Editing 1956 Summer Olympics (section)

==Host city selection==
Melbourne was selected as the host city over bids from [[Buenos Aires]], Mexico City, Montreal, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and San Francisco at the 43rd [[IOC Session]] in Rome, Italy on 28 April 1949. Mexico City, Montreal and Los Angeles would eventually be selected to host the [[1968 Summer Olympics|1968]], [[1976 Summer Olympics|1976]] and [[1984 Summer Olympics]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html |title=Ioc Vote History |publisher=Aldaver.com |access-date=24 August 2012 |archive-date=25 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525070757/http://www.aldaver.com/votes.html |url-status=usurped }}</ref> respectively.

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|+ 1956 Summer Olympics bidding results<ref name=votes>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesbids.com/english/archives/past.shtml |title=Past Olympic host city election results |publisher=[[GamesBids]] |access-date=17 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124022022/http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |archive-date=24 January 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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! rowspan=2 | City
! rowspan=2 | Country
! colspan=4 style="background:silver;"| Round
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! style="background:silver;"| 1
! style="background:silver;"| 2
! style="background:silver;"| 3
! style="background:silver;"| 4
|-
| [[Melbourne]] || {{flag|Australia}} || style="text-align:center;"|'''14''' || style="text-align:center;"|'''18''' || style="text-align:center;"|'''19''' || style="text-align:center;"|'''21'''
|-
| [[Buenos Aires]] || {{flag|Argentina}} || style="text-align:center;"|9 || style="text-align:center;"|12 || style="text-align:center;"|13 || style="text-align:center;"|20
|-
| [[Los Angeles]] || rowspan=2|{{flag|United States|1912}} || style="text-align:center;"|5 || style="text-align:center;"|4 || style="text-align:center;"|5 || style="text-align:center;"|—
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| [[Detroit]] || style="text-align:center;"|2 || style="text-align:center;"|4 || style="text-align:center;"|4 || style="text-align:center;"|—
|-
| [[Mexico City]] || {{flag|Mexico|1934}} || style="text-align:center;"|9 || style="text-align:center;"|3 || style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|—
|-
| [[Chicago]] || rowspan=4|{{flag|United States|1912}} || style="text-align:center;"|1 || style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|—
|-
| [[Minneapolis]] || style="text-align:center;"|1 || style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|—
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| [[Philadelphia]] || style="text-align:center;"|1 || style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|—
|-
| [[San Francisco]] || style="text-align:center;"|0 || style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|—
|-
| [[Montreal]] || {{flag|Canada|1921}} || style="text-align:center;"|0 || style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|— || style="text-align:center;"|—
|}