Back انتخابات الرئاسة الأمريكية 1956 Arabic ھەڵبژاردنی سەرۆکایەتیی ویلایەتە یەکگرتووەکانی ئەمریکا (١٩٥٦) CKB Præsidentvalget i USA 1956 Danish Präsidentschaftswahl in den Vereinigten Staaten 1956 German Προεδρική εκλογή των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών 1956 Greek Elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos de 1956 Spanish انتخابات ریاستجمهوری ایالات متحده آمریکا (۱۹۵۶) Persian Yhdysvaltain presidentinvaalit 1956 Finnish Élection présidentielle américaine de 1956 French הבחירות לנשיאות ארצות הברית 1956 HE
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The 1956 United States presidential election was the 43rd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1956. Incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his running mate, incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, were reelected, defeating for a second time Democrat Adlai Stevenson II, former Illinois governor. This election was the sixth and most recent rematch in American presidential history. It was the second time in which the winner was the same both times, the first being William McKinley's victories over William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and 1900. This was the last election before term limits established by the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which first applied to Eisenhower, became effective.
Eisenhower, who first became famous for his military leadership in World War II, remained widely popular. A heart attack in 1955 provoked speculation that he would not seek a second term, but his health recovered and he faced no opposition at the 1956 Republican National Convention. Stevenson remained popular with a core of liberal Democrats, but held no office and had no real base. He defeated New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and several other candidates on the first presidential ballot of the 1956 Democratic National Convention. Stevenson called for a significant increase in government spending on social programs and a decrease in military spending.
With the end of the Korean War and a strong economy, Eisenhower was the heavy favorite to win reelection. Supporters of the president focused on his "personal qualities ... his sincerity, his integrity and sense of duty, his virtue as a family man, his religious devotion, and his sheer likeableness",[4] rather than on his leadership record. The weeks before the election saw two major international crises in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and Eisenhower's handling of the crises boosted his popularity.
Eisenhower slightly improved on his 1952 majorities in both the popular and electoral vote. He increased his 1952 gains among Democrats, especially Northern and Midwestern white ethnic groups and city-dwelling and suburban White Southerners.[5] Surprisingly, Eisenhower narrowly lost Missouri, a bellwether state for most of the 20th century, and which voted for him in 1952; at the same time he carried Kentucky, Louisiana, and West Virginia, which had voted against him in the previous election. This was the last presidential election before the admissions of Alaska and Hawaii in 1959, the last election in which both Massachusetts and Minnesota simultaneously voted Republican, as well as the final presidential election in which a major party candidate was born in the 19th century.
- ^ "National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present". United States Election Project. CQ Press.
- ^ "The Presidents". David Leip. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
- ^ Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1956). "C-SPAN" (Video). Universal International. Archived from the original on May 17, 2022.
- ^ Angus Campbell; et al. (1960). The American Voter. p. 56. ISBN 9780226092546.
- ^ Robert R. Alford, "The role of social class in American voting behavior", Eisenhower became the first Republican since William McKinley to win two straight presidential elections,Western Political Quarterly 16.1 (1963): 180–194.
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