1956 United States presidential election in West Virginia information
Election in West Virginia
Main article: 1956 United States presidential election
1956 United States presidential election in West Virginia
← 1952
November 6, 1956[1]
1960 →
All 8 West Virginia votes to the Electoral College
Nominee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Party
Republican
Democratic
Home state
Pennsylvania[note 1][2]
Illinois
Running mate
Richard Nixon
Estes Kefauver
Electoral vote
8
0
Popular vote
449,297
381,534
Percentage
54.08%
45.92%
County Results
Eisenhower
50-60%
60-70%
70-80%
80-90%
Stevenson
50-60%
60-70%
President before election
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
Elected President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican
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The 1956 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose eight[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
West Virginia was won by incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Pennsylvania), running with Vice President Richard Nixon, with 54.08 percent of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator Estes Kefauver, with 45.92 percent of the popular vote.[4][5] Along with Kentucky and Louisiana, West Virginia was one of three states that Dwight Eisenhower lost in 1952, but managed to flip in 1956.
This is the only time between the Republican landslides of 1928 and 1972 that a Republican won West Virginia, and only one of three times between 1932 and 1996 that a Republican did so (the others being the aforementioned 1972 as well as 1984).
Eisenhower was the first Republican to carry Jefferson County and Calhoun County since Ulysses S. Grant in 1868, and the first to carry Hampshire County since Abraham Lincoln in 1864.[6][note 2]
^"United States Presidential election of 1956 — Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved July 6, 2017.
^"The Presidents". David Leip. Retrieved September 27, 2017. Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
^"1956 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65)". Retrieved July 6, 2017.
^"1956 Presidential General Election Results — West Virginia". Retrieved July 6, 2017.
^"The American Presidency Project — Election of 1956". Retrieved July 6, 2017.
^Menendez, Albert J. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. pp. 334–336. ISBN 0786422173.
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