1956 Presidential Election Interactive Map
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1956 Actual Election Results
| Candidate | Party | Electoral Votes | Popular Votes | ||
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| ✓ | Dwight D. Eisenhower (I) | Republican | 457 | 35,581,003 | |
| Adlai Stevenson | Democratic | 73 | 25,738,765 |
1956 Election Facts
- Stevenson won Alabama; however one elector cast a vote for Walter B. Jones
- Issues of the Day: Communism/USSR (McCarty hearings, Hungary, Suez Canal), Brown Segregation Ruling
