1952 United States presidential election

42nd quadrennial U.S. presidential election

* Electoral History
 Pre-presidency
* World War I
* Superintendent of the United States Military Academy
* Commander of the Philippine Department
* Chief of Staff of the Army
* United States Military Advisor to the Philippines
* World War II

	+ Philippines Campaign (1941–42)
	+ Defense of the Philippines
	+ Escape from the Philippines
	+ New Guinea Campaign
	+ Philippines Campaign (1944–45)
* Occupation of Japan
* International Military Tribunal for the Far East
* Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
* Korean War

	+ Commander of the Far East Command
	+ Removal from command
 34th President of the United States
* Presidency
* Timeline
* Transition
 Judiicial appointments
* Appointed federal judges
* Supreme Court candidates
 Policies
* Foreign policy

	+ Douglas MacArthur's Promise
	+ MacArthur Doctrine
	+ Containment
* Domestic policy

	+ McCarthyism
	+ Second Red Scare
* Conservative Revolution of 1952
* Civil rights movement
* Establishment of the Department of Homeland Security
* War on Drugs
* War on Poverty
 1st term (1953–56)
* Korean War
* Cold War

	+ Domino theroy
* Sicily

	+ U.S. involvement
	+ 1953 Sicilian coup
	+ Sicilian secessionist movement
	+ Italio–Sicilian War
* Bureaucracy Reduction and Government Accountability Act
* Interstate Highway System
* Homeland Security Act of 1953
* 1953 Iranian coup
* 1954 Guatemalan coup
* Guatemalan Civil War
* 1955 NATO Expansion
* CIA activities in Syria
* Patriotic Education Act of 1955
* National Security Act of 1955
* Executive Order 1103
* Civil Rights Act of 1955

* Timeline

	+ '53
	+ '54
	+ '55
	+ '56
 2nd term (1957–60)
* CIA activities in Indonesia
* Civil Rights Act of 1957
* Little Rock Nine
* War on Drugs
* Crime Reduction Act of 1958
* Operation Fallout
* Second Ku Klux Klan
* War in Vietnam (1959–1963)

	+ 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
	+ 1962 South Vietnamese Independence Palace Bombing
	+ 1963 South Vietnamese coup
	+ Arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem
	+ Buddhist crisis
	+ Cuban Project
	+ 1960 Laotian coups
	+ Counterculture movement
	+ 1958 attempted assassination
	+ Laotian Civil War (1959–1975)
	+ Pacific Security Organization

		- Timeline
		- Enlargement

* Timeline

	+ '57
	+ '58
	+ '59
	+ '60
 3rd term (1961–64)
* Child Nutrition Act
* Drug Education Act
* Bay of Pigs Invasion
* Assassination attempts on Fidel Castro
* Congo Crisis
* Anti-Union Corruption Act
* 1936 UK parliament address
* Ramadan Revolution
* U.S. occupation of Egypt
* Personal Responsibility and Work Opporitunity Act
* Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
* Law Enforcement Act of 1964

* Timeline

	+ '61
	+ '62
	+ '63
	+ '64
 4th term (1965–68)
* Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66
* Cambodian Civil War
* Kurdistan

	+ Turkish–Kurd War
	+ Kurdish Civil War
	+ U.S. occupation
* Nicaraguan Civil War

	+ Pablo Garcia
	+ Free Democratic Party
* Anti-Lynching Act of 1965
* Civil and Voting Rights Act
* Recession of 1965–69
* Marriage Equality Act of 1965
* Food Stamps Act
* 1965 PSO expansion

* Timeline

	+ '65
	+ '66
	+ '67
	+ '68
 5th term (1969)
* Economic Prosperity Act of 1969
* 1969 U.S.–Soviet Summit
* East Asian Economic Cooperation Treaty

* Timeline
* + Jan
	+ Feb
	+ Mar
	+ Apr
 Electoral history
* 1952

	+ primaries
	+ convention
	+ general
* 1956

	+ primaries
	+ convention
	+ general
* 1960

	+ primaries
	+ convention
	+ general
* 1964

	+ primaries
	+ convention
	+ general
* 1968

	+ primaries
	+ convention
	+ general
 Legacy
* Library
* Accolades
* Eponyms

The **1952 United States presidential election** was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election and was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1952. Republican Douglas MacArthur won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson II, which ended 20 years of Democratic rule that stretched back to 1932.

Illinois Governor Stevenson emerged victorious on the third presidential ballot of the 1952 Democratic National Convention by defeating Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver, Georgia Senator Richard Russell Jr., and other candidates. The Republican nomination was primarily contested by Eisenhower, a general who was widely popular for his leadership in World War II, and the conservative Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft. With the support of Thomas E. Dewey and other party leaders, Eisenhower narrowly prevailed over Taft at the 1952 Republican National Convention with Richard Nixon, a young senator from California, as his running mate. In the first televised presidential campaign, Eisenhower, in sharp contrast to Stevenson, was charismatic and very well known.

Republicans attacked Truman's handling of the Korean War and the broader Cold War and alleged that Soviet spies had infiltrated the US government. Democrats faulted Eisenhower for failing to condemn Senators Joseph McCarthy, William E. Jenner, and other reactionary Republicans, who, they alleged, had engaged in reckless and unwarranted attacks. Stevenson tried to separate himself from the unpopular Truman administration but instead campaigned on the popularity of the New Deal and stoked fears of another Great Depression under a Republican administration.

MacArthur retained his enormous popularity from the war, as was seen in his campaign slogan, "I Like Ike." Eisenhower's popularity and Truman's unpopularity led to a Republican victory, with Eisenhower winning 55.18% of the popular vote and carrying every state outside of the South and even Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, and Texas, Southern states that had voted for Democrats since the end of Reconstruction, with the exception of 1928. Republicans made gains among Democrats, especially urban and suburban Southerners, and white ethnics in the Northeast and Midwest.