See main article: 1952 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1952 United States presidential election in Massachusetts |
| Country: | Massachusetts |
| Flag Year: | 1908 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1948 United States presidential election in Massachusetts |
| Previous Year: | 1948 |
| Next Election: | 1956 United States presidential election in Massachusetts |
| Next Year: | 1956 |
| Turnout: | 75.0%[1] 3.5 pp |
| Election Date: | November 4, 1952 |
| 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: | 16 |
| Popular Vote1: | 1,292,325 |
| Percentage1: | 54.22% |
| Nominee2: | Adlai Stevenson |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Illinois |
| Running Mate2: | John Sparkman |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 1,083,525 |
| Percentage2: | 45.46% |
| Map Size: | 350px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Harry S. Truman |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Dwight Eisenhower |
| After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 1952 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose 16 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Massachusetts voted for the Republican nominee, General Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York, over the Democratic nominee, former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Eisenhower ran with the Senator Richard Nixon of California, while Stevenson's running mate was Senator John Sparkman of Alabama.
Eisenhower carried the state with 54.22% of the vote to Stevenson’s 45.46%, a Republican victory margin of 8.76%.
As Eisenhower won a comfortable victory nationwide, Massachusetts still weighed in for this election as about 2% more Democratic than the national average.
Once a typical Yankee Republican bastion in the wake of the Civil War, Massachusetts, had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, when a coalition of Irish Catholic and other ethnic immigrant voters primarily based in urban areas turned Massachusetts and neighboring Rhode Island into New England's only reliably Democratic states. Massachusetts voted for Al Smith in 1928, for Franklin D. Roosevelt four times in the 1930s and 1940s, and for Harry S. Truman in 1948. However General Dwight Eisenhower, a war hero and moderate Republican who pledged to support and continue popular New Deal Democratic policies, was finally able to appeal to a broad enough coalition both to win back the White House and to flip Massachusetts back into the Republican column.
Eisenhower carried 13 of the state’s 14 counties, Stevenson’s only victory coming from urban Suffolk County, home to the state’s capital and largest city, Boston.
This was the first time that Massachusetts was won by a Republican presidential candidate since 1924.
| 1952 United States presidential election in Massachusetts[3] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1,292,325 | 54.22% | 16 | ||
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 1,083,525 | 45.46% | 0 | ||
| Progressive | Vincent Hallinan | 4,636 | 0.19% | 0 | ||
| Socialist Labor | Eric Hass | 1,957 | 0.08% | 0 | ||
| Prohibition | Stuart Hamblen | 886 | 0.04% | 0 | ||
| Write-ins | Write-ins | 69 | 0.00% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 2,383,398 | 100.00% | 16 | |||
| County | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | Adlai Stevenson Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast[4] | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | ||||||||
| Barnstable | 20,943 | 80.64% | 4,984 | 19.19% | 44 | 0.17% | 15,959 | 61.45% | 25,971 | ||||||||||
| Berkshire | 38,413 | 56.13% | 29,785 | 43.52% | 243 | 0.36% | 8,628 | 12.61% | 68,441 | ||||||||||
| Bristol | 98,105 | 51.09% | 93,444 | 48.67% | 462 | 0.24% | 4,661 | 2.42% | 192,011 | ||||||||||
| Dukes | 2,432 | 76.05% | 760 | 23.76% | 6 | 0.19% | 1,672 | 52.29% | 3,198 | ||||||||||
| Essex | 156,030 | 55.64% | 123,334 | 43.98% | 1,045 | 0.37% | 32,696 | 11.66% | 280,409 | ||||||||||
| Franklin | 19,489 | 68.94% | 8,729 | 30.88% | 50 | 0.18% | 10,760 | 38.06% | 28,268 | ||||||||||
| Hampden | 98,641 | 51.86% | 90,936 | 47.81% | 616 | 0.32% | 7,705 | 4.05% | 190,193 | ||||||||||
| Hampshire | 24,141 | 58.19% | 17,247 | 41.57% | 98 | 0.24% | 6,894 | 16.62% | 41,486 | ||||||||||
| Middlesex | 316,069 | 56.99% | 236,910 | 42.72% | 1,626 | 0.29% | 79,159 | 14.27% | 554,605 | ||||||||||
| Nantucket | 1,490 | 78.55% | 405 | 21.35% | 2 | 0.11% | 1,085 | 57.20% | 1,897 | ||||||||||
| Norfolk | 140,409 | 65.20% | 74,321 | 34.51% | 631 | 0.29% | 66,088 | 30.69% | 215,361 | ||||||||||
| Plymouth | 67,922 | 67.22% | 32,815 | 32.48% | 305 | 0.30% | 35,107 | 34.74% | 101,042 | ||||||||||
| Suffolk | 162,147 | 40.05% | 240,957 | 59.51% | 1,775 | 0.44% | -78,810 | -19.46% | 404,879 | ||||||||||
| Worcester | 146,094 | 53.00% | 128,898 | 46.76% | 645 | 0.23% | 17,196 | 6.24% | 275,637 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 1,292,325 | 54.22% | 1,083,525 | 45.46% | 7,548 | 0.32% | 208,800 | 8.76% | 2,383,398 | ||||||||||