1956 Presidential
1956 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):
- Richard Nixon (inc.) - 1,323 (100.00%)
United States presidential election, 1956:
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Pct | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | ||||
| Dwight David Eisenhower | Republican | Pennsylvania | 35,579,180 | 57.4% | 457 | Richard Milhous Nixon | California | 457 |
| Adlai Ewing Stevenson II | Democratic | Illinois | 26,028,028 | 42.0% | 73 | (Carey) Estes Kefauver | Tennessee | 73 |
| Walter Burgwyn Jones | Democratic | Alabama | —(a) | —(a) | 1 | Herman Talmadge | Georgia | 1 |
| (unpledged electors) | (n/a) | (n/a) | 196,145 | 0.3% | 0 | (n/a) | (n/a) | 0 |
| T. Coleman Andrews | States' Rights | Virginia | 107,929 | 0.2% | 0 | Thomas Werdel | California | 0 |
| Other | 110,046 | 0.2% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 62,021,328 | 100% | 531 | 531 | ||||
| Needed to win | 266 | 266 | ||||||
Source (Popular Vote): Leip, David. 1956 Presidential Election Results. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (August 1, 2005).Source (Electoral Vote): Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996. Official website of the National Archives. (August 1, 2005).
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