1960 Presidential
1960 Republican presidential primaries:
- Richard Nixon - 4,975,938 (86.63%)
- Unpledged - 314,234 (5.47%)
- George H. Bender - 211,090 (3.68%)
- Cecil H. Underwood - 123,756 (2.16%)
- James L. Lloyd - 48,461 (0.84%)
- Nelson Rockefeller - 30,639 (0.53%)
- Frank R. Beckwith - 19,677 (0.34%)
- John F. Kennedy - 12,817 (0.22%)
- Barry Goldwater - 3,146 (0.06%)
- Paul C. Fisher - 2,388 (0.04%)
- Adlai Stevenson - 694 (0.01%)
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. - 514 (0.01%)
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (write-in) - 172 (0.00%)
- Styles Bridges - 108 (0.00%)
1960 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):
- Richard Nixon - 1,321 (99.25%)
- Barry Goldwater - 10 (0.75%)
United States presidential election, 1960:
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Pct | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | ||||
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | Democratic | Massachusetts | 34,220,984(a) | 49.7% | 303 | Lyndon Baines Johnson | Texas | 303 |
| Richard Milhous Nixon | Republican | California | 34,108,157 | 49.6% | 219 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | Massachusetts | 219 |
| Harry Flood Byrd | (none) | Virginia | —(b) | —(b) | 15 | James Strom Thurmond | South Carolina | 14 |
| Barry Morris Goldwater(c) | Arizona | 1(c) | ||||||
| (unpledged electors) | Democratic | (n/a) | 286,359 | 0.4% | —(d) | (n/a) | (n/a) | —(d) |
| Orval Faubus | States' Rights | Arkansas | 44,984 | 0.1% | 0 | John G. Crommelin | Alabama | 0 |
| Charles Sullivan | Constitution | Mississippi | (TX) 18,162 | 0.0% | 0 | Merritt Curtis | California | 0 |
| Other | 216,982 | 0.3% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 68,895,628 | 100% | 537 | 537 | ||||
| Needed to win | 269 | 269 | ||||||
There were 537 electoral votes, up from 531 in 1956, because of the addition of 2 U.S. Senators and 1 U.S. Representative from each of the new states of Alaska and Hawaii. (The House of Representatives was temporarily expanded from 435 members to 437 to accommodate this, and would go back to 435 when reapportioned according to the 1960 census.) Source (Popular Vote):Leip, David. 1960 Presidential Election Results. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (February 7, 2008).Note: Sullivan / Curtis ran only in Texas. In Washington, Constitution Party ran Curtis for President and B. N. Miller for vice-president, receiving 1,401 votes. Source (Electoral Vote): Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996. Official website of the National Archives. (August 2, 2005).(a) This figure is problematic; see Alabama popular vote above.
(b) Byrd was not directly on the ballot. Instead, his electoral votes came from unpledged Democratic electors and a faithless elector.
(c) Oklahoma faithless elector Henry D. Irwin, though pledged to vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., instead voted for non-candidate Harry F. Byrd. However, unlike other electors who voted for Byrd and Strom Thurmond as Vice President, Irwin voted for Barry Goldwater as Vice President.
(d) In Mississippi, the slate of unpledged Democratic electors won. They cast their 8 votes for Byrd and Thurmond.
Read more about this topic: Electoral History Of Richard Nixon
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