1972 Presidential
1972 Republican presidential primaries:
- Richard Nixon (inc.) - 5,378,704 (86.92%)
- Unpedged - 317,048 (5.12%)
- John M. Ashbrook - 311,543 (5.03%)
- Pete McCloskey - 132,731 (2.15%)
- George Wallace - 20,907 (0.34%)
- None of the names shown - 8,916 (0.14%)
1972 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):
- Richard Nixon (inc.) - 1,347 (99.93%)
- Pete McCloskey - 1 (0.07%)
New York Conservative Party presidential convention, 1972:
- Richard Nixon (inc.) - 156 (69.96%)
- John G. Schmitz - 38 (17.04%)
- Abstaining - 29 (13.00%)
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Pct | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | ||||
| Richard Milhous Nixon | Republican | California | 47,168,710 | 60.7% | 520 | Spiro Theodore Agnew | Maryland | 520 |
| George Stanley McGovern | Democratic | South Dakota | 29,173,222 | 37.5% | 17 | Robert Sargent Shriver | Maryland | 17 |
| John G. Hospers | Libertarian | California | 3,674 | 0.0% | 1(a) | Theodora Nathan | Oregon | 1(a) |
| John G. Schmitz | American Independent | California | 1,100,868 | 1.4% | 0 | Thomas J. Anderson | Tennessee | 0 |
| Linda Jenness | Socialist Workers | Georgia | 83,380(b) | 0.1% | 0 | Andrew Pulley | Illinois | 0 |
| Benjamin Spock | People's | California | 78,759 | 0.1% | 0 | Julius Hobson | District of Columbia | 0 |
| Other | 135,414 | 0.2% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 77,744,027 | 100% | 538 | 538 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
Source (Popular Vote): Leip, David. 1972 Presidential Election Results. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (August 7, 2005). Source (Electoral Vote): Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996. Official website of the National Archives. (August 7, 2005). (a)A Virginia faithless elector, Roger MacBride, though pledged to vote for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, instead voted for Libertarian candidates John Hospers and Theodora Nathan.
(b)In Arizona, Pima and Yavapai counties had a ballot malfunction that counted many votes for both a major party candidate and Linda Jenness of the Socialist Workers Party. A court ordered that the ballots be counted for both. As a consequence, Jenness received 16% and 8% of the vote in Pima and Yavapai, respectively. 30,579 of her 30,945 Arizona votes are from those two counties. Some sources do not count these votes for Jenness.
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