1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey

The 1952 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 4, 1952. All contemporary 48 states were part of the 1952 United States presidential election. Voters chose 16 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

New Jersey was won by the Republican nominees, General Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York and his running mate Senator Richard Nixon of California. Eisenhower and Nixon defeated the Democratic nominees, former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois and his running mate Senator John Sparkman of Alabama.

Eisenhower carried New Jersey with 56.81% of the vote to Stevenson's 41.99%, a margin of 14.83%. Eisenhower won 18 of the state's 21 counties, breaking 60% of the vote in nine of them, and even breaking 70% in three of those. Stevenson carried three urban counties; he won with majorities in Mercer County and Camden County, and won with a plurality in Hudson County. Eisenhower ultimately won election to the White House as a war hero, a political outsider, and a moderate Republican who pledged to protect and support popular New Deal Democratic policies, finally ending 20 years of Democratic control of the White House.

New Jersey in this era was usually a swing state with a slight Republican lean, and its results in 1952 adhered to that pattern. Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt had won New Jersey in all four of his decisive nationwide victories in the 1930s and 1940s, but with the exception of his 1936 landslide, always by very narrow margins. In 1948, New Jersey had been narrowly won by Republican Thomas E. Dewey, even as he lost the election nationally. With Eisenhower's personal popularity propelling him to a decisive nationwide victory in 1952, New Jersey easily remained in the Republican column, its results making it about 4% more Republican than the national average.

Republicans won Passaic, Salem, and Middlesex counties for the first time since 1928. This was the first election since 1868 that a Republican won the election without Mercer County, and the first since 1860 to do so without Camden County.

Results 1952 United States presidential election in New JerseyPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower 1,374,613 56.81% 16 Democratic Adlai Stevenson 1,015,902 41.99% 0 Socialist Darlington Hoopes 8,593 0.36% 0 Socialist Labor Eric Hass 5,815 0.24% 0 Progressive Vincent Hallinan 5,589 0.23% 0 Poor Man's Party Henry B. Krajewski 4,203 0.17% 0 Socialist Workers Farrell Dobbs 3,850 0.16% 0 Prohibition Stuart Hamblen 989 0.04% 0 Totals 2,419,554 100.0% 16

Results by county County Dwight D. EisenhowerRepublican Adlai StevensonDemocratic Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes castScammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 300 # % # % # % # % Atlantic 40,259 58.03% 28,953 41.73% 163 0.24% 11,306 16.30% 69,375 Bergen 212,842 69.22% 93,373 30.37% 1,287 0.41% 119,469 38.85% 307,502 Burlington 30,202 54.18% 25,482 45.71% 60 0.11% 4,720 8.47% 55,744 Camden 72,335 46.81% 81,444 52.70% 762 0.49% -9,109 -5.89% 154,541 Cape May 15,218 68.52% 6,984 31.45% 7 0.03% 8,234 37.07% 22,209 Cumberland 21,819 53.40% 18,929 46.33% 111 0.27% 2,890 7.07% 40,859 Essex 219,863 53.94% 180,501 44.28% 7,271 1.78% 39,362 9.66% 407,635 Gloucester 25,103 54.89% 20,536 44.90% 98 0.21% 4,567 9.99% 45,737 Hudson 153,583 47.36% 161,469 49.79% 9,228 2.85% -7,886 -2.43% 324,280 Hunterdon 14,439 67.47% 6,878 32.14% 83 0.39% 7,561 35.33% 21,400 Mercer 50,423 46.40% 57,751 53.15% 488 0.45% -7,328 -6.75% 108,662 Middlesex 73,577 50.32% 70,234 48.03% 2,413 1.65% 3,343 2.29% 146,224 Monmouth 73,228 66.28% 37,006 33.49% 257 0.23% 36,222 32.79% 110,491 Morris 62,847 72.55% 23,662 27.31% 120 0.14% 39,185 45.24% 86,629 Ocean 23,490 72.80% 8,660 26.84% 117 0.36% 14,830 45.96% 32,267 Passaic 89,083 54.26% 70,727 43.08% 4,380 2.66% 18,356 11.18% 164,190 Salem 12,026 51.30% 11,362 48.47% 54 0.23% 664 2.83% 23,442 Somerset 31,239 63.34% 18,007 36.51% 74 0.15% 13,232 26.83% 49,320 Sussex 13,415 74.68% 4,534 25.24% 14 0.08% 8,881 49.44% 17,963 Union 122,885 60.46% 78,336 38.54% 2,024 1.00% 44,549 21.92% 203,245 Warren 15,737 58.63% 11,074 41.26% 28 0.11% 4,663 17.37% 26,839Totals1,374,61356.81%1,015,90241.99%29,0391.20%358,71114.82%2,419,554

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican Middlesex Passaic Salem

Results by congressional districts Eisenhower won 11 out of 14 of New Jersey's congressional districts, while Stevenson won the other three congressional districts. DistrictEisenhowerStevensonRepresentative1st 48.1% 51.9%Charles A. Wolverton2nd 58.5% 41.5%T. Millet Hand3rd 62.9% 37.1%James C. Auchincloss4th 49.2% 50.8%Charles R. Howell5th62.4%37.6%Charles Aubrey Eaton (82nd Congress)Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (83rd Congress)6th 61.1% 38.9%Clifford P. Case7th 68.5% 31.5%William B. Widnall8th 55.7% 44.3%Gordon Canfield9th 67.6% 32.4%Frank C. Osmers Jr.10th 54.3% 45.7%Peter W. Rodino11th 53.1% 46.9%Hugh J. Addonizio12th 55.5% 44.5%Robert Kean13th 44.8% 55.2%Alfred Dennis Sieminski14th 51.9% 48.1%Edward J. Hart

See also Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower United States presidential elections in New Jersey

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