1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey

The 1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 4, 1952. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1952 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

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1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey
November 4, 1952
 
Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York[1] Illinois
Running mate Richard Nixon John Sparkman
Electoral vote 16 0
Popular vote 1,374,613 1,015,902
Percentage 56.81% 41.99%
County Results
President before election

Harry S. Truman
Democratic

 Elected President

Dwight Eisenhower
Republican

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New Jersey was won by the Republican nominees, General Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York and his running mate Senator Richard Nixon of California. Eisenhower and Nixon defeated the Democratic nominees, former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois and his running mate Senator John Sparkman of Alabama.

Eisenhower carried New Jersey with 56.81% of the vote to Stevenson's 41.99%, a margin of 14.83%.[2]

Eisenhower won 18 of the state's 21 counties, breaking 60% of the vote in 9 of them, and even breaking 70% in 3 of those. Stevenson for his part carried 3 urban counties; he won with majorities in Mercer County and Camden County, and won with a plurality in Hudson County.

Eisenhower ultimately won election to the White House in 1952 as a war hero, a political outsider, and a moderate Republican who pledged to protect and support popular New Deal Democratic policies, finally ending 20 years of Democratic control of the White House.

New Jersey in this era was usually a swing state with a slight Republican lean, and its results in 1952 adhered to that pattern. Democrat Franklin Roosevelt had won New Jersey in all 4 of his decisive nationwide victories in the 1930s and 1940s, but with the exception of his 1936 landslide, always by very narrow margins. In 1948, New Jersey had been narrowly won by Republican Thomas E. Dewey, even as he lost the election nationally. With Eisenhower's personal popularity propelling him to a decisive nationwide victory in 1952, New Jersey easily remained in the Republican column, its results making it about 4% more Republican than the national average.

Results
1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower 1,374,613 56.81% 16
Democratic Adlai Stevenson 1,015,902 41.99% 0
Socialist Darlington Hoopes 8,593 0.36% 0
Socialist Labor Eric Hass 5,815 0.24% 0
Progressive Vincent Hallinan 5,589 0.23% 0
Poor Man's Party Henry B. Krajewski 4,203 0.17% 0
Socialist Workers Farrell Dobbs 3,850 0.16% 0
Prohibition Stuart Hamblen 989 0.04% 0
Totals 2,419,554 100.0% 16

Results by county
County Dwight David Eisenhower
Republican		 Adlai Stevenson II
Democratic		 Various candidates
Other parties		 Margin Total votes cast[3]
# % # % # % # %
Atlantic 40,259 58.03% 28,953 41.73% 163 0.23% 11,306 16.30% 69,375
Bergen 212,842 69.22% 93,373 30.37% 1,287 0.42% 119,469 38.85% 307,502
Burlington 30,202 54.18% 25,482 45.71% 60 0.11% 4,720 8.47% 55,744
Camden 72,335 46.81% 81,444 52.70% 762 0.49% -9,109 -5.89% 154,541
Cape May 15,218 68.52% 6,984 31.45% 7 0.03% 8,234 37.08% 22,209
Cumberland 21,819 53.40% 18,929 46.33% 111 0.27% 2,890 7.07% 40,859
Essex 219,863 53.94% 180,501 44.28% 7,271 1.78% 39,362 9.66% 407,635
Gloucester 25,103 54.89% 20,536 44.90% 98 0.21% 4,567 9.99% 45,737
Hudson 153,583 47.36% 161,469 49.79% 9,228 2.85% -7,886 -2.43% 324,280
Hunterdon 14,439 67.47% 6,878 32.14% 83 0.39% 7,561 35.33% 21,400
Mercer 50,423 46.40% 57,751 53.15% 488 0.45% -7,328 -6.74% 108,662
Middlesex 73,577 50.32% 70,234 48.03% 2,413 1.65% 3,343 2.29% 146,224
Monmouth 73,228 66.28% 37,006 33.49% 257 0.23% 36,222 32.78% 110,491
Morris 62,847 72.55% 23,662 27.31% 120 0.14% 39,185 45.23% 86,629
Ocean 23,490 72.80% 8,660 26.84% 117 0.36% 14,830 45.96% 32,267
Passaic 89,083 54.26% 70,727 43.08% 4,380 2.67% 18,356 11.18% 164,190
Salem 12,026 51.30% 11,362 48.47% 54 0.23% 664 2.83% 23,442
Somerset 31,239 63.34% 18,007 36.51% 74 0.15% 13,232 26.83% 49,320
Sussex 13,415 74.68% 4,534 25.24% 14 0.08% 8,881 49.44% 17,963
Union 122,885 60.46% 78,336 38.54% 2,024 1.00% 44,549 21.92% 203,245
Warren 15,737 58.63% 11,074 41.26% 28 0.10% 4,663 17.37% 26,839
Totals1,373,61356.79%1,015,90242.00%24,3721.20%29,03914.79%2,418,554

See also

References
  1. "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
  2. "1952 Presidential General Election Results - New Jersey". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  3. Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 300 ISBN 0405077114
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