Eisenhower Carries Ballot By Slim 148 Vote Majority

President Dwight D. Eisenhower carried Wednesday's University election poll by 148 votes out of 5,552 cast, beating Adlai E. Stevenson by 2,785 to 2,637. The President's largest strength came from the Business School, where he won by a 3-to-1 margin.

Stevenson, who had won a similar poll four years ago by 127 votes, nevertheless drew support from 916 individuals who said they had been for Eisenhower in 1952. Two hundred and fifteen Eisenhower ballots indicated a switch from Democratic allegiance.

Polling, which closed in the Houses, Radcliffe, and the graduate schools on Wednesday, continued through yesterday noon at the Union. Eisenhower's margin among Freshmen was 311 to 190.

The President also won a majority in the number of actual votes that University students plan to cast on November 6. Of those who have qualified through registration and petition for absentee ballots, 1094 said they will vote for the Republican candidate, while 953 will support Stevenson.

For Eisenhower, the Business School constituted the largest single block of votes. His victory there by 422 ballots was more than enough to overcome Stevenson leads in Adams, Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, Dudley, Radcliffe, the Law School, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

The Law School was strongly for Stevenson, but his margin was less than it had been in 1952. This year Stevenson carried it by 576 to 473, where four years ago his margin was 573 to 300. At that time, the Business School gave Eisenhower 240 out of 313 votes cast.

Results from a double post-card poll of 900 senior Faculty members will appear in the CRIMSON next week. In 1952 the permanent Faculty gave 379 votes to General Eisenhower and 298 to Governor Stevenson.

Narrow as it is, the Eisenhower margin in twelve polls sponsored by the CRIMSON represents the tenth Republican victory since the turn of the century. In 1912 Woodrow Wilson won against a combined field of Theodore Roosevelt '80 cluding Radcliffe--by a bare majority. and William Howard Taft, and in 1952 Stevenson carried the University--not in.

While Eisenhower polled 51 per cent of the votes in the University, the Business School gave him more than 75 per cent of the ballots.

Stevenson carried the Upperclass Houses by 75 votes, and Dudley House (including its freshmen) by 20 more, but this lead was erased by the President's Union preponderance of 121. Accordingly Eisenhower won on the College by 1,368 to 1,338. In 1952, the Democrats polled 1,223 votes to Eisenhower's 1,202, despite a 126-vote freshman majority for the General. The University's narrowest victory--amid a host of narrow victories--came at Lowell House, where six votes separated Eisenhower from Stevenson. Nine ballots marked for Eisenhower and Nixon had the words "and Nixon" crossed out. These ballots were counted in the regular Eisenhower totals, however.