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Turnout | 84.47% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elections in Illinois |
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The 1956 United States presidential election in Illinois took place on November 6, 1956, as part of the 1956 United States presidential election. State voters chose 27[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Illinois was won by incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Pennsylvania), running with Vice President Richard Nixon, with 59.52% of the popular vote, against Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator Estes Kefauver, with 40.29% of the popular vote.[4][5]
Eisenhower's home state for the 1956 Election was Pennsylvania
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