1956 Democratic Party presidential primaries

1956 Democratic Party presidential primaries

← 1952 March 11 to June 5, 1956 1960 →
 
Candidate Adlai Stevenson Estes Kefauver
Home state Illinois Tennessee
Contests won 7 9
Popular vote 3,069,504 2,283,172
Percentage 50.7% 37.7%


Previous Democratic nominee

Adlai Stevenson

Democratic nominee

Adlai Stevenson

From March 11 to June 5, 1956, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1956 United States presidential election. Former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections[1] and caucuses culminating in the 1956 Democratic National Convention held from August 13 to August 17, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois.[2] This was the party's second consecutive nomination of Stevenson.[3]

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