1952 United States presidential election in Georgia
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The 1952 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. Georgia voters chose 12[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Georgia was won by Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Alabama Senator John Sparkman, with 69.66% of the popular vote, against Columbia University President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–New York), running with Senator Richard Nixon, with 30.34% of the popular vote.[4][5]
Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Adlai Stevenson | 456,823 | 69.66% | |
| Republican | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 198,979 | 30.34% | |
| Liberty Party | — | 1 | 0.00% | |
| Total votes | 655,803 | 100% | ||
Results by county
[edit]| County[7] | Adlai Stevenson Democratic |
Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Appling | 2,179 | 75.35% | 713 | 24.65% | 1,466 | 50.70% | 2,892 |
| Atkinson | 1,560 | 88.94% | 194 | 11.06% | 1,366 | 77.88% | 1,754 |
| Bacon | 1,512 | 73.58% | 543 | 26.42% | 969 | 47.16% | 2,055 |
| Baker | 1,005 | 86.64% | 155 | 13.36% | 850 | 73.28% | 1,160 |
| Baldwin | 2,318 | 69.38% | 1,023 | 30.62% | 1,295 | 38.76% | 3,341 |
| Banks | 1,255 | 86.02% | 204 | 13.98% | 1,051 | 72.04% | 1,459 |
| Barrow | 2,367 | 90.93% | 236 | 9.07% | 2,131 | 81.86% | 2,603 |
| Bartow | 3,973 | 77.06% | 1,183 | 22.94% | 2,790 | 54.12% | 5,156 |
| Ben Hill | 2,048 | 74.61% | 697 | 25.39% | 1,351 | 49.22% | 2,745 |
| Berrien | 2,187 | 85.73% | 364 | 14.27% | 1,823 | 71.46% | 2,551 |
| Bibb | 14,687 | 70.58% | 6,121 | 29.42% | 8,566 | 41.16% | 20,808 |
| Bleckley | 1,517 | 89.03% | 187 | 10.97% | 1,330 | 78.06% | 1,704 |
| Brantley | 1,082 | 79.68% | 276 | 20.32% | 806 | 59.36% | 1,358 |
| Brooks | 1,866 | 69.99% | 800 | 30.01% | 1,066 | 39.98% | 2,666 |
| Bryan | 971 | 74.58% | 331 | 25.42% | 640 | 49.16% | 1,302 |
| Bulloch | 3,619 | 79.92% | 909 | 20.08% | 2,710 | 59.84% | 4,528 |
| Burke | 1,160 | 55.45% | 932 | 44.55% | 228 | 10.90% | 2,092 |
| Butts | 1,910 | 91.00% | 189 | 9.00% | 1,721 | 82.00% | 2,099 |
| Calhoun | 810 | 84.64% | 147 | 15.36% | 663 | 69.28% | 957 |
| Camden | 1,285 | 67.49% | 619 | 32.51% | 666 | 34.98% | 1,904 |
| Candler | 1,448 | 77.43% | 422 | 22.57% | 1,026 | 54.86% | 1,870 |
| Carroll | 5,207 | 81.35% | 1,194 | 18.65% | 4,013 | 62.70% | 6,401 |
| Catoosa | 2,227 | 61.90% | 1,371 | 38.10% | 856 | 23.80% | 3,598 |
| Charlton | 815 | 73.89% | 288 | 26.11% | 527 | 47.78% | 1,103 |
| Chatham | 14,370 | 48.06% | 15,532 | 51.94% | -1,162 | -3.88% | 29,902 |
| Chattahoochee | 116 | 61.38% | 73 | 38.62% | 43 | 22.76% | 189 |
| Chattooga | 3,616 | 82.43% | 771 | 17.57% | 2,845 | 64.86% | 4,387 |
| Cherokee | 2,452 | 60.25% | 1,618 | 39.75% | 834 | 20.50% | 4,070 |
| Clarke | 4,904 | 75.54% | 1,588 | 24.46% | 3,316 | 51.08% | 6,492 |
| Clay | 481 | 73.21% | 176 | 26.79% | 305 | 46.42% | 657 |
| Clayton | 4,058 | 76.74% | 1,230 | 23.26% | 2,828 | 53.48% | 5,288 |
| Clinch | 1,168 | 76.94% | 350 | 23.06% | 818 | 53.88% | 1,518 |
| Cobb | 10,182 | 70.98% | 4,163 | 29.02% | 6,019 | 41.96% | 14,345 |
| Coffee | 3,292 | 75.33% | 1,078 | 24.67% | 2,214 | 50.66% | 4,370 |
| Colquitt | 4,517 | 76.20% | 1,411 | 23.80% | 3,106 | 52.40% | 5,928 |
| Columbia | 849 | 61.57% | 530 | 38.43% | 319 | 23.14% | 1,379 |
| Cook | 2,347 | 85.59% | 395 | 14.41% | 1,952 | 71.18% | 2,742 |
| Coweta | 3,837 | 85.48% | 652 | 14.52% | 3,185 | 70.96% | 4,489 |
| Crawford | 948 | 86.73% | 145 | 13.27% | 803 | 73.46% | 1,093 |
| Crisp | 2,116 | 69.04% | 949 | 30.96% | 1,167 | 38.08% | 3,065 |
| Dade | 1,296 | 65.39% | 686 | 34.61% | 610 | 30.78% | 1,982 |
| Dawson | 770 | 62.10% | 470 | 37.90% | 300 | 24.20% | 1,240 |
| Decatur | 2,581 | 72.05% | 1,001 | 27.95% | 1,580 | 44.10% | 3,582 |
| DeKalb | 20,865 | 57.24% | 15,588 | 42.76% | 5,277 | 14.48% | 36,453 |
| Dodge | 3,445 | 88.36% | 454 | 11.64% | 2,991 | 76.72% | 3,899 |
| Dooly | 1,764 | 89.95% | 197 | 10.05% | 1,567 | 79.90% | 1,961 |
| Dougherty | 4,435 | 63.63% | 2,535 | 36.37% | 1,900 | 27.26% | 6,970 |
| Douglas | 2,102 | 76.52% | 645 | 23.48% | 1,457 | 53.04% | 2,747 |
| Early | 1,803 | 85.45% | 307 | 14.55% | 1,496 | 70.90% | 2,110 |
| Echols | 532 | 84.98% | 94 | 15.02% | 438 | 69.96% | 626 |
| Effingham | 800 | 49.11% | 829 | 50.89% | -29 | -1.78% | 1,629 |
| Elbert | 3,279 | 85.59% | 552 | 14.41% | 2,727 | 71.18% | 3,831 |
| Emanuel | 2,642 | 79.99% | 661 | 20.01% | 1,981 | 59.98% | 3,303 |
| Evans | 1,224 | 73.87% | 433 | 26.13% | 791 | 47.74% | 1,657 |
| Fannin | 1,913 | 39.71% | 2,904 | 60.29% | -991 | -20.58% | 4,817 |
| Fayette | 1,214 | 86.16% | 195 | 13.84% | 1,019 | 72.32% | 1,409 |
| Floyd | 8,477 | 65.16% | 4,532 | 34.84% | 3,945 | 30.32% | 13,009 |
| Forsyth | 1,391 | 72.18% | 536 | 27.82% | 855 | 44.36% | 1,927 |
| Franklin | 2,902 | 88.61% | 373 | 11.39% | 2,529 | 77.22% | 3,275 |
| Fulton | 52,459 | 59.85% | 35,197 | 40.15% | 17,262 | 19.70% | 87,656 |
| Gilmer | 1,359 | 50.65% | 1,324 | 49.35% | 35 | 1.30% | 2,683 |
| Glascock | 381 | 62.05% | 233 | 37.95% | 148 | 24.10% | 614 |
| Glynn | 3,348 | 56.53% | 2,575 | 43.47% | 773 | 13.06% | 5,923 |
| Gordon | 2,203 | 71.46% | 880 | 28.54% | 1,323 | 42.92% | 3,083 |
| Grady | 2,782 | 81.23% | 643 | 18.77% | 2,139 | 62.46% | 3,425 |
| Greene | 2,323 | 85.40% | 397 | 14.60% | 1,926 | 70.80% | 2,720 |
| Gwinnett | 6,026 | 85.58% | 1,015 | 14.42% | 5,011 | 71.16% | 7,041 |
| Habersham | 2,647 | 74.19% | 921 | 25.81% | 1,726 | 48.38% | 3,568 |
| Hall | 6,121 | 76.84% | 1,845 | 23.16% | 4,276 | 53.68% | 7,966 |
| Hancock | 1,245 | 82.34% | 267 | 17.66% | 978 | 64.68% | 1,512 |
| Haralson | 2,283 | 64.36% | 1,264 | 35.64% | 1,019 | 28.72% | 3,547 |
| Harris | 1,374 | 71.64% | 544 | 28.36% | 830 | 43.28% | 1,918 |
| Hart | 3,244 | 94.08% | 204 | 5.92% | 3,040 | 88.16% | 3,448 |
| Heard | 1,189 | 86.60% | 184 | 13.40% | 1,005 | 73.20% | 1,373 |
| Henry | 2,589 | 82.40% | 553 | 17.60% | 2,036 | 64.80% | 3,142 |
| Houston | 2,789 | 84.52% | 511 | 15.48% | 2,278 | 69.04% | 3,300 |
| Irwin | 1,475 | 74.08% | 516 | 25.92% | 959 | 48.16% | 1,991 |
| Jackson | 3,341 | 89.09% | 409 | 10.91% | 2,932 | 78.18% | 3,750 |
| Jasper | 1,105 | 82.90% | 228 | 17.10% | 877 | 65.80% | 1,333 |
| Jeff Davis | 1,323 | 78.28% | 367 | 21.72% | 956 | 56.56% | 1,690 |
| Jefferson | 1,476 | 66.49% | 744 | 33.51% | 732 | 32.98% | 2,220 |
| Jenkins | 1,166 | 76.01% | 368 | 23.99% | 798 | 52.02% | 1,534 |
| Johnson | 1,808 | 84.01% | 344 | 15.99% | 1,464 | 68.02% | 2,152 |
| Jones | 1,427 | 83.70% | 278 | 16.30% | 1,149 | 67.40% | 1,705 |
| Lamar | 1,552 | 78.34% | 429 | 21.66% | 1,123 | 56.68% | 1,981 |
| Lanier | 845 | 83.25% | 170 | 16.75% | 675 | 66.50% | 1,015 |
| Laurens | 5,001 | 82.70% | 1,046 | 17.30% | 3,955 | 65.40% | 6,047 |
| Lee | 390 | 65.55% | 205 | 34.45% | 185 | 31.10% | 595 |
| Liberty | 1,448 | 73.69% | 517 | 26.31% | 931 | 47.38% | 1,965 |
| Lincoln | 644 | 66.32% | 327 | 33.68% | 317 | 32.64% | 971 |
| Long | 691 | 62.20% | 420 | 37.80% | 271 | 24.40% | 1,111 |
| Lowndes | 3,245 | 60.95% | 2,079 | 39.05% | 1,166 | 21.90% | 5,324 |
| Lumpkin | 997 | 72.93% | 370 | 27.07% | 627 | 45.86% | 1,367 |
| McDuffie | 1,172 | 55.68% | 933 | 44.32% | 239 | 11.36% | 2,105 |
| McIntosh | 724 | 59.01% | 503 | 40.99% | 221 | 18.02% | 1,227 |
| Macon | 1,472 | 82.19% | 319 | 17.81% | 1,153 | 64.38% | 1,791 |
| Madison | 1,899 | 89.41% | 225 | 10.59% | 1,674 | 78.82% | 2,124 |
| Marion | 651 | 78.15% | 182 | 21.85% | 469 | 56.30% | 833 |
| Meriwether | 3,551 | 86.99% | 531 | 13.01% | 3,020 | 73.98% | 4,082 |
| Miller | 1,617 | 87.88% | 223 | 12.12% | 1,394 | 75.76% | 1,840 |
| Mitchell | 3,054 | 83.56% | 601 | 16.44% | 2,453 | 67.12% | 3,655 |
| Monroe | 2,406 | 82.77% | 501 | 17.23% | 1,905 | 65.54% | 2,907 |
| Montgomery | 1,758 | 85.84% | 290 | 14.16% | 1,468 | 71.68% | 2,048 |
| Morgan | 1,649 | 86.97% | 247 | 13.03% | 1,402 | 73.94% | 1,896 |
| Murray | 1,840 | 70.88% | 756 | 29.12% | 1,084 | 41.76% | 2,596 |
| Muscogee | 11,220 | 58.95% | 7,814 | 41.05% | 3,406 | 17.90% | 19,034 |
| Newton | 3,529 | 89.12% | 431 | 10.88% | 3,098 | 78.24% | 3,960 |
| Oconee | 1,182 | 77.81% | 337 | 22.19% | 845 | 55.62% | 1,519 |
| Oglethorpe | 1,461 | 87.54% | 208 | 12.46% | 1,253 | 75.08% | 1,669 |
| Paulding | 2,152 | 73.20% | 788 | 26.80% | 1,364 | 46.40% | 2,940 |
| Peach | 1,523 | 80.24% | 374 | 19.70% | 1,149 | 60.54% | 1,898[a] |
| Pickens | 1,312 | 49.70% | 1,328 | 50.30% | -16 | -0.60% | 2,640 |
| Pierce | 1,903 | 76.27% | 592 | 23.73% | 1,311 | 52.54% | 2,495 |
| Pike | 1,248 | 81.36% | 286 | 18.64% | 962 | 62.72% | 1,534 |
| Polk | 4,447 | 77.39% | 1,299 | 22.61% | 3,148 | 54.78% | 5,746 |
| Pulaski | 1,572 | 90.50% | 165 | 9.50% | 1,407 | 81.00% | 1,737 |
| Putnam | 1,251 | 83.34% | 250 | 16.66% | 1,001 | 66.68% | 1,501 |
| Quitman | 332 | 78.12% | 93 | 21.88% | 239 | 56.24% | 425 |
| Rabun | 1,320 | 74.62% | 449 | 25.38% | 871 | 49.24% | 1,769 |
| Randolph | 1,419 | 73.68% | 507 | 26.32% | 912 | 47.36% | 1,926 |
| Richmond | 8,584 | 47.87% | 9,347 | 52.13% | -763 | -4.26% | 17,931 |
| Rockdale | 1,665 | 83.84% | 321 | 16.16% | 1,344 | 67.68% | 1,986 |
| Schley | 436 | 74.66% | 148 | 25.34% | 288 | 49.32% | 584 |
| Screven | 1,584 | 69.60% | 692 | 30.40% | 892 | 39.20% | 2,276 |
| Seminole | 1,126 | 86.48% | 176 | 13.52% | 950 | 72.96% | 1,302 |
| Spalding | 5,296 | 80.92% | 1,249 | 19.08% | 4,047 | 61.84% | 6,545 |
| Stephens | 3,539 | 84.26% | 661 | 15.74% | 2,878 | 68.52% | 4,200 |
| Stewart | 816 | 72.40% | 311 | 27.60% | 505 | 44.80% | 1,127 |
| Sumter | 2,455 | 69.68% | 1,068 | 30.32% | 1,387 | 39.36% | 3,523 |
| Talbot | 678 | 79.48% | 175 | 20.52% | 503 | 58.96% | 853 |
| Taliaferro | 873 | 89.45% | 103 | 10.55% | 770 | 78.90% | 976 |
| Tattnall | 2,433 | 68.59% | 1,114 | 31.41% | 1,319 | 37.18% | 3,547 |
| Taylor | 1,679 | 85.84% | 277 | 14.16% | 1,402 | 71.68% | 1,956 |
| Telfair | 2,695 | 91.73% | 243 | 8.27% | 2,452 | 83.46% | 2,938 |
| Terrell | 1,375 | 78.84% | 369 | 21.16% | 1,006 | 57.68% | 1,744 |
| Thomas | 3,971 | 63.60% | 2,273 | 36.40% | 1,698 | 27.20% | 6,244 |
| Tift | 2,954 | 69.15% | 1,318 | 30.85% | 1,636 | 38.30% | 4,272 |
| Toombs | 2,641 | 78.51% | 723 | 21.49% | 1,918 | 57.02% | 3,364 |
| Towns | 1,111 | 53.06% | 983 | 46.94% | 128 | 6.12% | 2,094 |
| Treutlen | 1,416 | 93.34% | 101 | 6.66% | 1,315 | 86.68% | 1,517 |
| Troup | 7,130 | 79.07% | 1,887 | 20.93% | 5,243 | 58.14% | 9,017 |
| Turner | 1,357 | 77.15% | 402 | 22.85% | 955 | 54.30% | 1,759 |
| Twiggs | 1,080 | 84.97% | 191 | 15.03% | 889 | 69.94% | 1,271 |
| Union | 1,360 | 50.56% | 1,330 | 49.44% | 30 | 1.12% | 2,690 |
| Upson | 3,837 | 85.55% | 648 | 14.45% | 3,189 | 71.10% | 4,485 |
| Walker | 4,366 | 60.37% | 2,866 | 39.63% | 1,500 | 20.74% | 7,232 |
| Walton | 3,672 | 91.89% | 324 | 8.11% | 3,348 | 83.78% | 3,996 |
| Ware | 5,627 | 69.94% | 2,418 | 30.06% | 3,209 | 39.88% | 8,045 |
| Warren | 693 | 64.95% | 374 | 35.05% | 319 | 29.90% | 1,067 |
| Washington | 2,381 | 74.97% | 795 | 25.03% | 1,586 | 49.94% | 3,176 |
| Wayne | 1,929 | 69.87% | 832 | 30.13% | 1,097 | 39.74% | 2,761 |
| Webster | 335 | 70.82% | 138 | 29.18% | 197 | 41.64% | 473 |
| Wheeler | 1,280 | 83.06% | 261 | 16.94% | 1,019 | 66.12% | 1,541 |
| White | 1,139 | 80.15% | 282 | 19.85% | 857 | 60.30% | 1,421 |
| Whitfield | 4,661 | 62.51% | 2,795 | 37.49% | 1,866 | 25.02% | 7,456 |
| Wilcox | 1,878 | 86.19% | 301 | 13.81% | 1,577 | 72.38% | 2,179 |
| Wilkes | 1,500 | 83.99% | 286 | 16.01% | 1,214 | 67.98% | 1,786 |
| Wilkinson | 1,629 | 81.17% | 378 | 18.83% | 1,251 | 62.34% | 2,007 |
| Worth | 1,986 | 81.73% | 444 | 18.27% | 1,542 | 63.46% | 2,430 |
| Totals | 456,823 | 69.66% | 198,979 | 30.34% | 257,844 | 39.32% | 655,803 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
[edit]Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
[edit]Counties that flipped from Dixiecrat to Democratic
[edit]Counties that flipped from Dixiecrat to Republican
[edit]See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ One write-in vote was cast in this county for an unlisted candidate.
References
[edit]- ^ "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 Election for the Forty-Second Term (1953-57)". Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- ^ "1952 Presidential General Election Results - Georgia". Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1952". Retrieved July 25, 2017.
- ^ Georgia's Official Register, 1951-1952 (PDF). Atlanta, Georgia. pp. 534–536.
- ^ Fortson, Ben W. (1952). OFFICIAL State of Georgia Tabulation By Counties For Presidential Election Results And 46 Constitutional Amendments General Election Nov. 4, 1952 (PDF) (PDF). Georgia Secretary of State. p. 5 – via Digital Library of Georgia.
