1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico

1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Eisenhower 50-60% 60-70%	Stevenson 40-50% 50-60%
President before election; Harry S. Truman; Democratic	Elected President ; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Republican

The 1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 4, 1952. All 48 States were part of the 1952 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President.

New Mexico was won by World War II hero and supreme allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower by a wide 11 percentage point margin. Running against Eisenhower was Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson, who carried only the majority of the American South during his two runs for the presidency.^[2] Eisenhower was the first Republican to ever win De Baca County and only the second (after Herbert Hoover in 1928) to win Chaves County, Curry County, Hidalgo County, Quay County, and Roosevelt County. Starting with this election, Valencia County would back the national winner in every election until 2020.

This was the last election in which voters in New Mexico chose presidential electors directly. Starting in 1956, the state adopted the modern "short ballot" where voters could only choose between the actual candidates' names, with the understanding that a vote for a candidate was a vote for their party's entire slate of electors.

Results

General Election Results^[3]^[4]^[5]
Party		Pledged to	Elector	Votes
	Republican Party	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Mrs. Luis E. Armijo	132,170
	Republican Party	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Louis A. McRae	131,515
	Republican Party	Dwight D. Eisenhower	C. C. Bacon	131,112
	Republican Party	Dwight D. Eisenhower	W. Fields Walker	131,110
	Democratic Party	Adlai Stevenson II	Mike F. Apodaca	105,661
	Democratic Party	Adlai Stevenson II	W. W. Nichols	105,435
	Democratic Party	Adlai Stevenson II	Mary J. Sweeney	105,386
	Democratic Party	Adlai Stevenson II	Alice Woolston	104,914
	Prohibition Party	Stuart Hamblen	Lewis A. Myers	297
	Prohibition Party	Stuart Hamblen	Luther B. Mitchell	287
	Prohibition Party	Stuart Hamblen	Sadie E. Evans	273
	Prohibition Party	Stuart Hamblen	Mrs. Forrest E. Wilson	271
	Progressive Party	Vincent Hallinan	Vincente B. Becerra	225
	Christian Nationalist Party	Douglas MacArthur	Everyl G. Gore	220
	Christian Nationalist Party	Douglas MacArthur	Florence Porterfield	217
	Christian Nationalist Party	Douglas MacArthur	Oralee Porter	215
	Christian Nationalist Party	Douglas MacArthur	J. Earl Syling	215
	Progressive Party	Vincent Hallinan	Virginia L. Chacon	212
	Progressive Party	Vincent Hallinan	Ruth S. Young	212
	Progressive Party	Vincent Hallinan	Helen Mallery	199
	Socialist Labor Party	Eric Hass	Paris W. Linam	35
	Socialist Labor Party	Eric Hass	Jeannete Reynolds	34
	Socialist Labor Party	Eric Hass	James William Peach	34
	Socialist Labor Party	Eric Hass	Dallas Reynolds	32
Votes cast^[a]				238,608

Results by county

County	Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican		Adlai Stevenson Democratic		Stuart Hamblen Prohibition		Vincent Hallinan Progressive		Douglas MacArthur Christian Nationalist		Eric Hass Socialist Labor		Margin		Total votes cast^[b]
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast^[b]
Bernalillo	33,964	59.38%	23,164	40.50%	51	0.09%	11	0.02%	6	0.01%	4	0.01%	10,800	18.88%	57,200
Catron	741	61.49%	464	38.51%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	277	22.99%	1,205
Chaves	7,018	63.92%	3,880	35.34%	38	0.35%	10	0.09%	27	0.25%	6	0.05%	3,138	28.58%	10,979
Colfax	3,397	51.58%	3,184	48.34%	4	0.06%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	1	0.02%	213	3.23%	6,586
Curry	5,023	59.38%	3,422	40.45%	12	0.14%	2	0.02%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	1,601	18.93%	8,459
De Baca	782	56.83%	591	42.95%	2	0.15%	0	0.00%	1	0.07%	0	0.00%	191	13.88%	1,376
Doña Ana	5,902	56.33%	4,556	43.48%	9	0.09%	0	0.00%	11	0.10%	0	0.00%	1,346	12.85%	10,478
Eddy	6,041	44.45%	7,495	55.15%	27	0.20%	6	0.04%	17	0.13%	5	0.04%	-1,454	-10.70%	13,591
Grant	3,421	43.18%	4,315	54.47%	9	0.11%	169	2.13%	5	0.06%	3	0.04%	-894	-11.29%	7,922
Guadalupe	1,575	53.90%	1,347	46.10%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	228	7.80%	2,922
Harding	760	63.49%	436	36.42%	1	0.08%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	324	27.07%	1,197
Hidalgo	781	50.58%	757	49.03%	3	0.19%	1	0.06%	2	0.13%	0	0.00%	24	1.55%	1,544
Lea	4,738	47.52%	5,204	52.19%	24	0.24%	2	0.02%	1	0.01%	2	0.02%	-466	-4.67%	9,971
Lincoln	2,004	64.52%	1,095	35.25%	5	0.16%	1	0.03%	1	0.03%	0	0.00%	909	29.27%	3,106
Los Alamos	2,226	49.30%	2,281	50.52%	2	0.04%	2	0.04%	3	0.07%	1	0.02%	-55	-1.22%	4,515
Luna	1,729	55.86%	1,332	43.04%	9	0.29%	3	0.10%	18	0.58%	4	0.13%	397	12.83%	3,095
McKinley	3,091	49.80%	3,097	49.90%	11	0.18%	4	0.06%	2	0.03%	2	0.03%	-6	-0.10%	6,207
Mora	1,849	56.61%	1,413	43.26%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	4	0.12%	0	0.00%	436	13.35%	3,266
Otero	2,456	53.16%	2,162	46.80%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	2	0.04%	0	0.00%	294	6.36%	4,620
Quay	2,711	53.00%	2,375	46.43%	27	0.53%	1	0.02%	0	0.00%	1	0.02%	336	6.57%	5,115
Rio Arriba	4,336	48.69%	4,564	51.25%	2	0.02%	2	0.02%	1	0.01%	0	0.00%	-228	-2.56%	8,905
Roosevelt	3,030	56.74%	2,298	43.03%	11	0.21%	0	0.00%	1	0.02%	0	0.00%	732	13.71%	5,340
San Juan	3,864	69.73%	1,659	29.94%	15	0.27%	2	0.04%	0	0.00%	1	0.02%	2,205	39.79%	5,541
San Miguel	5,360	54.59%	4,451	45.34%	3	0.03%	2	0.02%	0	0.00%	2	0.02%	909	9.26%	9,818
Sandoval	1,795	52.06%	1,647	47.77%	1	0.03%	0	0.00%	5	0.15%	0	0.00%	148	4.29%	3,448
Santa Fe	9,011	56.62%	6,786	42.64%	9	0.06%	2	0.01%	108	0.68%	0	0.00%	2,225	13.98%	15,916
Sierra	2,033	63.61%	1,158	36.23%	5	0.16%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	875	27.38%	3,196
Socorro	2,224	55.52%	1,777	44.36%	3	0.07%	1	0.02%	1	0.02%	0	0.00%	447	11.16%	4,006
Taos	2,763	48.94%	2,877	50.96%	3	0.05%	3	0.05%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-114	-2.02%	5,646
Torrance	1,747	54.99%	1,422	44.76%	2	0.06%	1	0.03%	3	0.09%	2	0.06%	325	10.23%	3,177
Union	1,988	63.39%	1,142	36.42%	6	0.19%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	846	26.98%	3,136
Valencia	3,810	53.47%	3,310	46.46%	3	0.04%	0	0.00%	1	0.01%	1	0.01%	500	7.02%	7,125
Total	132,170	55.39%	105,661	44.28%	297	0.21%	225	0.09%	220	0.09%	35	0.01%	26,509	11.11%	238,608

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Notes

^ Based on totals for highest elector on each ticket
^ Based on the highest elector on each ticket

References

^ "U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013. Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination
^ "1952 Presidential General Election Results - New Mexico". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
^ New Mexico State Records Center & Archives, Canvass of Returns of General Election Held November 4, 1952 - State of New Mexico
^ New Mexico Secretary of State. Official Returns of the 1952 Elections. Santa Fe, New Mexico. p. 1.
^ New Mexico Secretary of State. New Mexico Election Returns 1911-1969. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

[6] Based on totals for highest elector on each ticket

[7] Based on the highest elector on each ticket

[1] "U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013. Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination

[2] "1952 Presidential General Election Results - New Mexico". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 14, 2018.

[3] New Mexico State Records Center & Archives, Canvass of Returns of General Election Held November 4, 1952 - State of New Mexico

[4] New Mexico Secretary of State. Official Returns of the 1952 Elections. Santa Fe, New Mexico. p. 1.

[5] New Mexico Secretary of State. New Mexico Election Returns 1911-1969. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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