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Election 1956 Results

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1956 presidential election in New York

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) beat Adlai Stevenson II (Democrat) in New York in 1956, 61.2% to 38.7%, a margin of 22.5 points and 1,597,562 votes.

New York voted 7.1 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 59 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 3. The largest, Kings, cast 1,018,479 votes and went to the Democrat by 9.5 points. The closest was Hamilton, where 2,149 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 4,345,506 61.2%
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic 2,747,944 38.7%
All other candidates 2,521 0.0%
Total7,095,971

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kings 557,655 54.8% 460,456 45.2% 368 1,018,479 D+9.5
Queens 315,898 40.1% 471,223 59.9% 144 787,265 R+19.7
New York 377,856 55.7% 300,004 44.2% 457 678,317 D+11.5
Bronx 343,823 57.2% 257,382 42.8% 383 601,588 D+14.4
Nassau 166,646 30.9% 372,358 69.0% 459 539,463 R+38.1
Erie 166,930 36.3% 292,657 63.7% 62 459,649 R+27.4
Westchester 104,857 27.8% 271,906 72.1% 315 377,078 R+44.3
Monroe 91,161 33.2% 183,747 66.8% 23 274,931 R+33.7
Suffolk 48,323 22.3% 167,805 77.6% 104 216,232 R+55.3
Onondaga 49,918 26.6% 137,852 73.4% 187,770 R+46.8
Albany 65,982 43.4% 86,202 56.6% 9 152,193 R+13.3
Oneida 34,649 30.2% 80,178 69.8% 114,827 R+39.7
Niagara 30,161 32.6% 62,433 67.4% 92,594 R+34.9
Broome 23,217 25.7% 67,024 74.3% 90,241 R+48.5
Richmond 19,644 23.4% 64,233 76.5% 59 83,936 R+53.1
Schenectady 21,673 27.0% 58,540 73.0% 22 80,235 R+45.9
Rensselaer 20,516 27.1% 55,186 72.9% 75,702 R+45.8
Orange 16,722 22.4% 57,739 77.5% 29 74,490 R+55.1
Dutchess 14,876 21.6% 53,840 78.3% 8 68,724 R+56.7
Chautauqua 20,269 31.5% 44,149 68.5% 14 64,432 R+37.1
Ulster 13,321 23.6% 43,034 76.4% 5 56,360 R+52.7
Rockland 13,881 29.0% 34,049 71.0% 10 47,940 R+42.1
Chemung 11,592 25.8% 33,270 74.2% 44,862 R+48.3
Steuben 9,440 21.8% 33,902 78.2% 43,342 R+56.4
St. Lawrence 10,892 25.5% 31,897 74.5% 42,789 R+49.1
Saratoga 9,338 22.3% 32,522 77.7% 6 41,866 R+55.4
Jefferson 9,959 25.9% 28,429 74.1% 1 38,389 R+48.1
Oswego 8,809 23.1% 29,277 76.9% 38,086 R+53.7
Cayuga 10,268 27.9% 26,503 72.1% 4 36,775 R+44.1
Cattaraugus 9,613 27.5% 25,282 72.5% 34,895 R+44.9
Herkimer 8,789 28.3% 22,246 71.7% 31,035 R+43.4
Montgomery 9,996 32.6% 20,678 67.4% 11 30,685 R+34.8
Ontario 7,719 25.7% 22,317 74.3% 5 30,041 R+48.6
Wayne 5,910 20.5% 22,940 79.5% 28,850 R+59.0
Tompkins 5,475 21.7% 19,749 78.3% 25,224 R+56.6
Otsego 5,644 22.5% 19,484 77.5% 25,128 R+55.1
Sullivan 8,937 36.1% 15,845 63.9% 24,782 R+27.9
Fulton 6,352 25.8% 18,244 74.2% 24,596 R+48.3
Columbia 4,999 20.8% 19,004 79.2% 24,003 R+58.3
Genesee 5,986 25.4% 17,614 74.6% 23,600 R+49.3
Madison 4,903 20.9% 18,555 79.1% 4 23,462 R+58.2
Washington 4,817 20.7% 18,449 79.3% 23,266 R+58.6
Clinton 6,833 29.5% 16,295 70.4% 2 23,130 R+40.9
Warren 3,897 17.9% 17,852 82.1% 21,749 R+64.2
Delaware 3,835 18.1% 17,364 81.9% 21,199 R+63.8
Livingston 4,989 24.3% 15,523 75.7% 1 20,513 R+51.4
Chenango 3,804 18.9% 16,314 81.1% 20,118 R+62.2
Allegany 3,668 18.6% 16,068 81.4% 19,736 R+62.8
Franklin 5,226 28.7% 13,003 71.3% 18,229 R+42.7
Greene 3,811 21.1% 14,262 78.9% 18,073 R+57.8
Cortland 3,612 20.4% 14,085 79.6% 17,697 R+59.2
Putnam 4,694 26.7% 12,898 73.3% 13 17,605 R+46.6
Essex 3,035 17.9% 13,930 82.1% 16,965 R+64.2
Wyoming 3,397 21.4% 12,499 78.6% 15,896 R+57.3
Orleans 3,464 22.6% 11,895 77.4% 15,359 R+54.9
Tioga 3,188 21.0% 11,958 78.9% 3 15,149 R+57.9
Seneca 3,623 25.8% 10,417 74.2% 14,040 R+48.4
Schoharie 3,227 26.7% 8,851 73.3% 12,078 R+46.6
Lewis 2,536 24.6% 7,764 75.4% 10,300 R+50.8
Yates 1,606 16.9% 7,910 83.1% 9,516 R+66.2
Schuyler 1,613 21.8% 5,795 78.2% 7,408 R+56.5
Hamilton 470 15.2% 2,619 84.8% 3,089 R+69.6

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.

New York in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+12.6
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+23.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+22.5
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+28.2
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+26.9
2004 John Kerry (D) D+18.3
2000 Al Gore (D) D+25.0
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+28.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.8
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.1
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+8.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.7
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+5.5
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+37.3
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+22.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.0
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+3.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+19.9
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+12.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+2.3
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+26.6
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+37.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+7.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+12.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+10.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.3
1896 William McKinley (R) R+18.9
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+1.1
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+1.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+3.2
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+6.5
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+1.2