79,882 |
| Luzerne | 92,458 | 58.22% | 65,155 | 41.02% | 1,207 | 0.76% | 27,303 | 17.20% | 158,820 |
| Lycoming | 27,030 | 66.67% | 13,490 | 33.28% | 20 | 0.05% | 13,540 | 33.39% | 40,540 |
| McKean | 14,725 | 73.81% | 5,152 | 25.82% | 73 | 0.37% | 9,573 | 47.99% | 19,950 |
| Mercer | 28,785 | 59.14% | 19,769 | 40.62% | 120 | 0.25% | 9,016 | 18.52% | 48,674 |
| Mifflin | 8,638 | 62.94% | 5,078 | 37.00% | 9 | 0.07% | 3,560 | 25.94% | 13,725 |
| Monroe | 10,081 | 64.30% | 5,506 | 35.12% | 92 | 0.59% | 4,575 | 29.18% | 15,679 |
| Montgomery | 133,270 | 69.20% | 59,095 | 30.69% | 218 | 0.11% | 74,175 | 38.51% | 192,583 |
| Montour | 3,976 | 65.71% | 2,072 | 34.24% | 3 | 0.05% | 1,904 | 31.47% | 6,051 |
| Northampton | 43,375 | 55.83% | 33,749 | 43.44% | 573 | 0.74% | 9,626 | 12.39% | 77,697 |
| Northumberland | 28,583 | 62.46% | 17,141 | 37.45% | 41 | 0.09% | 11,442 | 25.01% | 45,765 |
| Perry | 7,511 | 67.59% | 3,576 | 32.18% | 25 | 0.22% | 3,935 | 35.41% | 11,112 |
| Philadelphia | 383,414 | 42.97% | 507,289 | 56.85% | 1,618 | 0.18% | -123,875 | -13.88% | 892,321 |
| Pike | 4,160 | 77.28% | 1,219 | 22.65% | 4 | 0.07% | 2,941 | 54.63% | 5,383 |
| Potter | 5,181 | 69.45% | 2,257 | 30.25% | 22 | 0.29% | 2,924 | 39.20% | 7,460 |
| Schuylkill | 51,670 | 61.95% | 31,645 | 37.94% | 91 | 0.11% | 20,025 | 24.01% | 83,406 |
| Snyder | 7,102 | 78.35% | 1,959 | 21.61% | 3 | 0.03% | 5,143 | 56.74% | 9,064 |
| Somerset | 20,568 | 60.95% | 13,163 | 39.00% | 17 | 0.05% | 7,405 | 21.95% | 33,748 |
| Sullivan | 2,007 | 60.87% | 1,286 | 39.01% | 4 | 0.12% | 721 | 21.86% | 3,297 |
| Susquehanna | 10,752 | 71.42% | 4,293 | 28.52% | 10 | 0.07% | 6,459 | 42.90% | 15,055 |
| Tioga | 10,827 | 76.72% | 3,280 | 23.24% | 6 | 0.04% | 7,547 | 53.48% | 14,113 |
| Union | 6,620 | 78.08% | 1,844 | 21.75% | 14 | 0.17% | 4,776 | 56.33% | 8,478 |
| Venango | 17,107 | 75.31% | 5,594 | 24.63% | 14 | 0.06% | 11,513 | 50.68% | 22,715 |
| Warren | 12,145 | 72.94% | 4,463 | 26.80% | 43 | 0.26% | 7,682 | 46.14% | 16,651 |
| Washington | 39,465 | 45.04% | 48,052 | 54.84% | 98 | 0.11% | -8,587 | -9.80% | 87,615 |
| Wayne | 9,658 | 75.64% | 3,092 | 24.22% | 18 | 0.14% | 6,566 | 51.42% | 12,768 |
| Westmoreland | 66,580 | 47.77% | 72,616 | 52.10% | 192 | 0.14% | -6,036 | -4.33% | 139,388 |
| Wyoming | 5,906 | 73.56% | 2,120 | 26.40% | 3 | 0.04% | 3,786 | 47.16% | 8,029 |
| York | 48,176 | 55.33% | 38,743 | 44.50% | 149 | 0.17% | 9,433 | 10.83% | 87,068 |
| Totals | 2,585,252 | 56.49% | 1,981,769 | 43.30% | 9,482 | 0.21% | 603,483 | 13.19% | 4,576,503 |
Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
State and district results of the1956 United States presidential election | ||
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