As expected by the polls,
Alabama voted for the
Democratic nominees
Adlai Stevenson II and running mate
Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver, with 56.52 percent of the popular vote against
Republican nominees
incumbent President
Dwight D. Eisenhower and Vice President
Richard Nixon, with 39.39 percent. Eisenhower's performance was nonetheless the second-best by a Republican in Alabama since 1884, when many blacks were still enfranchised, while Stevenson declined by eight percent compared to his 1952 performance. Eisenhower's main gains were in upper- and middle-class urban areas, where wealthier whites aligned strongly with GOP economic policies. The unpledged slate had little support and consequently did not make the impact it did in South Carolina, Mississippi or Louisiana, cracking twenty percent only in
Lowndes County. 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 the only election since
1872 the majority-black county has voted Republican. It is also the last time
Houston County voted for a Democratic nominee, and the last time that the state has supported a losing Democratic nominee or that a Republican won two terms without ever carrying the state. ==See also==