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Apresidential election was held inIndiana on November 6, 1956, as part of the1956 United States presidential election. TheRepublican ticket of the incumbentpresident of the United StatesDwight D. Eisenhower and thevice president of the United StatesRichard Nixon defeated theDemocratic ticket of the formergovernor of IllinoisAdlai Stevenson II and the seniorU.S. senator fromTennesseeEstes Kefauver. Eisenhower defeated Stevenson in the national election with 457electoral votes.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 351,903 | 96.35 | |
| Republican | Lar Daly | 13,320 | 3.65 | |
| Total votes | 365,223 | 100.00 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Estes Kefauver | 242,842 | 100.00 | |
| Total votes | 242,842 | 100.00 | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower Richard Nixon | 1,182,811 | 59.90 |  1.79 | |
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson II Estes Kefauver | 783,908 | 39.70 | 1.29 | |
| Prohibition | Enoch Holtwick Herbert C. Holdridge | 6,554 | 0.33 | 0.45 | |
| Socialist Labor | Eric Hass Georgia Cozzini | 1,334 | 0.07 | 0.02 | |
| Total votes | 1,974,607 | 100.00 | |||
| County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | Adlai Stevenson Democratic | Others | Margin | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| Adams | 7,079 | 66.11% | 3,520 | 32.87% | 109 | 1.02% | 3,559 | 33.24% | 10,708 |
| Allen | 58,210 | 69.43% | 25,444 | 30.35% | 190 | 0.23% | 32,766 | 39.08% | 83,844 |
| Bartholomew | 12,227 | 59.78% | 8,134 | 39.77% | 92 | 0.45% | 4,093 | 20.01% | 20,453 |
| Benton | 4,004 | 67.02% | 1,961 | 32.83% | 9 | 0.15% | 2,043 | 34.19% | 5,974 |
| Blackford | 3,855 | 54.52% | 3,152 | 44.58% | 64 | 0.91% | 703 | 9.94% | 7,071 |
| Boone | 8,573 | 61.56% | 5,318 | 38.19% | 35 | 0.25% | 3,255 | 23.37% | 13,926 |
| Brown | 1,649 | 51.23% | 1,555 | 48.31% | 15 | 0.47% | 94 | 2.92% | 3,219 |
| Carroll | 5,748 | 63.26% | 3,312 | 36.45% | 26 | 0.29% | 2,436 | 26.81% | 9,086 |
| Cass | 12,624 | 62.19% | 7,594 | 37.41% | 81 | 0.40% | 5,030 | 24.78% | 20,299 |
| Clark | 12,483 | 51.09% | 11,871 | 48.59% | 79 | 0.32% | 612 | 2.50% | 24,433 |
| Clay | 7,302 | 55.91% | 5,720 | 43.79% | 39 | 0.30% | 1,582 | 12.12% | 13,061 |
| Clinton | 9,690 | 60.44% | 6,268 | 39.10% | 74 | 0.46% | 3,422 | 21.34% | 16,032 |
| Crawford | 2,694 | 51.96% | 2,433 | 46.92% | 58 | 1.12% | 261 | 5.04% | 5,185 |
| Daviess | 8,608 | 62.80% | 5,057 | 36.89% | 42 | 0.31% | 3,551 | 25.91% | 13,707 |
| Dearborn | 7,189 | 56.40% | 5,535 | 43.43% | 22 | 0.17% | 1,654 | 12.97% | 12,746 |
| Decatur | 6,390 | 64.87% | 3,427 | 34.79% | 34 | 0.35% | 2,963 | 30.08% | 9,851 |
| DeKalb | 9,061 | 66.75% | 4,435 | 32.67% | 79 | 0.58% | 4,626 | 34.08% | 13,575 |
| Delaware | 24,792 | 54.10% | 20,818 | 45.43% | 217 | 0.47% | 3,974 | 8.67% | 45,827 |
| Dubois | 6,942 | 57.19% | 5,177 | 42.65% | 20 | 0.16% | 1,765 | 14.54% | 12,139 |
| Elkhart | 28,088 | 69.05% | 12,363 | 30.39% | 226 | 0.56% | 15,725 | 38.66% | 40,677 |
| Fayette | 6,673 | 56.26% | 5,156 | 43.47% | 33 | 0.28% | 1,517 | 12.79% | 11,862 |
| Floyd | 10,410 | 55.18% | 8,378 | 44.41% | 77 | 0.41% | 2,032 | 10.77% | 18,865 |
| Fountain | 6,456 | 63.11% | 3,751 | 36.67% | 23 | 0.22% | 2,705 | 26.44% | 10,230 |
| Franklin | 4,429 | 63.02% | 2,573 | 36.61% | 26 | 0.37% | 1,856 | 26.41% | 7,028 |
| Fulton | 6,258 | 67.59% | 2,945 | 31.81% | 56 | 0.60% | 3,313 | 35.78% | 9,259 |
| Gibson | 9,256 | 55.58% | 7,318 | 43.94% | 79 | 0.47% | 1,938 | 11.64% | 16,653 |
| Grant | 17,548 | 64.50% | 9,455 | 34.75% | 203 | 0.75% | 8,093 | 29.75% | 27,206 |
| Greene | 8,722 | 54.62% | 7,186 | 45.00% | 61 | 0.38% | 1,536 | 9.62% | 15,969 |
| Hamilton | 11,220 | 68.96% | 4,974 | 30.57% | 77 | 0.47% | 6,246 | 38.39% | 16,271 |
| Hancock | 6,962 | 59.93% | 4,600 | 39.60% | 55 | 0.47% | 2,362 | 20.33% | 11,617 |
| Harrison | 5,299 | 54.92% | 4,266 | 44.22% | 83 | 0.86% | 1,033 | 10.70% | 9,648 |
| Hendricks | 10,578 | 65.58% | 5,521 | 34.23% | 30 | 0.19% | 5,057 | 31.35% | 16,129 |
| Henry | 13,750 | 61.33% | 8,502 | 37.92% | 166 | 0.74% | 5,248 | 23.41% | 22,418 |
| Howard | 17,234 | 58.26% | 12,159 | 41.10% | 188 | 0.64% | 5,075 | 17.16% | 29,581 |
| Huntington | 11,024 | 64.15% | 6,027 | 35.07% | 133 | 0.77% | 4,997 | 29.08% | 17,184 |
| Jackson | 8,375 | 57.30% | 6,185 | 42.31% | 57 | 0.39% | 2,190 | 14.99% | 14,617 |
| Jasper | 5,374 | 72.63% | 2,004 | 27.08% | 21 | 0.28% | 3,370 | 45.55% | 7,399 |
| Jay | 6,767 | 59.08% | 4,571 | 39.91% | 116 | 1.01% | 2,196 | 19.17% | 11,454 |
| Jefferson | 6,632 | 60.27% | 4,344 | 39.48% | 28 | 0.25% | 2,288 | 20.79% | 11,004 |
| Jennings | 4,502 | 60.72% | 2,879 | 38.83% | 33 | 0.45% | 1,623 | 21.89% | 7,414 |
| Johnson | 10,125 | 62.15% | 6,125 | 37.60% | 41 | 0.25% | 4,000 | 24.55% | 16,291 |
| Knox | 13,047 | 59.85% | 8,691 | 39.87% | 63 | 0.29% | 4,356 | 19.98% | 21,801 |
| Kosciusko | 12,777 | 71.68% | 4,904 | 27.51% | 143 | 0.80% | 7,873 | 44.17% | 17,824 |
| LaGrange | 3,815 | 70.47% | 1,562 | 28.85% | 37 | 0.68% | 2,253 | 41.61% | 5,414 |
| Lake | 92,803 | 52.00% | 85,000 | 47.63% | 657 | 0.37% | 7,803 | 4.37% | 178,460 |
| LaPorte | 24,622 | 62.90% | 14,417 | 36.83% | 103 | 0.26% | 10,205 | 26.07% | 39,142 |
| Lawrence | 11,090 | 63.93% | 6,197 | 35.73% | 59 | 0.34% | 4,893 | 28.20% | 17,346 |
| Madison | 30,329 | 54.21% | 25,408 | 45.42% | 206 | 0.37% | 4,921 | 8.79% | 55,943 |
| Marion | 162,566 | 61.97% | 99,102 | 37.78% | 679 | 0.26% | 63,464 | 24.19% | 262,347 |
| Marshall | 10,504 | 65.72% | 5,398 | 33.78% | 80 | 0.50% | 5,106 | 31.94% | 15,982 |
| Martin | 2,946 | 55.63% | 2,343 | 44.24% | 7 | 0.13% | 603 | 11.39% | 5,296 |
| Miami | 9,574 | 62.28% | 5,724 | 37.24% | 74 | 0.48% | 3,850 | 25.04% | 15,372 |
| Monroe | 13,223 | 62.92% | 7,732 | 36.79% | 60 | 0.29% | 5,491 | 26.13% | 21,015 |
| Montgomery | 10,418 | 65.41% | 5,443 | 34.17% | 66 | 0.41% | 4,975 | 31.24% | 15,927 |
| Morgan | 8,318 | 63.48% | 4,735 | 36.14% | 50 | 0.38% | 3,583 | 27.34% | 13,103 |
| Newton | 3,890 | 74.49% | 1,316 | 25.20% | 16 | 0.31% | 2,574 | 49.29% | 5,222 |
| Noble | 8,175 | 66.64% | 4,028 | 32.84% | 64 | 0.52% | 4,147 | 33.80% | 12,267 |
| Ohio | 1,237 | 53.07% | 1,087 | 46.63% | 7 | 0.30% | 150 | 6.44% | 2,331 |
| Orange | 5,751 | 62.37% | 3,438 | 37.28% | 32 | 0.35% | 2,313 | 25.09% | 9,221 |
| Owen | 3,685 | 58.48% | 2,581 | 40.96% | 35 | 0.56% | 1,104 | 17.52% | 6,301 |
| Parke | 5,080 | 59.04% | 3,502 | 40.70% | 22 | 0.26% | 1,578 | 18.34% | 8,604 |
| Perry | 4,946 | 55.00% | 4,037 | 44.89% | 10 | 0.11% | 909 | 10.11% | 8,993 |
| Pike | 4,596 | 57.34% | 3,353 | 41.83% | 66 | 0.82% | 1,243 | 15.51% | 8,015 |
| Porter | 14,970 | 72.71% | 5,574 | 27.07% | 45 | 0.22% | 9,396 | 45.64% | 20,589 |
| Posey | 5,780 | 59.44% | 3,919 | 40.30% | 25 | 0.26% | 1,861 | 19.14% | 9,724 |
| Pulaski | 4,117 | 62.07% | 2,424 | 36.54% | 92 | 1.39% | 1,693 | 25.53% | 6,633 |
| Putnam | 6,684 | 59.26% | 4,572 | 40.53% | 24 | 0.21% | 2,112 | 18.73% | 11,280 |
| Randolph | 9,020 | 65.02% | 4,701 | 33.89% | 152 | 1.10% | 4,319 | 31.13% | 13,873 |
| Ripley | 6,577 | 61.85% | 4,026 | 37.86% | 30 | 0.28% | 2,551 | 23.99% | 10,633 |
| Rush | 6,202 | 64.69% | 3,346 | 34.90% | 39 | 0.41% | 2,856 | 29.79% | 9,587 |
| St. Joseph | 57,827 | 51.41% | 54,152 | 48.15% | 493 | 0.44% | 3,675 | 3.26% | 112,472 |
| Scott | 3,117 | 50.63% | 3,011 | 48.91% | 28 | 0.45% | 106 | 1.72% | 6,156 |
| Shelby | 9,170 | 58.00% | 6,561 | 41.50% | 80 | 0.51% | 2,609 | 16.50% | 15,811 |
| Spencer | 5,404 | 60.31% | 3,530 | 39.40% | 26 | 0.29% | 1,874 | 20.91% | 8,960 |
| Starke | 5,063 | 59.94% | 3,349 | 39.65% | 35 | 0.41% | 1,714 | 20.29% | 8,447 |
| Steuben | 5,538 | 71.56% | 2,171 | 28.05% | 30 | 0.39% | 3,367 | 43.51% | 7,739 |
| Sullivan | 5,829 | 48.79% | 6,048 | 50.63% | 69 | 0.58% | -219 | -1.84% | 11,946 |
| Switzerland | 2,074 | 49.28% | 2,114 | 50.23% | 21 | 0.50% | -40 | -0.95% | 4,209 |
| Tippecanoe | 23,776 | 70.25% | 9,995 | 29.53% | 72 | 0.21% | 13,781 | 40.72% | 33,843 |
| Tipton | 4,939 | 59.47% | 3,320 | 39.98% | 46 | 0.55% | 1,619 | 19.49% | 8,305 |
| Union | 2,026 | 63.47% | 1,157 | 36.25% | 9 | 0.28% | 869 | 27.22% | 3,192 |
| Vanderburgh | 42,462 | 57.68% | 30,860 | 41.92% | 297 | 0.40% | 11,602 | 15.76% | 73,619 |
| Vermillion | 5,352 | 50.81% | 5,149 | 48.88% | 32 | 0.30% | 203 | 1.93% | 10,533 |
| Vigo | 25,253 | 50.44% | 24,680 | 49.29% | 135 | 0.27% | 573 | 1.15% | 50,068 |
| Wabash | 10,318 | 71.18% | 4,085 | 28.18% | 93 | 0.64% | 6,233 | 43.00% | 14,496 |
| Warren | 2,979 | 67.61% | 1,408 | 31.96% | 19 | 0.43% | 1,571 | 35.65% | 4,406 |
| Warrick | 6,286 | 57.21% | 4,668 | 42.49% | 33 | 0.30% | 1,618 | 14.72% | 10,987 |
| Washington | 4,864 | 55.66% | 3,849 | 44.04% | 26 | 0.30% | 1,015 | 11.62% | 8,739 |
| Wayne | 20,157 | 61.76% | 12,337 | 37.80% | 144 | 0.44% | 7,820 | 23.96% | 32,638 |
| Wells | 5,703 | 58.32% | 3,984 | 40.74% | 91 | 0.93% | 1,719 | 17.58% | 9,778 |
| White | 6,708 | 67.42% | 3,219 | 32.36% | 22 | 0.22% | 3,489 | 35.06% | 9,949 |
| Whitley | 6,422 | 63.23% | 3,688 | 36.31% | 47 | 0.46% | 2,734 | 26.92% | 10,157 |
| TOTAL | 1,182,811 | 59.90% | 783,908 | 39.70% | 7,888 | 0.40% | 398,903 | 20.20% | 1,974,607 |
State and district results of the1956 United States presidential election | ||
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