United States presidential election in South Carolina, 1956
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County results
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The 1956 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. South Carolina voters chose eight[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
South Carolina was won by Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator Estes Kefauver, with 45.37 pecent of the popular vote against incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Pennsylvania), running with Vice President Richard Nixon, with 25.18 percent of the popular vote. T. Coleman Andrews, the Dixiecrat candidate, finished second via unpledged electors.[4][5]
The 1956 election in South Carolina marks the only occasion Eisenhower placed third in a state in either of his presidential campaigns. As of the 2016 presidential election, this is the last election in which Greenville County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. It is also the last time that Lexington County was not carried by the Republican candidate.[6]
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 136,372 | 45.37% | |
Dixiecrat | Unpledged electors T. Coleman Andrews |
88,509 | 29.45% | |
Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower (inc.) | 75,700 | 25.18% | |
Write-in | 2 | 0.00% | ||
Total votes | 300,583 | 100% |
Results by county
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic |
Dwight David Eisenhower Republican |
Unpledged Electors States’ Rights |
Margin[lower-alpha 2] | Total votes cast[7] | |||||
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County | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # |
Abbeville | 2,985 | 83.36% | 339 | 9.47% | 257 | 7.18% | 2,646[lower-alpha 3] | 73.89% | 3,581 |
Aiken | 4,280 | 34.81% | 6,195 | 50.38% | 1,821 | 14.81% | -1,915[lower-alpha 3] | -15.57% | 12,296 |
Allendale | 380 | 28.85% | 262 | 19.89% | 675 | 51.25% | -295 | -22.40% | 1,317 |
Anderson | 11,344 | 76.80% | 2,186 | 14.80% | 1,241 | 8.40% | 9,158[lower-alpha 3] | 62.00% | 14,771 |
Bamberg | 430 | 22.95% | 326 | 17.40% | 1,118 | 59.66% | -688 | -36.71% | 1,874 |
Barnwell | 1,914 | 63.61% | 520 | 17.28% | 575 | 19.11% | 1,339 | 44.50% | 3,009 |
Beaufort | 710 | 25.57% | 1,051 | 37.85% | 1,016 | 36.59% | 35[lower-alpha 4] | 1.26% | 2,777 |
Berkeley | 902 | 24.14% | 1,055 | 28.24% | 1,779 | 47.62% | -724[lower-alpha 4] | -19.38% | 3,736 |
Calhoun | 341 | 28.90% | 146 | 12.37% | 693 | 58.73% | -352 | -29.83% | 1,180 |
Charleston | 4,028 | 16.07% | 7,487 | 29.86% | 13,558 | 54.07% | -6,071[lower-alpha 4] | -24.21% | 25,073 |
Cherokee | 3,687 | 75.21% | 907 | 18.50% | 308 | 6.28% | 2,780[lower-alpha 3] | 56.71% | 4,902 |
Chester | 2,951 | 62.80% | 1,007 | 21.43% | 741 | 15.77% | 1,944[lower-alpha 3] | 41.37% | 4,699 |
Chesterfield | 3,559 | 71.35% | 795 | 15.94% | 634 | 12.71% | 2,764[lower-alpha 3] | 55.41% | 4,988 |
Clarendon | 661 | 24.74% | 224 | 8.38% | 1,787 | 66.88% | -1,126 | -42.14% | 2,672 |
Colleton | 1,463 | 36.14% | 635 | 15.69% | 1,950 | 48.17% | -487 | -12.03% | 4,048 |
Darlington | 2,908 | 40.91% | 1,597 | 22.47% | 2,603 | 36.62% | 305 | 4.29% | 7,108 |
Dillon | 1,879 | 62.97% | 313 | 10.49% | 792 | 26.54% | 1,087 | 36.43% | 2,984 |
Dorchester | 862 | 26.80% | 504 | 15.67% | 1,851 | 57.54% | -989 | -30.74% | 3,217 |
Edgefield | 525 | 25.71% | 516 | 25.27% | 1,001 | 49.02% | -476 | -23.31% | 2,042 |
Fairfield | 961 | 36.29% | 519 | 19.60% | 1,168 | 44.11% | -207 | -7.82% | 2,648 |
Florence | 3,463 | 35.46% | 1,855 | 19.00% | 4,447 | 45.54% | -984 | -10.08% | 9,765 |
Georgetown | 1,020 | 23.39% | 1,057 | 24.24% | 2,284 | 52.37% | -1,227[lower-alpha 4] | -28.13% | 4,361 |
Greenville | 11,819 | 43.46% | 10,752 | 39.54% | 4,622 | 17.00% | 1,067[lower-alpha 3] | 3.92% | 27,193 |
Greenwood | 4,386 | 64.95% | 1,120 | 16.59% | 1,247 | 18.47% | 3,139 | 46.48% | 6,753 |
Hampton | 564 | 27.43% | 359 | 17.46% | 1,133 | 55.11% | -569 | -27.68% | 2,056 |
Horry | 4,835 | 59.17% | 1,092 | 13.36% | 2,244 | 27.46% | 2,591 | 31.71% | 8,171 |
Jasper | 210 | 16.52% | 403 | 31.71% | 658 | 51.77% | -255[lower-alpha 4] | -20.06% | 1,271 |
Kershaw | 1,875 | 34.79% | 1,518 | 28.17% | 1,996 | 37.04% | -121 | -2.25% | 5,389 |
Lancaster | 4,398 | 66.26% | 1,610 | 24.26% | 629 | 9.48% | 2,788[lower-alpha 3] | 42.00% | 6,637 |
Laurens | 3,726 | 56.05% | 1,377 | 20.71% | 1,545 | 23.24% | 2,181 | 32.81% | 6,648 |
Lee | 943 | 38.26% | 250 | 10.14% | 1,272 | 51.60% | -329 | -13.34% | 2,465 |
Lexington | 2,094 | 36.50% | 1,188 | 20.71% | 2,455 | 42.79% | -361 | -6.29% | 5,737 |
Marion | 1,390 | 43.99% | 417 | 13.20% | 1,353 | 42.82% | 37 | 1.17% | 3,160 |
Marlboro | 1,769 | 63.22% | 507 | 18.12% | 522 | 18.66% | 1,247 | 44.56% | 2,798 |
McCormick | 485 | 55.81% | 102 | 11.74% | 282 | 32.45% | 203 | 23.36% | 869 |
Newberry | 2,671 | 52.07% | 1,061 | 20.68% | 1,398 | 27.25% | 1,273 | 24.82% | 5,130 |
Oconee | 3,510 | 73.17% | 911 | 18.99% | 376 | 7.84% | 2,599[lower-alpha 3] | 54.18% | 4,797 |
Orangeburg | 2,511 | 36.28% | 1,467 | 21.20% | 2,943 | 42.52% | -432 | -6.24% | 6,921 |
Pickens | 1,847 | 43.17% | 1,747 | 40.84% | 684 | 15.99% | 100[lower-alpha 3] | 2.33% | 4,278 |
Richland | 6,154 | 27.49% | 6,714 | 29.99% | 9,516 | 42.51% | -2,802[lower-alpha 4] | -12.52% | 22,384 |
Saluda | 1,080 | 47.24% | 341 | 14.92% | 865 | 37.84% | 215 | 9.40% | 2,286 |
Spartanburg | 16,637 | 65.03% | 6,822 | 26.67% | 2,124 | 8.30% | 9,815[lower-alpha 3] | 38.36% | 25,583 |
Sumter | 937 | 15.53% | 1,356 | 22.47% | 3,741 | 62.00% | -2,385[lower-alpha 4] | -39.53% | 6,034 |
Union | 3,760 | 66.10% | 1,252 | 22.01% | 676 | 11.88% | 2,508[lower-alpha 3] | 44.09% | 5,688 |
Williamsburg | 683 | 18.20% | 330 | 8.80% | 2,739 | 73.00% | -2,056 | -54.80% | 3,752 |
York | 6,835 | 59.25% | 3,508 | 30.41% | 1,192 | 10.33% | 3,327[lower-alpha 3] | 28.84% | 11,535 |
Totals | 136,372 | 45.37% | 75,700 | 25.18% | 88,511 | 29.45% | 47,861 | 15.92% | 300,583 |
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.
- ↑ Because the unpledged elector slate finished ahead of Eisenhower in South Carolina as a whole, unless noted otherwise margin given is Stevenson vote minus unpledged vote and percentage margin Stevenson percent minus unpledged slate percentage.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 In this county where Eisenhower did run ahead of the unpledged slate, margin given is Stevenson vote minus Eisenhower vote and percentage margin Stevenson percenage minus Eisenhower percentage.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 In this county where Stevenson ran third behind both Eisenhower and the unpledged slate, margin given is Eisenhower vote minus unpledged vote and percentage margin Eisenhower percentage minus unpledged slate percentage.
References
- ↑ "United States Presidential election of 1956 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved June 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 June 10, 2017.
- ↑ "1956 Presidential General Election Results - South Carolina". Retrieved June 10, 2017.
- ↑ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1956". Retrieved June 10, 2017.
- ↑ 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; p. 397 ISBN 0405077114