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The1956 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 6, 1956. All contemporary 48 states were part of the1956 United States presidential election. Voters chose 45 electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
New York was won by incumbentRepublicanPresidentDwight D. Eisenhower, who was running against formerDemocraticGovernor ofIllinoisAdlai Stevenson. Eisenhower ran with incumbent Vice PresidentRichard Nixon, and Stevenson ran withTennesseeSenator, and principal opponent during the 1956 Democratic Primaries,Estes Kefauver. Eisenhower received 61.19% of the vote to Stevenson's 38.78%, a margin of 22.41%. Eisenhower won 4,340,340 votes, the most ever received by a Republican presidential candidate in the state's history.
New York weighed in for this election as eight percentage points moreRepublican than the national average. This election was very much of a re-match from the previouspresidential election 4 years earlier, which featured the same major candidates except forJohn Sparkman being replaced as Stevenson’s running mate by Kefauver. The presidential election of 1956 was a verypartisan election for New York, with 99.8% of the electorate voting for either theDemocratic Party or theRepublican Party.[3] The widely popular Eisenhower took every county in the State of New York outside of New York City, dominating upstate by landslide margins and also sweeping suburban areas around NYC. Stevenson narrowly wonNew York City overall by carrying the boroughs ofManhattan,Brooklyn andthe Bronx, while Eisenhower wonQueens andStaten Island.
Eisenhower won the election in New York by a 22-point landslide. 1956 was the last election in which a Republican presidential candidate took more than 60% of the vote in New York State and won the state by more than twenty points.[4] This was the last time New York voted for a Republican presidential candidate until Eisenhower's vice president,Richard Nixon, won the state in his re-election bid in1972. To date, this is also the last presidential election in which New York voted more Republican than the nation as a whole, or more Republican thanArizona,Colorado,Idaho,Indiana,Illinois,Missouri,Montana,Nevada,New Mexico,Ohio,Oklahoma,Texas,Virginia, orWyoming. This was also the last election until2024 when New York voted to the right ofWashington state.
| 1956 United States presidential election in New York | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower (incumbent) | 4,345,506 | 61.24% | 45 | |
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 2,458,282 | 34.60% | ||
| Liberal | Adlai Stevenson | 292,487 | 4.12% | ||
| Total | Adlai Stevenson | 2,750,769 | 38.73% | 0 | |
| Write-ins | 2,521 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 7,095,971 | 100.0% | 45 | ||
| 1956 Presidential Election in New York City | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | |||
| Democratic- Liberal | Adlai Stevenson | 377,856 | 343,823 | 557,655 | 318,723 | 19,644 | 1,614,876 | 50.95% | |
| 55.70% | 57.15% | 54.75% | 40.61% | 23.40% | |||||
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 300,004 | 257,382 | 460,456 | 466,057 | 64,233 | 1,553,298 | 49.01% | |
| 44.23% | 42.78% | 45.21% | 59.39% | 76.53% | |||||
| TOTAL | 678,317 | 601,588 | 1,018,479 | 787,265 | 83,936 | 3,169,585 | 100.00% | ||
| County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | Adlai Stevenson Democratic | Various candidates Write-ins | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Albany | 86,202 | 56.64% | 65,982 | 43.36% | 20,220 | 13.28% | 152,184 | ||
| Allegany | 16,068 | 81.41% | 3,668 | 18.59% | 12,400 | 62.82% | 19,736 | ||
| Bronx | 257,382 | 42.81% | 343,823 | 57.19% | -86,441 | -14.38% | 601,205 | ||
| Broome | 67,024 | 74.27% | 23,217 | 25.73% | 43,807 | 48.54% | 90,241 | ||
| Cattaraugus | 25,282 | 72.45% | 9,613 | 27.55% | 15,669 | 44.90% | 34,895 | ||
| Cayuga | 26,503 | 72.08% | 10,268 | 27.92% | 16,235 | 44.16% | 36,771 | ||
| Chautauqua | 44,149 | 68.54% | 20,269 | 31.46% | 23,880 | 37.08% | 64,418 | ||
| Chemung | 33,270 | 74.16% | 11,592 | 25.84% | 21,678 | 48.32% | 44,862 | ||
| Chenango | 16,314 | 81.09% | 3,804 | 18.91% | 12,510 | 62.18% | 20,118 | ||
| Clinton | 16,295 | 70.46% | 6,833 | 29.54% | 9,462 | 40.92% | 23,128 | ||
| Columbia | 19,004 | 79.17% | 4,999 | 20.83% | 14,005 | 58.34% | 24,003 | ||
| Cortland | 14,085 | 79.59% | 3,612 | 20.41% | 10,473 | 59.18% | 17,697 | ||
| Delaware | 17,364 | 81.91% | 3,835 | 18.09% | 13,529 | 63.82% | 21,199 | ||
| Dutchess | 53,840 | 78.35% | 14,876 | 21.65% | 38,964 | 56.70% | 68,716 | ||
| Erie | 292,657 | 63.68% | 166,930 | 36.32% | 125,727 | 27.36% | 459,587 | ||
| Essex | 13,930 | 82.11% | 3,035 | 17.89% | 10,895 | 64.22% | 16,965 | ||
| Franklin | 13,003 | 71.33% | 5,226 | 28.67% | 7,777 | 42.66% | 18,229 | ||
| Fulton | 18,244 | 74.17% | 6,352 | 25.83% | 11,892 | 48.34% | 24,596 | ||
| Genesee | 17,614 | 74.64% | 5,986 | 25.36% | 11,628 | 49.28% | 23,600 | ||
| Greene | 14,262 | 78.91% | 3,811 | 21.09% | 10,451 | 57.82% | 18,073 | ||
| Hamilton | 2,619 | 84.78% | 470 | 15.22% | 2,149 | 69.56% | 3,089 | ||
| Herkimer | 22,246 | 71.68% | 8,789 | 28.32% | 13,457 | 43.36% | 31,035 | ||
| Jefferson | 28,429 | 74.06% | 9,959 | 25.94% | 18,470 | 48.12% | 38,388 | ||
| Kings | 460,456 | 45.23% | 557,655 | 54.77% | -97,199 | -9.54% | 1,018,111 | ||
| Lewis | 7,764 | 75.38% | 2,536 | 24.62% | 5,228 | 50.76% | 10,300 | ||
| Livingston | 15,523 | 75.68% | 4,989 | 24.32% | 10,534 | 51.36% | 20,512 | ||
| Madison | 18,555 | 79.10% | 4,903 | 20.90% | 13,652 | 58.20% | 23,458 | ||
| Monroe | 183,747 | 66.84% | 91,161 | 33.16% | 92,586 | 33.68% | 274,908 | ||
| Montgomery | 20,678 | 67.41% | 9,996 | 32.59% | 10,682 | 34.82% | 30,674 | ||
| Nassau | 372,358 | 69.08% | 166,646 | 30.92% | 205,712 | 38.16% | 539,004 | ||
| New York | 300,004 | 44.26% | 377,856 | 55.74% | -77,852 | -11.48% | 677,860 | ||
| Niagara | 62,433 | 67.43% | 30,161 | 32.57% | 32,272 | 34.86% | 92,594 | ||
| Oneida | 80,178 | 69.83% | 34,649 | 30.17% | 45,529 | 39.66% | 114,827 | ||
| Onondaga | 137,852 | 73.42% | 49,918 | 26.58% | 87,934 | 46.84% | 187,770 | ||
| Ontario | 22,317 | 74.30% | 7,719 | 25.70% | 14,598 | 48.60% | 30,036 | ||
| Orange | 57,739 | 77.54% | 16,722 | 22.46% | 41,017 | 55.08% | 74,461 | ||
| Orleans | 11,895 | 77.45% | 3,464 | 22.55% | 8,431 | 54.90% | 15,359 | ||
| Oswego | 29,277 | 76.87% | 8,809 | 23.13% | 20,468 | 53.74% | 38,086 | ||
| Otsego | 19,484 | 77.54% | 5,644 | 22.46% | 13,840 | 55.08% | 25,128 | ||
| Putnam | 12,898 | 73.32% | 4,694 | 26.68% | 8,204 | 46.64% | 17,592 | ||
| Queens | 466,057 | 59.39% | 318,723 | 40.61% | 147,334 | 18.78% | 784,780 | ||
| Rensselaer | 55,186 | 72.90% | 20,516 | 27.10% | 34,670 | 45.80% | 75,702 | ||
| Richmond | 64,233 | 76.58% | 19,644 | 23.42% | 44,589 | 53.16% | 83,877 | ||
| Rockland | 34,049 | 71.04% | 13,881 | 28.96% | 20,168 | 42.08% | 47,930 | ||
| Saratoga | 32,522 | 77.69% | 9,338 | 22.31% | 23,184 | 55.38% | 41,860 | ||
| Schenectady | 58,540 | 72.98% | 21,673 | 27.02% | 36,867 | 45.96% | 80,213 | ||
| Schoharie | 8,851 | 73.28% | 3,227 | 26.72% | 5,624 | 46.56% | 12,078 | ||
| Schuyler | 5,795 | 78.23% | 1,613 | 21.77% | 4,182 | 56.46% | 7,408 | ||
| Seneca | 10,417 | 74.20% | 3,623 | 25.80% | 6,794 | 48.40% | 14,040 | ||
| St. Lawrence | 31,897 | 74.54% | 10,892 | 25.46% | 21,005 | 49.08% | 42,789 | ||
| Steuben | 33,902 | 78.22% | 9,440 | 21.78% | 24,462 | 56.44% | 43,342 | ||
| Suffolk | 167,805 | 77.64% | 48,323 | 22.36% | 119,482 | 55.28% | 216,128 | ||
| Sullivan | 15,845 | 63.94% | 8,937 | 36.06% | 6,908 | 27.88% | 24,782 | ||
| Tioga | 11,958 | 78.95% | 3,188 | 21.05% | 8,770 | 57.90% | 15,146 | ||
| Tompkins | 19,749 | 78.29% | 5,475 | 21.71% | 14,274 | 56.58% | 25,224 | ||
| Ulster | 43,034 | 76.36% | 13,321 | 23.64% | 29,713 | 52.72% | 56,355 | ||
| Warren | 17,852 | 82.08% | 3,897 | 17.92% | 13,955 | 64.16% | 21,749 | ||
| Washington | 18,449 | 79.30% | 4,817 | 20.70% | 13,632 | 58.60% | 23,266 | ||
| Wayne | 22,940 | 79.51% | 5,910 | 20.49% | 17,030 | 59.02% | 28,850 | ||
| Westchester | 271,906 | 72.17% | 104,857 | 27.83% | 167,049 | 44.34% | 376,763 | ||
| Wyoming | 12,499 | 78.63% | 3,397 | 21.37% | 9,102 | 57.26% | 15,896 | ||
| Yates | 7,910 | 83.12% | 1,606 | 16.88% | 6,304 | 66.24% | 9,516 | ||
| Totals | 4,340,340 | 61.19% | 2,750,769 | 38.78% | 2,227[b] | 0.03% | 1,589,571 | 22.41% | 7,093,336 |
Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
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