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Election 1952 Results

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1952 presidential election in California

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) beat Adlai Stevenson II (Democrat) in California in 1952, 56.8% to 42.3%, a margin of 14.6 points and 777,941 votes.

California voted 3.7 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+10.9.

California changed party: in 1948 it went Democratic, for Harry S. Truman.

Republicans led in 51 of the 58 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 7. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 2,286,330 votes and went to the Republican by 13.5 points. The closest was Madera, where 9 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Dwight D. Eisenhower won Republican 3,035,587 56.8%
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic 2,257,646 42.3%
All other candidates 48,370 0.9%
Total5,341,603

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 976,076 42.7% 1,285,529 56.2% 24,725 2,286,330 R+13.5
Alameda 178,607 46.5% 202,149 52.7% 3,079 383,835 R+6.1
San Francisco 171,857 46.0% 197,529 52.9% 4,230 373,616 R+6.9
San Diego 104,666 36.1% 183,646 63.3% 1,688 290,000 R+27.2
Santa Clara 60,973 39.7% 91,733 59.7% 932 153,638 R+20.0
San Mateo 52,191 36.0% 91,969 63.5% 651 144,811 R+27.5
Contra Costa 70,949 49.8% 70,672 49.6% 786 142,407 D+0.2
Sacramento 68,887 50.4% 66,832 48.9% 837 136,556 D+1.5
San Bernardino 56,109 41.7% 77,449 57.5% 1,153 134,711 R+15.8
Orange 33,420 28.9% 81,249 70.3% 844 115,513 R+41.4
Fresno 56,033 50.3% 54,508 48.9% 837 111,378 D+1.4
Kern 37,140 44.0% 46,729 55.3% 602 84,471 R+11.4
San Joaquin 35,454 43.1% 46,135 56.1% 587 82,176 R+13.0
Riverside 26,727 34.0% 51,207 65.0% 788 78,722 R+31.1
Sonoma 17,512 32.5% 35,715 66.4% 594 53,821 R+33.8
Stanislaus 22,880 43.3% 29,431 55.7% 570 52,881 R+12.4
Tulare 22,194 42.0% 30,177 57.1% 437 52,808 R+15.1
Monterey 17,887 37.0% 30,160 62.4% 286 48,333 R+25.4
Ventura 22,077 47.1% 24,508 52.3% 256 46,841 R+5.2
Santa Barbara 15,198 32.5% 31,415 67.1% 179 46,792 R+34.7
Marin 14,625 31.7% 30,985 67.2% 475 46,085 R+35.5
Solano 26,268 57.3% 19,337 42.2% 216 45,821 D+15.1
Santa Cruz 11,383 31.8% 24,003 67.1% 391 35,777 R+35.3
Humboldt 12,832 39.0% 19,816 60.2% 293 32,941 R+21.2
Butte 10,778 35.6% 19,268 63.6% 263 30,309 R+28.0
San Luis Obispo 9,001 33.7% 17,532 65.5% 213 26,746 R+31.9
Merced 11,625 45.9% 13,479 53.2% 219 25,323 R+7.3
Napa 8,543 37.8% 13,906 61.5% 163 22,612 R+23.7
Placer 9,130 48.5% 9,538 50.6% 168 18,836 R+2.2
Mendocino 6,760 37.9% 10,884 61.0% 191 17,835 R+23.1
Shasta 7,588 42.9% 9,961 56.4% 122 17,671 R+13.4
Yolo 8,111 46.0% 9,395 53.2% 139 17,645 R+7.3
Imperial 6,506 37.0% 10,961 62.4% 112 17,579 R+25.3
Kings 7,848 50.2% 7,686 49.1% 113 15,647 D+1.0
Siskiyou 6,520 42.7% 8,586 56.3% 151 15,257 R+13.5
Madera 6,207 49.5% 6,216 49.6% 118 12,541 R+0.1
Sutter 3,339 31.8% 7,104 67.7% 44 10,487 R+35.9
Nevada 3,571 35.0% 6,550 64.1% 94 10,215 R+29.2
Yuba 3,687 38.4% 5,853 60.9% 63 9,603 R+22.6
Tehama 3,034 34.5% 5,695 64.7% 77 8,806 R+30.2
El Dorado 3,238 38.6% 5,058 60.3% 98 8,394 R+21.7
Lassen 4,216 56.0% 3,268 43.4% 39 7,523 D+12.6
Glenn 2,406 35.0% 4,426 64.5% 35 6,867 R+29.4
Tuolumne 2,664 40.0% 3,932 59.1% 59 6,655 R+19.1
Lake 1,963 31.0% 4,309 68.0% 63 6,335 R+37.0
Plumas 3,261 55.0% 2,610 44.0% 61 5,932 D+11.0
San Benito 1,943 34.5% 3,670 65.1% 22 5,635 R+30.6
Inyo 1,628 30.3% 3,718 69.2% 28 5,374 R+38.9
Calaveras 1,888 37.6% 3,082 61.4% 46 5,016 R+23.8
Colusa 1,868 39.8% 2,806 59.8% 17 4,691 R+20.0
Amador 2,127 46.4% 2,413 52.6% 46 4,586 R+6.2
Del Norte 1,621 35.5% 2,889 63.3% 53 4,563 R+27.8
Modoc 1,590 37.8% 2,593 61.6% 26 4,209 R+23.8
Mariposa 995 32.4% 2,034 66.2% 43 3,072 R+33.8
Trinity 1,151 41.4% 1,599 57.5% 31 2,781 R+16.1
Sierra 649 45.8% 758 53.5% 9 1,416 R+7.7
Mono 226 22.1% 790 77.1% 8 1,024 R+55.1
Alpine 20 12.9% 135 87.1% 155 R+74.2

Counties as they stood in 1952; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

California in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+20.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+29.2
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+30.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+24.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.9
2000 Al Gore (D) D+11.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+12.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.2
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.3
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+0.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.6
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+35.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.5
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+49.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.9
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.4
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+22.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+34.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+13.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+0.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+6.6
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+1.8
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+0.5