United States presidential election in New Mexico, 1956

United States presidential election in New Mexico, 1956

November 6, 1956

Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson Party Republican Democratic Home state Pennsylvania Illinois Running mate Richard Nixon Estes Kefauver Electoral vote 4 0 Popular vote 146,788 106,098 Percentage 57.8% 41.8%

President before election Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican

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The 1956 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 6, 1956. All 48 states were part of the United States presidential election. New Mexico voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President.

New Mexico was won by incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower by a 16-point landslide. Running against Eisenhower was former Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson, whom Eisenhower had earlier defeated for the Presidency in 1952.^[1] This election reflected one of the last election cycles where the Democratic Party still had post Civil War political domination of the deep South. This was also the last United States presidential election in of which both parties were born in the 19th century.

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