1956 United States presidential election in Montana information
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Main article: 1956 United States presidential election
1956 United States presidential election in Montana
← 1952
November 6, 1956 (1956-11-06)
1960 →
Nominee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Party
Republican
Democratic
Home state
Pennsylvania[a][1]
Illinois
Running mate
Richard Nixon
Estes Kefauver
Electoral vote
4
0
Popular vote
154,933
116,238
Percentage
57.13%
42.87%
County Results
Eisenhower
50-60%
60-70%
70-80%
Stevenson
50-60%
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President before election
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
Elected President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
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The 1956 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 6, 1956 as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Montana strongly voted for the Republican nominee, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, over the Democratic nominee, former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson. Eisenhower won Montana by 14.26%; however, owing to a five-year drought in the High Plains that resulted in a considerable protest vote for Stevenson, he did not do as well as had four years earlier.[2]
However, his strong Catholic appeal meant that Eisenhower gained substantially in the heavily Irish mining counties of the west.[3] His 48.61% in Deer Lodge County is the best by a Republican there since Warren G. Harding in 1920, and as of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is last election in which Silver Bow County voted for a Republican Presidential candidate.[4] In addition to that, this is the last election in which neighboring Deer Lodge and Silver Bow counties voted for different candidates, the two normally being Democratic strongholds.
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^"The Presidents". David Leip. Retrieved September 27, 2017. Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
^Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 317, 436 ISBN 978-0-691-16324-6
^Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 394
^Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
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