Eisenhower took 60.92% of the vote to Stevenson's 39.08%, a margin of 21.84%. Eisenhower, a war hero and moderate Republican who had pledged to maintain popularNew Deal Democratic policies, had wide appeal beyond the boundaries of the traditional Republican coalition. New Hampshire had been narrowly carried by DemocratFranklin Roosevelt three out of four times, although the state narrowly reverted to the GOP in1948. However Eisenhower's unique personal appeal brought the state decisively back into the Republican column in 1952.
Eisenhower won nine of the state's ten counties. SinceFranklin D. Roosevelt won them in1932, the counties ofHillsborough County,Strafford County, andCoos County had become reliableNew Deal Democratic base counties, voting for Roosevelt all four times as well as forHarry S. Truman. However Eisenhower in 1952 won back Strafford County and Coos County for the GOP, although Stevenson won a majority in Hillsborough County, home toManchester andNashua, which had been a reliable Democratic bastion since voting for DemocratAl Smith in1928.
Carroll County had long been the most Republican county in New Hampshire, voting 60% against FDR all four times and over 70% forThomas E. Dewey in 1948. Eisenhower would receive over 80% of the vote in the county in 1952. As Eisenhower won a decisive election victory nationally, New Hampshire's results would make the state almost 11% more Republican than the national average.
^"U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. Archived fromthe original on October 29, 2013. RetrievedOctober 24, 2013.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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