1956 United States presidential election in Nebraska
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The 1956 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. Voters chose six[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Nebraska was won by incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Pennsylvania), running with Vice President Richard Nixon, with 65.51% of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator Estes Kefauver, with 34.49% of the popular vote.[4][5]
With 65.51% of the popular vote, Nebraska would prove to be Eisenhower's fourth strongest state after Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire.[6]
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower (inc.) | 378,108 | 65.51% | |
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 199,029 | 34.49% | |
| Total votes | 577,137 | 100% | ||
Results by county
| County[7] | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican |
Adlai Stevenson Democratic |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 8,186 | 66.93% | 4,045 | 33.07% | 4,141 | 33.86% | 12,231 |
| Antelope | 3,607 | 73.00% | 1,334 | 27.00% | 2,273 | 46.00% | 4,941 |
| Arthur | 248 | 78.48% | 68 | 21.52% | 180 | 56.96% | 316 |
| Banner | 329 | 64.01% | 185 | 35.99% | 144 | 28.02% | 514 |
| Blaine | 416 | 73.63% | 149 | 26.37% | 267 | 47.26% | 565 |
| Boone | 3,021 | 70.29% | 1,277 | 29.71% | 1,744 | 40.58% | 4,298 |
| Box Butte | 2,991 | 68.71% | 1,362 | 31.29% | 1,629 | 37.42% | 4,353 |
| Boyd | 1,414 | 62.51% | 848 | 37.49% | 566 | 25.02% | 2,262 |
| Brown | 1,566 | 74.08% | 548 | 25.92% | 1,018 | 48.16% | 2,114 |
| Buffalo | 7,342 | 70.31% | 3,100 | 29.69% | 4,242 | 40.62% | 10,442 |
| Burt | 3,459 | 69.49% | 1,519 | 30.51% | 1,940 | 38.98% | 4,978 |
| Butler | 2,864 | 56.07% | 2,244 | 43.93% | 620 | 12.14% | 5,108 |
| Cass | 4,814 | 63.87% | 2,723 | 36.13% | 2,091 | 27.74% | 7,537 |
| Cedar | 3,809 | 64.70% | 2,078 | 35.30% | 1,731 | 29.40% | 5,887 |
| Chase | 1,444 | 68.31% | 670 | 31.69% | 774 | 36.62% | 2,114 |
| Cherry | 2,414 | 73.20% | 884 | 26.80% | 1,530 | 46.40% | 3,298 |
| Cheyenne | 3,809 | 63.58% | 2,182 | 36.42% | 1,627 | 27.16% | 5,991 |
| Clay | 3,099 | 71.42% | 1,240 | 28.58% | 1,859 | 42.84% | 4,339 |
| Colfax | 2,843 | 65.07% | 1,526 | 34.93% | 1,317 | 30.14% | 4,369 |
| Cuming | 4,223 | 76.43% | 1,302 | 23.57% | 2,921 | 52.86% | 5,525 |
| Custer | 5,798 | 70.51% | 2,425 | 29.49% | 3,373 | 41.02% | 8,223 |
| Dakota | 2,516 | 53.08% | 2,224 | 46.92% | 292 | 6.16% | 4,740 |
| Dawes | 2,523 | 73.86% | 893 | 26.14% | 1,630 | 47.72% | 3,416 |
| Dawson | 6,503 | 76.13% | 2,039 | 23.87% | 4,464 | 52.26% | 8,542 |
| Deuel | 1,165 | 79.85% | 294 | 20.15% | 871 | 59.70% | 1,459 |
| Dixon | 2,493 | 59.09% | 1,726 | 40.91% | 767 | 18.18% | 4,219 |
| Dodge | 9,210 | 69.26% | 4,088 | 30.74% | 5,122 | 38.52% | 13,298 |
| Douglas | 73,270 | 59.39% | 50,110 | 40.61% | 23,160 | 18.78% | 123,380 |
| Dundy | 1,196 | 70.73% | 495 | 29.27% | 701 | 41.46% | 1,691 |
| Fillmore | 3,137 | 66.94% | 1,549 | 33.06% | 1,588 | 33.88% | 4,686 |
| Franklin | 1,955 | 68.77% | 888 | 31.23% | 1,067 | 37.54% | 2,843 |
| Frontier | 1,602 | 71.65% | 634 | 28.35% | 968 | 43.30% | 2,236 |
| Furnas | 2,894 | 72.26% | 1,111 | 27.74% | 1,783 | 44.52% | 4,005 |
| Gage | 7,514 | 67.64% | 3,595 | 32.36% | 3,919 | 35.28% | 11,109 |
| Garden | 1,167 | 77.70% | 335 | 22.30% | 832 | 55.40% | 1,502 |
| Garfield | 936 | 78.13% | 262 | 21.87% | 674 | 56.26% | 1,198 |
| Gosper | 814 | 71.47% | 325 | 28.53% | 489 | 42.94% | 1,139 |
| Grant | 433 | 83.27% | 87 | 16.73% | 346 | 66.54% | 520 |
| Greeley | 1,240 | 57.67% | 910 | 42.33% | 330 | 15.34% | 2,150 |
| Hall | 9,536 | 66.45% | 4,815 | 33.55% | 4,721 | 32.90% | 14,351 |
| Hamilton | 3,217 | 74.95% | 1,075 | 25.05% | 2,142 | 49.90% | 4,292 |
| Harlan | 1,850 | 68.57% | 848 | 31.43% | 1,002 | 37.14% | 2,698 |
| Hayes | 726 | 70.01% | 311 | 29.99% | 415 | 40.02% | 1,037 |
| Hitchcock | 1,570 | 67.94% | 741 | 32.06% | 829 | 35.88% | 2,311 |
| Holt | 4,237 | 69.33% | 1,874 | 30.67% | 2,363 | 38.66% | 6,111 |
| Hooker | 368 | 85.19% | 64 | 14.81% | 304 | 70.38% | 432 |
| Howard | 1,701 | 54.00% | 1,449 | 46.00% | 252 | 8.00% | 3,150 |
| Jefferson | 4,267 | 71.25% | 1,722 | 28.75% | 2,545 | 42.50% | 5,989 |
| Johnson | 2,160 | 65.45% | 1,140 | 34.55% | 1,020 | 30.90% | 3,300 |
| Kearney | 2,158 | 64.80% | 1,172 | 35.20% | 986 | 29.60% | 3,330 |
| Keith | 2,624 | 73.83% | 930 | 26.17% | 1,694 | 47.66% | 3,554 |
| Keya Paha | 635 | 70.71% | 263 | 29.29% | 372 | 41.42% | 898 |
| Kimball | 1,590 | 70.79% | 656 | 29.21% | 934 | 41.58% | 2,246 |
| Knox | 3,814 | 64.38% | 2,110 | 35.62% | 1,704 | 28.76% | 5,924 |
| Lancaster | 35,591 | 64.94% | 19,217 | 35.06% | 16,374 | 29.88% | 54,808 |
| Lincoln | 7,523 | 62.70% | 4,475 | 37.30% | 3,048 | 25.40% | 11,998 |
| Logan | 367 | 71.26% | 148 | 28.74% | 219 | 42.52% | 515 |
| Loup | 441 | 76.03% | 139 | 23.97% | 302 | 52.06% | 580 |
| Madison | 7,968 | 72.99% | 2,949 | 27.01% | 5,019 | 45.98% | 10,917 |
| McPherson | 281 | 74.14% | 98 | 25.86% | 183 | 48.28% | 379 |
| Merrick | 2,857 | 71.73% | 1,126 | 28.27% | 1,731 | 43.46% | 3,983 |
| Morrill | 1,810 | 63.75% | 1,029 | 36.25% | 781 | 27.50% | 2,839 |
| Nance | 1,779 | 69.55% | 779 | 30.45% | 1,000 | 39.10% | 2,558 |
| Nemaha | 3,141 | 68.66% | 1,434 | 31.34% | 1,707 | 37.32% | 4,575 |
| Nuckolls | 2,672 | 64.28% | 1,485 | 35.72% | 1,187 | 28.56% | 4,157 |
| Otoe | 5,275 | 69.67% | 2,296 | 30.33% | 2,979 | 39.34% | 7,571 |
| Pawnee | 1,830 | 64.17% | 1,022 | 35.83% | 808 | 28.34% | 2,852 |
| Perkins | 1,296 | 66.06% | 666 | 33.94% | 630 | 32.12% | 1,962 |
| Phelps | 3,502 | 72.73% | 1,313 | 27.27% | 2,189 | 45.46% | 4,815 |
| Pierce | 2,800 | 70.85% | 1,152 | 29.15% | 1,648 | 41.70% | 3,952 |
| Platte | 6,574 | 69.23% | 2,922 | 30.77% | 3,652 | 38.46% | 9,496 |
| Polk | 2,482 | 68.62% | 1,135 | 31.38% | 1,347 | 37.24% | 3,617 |
| Red Willow | 3,806 | 70.08% | 1,625 | 29.92% | 2,181 | 40.16% | 5,431 |
| Richardson | 4,480 | 64.05% | 2,514 | 35.95% | 1,966 | 28.10% | 6,994 |
| Rock | 928 | 76.76% | 281 | 23.24% | 647 | 53.52% | 1,209 |
| Saline | 3,248 | 48.89% | 3,395 | 51.11% | -147 | -2.22% | 6,643 |
| Sarpy | 3,826 | 60.47% | 2,501 | 39.53% | 1,325 | 20.94% | 6,327 |
| Saunders | 4,973 | 59.86% | 3,335 | 40.14% | 1,638 | 19.72% | 8,308 |
| Scotts Bluff | 8,027 | 63.12% | 4,690 | 36.88% | 3,337 | 26.24% | 12,717 |
| Seward | 3,688 | 65.88% | 1,910 | 34.12% | 1,778 | 31.76% | 5,598 |
| Sheridan | 2,618 | 74.57% | 893 | 25.43% | 1,725 | 49.14% | 3,511 |
| Sherman | 1,429 | 53.97% | 1,219 | 46.03% | 210 | 7.94% | 2,648 |
| Sioux | 499 | 65.74% | 260 | 34.26% | 239 | 31.48% | 759 |
| Stanton | 1,676 | 65.14% | 897 | 34.86% | 779 | 30.28% | 2,573 |
| Thayer | 3,346 | 69.81% | 1,447 | 30.19% | 1,899 | 39.62% | 4,793 |
| Thomas | 422 | 77.72% | 121 | 22.28% | 301 | 55.44% | 543 |
| Thurston | 1,722 | 55.05% | 1,406 | 44.95% | 316 | 10.10% | 3,128 |
| Valley | 2,189 | 66.78% | 1,089 | 33.22% | 1,100 | 33.56% | 3,278 |
| Washington | 3,531 | 67.10% | 1,731 | 32.90% | 1,800 | 34.20% | 5,262 |
| Wayne | 3,040 | 72.68% | 1,143 | 27.32% | 1,897 | 45.36% | 4,183 |
| Webster | 2,298 | 70.62% | 956 | 29.38% | 1,342 | 41.24% | 3,254 |
| Wheeler | 391 | 64.20% | 218 | 35.80% | 173 | 28.40% | 609 |
| York | 5,065 | 76.35% | 1,569 | 23.65% | 3,496 | 52.70% | 6,634 |
| Totals | 378,108 | 65.51% | 199,029 | 34.49% | 179,079 | 31.02% | 577,137 |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
See also
Notes
- ^ Although he was born in Texas and grew up in Kansas before his military career, at the time of the 1952 election Eisenhower was president of Columbia University and was, officially, a resident of New York. During his first term as president, he moved his private residence to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and officially changed his residency to Pennsylvania.[2]
References
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1956 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved July 10, 2017.
- ^ "The Presidents". David Leip. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
- ^ "1956 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65)". Retrieved July 10, 2017.
- ^ "1956 Presidential General Election Results - Nebraska". Retrieved July 10, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1956". Retrieved July 10, 2017.
- ^ "1956 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- ^ "NE US President Race, November 06, 1956". Our Campaigns.
