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The1956 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the1956 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Maine overwhelmingly voted for theRepublican nominee, incumbentPresidentDwight D. Eisenhower ofPennsylvania, over theDemocratic nominee, formerGovernorAdlai Stevenson ofIllinois. Eisenhower ran with incumbentVice PresidentRichard Nixon ofCalifornia, while Stevenson's running mate wasSenatorEstes Kefauver ofTennessee.
Eisenhower won Maine by a landslide margin of 41.74%. Although Maine was almost completely dominated by the Republican Party between1856 and1960 (apart from1912 where the Republican vote was split), Eisenhower's performance is nonetheless the second-best by any presidential candidate in Maine, behind only YankeeCalvin Coolidge in1924, who won a 1.16% higher share of the popular vote.[2] He carried every county in Maine, and won thirteen of sixteen with over seventy percent of the vote. This election would prove the last of a century of GOP dominance in the Yankee Northeast: over the following two elections, the Republican share would decline 39% in Maine as the party moved its target support base from the declining Northeast to the "Sun Belt" of the lower-taxSouth andDesert Southwest.[3]
With 70.87% of the popular vote, Maine would prove to be Eisenhower's second strongest state after nearbyVermont.[4] Eisenhower's winning margin of over 146,000 votes is the largest in history for a presidential candidate in Maine.
| 1956 United States presidential election in Maine[5] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Popular vote | Electoral vote | ||||
| Count | % | Count | % | |||||
| Republican | Dwight David Eisenhower ofPennsylvania(incumbent) | Richard Nixon ofCalifornia(incumbent) | 249,238 | 70.87% | 5 | 100.00% | ||
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson II ofIllinois | Estes Kefauver ofTennessee | 102,468 | 29.13% | 0 | 0.00% | ||
| Total | 351,706 | 100.00% | 5 | 100.00% | ||||
| County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | Adlai Stevenson Democratic | Margin | Total votes cast | |||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Androscoggin | 20,385 | 56.27% | 15,842 | 43.73% | 4,543 | 12.54% | 36,227 |
| Aroostook | 16,001 | 72.44% | 6,089 | 27.56% | 9,912 | 44.88% | 22,090 |
| Cumberland | 49,696 | 71.88% | 19,438 | 28.12% | 30,258 | 43.76% | 69,134 |
| Franklin | 6,307 | 78.97% | 1,680 | 21.03% | 4,627 | 57.94% | 7,987 |
| Hancock | 11,316 | 86.91% | 1,704 | 13.09% | 9,612 | 73.82% | 13,020 |
| Kennebec | 23,028 | 66.73% | 11,483 | 33.27% | 11,545 | 33.46% | 34,511 |
| Knox | 8,866 | 81.32% | 2,037 | 18.68% | 6,829 | 62.64% | 10,903 |
| Lincoln | 7,191 | 86.07% | 1,164 | 13.93% | 6,027 | 72.14% | 8,355 |
| Oxford | 12,607 | 73.04% | 4,653 | 26.96% | 7,954 | 46.08% | 17,260 |
| Penobscot | 27,806 | 76.44% | 8,568 | 23.56% | 19,238 | 52.88% | 36,374 |
| Piscataquis | 5,336 | 77.59% | 1,541 | 22.41% | 3,795 | 55.18% | 6,877 |
| Sagadahoc | 6,201 | 72.94% | 2,301 | 27.06% | 3,900 | 45.88% | 8,502 |
| Somerset | 10,471 | 71.77% | 4,119 | 28.23% | 6,352 | 43.54% | 14,590 |
| Waldo | 6,590 | 82.64% | 1,384 | 17.36% | 5,206 | 65.28% | 7,974 |
| Washington | 8,181 | 76.20% | 2,555 | 23.80% | 5,626 | 52.40% | 10,736 |
| York | 29,256 | 62.03% | 17,910 | 37.97% | 11,346 | 24.06% | 47,166 |
| Totals | 249,238 | 70.87% | 102,468 | 29.13% | 146,770 | 41.74% | 351,706 |
Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
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