United States presidential election in Florida, 1952
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The 1952 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. Florida voters chose ten representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[2]
Florida was won by Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–New York), running with Senator Richard Nixon, with 54.99 percent of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator John Sparkman, with 44.97 percent of the popular vote.
In contrast to Herbert Hoover's anti-Catholicism-driven victory in the state in 1928, Eisenhower's victory was entirely concentrated in the newer and more liberal South Florida counties, which had seen extensive Northern settlement since the war, did not have a history of slave-based plantation farming,[3] and saw Eisenhower as more favourable to business than the Democratic Party.[4] Eisenhower swept the urban areas of Miami, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota and Tampa, but failed to gain much support in the northwestern pineywoods that had been the core of the 1928 "Hoovercrat" bolt. In this region – inhabited by socially exceptionally conservative poor whites who had been voting in increasing numbers since Florida abolished its poll tax – Democratic loyalties dating from the Civil War remained extremely strong and economic populism hostile in general toward urban areas kept voters loyal to Stevenson.[5] Whereas the urban voters who turned to Eisenhower felt wholly disfranchised both locally and nationally by the one-party system and malapportionment, rural poor voters supported the New Deal/Fair Deal status quo.[6]
In contrast to the wholly Deep South states of Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina, where former Thurmond voters turned to Eisenhower,[7] Florida – although akin to those states in entirely lacking traditional Appalachian, Ozark or German "Forty-Eighter" Republicanism[3] – did not see its 1948 Dixiecrat voters or black belt whites turn over to Eisenhower on a large scale, although they were less loyal than in North Carolina, Texas and Virginia, where traditional Republicanism did exist.
As of the 2016 presidential election, this is the last election in which Collier County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[8]
Results
Results by county
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Dwight David Eisenhower Republican |
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic |
Various candidates Write-ins |
Margin |
Total votes cast[9] |
County |
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% |
# |
% |
# |
% |
# |
% |
# |
Alachua |
8,432 |
58.47% |
5,990 |
41.53% |
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2,442 |
16.93% |
14,422 |
Baker |
419 |
22.04% |
1,482 |
77.96% |
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-1,063 |
-55.92% |
1,901 |
Bay |
4,812 |
35.38% |
8,789 |
64.62% |
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-3,977 |
-29.24% |
13,601 |
Bradford |
976 |
29.68% |
2,312 |
70.32% |
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-1,336 |
-40.63% |
3,288 |
Brevard |
6,756 |
61.91% |
4,157 |
38.09% |
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2,599 |
23.82% |
10,913 |
Broward |
26,506 |
69.10% |
11,854 |
30.90% |
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14,652 |
38.20% |
38,360 |
Calhoun |
590 |
24.41% |
1,827 |
75.59% |
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-1,237 |
-51.18% |
2,417 |
Charlotte |
1,134 |
58.79% |
795 |
41.21% |
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339 |
17.57% |
1,929 |
Citrus |
1,249 |
47.85% |
1,361 |
52.15% |
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-112 |
-4.29% |
2,610 |
Clay |
2,116 |
49.07% |
2,196 |
50.93% |
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-80 |
-1.86% |
4,312 |
Collier |
1,086 |
49.59% |
1,104 |
50.41% |
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-18 |
-0.82% |
2,190 |
Columbia |
2,041 |
38.73% |
3,229 |
61.27% |
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-1,188 |
-22.54% |
5,270 |
Dade |
122,174 |
56.77% |
93,022 |
43.23% |
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29,152 |
13.55% |
215,196 |
De Soto |
1,256 |
41.21% |
1,792 |
58.79% |
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-536 |
-17.59% |
3,048 |
Dixie |
440 |
34.81% |
824 |
65.19% |
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-384 |
-30.38% |
1,264 |
Duval |
50,346 |
48.27% |
53,949 |
51.73% |
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-3,603 |
-3.45% |
104,295 |
Escambia |
12,176 |
37.27% |
20,495 |
62.73% |
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-8,319 |
-25.46% |
32,671 |
Flagler |
512 |
51.30% |
486 |
48.70% |
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26 |
2.61% |
998 |
Franklin |
611 |
33.04% |
1,238 |
66.96% |
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-627 |
-33.91% |
1,849 |
Gadsden |
1,835 |
40.41% |
2,706 |
59.59% |
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-871 |
-19.18% |
4,541 |
Gilchrist |
195 |
16.43% |
992 |
83.57% |
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-797 |
-67.14% |
1,187 |
Glades |
264 |
39.70% |
401 |
60.30% |
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-137 |
-20.60% |
665 |
Gulf |
490 |
21.69% |
1,769 |
78.31% |
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-1,279 |
-56.62% |
2,259 |
Hamilton |
658 |
31.18% |
1,452 |
68.82% |
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-794 |
-37.63% |
2,110 |
Hardee |
1,802 |
46.55% |
2,069 |
53.45% |
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-267 |
-6.90% |
3,871 |
Hendry |
918 |
46.60% |
1,052 |
53.40% |
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-134 |
-6.80% |
1,970 |
Hernando |
1,279 |
53.67% |
1,104 |
46.33% |
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175 |
7.34% |
2,383 |
Highlands |
2,952 |
51.90% |
2,736 |
48.10% |
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216 |
3.80% |
5,688 |
Hillsborough |
36,316 |
52.20% |
33,252 |
47.80% |
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3,064 |
4.40% |
69,568 |
Holmes |
1,230 |
27.67% |
3,216 |
72.33% |
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-1,986 |
-44.67% |
4,446 |
Indian River |
3,055 |
65.94% |
1,578 |
34.06% |
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1,477 |
31.88% |
4,633 |
Jackson |
2,398 |
29.53% |
5,722 |
70.47% |
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-3,324 |
-40.94% |
8,120 |
Jefferson |
665 |
36.22% |
1,171 |
63.78% |
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-506 |
-27.56% |
1,836 |
Lafayette |
269 |
21.52% |
981 |
78.48% |
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-712 |
-56.96% |
1,250 |
Lake |
9,132 |
70.63% |
3,797 |
29.37% |
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5,335 |
41.26% |
12,929 |
Lee |
5,528 |
59.09% |
3,828 |
40.91% |
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1,700 |
18.17% |
9,356 |
Leon |
5,604 |
41.19% |
8,000 |
58.81% |
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-2,396 |
-17.61% |
13,604 |
Levy |
1,066 |
34.66% |
2,010 |
65.34% |
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-944 |
-30.69% |
3,076 |
Liberty |
237 |
18.60% |
1,037 |
81.40% |
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-800 |
-62.79% |
1,274 |
Madison |
1,209 |
42.66% |
1,625 |
57.34% |
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-416 |
-14.68% |
2,834 |
Manatee |
9,055 |
66.40% |
4,583 |
33.60% |
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4,472 |
32.79% |
13,638 |
Marion |
6,134 |
51.17% |
5,854 |
48.83% |
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280 |
2.34% |
11,988 |
Martin |
2,308 |
64.65% |
1,262 |
35.35% |
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1,046 |
29.30% |
3,570 |
Monroe |
2,943 |
37.33% |
4,941 |
62.67% |
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-1,998 |
-25.34% |
7,884 |
Nassau |
1,731 |
40.82% |
2,510 |
59.18% |
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-779 |
-18.37% |
4,241 |
Okaloosa |
2,355 |
30.47% |
5,375 |
69.53% |
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-3,020 |
-39.07% |
7,730 |
Okeechobee |
539 |
37.96% |
881 |
62.04% |
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-342 |
-24.08% |
1,420 |
Orange |
29,813 |
71.06% |
12,141 |
28.94% |
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17,672 |
42.12% |
41,954 |
Osceola |
3,133 |
62.25% |
1,900 |
37.75% |
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1,233 |
24.50% |
5,033 |
Palm Beach |
28,595 |
67.57% |
13,723 |
32.43% |
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14,872 |
35.14% |
42,318 |
Pasco |
4,562 |
56.24% |
3,549 |
43.76% |
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1,013 |
12.49% |
8,111 |
Pinellas |
55,691 |
71.35% |
22,365 |
28.65% |
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33,326 |
42.69% |
78,056 |
Polk |
20,874 |
51.63% |
19,556 |
48.37% |
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1,318 |
3.26% |
40,430 |
Putnam |
3,766 |
51.65% |
3,525 |
48.35% |
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241 |
3.31% |
7,291 |
St. John's |
4,702 |
51.85% |
4,366 |
48.15% |
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336 |
3.71% |
9,068 |
St. Lucie |
4,667 |
62.65% |
2,782 |
37.35% |
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1,885 |
25.31% |
7,449 |
Santa Rosa |
1,744 |
28.50% |
4,375 |
71.50% |
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-2,631 |
-43.00% |
6,119 |
Sarasota |
9,538 |
70.74% |
3,945 |
29.26% |
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5,593 |
41.48% |
13,483 |
Seminole |
4,683 |
60.02% |
3,120 |
39.98% |
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1,563 |
20.03% |
7,803 |
Sumter |
1,054 |
31.64% |
2,277 |
68.36% |
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-1,223 |
-36.72% |
3,331 |
Suwannee |
1,611 |
36.30% |
2,827 |
63.70% |
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-1,216 |
-27.40% |
4,438 |
Taylor |
744 |
29.40% |
1,787 |
70.60% |
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-1,043 |
-41.21% |
2,531 |
Union |
268 |
21.68% |
968 |
78.32% |
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-700 |
-56.63% |
1,236 |
Volusia |
19,815 |
62.46% |
11,910 |
37.54% |
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7,905 |
24.92% |
31,725 |
Wakulla |
375 |
24.24% |
1,172 |
75.76% |
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-797 |
-51.52% |
1,547 |
Walton |
1,502 |
29.48% |
3,593 |
70.52% |
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-2,091 |
-41.04% |
5,095 |
Washington |
1,100 |
32.71% |
2,263 |
67.29% |
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-1,163 |
-34.58% |
3,363 |
Totals | 544,036 | 54.99% | 444,950 | 44.97% | 351[lower-alpha 2] | 0.04% | 99,086 | 10.02% | 989,337 |
Notes
- ↑ These votes were listed in America at the Polls state-wide, but not in Dave Leip's Atlas.
- ↑ These write-in votes were given only as a state-wised total, not separated by county.
References
- ↑ "U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. 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
- ↑ "1952 Presidential Election Results Florida". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas.
- 1 2 Strong, Donald S.; 'The Presidential Election in the South, 1952'; The Journal of Politics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 343-389
- ↑ See Doherty, Herbert J. (junior); 'Liberal and Conservative Politics in Florida'; The Journal of Politics, vol. 14, no. 3 (August 1952), pp. 403-417
- ↑ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 232
ISBN 1400852293
- ↑ Buchholz, Michael O., The South in Presidential Politics: The End of Democratic Hegemony. Master of Arts (Political Science), August, 1973, p. 43
- ↑ Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 217
- ↑ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 91-92
ISBN 0405077114
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