1952 United States presidential election in Maine

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1952 United States presidential election in Maine

November 4, 1952

Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower Adlai Stevenson Party Republican Democratic Home state New York Illinois Running mate Richard Nixon John Sparkman Electoral vote 5 0 Popular vote 232,353 118,806 Percentage 66.05% 33.77%

County Results Eisenhower   50-60%   60-70%   70-80%   80-90%

President before election Harry S. Truman Democratic Elected President Dwight Eisenhower Republican

The 1952 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose five representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Maine overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominee, General Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York, over the Democratic nominee, former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Eisenhower ran with Senator Richard Nixon of California, while Stevenson's running mate was Senator John Sparkman of Alabama.

Eisenhower won Maine by a margin of 32.28%.

Results

1952 United States presidential election in Maine
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Popular vote		Electoral vote
				Count	%	Count	%
	Republican	Dwight David Eisenhower of New York	Richard Nixon of California	232,353	66.05%	5	100.00%
	Democratic	Adlai Stevenson II of Illinois	John Jackson Sparkman of Alabama	118,806	33.77%	0	0.00%
	Progressive	Vincent Hallinan of California	Charlotta Amanda Bass of New York	332	0.09%	0	0.00%
	Socialist Labor	Eric Hass of New York	Stephen Emery of New York	156	0.04%	0	0.00%
	Socialist	Darlington Hoopes of Pennsylvania	Samuel H. Friedman of New York	138	0.03%	0	0.00%
	N/A	Others	Others	1	0.01%	0	0.00%
Total				351,786	100.00%	5	100.00%

Results by county

County	Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican		Adlai Stevenson Democratic		Vincent Hallinan Progressive		Eric Hass Socialist Labor		Darlington Hoopes Socialist		Margin		Total votes cast
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Androscoggin	18,049	50.59%	17,560	49.22%	34	0.10%	23	0.06%	10	0.03%	489	1.37%	35,676
Aroostook	16,851	68.85%	7,561	30.89%	28	0.11%	16	0.07%	19	0.08%	9,290	37.96%	24,476
Cumberland	46,957	69.16%	20,831	30.68%	57	0.08%	25	0.04%	28	0.04%	26,126	38.48%	67,898
Franklin	5,885	73.23%	2,137	26.59%	10	0.12%	4	0.05%	0	0.00%	3,748	46.64%	8,036
Hancock	10,596	83.21%	2,111	16.58%	18	0.14%	7	0.05%	2	0.02%	8,485	66.63%	12,734
Kennebec	21,207	63.59%	12,113	36.32%	10	0.03%	14	0.04%	7	0.02%	9,094	27.27%	33,351
Knox	8,793	78.32%	2,414	21.50%	11	0.10%	4	0.04%	5	0.04%	6,379	56.82%	11,227
Lincoln	6,766	83.80%	1,299	16.09%	6	0.07%	1	0.01%	2	0.02%	5,467	67.71%	8,074
Oxford	11,575	66.62%	5,757	33.13%	28	0.16%	5	0.03%	10	0.06%	5,818	33.49%	17,375
Penobscot	24,614	68.59%	11,222	31.27%	22	0.06%	12	0.03%	15	0.04%	13,392	37.32%	35,885
Piscataquis	4,652	67.20%	2,261	32.66%	9	0.13%	1	0.01%	0	0.00%	2,391	34.54%	6,923
Sagadahoc	5,799	66.90%	2,850	32.88%	10	0.12%	5	0.06%	4	0.05%	2,949	34.02%	8,668
Somerset	9,805	66.93%	4,815	32.87%	18	0.12%	4	0.03%	7	0.05%	4,990	34.06%	14,649
Waldo	6,363	80.29%	1,545	19.50%	9	0.11%	6	0.08%	2	0.03%	4,818	60.79%	7,925
Washington	7,396	65.89%	3,806	33.91%	10	0.09%	8	0.07%	5	0.04%	3,590	31.98%	11,225
York	27,045	56.74%	20,524	43.06%	52	0.11%	22	0.05%	21	0.04%	6,521	13.68%	47,664
Totals	232,353	66.05%	118,806	33.77%	332	0.09%	156	0.04%	138	0.04%	113,547	32.28%	351,786

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Androscoggin
• York

See also

• United States presidential elections in Maine