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Election 1956 Results

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1956 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) beat Adlai Stevenson II (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1956, 56.5% to 43.3%, a margin of 13.2 points and 603,483 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 2.2 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 62 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 5. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 892,321 votes and went to the Democrat by 13.9 points. The closest was Fulton, where 551 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 2,585,252 56.5%
Adlai Stevenson II Democratic 1,981,769 43.3%
All other candidates 9,482 0.2%
Total4,576,503

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 507,289 56.9% 383,414 43.0% 1,618 892,321 D+13.9
Allegheny 315,989 45.0% 384,939 54.8% 1,102 702,030 R+9.8
Delaware 82,024 36.3% 143,663 63.5% 523 226,210 R+27.2
Montgomery 59,095 30.7% 133,270 69.2% 218 192,583 R+38.5
Luzerne 65,155 41.0% 92,458 58.2% 1,207 158,820 R+17.2
Westmoreland 72,616 52.1% 66,580 47.8% 192 139,388 D+4.3
Lackawanna 55,741 46.4% 64,386 53.6% 79 120,206 R+7.2
Berks 42,349 42.4% 57,258 57.3% 320 99,927 R+14.9
Bucks 38,541 39.1% 59,862 60.7% 180 98,583 R+21.6
Lancaster 26,538 27.7% 69,026 72.1% 237 95,801 R+44.4
Dauphin 29,226 32.1% 61,342 67.5% 375 90,943 R+35.3
Erie 33,802 38.2% 54,430 61.5% 323 88,555 R+23.3
Cambria 41,753 47.3% 46,373 52.5% 123 88,249 R+5.2
Washington 48,052 54.8% 39,465 45.0% 98 87,615 D+9.8
York 38,743 44.5% 48,176 55.3% 149 87,068 R+10.8
Schuylkill 31,645 37.9% 51,670 61.9% 91 83,406 R+24.0
Lehigh 29,067 36.4% 50,564 63.3% 251 79,882 R+26.9
Northampton 33,749 43.4% 43,375 55.8% 573 77,697 R+12.4
Beaver 36,373 48.7% 38,263 51.2% 79 74,715 R+2.5
Chester 19,957 29.7% 47,225 70.2% 50 67,232 R+40.6
Fayette 38,312 57.7% 27,857 42.0% 206 66,375 D+15.8
Blair 17,503 34.2% 33,623 65.7% 65 51,191 R+31.5
Mercer 19,769 40.6% 28,785 59.1% 120 48,674 R+18.5
Northumberland 17,141 37.5% 28,583 62.5% 41 45,765 R+25.0
Lawrence 19,923 44.2% 25,037 55.6% 65 45,025 R+11.4
Cumberland 13,651 31.5% 29,468 68.1% 153 43,272 R+36.6
Lycoming 13,490 33.3% 27,030 66.7% 20 40,540 R+33.4
Butler 13,672 34.2% 26,238 65.6% 79 39,989 R+31.4
Somerset 13,163 39.0% 20,568 60.9% 17 33,748 R+21.9
Lebanon 10,406 31.5% 22,556 68.3% 41 33,003 R+36.8
Armstrong 12,671 38.7% 20,055 61.2% 34 32,760 R+22.5
Clearfield 12,852 42.2% 17,519 57.5% 89 30,460 R+15.3
Franklin 11,060 36.6% 19,121 63.3% 12 30,193 R+26.7
Indiana 11,268 37.7% 18,593 62.3% 29,861 R+24.5
Crawford 9,346 33.0% 18,887 66.7% 104 28,337 R+33.7
Carbon 9,722 42.3% 13,150 57.3% 89 22,961 R+14.9
Centre 7,483 32.6% 15,412 67.2% 45 22,940 R+34.6
Venango 5,594 24.6% 17,107 75.3% 14 22,715 R+50.7
Columbia 9,024 40.2% 13,382 59.7% 15 22,421 R+19.4
Bradford 5,502 26.3% 15,399 73.6% 30 20,931 R+47.3
McKean 5,152 25.8% 14,725 73.8% 73 19,950 R+48.0
Jefferson 6,627 33.6% 13,051 66.3% 19 19,697 R+32.6
Adams 6,281 33.9% 12,250 66.1% 18,531 R+32.2
Bedford 6,038 34.6% 11,423 65.4% 13 17,474 R+30.8
Greene 9,827 56.5% 7,562 43.5% 14 17,403 D+13.0
Warren 4,463 26.8% 12,145 72.9% 43 16,651 R+46.1
Monroe 5,506 35.1% 10,081 64.3% 92 15,679 R+29.2
Susquehanna 4,293 28.5% 10,752 71.4% 10 15,055 R+42.9
Clarion 4,955 33.0% 10,048 66.9% 8 15,011 R+33.9
Elk 5,498 38.0% 8,947 61.8% 23 14,468 R+23.8
Huntingdon 4,618 32.2% 9,698 67.7% 17 14,333 R+35.4
Tioga 3,280 23.2% 10,827 76.7% 6 14,113 R+53.5
Mifflin 5,078 37.0% 8,638 62.9% 9 13,725 R+25.9
Clinton 5,411 39.6% 8,250 60.3% 17 13,678 R+20.8
Wayne 3,092 24.2% 9,658 75.6% 18 12,768 R+51.4
Perry 3,576 32.2% 7,511 67.6% 25 11,112 R+35.4
Snyder 1,959 21.6% 7,102 78.4% 3 9,064 R+56.7
Union 1,844 21.8% 6,620 78.1% 14 8,478 R+56.3
Wyoming 2,120 26.4% 5,906 73.6% 3 8,029 R+47.2
Potter 2,257 30.3% 5,181 69.5% 22 7,460 R+39.2
Juniata 2,779 39.5% 4,258 60.4% 7 7,044 R+21.0
Montour 2,072 34.2% 3,976 65.7% 3 6,051 R+31.5
Pike 1,219 22.6% 4,160 77.3% 4 5,383 R+54.6
Fulton 1,819 43.4% 2,370 56.5% 6 4,195 R+13.1
Cameron 841 25.5% 2,462 74.5% 1 3,304 R+49.1
Sullivan 1,286 39.0% 2,007 60.9% 4 3,297 R+21.9
Forest 622 28.8% 1,535 71.1% 1 2,158 R+42.3

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.

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