The 1956 United States presidential election in California took place on November 1956 as part of the
1956 United States presidential election
The 1956 United States presidential election was the 43rd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1956. President Dwight D. Eisenhower successfully ran for reelection against Adlai Stevenson II, the former Illinois ...
. State voters chose 32 representatives, or electors, to the
Electoral College, who voted for
president and
vice president.
California voted for the
Republican incumbent,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a landslide over the
Democratic challenger, former
Illinois Governor
The governor of Illinois is the head of government of Illinois, and the various agencies and departments over which the officer has jurisdiction, as prescribed in the state constitution. It is a directly elected position, votes being cast by p ...
Adlai Stevenson. However, Stevenson did improve his performance in
California from four years previous. California’s result was about 4.3% more Democratic than the nation-at-large.
As of the
2020 presidential election
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January
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, this is the last presidential election in California where the Republican candidate won the counties of
Alameda and
San Francisco, both of which have become strongholds of the Democratic Party.
Results
Results by county
References
{{United States elections
California
1956
Events
January
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1956 California elections