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The 1952 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. State voters chose 27 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[3]
Illinois was won by Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Kansas), running with Senator Richard Nixon, with 54.84% of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator John Sparkman, with 44.94% of the popular vote. Despite Stevenson’s popularity as Governor of his home state, he would lose Illinois twice by double digits and even lose his home county (Cook) – which no Democrat since except George McGovern in 1972 has lost.[4] Nonetheless, Illinois’ result was still 1% more Democratic than the nation-at-large.
Eisenhower was the first Republican presidential candidate ever to carry Dixie-leaning Union County,[4] which alongside his triumphs in Indiana’s Brown County and Dubois County[5] meant that every antebellum free state county had as of 1952 voted for a Republican presidential candidate at least once.[a]
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1952 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- ^ "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
- ^ "1952 Presidential Election Results Illinois".
- ^ a b Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004, pp. 180-187 ISBN 0786422173
- ^ Menendez; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, pp. 187-192
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