American Psephology
The 1956 Presidential Election in Alabama
On November 6, 1956, Alabama's voters voted for eleven at-large electors. Three electoral slates ran.
The Democratic candidates:
- Wesley Winchell Acee, Jr. - 279,542 votes
- J.E. Brantley - 280,549 votes
- Jesse Brown - 280,844 votes
- Wilma K. Butts - 279,811 votes
- H. Tom Cochran - 280,366 votes
- William M. Kelly, Jr. - 280,159 votes
- Lawrence E. McNeil - 279,999 votes
- Ben P. Ray - 279,878 votes
- H. Floyd Sherrod - 279,398 votes
- Henry W. Sweet - 279,774 votes
- W. F. Turner - 279,484 votes
The Republican candidates:
- William H. Albritton - 195,694 votes
- R.S. Cartledge - 194,687 votes
- Charles H. Chapman, Jr. - 195,175 votes
- Herman E. Dean, Jr. - 195,200 votes
- Robert M. Guthrie - 195,012 votes
- Thomas G. McNaron - 194,629 votes
- Neil Morgan - 194,991 votes
- W. M. Russell - 194,898 votes
- I. L. Smith, Jr. - 194,699 votes
- George Stiefelmeyer - 194,708 votes
- George Witcher - 194,014 votes
The Independent candidates:
- Thomas Bellsnyder, Jr. - 20,323 votes
- Russell Carter - 20,279 votes
- John Frederick Duggar, III - 20,082 votes
- Llewellyn Duggar - 19,971 votes
- John C. Eagerton, III - 20,027 votes
- M. L. Griffin - 20,210 votes
- Tom C. King - 20,271 votes
- Joseph S. Mead - 20,081 votes
- Edwin T. Parker - 20,112 votes
- J. S. Payne - 20,111 votes
- Jack S. Riley - 20,149 votes
The county returns are as follows:
| Democrats | Republicans | Independents | |
| Autauga | 1156 | 859 | 275 |
| Baldwin | 3878 | 4294 | 244 |
| Barbour | 2530 | 777 | 142 |
| Bibb | 1471 | 1019 | 107 |
| Blount | 3208 | 2626 | 87 |
| Bullock | 730 | 304 | 138 |
| Butler | 1958 | 1324 | 251 |
| Calhoun | 9050 | 4431 | 360 |
| Chambers | 5154 | 1437 | 128 |
| Cherokee | 2661 | 845 | 7 |
| Chilton | 1891 | 3139 | 118 |
| Choctaw | 1250 | 457 | 72 |
| Clarke | 1961 | 1246 | 181 |
| Clay | 1701 | 1592 | 49 |
| Cleburne | 1407 | 1056 | 7 |
| Coffee | 4160 | 972 | 132 |
| Colbert | 6984 | 1739 | 110 |
| Conecuh | 1688 | 885 | 182 |
| Coosa | 1413 | 1070 | 38 |
| Covington | 4887 | 2253 | 344 |
| Crenshaw | 2254 | 565 | 156 |
| Cullman | 5510 | 4381 | 39 |
| Dale | 2318 | 1284 | 110 |
| Dallas | 2120 | 2323 | 913 |
| DeKalb | 5768 | 5684 | 2 |
| Elmore | 3353 | 1618 | 422 |
| Escambia | 3437 | 1521 | 179 |
| Etowah | 12,374 | 7198 | 314 |
| Fayette | 1956 | 1948 | 24 |
| Franklin | 3354 | 3399 | 16 |
| Geneva | 2841 | 1179 | 98 |
| Greene | 691 | 307 | 44 |
| Hale | 1317 | 503 | 100 |
| Henry | 2127 | 429 | 157 |
| Houston | 3619 | 2599 | 575 |
| Jackson | 4755 | 1868 | 21 |
| Jefferson | 38,472 | 43,452 | 5183 |
| Lamar | 2498 | 867 | 31 |
| Lauderdale | 9130 | 2450 | 86 |
| Lawrence | 2958 | 1199 | 22 |
| Lee | 3302 | 1586 | 163 |
| Limestone | 4147 | 589 | 16 |
| Lowndes | 623 | 326 | 243 |
| Macon | 1024 | 1067 | 102 |
| Madison | 9012 | 2971 | 110 |
| Marengo | 1858 | 1009 | 185 |
| Marion | 2850 | 2536 | 23 |
| Marshall | 6318 | 3070 | 94 |
| Mobile | 16,684 | 20,463 | 1714 |
| Monroe | 2069 | 759 | 130 |
| Montgomery | 6868 | 8681 | 3229 |
| Morgan | 7671 | 2974 | 227 |
| Perry | 970 | 612 | 224 |
| Pickens | 1660 | 993 | 171 |
| Pike | 2632 | 997 | 210 |
| Randolph | 3151 | 1584 | 26 |
| Russell | 3058 | 1264 | 153 |
| Shelby | 2502 | 2901 | 178 |
| St. Clair | 2420 | 2441 | 114 |
| Sumter | 981 | 576 | 112 |
| Talladega | 5243 | 4197 | 169 |
| Tallapoosa | 5070 | 1879 | 93 |
| Tuscaloosa | 8166 | 4960 | 611 |
| Walker | 7661 | 5179 | 79 |
| Washington | 1705 | 779 | 87 |
| Wilcox | 778 | 498 | 197 |
| Winston | 1570 | 2998 | 2 |
| Total | 279,983 (56.55%) | 194,988 (39.38%) | 20,126 (4.07%) |
The Democratic slate was duly elected, and voted for Stevenson and Kefauver on December 17, with the exception of one, who voted for Walter B. Jones and Herman Talmadge.