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The1956 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the1956 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine[3] representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Maryland was won byincumbent PresidentDwight D. Eisenhower (R–Pennsylvania), running with Vice PresidentRichard Nixon, with 60.04% of the popular vote, againstAdlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running withSenatorEstes Kefauver, with 39.96% of the popular vote.[4][5]
By winning all 24 county-equivalents, Eisenhower became and remains the solitary presidential candidate to sweep all Maryland's counties and Baltimore City in a contested election.[6] As of the2024 election, this is the last election in whichthe City of Baltimore voted for a Republican presidential candidate, and by extension, the last election in which a presidential candidate won all of the state's counties.[7] Eisenhower is also the last Republican to carry the state twice.[8]
George Washington in1792 is the only other candidate who swept all of Maryland's existing counties, though at the time several did not yet exist.[9] In1789 and1820, the other two elections in which a candidate ran virtually unopposed,unpledged slates of electors ran as opposition in both elections:Anti-Federalist electors in 1789, andFederalist electors in 1820.[10][11] These electors supported Washington andJames Monroe, but supported different vice presidential candidates. Thus, it is a debatable topic whether these count as total sweeps or not (In 1789, the Anti-Federalist electors won Baltimore and Anne Arundel county, and in 1820 St. Mary's and Charles counties). Nevertheless, Eisenhower remains the only candidate in the modern party system to win all of Maryland's counties, and the only to win all of the presently existing ones.
In this election, Maryland voted 4.67% to the right of the nation at-large.[12]
This was the last time Maryland voted for a Republican presidential candidate until Eisenhower's vice president,Richard Nixon, won the state in his re-election bid in1972.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower (inc.) | 559,738 | 60.04% | |
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 372,613 | 39.96% | |
| Total votes | 932,351 | 100% | ||
| County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | Adlai Stevenson Democratic | Margin | Total votes cast[13] | |||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Allegany | 20,239 | 65.26% | 10,775 | 34.74% | 9,464 | 30.52% | 31,014 |
| Anne Arundel | 28,622 | 64.30% | 15,888 | 35.70% | 12,734 | 28.60% | 44,510 |
| Baltimore | 104,021 | 68.30% | 48,270 | 31.70% | 55,751 | 36.60% | 152,291 |
| Baltimore City | 178,244 | 55.90% | 140,603 | 44.10% | 37,641 | 11.80% | 318,847 |
| Calvert | 2,764 | 58.44% | 1,966 | 41.56% | 798 | 16.88% | 4,730 |
| Caroline | 4,208 | 60.90% | 2,702 | 39.10% | 1,506 | 21.80% | 6,910 |
| Carroll | 11,749 | 72.65% | 4,423 | 27.35% | 7,326 | 45.30% | 16,172 |
| Cecil | 7,217 | 59.38% | 4,936 | 40.62% | 2,281 | 18.76% | 12,153 |
| Charles | 5,088 | 56.41% | 3,931 | 43.59% | 1,157 | 12.82% | 9,019 |
| Dorchester | 5,809 | 60.88% | 3,733 | 39.12% | 2,076 | 21.76% | 9,542 |
| Frederick | 14,387 | 65.38% | 7,619 | 34.62% | 6,768 | 30.76% | 22,006 |
| Garrett | 5,555 | 73.09% | 2,045 | 26.91% | 3,510 | 46.18% | 7,600 |
| Harford | 12,657 | 65.77% | 6,588 | 34.23% | 6,069 | 31.54% | 19,245 |
| Howard | 6,534 | 64.48% | 3,599 | 35.52% | 2,935 | 28.96% | 10,133 |
| Kent | 3,747 | 61.18% | 2,378 | 38.82% | 1,369 | 22.36% | 6,125 |
| Montgomery | 56,501 | 57.01% | 42,606 | 42.99% | 13,895 | 14.02% | 99,107 |
| Prince George's | 40,654 | 50.86% | 39,280 | 49.14% | 1,374 | 1.72% | 79,934 |
| Queen Anne's | 3,321 | 55.70% | 2,641 | 44.30% | 680 | 11.40% | 5,962 |
| Somerset | 4,770 | 61.15% | 3,031 | 38.85% | 1,739 | 22.30% | 7,801 |
| St. Mary's | 4,336 | 55.74% | 3,443 | 44.26% | 893 | 11.48% | 7,779 |
| Talbot | 6,018 | 68.75% | 2,735 | 31.25% | 3,283 | 37.50% | 8,753 |
| Washington | 19,455 | 62.72% | 11,562 | 37.28% | 7,893 | 25.44% | 31,017 |
| Wicomico | 9,377 | 63.94% | 5,289 | 36.06% | 4,088 | 27.88% | 14,666 |
| Worcester | 4,465 | 63.47% | 2,570 | 36.53% | 1,895 | 26.94% | 7,035 |
| Totals | 559,738 | 60.04% | 372,613 | 39.96% | 187,125 | 20.08% | 932,351 |
Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
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