1952 United States presidential election in Wyoming
November 4, 1952[1]
All 3 Wyoming votes to the Electoral College
 
Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York[2] Illinois
Running mate Richard Nixon John Sparkman
Electoral vote 3 0
Popular vote 81,049 47,934
Percentage 62.71% 37.09%
County Results
President before election

Harry S. Truman
Democratic

 Elected President

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

The 1952 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. State voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[3]

Wyoming was won by the Republican candidate, Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower from New York, running with California Senator Richard Nixon, with 62.71 percent of the popular vote, against the Democratic candidate, Adlai Stevenson from Illinois, running with Alabama Senator John Sparkman, with 38.93 percent of the popular vote, a margin of victory of 25.6%. Eisenhower was able to easily carry the state despite the fact that it had voted for Harry Truman 4 years earlier in 1948, with the state trending to the right by almost 30 points in this election. Wyoming weighed in as 14.7% more Republican than the rest of the nation.

Eisenhowever flipped 9 counties that had previously gone Democratic in 1948, those being: Uinta, Sheridan, Platte, Natrona, Lincoln, Laramie, Hot Springs, Carbon, and Albany. Stevenson only managed to win one county, with that being the heavily unionized Sweetwater, which no Republican had won since Warren Harding in 1920. With the Republican victory in this race and the next two consecutive elections, Wyoming would begin its transition into a Republican stronghold, only voting for the Democratic presidential nominee one more time, in 1964. In fact, since 1964, Democrats haven't even managed to crack 40% of the statewide vote in an election.[4]

Results

1952 United States presidential election in Wyoming[3]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower 81,049 62.71%
Democratic Adlai Stevenson 47,934 38.93%
Prohibition Stuart Hamblen 194 0.15%
Socialist Darlington Hoopes 40 0.03%
Labor Eric Hass 36 0.03%
Total votes 129,251 100.00%

Results by county

County Dwight David Eisenhower
Republican		 Adlai Stevenson II
Democratic		 Carl Stuart Hamblen[5]
Prohibition		 Darlington Hoopes[5]
Socialist		 Eric Hass[5]
Labor		 Margin Total votes cast[6]
#  % #  % #  % #  % #  % #  %
Albany 4,560 59.59% 3,082 40.28% 6 0.08% 4 0.05% 0 0.00% 1,478 19.32% 7,652
Big Horn 3,859 68.67% 1,755 31.23% 5 0.09% 1 0.02% 0 0.00% 2,104 37.44% 5,620
Campbell 1,823 73.10% 666 26.70% 4 0.16% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 1,157 46.39% 2,494
Carbon 3,403 51.09% 3,242 48.67% 5 0.08% 2 0.03% 9 0.14% 161 2.42% 6,661
Converse 2,056 70.51% 850 29.15% 10 0.34% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,206 41.36% 2,916
Crook 1,734 79.80% 423 19.47% 10 0.46% 3 0.14% 3 0.14% 1,311 60.33% 2,173
Fremont 5,881 72.94% 2,161 26.80% 17 0.21% 3 0.04% 1 0.01% 3,720 46.14% 8,063
Goshen 3,396 67.14% 1,648 32.58% 9 0.18% 4 0.08% 1 0.02% 1,748 34.56% 5,058
Hot Springs 1,573 64.68% 856 35.20% 2 0.08% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 717 29.48% 2,432
Johnson 1,980 78.45% 543 21.51% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,437 56.93% 2,524
Laramie 10,785 56.61% 8,187 42.97% 59 0.31% 12 0.06% 8 0.04% 2,598 13.64% 19,051
Lincoln 2,321 57.59% 1,709 42.41% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 612 15.19% 4,030
Natrona 10,663 63.87% 6,021 36.06% 10 0.06% 1 0.01% 0 0.00% 4,642 27.80% 16,695
Niobrara 1,652 73.13% 588 26.03% 18 0.80% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 1,064 47.10% 2,259
Park 5,067 70.62% 2,084 29.05% 19 0.26% 3 0.04% 2 0.03% 2,983 41.57% 7,175
Platte 2,148 60.95% 1,364 38.71% 5 0.14% 5 0.14% 2 0.06% 784 22.25% 3,524
Sheridan 6,522 67.55% 3,124 32.36% 5 0.05% 4 0.04% 0 0.00% 3,398 35.19% 9,655
Sublette 1,013 74.54% 344 25.31% 1 0.07% 1 0.07% 0 0.00% 669 49.23% 1,359
Sweetwater 3,567 38.05% 5,807 61.95% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% -2,240 -23.90% 9,374
Teton 1,166 78.62% 317 21.38% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 849 57.25% 1,483
Uinta 1,801 55.45% 1,444 44.46% 1 0.03% 1 0.03% 1 0.03% 357 10.99% 3,248
Washakie 2,148 70.82% 880 29.01% 4 0.13% 1 0.03% 0 0.00% 1,268 41.81% 3,033
Weston 1,931 69.61% 839 30.25% 3 0.11% 1 0.04% 0 0.00% 1,092 39.37% 2,774
Totals81,04962.71%47,93437.09%1940.15%400.03%360.03%33,11525.62%129,253
County flips from 1948:

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

See also

References

  1. ↑ "United States Presidential election of 1952 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ "U.S. presidential election, 1952". Facts on File. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013. Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination
  3. 1 2 "1952 Presidential Election Results – Wyoming". Retrieved May 31, 2023.
  4. ↑ "How the red and blue map evolved over the past century". America Magazine. June 29, 2016. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 Our Campaigns; WY US President Race, November 04, 1952
  6. ↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 459 ISBN 0405077114
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