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1956: OVERVIEW | MAPS | STATE BY STATE | see old site for more data...
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon

Party: REPUBLICAN
Home State: Eisenhower - NY; Nixon - CA

Electoral Votes: 457
Popular Votes: 35,590,472 (57.4%)

Adlai Stevenson
Adlai Stevenson
Estes Kefauver

Party: DEMOCRATIC
Home State: Stevenson - IL; Kefauver - TN

Electoral Votes: 73
Popular Votes: 26,022,752 (42.0%)

Walter Burgwyn Jones
Walter Burgwyn Jones
Herman Talmadge

Party: DEMOCRATIC
Home State: Jones - AL; Talmadge - GA

Electoral Votes: 1

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Other Candidates

Constitution, Socialist Labor, Prohibition...

Electoral Votes: 0
Popular Votes: 413,684 (0.7%)

Electoral College Vote
Total electoral votes (from 48 states) - 531
Majority needed to win - 266

Eisenhower:
win
Stevenson:
win
Jones:
win

Popular Vote
Total popular vote: 62,026,908
Voting-age population turnout: 59.3%

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