Host City Selection
Helsinki was chosen as the host city over bids from Amsterdam and five American cities at the 40th IOC Session on June 21, 1947, in Stockholm, Sweden. Minneapolis and Los Angeles finished tied for second in the final voting.
The voting results, in a chart below, comes from the International Olympic Committee Vote History web page.
| 1952 Summer Olympics bidding results | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City | Country | Round 1 | Round 2 | |||
| Helsinki | Finland | 14 | 15 | |||
| Minneapolis | United States | 4 | 5 | |||
| Los Angeles | United States | 4 | 5 | |||
| Amsterdam | Netherlands | 3 | 3 | |||
| Detroit | United States | 2 | — | |||
| Chicago | United States | 1 | — | |||
| Philadelphia | United States | 0 | — | |||
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