New Mexico was won by
World War II hero and supreme allied commander
Dwight D. Eisenhower by a wide 11 percentage point margin. Running against Eisenhower was
Governor of IllinoisAdlai Stevenson, who carried only the majority of the
American South during his two runs for the presidency.[2] This was the tenth consecutive U.S. Presidential Election which New Mexico participated in.
Results
1952 United States presidential election in New Mexico
^"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