1956 Presidential Election Interactive Map

266 electoral votes to win

457

✓ Eisenhower (R)

Stevenson (D)

Undecided 0

1956 Actual

MA
RI
CT
NJ
DE
MD

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	R	D	Other	-	Total
AL(11)					11
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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

1956 Actual

Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) (I)

Electoral 457

Popular 35,581,003

Adlai Stevenson (D)

Electoral 73

Popular 25,738,765

(R) Republican
(D) Democratic
(I) Incumbent

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