Electoral history of Richard Nixon

Electoral history of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States and 36th Vice President of the United States.

California's 12th congressional district, 1946 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=41961 Our Campaigns - CA - District 12 Race - Nov 02, 1946 ] ] :
* Richard Nixon (R) - 65,586 (56.03%)
* Jerry Voorhis (D) (inc.) - 49,994 (42.71%)
* John Henry Hoeppel (Prohibition) - 1,476 (1.26%)

California's 12th congressional district, 1948 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=88303 Our Campaigns - CA District 12 Race - Nov 02, 1948 ] ] :
* Richard Nixon (R) (inc.) - 141,509 (87.82%)
* Una W. Rice (I) - 19,631 (12.18%)

(Nixon ran also on Democratic ticket)

"'California United States Senate election, 1950 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=26810 Our Campaigns - CA US Senate Race - Nov 07, 1950 ] ] :
* Richard Nixon (R) - 2,183,454 (59.24%)
* Helen Gahagan Douglas (D) - 1,502,507 (40.76%)

1952 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally) [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=59954 Our Campaigns - US Vice President - R Convention Race - Jul 07, 1952 ] ] :
* Richard Nixon - 1,206 (100.00%)

United States presidential election, 1952
* Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard Nixon (R) - 34,075,529 (55.2%) and 442 electoral votes (39 states carried)
* Adlai Stevenson/John J. Sparkman (D) - 27,375,090 (44.3%) and 89 electoral votes (9 states carried)
* Vincent Hallinan/Charlotta Bass (Progressive) - 140,746 (0.2%)
* Stuart Hamblen/Enoch Holtwick (Prohibition) - 73,412 (0.1%)
* Douglas McArthur/Harry F. Byrd (Constitution) - 17,205 (0.0%)
* Others - 87,165 (0.1%)

1956 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally) [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=59951 Our Campaigns - US Vice President - R Convention Race - Aug 20, 1956 ] ] :
* Richard Nixon (inc.) - 1,323 (100.00%)

United States presidential election, 1956:
* Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard Nixon (R) (inc.) - 35,579,180 (57.4%) and 457 electoral votes (41 states carried)
* Adlai Stevenson/Estes Kefauver (D) - 26,028,028 (42.0%) and 73 electoral votes (7 states carried)
* Walter Burgwyn Jones/Herman Talmadge (I) - 1 electoral vote (Alabama's [faithless elector] )
* Unpledged electors - 196,145 (0.3%)
* T. Coleman Andrews/Thomas H. Werdel (State's Rights) - 107,929 (0.2%)
* Others - 110,046 (0.2%)

1960 Republican presidential primaries [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55201 Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1960 ] ] :
*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 Bridged - 108 (0.00%)

1960 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally) [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=57987 Our Campaigns - US President - R Convention Race - Jul 25, 1960 ] ] :
* Richard Nixon - 1,321 (99.25%)
* Barry Goldwater - 10 (0.75%)

United States presidential election, 1960:
* John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson (D) - 34,220,984 (49.7%) and 303 electoral votes (22 states carried)
* Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R) - 34,108,157 (49.5%) and 219 electoral votes (26 states carried)
* Harry F. Byrd/Strom Thurmond (I) - 286,359 (0.4%) and 14 electoral votes (2 states carried)
* Harry F. Byrd/Barry Goldwater (I) - 1 electoral vote (Oklahoma's faithless elector)
* Orval Faubus/John G. Crommelin (National State's Rights) - 44,984 (0.1%)
* Charles L. Sullivan/Merritt B. Curtis (Constitution) - 18,162 (0.0%)

California gubernatorial election, 1962:
*Pat Brown (D) - 3,037,109 (51.9%)
*Richard Nixon (R) - 2,740,351 (46.9%)
*Robert L. Wyckoff (Prohibition Party) - 69,700 (1.2%)

1964 Republican presidential primaries [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55203 Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1964 ] ] :
*Barry Goldwater - 2,267,079 (38.33%)
*Nelson Rockefeller - 1,304,204 (22.05%)
*James A. Rhodes - 615,754 (10.41%)
*Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. - 386,661 (6.54%)
*John W. Byrnes - 299,612 (5.07%)
*William Scranton - 245,401 (4.15%)
*Margaret Chase Smith - 227,007 (3.84%)
*Richard Nixon - 197,212 (3.33%)
* Unpledged - 173,652 (2.94%)
*Harold Stassen - 114,083 (1.93%)

1968 Republican presidential primaries [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=47021 Our Campaigns - US President - D Primaries Race - Mar 12, 1968 ] ] :
* Ronald Reagan - 1,696,632 (37.93%)
* Richard Nixon - 1,679,443 (37.54%)
* James A. Rhodes - 614,492 (13.74%)
* Nelson A. Rockefeller - 164,340 (3.67%)
* Unpledged - 140,639 (3.14%)
* Eugene McCarthy (write-in) - 44,520 (1.00%)
* Harold Stassen - 31,655 (0.71%)
* John Volpe - 31,465 (0.70%)
* Others - 21,456 (0.51%)
* George Wallace (write-in) - 15,291 (0.34%)
* Robert Kennedy (write-in) - 14,524 (0.33%)
* Hubert Humphrey (write-in) - 5,698 (0.13)
* Lyndon Johnson (write-in) - 4,824 (0.11%)
* George Romney - 4,447 (0.10%)
* Raymond P. Shafer - 1,223 (0.03%)
* William W. Scranton - 724 (0.02%)
* Charles H. Percy - 689 (0.02%)
* Barry M. Goldwater - 598 (0.01%)
* John V. Lindsay - 591 (0.01%)

1968 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):

* First ballot:
** Richard Nixon - 692
** Nelson Rockefeller - 277
** Ronald Reagan - 182
** James A. Rhodes - 55
** George Romney - 50
** Clifford Case - 22
** Frank Carlson - 20
** Winthrop Rockefeller - 18
** Hiram Fong - 14
** Harold Stassen - 2
** John V. Lindsay - 1

* Second ballot:
** Richard Nixon - 1238
** Nelson Rockefeller - 93
** Ronald Reagan - 2

United States presidential election, 1968:
* Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew (R) - 31,783,783 (43.4%) and 301 electoral votes (32 states carried)
* Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie (D) - 31,271,839 (42.7%) and 191 electoral votes (13 states and D.C. carried)
* George Wallace/Curtis LeMay (American Independent) - 9,901,118 (13.5%) and 46 electoral votes (5 states carried)
* Eugene McCarthy (I) - 25,634 (0.0%)
* Others - 243,258 (0.3%)

1972 Republican presidential primaries [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=46959 Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Mar 07, 1972 ] ] :
* 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) [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=57991 Our Campaigns - US President - R Convention Race - Aug 21, 1972 ] ] :
* Richard Nixon (inc.) - 1,347 (99.93%)
* Pete McCloskey - 1 (0.07%)

New York Conservative Party presidential convention, 1972 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=175097 Our Campaigns - NY US President - C Convention Race - Aug 30, 1972 ] ] :
* Richard Nixon (inc.) - 156 (69.96%)
* John G. Schmitz - 38 (17.04%)
* Abstaining - 29 (13.00%)

United States presidential election, 1972
* Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew (R) (inc.) - 47,168,710 (60.7%) and 520 electoral votes (49 states carried)
* George McGovern/Sargent Shriver (D) - 29,173,222 (37.5%) and 17 electoral votes (1 state and D.C. carried)
* John Hospers/Theodora Nathan (Libertarian) - 3,674 (0.0%) and 1 electoral vote (Virginia's faithless elector)
* John G. Schmitz/Thomas J. Anderson (American Independent) - 1,100,868 (1.4%)
* Linda Jenness/Andrew Pulley (Socialist Workers) - 83,380 (0.1%)
* Benjamin Spock/Julius Hobson (People's) - 78,759 (0.1%)
* Others - 135,414 (0.2%)

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