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The1952 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the1952 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 16 representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Massachusetts voted for theRepublican nominee,GeneralDwight D. Eisenhower ofNew York, over theDemocratic nominee, formerGovernorAdlai Stevenson ofIllinois. Eisenhower ran with theSenatorRichard Nixon ofCalifornia, while Stevenson's running mate was SenatorJohn Sparkman ofAlabama.
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 theCivil War, Massachusetts, had been a Democratic-leaning state since1928, when a coalition of Irish Catholic and other ethnic immigrant voters primarily based in urban areas turned Massachusetts and neighboringRhode Island into New England's only reliably Democratic states. Massachusetts voted forAl Smith in 1928, forFranklin D. Roosevelt four times in the 1930s and 1940s, and forHarry S. Truman in1948. However General Dwight Eisenhower, a war hero and moderate Republican who pledged to support and continue popularNew 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 urbanSuffolk County, home to the state's capital and largest city,Boston.
This was the first time thatMassachusetts was won by a Republican presidential candidate since1924.
| 1952 United States presidential election in Massachusetts[3] | |||||
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| 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 | ||
| County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | Adlai Stevenson Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast[4] | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Barnstable | 20,943 | 80.64% | 4,984 | 19.19% | 44 | 0.17% | 15,959 | 61.45% | 25,971 |
| Berkshire | 38,413 | 56.13% | 29,785 | 43.52% | 243 | 0.36% | 8,628 | 12.61% | 68,441 |
| Bristol | 98,105 | 51.09% | 93,444 | 48.67% | 462 | 0.24% | 4,661 | 2.42% | 192,011 |
| Dukes | 2,432 | 76.05% | 760 | 23.76% | 6 | 0.19% | 1,672 | 52.29% | 3,198 |
| Essex | 156,030 | 55.64% | 123,334 | 43.98% | 1,045 | 0.37% | 32,696 | 11.66% | 280,409 |
| Franklin | 19,489 | 68.94% | 8,729 | 30.88% | 50 | 0.18% | 10,760 | 38.06% | 28,268 |
| Hampden | 98,641 | 51.86% | 90,936 | 47.81% | 616 | 0.32% | 7,705 | 4.05% | 190,193 |
| Hampshire | 24,141 | 58.19% | 17,247 | 41.57% | 98 | 0.24% | 6,894 | 16.62% | 41,486 |
| Middlesex | 316,069 | 56.99% | 236,910 | 42.72% | 1,626 | 0.29% | 79,159 | 14.27% | 554,605 |
| Nantucket | 1,490 | 78.55% | 405 | 21.35% | 2 | 0.11% | 1,085 | 57.20% | 1,897 |
| Norfolk | 140,409 | 65.20% | 74,321 | 34.51% | 631 | 0.29% | 66,088 | 30.69% | 215,361 |
| Plymouth | 67,922 | 67.22% | 32,815 | 32.48% | 305 | 0.30% | 35,107 | 34.74% | 101,042 |
| Suffolk | 162,147 | 40.05% | 240,957 | 59.51% | 1,775 | 0.44% | -78,810 | -19.46% | 404,879 |
| Worcester | 146,094 | 53.00% | 128,898 | 46.76% | 645 | 0.23% | 17,196 | 6.24% | 275,637 |
| Totals | 1,292,325 | 54.22% | 1,083,525 | 45.46% | 7,548 | 0.32% | 208,800 | 8.76% | 2,383,398 |
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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