1960 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Results
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1960 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Results
The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. The Republican Party nominated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, while the Democratic Party nominated John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. The incumbent President, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, was not eligible for re-election after being elected the maximum two times allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment; he was the first President affected by that amendment. This was the first presidential election in which voters in Alaska and Hawaii were able to participate, as both had become states in 1959.
1960 US Presidential Election Result
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral | Running mate | |||
| Count | Pct | vote | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Elect. vote | |||
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | Democratic | Massachusetts | 34,220,984(a) | 49.72% | 303 | Lyndon Baines Johnson | Texas | 303 |
| Richard Milhous Nixon | Republican | California | 3,41,08,157 | 49.55% | 219 | Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. | Massachusetts | 219 |
| Harry Flood Byrd | (none) | Virginia | —(b) | —(b) | 15 | James Strom Thurmond | South Carolina | 14 |
| Barry Morris Goldwater(c) | Arizona | 1 | ||||||
| (unpledged electors) | Democratic | (n/a) | 6,10,409 | 0.42% | —(d) | (n/a) | (n/a) | —(d) |
| Eric Hass | Socialist Labor | New York | 47,522 | 0.07% | 0 | Georgia Cozzini | Wisconsin | 0 |
| Rutherford L. Decker | Prohibition | Missouri | 46,203 | 0.07% | 0 | E. Harold Munn | Michigan | 0 |
| Orval Faubus | States' Rights | Arkansas | 44,984 | 0.07% | 0 | John G. Crommelin | Alabama | 0 |
| Farrell Dobbs | Socialist Workers | New York | 40,175 | 0.06% | 0 | Myra Tanner Weiss | New York | 0 |
| Charles Sullivan | Constitution | Mississippi | (TX) 18,162 | 0.03% | 0 | Merritt Curtis | California | 0 |
| J. Bracken Lee | Conservative | Utah | (NJ) 8,708 | 0.01% | 0 | Kent Courtney | Louisiana | 0 |
| Other | 11,128 | 0.02% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 6,88,32,482 | 100% | 537 | 537 | ||||
| Needed to win | 269 | 269 | ||||||
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