United_States_presidential_election_in_Alabama,_1960

1960 United States presidential election in Alabama
All 11 Alabama votes to the Electoral College
Unpledged electors/Kennedy 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90%	Nixon 50–60% 60–70%

1960 United States presidential election in Alabama

Election in Alabama

The 1960 United States presidential election in Alabama was held on November 8, 1960 as part of that year's national presidential election. Eleven Democratic electors were elected, of whom six voted for Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia and five for Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.^[1]

Quick Facts All 11 Alabama votes to the Electoral College, Nominee ...

In Alabama, voters voted for electors individually instead of as a slate, as in the other states. Twenty-two electors were on the ballot, 11 Republicans and 11 Democrats. Voters could vote for up to eleven candidates. As a result of a state primary, the Democratic Party had a mixed slate of electors, five being pledged to Kennedy and the remaining six being unpledged.^[2]^[3] The highest vote for a presidential elector was 324,050 votes for Frank M. Dixon, who was unpledged; the highest vote for an elector pledged to Kennedy was 318,303 for C. G. Allen, and the highest vote for a Republican elector was 237,981 for Cecil Durham, which was fewer than the vote for any Democratic elector.^[2] As a result, six unpledged electors and five electors pledged to Kennedy were elected. All six elected unpledged electors cast their vote for Byrd.^[4]

Varying methods have been used to break down the vote into Kennedy and unpledged votes. One method is to take the 318,303 votes as Kennedy votes and the 324,050 votes as unpledged votes, giving a total much higher than the actual votes cast.^[5] Another is to take the 318,303 votes as Kennedy votes and the remainder (5,747 votes) as unpledged votes.^[6] A third is to split the 324,050 in the proportion of 5⁄11 to 6⁄11, following the proportion of electors, giving 147,295 votes for Kennedy and 176,755 for unpledged electors.^[7] In all cases, Republican candidate Richard Nixon of California, then Vice President of the United States, has 237,981 votes. If the last method is used, it means that Nixon won the popular vote in Alabama; it also means that he won the popular vote nationally.^[3]^[7] Congressional Quarterly calculated the popular vote in this manner at the time of the 1960 election.^[3] This remains the last election in which Lee County, Shelby County, Baldwin County, and Mobile County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.^[8]

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[voted-10] All 6 unpledged electors voted for Harry F. Byrd

[notseparated-11] The votes for electors on this slate were not separated by county

[15] All county totals are for the highest elector in each slate. Unless stated otherwise the highest Democratic elector was unpledged.^[12]

[16] In this county the highest Democratic elector was pledged to Kennedy and not unpledged.^[12]

[17] This total includes the 1,485 votes for Grover C. Allen, the highest elector pledged to Clennon Washington King Jr., and various write-in votes. Neither of these were separated by county.^[12]

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Party		Pledged to	Elector	Votes	%
	Democratic Party	Unpledged^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Frank M. Dixon	324,050	56.83
	Democratic Party	Unpledged^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Bruce Henderson	323,018	56.65
	Democratic Party	Unpledged^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Edmund Blair	322,593	56.57
	Democratic Party	Unpledged^{[lower-alpha 1]}	C. E. Hornsby, Jr.	322,124	56.49
	Democratic Party	Unpledged^{[lower-alpha 1]}	W. W. Malone, Jr.	322,084	56.48
	Democratic Party	Unpledged^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Frank Mixell	320,957	56.29
	Democratic Party	John F. Kennedy	C. G. Allen	318,303	55.82
	Democratic Party	John F. Kennedy	C. L. Beard	318,266	55.81
	Democratic Party	John F. Kennedy	J. E. Brantley	317,226	55.63
	Democratic Party	John F. Kennedy	Dave Archer	317,171	55.62
	Democratic Party	John F. Kennedy	Karl Harrison	316,934	55.58
	Republican Party	Richard Nixon	Cecil Durham	237,981	41.73
	Republican Party	Richard Nixon	Charles H. Chapman, Jr.	237,370	41.63
	Republican Party	Richard Nixon	W. H. Gillespie	236,915	41.55
	Republican Party	Richard Nixon	J. N. Dennis	236,765	41.52
	Republican Party	Richard Nixon	Robert S. Cartledge	236,110	41.41
	Republican Party	Richard Nixon	W. J. Kennamer	235,414	41.28
	Republican Party	Richard Nixon	Perry O. Hooper	234,976	41.21
	Republican Party	Richard Nixon	Tom McNaron	234,856	41.19
	Republican Party	Richard Nixon	Mrs. John Simpson	234,002	41.04
	Republican Party	Richard Nixon	T. B. Thompson	233,450	40.94
	Republican Party	Richard Nixon	George Witcher	230,951	40.50
	National States' Rights Party	Orval E. Faubus	George E. Allen	4,367	0.77
	National States' Rights Party	Orval E. Faubus	Lodwick H. Bartee	3,775	0.66
	National States' Rights Party	Orval E. Faubus	Annette M. Bartee	3,769	0.66
	National States' Rights Party	Orval E. Faubus	Lee J. Crowder	3,757	0.66
	National States' Rights Party	Orval E. Faubus	Therman De Lee	3,735	0.66
	National States' Rights Party	Orval E. Faubus	John Douglas Knowles	3,555	0.62
	National States' Rights Party	Orval E. Faubus	Mrs. Lila Evans	3,484	0.61
	National States' Rights Party	Orval E. Faubus	Jack Andrew Tomlinson	3,477	0.61
	National States' Rights Party	Orval E. Faubus	Ernest Wilson	3,460	0.61
	National States' Rights Party	Orval E. Faubus	Sanford D. Rudd	3,396	0.60
	National States' Rights Party	Orval E. Faubus	Willie Bazzell Garrett	2,796	0.49
	Independent African-American Unity	Clennon Washington King Jr.	Grover C. Allen	1,485^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.26
	Independent African-American Unity	Clennon Washington King Jr.	Marie W. Bailey	1,274^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.22
	Independent African-American Unity	Clennon Washington King Jr.	Grover Banks	1,205^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.21
	Independent African-American Unity	Clennon Washington King Jr.	Eddie Jones	1,185^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.21
	Independent African-American Unity	Clennon Washington King Jr.	Isaac Nicholson	1,154^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.20
	Independent African-American Unity	Clennon Washington King Jr.	Ernest Thomas Taylor	1,143^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.20
	Independent African-American Unity	Clennon Washington King Jr.	James H. Hollie	1,077^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.19
	Independent African-American Unity	Clennon Washington King Jr.	James C. Williams	1,077^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.19
	Independent African-American Unity	Clennon Washington King Jr.	Jasper J. Thomas	1,063^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.19
	Independent African-American Unity	Clennon Washington King Jr.	James Kersh	1,007^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.18
	Independent African-American Unity	Clennon Washington King Jr.	Will Mike	998^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.18
	Write-in		John P. Newsome	39^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.01
	Write-in		Walter C. Givhan	30^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.01
	Write-in		John D. McQueen	30^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.01
	Write-in		Lawrence E. McNeil	28^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Sam M. Johnson	24^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Walter C. Graham	9^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Sam W. Johnson	9^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Clarence E. McNeil	9^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		John D. McQueen, Jr.	9^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		John Patterson	3^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Sam Englehardt	3^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Bill Agee	3^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Stanley Pace	3^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Matt Lawson	3^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Hubert Stewart	2^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		C. T. Kelley	2^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		"Red" Waites	2^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		M. A. Keith	2^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Tom Strong	2^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Chambliss Keith	2^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Harmon Carter	2^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Tom McBryde	2^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		J. B. Stalworth	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		J. W. Staggers	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Clarence Latham	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		James Murry	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		John Hays	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		H. A. Waites	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		J. E. Hood	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		J. S. Powell	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Tom Smith	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		James Johnson	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Bob Brown	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		Tom Anderson	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
	Write-in		J. R. Bennett, Jr.	1^{[lower-alpha 2]}	0.00
Votes cast^[10]^[11]^[2]				570,225	100

County	Unpledged electors/John F. Kennedy Democratic		Richard Milhous Nixon Republican		Orval Eugene Faubus National States’ Rights		Rutherford L. Decker Prohibition		Margin		Total votes cast
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast
Autauga	1,380	53.86%	1,149	44.85%	9	0.35%	24	0.94%	231	9.02%	2,562
Baldwin	5,792	54.41%	4,812	45.20%	32	0.30%	10	0.09%	980	9.21%	10,646
Barbour	2,163	64.55%	1,166	34.80%	3	0.09%	19	0.57%	997	29.75%	3,351
Bibb	1,700	61.75%	1,052	38.21%	1	0.04%	0	0.00%	648	23.54%	2,753
Blount	3,413	57.07%	2,557	42.76%	4	0.07%	6	0.10%	856	14.31%	5,980
Bullock	758	64.51%	412	35.06%	4	0.34%	1	0.09%	346	29.45%	1,175
Butler	2,883	69.92%	1,231	29.86%	7	0.17%	2	0.05%	1,652	40.07%	4,123
Calhoun	9,682	66.18%	4,821	32.96%	33	0.23%	93	0.64%	4,861	33.23%	14,629
Chambers	5,205	72.83%	1,865	26.09%	31	0.43%	46	0.64%	3,340	46.73%	7,147
Cherokee	3,100	77.93%	872	21.92%	1	0.03%	5	0.13%	2,228	56.01%	3,978
Chilton	1,803	35.93%	3,201	63.79%	3	0.06%	11	0.22%	-1,398	-27.86%	5,018
Choctaw	1,157	63.16%	612	33.41%	29	1.58%	34	1.86%	545	29.75%	1,832
Clarke	1,925	48.29%	2,016	50.58%	26	0.65%	19	0.48%	-91	-2.28%	3,986
Clay	1,759	53.08%	1,548	46.71%	7	0.21%	0	0.00%	211	6.37%	3,314
Cleburne	1,512	59.76%	1,008	39.84%	2	0.08%	8	0.32%	504	19.92%	2,530
Coffee	4,481	76.29%	1,381	23.51%	5	0.09%	7	0.12%	3,100	52.77%	5,874
Colbert	7,633	72.17%	2,815	26.62%	60	0.57%	68	0.64%	4,818	45.56%	10,576
Conecuh	1,845	71.93%	650	25.34%	20	0.78%	50	1.95%	1,195	46.59%	2,565
Coosa	1,498	57.95%	1,073	41.51%	4	0.15%	10	0.39%	425	16.44%	2,585
Covington	5,765	73.60%	2,047	26.13%	12	0.15%	9	0.11%	3,718	47.47%	7,833
Crenshaw	2,924	83.47%	573	16.36%	4	0.11%	2	0.06%	2,351	67.11%	3,503
Cullman	6,351	59.82%	4,248	40.02%	17	0.16%	0	0.00%	2,103	19.81%	10,616
Dale	2,576	60.60%	1,634	38.44%	8	0.19%	33	0.78%	942	22.16%	4,251
Dallas	2,163	41.52%	2,872	55.14%	9	0.17%	165	3.17%	-709	-13.61%	5,209
DeKalb	5,851	51.04%	5,585	48.72%	5	0.04%	23	0.20%	266	2.32%	11,464
Elmore	3,472	63.85%	1,919	35.29%	18	0.33%	29	0.53%	1,553	28.56%	5,438
Escambia	4,060	68.66%	1,810	30.61%	35	0.59%	8	0.14%	2,250	38.05%	5,913
Etowah	14,506	66.31%	7,128	32.59%	51	0.23%	190	0.87%	7,378	33.73%	21,875
Fayette	2,277	54.03%	1,923	45.63%	5	0.12%	9	0.21%	354	8.40%	4,214
Franklin	3,437	45.64%	4,069	54.04%	1	0.01%	23	0.31%	-632	-8.39%	7,530
Geneva	3,055	66.95%	1,502	32.92%	2	0.04%	4	0.09%	1,553	34.03%	4,563
Greene	734	65.24%	381	33.87%	8	0.71%	2	0.18%	353	31.38%	1,125
Hale	1,318	63.89%	741	35.92%	1	0.05%	3	0.15%	577	27.97%	2,063
Henry	2,120	77.94%	588	21.62%	6	0.22%	6	0.22%	1,532	56.32%	2,720
Houston	3,938	49.00%	4,055	50.45%	24	0.30%	20	0.25%	-117	-1.46%	8,037
Jackson	4,809	69.99%	2,036	29.63%	3	0.04%	23	0.33%	2,773	40.36%	6,871
Jefferson	45,509	42.75%	60,004	56.37%	385	0.36%	548	0.51%	-14,495	-13.62%	106,446
Lamar	2,414	70.71%	964	28.24%	13	0.38%	23	0.67%	1,450	42.47%	3,414
Lauderdale	8,623	69.66%	3,570	28.84%	26	0.21%	160	1.29%	5,053	40.82%	12,379
Lawrence	2,935	68.14%	1,365	31.69%	1	0.02%	6	0.14%	1,570	36.45%	4,307
Lee	3,789	61.97%	2,301	37.63%	9	0.15%	15	0.25%	1,488	24.34%	6,114
Limestone	4,154	80.68%	991	19.25%	1	0.02%	3	0.06%	3,163	61.43%	5,149
Lowndes	808	65.11%	432	34.81%	1	0.08%	0	0.00%	376	30.30%	1,241
Macon	1,341	60.11%	877	39.31%	11	0.49%	2	0.09%	464	20.80%	2,231
Madison	11,033	67.03%	5,299	32.19%	54	0.33%	75	0.46%	5,734	34.83%	16,461
Marengo	1,519	53.85%	1,235	43.78%	37	1.31%	30	1.06%	284	10.07%	2,821
Marion	3,113	51.34%	2,938	48.45%	3	0.05%	10	0.16%	175	2.89%	6,064
Marshall	6,601	65.93%	3,398	33.94%	2	0.02%	11	0.11%	3,203	31.99%	10,012
Mobile	29,776	54.46%	24,608	45.01%	158	0.29%	130	0.24%	5,168	9.45%	54,672
Monroe	2,155	68.26%	989	31.33%	9	0.29%	4	0.13%	1,166	36.93%	3,157
Montgomery	9,603	44.51%	11,778	54.60%	67	0.31%	125	0.58%	-2,175	-10.08%	21,573
Morgan	7,841	64.12%	4,357	35.63%	2	0.02%	29	0.24%	3,484	28.49%	12,229
Perry	1,017	56.66%	744	41.45%	31	1.73%	3	0.17%	273	15.21%	1,795
Pickens	1,859	58.83%	1,277	40.41%	20	0.63%	4	0.13%	582	18.42%	3,160
Pike	3,438	77.22%	1,006	22.60%	4	0.09%	4	0.09%	2,432	54.63%	4,452
Randolph	3,182	64.74%	1,697	34.53%	26	0.53%	10	0.20%	1,485	30.21%	4,915
Russell	3,520	66.31%	1,770	33.35%	8	0.15%	10	0.19%	1,750	32.97%	5,308
Shelby	3,263	50.64%	3,157	49.00%	8	0.12%	15	0.23%	106	1.65%	6,443
St. Clair	3,050	53.95%	2,589	45.80%	1	0.02%	13	0.23%	461	8.15%	5,653
Sumter	812	55.46%	623	42.55%	27	1.84%	2	0.14%	189	12.91%	1,464
Talladega	5,746	54.46%	4,723	44.76%	60	0.57%	22	0.21%	1,023	9.70%	10,551
Tallapoosa	5,486	71.64%	2,150	28.08%	12	0.16%	10	0.13%	3,336	43.56%	7,658
Tuscaloosa	8,371	59.39%	5,598	39.71%	23	0.16%	104	0.74%	2,773	19.67%	14,096
Walker	8,109^{[lower-alpha 4]}	59.75%	5,463	40.25%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	2,646	19.50%	13,572
Washington	1,965	70.43%	792	28.39%	19	0.68%	14	0.50%	1,173	42.04%	2,790
Wilcox	909	63.79%	513	36.00%	3	0.21%	0	0.00%	396	27.79%	1,425
Winston	1,684	32.97%	3,421	66.97%	3	0.06%	0	0.00%	-1,737	-34.01%	5,108
Total	324,050	56.83%	237,981	41.73%	4,367	0.77%	2,106	0.37%	86,069	15.09%	570,225^{[lower-alpha 5]}

United_States_presidential_election_in_Alabama,_1960

1960 United States presidential election in Alabama

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