1952 United States presidential election in California

The 1952 United States presidential election in California took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election. State voters chose 32 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

California voted for the Republican nominee, former Allied Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower (with California Senator Richard Nixon as his running mate), in a landslide over the Democratic nominee, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson. As of the 2020 presidential election^[update], this is the last time that Yolo County has voted Republican in a presidential election, the longest Republican drought for any county in the state.

This was the first presidential election in which any nominee received over a million votes in Los Angeles County. Eisenhower was also the first Republican to secure the state since Herbert Hoover in 1928

Results

Results by county

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Alameda
• Amador
• Calaveras
• Colusa
• El Dorado
• Humboldt
• Los Angeles
• Madera
• Kern
• Merced
• Modoc
• Placer
• San Francisco
• Sierra
• Siskiyou
• Shasta
• Tulare
• Ventura
• Yuba
• Yolo
• Trinity

References

1. "Historical Voter Registration and Participation in Statewide General Elections 1910-2018" (PDF). California Secretary of State. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
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 Presidential General Election Results - California". Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved August 25, 2008.