Claim: In the 1956 United States presidential election in New Hampshire, republican candidate Dwight David Eisenhower (who pledged to maintain popular New Deal Democratic policies) received the majority of the vote between all counties, with 66.11% and a total of 176,519 votes and he also won the percentage vote of each county individually.
Evidence: Eisenhower, a war hero and moderate Republican who had pledged to maintain popular New Deal Democratic policies, had wide appeal beyond the boundaries of the traditional Republican coalition. Totals 66.11% # 176,519 Belknap 75.95% Carroll 85.38% Cheshire 69.26% Coös 66.13% Grafton 74.04% Hillsborough 55.50% Merrimack 71.68% Rockingham 73.42% Strafford 61.58% Sullivan 66.44%