Alabama was won by Adlai Stevenson (D–Illinois), running with Senator Estes Kefauver, with 56.52 percent of the popular vote against incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R–Pennsylvania), running with Vice President Richard Nixon, with 39.39% of the popular vote. Stevenson received ten of Alabama's eleven electoral votes; the eleventh was cast by a faithless elector for Walter B. Jones. , this is the last election in which Macon County voted for a Republican nominee, and one of just three presidential elections when Macon County was won by a Republican, the others being the Reconstruction Era elections of 1868 and 1872. It is also the last time that Houston County voted for a Democratic nominee.