1952 United States presidential election in Florida explained

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Election Name:	1952 United States presidential election in Florida
Country:	Florida
Flag Year:	1900
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1948 United States presidential election in Florida
Previous Year:	1948
Election Date:	November 4, 1952
Next Election:	1956 United States presidential election in Florida
Next Year:	1956
Image1:	Dwight David Eisenhower 1952 crop.jpg
Nominee1:	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Party1:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State1:	New York^[1]
Running Mate1:	Richard Nixon
Electoral Vote1:	10
Popular Vote1:	544,036
Percentage1:	54.99%
President
Before Election:	Harry S. Truman
Before Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:	Dwight D. Eisenhower
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	Illinois
Nominee2:	Adlai Stevenson
Popular Vote2:	444,950
Percentage2:	44.97%
Electoral Vote2:	0
Running Mate2:	John Sparkman
Map Size:	400px

The 1952 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. Florida voters chose ten representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.^[2]

Florida was won by Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Kansas), running with Senator Richard Nixon, with 54.99% of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator John Sparkman, with 44.97% of the popular vote.

In contrast to Herbert Hoover's anti-Catholicism-driven victory in the state in 1928, Eisenhower's victory was entirely concentrated in the newer and more liberal South Florida counties, which had seen extensive Northern settlement since the war, did not have a history of slave-based plantation farming,^[3] and saw Eisenhower as more favourable to business than the Democratic Party.^[4] Eisenhower swept the urban areas of Miami, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota and Tampa, but failed to gain much support in the northwestern pineywoods that had been the core of the 1928 "Hoovercrat" bolt. In this region – inhabited by socially exceptionally conservative poor whites who had been voting in increasing numbers since Florida abolished its poll tax – Democratic loyalties dating from the Civil War remained extremely strong and economic populism hostile in general toward urban areas kept voters loyal to Stevenson.^[5] Whereas the urban voters who turned to Eisenhower felt wholly disfranchised both locally and nationally by the one-party system and malapportionment, rural poor voters supported the New Deal/Fair Deal status quo.^[6]

In contrast to the wholly Deep South states of Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina, where former Thurmond voters turned to Eisenhower,^[7] Florida – although akin to those states in entirely lacking traditional Appalachian, Ozark or German "Forty-Eighter" Republicanism^[3] – did not see its 1948 Dixiecrat voters or black belt whites turn over to Eisenhower on a large scale, and they were less loyal than in North Carolina, Texas and Virginia, where traditional Republicanism did exist. Florida's Southern Democrat political culture was strong enough that they were the only state that the Southern candidate Richard Russell won in the 1952 Democratic primaries.

Eisenhower's victory was the first of three consecutive Republican victories in the state, as Florida would not vote Democratic again until Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide victory in 1964., this is the last election in which Collier County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.^[8]

Results

Results by county

County	Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican		Adlai Stevenson Democratic		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%
	Alachua		8,432		58.47%		5,990		41.53%		2,442		16.94%		14,422
	Baker		419		22.04%		1,482		77.96%		-1,063		-55.92%		1,901
	Bay		4,812		35.38%		8,789		64.62%		-3,977		-29.24%		13,601
	Bradford		976		29.68%		2,312		70.32%		-1,336		-40.64%		3,288
	Brevard		6,756		61.91%		4,157		38.09%		2,599		23.82%		10,913
	Broward		26,506		69.10%		11,854		30.90%		14,652		38.20%		38,360
	Calhoun		590		24.41%		1,827		75.59%		-1,237		-51.18%		2,417
	Charlotte		1,134		58.79%		795		41.21%		339		17.58%		1,929
	Citrus		1,249		47.85%		1,361		52.15%		-112		-4.30%		2,610
	Clay		2,116		49.07%		2,196		50.93%		-80		-1.86%		4,312
	Collier		1,086		49.59%		1,104		50.41%		-18		-0.82%		2,190
	Columbia		2,041		38.73%		3,229		61.27%		-1,188		-22.54%		5,270
	DeSoto		1,256		41.21%		1,792		58.79%		-536		-17.58%		3,048
	Dixie		440		34.81%		824		65.19%		-384		-30.38%		1,264
	Duval		50,346		48.27%		53,949		51.73%		-3,603		-3.46%		104,295
	Escambia		12,176		37.27%		20,495		62.73%		-8,319		-25.46%		32,671
	Flagler		512		51.30%		486		48.70%		26		2.60%		998
	Franklin		611		33.04%		1,238		66.96%		-627		-33.92%		1,849
	Gadsden		1,835		40.41%		2,706		59.59%		-871		-19.18%		4,541
	Gilchrist		195		16.43%		992		83.57%		-797		-67.14%		1,187
	Glades		264		39.70%		401		60.30%		-137		-20.60%		665
	Gulf		490		21.69%		1,769		78.31%		-1,279		-56.62%		2,259
	Hamilton		658		31.18%		1,452		68.82%		-794		-37.64%		2,110
	Hardee		1,802		46.55%		2,069		53.45%		-267		-6.90%		3,871
	Hendry		918		46.60%		1,052		53.40%		-134		-6.80%		1,970
	Hernando		1,279		53.67%		1,104		46.33%		175		7.34%		2,383
	Highlands		2,952		51.90%		2,736		48.10%		216		3.80%		5,688
	Hillsborough		36,316		52.20%		33,252		47.80%		3,064		4.40%		69,568
	Holmes		1,230		27.67%		3,216		72.33%		-1,986		-44.66%		4,446
	Indian River		3,055		65.94%		1,578		34.06%		1,477		31.88%		4,633
	Jackson		2,398		29.53%		5,722		70.47%		-3,324		-40.94%		8,120
	Jefferson		665		36.22%		1,171		63.78%		-506		-27.56%		1,836
	Lafayette		269		21.52%		981		78.48%		-712		-56.96%		1,250
	Lake		9,132		70.63%		3,797		29.37%		5,335		41.26%		12,929
	Lee		5,528		59.09%		3,828		40.91%		1,700		18.18%		9,356
	Leon		5,604		41.19%		8,000		58.81%		-2,396		-17.62%		13,604
	Levy		1,066		34.66%		2,010		65.34%		-944		-30.68%		3,076
	Liberty		237		18.60%		1,037		81.40%		-800		-62.80%		1,274
	Madison		1,209		42.66%		1,625		57.34%		-416		-14.68%		2,834
	Manatee		9,055		66.40%		4,583		33.60%		4,472		32.80%		13,638
	Marion		6,134		51.17%		5,854		48.83%		280		2.34%		11,988
	Martin		2,308		64.65%		1,262		35.35%		1,046		29.30%		3,570
	Miami-Dade		122,174		56.77%		93,022		43.23%		29,152		13.54%		215,196
	Monroe		2,943		37.33%		4,941		62.67%		-1,998		-25.34%		7,884
	Nassau		1,731		40.82%		2,510		59.18%		-779		-18.36%		4,241
	Okaloosa		2,355		30.47%		5,375		69.53%		-3,020		-39.06%		7,730
	Okeechobee		539		37.96%		881		62.04%		-342		-24.08%		1,420
	Orange		29,813		71.06%		12,141		28.94%		17,672		42.12%		41,954
	Osceola		3,133		62.25%		1,900		37.75%		1,233		24.50%		5,033
	Palm Beach		28,595		67.57%		13,723		32.43%		14,872		35.14%		42,318
	Pasco		4,562		56.24%		3,549		43.76%		1,013		12.48%		8,111
	Pinellas		55,691		71.35%		22,365		28.65%		33,326		42.70%		78,056
	Polk		20,874		51.63%		19,556		48.37%		1,318		3.26%		40,430
	Putnam		3,766		51.65%		3,525		48.35%		241		3.30%		7,291
	St. Johns		4,702		51.85%		4,366		48.15%		336		3.70%		9,068
	St. Lucie		4,667		62.65%		2,782		37.35%		1,885		25.30%		7,449
	Santa Rosa		1,744		28.50%		4,375		71.50%		-2,631		-43.00%		6,119
	Sarasota		9,538		70.74%		3,945		29.26%		5,593		41.48%		13,483
	Seminole		4,683		60.02%		3,120		39.98%		1,563		20.04%		7,803
	Sumter		1,054		31.64%		2,277		68.36%		-1,223		-36.72%		3,331
	Suwannee		1,611		36.30%		2,827		63.70%		-1,216		-27.40%		4,438
	Taylor		744		29.40%		1,787		70.60%		-1,043		-41.20%		2,531
	Union		268		21.68%		968		78.32%		-700		-56.64%		1,236
	Volusia		19,815		62.46%		11,910		37.54%		7,905		24.92%		31,725
	Wakulla		375		24.24%		1,172		75.76%		-797		-51.52%		1,547
	Walton		1,502		29.48%		3,593		70.52%		-2,091		-41.04%		5,095
	Washington		1,100		32.71%		2,263		67.29%		-1,163		-34.58%		3,363
Totals	544,036	54.99%	444,950	44.97%	99,086	10.02%	989,337

Results by congressional district

District^[9]	Eisenhower	Stevenson
	1st		61.9%		38.1%
	2nd		48.3%		51.7%
	3rd		26.7%		73.3%
	4th		56.1%		43.9%
	5th		63%		37%
	6th		65.5%		34.5%
	7th		56.7%		43.3%
	8th		57.7%		42.3%

Notes and References

1. Web site: U.S. presidential election, 1952 . Facts on File . October 24, 2013 . Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195323/http://www.fofweb.com/History/HistRefMain.asp?iPin=EAPPE0334&SID=2&DatabaseName=American+History+Online&InputText=%22presidential+election+1952%22&SearchStyle=&dTitle=U.S.+presidential+election%2C+1952&TabRecordType=Subject+Entry&BioCountPass=0&SubCountPass=1&DocCountPass=0&ImgCountPass=0&MapCountPass=0&FedCountPass=&MedCountPass=0&NewsCountPass=0&RecPosition=1&AmericanData=Set . October 29, 2013 . dead .
2. Web site: 1952 Presidential Election Results Florida. Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas.
3. Strong, Donald S.; 'The Presidential Election in the South, 1952'; The Journal of Politics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 343-389
4. See Doherty, Herbert J. (junior); 'Liberal and Conservative Politics in Florida'; The Journal of Politics, vol. 14, no. 3 (August 1952), pp. 403-417
5. Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 232
6. Buchholz, Michael O., The South in Presidential Politics: The End of Democratic Hegemony. Master of Arts (Political Science), August, 1973, p. 43
7. Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 217
8. Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
9. Web site: 1952 United States Presidential Election, Results by Congressional District . August 12, 2024 . Western Washington University.