1956 United States presidential election in Georgia explained

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Election Name:	1956 United States presidential election in Georgia
Country:	Georgia (U.S. state)
Flag Year:	1956
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1952 United States presidential election in Georgia
Previous Year:	1952
Next Election:	1960 United States presidential election in Georgia
Next Year:	1960
Votes For Election:	All 12 Georgia votes to the Electoral College
Election Date:	November 6, 1956^[1]
Image1:	Adlai Stevenson close-up.jpg
Nominee1:	Adlai Stevenson
Party1:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1:	Illinois
Running Mate1:	Estes Kefauver
Electoral Vote1:	12
Popular Vote1:	441,094
Percentage1:	66.48%
Nominee2:	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:	Pennsylvania^[2]
Running Mate2:	Richard Nixon
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	216,652
Percentage2:	32.65%
Map Size:	290px
President
Before Election:	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Before Party:	Republican Party (United States)
After Election:	Dwight D. Eisenhower
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)

The 1956 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. Georgia voters chose 12^[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Georgia was won by Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator Estes Kefauver, with 66.48% of the popular vote against incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Pennsylvania), running with Vice President Richard Nixon, with 32.65% of the popular vote.^[4] ^[5] Eisenhower also remains the most recent Republican president to win more than one term without carrying Georgia once. This was the last time until 2016 a Republican won the White House without carrying Cobb County. This was also the last time until 2016 that a losing Democrat would carry the suburban Atlanta Counties of Gwinnett,Douglas,Rockdale, and the aforementioned Cobb and the last time until 2020 that a Republican president would not carry these counties in either of their of elections.

Results

Results by county

County^[6]	Adlai Stevenson Democratic		Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican		Various candidates Write-ins		Margin		Total votes cast^[7]
County^[6]		%		%		%		%	Total votes cast^[7]
	Appling		1,719		77.26%		506		22.74%	1,213	54.52%	2,225
	Atkinson		1,719		93.37%		122		6.63%	1,597	86.74%	1,841
	Bacon		2,445		86.12%		394		13.88%	2,051	72.24%	2,839
	Baker		783		96.07%		32		3.93%	751	92.14%	815
	Baldwin		2,275		67.81%		1,080		32.19%	1,195	35.62%	3,355
	Banks		989		84.10%		187		15.90%	802	68.20%	1,176
	Barrow		2,266		83.68%		442		16.32%	1,824	67.36%	2,708
	Bartow		3,640		70.32%		1,536		29.68%	2,104	40.64%	5,176
	Ben Hill		2,150		79.51%		554		20.49%	1,596	59.02%	2,704
	Berrien		2,398		93.56%		165		6.44%	2,233	87.12%	2,563
	Bibb		14,966		67.39%		7,242		32.61%	7,724	34.78%	22,208
	Bleckley		1,537		91.87%		136		8.13%	1,401	83.74%	1,673
	Brantley		1,208		84.12%		228		15.88%	980	68.24%	1,436
	Brooks		1,936		78.38%		534		21.62%	1,402	56.76%	2,470
	Bryan		1,242		78.96%		331		21.04%	911	57.92%	1,573
	Bulloch		3,414		79.12%		901		20.88%	2,513	58.24%	4,315
	Burke		1,300		64.32%		721		35.68%	579	28.64%	2,021
	Butts		1,885		85.37%		323		14.63%	1,562	70.74%	2,208
	Calhoun		1,094		91.09%		107		8.91%	987	82.18%	1,201
	Camden		1,178		53.74%		1,014		46.26%	164	7.48%	2,192
	Candler		996		76.39%		308		23.61%	688	52.78%	1,304
	Carroll		4,855		73.93%		1,712		26.07%	3,143	47.86%	6,567
	Catoosa		2,163		61.82%		1,336		38.18%	827	23.64%	3,499
	Charlton		750		78.62%		204		21.38%	546	57.24%	954
	Chatham		8,698		37.46%		14,520		62.54%	-5,822	-25.08%	23,218
	Chattahoochee		107		71.33%		43		28.67%	64	42.66%	150
	Chattooga		3,823		69.45%		1,682		30.55%	2,141	38.90%	5,505
	Cherokee		2,110		53.57%		1,829		46.43%	281	7.14%	3,939
	Clarke		4,257		66.89%		2,107		33.11%	2,150	33.78%	6,364
	Clay		390		79.11%		103		20.89%	287	58.22%	493
	Clayton		5,522		77.61%		1,593		22.39%	3,929	55.22%	7,115
	Clinch		1,577		75.27%		518		24.73%	1,059	50.54%	2,095
	Cobb		11,696		63.24%		6,798		36.76%	4,898	26.48%	18,494
	Coffee		3,199		84.79%		574		15.21%	2,625	69.58%	3,773
	Colquitt		4,412		76.76%		1,336		23.24%	3,076	53.52%	5,748
	Columbia		866		65.16%		463		34.84%	403	30.32%	1,329
	Cook		2,100		89.55%		245		10.45%	1,855	79.10%	2,345
	Coweta		3,003		77.94%		850		22.06%	2,153	55.88%	3,853
	Crawford		779		87.73%		109		12.27%	670	75.46%	888
	Crisp		2,526		75.16%		835		24.84%	1,691	50.32%	3,361
	Dade		863		54.41%		723		45.59%	140	8.82%	1,586
	Dawson		721		54.05%		613		45.95%	108	8.10%	1,334
	Decatur		3,699		77.69%		1,062		22.31%	2,637	55.38%	4,761
	DeKalb		29,915		65.56%		15,718		34.44%	14,197	31.12%	46,633
	Dodge		3,479		82.50%		738		17.50%	2,741	65.00%	4,217
	Dooly		1,851		91.41%		174		8.59%	1,677	82.82%	2,025
	Dougherty		4,126		55.95%		3,248		44.05%	878	11.90%	7,374
	Douglas		2,111		67.83%		1,001		32.17%	1,110	35.66%	3,112
	Early		1,818		90.40%		193		9.60%	1,625	80.80%	2,011
	Echols		528		79.76%		134		20.24%	394	59.52%	662
	Effingham		611		48.96%		637		51.04%	-26	-2.08%	1,248
	Elbert		3,635		89.05%		447		10.95%	3,188	78.10%	4,082
	Emanuel		2,373		77.78%		678		22.22%	1,695	55.56%	3,051
	Evans		1,152		76.39%		356		23.61%	796	52.78%	1,508
	Fannin		1,945		35.58%		3,521		64.42%	-1,576	-28.84%	5,466
	Fayette		1,308		90.46%		138		9.54%	1,170	80.92%	1,446
	Floyd		6,633		52.69%		5,955		47.31%	678	5.38%	12,588
	Forsyth		1,998		63.85%		1,131		36.15%	867	27.70%	3,129
	Franklin		2,968		92.15%		253		7.85%	2,715	84.30%	3,221
	Fulton		51,098		57.79%		37,326		42.21%	13,772	15.58%	88,424
	Gilmer		1,275		40.71%		1,857		59.29%	-582	-18.58%	3,132
	Glascock		314		74.06%		110		25.94%	204	48.12%	424
	Glynn		3,071		49.78%		3,098		50.22%	-27	-0.44%	6,169
	Gordon		1,970		65.80%		1,024		34.20%	946	31.60%	2,994
	Grady		2,697		84.47%		496		15.53%	2,201	68.94%	3,193
	Greene		2,012		78.81%		541		21.19%	1,471	57.62%	2,553
	Gwinnett		5,687		79.76%		1,443		20.24%	4,244	59.52%	7,130
	Habersham		2,276		72.69%		855		27.31%	1,421	45.38%	3,131
	Hall		5,989		68.52%		2,752		31.48%	3,237	37.04%	8,741
	Hancock		860		70.84%		354		29.16%	506	41.68%	1,214
	Haralson		2,472		52.71%		2,218		47.29%	254	5.42%	4,690
	Harris		1,327		70.21%		563		29.79%	764	40.42%	1,890
	Hart		1,139		91.41%		107		8.59%	1,032	82.82%	1,246
	Heard		1,106		85.08%		194		14.92%	912	70.16%	1,300
	Henry		2,636		75.66%		848		24.34%	1,788	51.32%	3,484
	Houston		4,483		80.88%		1,060		19.12%	3,423	61.76%	5,543
	Irwin		1,554		83.28%		312		16.72%	1,242	66.56%	1,866
	Jackson		3,100		87.62%		438		12.38%	2,662	75.24%	3,538
	Jasper		962		76.96%		288		23.04%	674	53.92%	1,250
	Jeff Davis		1,656		87.02%		247		12.98%	1,409	74.04%	1,903
	Jefferson		1,351		72.52%		512		27.48%	839	45.04%	1,863
	Jenkins		1,000		79.30%		261		20.70%	739	58.60%	1,261
	Johnson		1,607		89.98%		179		10.02%	1,428	79.96%	1,786
	Jones		1,208		75.97%		382		24.03%	826	51.94%	1,590
	Lamar		1,531		73.39%		555		26.61%	976	46.78%	2,086
	Lanier		890		85.41%		152		14.59%	738	70.82%	1,042
	Laurens		5,085		81.05%		1,189		18.95%	3,896	62.10%	6,274
	Lee		532		87.07%		79		12.93%	453	74.14%	611
	Liberty		892		47.98%		967		52.02%	-75	-4.04%	1,859
	Lincoln		696		81.79%		155		18.21%	541	63.58%	851
	Long		1,195		80.96%		281		19.04%	914	61.92%	1,476
	Lowndes		3,936		64.83%		2,135		35.17%	1,801	29.66%	6,071
	Lumpkin		693		58.78%		486		41.22%	207	17.56%	1,179
	McDuffie		1,039		61.55%		649		38.45%	390	23.10%	1,688
	McIntosh		624		41.32%		886		58.68%	-262	-17.36%	1,510
	Macon		1,984		84.53%		363		15.47%	1,621	69.06%	2,347
	Madison		2,222		93.24%		161		6.76%	2,061	86.48%	2,383
	Marion		618		79.64%		158		20.36%	460	59.28%	776
	Meriwether		3,137		84.12%		592		15.88%	2,545	68.24%	3,729
	Miller		1,563		77.99%		441		22.01%	1,122	55.98%	2,004
	Mitchell		2,735		87.74%		382		12.26%	2,353	75.48%	3,117
	Monroe		1,545		75.33%		506		24.67%	1,039	50.66%	2,051
	Montgomery		1,052		79.52%		271		20.48%	781	59.04%	1,323
	Morgan		1,492		85.85%		246		14.15%	1,246	71.70%	1,738
	Murray		1,819		61.39%		1,144		38.61%	675	22.78%	2,963
	Muscogee		8,160		49.95%		8,176		50.05%	-16	-0.10%	16,336
	Newton		3,232		85.87%		532		14.13%	2,700	71.74%	3,764
	Oconee		1,156		78.64%		314		21.36%	842	57.28%	1,470
	Oglethorpe		1,404		89.37%		167		10.63%	1,237	78.74%	1,571
	Paulding		1,599		62.98%		940		37.02%	659	25.96%	2,539
	Peach		1,541		76.97%		461		23.03%	1,080	53.94%	2,002
	Pickens		1,236		34.55%		2,341		65.45%	-1,105	-30.90%	3,577
	Pierce		1,766		85.56%		298		14.44%	1,468	71.12%	2,064
	Pike		1,067		83.56%		210		16.44%	857	67.12%	1,277
	Polk		4,502		68.21%		2,098		31.79%	2,404	36.42%	6,600
	Pulaski		1,422		89.27%		171		10.73%	1,251	78.54%	1,593
	Putnam		1,093		80.31%		268		19.69%	825	60.62%	1,361
	Quitman		355		91.97%		31		8.03%	324	83.94%	386
	Rabun		1,391		77.11%		413		22.89%	978	54.22%	1,804
	Randolph		1,582		74.31%		547		25.69%	1,035	48.62%	2,129
	Richmond		6,819		39.95%		10,251		60.05%	-3,432	-20.10%	17,070
	Rockdale		1,779		78.61%		484		21.39%	1,295	57.22%	2,263
	Schley		441		79.03%		117		20.97%	324	58.06%	558
	Screven		1,332		71.88%		521		28.12%	811	43.76%	1,853
	Seminole		1,343		91.24%		129		8.76%	1,214	82.48%	1,472
	Spalding		4,853		76.90%		1,458		23.10%	3,395	53.80%	6,311
	Stephens		2,595		79.14%		684		20.86%	1,911	58.28%	3,279
	Stewart		692		74.65%		235		25.35%	457	49.30%	927
	Sumter		2,149		74.64%		730		25.36%	1,419	49.28%	2,879
	Talbot		710		83.92%		136		16.08%	574	67.84%	846
	Taliaferro		599		78.92%		160		21.08%	439	57.84%	759
	Tattnall		1,881		81.04%		440		18.96%	1,441	62.08%	2,321
	Taylor		1,359		83.12%		276		16.88%	1,083	66.24%	1,635
	Telfair		2,075		87.96%		284		12.04%	1,791	75.92%	2,359
	Terrell		1,300		86.49%		203		13.51%	1,097	72.98%	1,503
	Thomas		3,522		61.12%		2,240		38.88%	1,282	22.24%	5,762
	Tift		3,123		76.49%		960		23.51%	2,163	52.98%	4,083
	Toombs		2,397		80.93%		565		19.07%	1,832	61.86%	2,962
	Towns		885		44.67%		1,096		55.33%	-211	-10.66%	1,981
	Treutlen		960		89.14%		117		10.86%	843	78.28%	1,077
	Troup		6,162		73.57%		2,214		26.43%	3,948	47.14%	8,376
	Turner		1,398		79.79%		354		20.21%	1,044	59.58%	1,752
	Twiggs		1,002		85.64%		168		14.36%	834	71.28%	1,170
	Union		1,386		50.47%		1,360		49.53%	26	0.94%	2,746
	Upson		3,422		82.78%		712		17.22%	2,710	65.56%	4,134
	Walker		3,693		51.19%		3,522		48.81%	171	2.38%	7,215
	Walton		3,271		87.44%		470		12.56%	2,801	74.88%	3,741
	Ware		5,888		72.12%		2,276		27.88%	3,612	44.24%	8,164
	Warren		674		81.60%		152		18.40%	522	63.20%	826
	Washington		2,530		80.78%		602		19.22%	1,928	61.56%	3,132
	Wayne		2,084		68.69%		950		31.31%	1,134	37.38%	3,034
	Webster		295		85.26%		51		14.74%	244	70.52%	346
	Wheeler		992		86.94%		149		13.06%	843	73.88%	1,141
	White		1,099		70.09%		469		29.91%	630	40.18%	1,568
	Whitfield		4,264		50.35%		4,205		49.65%	59	0.70%	8,469
	Wilcox		1,686		87.90%		232		12.10%	1,454	75.80%	1,918
	Wilkes		1,714		84.94%		304		15.06%	1,410	69.88%	2,018
	Wilkinson		1,299		76.77%		393		23.23%	906	53.54%	1,692
	Worth		2,078		87.64%		293		12.36%	1,785	75.28%	2,371
Totals	441,094	66.48%	216,652	32.65%	5,734	0.86%	224,442	33.83%	663,480

Notes and References

Web site: United States Presidential election of 1956 - Encyclopædia Britannica. June 10, 2017.
Web site: The Presidents . September 27, 2017 . David Leip . Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania.
Web site: 1956 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65). June 10, 2017.
Web site: 1956 Presidential General Election Results - Georgia. June 10, 2017.
Web site: The American Presidency Project - Election of 1956. June 10, 2017.
Book: Fortson, Ben W. . Official state of Georgia tabulation by counties for Presidential Electors, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representatives, state officers and constitutional amendments, General Election November 6, 1956 . Georgia Secretary of State . 1956 . Report . PDF . August 12, 2024 . Digital Library of Georgia.
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