1956 Democratic Party presidential primaries

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1956 Democratic Party presidential primaries

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Candidate Adlai Stevenson II Estes Kefauver Home state Illinois Tennessee Contests won 7 9 Popular vote 3,069,504 2,283,172 Percentage 50.7% 37.7%

Previous Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson II Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson II

From March 11 to June 5, 1956, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1956 United States presidential election. Former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections^[1] and caucuses culminating in the 1956 Democratic National Convention held from August 13 to August 17, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois.^[2] This was the party's second consecutive nomination of Stevenson.^[3]