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The1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 4, 1952. All contemporary 48 states were part of the1952 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
New Jersey was won by theRepublican nominees,GeneralDwight D. Eisenhower ofNew York and his running mateSenatorRichard Nixon ofCalifornia. Eisenhower and Nixon defeated theDemocratic nominees, formerGovernorAdlai Stevenson ofIllinois and his running mateSenatorJohn Sparkman ofAlabama.
Eisenhower carried New Jersey with 56.81% of the vote to Stevenson's 41.99%, a margin of 14.83%.[3] Eisenhower won 18 of the state's 21 counties, breaking 60% of the vote in nine of them, and even breaking 70% in three of those. Stevenson carried three urban counties; he won with majorities inMercer County andCamden County, and won with a plurality inHudson County. Eisenhower ultimately won election to the White House as a war hero, a political outsider, and a moderate Republican who pledged to protect and support popularNew Deal Democratic policies, finally ending 20 years of Democratic control of the White House.
New Jersey in this era was usually aswing state with a slight Republican lean, and its results in 1952 adhered to that pattern. DemocratFranklin D. Roosevelt had won New Jersey in all four of his decisive nationwide victories in the 1930s and 1940s, but with the exception of his1936 landslide, always by very narrow margins. In1948, New Jersey had been narrowly won by RepublicanThomas E. Dewey, even as he lost the election nationally. With Eisenhower's personal popularity propelling him to a decisive nationwide victory in 1952, New Jersey easily remained in the Republican column, its results making it about 4% more Republican than the national average.
Republicans won Passaic, Salem, and Middlesex counties for the first time since1928. This was the first election since1868 that a Republican won the election without Mercer County, and the first since1860 to do so without Camden County.
| 1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1,374,613 | 56.81% | 16 | |
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 1,015,902 | 41.99% | 0 | |
| Socialist | Darlington Hoopes | 8,593 | 0.36% | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor | Eric Hass | 5,815 | 0.24% | 0 | |
| Progressive | Vincent Hallinan | 5,589 | 0.23% | 0 | |
| Poor Man's Party | Henry B. Krajewski | 4,203 | 0.17% | 0 | |
| Socialist Workers | Farrell Dobbs | 3,850 | 0.16% | 0 | |
| Prohibition | Stuart Hamblen | 989 | 0.04% | 0 | |
| Totals | 2,419,554 | 100.0% | 16 | ||
| County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | Adlai Stevenson Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast[4] | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Atlantic | 40,259 | 58.03% | 28,953 | 41.73% | 163 | 0.24% | 11,306 | 16.30% | 69,375 |
| Bergen | 212,842 | 69.22% | 93,373 | 30.37% | 1,287 | 0.41% | 119,469 | 38.85% | 307,502 |
| Burlington | 30,202 | 54.18% | 25,482 | 45.71% | 60 | 0.11% | 4,720 | 8.47% | 55,744 |
| Camden | 72,335 | 46.81% | 81,444 | 52.70% | 762 | 0.49% | -9,109 | -5.89% | 154,541 |
| Cape May | 15,218 | 68.52% | 6,984 | 31.45% | 7 | 0.03% | 8,234 | 37.07% | 22,209 |
| Cumberland | 21,819 | 53.40% | 18,929 | 46.33% | 111 | 0.27% | 2,890 | 7.07% | 40,859 |
| Essex | 219,863 | 53.94% | 180,501 | 44.28% | 7,271 | 1.78% | 39,362 | 9.66% | 407,635 |
| Gloucester | 25,103 | 54.89% | 20,536 | 44.90% | 98 | 0.21% | 4,567 | 9.99% | 45,737 |
| Hudson | 153,583 | 47.36% | 161,469 | 49.79% | 9,228 | 2.85% | -7,886 | -2.43% | 324,280 |
| Hunterdon | 14,439 | 67.47% | 6,878 | 32.14% | 83 | 0.39% | 7,561 | 35.33% | 21,400 |
| Mercer | 50,423 | 46.40% | 57,751 | 53.15% | 488 | 0.45% | -7,328 | -6.75% | 108,662 |
| Middlesex | 73,577 | 50.32% | 70,234 | 48.03% | 2,413 | 1.65% | 3,343 | 2.29% | 146,224 |
| Monmouth | 73,228 | 66.28% | 37,006 | 33.49% | 257 | 0.23% | 36,222 | 32.79% | 110,491 |
| Morris | 62,847 | 72.55% | 23,662 | 27.31% | 120 | 0.14% | 39,185 | 45.24% | 86,629 |
| Ocean | 23,490 | 72.80% | 8,660 | 26.84% | 117 | 0.36% | 14,830 | 45.96% | 32,267 |
| Passaic | 89,083 | 54.26% | 70,727 | 43.08% | 4,380 | 2.66% | 18,356 | 11.18% | 164,190 |
| Salem | 12,026 | 51.30% | 11,362 | 48.47% | 54 | 0.23% | 664 | 2.83% | 23,442 |
| Somerset | 31,239 | 63.34% | 18,007 | 36.51% | 74 | 0.15% | 13,232 | 26.83% | 49,320 |
| Sussex | 13,415 | 74.68% | 4,534 | 25.24% | 14 | 0.08% | 8,881 | 49.44% | 17,963 |
| Union | 122,885 | 60.46% | 78,336 | 38.54% | 2,024 | 1.00% | 44,549 | 21.92% | 203,245 |
| Warren | 15,737 | 58.63% | 11,074 | 41.26% | 28 | 0.11% | 4,663 | 17.37% | 26,839 |
| Totals | 1,374,613 | 56.81% | 1,015,902 | 41.99% | 29,039 | 1.20% | 358,711 | 14.82% | 2,419,554 |
Eisenhower won 11 out of 14 of New Jersey's congressional districts, while Stevenson won the other three congressional districts.[5]
| District[5] | Eisenhower | Stevenson |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 48.1% | 51.9% |
| 2nd | 58.5% | 41.5% |
| 3rd | 62.9% | 37.1% |
| 4th | 49.2% | 50.8% |
| 5th | 62.4% | 37.6% |
| 6th | 61.1% | 38.9% |
| 7th | 68.5% | 31.5% |
| 8th | 55.7% | 44.3% |
| 9th | 67.6% | 32.4% |
| 10th | 54.3% | 45.7% |
| 11th | 53.1% | 46.9% |
| 12th | 55.5% | 44.5% |
| 13th | 44.8% | 55.2% |
| 14th | 51.9% | 48.1% |
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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