1956 United States presidential election in Kansas explained

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Election Name:	1956 United States presidential election in Kansas
Country:	Kansas
Flag Year:	1927
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1952 United States presidential election in Kansas
Previous Year:	1952
Next Election:	1960 United States presidential election in Kansas
Next Year:	1960
Votes For Election:	All 8 Kansas votes to the Electoral College
Election Date:	November 6, 1956^[1]
Image1:	Dwight David Eisenhower 1952 crop.jpg
Nominee1:	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Party1:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State1:	Pennsylvania^[2]
Running Mate1:	Richard Nixon
Electoral Vote1:	8
Popular Vote1:	566,878
Percentage1:	65.44%
Nominee2:	Adlai Stevenson
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	Illinois
Running Mate2:	Estes Kefauver
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	296,317
Percentage2:	34.21%
Map Size:	300px
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 Kansas took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight^[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Kansas was won by incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Pennsylvania), running with Vice President Richard Nixon, with 65.44 percent of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator Estes Kefauver, with 34.21 percent of the popular vote. Eisenhower, as expected, had no trouble carrying his boyhood home state, winning every county in the state except Wyandotte County, having spent his formative years in Abilene.^{[4] [5]}

With 65.44 percent of the popular vote, Kansas proved to be Eisenhower's fifth strongest state after Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Nebraska.^[6]

Results

Results by county

County	Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican		Adlai Stevenson Democratic		Enoch Holtwick Prohibition		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%
	Allen		5,342		71.15%		2,143		28.54%		23		0.31%		3,199		42.61%		7,508
	Anderson		3,080		69.01%		1,369		30.67%		14		0.31%		1,711		38.34%		4,463
	Atchison		5,608		64.08%		3,134		35.81%		9		0.10%		2,474		28.27%		8,751
	Barber		2,698		68.32%		1,241		31.43%		10		0.25%		1,457		36.89%		3,949
	Barton		8,644		66.17%		4,378		33.51%		41		0.31%		4,266		32.66%		13,063
	Bourbon		5,306		62.39%		3,151		37.05%		47		0.55%		2,155		25.34%		8,504
	Brown		5,138		76.95%		1,519		22.75%		20		0.30%		3,619		54.20%		6,677
	Butler		9,591		60.73%		6,158		38.99%		45		0.28%		3,433		21.74%		15,794
	Chase		1,553		74.45%		529		25.36%		4		0.19%		1,024		49.09%		2,086
	Chautauqua		2,180		70.85%		887		28.83%		10		0.32%		1,293		42.02%		3,077
	Cherokee		5,824		58.39%		4,112		41.22%		39		0.39%		1,712		17.17%		9,975
	Cheyenne		1,479		68.79%		663		30.84%		8		0.37%		816		37.95%		2,150
	Clark		1,243		69.83%		529		29.72%		8		0.45%		714		40.11%		1,780
	Clay		4,378		80.17%		1,034		18.93%		49		0.90%		3,344		61.24%		5,461
	Cloud		4,466		68.61%		2,008		30.85%		35		0.54%		2,458		37.76%		6,509
	Coffey		3,286		72.24%		1,247		27.41%		16		0.35%		2,039		44.83%		4,549
	Comanche		1,238		72.40%		461		26.96%		11		0.64%		777		45.44%		1,710
	Cowley		6,734		63.93%		3,753		35.63%		46		0.44%		2,981		28.30%		10,533
	Crawford		9,578		54.93%		7,799		44.73%		60		0.34%		1,779		10.20%		17,437
	Decatur		2,028		68.58%		920		31.11%		9		0.30%		1,108		37.47%		2,957
	Dickinson		7,422		74.91%		2,452		24.75%		34		0.34%		4,970		50.16%		9,908
	Doniphan		3,130		72.14%		1,197		27.59%		12		0.28%		1,933		44.55%		4,339
	Douglas		11,029		71.85%		4,283		27.90%		39		0.25%		6,746		43.95%		15,351
	Edwards		1,816		69.93%		771		29.69%		10		0.39%		1,045		40.24%		2,597
	Elk		1,909		69.90%		812		29.73%		10		0.37%		1,097		40.17%		2,731
	Ellis		4,466		59.33%		3,058		40.62%		4		0.05%		1,408		18.71%		7,528
	Ellsworth		2,524		64.90%		1,351		34.74%		14		0.36%		1,173		30.16%		3,889
	Finney		3,576		66.87%		1,752		32.76%		20		0.37%		1,824		34.11%		5,348
	Ford		5,561		66.84%		2,710		32.57%		49		0.59%		2,851		34.27%		8,320
	Franklin		6,557		71.42%		2,591		28.22%		33		0.36%		3,966		43.20%		9,181
	Geary		4,013		65.54%		2,078		33.94%		32		0.52%		1,935		31.60%		6,123
	Gove		1,315		72.29%		492		27.05%		12		0.66%		823		45.24%		1,819
	Graham		1,676		69.49%		725		30.06%		11		0.46%		951		39.43%		2,412
	Grant		1,058		69.47%		459		30.14%		6		0.39%		599		39.33%		1,523
	Gray		1,278		66.77%		627		32.76%		9		0.47%		651		34.01%		1,914
	Greeley		599		77.09%		174		22.39%		4		0.51%		425		54.70%		777
	Greenwood		4,164		70.01%		1,763		29.64%		21		0.35%		2,401		40.37%		5,948
	Hamilton		865		60.66%		552		38.71%		9		0.63%		313		21.95%		1,426
	Harper		3,111		69.99%		1,311		29.49%		23		0.52%		1,800		40.50%		4,445
	Harvey		7,367		70.20%		3,084		29.39%		43		0.41%		4,283		40.81%		10,494
	Haskell		829		70.49%		341		29.00%		6		0.51%		488		41.49%		1,176
	Hodgeman		1,113		71.62%		435		27.99%		6		0.39%		678		43.63%		1,554
	Jackson		3,469		71.72%		1,356		28.03%		12		0.25%		2,113		43.69%		4,837
	Jefferson		3,677		70.24%		1,536		29.34%		22		0.42%		2,141		40.90%		5,235
	Jewell		3,395		75.51%		1,034		23.00%		67		1.49%		2,361		52.51%		4,496
	Johnson		35,511		71.40%		14,185		28.52%		37		0.07%		21,326		42.88%		49,733
	Kearny		854		66.98%		418		32.78%		3		0.24%		436		34.20%		1,275
	Kingman		3,226		69.08%		1,428		30.58%		16		0.34%		1,798		38.50%		4,670
	Kiowa		1,717		76.18%		517		22.94%		20		0.89%		1,200		53.24%		2,254
	Labette		7,677		59.35%		5,202		40.21%		57		0.44%		2,475		19.14%		12,936
	Lane		992		72.09%		380		27.62%		4		0.29%		612		44.47%		1,376
	Leavenworth		8,826		61.55%		5,480		38.22%		33		0.23%		3,346		23.33%		14,339
	Lincoln		2,219		76.20%		681		23.39%		12		0.41%		1,538		52.81%		2,912
	Linn		2,991		71.64%		1,177		28.19%		7		0.17%		1,814		43.45%		4,175
	Logan		1,328		72.61%		493		26.95%		8		0.44%		835		45.66%		1,829
	Lyon		8,021		67.34%		3,831		32.16%		59		0.50%		4,190		35.18%		11,911
	McPherson		7,521		73.75%		2,603		25.52%		74		0.73%		4,918		48.23%		10,198
	Marion		5,318		75.99%		1,644		23.49%		36		0.51%		3,674		52.50%		6,998
	Marshall		5,664		69.25%		2,487		30.41%		28		0.34%		3,177		38.84%		8,179
	Meade		1,720		74.30%		575		24.84%		20		0.86%		1,145		49.46%		2,315
	Miami		5,031		59.30%		3,428		40.41%		25		0.29%		1,603		18.89%		8,484
	Mitchell		3,198		72.16%		1,214		27.39%		20		0.45%		1,984		44.77%		4,432
	Montgomery		13,252		64.34%		7,265		35.27%		81		0.39%		5,987		29.07%		20,598
	Morris		2,677		68.55%		1,208		30.93%		20		0.51%		1,469		37.62%		3,905
	Morton		814		64.76%		436		34.69%		7		0.56%		378		30.07%		1,257
	Nemaha		4,195		67.11%		2,038		32.60%		18		0.29%		2,157		34.51%		6,251
	Neosho		5,886		65.99%		3,005		33.69%		29		0.33%		2,881		32.30%		8,920
	Ness		1,876		70.79%		758		28.60%		16		0.60%		1,118		42.19%		2,650
	Norton		3,052		71.58%		1,194		28.00%		18		0.42%		1,858		43.58%		4,264
	Osage		4,136		67.28%		1,979		32.19%		32		0.52%		2,157		35.09%		6,147
	Osborne		2,948		73.72%		1,023		25.58%		28		0.70%		1,925		48.14%		3,999
	Ottawa		2,329		68.80%		1,037		30.64%		19		0.56%		1,292		38.16%		3,385
	Pawnee		2,788		63.73%		1,567		35.82%		20		0.46%		1,221		27.91%		4,375
	Phillips		3,117		75.49%		985		23.86%		27		0.65%		2,132		51.63%		4,129
	Pottawatomie		4,335		74.97%		1,422		24.59%		25		0.43%		2,913		50.38%		5,782
	Pratt		3,620		64.53%		1,956		34.87%		34		0.61%		1,664		29.66%		5,610
	Rawlins		1,668		69.88%		711		29.79%		8		0.34%		957		40.09%		2,387
	Reno		15,057		66.56%		7,461		32.98%		102		0.45%		7,596		33.58%		22,620
	Republic		3,621		68.76%		1,613		30.63%		32		0.61%		2,008		38.13%		5,266
	Rice		4,638		70.48%		1,926		29.27%		17		0.26%		2,712		41.21%		6,581
	Riley		9,385		76.84%		2,784		22.80%		44		0.36%		6,601		54.04%		12,213
	Rooks		3,059		70.88%		1,238		28.68%		19		0.44%		1,821		42.20%		4,316
	Rush		2,007		64.87%		1,080		34.91%		7		0.23%		927		29.96%		3,094
	Russell		3,920		71.78%		1,528		27.98%		13		0.24%		2,392		43.80%		5,461
	Saline		11,172		69.32%		4,908		30.45%		37		0.23%		6,264		38.87%		16,117
	Scott		1,376		75.11%		451		24.62%		5		0.27%		925		50.49%		1,832
	Sedgwick		72,292		61.08%		45,732		38.64%		336		0.28%		26,560		22.44%		118,360
	Seward		2,885		70.95%		1,162		28.58%		19		0.47%		1,723		42.37%		4,066
	Shawnee		32,647		66.52%		16,298		33.21%		130		0.26%		16,349		33.31%		49,075
	Sheridan		1,324		67.41%		633		32.23%		7		0.36%		691		35.18%		1,964
	Sherman		1,825		64.97%		962		34.25%		22		0.78%		863		30.72%		2,809
	Smith		3,142		72.95%		1,139		26.45%		26		0.60%		2,003		46.50%		4,307
	Stafford		2,728		68.37%		1,242		31.13%		20		0.50%		1,486		37.24%		3,990
	Stanton		549		70.20%		226		28.90%		7		0.90%		323		41.30%		782
	Stevens		1,273		69.00%		565		30.62%		7		0.38%		708		38.38%		1,845
	Sumner		7,024		62.95%		4,088		36.64%		46		0.41%		2,936		26.31%		11,158
	Thomas		1,888		62.06%		1,138		37.41%		16		0.53%		750		24.65%		3,042
	Trego		1,668		69.41%		726		30.21%		9		0.37%		942		39.20%		2,403
	Wabaunsee		2,650		76.63%		802		23.19%		6		0.17%		1,848		53.44%		3,458
	Wallace		684		72.69%		251		26.67%		6		0.64%		433		46.02%		941
	Washington		4,220		74.81%		1,389		24.62%		32		0.57%		2,831		50.19%		5,641
	Wichita		747		70.41%		312		29.41%		2		0.19%		435		41.00%		1,061
	Wilson		4,502		73.00%		1,645		26.67%		20		0.32%		2,857		46.33%		6,167
	Woodson		2,171		70.88%		870		28.40%		22		0.72%		1,301		42.48%		3,063
	Wyandotte		34,604		47.64%		37,842		52.10%		186		0.26%		-3,238		-4.46%		72,632
Totals	566,878	65.44%	296,317	34.21%	3,048	0.35%	270,561	31.23%	866,243

See also

• United States presidential elections in Kansas

Notes and References

1. Web site: United States Presidential election of 1956 — Encyclopædia Britannica. July 9, 2017.
2. Web site: The Presidents . September 27, 2017 . David Leip . Eisenhower’s home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania.
3. Web site: 1956 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65). July 9, 2017.
4. Web site: 1956 Presidential General Election Results — Kansas. July 9, 2017.
5. Web site: The American Presidency Project — Election of 1956. July 9, 2017.
6. Web site: 1956 Presidential Election Statistics. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2018-03-05.