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Election 1956 Results

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1956 presidential election in Washington

Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) beat Adlai Stevenson II (Democrat) in Washington in 1956, 53.9% to 45.4%, a margin of 8.5 points and 97,428 votes.

Washington voted 7.0 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 25 of the 39 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 14. The largest, King, cast 386,223 votes and went to the Republican by 11.9 points. The closest was Asotin, where 22 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Dwight D. Eisenhower won	Republican	620,430	53.9%
Adlai Stevenson II	Democratic	523,002	45.4%
All other candidates		7,457	0.6%
Total		1,150,889

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	167,443 43.4%	213,504 55.3%	5,276	386,223	R+11.9
Pierce	57,728 50.0%	57,078 49.4%	738	115,544	D+0.6
Spokane	48,833 44.7%	60,335 55.2%	119	109,287	R+10.5
Snohomish	31,950 51.3%	30,052 48.2%	325	62,327	D+3.0
Yakima	20,991 39.5%	31,984 60.2%	149	53,124	R+20.7
Clark	19,665 50.4%	19,330 49.5%	51	39,046	D+0.9
Kitsap	19,641 52.1%	17,986 47.7%	58	37,685	D+4.4
Whatcom	14,533 45.1%	17,414 54.1%	244	32,191	R+8.9
Benton	11,760 46.0%	13,807 54.0%	4	25,571	R+8.0
Grays Harbor	12,858 52.5%	11,599 47.3%	57	24,514	D+5.1
Cowlitz	12,448 51.0%	11,912 48.8%	50	24,410	D+2.2
Thurston	9,897 41.2%	14,093 58.7%	19	24,009	R+17.5
Skagit	9,243 43.1%	12,149 56.7%	48	21,440	R+13.6
Lewis	7,714 39.2%	11,949 60.7%	25	19,688	R+21.5
Chelan	7,600 41.9%	10,405 57.4%	117	18,122	R+15.5
Walla Walla	6,076 33.9%	11,827 66.0%	7	17,910	R+32.1
Grant	6,938 51.2%	6,603 48.7%	8	13,549	D+2.5
Whitman	4,854 36.1%	8,572 63.8%	8	13,434	R+27.7
Clallam	5,632 45.1%	6,852 54.8%	16	12,500	R+9.8
Okanogan	5,298 49.3%	5,448 50.7%	8	10,754	R+1.4
Kittitas	3,726 42.2%	5,097 57.7%	7	8,830	R+15.5
Stevens	3,808 45.8%	4,499 54.1%	15	8,322	R+8.3
Franklin	4,322 53.4%	3,763 46.5%	5	8,090	D+6.9
Mason	3,840 48.7%	4,026 51.1%	20	7,886	R+2.4
Pacific	3,824 50.1%	3,799 49.8%	12	7,635	D+0.3
Douglas	3,034 53.7%	2,602 46.1%	9	5,645	D+7.7
Lincoln	2,273 42.2%	3,114 57.8%	3	5,390	R+15.6
Klickitat	2,577 47.9%	2,794 51.9%	8	5,379	R+4.0
Island	2,009 38.5%	3,196 61.2%	17	5,222	R+22.7
Asotin	2,586 49.7%	2,608 50.2%	6	5,200	R+0.4
Jefferson	1,750 43.1%	2,300 56.7%	7	4,057	R+13.6
Adams	1,673 42.4%	2,267 57.5%	4	3,944	R+15.1
Pend Oreille	1,540 50.8%	1,488 49.1%	3	3,031	D+1.7
Skamania	1,193 54.0%	1,014 45.9%	2	2,209	D+8.1
Columbia	739 34.2%	1,423 65.8%		2,162	R+31.6
Wahkiakum	953 53.9%	808 45.7%	6	1,767	D+8.2
San Juan	584 34.5%	1,105 65.3%	4	1,693	R+30.8
Garfield	639 39.8%	966 60.1%	1	1,606	R+20.4
Ferry	830 55.6%	662 44.3%	1	1,493	D+11.3

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.

Washington in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+18.2
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+19.2
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+15.7
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+14.9
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+17.2
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+7.2
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+5.6
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+12.5
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+11.4
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+1.6
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+13.5
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+12.3
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+3.9
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+18.3
1968	Hubert Humphrey (D)	D+2.1
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+24.6
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+2.4
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+8.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+9.6
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+9.8
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+14.6
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+17.6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+36.5
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+23.5
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+35.7
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+42.1
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+34.8
1916	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+4.2
1912	Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+25.8
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+50.6
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+11.7
1896	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+15.1
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+7.6

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