The 1956 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 6, 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 ...
. Voters chose 32 representatives, or electors to the
Electoral College, who voted for
president and
vice president.
Pennsylvania strongly voted for the
Republican nominee,
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, over the
Democratic nominee, 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. Pennsylvania was the home state of President Eisenhower, as he moved to the
Gettysburg area after
World War II. Eisenhower won Pennsylvania by a solid 13.19% margin, and carried every county except
Philadelphia and four heavily unionized coal counties in the southwestern "Black Country". This result nonetheless made Pennsylvania 2.21% more Democratic than the nation-at-large.
This was the last time Pennsylvania voted for a Republican presidential candidate until Eisenhower’s running mate,
Richard Nixon, won the state in his re-election bid in
1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
.
Results
Results by county
See also
*
List of United States presidential elections in Pennsylvania
United States presidential elections in Pennsylvania occur when voters in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania cast ballots for electors to the Electoral College as part of a national election to elect the President and Vice President of the U ...
Notes
References
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Events
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1956 Pennsylvania elections