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1952 presidential election in Maine

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) beat Adlai Stevenson II (Democrat) in Maine in 1952, 66.2% to 33.8%, a margin of 32.3 points and 113,547 votes.

Maine voted 21.5 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+10.9.

The Republican hold continued from 1948, when Thomas E. Dewey won.

Republicans led in 16 of the 16 counties as they stood then. The largest, Cumberland, cast 67,788 votes and went to the Republican by 38.5 points. The closest was Androscoggin, where 489 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 232,353 66.2%
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic 118,806 33.8%
Total351,159

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Cumberland 20,831 30.7% 46,957 69.3% 67,788 R+38.5
York 20,524 43.1% 27,045 56.9% 47,569 R+13.7
Penobscot 11,222 31.3% 24,614 68.7% 35,836 R+37.4
Androscoggin 17,560 49.3% 18,049 50.7% 35,609 R+1.4
Kennebec 12,113 36.4% 21,207 63.6% 33,320 R+27.3
Aroostook 7,561 31.0% 16,851 69.0% 24,412 R+38.1
Oxford 5,757 33.2% 11,575 66.8% 17,332 R+33.6
Somerset 4,815 32.9% 9,805 67.1% 14,620 R+34.1
Hancock 2,111 16.6% 10,596 83.4% 12,707 R+66.8
Knox 2,414 21.5% 8,793 78.5% 11,207 R+56.9
Washington 3,806 34.0% 7,396 66.0% 11,202 R+32.0
Sagadahoc 2,850 33.0% 5,799 67.0% 8,649 R+34.1
Lincoln 1,299 16.1% 6,766 83.9% 8,065 R+67.8
Franklin 2,137 26.6% 5,885 73.4% 8,022 R+46.7
Waldo 1,545 19.5% 6,363 80.5% 7,908 R+60.9
Piscataquis 2,261 32.7% 4,652 67.3% 6,913 R+34.6

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.

Maine in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+6.9
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+9.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+3.0
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+15.3
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+17.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.0
2000 Al Gore (D) D+5.1
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+20.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+8.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+11.5
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+22.1
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+3.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+0.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+23.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+12.2
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+37.7
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+14.1
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+41.7
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+32.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+14.5
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+5.0
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+2.3
1936 Alf Landon (R) R+14.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+12.6
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+37.7
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+50.2
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+39.1
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+4.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+19.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+29.7
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+38.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+27.1
1896 William McKinley (R) R+38.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+12.8
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+18.1
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+15.4
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+6.2
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+14.0
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+35.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.8