1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico
The 1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 4, 1952. All 48 States were part of the 1952 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President.
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New Mexico was won by World War II hero and supreme allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower by a wide 11 percentage point margin. Running against Eisenhower was Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson, who carried only the majority of the American South during his two runs for the presidency.[2] This was the tenth consecutive U.S. Presidential Election which New Mexico participated in.
Results
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Republican | New York | 132,170 | 55.39% | 4 | Richard Nixon | California | 4 |
| Adlai Stevenson II | Democratic | Illinois | 105,661 | 44.28% | 0 | John Sparkman | Alabama | 0 |
| Stuart Hamblen | Prohibition | Texas | 297 | 0.12% | 0 | Enoch Holtwick | Illinois | 0 |
| Vincent Hallinan | Progressive | California | 225 | 0.09% | 0 | Charlotta Bass | New York | 0 |
| Douglas MacArthur | Christian Nationalist | Arkansas | 220 | 0.09% | 0 | Harry F. Byrd | Virginia | 0 |
| Eric Hass | Socialist Labor | New York | 35 | 0.01% | 0 | Stephen Emery | New York | 0 |
| Total | 238,608 | 100% | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Needed to win | 266 | 266 | ||||||
Results by county
| County | Dwight David Eisenhower Republican[3] |
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic[3] |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | |
| San Juan | 69.73% | 3,864 | 29.94% | 1,659 | 0.32% | 18 | 39.79% | 2,205 |
| Lincoln | 64.52% | 2,004 | 35.25% | 1,095 | 0.23% | 7 | 29.27% | 909 |
| Chaves | 63.92% | 7,018 | 35.34% | 3,880 | 0.74% | 81 | 28.58% | 3,138 |
| Sierra | 63.61% | 2,033 | 36.23% | 1,158 | 0.16% | 5 | 27.38% | 875 |
| Harding | 63.49% | 760 | 36.42% | 436 | 0.08% | 1 | 27.07% | 324 |
| Union | 63.39% | 1,988 | 36.42% | 1,142 | 0.19% | 6 | 26.98% | 846 |
| Catron | 61.49% | 741 | 38.51% | 464 | 0.00% | 0 | 22.99% | 277 |
| Curry | 59.38% | 5,023 | 40.45% | 3,422 | 0.17% | 14 | 18.93% | 1,601 |
| Bernalillo | 59.38% | 33,964 | 40.50% | 23,164 | 0.13% | 72 | 18.88% | 10,800 |
| De Baca | 57.25% | 782 | 42.53% | 581 | 0.22% | 3 | 14.71% | 201 |
| Santa Fe | 56.62% | 9,011 | 42.64% | 6,786 | 0.75% | 119 | 13.98% | 2,225 |
| Roosevelt | 56.74% | 3,030 | 43.03% | 2,298 | 0.22% | 12 | 13.71% | 732 |
| Mora | 56.61% | 1,849 | 43.26% | 1,413 | 0.12% | 4 | 13.35% | 436 |
| Doña Ana | 56.33% | 5,902 | 43.48% | 4,556 | 0.19% | 20 | 12.85% | 1,346 |
| Luna | 55.86% | 1,729 | 43.04% | 1,332 | 1.10% | 34 | 12.83% | 397 |
| Socorro | 55.52% | 2,224 | 44.36% | 1,777 | 0.12% | 5 | 11.16% | 447 |
| Torrance | 54.99% | 1,747 | 44.76% | 1,422 | 0.25% | 8 | 10.23% | 325 |
| San Miguel | 54.59% | 5,360 | 45.34% | 4,451 | 0.07% | 7 | 9.26% | 909 |
| Guadalupe | 53.90% | 1,575 | 46.10% | 1,347 | 0.00% | 0 | 7.80% | 228 |
| Valencia | 53.47% | 3,810 | 46.46% | 3,310 | 0.07% | 5 | 7.02% | 500 |
| Quay | 53.00% | 2,711 | 46.43% | 2,375 | 0.57% | 29 | 6.57% | 336 |
| Otero | 53.16% | 2,456 | 46.80% | 2,162 | 0.04% | 2 | 6.36% | 294 |
| Sandoval | 52.06% | 1,795 | 47.77% | 1,647 | 0.17% | 6 | 4.29% | 148 |
| Colfax | 51.58% | 3,397 | 48.34% | 3,184 | 0.08% | 5 | 3.23% | 213 |
| Hidalgo | 50.58% | 781 | 49.03% | 757 | 0.39% | 6 | 1.55% | 24 |
| McKinley | 49.80% | 3,091 | 49.90% | 3,097 | 0.31% | 19 | -0.10% | -6 |
| Los Alamos | 49.30% | 2,226 | 50.52% | 2,281 | 0.18% | 8 | -1.22% | -55 |
| Taos | 48.94% | 2,763 | 50.96% | 2,877 | 0.11% | 6 | -2.02% | -114 |
| Rio Arriba | 48.69% | 4,336 | 51.25% | 4,564 | 0.06% | 5 | -2.56% | -228 |
| Lea | 47.52% | 4,738 | 52.19% | 5,204 | 0.29% | 29 | -4.67% | -466 |
| Eddy | 44.45% | 6,041 | 55.15% | 7,495 | 0.40% | 55 | -10.70% | -1,454 |
| Grant | 43.18% | 3,421 | 54.47% | 4,315 | 2.35% | 186 | -11.29% | -894 |
References
- "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 General Election Results - New Mexico". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
- Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 308 ISBN 0405077114
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