The 1956 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 6, 1956. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1956 United States presidential election. Voters chose 45 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.
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| Turnout | 67.9%[1]  3.3 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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New York was won by incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was running against former Democratic Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson. Eisenhower ran with incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, and Stevenson ran with Tennessee Senator, and principal opponent during the 1956 Democratic Primaries, Estes Kefauver. Eisenhower received 61.24% of the vote to Stevenson's 38.73%, a margin of 22.51%. Eisenhower won 4.3 million votes, the most ever received by a Republican presidential candidate in the state's history.
New York weighed in for this election as eight percentage points more Republican than the national average. This election was very much of a re-match from the previous presidential election 4 years earlier, which featured the same major candidates except for John Sparkman being replaced as Stevenson’s running mate by Kefauver. The presidential election of 1956 was a very partisan election for New York, with 99.8% of the electorate voting for either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.[3] The widely popular Eisenhower took every county in the State of New York outside of New York City, dominating upstate by landslide margins and also sweeping suburban areas around NYC. Stevenson narrowly won New York City overall by carrying the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, while Eisenhower won Queens and Staten Island.
Eisenhower won the election in New York by a 22-point landslide. 1956 was the last election in which a Republican presidential candidate took more than 60% of the vote in New York State and won the state by more than twenty points.[4] New York would not vote Republican again until Eisenhower’s running mate, Richard Nixon, won the state in his re-election bid in 1972. To date, this is also the last presidential election in which New York voted more Republican than the nation as a whole.
Results
| 1956 United States presidential election in New York | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower (incumbent) | 4,345,506 | 61.24% | 45 | |
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 2,455,457 | 34.60% | ||
| Liberal | Adlai Stevenson | 292,487 | 4.12% | ||
| Total | Adlai Stevenson | 2,747,944 | 38.73% | 0 | |
| Write-ins | 2,521 | 0.02% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 7,095,971 | 100.0% | 45 | ||
New York City results
| 1956 Presidential Election in New York City | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | |||
| Democratic- Liberal | Adlai Stevenson | 377,856 | 343,823 | 557,655 | 315,898 | 19,644 | 1,614,876 | 50.95% | |
| 55.70% | 57.15% | 54.75% | 40.13% | 23.40% | |||||
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 300,004 | 257,382 | 460,456 | 471,223 | 64,233 | 1,553,298 | 49.01% | |
| 44.23% | 42.78% | 45.21% | 59.86% | 76.53% | |||||
| TOTAL | 678,317 | 601,588 | 1,018,479 | 787,265 | 83,936 | 3,169,585 | 100.00% | ||
Results by county
| County | Dwight David Eisenhower Republican | Adlai Stevenson II Democratic/Liberal | Various candidates Write-ins | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Albany | 86,202 | 56.64% | 65,982 | 43.35% | 9 | 0.01% | 20,220 | 13.29% | 152,193 |
| Allegany | 16,068 | 81.41% | 3,668 | 18.59% | 12,400 | 62.83% | 19,736 | ||
| Bronx | 257,382 | 42.78% | 343,823 | 57.15% | 383 | 0.06% | -86,441 | -14.37% | 601,588 |
| Broome | 67,024 | 74.27% | 23,217 | 25.73% | 43,807 | 48.54% | 90,241 | ||
| Cattaraugus | 25,282 | 72.45% | 9,613 | 27.55% | 15,669 | 44.90% | 34,895 | ||
| Cayuga | 26,503 | 72.07% | 10,268 | 27.92% | 4 | 0.01% | 16,235 | 44.15% | 36,775 |
| Chautauqua | 44,149 | 68.52% | 20,269 | 31.46% | 14 | 0.02% | 23,880 | 37.06% | 64,432 |
| Chemung | 33,270 | 74.16% | 11,592 | 25.84% | 21,678 | 48.32% | 44,862 | ||
| Chenango | 16,314 | 81.09% | 3,804 | 18.91% | 12,510 | 62.18% | 20,118 | ||
| Clinton | 16,295 | 70.45% | 6,833 | 29.54% | 2 | 0.01% | 9,462 | 40.91% | 23,130 |
| Columbia | 19,004 | 79.17% | 4,999 | 20.83% | 14,005 | 58.35% | 24,003 | ||
| Cortland | 14,085 | 79.59% | 3,612 | 20.41% | 10,473 | 59.18% | 17,697 | ||
| Delaware | 17,364 | 81.91% | 3,835 | 18.09% | 13,529 | 63.82% | 21,199 | ||
| Dutchess | 53,840 | 78.34% | 14,876 | 21.65% | 8 | 0.01% | 38,964 | 56.70% | 68,724 |
| Erie | 292,657 | 63.67% | 166,930 | 36.32% | 62 | 0.01% | 125,727 | 27.35% | 459,649 |
| Essex | 13,930 | 82.11% | 3,035 | 17.89% | 10,895 | 64.22% | 16,965 | ||
| Franklin | 13,003 | 71.33% | 5,226 | 28.67% | 7,777 | 42.66% | 18,229 | ||
| Fulton | 18,244 | 74.17% | 6,352 | 25.83% | 11,892 | 48.35% | 24,596 | ||
| Genesee | 17,614 | 74.64% | 5,986 | 25.36% | 11,628 | 49.27% | 23,600 | ||
| Greene | 14,262 | 78.91% | 3,811 | 21.09% | 10,451 | 57.83% | 18,073 | ||
| Hamilton | 2,619 | 84.78% | 470 | 15.22% | 2,149 | 69.57% | 3,089 | ||
| Herkimer | 22,246 | 71.68% | 8,789 | 28.32% | 13,457 | 43.36% | 31,035 | ||
| Jefferson | 28,429 | 74.06% | 9,959 | 25.94% | 1 | 0.00% | 18,470 | 48.11% | 38,389 |
| Kings | 460,456 | 45.21% | 557,655 | 54.75% | 368 | 0.04% | -97,199 | -9.54% | 1,018,479 |
| Lewis | 7,764 | 75.38% | 2,536 | 24.62% | 5,228 | 50.76% | 10,300 | ||
| Livingston | 15,523 | 75.67% | 4,989 | 24.32% | 1 | 0.00% | 10,534 | 51.35% | 20,513 |
| Madison | 18,555 | 79.09% | 4,903 | 20.90% | 4 | 0.02% | 13,652 | 58.19% | 23,462 |
| Monroe | 183,747 | 66.83% | 91,161 | 33.16% | 23 | 0.01% | 92,586 | 33.68% | 274,931 |
| Montgomery | 20,678 | 67.39% | 9,996 | 32.58% | 11 | 0.04% | 10,682 | 34.81% | 30,685 |
| Nassau | 372,358 | 69.02% | 166,646 | 30.89% | 459 | 0.09% | 205,712 | 38.13% | 539,463 |
| New York | 300,004 | 44.23% | 377,856 | 55.70% | 457 | 0.07% | -77,852 | -11.48% | 678,317 |
| Niagara | 62,433 | 67.43% | 30,161 | 32.57% | 32,272 | 34.85% | 92,594 | ||
| Oneida | 80,178 | 69.83% | 34,649 | 30.17% | 45,529 | 39.65% | 114,827 | ||
| Onondaga | 137,852 | 73.42% | 49,918 | 26.58% | 87,934 | 46.83% | 187,770 | ||
| Ontario | 22,317 | 74.29% | 7,719 | 25.69% | 5 | 0.02% | 14,598 | 48.59% | 30,041 |
| Orange | 57,739 | 77.51% | 16,722 | 22.45% | 29 | 0.04% | 41,017 | 55.06% | 74,490 |
| Orleans | 11,895 | 77.45% | 3,464 | 22.55% | 8,431 | 54.89% | 15,359 | ||
| Oswego | 29,277 | 76.87% | 8,809 | 23.13% | 20,468 | 53.74% | 38,086 | ||
| Otsego | 19,484 | 77.54% | 5,644 | 22.46% | 13,840 | 55.08% | 25,128 | ||
| Putnam | 12,898 | 73.26% | 4,694 | 26.66% | 13 | 0.07% | 8,204 | 46.60% | 17,605 |
| Queens | 471,223 | 59.86% | 315,898 | 40.13% | 144 | 0.02% | 147,334 | 18.77% | 787,265 |
| Rensselaer | 55,186 | 72.90% | 20,516 | 27.10% | 34,670 | 45.80% | 75,702 | ||
| Richmond | 64,233 | 76.53% | 19,644 | 23.40% | 59 | 0.07% | 44,589 | 53.12% | 83,936 |
| Rockland | 34,049 | 71.02% | 13,881 | 28.95% | 10 | 0.02% | 20,168 | 42.07% | 47,940 |
| Saratoga | 32,522 | 77.68% | 9,338 | 22.30% | 6 | 0.01% | 23,184 | 55.38% | 41,866 |
| Schenectady | 58,540 | 72.96% | 21,673 | 27.01% | 22 | 0.03% | 36,867 | 45.95% | 80,235 |
| Schoharie | 8,851 | 73.28% | 3,227 | 26.72% | 5,624 | 46.56% | 12,078 | ||
| Schuyler | 5,795 | 78.23% | 1,613 | 21.77% | 4,182 | 56.45% | 7,408 | ||
| Seneca | 10,417 | 74.20% | 3,623 | 25.80% | 6,794 | 48.39% | 14,040 | ||
| St. Lawrence | 31,897 | 74.54% | 10,892 | 25.46% | 21,005 | 49.09% | 42,789 | ||
| Steuben | 33,902 | 78.22% | 9,440 | 21.78% | 24,462 | 56.44% | 43,342 | ||
| Suffolk | 167,805 | 77.60% | 48,323 | 22.35% | 104 | 0.05% | 119,482 | 55.26% | 216,232 |
| Sullivan | 15,845 | 63.94% | 8,937 | 36.06% | 6,908 | 27.88% | 24,782 | ||
| Tioga | 11,958 | 78.94% | 3,188 | 21.04% | 3 | 0.02% | 8,770 | 57.89% | 15,149 |
| Tompkins | 19,749 | 78.29% | 5,475 | 21.71% | 14,274 | 56.59% | 25,224 | ||
| Ulster | 43,034 | 76.36% | 13,321 | 23.64% | 5 | 0.01% | 29,713 | 52.72% | 56,360 |
| Warren | 17,852 | 82.08% | 3,897 | 17.92% | 13,955 | 64.16% | 21,749 | ||
| Washington | 18,449 | 79.30% | 4,817 | 20.70% | 13,632 | 58.59% | 23,266 | ||
| Wayne | 22,940 | 79.51% | 5,910 | 20.49% | 17,030 | 59.03% | 28,850 | ||
| Westchester | 271,906 | 72.11% | 104,857 | 27.81% | 315 | 0.08% | 167,049 | 44.30% | 377,078 |
| Wyoming | 12,499 | 78.63% | 3,397 | 21.37% | 9,102 | 57.26% | 15,896 | ||
| Yates | 7,910 | 83.12% | 1,606 | 16.88% | 6,304 | 66.25% | 9,516 | ||
| Totals | 4,345,506 | 61.24% | 2,747,944 | 38.73% | 2,521 | 0.04% | 1,597,562 | 22.51% | 7,095,971 |