1952 United States presidential election in Illinois
The 1952 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. State voters chose twenty seven representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[3]
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Illinois was won by Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–New York), running with Senator Richard Nixon, with 54.84% of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator John Sparkman, with 44.94% of the popular vote. Despite Stevenson’s popularity as Governor of his home state, he would lose Illinois twice by double digits and even lose his home county (Cook) – which no Democrat since except George McGovern in 1972 has lost.[4]
Eisenhower was the first Republican presidential candidate ever to carry Dixie-leaning Union County,[4] which alongside his triumphs in Indiana’s Brown County and Dubois County[5] meant that every antebellum free state county had as of 1952 voted for a Republican presidential candidate at least once.[lower-alpha 1]
Primaries
Both major parties had non-binding preferential state-run primaries on April 8.[6]
Democratic
Estes Kefauver, the only declared candidate included in the Illinois primary, won in a landslide.
Incumbent president Harry S. Truman had already declared he would not be seeking reelection.
Adlai Stevenson II, the Governor of Illinois, was not a declared candidate at the time of the primary, and was, in fact, on the same day, running for renomination as Governor of Illinois.[6] He would only become a candidate after being drafted at the Democratic National Convention. Nonetheless, he placed second in the Illinois primary.[6]
Candidate | Votes | % |
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Estes Kefauver | 526,301 | 87.70 |
Adlai E. Stevenson | 54,336 | 9.05 |
Harry S. Truman | 9,024 | 1.50 |
Dwight Eisenhower | 6,655 | 1.11 |
Write-ins | 3,798 | 0.63 |
Total | 600,114 | 100 |
Republican
Candidate | Votes | % |
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Robert A. Taft | 935,867 | 73.56 |
Harold E. Stassen | 155,041 | 12.19 |
Dwight Eisenhower | 147,518 | 11.59 |
Riley Alvin Bender | 22,321 | 1.75 |
Douglas MacArthur | 7,504 | 0.59 |
Earl Warren | 2,841 | 0.22 |
Write-ins | 1,229 | 0.10 |
Total | 1,272,321 | 100 |
General election
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 2,457,327 | 54.84% | |
Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 2,013,920 | 44.94% | |
Socialist Labor | Eric Hass | 9,363 | 0.21% | |
Write-ins | Various candidates | 448 | 0.01% | |
Total votes | 4,481,058 | 100% |
Results by county
County | Dwight David Eisenhower Republican |
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast[7] | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adams | 19,652 | 59.60% | 13,301 | 40.34% | 21 | 0.06% | 6,351 | 19.26% | 32,974 |
Alexander | 5,219 | 54.63% | 4,305 | 45.06% | 29 | 0.30% | 914 | 9.57% | 9,553 |
Bond | 4,565 | 62.03% | 2,776 | 37.72% | 18 | 0.24% | 1,789 | 24.31% | 7,359 |
Boone | 6,628 | 74.21% | 2,287 | 25.60% | 17 | 0.19% | 4,341 | 48.60% | 8,932 |
Brown | 2,137 | 57.77% | 1,557 | 42.09% | 5 | 0.14% | 580 | 15.68% | 3,699 |
Bureau | 14,300 | 69.76% | 6,173 | 30.12% | 25 | 0.12% | 8,127 | 39.65% | 20,498 |
Calhoun | 1,915 | 56.81% | 1,454 | 43.13% | 2 | 0.06% | 461 | 13.68% | 3,371 |
Carroll | 6,978 | 72.87% | 2,584 | 26.98% | 14 | 0.15% | 4,394 | 45.89% | 9,576 |
Cass | 4,152 | 54.88% | 3,405 | 45.01% | 8 | 0.11% | 747 | 9.87% | 7,565 |
Champaign | 27,188 | 65.91% | 13,951 | 33.82% | 112 | 0.27% | 13,237 | 32.09% | 41,251 |
Christian | 9,906 | 50.11% | 9,844 | 49.80% | 17 | 0.09% | 62 | 0.31% | 19,767 |
Clark | 5,700 | 61.12% | 3,621 | 38.83% | 5 | 0.05% | 2,079 | 22.29% | 9,326 |
Clay | 5,254 | 60.38% | 3,432 | 39.44% | 15 | 0.17% | 1,822 | 20.94% | 8,701 |
Clinton | 6,760 | 58.18% | 4,853 | 41.76% | 7 | 0.06% | 1,907 | 16.41% | 11,620 |
Coles | 12,660 | 61.59% | 7,876 | 38.31% | 20 | 0.10% | 4,784 | 23.27% | 20,556 |
Cook | 1,188,973 | 50.21% | 1,172,454 | 49.51% | 6,512 | 0.28% | 16,519 | 0.70% | 2,367,939 |
Crawford | 6,768 | 63.11% | 3,947 | 36.81% | 9 | 0.08% | 2,821 | 26.31% | 10,724 |
Cumberland | 3,302 | 59.88% | 2,200 | 39.90% | 12 | 0.22% | 1,102 | 19.99% | 5,514 |
DeKalb | 14,807 | 74.23% | 5,110 | 25.62% | 30 | 0.15% | 9,697 | 48.61% | 19,947 |
DeWitt | 5,212 | 61.78% | 3,221 | 38.18% | 3 | 0.04% | 1,991 | 23.60% | 8,436 |
Douglas | 5,530 | 67.10% | 2,706 | 32.84% | 5 | 0.06% | 2,824 | 34.27% | 8,241 |
DuPage | 71,134 | 75.80% | 22,489 | 23.97% | 217 | 0.23% | 48,645 | 51.84% | 93,840 |
Edgar | 8,323 | 64.56% | 4,558 | 35.36% | 10 | 0.08% | 3,765 | 29.21% | 12,891 |
Edwards | 3,502 | 75.01% | 1,162 | 24.89% | 5 | 0.11% | 2,340 | 50.12% | 4,669 |
Effingham | 6,530 | 57.79% | 4,745 | 41.99% | 25 | 0.22% | 1,785 | 15.80% | 11,300 |
Fayette | 7,028 | 56.96% | 5,299 | 42.95% | 12 | 0.10% | 1,729 | 14.01% | 12,339 |
Ford | 6,216 | 74.49% | 2,121 | 25.42% | 8 | 0.10% | 4,095 | 49.07% | 8,345 |
Franklin | 11,723 | 49.33% | 11,981 | 50.41% | 62 | 0.26% | -258 | -1.09% | 23,766 |
Fulton | 13,302 | 61.13% | 8,414 | 38.67% | 44 | 0.20% | 4,888 | 22.46% | 21,760 |
Gallatin | 2,300 | 51.56% | 2,153 | 48.26% | 8 | 0.18% | 147 | 3.30% | 4,461 |
Greene | 5,019 | 54.96% | 4,106 | 44.96% | 7 | 0.08% | 913 | 10.00% | 9,132 |
Grundy | 7,347 | 70.12% | 3,118 | 29.76% | 13 | 0.12% | 4,229 | 40.36% | 10,478 |
Hamilton | 4,047 | 60.25% | 2,662 | 39.63% | 8 | 0.12% | 1,385 | 20.62% | 6,717 |
Hancock | 9,181 | 66.14% | 4,681 | 33.72% | 19 | 0.14% | 4,500 | 32.42% | 13,881 |
Hardin | 1,984 | 55.84% | 1,563 | 43.99% | 6 | 0.17% | 421 | 11.85% | 3,553 |
Henderson | 2,839 | 65.98% | 1,458 | 33.88% | 6 | 0.14% | 1,381 | 32.09% | 4,303 |
Henry | 16,301 | 65.49% | 8,558 | 34.38% | 33 | 0.13% | 7,743 | 31.11% | 24,892 |
Iroquois | 12,456 | 72.81% | 4,634 | 27.09% | 17 | 0.10% | 7,822 | 45.72% | 17,107 |
Jackson | 10,193 | 57.67% | 7,457 | 42.19% | 24 | 0.14% | 2,736 | 15.48% | 17,674 |
Jasper | 3,753 | 57.82% | 2,728 | 42.03% | 10 | 0.15% | 1,025 | 15.79% | 6,491 |
Jefferson | 9,841 | 53.03% | 8,698 | 46.87% | 19 | 0.10% | 1,143 | 6.16% | 18,558 |
Jersey | 4,031 | 54.03% | 3,424 | 45.89% | 6 | 0.08% | 607 | 8.14% | 7,461 |
Jo Daviess | 7,132 | 71.30% | 2,858 | 28.57% | 13 | 0.13% | 4,274 | 42.73% | 10,003 |
Johnson | 3,327 | 67.25% | 1,614 | 32.63% | 6 | 0.12% | 1,713 | 34.63% | 4,947 |
Kane | 50,801 | 67.78% | 24,058 | 32.10% | 96 | 0.13% | 26,743 | 35.68% | 74,955 |
Kankakee | 20,279 | 61.44% | 12,636 | 38.29% | 90 | 0.27% | 7,643 | 23.16% | 33,005 |
Kendall | 4,982 | 77.11% | 1,476 | 22.84% | 3 | 0.05% | 3,506 | 54.26% | 6,461 |
Knox | 18,569 | 64.16% | 10,354 | 35.78% | 17 | 0.06% | 8,215 | 28.39% | 28,940 |
Lake | 54,929 | 62.83% | 32,353 | 37.01% | 145 | 0.17% | 22,576 | 25.82% | 87,427 |
LaSalle | 32,857 | 60.54% | 21,321 | 39.28% | 99 | 0.18% | 11,536 | 21.25% | 54,277 |
Lawrence | 6,207 | 61.54% | 3,875 | 38.42% | 4 | 0.04% | 2,332 | 23.12% | 10,086 |
Lee | 11,941 | 71.71% | 4,700 | 28.23% | 10 | 0.06% | 7,241 | 43.49% | 16,651 |
Livingston | 14,095 | 71.45% | 5,612 | 28.45% | 20 | 0.10% | 8,483 | 43.00% | 19,727 |
Logan | 9,162 | 64.39% | 5,048 | 35.48% | 19 | 0.13% | 4,114 | 28.91% | 14,229 |
Macon | 25,744 | 53.56% | 22,277 | 46.35% | 45 | 0.09% | 3,467 | 7.21% | 48,066 |
Macoupin | 12,336 | 48.67% | 12,944 | 51.07% | 68 | 0.27% | -608 | -2.40% | 25,348 |
Madison | 36,206 | 41.60% | 50,734 | 58.29% | 99 | 0.11% | -14,528 | -16.69% | 87,039 |
Marion | 10,804 | 53.64% | 9,317 | 46.26% | 19 | 0.09% | 1,487 | 7.38% | 20,140 |
Marshall | 4,850 | 67.35% | 2,343 | 32.54% | 8 | 0.11% | 2,507 | 34.81% | 7,201 |
Mason | 4,982 | 61.91% | 3,061 | 38.04% | 4 | 0.05% | 1,921 | 23.87% | 8,047 |
Massac | 4,212 | 60.78% | 2,711 | 39.12% | 7 | 0.10% | 1,501 | 21.66% | 6,930 |
McDonough | 10,126 | 72.06% | 3,922 | 27.91% | 5 | 0.04% | 6,204 | 44.15% | 14,053 |
McHenry | 20,975 | 74.23% | 7,218 | 25.54% | 64 | 0.23% | 13,757 | 48.69% | 28,257 |
McLean | 24,494 | 64.75% | 13,296 | 35.15% | 36 | 0.10% | 11,198 | 29.60% | 37,826 |
Menard | 3,307 | 62.92% | 1,946 | 37.02% | 3 | 0.06% | 1,361 | 25.89% | 5,256 |
Mercer | 6,416 | 70.53% | 2,679 | 29.45% | 2 | 0.02% | 3,737 | 41.08% | 9,097 |
Monroe | 4,528 | 65.07% | 2,430 | 34.92% | 1 | 0.01% | 2,098 | 30.15% | 6,959 |
Montgomery | 10,014 | 54.95% | 8,195 | 44.97% | 16 | 0.09% | 1,819 | 9.98% | 18,225 |
Morgan | 10,405 | 61.04% | 6,637 | 38.94% | 4 | 0.02% | 3,768 | 22.10% | 17,046 |
Moultrie | 3,880 | 59.12% | 2,675 | 40.76% | 8 | 0.12% | 1,205 | 18.36% | 6,563 |
Ogle | 13,351 | 77.79% | 3,796 | 22.12% | 16 | 0.09% | 9,555 | 55.67% | 17,163 |
Peoria | 49,245 | 59.09% | 33,955 | 40.74% | 139 | 0.17% | 15,290 | 18.35% | 83,339 |
Perry | 6,580 | 55.19% | 5,340 | 44.79% | 3 | 0.03% | 1,240 | 10.40% | 11,923 |
Piatt | 4,701 | 67.82% | 2,220 | 32.03% | 11 | 0.16% | 2,481 | 35.79% | 6,932 |
Pike | 6,382 | 54.97% | 5,219 | 44.95% | 10 | 0.09% | 1,163 | 10.02% | 11,611 |
Pope | 1,947 | 67.53% | 933 | 32.36% | 3 | 0.10% | 1,014 | 35.17% | 2,883 |
Pulaski | 3,447 | 58.88% | 2,397 | 40.95% | 10 | 0.17% | 1,050 | 17.94% | 5,854 |
Putnam | 1,691 | 62.56% | 1,010 | 37.37% | 2 | 0.07% | 681 | 25.19% | 2,703 |
Randolph | 8,427 | 54.59% | 6,998 | 45.33% | 13 | 0.08% | 1,429 | 9.26% | 15,438 |
Richland | 5,569 | 68.42% | 2,565 | 31.51% | 5 | 0.06% | 3,004 | 36.91% | 8,139 |
Rock Island | 32,933 | 54.07% | 27,879 | 45.77% | 100 | 0.16% | 5,054 | 8.30% | 60,912 |
Saline | 9,206 | 54.13% | 7,771 | 45.70% | 29 | 0.17% | 1,435 | 8.44% | 17,006 |
Sangamon | 39,392 | 53.99% | 33,526 | 45.95% | 50 | 0.07% | 5,866 | 8.04% | 72,968 |
Schuyler | 3,295 | 61.30% | 2,076 | 38.62% | 4 | 0.07% | 1,219 | 22.68% | 5,375 |
Scott | 2,298 | 60.36% | 1,506 | 39.56% | 3 | 0.08% | 792 | 20.80% | 3,807 |
Shelby | 7,189 | 57.65% | 5,268 | 42.25% | 12 | 0.10% | 1,921 | 15.41% | 12,469 |
St. Clair | 39,713 | 39.51% | 60,311 | 60.01% | 479 | 0.48% | -20,598 | -20.49% | 100,503 |
Stark | 3,398 | 75.51% | 1,100 | 24.44% | 2 | 0.04% | 2,298 | 51.07% | 4,500 |
Stephenson | 14,446 | 68.51% | 6,605 | 31.32% | 35 | 0.17% | 7,841 | 37.19% | 21,086 |
Tazewell | 20,763 | 55.14% | 16,862 | 44.78% | 28 | 0.07% | 3,901 | 10.36% | 37,653 |
Union | 4,658 | 51.97% | 4,296 | 47.93% | 9 | 0.10% | 362 | 4.04% | 8,963 |
Vermilion | 25,367 | 57.36% | 18,771 | 42.44% | 88 | 0.20% | 6,596 | 14.91% | 44,226 |
Wabash | 4,246 | 61.38% | 2,661 | 38.47% | 10 | 0.14% | 1,585 | 22.91% | 6,917 |
Warren | 8,020 | 72.88% | 2,973 | 27.02% | 11 | 0.10% | 5,047 | 45.87% | 11,004 |
Washington | 5,546 | 66.17% | 2,824 | 33.70% | 11 | 0.13% | 2,722 | 32.48% | 8,381 |
Wayne | 6,495 | 62.34% | 3,911 | 37.54% | 12 | 0.12% | 2,584 | 24.80% | 10,418 |
White | 6,141 | 58.87% | 4,284 | 41.07% | 6 | 0.06% | 1,857 | 17.80% | 10,431 |
Whiteside | 17,294 | 73.28% | 6,238 | 26.43% | 67 | 0.28% | 11,056 | 46.85% | 23,599 |
Will | 38,533 | 56.34% | 29,749 | 43.50% | 110 | 0.16% | 8,784 | 12.84% | 68,392 |
Williamson | 13,348 | 55.10% | 10,838 | 44.74% | 37 | 0.15% | 2,510 | 10.36% | 24,223 |
Winnebago | 43,468 | 57.95% | 31,409 | 41.88% | 127 | 0.17% | 12,059 | 16.08% | 75,004 |
Woodford | 8,022 | 70.94% | 3,273 | 28.94% | 13 | 0.11% | 4,749 | 42.00% | 11,308 |
Totals | 2,457,327 | 54.84% | 2,013,920 | 44.94% | 9,811 | 0.22% | 443,407 | 9.90% | 4,481,058 |
Notes
See also
References
- "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
- "1952 Presidential Election Results Illinois".
- Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 180-187 ISBN 0786422173
- Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, pp. 187-192
- Illinois Blue Book 1953-1952. Illinois Secretary of State. p. 756. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 132-133 ISBN 0405077114