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Election 1956 Results

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1956 presidential election in California

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) beat Adlai Stevenson II (Democrat) in California in 1956, 55.4% to 44.3%, a margin of 11.1 points and 607,533 votes.

California voted 4.3 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+15.4.

The Republican hold continued from 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower also won.

Republicans led in 45 of the 58 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 13. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 2,275,424 votes and went to the Republican by 11.1 points. The closest was Siskiyou, where 4 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 3,027,668 55.4%
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic 2,420,135 44.3%
All other candidates 18,555 0.3%
Total5,466,358

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 1,007,887 44.3% 1,260,206 55.4% 7,331 2,275,424 R+11.1
Alameda 174,033 47.3% 192,911 52.4% 1,187 368,131 R+5.1
San Francisco 161,766 48.0% 173,648 51.5% 1,584 336,998 R+3.5
San Diego 106,716 35.2% 195,742 64.5% 1,118 303,576 R+29.3
Santa Clara 72,528 40.6% 105,657 59.1% 633 178,818 R+18.5
Orange 54,895 32.3% 113,510 66.8% 1,474 169,879 R+34.5
San Mateo 63,637 38.8% 100,049 61.0% 217 163,903 R+22.2
San Bernardino 64,946 42.8% 86,263 56.9% 441 151,650 R+14.1
Sacramento 82,134 54.7% 67,686 45.1% 260 150,080 D+9.6
Contra Costa 71,733 48.8% 74,971 51.0% 347 147,051 R+2.2
Fresno 67,234 56.4% 51,611 43.3% 270 119,115 D+13.1
Riverside 34,098 37.3% 56,766 62.2% 465 91,329 R+24.8
Kern 43,533 48.3% 46,220 51.3% 322 90,075 R+3.0
San Joaquin 36,941 45.3% 44,491 54.5% 168 81,600 R+9.3
Stanislaus 28,040 51.0% 26,695 48.6% 192 54,927 D+2.4
Sonoma 20,616 37.9% 33,659 61.9% 86 54,361 R+24.0
Ventura 26,276 49.8% 26,342 49.9% 149 52,767 R+0.1
Marin 17,301 33.8% 33,792 65.9% 151 51,244 R+32.2
Tulare 23,407 47.2% 26,051 52.5% 160 49,618 R+5.3
Monterey 19,932 40.2% 29,514 59.5% 127 49,573 R+19.3
Santa Barbara 16,925 34.9% 31,294 64.5% 265 48,484 R+29.6
Solano 24,903 58.1% 17,865 41.7% 95 42,863 D+16.4
Humboldt 17,025 47.1% 19,019 52.6% 133 36,177 R+5.5
Santa Cruz 12,574 36.2% 22,109 63.6% 93 34,776 R+27.4
Butte 12,933 41.1% 18,382 58.4% 150 31,465 R+17.3
San Luis Obispo 11,407 41.1% 16,223 58.5% 118 27,748 R+17.4
Merced 13,366 53.8% 11,430 46.0% 56 24,852 D+7.8
Napa 10,623 43.7% 13,610 55.9% 100 24,333 R+12.3
Shasta 11,239 55.8% 8,833 43.8% 77 20,149 D+11.9
Placer 10,611 53.8% 9,059 45.9% 69 19,739 D+7.9
Yolo 10,075 51.7% 9,347 48.0% 57 19,479 D+3.7
Imperial 8,197 43.6% 10,526 56.0% 58 18,781 R+12.4
Mendocino 7,767 42.8% 10,327 56.9% 43 18,137 R+14.1
Kings 8,417 57.4% 6,195 42.3% 40 14,652 D+15.2
Siskiyou 6,837 49.8% 6,841 49.8% 63 13,741 level
Madera 7,162 57.6% 5,239 42.1% 38 12,439 D+15.5
Sutter 3,673 36.4% 6,327 62.8% 77 10,077 R+26.3
Nevada 3,667 40.0% 5,475 59.7% 31 9,173 R+19.7
Tehama 4,143 45.8% 4,866 53.8% 33 9,042 R+8.0
El Dorado 3,957 46.0% 4,613 53.6% 37 8,607 R+7.6
Yuba 3,767 43.9% 4,782 55.8% 27 8,576 R+11.8
Tuolumne 3,310 47.7% 3,619 52.1% 14 6,943 R+4.5
Glenn 3,192 47.9% 3,463 52.0% 10 6,665 R+4.1
Lake 2,185 34.8% 4,073 64.8% 24 6,282 R+30.1
Lassen 3,412 57.2% 2,533 42.5% 18 5,963 D+14.7
Del Norte 2,552 46.5% 2,918 53.2% 17 5,487 R+6.7
San Benito 2,201 40.3% 3,252 59.5% 10 5,463 R+19.2
Plumas 3,127 57.7% 2,267 41.9% 21 5,415 D+15.9
Inyo 1,782 33.5% 3,524 66.2% 18 5,324 R+32.7
Calaveras 2,049 41.7% 2,843 57.9% 17 4,909 R+16.2
Colusa 2,171 46.7% 2,474 53.2% 3 4,648 R+6.5
Amador 2,181 50.4% 2,126 49.2% 18 4,325 D+1.3
Modoc 1,729 46.4% 1,981 53.2% 13 3,723 R+6.8
Trinity 1,406 49.0% 1,447 50.4% 17 2,870 R+1.4
Mariposa 1,031 39.4% 1,577 60.3% 7 2,615 R+20.9
Sierra 620 49.1% 638 50.6% 4 1,262 R+1.4
Mono 237 26.0% 673 73.8% 2 912 R+47.8
Alpine 29 20.3% 114 79.7% 143 R+59.4

Counties as they stood in 1956; 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