1952 United States presidential election in North Dakota
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The 1952 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[3]
North Dakota was won by Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–New York), running with California Senator Richard Nixon, with 70.97 percent of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Alabama Senator John Sparkman, with 28.39 percent of the popular vote. As of 2020[update], this is the last election in which a presidential candidate carried all of the counties in the state and the last that Rolette County has voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[4] With 70.97 percent of the popular vote, North Dakota was Eisenhower's second strongest state after Vermont.[5]
Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 191,712 | 70.97% | |
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 76,694 | 28.39% | |
| Christian Nationalist | Douglas MacArthur | 1,075 | 0.40% | |
| Progressive | Vincent Hallinan | 344 | 0.13% | |
| Prohibition | Stuart Hamblen | 302 | 0.11% | |
| Total votes | 270,127 | 100% | ||
Results by county
[edit]| County[6] | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican |
Adlai Stevenson Democratic |
Douglas MacArthur Christian Nationalist |
Vincent Hallinan Progressive |
Stuart Hamblen Prohibition |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 1,561 | 69.59% | 663 | 29.56% | 11 | 0.49% | 5 | 0.22% | 3 | 0.13% | 898 | 40.03% | 2,243 |
| Barnes | 5,534 | 71.84% | 2,120 | 27.52% | 22 | 0.29% | 7 | 0.09% | 20 | 0.26% | 3,414 | 44.32% | 7,703 |
| Benson | 3,192 | 69.63% | 1,353 | 29.52% | 31 | 0.68% | 2 | 0.04% | 6 | 0.13% | 1,839 | 40.11% | 4,584 |
| Billings | 674 | 82.00% | 143 | 17.40% | 5 | 0.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 531 | 64.60% | 822 |
| Bottineau | 3,911 | 77.69% | 1,094 | 21.73% | 23 | 0.46% | 3 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.06% | 2,817 | 55.96% | 5,034 |
| Bowman | 1,375 | 71.21% | 540 | 27.96% | 7 | 0.36% | 4 | 0.21% | 5 | 0.26% | 835 | 43.25% | 1,931 |
| Burke | 1,986 | 69.90% | 811 | 28.55% | 16 | 0.56% | 20 | 0.70% | 8 | 0.28% | 1,175 | 41.35% | 2,841 |
| Burleigh | 9,526 | 79.55% | 2,400 | 20.04% | 25 | 0.21% | 20 | 0.17% | 4 | 0.03% | 7,126 | 59.51% | 11,975 |
| Cass | 18,094 | 66.17% | 9,193 | 33.62% | 36 | 0.13% | 15 | 0.05% | 6 | 0.02% | 8,901 | 32.55% | 27,344 |
| Cavalier | 3,519 | 69.66% | 1,496 | 29.61% | 27 | 0.53% | 6 | 0.12% | 4 | 0.08% | 2,023 | 40.05% | 5,052 |
| Dickey | 2,917 | 71.23% | 1,150 | 28.08% | 12 | 0.29% | 9 | 0.22% | 7 | 0.17% | 1,767 | 43.15% | 4,095 |
| Divide | 1,999 | 70.79% | 807 | 28.58% | 11 | 0.39% | 3 | 0.11% | 4 | 0.14% | 1,192 | 42.21% | 2,824 |
| Dunn | 2,237 | 76.50% | 664 | 22.71% | 13 | 0.44% | 9 | 0.31% | 1 | 0.03% | 1,573 | 53.79% | 2,924 |
| Eddy | 1,534 | 67.05% | 728 | 31.82% | 11 | 0.48% | 15 | 0.66% | 0 | 0.00% | 806 | 35.23% | 2,288 |
| Emmons | 3,369 | 86.16% | 522 | 13.35% | 12 | 0.31% | 5 | 0.13% | 2 | 0.05% | 2,847 | 72.81% | 3,910 |
| Foster | 1,558 | 64.17% | 862 | 35.50% | 5 | 0.21% | 3 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 696 | 28.67% | 2,428 |
| Golden Valley | 1,186 | 75.93% | 376 | 24.07% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 810 | 51.86% | 1,562 |
| Grand Forks | 10,939 | 65.65% | 5,639 | 33.84% | 61 | 0.37% | 12 | 0.07% | 11 | 0.07% | 5,300 | 31.81% | 16,662 |
| Grant | 2,465 | 85.32% | 403 | 13.95% | 13 | 0.45% | 3 | 0.10% | 5 | 0.17% | 2,062 | 71.37% | 2,889 |
| Griggs | 1,727 | 66.19% | 872 | 33.42% | 6 | 0.23% | 1 | 0.04% | 3 | 0.11% | 855 | 32.77% | 2,609 |
| Hettinger | 2,330 | 87.79% | 297 | 11.19% | 12 | 0.45% | 13 | 0.49% | 2 | 0.08% | 2,033 | 76.60% | 2,654 |
| Kidder | 2,195 | 81.93% | 468 | 17.47% | 13 | 0.49% | 3 | 0.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,727 | 64.46% | 2,679 |
| LaMoure | 3,202 | 73.12% | 1,145 | 26.15% | 19 | 0.43% | 9 | 0.21% | 4 | 0.09% | 2,057 | 46.97% | 4,379 |
| Logan | 2,165 | 85.10% | 369 | 14.50% | 6 | 0.24% | 3 | 0.12% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,796 | 70.60% | 2,544 |
| McHenry | 4,227 | 76.60% | 1,228 | 22.25% | 31 | 0.56% | 29 | 0.53% | 3 | 0.05% | 2,999 | 54.35% | 5,518 |
| McIntosh | 3,043 | 90.89% | 276 | 8.24% | 25 | 0.75% | 4 | 0.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,767 | 82.65% | 3,348 |
| McKenzie | 2,260 | 71.70% | 846 | 26.84% | 23 | 0.73% | 12 | 0.38% | 11 | 0.35% | 1,414 | 44.86% | 3,152 |
| McLean | 5,184 | 68.62% | 2,295 | 30.38% | 58 | 0.77% | 14 | 0.19% | 4 | 0.05% | 2,889 | 38.24% | 7,555 |
| Mercer | 2,994 | 84.96% | 512 | 14.53% | 16 | 0.45% | 1 | 0.03% | 1 | 0.03% | 2,482 | 70.43% | 3,524 |
| Morton | 6,309 | 74.88% | 2,079 | 24.67% | 23 | 0.27% | 1 | 0.01% | 14 | 0.17% | 4,230 | 50.21% | 8,426 |
| Mountrail | 2,516 | 62.93% | 1,437 | 35.94% | 28 | 0.70% | 8 | 0.20% | 9 | 0.23% | 1,079 | 26.99% | 3,998 |
| Nelson | 2,443 | 62.96% | 1,418 | 36.55% | 11 | 0.28% | 4 | 0.10% | 4 | 0.10% | 1,025 | 26.41% | 3,880 |
| Oliver | 1,132 | 87.82% | 143 | 11.09% | 11 | 0.85% | 2 | 0.16% | 1 | 0.08% | 989 | 76.73% | 1,289 |
| Pembina | 4,012 | 67.50% | 1,891 | 31.81% | 34 | 0.57% | 1 | 0.02% | 6 | 0.10% | 2,121 | 35.69% | 5,944 |
| Pierce | 2,806 | 77.77% | 773 | 21.42% | 24 | 0.67% | 1 | 0.03% | 4 | 0.11% | 2,033 | 56.35% | 3,608 |
| Ramsey | 4,670 | 71.97% | 1,794 | 27.65% | 19 | 0.29% | 1 | 0.02% | 5 | 0.08% | 2,876 | 44.32% | 6,489 |
| Ransom | 3,051 | 70.19% | 1,265 | 29.10% | 15 | 0.35% | 4 | 0.09% | 12 | 0.28% | 1,786 | 41.09% | 4,347 |
| Renville | 1,571 | 66.57% | 767 | 32.50% | 16 | 0.68% | 5 | 0.21% | 1 | 0.04% | 804 | 34.07% | 2,360 |
| Richland | 6,022 | 69.78% | 2,541 | 29.44% | 44 | 0.51% | 14 | 0.16% | 9 | 0.10% | 3,481 | 40.34% | 8,630 |
| Rolette | 2,188 | 65.02% | 1,160 | 34.47% | 14 | 0.42% | 1 | 0.03% | 2 | 0.06% | 1,028 | 30.55% | 3,365 |
| Sargent | 2,124 | 65.76% | 1,090 | 33.75% | 9 | 0.28% | 4 | 0.12% | 3 | 0.09% | 1,034 | 32.01% | 3,230 |
| Sheridan | 2,016 | 87.31% | 267 | 11.56% | 22 | 0.95% | 2 | 0.09% | 2 | 0.09% | 1,749 | 75.75% | 2,309 |
| Sioux | 968 | 73.22% | 336 | 25.42% | 11 | 0.83% | 2 | 0.15% | 5 | 0.38% | 632 | 47.80% | 1,322 |
| Slope | 682 | 69.38% | 290 | 29.50% | 6 | 0.61% | 1 | 0.10% | 4 | 0.41% | 392 | 39.88% | 983 |
| Stark | 5,322 | 79.58% | 1,332 | 19.92% | 18 | 0.27% | 4 | 0.06% | 12 | 0.18% | 3,990 | 59.66% | 6,688 |
| Steele | 1,513 | 62.16% | 911 | 37.43% | 7 | 0.29% | 2 | 0.08% | 1 | 0.04% | 602 | 24.73% | 2,434 |
| Stutsman | 6,713 | 67.70% | 3,156 | 31.83% | 26 | 0.26% | 1 | 0.01% | 20 | 0.20% | 3,557 | 35.87% | 9,916 |
| Towner | 1,960 | 69.23% | 843 | 29.78% | 20 | 0.71% | 1 | 0.04% | 7 | 0.25% | 1,117 | 39.45% | 2,831 |
| Traill | 3,884 | 72.05% | 1,484 | 27.53% | 15 | 0.28% | 6 | 0.11% | 2 | 0.04% | 2,400 | 44.52% | 5,391 |
| Walsh | 4,761 | 57.33% | 3,494 | 42.08% | 28 | 0.34% | 7 | 0.08% | 14 | 0.17% | 1,267 | 15.25% | 8,304 |
| Ward | 10,130 | 66.60% | 4,966 | 32.65% | 68 | 0.45% | 18 | 0.12% | 29 | 0.19% | 5,164 | 33.95% | 15,211 |
| Wells | 3,709 | 77.89% | 1,016 | 21.34% | 28 | 0.59% | 4 | 0.08% | 5 | 0.10% | 2,693 | 56.55% | 4,762 |
| Williams | 4,307 | 58.46% | 2,999 | 40.71% | 28 | 0.38% | 27 | 0.37% | 6 | 0.08% | 1,308 | 17.75% | 7,367 |
| Totals | 191,712 | 70.97% | 76,694 | 28.39% | 1,075 | 0.40% | 344 | 0.13% | 302 | 0.11% | 115,018 | 42.58% | 270,127 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
[edit]- Benson
- Cavalier
- Foster
- Grand Forks
- Griggs
- McKenzie
- Mountrail
- Pembina
- Renville
- Rolette
- Sargent
- Steele
- Walsh
- Williams
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1952 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- ^ "U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination
- ^ a b "1952 Presidential Election Results North Dakota".
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ "1952 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- ^ "ND US President Race, November 04, 1952". Our Campaigns.
