See main article: 1952 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1952 United States presidential election in South Dakota |
| Country: | South Dakota |
| Flag Year: | 1909 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1948 United States presidential election in South Dakota |
| Previous Year: | 1948 |
| Next Election: | 1956 United States presidential election in South Dakota |
| Next Year: | 1956 |
| Votes For Election: | All 4 South Dakota votes to the Electoral College |
| Election Date: | November 4, 1952[1] |
| Image1: | Dwight David Eisenhower 1952 crop.jpg |
| Nominee1: | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | New York[2] |
| Running Mate1: | Richard Nixon |
| Electoral Vote1: | 4 |
| Popular Vote1: | 203,857 |
| Percentage1: | 69.27% |
| Nominee2: | Adlai Stevenson |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Illinois |
| Running Mate2: | John Sparkman |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 90,426 |
| Percentage2: | 30.73% |
| Map Size: | 300px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Harry S. Truman |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1952 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[3]
South Dakota was won by Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–New York), running with California Senator Richard Nixon, with 69.27 percent of the popular vote, against Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II (D), running with Alabama Senator John Sparkman, with 30.73 percent of the popular vote.
With 69.27% of the popular vote, South Dakota would be Eisenhower's third strongest state after Vermont and neighboring North Dakota.[4], this is the last election in which Oglala Lakota County, known until 2015 as Shannon County and home to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[5] This is also the last time any presidential candidate has won every single county in the state, which occurred once before in 1904.
This was also the last time Armstrong County participated in a presidential election, as the county was abolished and absorbed into the Southern portion of Dewey County.
| County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | Adlai Stevenson Democratic | Margin | Total votes cast | |||||||||||
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| data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | |||||||
| Armstrong | 6 | 54.55% | 5 | 45.45% | 1 | 9.10% | 11 | ||||||||
| Aurora | 1,458 | 59.39% | 997 | 40.61% | 461 | 18.78% | 2,455 | ||||||||
| Beadle | 6,487 | 65.33% | 3,443 | 34.67% | 3,044 | 30.66% | 9,930 | ||||||||
| Bennett | 873 | 62.85% | 516 | 37.15% | 357 | 25.70% | 1,389 | ||||||||
| Bon Homme | 3,157 | 65.57% | 1,658 | 34.43% | 1,499 | 31.14% | 4,815 | ||||||||
| Brookings | 5,988 | 76.29% | 1,861 | 23.71% | 4,127 | 52.58% | 7,849 | ||||||||
| Brown | 9,581 | 60.94% | 6,140 | 39.06% | 3,441 | 21.88% | 15,721 | ||||||||
| Brule | 1,578 | 53.13% | 1,392 | 46.87% | 186 | 6.26% | 2,970 | ||||||||
| Buffalo | 413 | 61.46% | 259 | 38.54% | 154 | 22.92% | 672 | ||||||||
| Butte | 2,689 | 76.26% | 837 | 23.74% | 1,852 | 52.52% | 3,526 | ||||||||
| Campbell | 1,536 | 90.14% | 168 | 9.86% | 1,368 | 80.28% | 1,704 | ||||||||
| Charles Mix | 3,316 | 54.31% | 2,790 | 45.69% | 526 | 8.62% | 6,106 | ||||||||
| Clark | 2,692 | 71.44% | 1,076 | 28.56% | 1,616 | 42.88% | 3,768 | ||||||||
| Clay | 3,302 | 70.05% | 1,412 | 29.95% | 1,890 | 40.10% | 4,714 | ||||||||
| Codington | 5,750 | 65.91% | 2,974 | 34.09% | 2,776 | 31.82% | 8,724 | ||||||||
| Corson | 1,757 | 69.01% | 789 | 30.99% | 968 | 38.02% | 2,546 | ||||||||
| Custer | 1,725 | 72.57% | 652 | 27.43% | 1,073 | 45.14% | 2,377 | ||||||||
| Davison | 4,774 | 59.67% | 3,227 | 40.33% | 1,547 | 19.34% | 8,001 | ||||||||
| Day | 3,648 | 60.81% | 2,351 | 39.19% | 1,297 | 21.62% | 5,999 | ||||||||
| Deuel | 2,279 | 72.17% | 879 | 27.83% | 1,400 | 44.34% | 3,158 | ||||||||
| Dewey | 1,301 | 66.34% | 660 | 33.66% | 641 | 32.68% | 1,961 | ||||||||
| Douglas | 2,103 | 79.93% | 528 | 20.07% | 1,575 | 59.86% | 2,631 | ||||||||
| Edmunds | 2,178 | 68.25% | 1,013 | 31.75% | 1,165 | 36.50% | 3,191 | ||||||||
| Fall River | 2,863 | 73.96% | 1,008 | 26.04% | 1,855 | 47.92% | 3,871 | ||||||||
| Faulk | 1,619 | 68.69% | 738 | 31.31% | 881 | 37.38% | 2,357 | ||||||||
| Grant | 3,234 | 68.31% | 1,500 | 31.69% | 1,734 | 36.62% | 4,734 | ||||||||
| Gregory | 2,463 | 64.22% | 1,372 | 35.78% | 1,091 | 28.44% | 3,835 | ||||||||
| Haakon | 1,176 | 74.81% | 396 | 25.19% | 780 | 49.62% | 1,572 | ||||||||
| Hamlin | 2,391 | 71.48% | 954 | 28.52% | 1,437 | 42.96% | 3,345 | ||||||||
| Hand | 2,262 | 70.71% | 937 | 29.29% | 1,325 | 41.42% | 3,199 | ||||||||
| Hanson | 1,320 | 63.07% | 773 | 36.93% | 547 | 26.14% | 2,093 | ||||||||
| Harding | 809 | 73.35% | 294 | 26.65% | 515 | 46.70% | 1,103 | ||||||||
| Hughes | 2,932 | 75.86% | 933 | 24.14% | 1,999 | 51.72% | 3,865 | ||||||||
| Hutchinson | 4,322 | 83.16% | 875 | 16.84% | 3,447 | 66.32% | 5,197 | ||||||||
| Hyde | 1,051 | 72.78% | 393 | 27.22% | 658 | 45.56% | 1,444 | ||||||||
| Jackson | 607 | 70.50% | 254 | 29.50% | 353 | 41.00% | 861 | ||||||||
| Jerauld | 1,520 | 69.19% | 677 | 30.81% | 843 | 38.38% | 2,197 | ||||||||
| Jones | 739 | 69.59% | 323 | 30.41% | 416 | 39.18% | 1,062 | ||||||||
| Kingsbury | 3,703 | 78.25% | 1,029 | 21.75% | 2,674 | 56.50% | 4,732 | ||||||||
| Lake | 4,020 | 73.28% | 1,466 | 26.72% | 2,554 | 46.56% | 5,486 | ||||||||
| Lawrence | 5,559 | 76.57% | 1,701 | 23.43% | 3,858 | 53.14% | 7,260 | ||||||||
| Lincoln | 4,387 | 78.35% | 1,212 | 21.65% | 3,175 | 56.70% | 5,599 | ||||||||
| Lyman | 1,561 | 70.09% | 666 | 29.91% | 895 | 40.18% | 2,227 | ||||||||
| Marshall | 2,248 | 66.45% | 1,135 | 33.55% | 1,113 | 32.90% | 3,383 | ||||||||
| McCook | 2,991 | 72.63% | 1,127 | 27.37% | 1,864 | 45.26% | 4,118 | ||||||||
| McPherson | 2,915 | 86.99% | 436 | 13.01% | 2,479 | 73.98% | 3,351 | ||||||||
| Meade | 3,109 | 69.98% | 1,334 | 30.02% | 1,775 | 39.96% | 4,443 | ||||||||
| Mellette | 787 | 69.40% | 347 | 30.60% | 440 | 38.80% | 1,134 | ||||||||
| Miner | 1,964 | 65.62% | 1,029 | 34.38% | 935 | 31.24% | 2,993 | ||||||||
| Minnehaha | 23,559 | 71.50% | 9,390 | 28.50% | 14,169 | 43.00% | 32,949 | ||||||||
| Moody | 2,728 | 71.47% | 1,089 | 28.53% | 1,639 | 42.94% | 3,817 | ||||||||
| Pennington | 11,029 | 71.16% | 4,470 | 28.84% | 6,559 | 42.32% | 15,499 | ||||||||
| Perkins | 2,160 | 71.78% | 849 | 28.22% | 1,311 | 43.56% | 3,009 | ||||||||
| Potter | 1,625 | 73.73% | 579 | 26.27% | 1,046 | 47.46% | 2,204 | ||||||||
| Roberts | 3,566 | 58.56% | 2,524 | 41.44% | 1,042 | 17.12% | 6,090 | ||||||||
| Sanborn | 1,761 | 66.05% | 905 | 33.95% | 856 | 32.10% | 2,666 | ||||||||
| Shannon | 957 | 55.29% | 774 | 44.71% | 183 | 10.58% | 1,731 | ||||||||
| Spink | 3,693 | 65.06% | 1,983 | 34.94% | 1,710 | 30.12% | 5,676 | ||||||||
| Stanley | 695 | 70.63% | 289 | 29.37% | 406 | 41.26% | 984 | ||||||||
| Sully | 860 | 70.96% | 352 | 29.04% | 508 | 41.92% | 1,212 | ||||||||
| Todd | 1,025 | 62.65% | 611 | 37.35% | 414 | 25.30% | 1,636 | ||||||||
| Tripp | 2,790 | 65.88% | 1,445 | 34.12% | 1,345 | 31.76% | 4,235 | ||||||||
| Turner | 4,604 | 82.39% | 984 | 17.61% | 3,620 | 64.78% | 5,588 | ||||||||
| Union | 3,393 | 67.35% | 1,645 | 32.65% | 1,748 | 34.70% | 5,038 | ||||||||
| Walworth | 2,369 | 65.24% | 1,262 | 34.76% | 1,107 | 30.48% | 3,631 | ||||||||
| Washabaugh | 319 | 68.45% | 147 | 31.55% | 172 | 36.90% | 466 | ||||||||
| Yankton | 4,802 | 68.39% | 2,220 | 31.61% | 2,582 | 36.78% | 7,022 | ||||||||
| Ziebach | 779 | 67.68% | 372 | 32.32% | 407 | 35.36% | 1,151 | ||||||||
| Totals | 203,857 | 69.27% | 90,426 | 30.73% | 113,431 | 38.54% | 294,283 | ||||||||