1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico
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 4 0
Popular vote 132,170 105,661
Percentage 55.39% 44.28%
County Results
President before election

Harry S. Truman
Democratic

 Elected President

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

The 1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 4, 1952. All 48 States were part of the 1952 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President.

New Mexico was won by World War II hero and supreme allied commander Dwight D. Eisenhower by a wide 11 percentage point margin. Running against Eisenhower was Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson, who carried only the majority of the American South during his two runs for the presidency.[2] This was the tenth consecutive U.S. Presidential Election which New Mexico participated in.

Results

1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican
132,170 55.39% +12.46
Democratic
105,661 44.28% −12.10
Prohibition
297 0.12% +0.05
Progressive
225 0.09% −0.46
Christian Nationalist
220 0.09% N/A
Socialist Labor
35 0.01% −0.02
Total votes 238,608 100.00%
Republican win

Results by county

County Dwight David Eisenhower
Republican[3]		 Adlai Stevenson II
Democratic[3]		 Various candidates
Other parties		 Margin
 % #  % #  % #  % #
San Juan 69.73% 3,864 29.94% 1,659 0.32% 18 39.79% 2,205
Lincoln 64.52% 2,004 35.25% 1,095 0.23% 7 29.27% 909
Chaves 63.92% 7,018 35.34% 3,880 0.74% 81 28.58% 3,138
Sierra 63.61% 2,033 36.23% 1,158 0.16% 5 27.38% 875
Harding 63.49% 760 36.42% 436 0.08% 1 27.07% 324
Union 63.39% 1,988 36.42% 1,142 0.19% 6 26.98% 846
Catron 61.49% 741 38.51% 464 0.00% 0 22.99% 277
Curry 59.38% 5,023 40.45% 3,422 0.17% 14 18.93% 1,601
Bernalillo 59.38% 33,964 40.50% 23,164 0.13% 72 18.88% 10,800
De Baca 57.25% 782 42.53% 581 0.22% 3 14.71% 201
Santa Fe 56.62% 9,011 42.64% 6,786 0.75% 119 13.98% 2,225
Roosevelt 56.74% 3,030 43.03% 2,298 0.22% 12 13.71% 732
Mora 56.61% 1,849 43.26% 1,413 0.12% 4 13.35% 436
Doña Ana 56.33% 5,902 43.48% 4,556 0.19% 20 12.85% 1,346
Luna 55.86% 1,729 43.04% 1,332 1.10% 34 12.83% 397
Socorro 55.52% 2,224 44.36% 1,777 0.12% 5 11.16% 447
Torrance 54.99% 1,747 44.76% 1,422 0.25% 8 10.23% 325
San Miguel 54.59% 5,360 45.34% 4,451 0.07% 7 9.26% 909
Guadalupe 53.90% 1,575 46.10% 1,347 0.00% 0 7.80% 228
Valencia 53.47% 3,810 46.46% 3,310 0.07% 5 7.02% 500
Quay 53.00% 2,711 46.43% 2,375 0.57% 29 6.57% 336
Otero 53.16% 2,456 46.80% 2,162 0.04% 2 6.36% 294
Sandoval 52.06% 1,795 47.77% 1,647 0.17% 6 4.29% 148
Colfax 51.58% 3,397 48.34% 3,184 0.08% 5 3.23% 213
Hidalgo 50.58% 781 49.03% 757 0.39% 6 1.55% 24
McKinley 49.80% 3,091 49.90% 3,097 0.31% 19 -0.10% -6
Los Alamos 49.30% 2,226 50.52% 2,281 0.18% 8 -1.22% -55
Taos 48.94% 2,763 50.96% 2,877 0.11% 6 -2.02% -114
Rio Arriba 48.69% 4,336 51.25% 4,564 0.06% 5 -2.56% -228
Lea 47.52% 4,738 52.19% 5,204 0.29% 29 -4.67% -466
Eddy 44.45% 6,041 55.15% 7,495 0.40% 55 -10.70% -1,454
Grant 43.18% 3,421 54.47% 4,315 2.35% 186 -11.29% -894

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 Mexico". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
  3. 1 2 Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 308 ISBN 0405077114
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