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Election 1956 Results

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1956 presidential election in Colorado

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) beat Adlai Stevenson II (Democrat) in Colorado in 1956, 59.5% to 39.8%, a margin of 19.7 points and 130,482 votes.

Colorado voted 4.2 points more Republican 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 61 of the 63 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 2. The largest, Denver, cast 217,121 votes and went to the Republican by 12.7 points. The closest was Mineral, where 69 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 394,479 59.5%
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic 263,997 39.8%
All other candidates 4,598 0.7%
Total663,074

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Denver 93,812 43.2% 121,402 55.9% 1,907 217,121 R+12.7
El Paso 18,879 40.5% 27,282 58.5% 505 46,666 R+18.0
Pueblo 20,433 45.6% 23,454 52.3% 927 44,814 R+6.7
Jefferson 14,270 35.8% 25,398 63.7% 197 39,865 R+27.9
Arapahoe 11,351 36.3% 19,716 63.1% 176 31,243 R+26.8
Weld 10,170 37.0% 17,228 62.7% 57 27,455 R+25.7
Boulder 8,149 32.5% 16,748 66.9% 142 25,039 R+34.3
Adams 11,470 46.9% 12,778 52.2% 215 24,463 R+5.3
Mesa 7,567 36.9% 12,869 62.8% 60 20,496 R+25.9
Larimer 5,612 28.0% 14,364 71.8% 39 20,015 R+43.7
Las Animas 5,099 49.0% 5,290 50.8% 25 10,414 R+1.8
Otero 3,722 38.4% 5,964 61.5% 7 9,693 R+23.1
Fremont 2,896 32.3% 6,040 67.4% 26 8,962 R+35.1
Morgan 2,956 35.6% 5,325 64.2% 17 8,298 R+28.5
Logan 2,841 35.2% 5,199 64.5% 20 8,060 R+29.3
La Plata 2,366 33.1% 4,770 66.8% 4 7,140 R+33.7
Delta 2,458 35.1% 4,531 64.7% 13 7,002 R+29.6
Montrose 2,461 37.7% 4,054 62.0% 19 6,534 R+24.4
Prowers 2,460 42.3% 3,350 57.6% 5 5,815 R+15.3
Garfield 1,953 36.9% 3,332 62.9% 12 5,297 R+26.0
Huerfano 2,262 51.8% 2,091 47.9% 12 4,365 D+3.9
Yuma 1,544 35.7% 2,782 64.3% 3 4,329 R+28.6
Rio Grande 1,441 33.8% 2,816 66.0% 7 4,264 R+32.2
Montezuma 1,402 35.8% 2,492 63.6% 25 3,919 R+27.8
Alamosa 1,465 37.4% 2,442 62.3% 11 3,918 R+24.9
Chaffee 1,303 36.3% 2,284 63.7% 3,587 R+27.3
Kit Carson 911 28.8% 2,243 71.0% 7 3,161 R+42.1
Routt 1,330 42.3% 1,811 57.5% 6 3,147 R+15.3
Washington 1,067 34.4% 2,020 65.2% 11 3,098 R+30.8
Bent 1,283 42.8% 1,718 57.2% 3,001 R+14.5
Baca 1,150 40.0% 1,715 59.6% 11 2,876 R+19.6
Lake 1,355 48.5% 1,433 51.3% 5 2,793 R+2.8
Lincoln 1,012 38.7% 1,603 61.3% 2 2,617 R+22.6
Moffat 797 31.1% 1,762 68.8% 2 2,561 R+37.7
Phillips 887 36.6% 1,535 63.4% 1 2,423 R+26.7
Conejos 471 19.9% 1,884 79.5% 16 2,371 R+59.6
Costilla 1,256 55.7% 958 42.5% 40 2,254 D+13.2
Gunnison 846 37.7% 1,400 62.3% 1 2,247 R+24.7
Rio Blanco 635 28.5% 1,593 71.5% 1 2,229 R+43.0
Douglas 697 31.5% 1,508 68.1% 10 2,215 R+36.6
Sedgwick 760 36.2% 1,334 63.6% 5 2,099 R+27.3
Eagle 852 42.3% 1,154 57.4% 6 2,012 R+15.0
Elbert 702 35.1% 1,295 64.8% 3 2,000 R+29.7
Saguache 823 41.6% 1,149 58.0% 8 1,980 R+16.5
Crowley 745 37.9% 1,220 62.1% 1 1,966 R+24.2
Grand 496 28.6% 1,239 71.3% 2 1,737 R+42.8
Clear Creek 520 34.7% 973 64.9% 7 1,500 R+30.2
Teller 494 33.6% 977 66.4% 1,471 R+32.8
Cheyenne 507 38.1% 820 61.7% 2 1,329 R+23.6
Kiowa 443 35.4% 810 64.6% 1,253 R+29.3
San Miguel 469 41.9% 648 57.9% 3 1,120 R+16.0
Archuleta 423 39.9% 635 59.9% 2 1,060 R+20.0
Park 297 29.3% 715 70.6% 1 1,013 R+41.3
Ouray 322 33.5% 634 65.9% 6 962 R+32.4
Dolores 354 39.3% 544 60.4% 3 901 R+21.1
Jackson 297 33.3% 594 66.6% 1 892 R+33.3
Pitkin 334 37.7% 550 62.1% 1 885 R+24.4
Custer 264 33.0% 534 66.8% 1 799 R+33.8
Summit 235 35.4% 429 64.6% 664 R+29.2
Gilpin 244 38.2% 394 61.7% 1 639 R+23.5
San Juan 231 41.6% 324 58.4% 555 R+16.8
Mineral 99 36.9% 168 62.7% 1 268 R+25.7
Hinsdale 47 23.3% 155 76.7% 202 R+53.5

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.

Colorado in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+11.0
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+13.5
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+4.9
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+9.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+4.7
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+8.4
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+1.4
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+4.3
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+7.8
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.3
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+24.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+28.0
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+23.1
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.7
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+19.7
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+21.3
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+5.4
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+6.8
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+2.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+23.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.8
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+35.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+23.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+26.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.9
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+1.1
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+14.2
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+13.4
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+71.1
1892 James B. Weaver (other)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+14.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+12.6
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+5.2