1956 United States presidential election

1956 United States presidential election
531 members of the Electoral College; 266 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout	60.6% 2.7 pp
	Presidential election results map. Red denotes those won by Eisenhower/Nixon, Blue denotes states won by Stevenson/Kefauver. Orange denotes won by Walter Burgwyn Jones by an Alabama faithless elector. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
President before election; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Republican	Elected President ; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Republican

The 1956 United States presidential election happened on November 6, 1956. President Dwight D. Eisenhower won reelection to a second term. He defeated former Governor of Illinois Adlai Stevenson in a rematch of the 1952 presidential election.

Incumbent president Dwight D. Eisenhower won the election by 457 electoral votes. Adlai Stevenson got 73 electoral votes. Walter Burgwyn Jones got one vote by a faithless elector in Alabama.

This was the last election in which Alaska and Hawaii were not states.^[3]

Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in September 1955 while in Colorado for a vacation. His doctors told him not to run for another election. However, Eisenhower announced his candidacy for re-election on television in early 1956.

1956 United States Presidential Election Media

Republican Party (United States)
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, President-elect of the United States.
Formal portrait of Richard M. Nixon, 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953-1961.
Democratic Party (United States)
Black and white photograph print of Close up of Adlai Stevenson.
SenatorKefauver(DTN)(x)
Results of the 1956 Democratic presidential primaries.
SenatorKefauver(DTN)
John F. Kennedy - NARA - 518134
Senator en:Albert Gore, Sr. (D-TN)