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The American Political Almanac
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The Nation Decides

Electoral votes, the popular vote, and how every state moved
Adlai Stevenson II
Democrat
Adlai Stevenson II
89
Electoral votes
44.3% · 26,881,835
President · The New Deal Order

1952

Eisenhower def. II, 442–89
vote totals summed from county returns
✓ Won
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower
442
Electoral votes
55.2% · 33,775,055
Electoral college — 266 to win (531 electors)89 D · 442 R
Popular vote44.3% · 55.2% · margin R+10.9

61,531,198 votes counted (summed from counties) · Excludes third-party votes in 1 county whose source totals are double-counted.

Electoral map — one tile per state · coloured by county-summed popular vote
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R+40D+40third party won

Per-state electoral vote detail is staged from 1976; earlier years show the national college in the bar above, and states are coloured by their county-summed popular vote.

Missouri: the source double-counts some county totals this year, so third-party vote there is understated (shown with a +).

The swing from last time
Change in each state’s margin since 1948 · ← toward Republicans · toward Democrats →

The Map Beneath the Map

Three thousand counties, and the demography of the divide

Every county that cast a ballot, shaded by its margin. Hover any county to read it; click to open its 156-year profile. Scrub the timeline above and the map redraws in place. Vote counts exist for all forty elections; the demographic lenses begin in 2000.

County margin

Drawing three thousand counties…

R+40D+40no returns

Who Voted for Whom

The American electorate by income, education, faith and more

How each slice of the electorate split between the parties — by their own account. Weighted ANES self-reports from a national sample: they tilt slightly toward the winner and carry no county detail.

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Notes on this election

  • Ike cracked the outer South (VA, TN, FL, TX).