1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Maryland

1960 United States presidential election in Maryland

1960 United States presidential election in Maryland

U.S. presidential election in Maryland

Main article: 1960 United States presidential election

The 1960 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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Maryland was won by Senator John F. Kennedy (D–Massachusetts), running with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 53.61% of the popular vote against incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), running with former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., with 46.39% of the popular vote.[3][4]

This is the last time that the losing candidate won a majority of the vote in Kent County. This also marks the last time the Democratic candidate won a majority of the vote in Dorchester County, as it would become the only county in the state to flip from Kennedy to Goldwater and vote Republican thereafter except for a plurality victory by Bill Clinton in 1996.[5]

In this election, Maryland was 7.07% more Democratic than the nation at-large.[6]

Results

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Results by county

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Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

Notes

  1. One write-in vote was recorded form this county.
  2. Two write-in votes were recorded form this county.

References

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    "United States Presidential election of 1960 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  2. [2]
    "1960 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65)". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
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    "1960 Presidential General Election Results - Maryland". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  4. [4]
    "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1960". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
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    "Maryland - Google Drive". docs.google.com. Retrieved August 27, 2022.
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    "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  7. [7]
    Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 211 ISBN 0405077114
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