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Putnam County, presidential election of 1956

Putnam County

70.38%Dwight D. Eisenhower (R), the most votes11,946Votes counted for president

Every election in Putnam County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1956

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What this is

Putnam County counted 11,946 votes for president across 2 candidates in 1956. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.

The count, as certified

Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Dwight D. EisenhowerRepublican8,40870.38%
Adlai E. StevensonDemocratic3,53829.62%

Turnout: None found in the records checked

This year in context

Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.

Ohio that year
Ohio went to Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) with 61.11%, a 22.2-point margin over Adlai E. Stevenson. The country elected Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Against the state
Putnam County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+40.8 against Ohio's R+22.2: 18.5 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 21st of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1952
From 1952 to 1956 the county's lean moved 3.1 points toward the Republicans, from R+37.7 to R+40.8.
Matched
Putnam County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.

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Where this appears

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Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1956 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1956 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1956-11-06 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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