1956 United States presidential election - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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531 members of the Electoral College 266 electoral votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 60.6%[1] 2.7 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Presidential election results map. Red denotes those won by Eisenhower/Nixon, Blue denotes states won by Stevenson/Kefauver. Orange denotes won by Walter Burgwyn Jones by an Alabama faithless elector. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1956 United States presidential election happened on November 6, 1956. President Dwight D. Eisenhower won reelection to a second term. He defeated former Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson in a rematch of the 1952 presidential election.
Incumbent president Dwight D. Eisenhower won the election by 457 electoral votes. Adlai Stevenson got 73 electoral votes. Walter Burgwyn Jones got one vote by a faithless elector in Alabama.
This was the last election in which Alaska and Hawaii were not states.[3]
Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in September 1955 while in Colorado for a vacation. His doctors told him not to run for another election. However, Eisenhower announced his candidacy for re-election on television in early 1956.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections". The American Presidency Project. UC Santa Barbara.
- ↑ "1956 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
- ↑ "1956 Presidential Election". 270 To Win. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
Other websites
[change | change source]Media related to United States presidential election, 1956 at Wikimedia Commons