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The1952 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the1952 United States presidential election. Florida voters chose ten representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.[2]
Florida was won byColumbia University PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower (R–Kansas), running withSenatorRichard Nixon, with 54.99% of the popular vote, againstAdlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running withSenatorJohn Sparkman, with 44.97% of the popular vote.
In contrast toHerbert Hoover's anti-Catholicism-driven victory in the state in1928, Eisenhower's victory was entirely concentrated in the newer and more liberalSouth Florida counties, which had seen extensive Northern settlement since the war, did not have a history of slave-based plantation farming,[3] and saw Eisenhower as more favourable to business than the Democratic Party.[4] Eisenhower swept the urban areas ofMiami,Orlando,Fort Lauderdale,Sarasota andTampa, but failed to gain much support in the northwesternpineywoods that had been the core of the 1928 "Hoovercrat" bolt. In this region – inhabited by socially exceptionally conservativepoor whites who had been voting in increasing numbers since Florida abolishedits poll tax – Democratic loyalties dating from the Civil War remained extremely strong and economicpopulism hostile in general toward urban areas kept voters loyal to Stevenson.[5] Whereas the urban voters who turned to Eisenhower felt wholly disfranchised both locally and nationally by the one-party system and malapportionment, rural poor voters supported theNew Deal/Fair Dealstatus quo.[6]
In contrast to the wholly Deep South states of Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina, where former Thurmond voters turned to Eisenhower,[7] Florida – although akin to those states in entirely lacking traditionalAppalachian,Ozark or German "Forty-Eighter" Republicanism[3] – did not see its1948Dixiecrat voters or black belt whites turn over to Eisenhower on a large scale, and they were less loyal than in North Carolina, Texas and Virginia, where traditional Republicanism did exist. Florida'sSouthern Democrat political culture was strong enough that they were the only state that the Southern candidateRichard Russell won in the1952 Democratic primaries.
Eisenhower's victory was the first of three consecutive Republican victories in the state, as Florida would not vote Democratic again untilLyndon B. Johnson’s landslide victory in1964. As of the2024 presidential election[update], this is the last election in whichCollier County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[8]
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Republican | New York | 544,036 | 54.99% | 10 | Richard Nixon | California | 10 |
| Adlai Stevenson II | Democratic | Illinois | 444,950 | 44.97% | 0 | John Sparkman | Alabama | 0 |
| Various candidates[a] | Write-ins | — | 351[b] | 0.04% | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| Total | 989,337 | 100% | 10 | 10 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
| County[9] | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | Adlai Stevenson Democratic | Margin | Total votes cast | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Alachua | 8,432 | 58.47% | 5,990 | 41.53% | 2,442 | 16.94% | 14,422 |
| Baker | 419 | 22.04% | 1,482 | 77.96% | -1,063 | -55.92% | 1,901 |
| Bay | 4,812 | 35.38% | 8,789 | 64.62% | -3,977 | -29.24% | 13,601 |
| Bradford | 976 | 29.68% | 2,312 | 70.32% | -1,336 | -40.64% | 3,288 |
| Brevard | 6,756 | 61.91% | 4,157 | 38.09% | 2,599 | 23.82% | 10,913 |
| Broward | 26,506 | 69.10% | 11,854 | 30.90% | 14,652 | 38.20% | 38,360 |
| Calhoun | 590 | 24.41% | 1,827 | 75.59% | -1,237 | -51.18% | 2,417 |
| Charlotte | 1,134 | 58.79% | 795 | 41.21% | 339 | 17.58% | 1,929 |
| Citrus | 1,249 | 47.85% | 1,361 | 52.15% | -112 | -4.30% | 2,610 |
| Clay | 2,116 | 49.07% | 2,196 | 50.93% | -80 | -1.86% | 4,312 |
| Collier | 1,086 | 49.59% | 1,104 | 50.41% | -18 | -0.82% | 2,190 |
| Columbia | 2,041 | 38.73% | 3,229 | 61.27% | -1,188 | -22.54% | 5,270 |
| DeSoto | 1,256 | 41.21% | 1,792 | 58.79% | -536 | -17.58% | 3,048 |
| Dixie | 440 | 34.81% | 824 | 65.19% | -384 | -30.38% | 1,264 |
| Duval | 50,346 | 48.27% | 53,949 | 51.73% | -3,603 | -3.46% | 104,295 |
| Escambia | 12,176 | 37.27% | 20,495 | 62.73% | -8,319 | -25.46% | 32,671 |
| Flagler | 512 | 51.30% | 486 | 48.70% | 26 | 2.60% | 998 |
| Franklin | 611 | 33.04% | 1,238 | 66.96% | -627 | -33.92% | 1,849 |
| Gadsden | 1,835 | 40.41% | 2,706 | 59.59% | -871 | -19.18% | 4,541 |
| Gilchrist | 195 | 16.43% | 992 | 83.57% | -797 | -67.14% | 1,187 |
| Glades | 264 | 39.70% | 401 | 60.30% | -137 | -20.60% | 665 |
| Gulf | 490 | 21.69% | 1,769 | 78.31% | -1,279 | -56.62% | 2,259 |
| Hamilton | 658 | 31.18% | 1,452 | 68.82% | -794 | -37.64% | 2,110 |
| Hardee | 1,802 | 46.55% | 2,069 | 53.45% | -267 | -6.90% | 3,871 |
| Hendry | 918 | 46.60% | 1,052 | 53.40% | -134 | -6.80% | 1,970 |
| Hernando | 1,279 | 53.67% | 1,104 | 46.33% | 175 | 7.34% | 2,383 |
| Highlands | 2,952 | 51.90% | 2,736 | 48.10% | 216 | 3.80% | 5,688 |
| Hillsborough | 36,316 | 52.20% | 33,252 | 47.80% | 3,064 | 4.40% | 69,568 |
| Holmes | 1,230 | 27.67% | 3,216 | 72.33% | -1,986 | -44.66% | 4,446 |
| Indian River | 3,055 | 65.94% | 1,578 | 34.06% | 1,477 | 31.88% | 4,633 |
| Jackson | 2,398 | 29.53% | 5,722 | 70.47% | -3,324 | -40.94% | 8,120 |
| Jefferson | 665 | 36.22% | 1,171 | 63.78% | -506 | -27.56% | 1,836 |
| Lafayette | 269 | 21.52% | 981 | 78.48% | -712 | -56.96% | 1,250 |
| Lake | 9,132 | 70.63% | 3,797 | 29.37% | 5,335 | 41.26% | 12,929 |
| Lee | 5,528 | 59.09% | 3,828 | 40.91% | 1,700 | 18.18% | 9,356 |
| Leon | 5,604 | 41.19% | 8,000 | 58.81% | -2,396 | -17.62% | 13,604 |
| Levy | 1,066 | 34.66% | 2,010 | 65.34% | -944 | -30.68% | 3,076 |
| Liberty | 237 | 18.60% | 1,037 | 81.40% | -800 | -62.80% | 1,274 |
| Madison | 1,209 | 42.66% | 1,625 | 57.34% | -416 | -14.68% | 2,834 |
| Manatee | 9,055 | 66.40% | 4,583 | 33.60% | 4,472 | 32.80% | 13,638 |
| Marion | 6,134 | 51.17% | 5,854 | 48.83% | 280 | 2.34% | 11,988 |
| Martin | 2,308 | 64.65% | 1,262 | 35.35% | 1,046 | 29.30% | 3,570 |
| Miami-Dade | 122,174 | 56.77% | 93,022 | 43.23% | 29,152 | 13.54% | 215,196 |
| Monroe | 2,943 | 37.33% | 4,941 | 62.67% | -1,998 | -25.34% | 7,884 |
| Nassau | 1,731 | 40.82% | 2,510 | 59.18% | -779 | -18.36% | 4,241 |
| Okaloosa | 2,355 | 30.47% | 5,375 | 69.53% | -3,020 | -39.06% | 7,730 |
| Okeechobee | 539 | 37.96% | 881 | 62.04% | -342 | -24.08% | 1,420 |
| Orange | 29,813 | 71.06% | 12,141 | 28.94% | 17,672 | 42.12% | 41,954 |
| Osceola | 3,133 | 62.25% | 1,900 | 37.75% | 1,233 | 24.50% | 5,033 |
| Palm Beach | 28,595 | 67.57% | 13,723 | 32.43% | 14,872 | 35.14% | 42,318 |
| Pasco | 4,562 | 56.24% | 3,549 | 43.76% | 1,013 | 12.48% | 8,111 |
| Pinellas | 55,691 | 71.35% | 22,365 | 28.65% | 33,326 | 42.70% | 78,056 |
| Polk | 20,874 | 51.63% | 19,556 | 48.37% | 1,318 | 3.26% | 40,430 |
| Putnam | 3,766 | 51.65% | 3,525 | 48.35% | 241 | 3.30% | 7,291 |
| St. Johns | 4,702 | 51.85% | 4,366 | 48.15% | 336 | 3.70% | 9,068 |
| St. Lucie | 4,667 | 62.65% | 2,782 | 37.35% | 1,885 | 25.30% | 7,449 |
| Santa Rosa | 1,744 | 28.50% | 4,375 | 71.50% | -2,631 | -43.00% | 6,119 |
| Sarasota | 9,538 | 70.74% | 3,945 | 29.26% | 5,593 | 41.48% | 13,483 |
| Seminole | 4,683 | 60.02% | 3,120 | 39.98% | 1,563 | 20.04% | 7,803 |
| Sumter | 1,054 | 31.64% | 2,277 | 68.36% | -1,223 | -36.72% | 3,331 |
| Suwannee | 1,611 | 36.30% | 2,827 | 63.70% | -1,216 | -27.40% | 4,438 |
| Taylor | 744 | 29.40% | 1,787 | 70.60% | -1,043 | -41.20% | 2,531 |
| Union | 268 | 21.68% | 968 | 78.32% | -700 | -56.64% | 1,236 |
| Volusia | 19,815 | 62.46% | 11,910 | 37.54% | 7,905 | 24.92% | 31,725 |
| Wakulla | 375 | 24.24% | 1,172 | 75.76% | -797 | -51.52% | 1,547 |
| Walton | 1,502 | 29.48% | 3,593 | 70.52% | -2,091 | -41.04% | 5,095 |
| Washington | 1,100 | 32.71% | 2,263 | 67.29% | -1,163 | -34.58% | 3,363 |
| Totals | 544,036 | 54.99% | 444,950 | 44.97% | 99,086 | 10.02% | 989,337 |
Eisenhower won 6 of the 8 congressional districts, all of which were held by Democrats.
| District[10] | Eisenhower | Stevenson |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 61.9% | 38.1% |
| 2nd | 48.3% | 51.7% |
| 3rd | 26.7% | 73.3% |
| 4th | 56.1% | 43.9% |
| 5th | 63% | 37% |
| 6th | 65.5% | 34.5% |
| 7th | 56.7% | 43.3% |
| 8th | 57.7% | 42.3% |
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
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