The 1956 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 6, 1956. All 48 states were part of the 1956 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 incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower by a 16-point landslide. Running against Eisenhower was former Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson, whom Eisenhower had earlier defeated for the Presidency in 1952. This election reflected one of the last election cycles where the Democratic Party still had their post Civil War political domination of the Deep South. This was also the last United States presidential election when either major party nominee was born in the nineteenth century.

, this is the last election in which Rio Arriba County and San Miguel County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016

Results

Results by county County Dwight D. EisenhowerRepublican Adlai StevensonDemocratic Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Bernalillo 41,893 64.31% 22,954 35.24% 296 0.45% 18,939 29.07% 65,143 Catron 711 59.85% 477 40.15% 0 0.00% 234 19.70% 1,188 Chaves 7,538 63.37% 4,270 35.89% 88 0.74% 3,268 27.48% 11,896 Colfax 2,959 54.71% 2,450 45.29% 0 0.00% 509 9.42% 5,409 Curry 4,826 57.27% 3,545 42.07% 56 0.66% 1,281 15.20% 8,427 De Baca 779 59.33% 528 40.21% 6 0.46% 251 19.12% 1,313 Dona Ana 7,025 58.59% 4,918 41.01% 48 0.40% 2,107 17.58% 11,991 Eddy 6,691 45.77% 7,820 53.50% 107 0.73% -1,129 -7.73% 14,618 Grant 3,224 43.70% 4,122 55.88% 31 0.42% -898 -12.18% 7,377 Guadalupe 1,529 56.15% 1,191 43.74% 3 0.11% 338 12.41% 2,723 Harding 671 61.96% 412 38.04% 0 0.00% 259 23.92% 1,083 Hidalgo 790 50.51% 771 49.30% 3 0.19% 19 1.21% 1,564 Lea 5,661 47.66% 6,140 51.69% 78 0.65% -479 -4.03% 11,879 Lincoln 1,956 64.77% 1,059 35.07% 5 0.16% 897 29.70% 3,020 Los Alamos 2,406 51.98% 2,214 47.83% 9 0.19% 192 4.15% 4,629 Luna 1,526 49.76% 1,506 49.10% 35 1.14% 20 0.66% 3,067 McKinley 4,450 56.97% 3,331 42.64% 30 0.39% 1,119 14.33% 7,811 Mora 1,736 58.47% 1,233 41.53% 0 0.00% 503 16.94% 2,969 Otero 3,919 60.45% 2,558 39.46% 6 0.09% 1,361 20.99% 6,483 Quay 2,311 53.52% 1,988 46.04% 19 0.44% 323 7.48% 4,318 Rio Arriba 4,566 51.53% 4,291 48.43% 3 0.04% 275 3.10% 8,860 Roosevelt 2,708 54.56% 2,247 45.28% 8 0.16% 461 9.28% 4,963 San Juan 5,194 67.54% 2,425 31.53% 71 0.93% 2,769 36.01% 7,690 San Miguel 5,083 55.86% 4,014 44.11% 3 0.03% 1,069 11.75% 9,100 Sandoval 1,979 55.68% 1,574 44.29% 1 0.03% 405 11.39% 3,554 Santa Fe 9,359 56.92% 6,997 42.56% 85 0.52% 2,362 14.36% 16,441 Sierra 1,954 65.00% 1,035 34.43% 17 0.57% 919 30.57% 3,006 Socorro 2,365 61.57% 1,476 38.43% 0 0.00% 889 23.14% 3,841 Taos 3,100 53.02% 2,743 46.91% 4 0.07% 357 6.11% 5,847 Torrance 1,567 56.23% 1,201 43.09% 19 0.68% 366 13.14% 2,787 Union 1,649 60.83% 1,061 39.14% 1 0.03% 588 21.69% 2,711 Valencia 4,663 56.74% 3,547 43.16% 8 0.10% 1,116 13.58% 8,218Totals146,78857.81%106,09841.78%1,0400.41%40,69016.03%253,926

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Los Alamos McKinley Rio Arriba Taos

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