1952 United States presidential election in Georgia

1952 United States presidential election in Georgia
All 12 Georgia votes to the Electoral College
Stevenson 50-60% 60-70% 70-80% 80-90% 90-100%	Eisenhower 50-60% 60-70%
President before election; Harry S. Truman; Democratic	Elected President ; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Republican

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

1952 United States presidential election in Georgia^[6]
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

County^[7]	Adlai Stevenson Democratic		Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican		Margin		Total votes cast
County^[7]	#	%	#	%	#	%	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

Notes

^ One write-in vote was cast in this county for an unlisted candidate.

References

^ "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.

[8] One write-in vote was cast in this county for an unlisted candidate.

[1] "United States Presidential election of 1952 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved July 25, 2017.

[2] "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

[3] "1952 Election for the Forty-Second Term (1953-57)". Retrieved July 25, 2017.

[4] "1952 Presidential General Election Results - Georgia". Retrieved July 25, 2017.

[5] "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1952". Retrieved July 25, 2017.

[6] Georgia's Official Register, 1951-1952 (PDF). Atlanta, Georgia. pp. 534–536.

[7] 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.

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