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Election 1952 Results

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1952 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) beat Adlai Stevenson II (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1952, 52.7% to 46.9%, a margin of 5.9 points and 269,520 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 5.0 points more Democratic 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 58 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 9. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 958,547 votes and went to the Democrat by 16.7 points. The closest was Fulton, where 409 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 2,415,789 52.7%
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic 2,146,269 46.9%
All other candidates 18,911 0.4%
Total4,580,969

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 557,352 58.1% 396,874 41.4% 4,321 958,547 D+16.7
Allegheny 370,945 50.6% 359,224 49.0% 2,903 733,072 D+1.6
Delaware 80,316 38.1% 129,743 61.6% 689 210,748 R+23.5
Montgomery 57,701 33.2% 115,899 66.6% 373 173,973 R+33.5
Luzerne 72,579 44.7% 88,967 54.8% 715 162,261 R+10.1
Westmoreland 80,068 57.4% 58,923 42.2% 503 139,494 D+15.2
Lackawanna 64,926 51.2% 61,644 48.6% 147 126,717 D+2.6
Berks 45,874 46.5% 51,720 52.4% 1,074 98,668 R+5.9
Lancaster 28,146 30.4% 64,193 69.2% 382 92,721 R+38.9
Washington 55,725 60.5% 36,041 39.2% 270 92,036 D+21.4
Cambria 50,774 56.3% 39,294 43.5% 182 90,250 D+12.7
Dauphin 30,985 34.6% 58,385 65.1% 286 89,656 R+30.6
Schuylkill 34,987 40.4% 51,437 59.4% 186 86,610 R+19.0
Erie 36,619 42.7% 48,836 56.9% 391 85,846 R+14.2
York 39,508 46.8% 44,489 52.7% 354 84,351 R+5.9
Lehigh 33,033 42.1% 45,143 57.5% 303 78,479 R+15.4
Northampton 36,993 48.2% 39,131 51.0% 614 76,738 R+2.8
Fayette 43,921 61.2% 27,348 38.1% 476 71,745 D+23.1
Beaver 38,136 54.3% 31,700 45.2% 334 70,170 D+9.2
Bucks 24,301 37.2% 40,753 62.4% 275 65,329 R+25.2
Chester 21,490 34.9% 39,961 64.9% 164 61,615 R+30.0
Blair 16,851 34.3% 32,113 65.4% 106 49,070 R+31.1
Mercer 20,770 43.7% 26,424 55.6% 343 47,537 R+11.9
Northumberland 17,789 38.0% 28,861 61.7% 119 46,769 R+23.7
Lawrence 21,164 47.3% 23,319 52.1% 255 44,738 R+4.8
Lycoming 15,870 38.0% 25,753 61.6% 184 41,807 R+23.6
Butler 15,295 37.6% 25,243 62.0% 185 40,723 R+24.4
Cumberland 12,762 32.6% 26,302 67.2% 91 39,155 R+34.6
Lebanon 11,611 35.8% 20,726 63.8% 135 32,472 R+28.1
Somerset 13,167 41.4% 18,589 58.4% 64 31,820 R+17.0
Armstrong 13,221 43.6% 16,955 55.9% 153 30,329 R+12.3
Clearfield 13,376 45.2% 16,045 54.2% 156 29,577 R+9.0
Crawford 9,874 33.9% 19,079 65.5% 181 29,134 R+31.6
Indiana 11,620 40.9% 16,673 58.6% 147 28,440 R+17.8
Franklin 8,868 34.9% 16,474 64.8% 74 25,416 R+29.9
Venango 6,356 27.0% 17,006 72.2% 204 23,566 R+45.2
Carbon 10,571 46.0% 12,283 53.4% 134 22,988 R+7.4
Columbia 9,467 42.0% 13,008 57.7% 79 22,554 R+15.7
Centre 7,391 33.3% 14,700 66.3% 77 22,168 R+33.0
Bradford 4,959 23.7% 15,894 76.0% 55 20,908 R+52.3
McKean 5,373 25.9% 15,256 73.4% 147 20,776 R+47.6
Jefferson 6,365 34.8% 11,833 64.6% 116 18,314 R+29.9
Greene 10,125 59.1% 6,964 40.7% 30 17,119 D+18.5
Adams 5,691 34.0% 11,016 65.8% 30 16,737 R+31.8
Warren 4,442 27.5% 11,555 71.5% 153 16,150 R+44.0
Monroe 5,760 37.6% 9,502 62.1% 42 15,304 R+24.5
Bedford 5,255 35.7% 9,419 63.9% 60 14,734 R+28.3
Clarion 5,212 35.6% 9,340 63.8% 97 14,649 R+28.2
Mifflin 5,889 40.5% 8,620 59.2% 47 14,556 R+18.8
Tioga 3,006 21.1% 11,203 78.7% 35 14,244 R+57.5
Susquehanna 3,653 25.7% 10,529 74.0% 52 14,234 R+48.3
Elk 6,448 45.4% 7,702 54.3% 45 14,195 R+8.8
Huntingdon 4,318 30.9% 9,580 68.6% 64 13,962 R+37.7
Clinton 5,758 41.3% 8,125 58.3% 55 13,938 R+17.0
Wayne 2,530 20.8% 9,623 79.0% 34 12,187 R+58.2
Perry 3,042 31.1% 6,733 68.8% 17 9,792 R+37.7
Snyder 1,686 19.7% 6,836 80.0% 23 8,545 R+60.3
Union 1,610 19.7% 6,558 80.2% 13 8,181 R+60.5
Wyoming 1,815 23.8% 5,772 75.7% 36 7,623 R+51.9
Potter 1,974 27.7% 5,117 71.8% 38 7,129 R+44.1
Juniata 2,705 41.1% 3,863 58.6% 21 6,589 R+17.6
Montour 2,264 37.8% 3,725 62.1% 7 5,996 R+24.4
Pike 1,383 26.6% 3,810 73.2% 11 5,204 R+46.6
Fulton 1,718 44.5% 2,127 55.1% 14 3,859 R+10.6
Cameron 1,020 30.5% 2,307 69.1% 14 3,341 R+38.5
Sullivan 1,239 38.1% 2,011 61.8% 3 3,253 R+23.7
Forest 627 29.0% 1,511 69.9% 23 2,161 R+40.9

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4