1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Indiana
1960 United States presidential election in Indiana
Election in Indiana
The 1960 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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Indiana was won by incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), running with former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., with 55.03% of the popular vote, against Senator John F. Kennedy (D–Massachusetts), running with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 44.60% of the popular vote.[3][4]
Democratic primary
Indiana's Democratic primary had 34 delegates at stake.[5]
Larry O'Brien's first campaign trip for the Kennedy campaign was a five-day trip to Indiana in April 1959.[5] He determined that, "there was no great groundswell for Kennedy" in the state. However he found no signs of an active Symington effort in state. O'Brien found that the field was relatively clear in the state, with only whispers of a possible favorite son candidate running to lead a unified and uncommitted delegation to the convention, with Vance Hartke being a favorite speculative individual to fill such a role.[5]
Stuart Symington ultimately made a decision to abandon plans of actively competing in primaries. This opened up Indiana to other candidates. Symington, a Missourian, would have had a distinct advantage winning the vote of winning votes in another Midwestern state with a similar electorate to his own state.[5]
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| 1960 Indiana Democratic Presidential Primary Results[6] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |||
| Democratic | John F. Kennedy | 353,832 | 81.0% | |||
| Democratic | Others | 82,937 | 19.0% | |||
| Totals | 100.00% | |||||
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Republican primary
Nixon ran unopposed in the Republican primary.
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| 1960 Indiana Republican Presidential Primary Results[6] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |||
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 408,408 | 95.4% | |||
| Republican | Others | 19677 | 4.6% | |||
| Totals | 100.00% | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Richard Nixon | 1,175,120 | 55.03% | |
| Democratic | John F. Kennedy | 952,358 | 44.60% | |
| Prohibition | Rutherford Decker | 6,746 | 0.32% | |
| Socialist Labor | Eric Hass | 1,136 | 0.05% | |
| Total votes | 2,135,360 | 100% | ||
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Results by county
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| County | Richard Milhous Nixon Republican |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Democratic |
Various candidates Other parties |
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 6,972 | 61.11% | 4,338 | 38.02% | 99 | 0.87% | 2,634 | 23.09% | 11,409 |
| Allen | 60,103 | 60.33% | 39,235 | 39.39% | 280 | 0.28% | 20,868 | 20.95% | 99,618 |
| Bartholomew | 13,606 | 59.09% | 9,290 | 40.35% | 130 | 0.56% | 4,316 | 18.74% | 23,026 |
| Benton | 3,626 | 60.11% | 2,399 | 39.77% | 7 | 0.12% | 1,227 | 20.34% | 6,032 |
| Blackford | 3,738 | 53.33% | 3,228 | 46.06% | 43 | 0.61% | 510 | 7.28% | 7,009 |
| Boone | 8,979 | 62.28% | 5,377 | 37.30% | 60 | 0.42% | 3,602 | 24.99% | 14,416 |
| Brown | 1,679 | 51.76% | 1,533 | 47.26% | 32 | 0.99% | 146 | 4.50% | 3,244 |
| Carroll | 5,411 | 61.88% | 3,299 | 37.73% | 34 | 0.39% | 2,112 | 24.15% | 8,744 |
| Cass | 11,392 | 58.19% | 8,091 | 41.33% | 94 | 0.48% | 3,301 | 16.86% | 19,577 |
| Clark | 12,803 | 46.89% | 14,431 | 52.85% | 70 | 0.26% | -1,628 | -5.96% | 27,304 |
| Clay | 7,434 | 57.92% | 5,342 | 41.62% | 58 | 0.45% | 2,092 | 16.30% | 12,834 |
| Clinton | 9,620 | 59.32% | 6,533 | 40.28% | 64 | 0.39% | 3,087 | 19.04% | 16,217 |
| Crawford | 2,915 | 55.47% | 2,305 | 43.86% | 35 | 0.67% | 610 | 11.61% | 5,255 |
| Daviess | 8,285 | 60.20% | 5,433 | 39.48% | 45 | 0.33% | 2,852 | 20.72% | 13,763 |
| Dearborn | 7,619 | 54.99% | 6,216 | 44.87% | 19 | 0.14% | 1,403 | 10.13% | 13,854 |
| Decatur | 6,240 | 60.17% | 4,080 | 39.34% | 50 | 0.48% | 2,160 | 20.83% | 10,370 |
| De Kalb | 8,957 | 62.66% | 5,277 | 36.92% | 61 | 0.43% | 3,680 | 25.74% | 14,295 |
| Delaware | 26,167 | 52.75% | 23,266 | 46.90% | 177 | 0.36% | 2,901 | 5.85% | 49,610 |
| Dubois | 5,117 | 38.32% | 8,214 | 61.51% | 22 | 0.16% | -3,097 | -23.19% | 13,353 |
| Elkhart | 28,056 | 62.77% | 16,264 | 36.39% | 373 | 0.83% | 11,792 | 26.38% | 44,693 |
| Fayette | 6,729 | 55.97% | 5,246 | 43.63% | 48 | 0.40% | 1,483 | 12.33% | 12,023 |
| Floyd | 11,629 | 48.38% | 12,346 | 51.36% | 62 | 0.26% | -717 | -2.98% | 24,037 |
| Fountain | 6,123 | 58.71% | 4,277 | 41.01% | 29 | 0.28% | 1,846 | 17.70% | 10,429 |
| Franklin | 4,108 | 53.73% | 3,523 | 46.08% | 14 | 0.18% | 585 | 7.65% | 7,645 |
| Fulton | 6,038 | 66.11% | 3,047 | 33.36% | 48 | 0.53% | 2,991 | 32.75% | 9,133 |
| Gibson | 8,838 | 53.89% | 7,479 | 45.61% | 82 | 0.50% | 1,359 | 8.29% | 16,399 |
| Grant | 19,021 | 57.92% | 13,642 | 41.54% | 178 | 0.54% | 5,379 | 16.38% | 32,841 |
| Greene | 8,810 | 57.81% | 6,325 | 41.51% | 104 | 0.68% | 2,485 | 16.31% | 15,239 |
| Hamilton | 13,409 | 70.63% | 5,511 | 29.03% | 64 | 0.34% | 7,898 | 41.60% | 18,984 |
| Hancock | 7,543 | 60.21% | 4,930 | 39.35% | 55 | 0.44% | 2,613 | 20.86% | 12,528 |
| Harrison | 5,374 | 53.80% | 4,566 | 45.71% | 49 | 0.49% | 808 | 8.09% | 9,989 |
| Hendricks | 12,490 | 65.51% | 6,481 | 33.99% | 95 | 0.50% | 6,009 | 31.52% | 19,066 |
| Henry | 13,752 | 58.44% | 9,629 | 40.92% | 149 | 0.63% | 4,123 | 17.52% | 23,530 |
| Howard | 17,938 | 56.94% | 13,415 | 42.58% | 149 | 0.47% | 4,523 | 14.36% | 31,502 |
| Huntington | 10,658 | 59.44% | 7,163 | 39.95% | 109 | 0.61% | 3,495 | 19.49% | 17,930 |
| Jackson | 8,213 | 55.27% | 6,582 | 44.29% | 66 | 0.44% | 1,631 | 10.98% | 14,861 |
| Jasper | 5,364 | 64.32% | 2,959 | 35.48% | 16 | 0.19% | 2,405 | 28.84% | 8,339 |
| Jay | 6,519 | 56.73% | 4,899 | 42.63% | 74 | 0.64% | 1,620 | 14.10% | 11,492 |
| Jefferson | 6,333 | 55.11% | 5,119 | 44.54% | 40 | 0.35% | 1,214 | 10.56% | 11,492 |
| Jennings | 4,478 | 56.63% | 3,403 | 43.03% | 27 | 0.34% | 1,075 | 13.59% | 7,908 |
| Johnson | 12,426 | 62.38% | 7,400 | 37.15% | 93 | 0.47% | 5,026 | 25.23% | 19,919 |
| Knox | 11,490 | 53.40% | 9,918 | 46.10% | 108 | 0.50% | 1,572 | 7.31% | 21,516 |
| Kosciusko | 13,539 | 69.11% | 5,839 | 29.80% | 213 | 1.09% | 7,700 | 39.30% | 19,591 |
| Lagrange | 4,433 | 69.03% | 1,965 | 30.60% | 24 | 0.37% | 2,468 | 38.43% | 6,422 |
| Lake | 78,278 | 37.04% | 132,554 | 62.72% | 526 | 0.25% | -54,276 | -25.68% | 211,358 |
| La Porte | 22,738 | 52.71% | 20,317 | 47.10% | 85 | 0.20% | 2,421 | 5.61% | 43,140 |
| Lawrence | 11,119 | 61.15% | 6,977 | 38.37% | 86 | 0.47% | 4,142 | 22.78% | 18,182 |
| Madison | 31,098 | 52.31% | 28,154 | 47.36% | 193 | 0.32% | 2,944 | 4.95% | 59,445 |
| Marion | 166,202 | 57.67% | 121,336 | 42.10% | 668 | 0.23% | 44,866 | 15.57% | 288,206 |
| Marshall | 10,460 | 62.47% | 6,210 | 37.09% | 74 | 0.44% | 4,250 | 25.38% | 16,744 |
| Martin | 2,756 | 51.55% | 2,585 | 48.35% | 5 | 0.09% | 171 | 3.20% | 5,346 |
| Miami | 8,844 | 58.45% | 6,191 | 40.92% | 96 | 0.63% | 2,653 | 17.53% | 15,131 |
| Monroe | 14,513 | 65.42% | 7,535 | 33.97% | 136 | 0.61% | 6,978 | 31.46% | 22,184 |
| Montgomery | 10,957 | 66.36% | 5,477 | 33.17% | 77 | 0.47% | 5,480 | 33.19% | 16,511 |
| Morgan | 9,416 | 63.36% | 5,375 | 36.17% | 69 | 0.46% | 4,041 | 27.19% | 14,860 |
| Newton | 3,517 | 65.12% | 1,870 | 34.62% | 14 | 0.26% | 1,647 | 30.49% | 5,401 |
| Noble | 8,069 | 60.27% | 5,264 | 39.32% | 54 | 0.40% | 2,805 | 20.95% | 13,387 |
| Ohio | 1,314 | 56.25% | 1,015 | 43.45% | 7 | 0.30% | 299 | 12.80% | 2,336 |
| Orange | 5,589 | 59.19% | 3,818 | 40.44% | 35 | 0.37% | 1,771 | 18.76% | 9,442 |
| Owen | 3,700 | 60.38% | 2,379 | 38.82% | 49 | 0.80% | 1,321 | 21.56% | 6,128 |
| Parke | 4,662 | 57.94% | 3,361 | 41.77% | 23 | 0.29% | 1,301 | 16.17% | 8,046 |
| Perry | 4,372 | 46.97% | 4,920 | 52.86% | 16 | 0.17% | -548 | -5.89% | 9,308 |
| Pike | 4,606 | 59.69% | 3,046 | 39.48% | 64 | 0.83% | 1,560 | 20.22% | 7,716 |
| Porter | 15,666 | 59.18% | 10,733 | 40.54% | 75 | 0.28% | 4,933 | 18.63% | 26,474 |
| Posey | 5,369 | 54.47% | 4,457 | 45.22% | 31 | 0.31% | 912 | 9.25% | 9,857 |
| Pulaski | 3,905 | 57.67% | 2,746 | 40.56% | 120 | 1.77% | 1,159 | 17.12% | 6,771 |
| Putnam | 6,583 | 57.63% | 4,798 | 42.00% | 42 | 0.37% | 1,785 | 15.63% | 11,423 |
| Randolph | 9,528 | 64.92% | 5,035 | 34.31% | 114 | 0.78% | 4,493 | 30.61% | 14,677 |
| Ripley | 6,053 | 55.95% | 4,730 | 43.72% | 35 | 0.32% | 1,323 | 12.23% | 10,818 |
| Rush | 6,215 | 63.54% | 3,516 | 35.94% | 51 | 0.52% | 2,699 | 27.59% | 9,782 |
| St. Joseph | 53,621 | 45.64% | 63,553 | 54.09% | 325 | 0.28% | -9,932 | -8.45% | 117,499 |
| Scott | 3,213 | 50.99% | 3,064 | 48.63% | 24 | 0.38% | 149 | 2.36% | 6,301 |
| Shelby | 9,421 | 56.75% | 7,111 | 42.83% | 70 | 0.42% | 2,310 | 13.91% | 16,602 |
| Spencer | 5,050 | 53.88% | 4,303 | 45.91% | 20 | 0.21% | 747 | 7.97% | 9,373 |
| Starke | 4,592 | 53.28% | 3,995 | 46.35% | 32 | 0.37% | 597 | 6.93% | 8,619 |
| Steuben | 5,464 | 67.63% | 2,588 | 32.03% | 27 | 0.33% | 2,876 | 35.60% | 8,079 |
| Sullivan | 6,012 | 49.85% | 5,975 | 49.54% | 73 | 0.61% | 37 | 0.31% | 12,060 |
| Switzerland | 1,929 | 49.40% | 1,955 | 50.06% | 21 | 0.54% | -26 | -0.67% | 3,905 |
| Tippecanoe | 24,572 | 63.55% | 14,041 | 36.31% | 55 | 0.14% | 10,531 | 27.23% | 38,668 |
| Tipton | 4,924 | 59.88% | 3,299 | 40.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,625 | 19.76% | 8,223 |
| Union | 2,087 | 63.73% | 1,180 | 36.03% | 8 | 0.24% | 907 | 27.69% | 3,275 |
| Vanderburgh | 41,068 | 52.90% | 36,330 | 46.80% | 237 | 0.31% | 4,738 | 6.10% | 77,635 |
| Vermillion | 4,798 | 46.92% | 5,391 | 52.71% | 38 | 0.37% | -593 | -5.80% | 10,227 |
| Vigo | 24,940 | 49.70% | 25,105 | 50.03% | 133 | 0.27% | -165 | -0.33% | 50,178 |
| Wabash | 10,420 | 68.12% | 4,788 | 31.30% | 89 | 0.58% | 5,632 | 36.82% | 15,297 |
| Warren | 2,870 | 64.29% | 1,574 | 35.26% | 20 | 0.45% | 1,296 | 29.03% | 4,464 |
| Warrick | 6,482 | 56.10% | 5,042 | 43.64% | 30 | 0.26% | 1,440 | 12.46% | 11,554 |
| Washington | 5,057 | 56.74% | 3,821 | 42.87% | 35 | 0.39% | 1,236 | 13.87% | 8,913 |
| Wayne | 19,764 | 60.66% | 12,721 | 39.05% | 95 | 0.29% | 7,043 | 21.62% | 32,580 |
| Wells | 6,034 | 58.91% | 4,128 | 40.30% | 80 | 0.78% | 1,906 | 18.61% | 10,242 |
| White | 6,678 | 62.93% | 3,914 | 36.88% | 20 | 0.19% | 2,764 | 26.05% | 10,612 |
| Whitley | 6,621 | 60.50% | 4,266 | 38.98% | 56 | 0.51% | 2,355 | 21.52% | 10,943 |
| Totals | 1,175,120 | 55.03% | 952,358 | 44.60% | 7,882 | 0.37% | 222,762 | 10.43% | 2,135,360 |
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