Who won Louisiana in the 1956 presidential election?

Stevenson (Democratic) carried Louisiana in 1956, winning its 10 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Louisiana have in 1956?

Louisiana cast 10 electoral votes in the 1956 presidential election.

Did Louisiana vote for the national winner in 1956?

No. Louisiana backed Stevenson, while Dwight D. Eisenhower won the presidency nationally.

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1956

Louisiana: Stevenson carries 10 EV.

Louisiana cast its 10 electoral votes for Stevenson (Democratic). National winner: Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) — Louisiana voted against the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Louisiana, 1956

In 1956, Louisiana awarded its 10 electoral votes to Stevenson of the Democratic party. Nationally the result broke the other way — Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) won the presidency, leaving Louisiana among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 2nd consecutive election in which Louisiana backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1952. Louisiana did not move alone — neighboring Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi broke the same way in 1956. Across the 53 presidential elections Louisiana has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (29 times). The vote fell within the New Deal Coalition — FDR, civil rights, and the long Democratic majority.

In the national count, Dwight D. Eisenhower took 457 of the 531 electoral votes, against Adlai Stevenson II's 73. Dwight D. Eisenhower led the national popular vote with 57.37% of the ballots cast.

The 1956 national map

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