See main article: 1960 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1960 United States presidential election in Montana |
| Country: | Montana |
| Flag Year: | 1905 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1956 United States presidential election in Montana |
| Previous Year: | 1956 |
| Next Election: | 1964 United States presidential election in Montana |
| Next Year: | 1964 |
| Image1: | Richard Nixon official portrait as Vice President (cropped).tiff |
| Nominee1: | Richard Nixon |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | California |
| Running Mate1: | Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. |
| Electoral Vote1: | 4 |
| Popular Vote1: | 141,841 |
| Percentage1: | 51.10% |
| Nominee2: | John F. Kennedy |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Massachusetts |
| Running Mate2: | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 134,891 |
| Percentage2: | 48.60% |
| Map Size: | 350px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
| After Election: | John F. Kennedy |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 1960 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Montana narrowly voted for the Republican nominee, Vice President Richard Nixon, over the Democratic nominee, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy. Nixon won Montana by a slim margin of 2.50%. Kennedy thus became the first Democrat to win the White House without carrying Montana since Grover Cleveland in 1892, as well as the first ever Democrat to do so without carrying Carter, Liberty, Phillips, Richland, or Sanders Counties, the first to do so without carrying Fergus or Jefferson Counties since Cleveland in 1892, and the first to do so without carrying Custer, Missoula or Musselshell Counties since Woodrow Wilson in 1912. This is the first time since 1900 in which Montana would vote for the losing candidate in a presidential election.
| 1960 United States presidential election in Montana[1] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 141,841 | 51.10% | 4 | ||
| Democratic | John F. Kennedy | 134,891 | 48.60% | 0 | ||
| Prohibition | Rutherford Decker | 456 | 0.16% | 0 | ||
| Militant Workers | Farrell Dobbs | 391 | 0.14% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 277,579 | 100.00% | 4 | |||
| County | Richard Nixon Republican | John F. Kennedy Democratic | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Beaverhead | 1,731 | 56.88% | 1,307 | 42.95% | 5 | 0.16% | 424 | 13.93% | 3,043 | ||||||||||
| Big Horn | 1,724 | 53.47% | 1,497 | 46.43% | 3 | 0.09% | 227 | 7.04% | 3,224 | ||||||||||
| Blaine | 1,290 | 44.85% | 1,569 | 54.55% | 17 | 0.59% | -279 | -9.70% | 2,876 | ||||||||||
| Broadwater | 680 | 51.87% | 631 | 48.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 49 | 3.74% | 1,311 | ||||||||||
| Carbon | 2,050 | 51.75% | 1,903 | 48.04% | 8 | 0.20% | 147 | 3.71% | 3,961 | ||||||||||
| Carter | 688 | 64.00% | 383 | 35.63% | 4 | 0.37% | 305 | 28.37% | 1,075 | ||||||||||
| Cascade | 11,928 | 45.72% | 14,117 | 54.11% | 45 | 0.17% | -2,189 | -8.39% | 26,090 | ||||||||||
| Chouteau | 1,672 | 49.34% | 1,708 | 50.40% | 9 | 0.27% | -36 | -1.06% | 3,389 | ||||||||||
| Custer | 2,943 | 55.00% | 2,393 | 44.72% | 15 | 0.28% | 550 | 10.28% | 5,351 | ||||||||||
| Daniels | 763 | 44.26% | 960 | 55.68% | 1 | 0.06% | -197 | -11.42% | 1,724 | ||||||||||
| Dawson | 2,460 | 53.69% | 2,108 | 46.01% | 14 | 0.31% | 352 | 7.68% | 4,582 | ||||||||||
| Deer Lodge | 2,188 | 29.79% | 5,149 | 70.11% | 7 | 0.10% | -2,961 | -40.32% | 7,344 | ||||||||||
| Fallon | 918 | 60.55% | 597 | 39.38% | 1 | 0.07% | 321 | 21.17% | 1,516 | ||||||||||
| Fergus | 3,294 | 52.24% | 2,999 | 47.56% | 13 | 0.21% | 295 | 4.68% | 6,306 | ||||||||||
| Flathead | 7,554 | 52.95% | 6,689 | 46.88% | 24 | 0.17% | 865 | 6.07% | 14,267 | ||||||||||
| Gallatin | 6,870 | 64.49% | 3,761 | 35.31% | 21 | 0.20% | 3,109 | 29.18% | 10,652 | ||||||||||
| Garfield | 515 | 58.52% | 363 | 41.25% | 2 | 0.23% | 152 | 17.27% | 880 | ||||||||||
| Glacier | 1,775 | 43.95% | 2,260 | 55.95% | 4 | 0.10% | -485 | -12.00% | 4,039 | ||||||||||
| Golden Valley | 362 | 56.65% | 277 | 43.35% | 0 | 0.00% | 85 | 13.30% | 639 | ||||||||||
| Granite | 722 | 54.57% | 592 | 44.75% | 9 | 0.68% | 130 | 9.82% | 1,323 | ||||||||||
| Hill | 3,163 | 45.73% | 3,741 | 54.09% | 12 | 0.17% | -578 | -8.36% | 6,916 | ||||||||||
| Jefferson | 817 | 51.38% | 769 | 48.36% | 4 | 0.25% | 48 | 3.02% | 1,590 | ||||||||||
| Judith Basin | 721 | 46.10% | 842 | 53.84% | 1 | 0.06% | -121 | -7.74% | 1,564 | ||||||||||
| Lake | 3,240 | 56.75% | 2,462 | 43.12% | 7 | 0.12% | 778 | 13.63% | 5,709 | ||||||||||
| Lewis and Clark | 7,260 | 54.65% | 6,008 | 45.22% | 17 | 0.13% | 1,252 | 9.43% | 13,285 | ||||||||||
| Liberty | 597 | 54.27% | 501 | 45.55% | 2 | 0.18% | 96 | 8.72% | 1,100 | ||||||||||
| Lincoln | 1,902 | 41.84% | 2,623 | 57.70% | 21 | 0.46% | -721 | -15.86% | 4,546 | ||||||||||
| McCone | 743 | 49.04% | 764 | 50.43% | 8 | 0.53% | -21 | -1.39% | 1,515 | ||||||||||
| Madison | 1,456 | 58.97% | 1,010 | 40.91% | 3 | 0.12% | 446 | 18.06% | 2,469 | ||||||||||
| Meagher | 613 | 58.49% | 431 | 41.13% | 4 | 0.38% | 182 | 17.36% | 1,048 | ||||||||||
| Mineral | 549 | 44.27% | 686 | 55.32% | 5 | 0.40% | -137 | -11.05% | 1,240 | ||||||||||
| Missoula | 10,396 | 53.76% | 8,876 | 45.90% | 65 | 0.34% | 1,520 | 7.86% | 19,337 | ||||||||||
| Musselshell | 1,107 | 50.09% | 1,100 | 49.77% | 3 | 0.14% | 7 | 0.32% | 2,210 | ||||||||||
| Park | 3,329 | 59.44% | 2,249 | 40.15% | 23 | 0.41% | 1,080 | 19.29% | 5,601 | ||||||||||
| Petroleum | 255 | 53.57% | 221 | 46.43% | 0 | 0.00% | 34 | 7.14% | 476 | ||||||||||
| Phillips | 1,457 | 49.81% | 1,455 | 49.74% | 13 | 0.44% | 2 | 0.07% | 2,925 | ||||||||||
| Pondera | 1,452 | 46.76% | 1,653 | 53.24% | 0 | 0.00% | -201 | -6.48% | 3,105 | ||||||||||
| Powder River | 665 | 60.18% | 438 | 39.64% | 2 | 0.18% | 227 | 20.54% | 1,105 | ||||||||||
| Powell | 1,497 | 49.49% | 1,522 | 50.31% | 6 | 0.20% | -25 | -0.82% | 3,025 | ||||||||||
| Prairie | 649 | 65.75% | 338 | 34.25% | 0 | 0.00% | 311 | 31.50% | 987 | ||||||||||
| Ravalli | 3,121 | 56.46% | 2,381 | 43.07% | 26 | 0.47% | 740 | 13.39% | 5,528 | ||||||||||
| Richland | 2,395 | 56.10% | 1,863 | 43.64% | 11 | 0.26% | 532 | 12.46% | 4,269 | ||||||||||
| Roosevelt | 1,876 | 45.40% | 2,227 | 53.90% | 29 | 0.70% | -351 | -8.50% | 4,132 | ||||||||||
| Rosebud | 1,386 | 57.77% | 1,002 | 41.77% | 11 | 0.46% | 384 | 16.00% | 2,399 | ||||||||||
| Sanders | 1,497 | 50.17% | 1,469 | 49.23% | 18 | 0.60% | 28 | 0.94% | 2,984 | ||||||||||
| Sheridan | 1,196 | 43.43% | 1,549 | 56.25% | 9 | 0.33% | -353 | -12.82% | 2,754 | ||||||||||
| Silver Bow | 7,290 | 34.40% | 13,754 | 64.91% | 146 | 0.69% | -6,464 | -30.51% | 21,190 | ||||||||||
| Stillwater | 1,455 | 58.41% | 1,036 | 41.59% | 0 | 0.00% | 419 | 16.82% | 2,491 | ||||||||||
| Sweet Grass | 1,096 | 67.78% | 521 | 32.22% | 0 | 0.00% | 575 | 35.56% | 1,617 | ||||||||||
| Teton | 1,623 | 49.54% | 1,648 | 50.31% | 5 | 0.15% | -25 | -0.77% | 3,276 | ||||||||||
| Toole | 1,577 | 47.10% | 1,767 | 52.78% | 4 | 0.12% | -190 | -5.68% | 3,348 | ||||||||||
| Treasure | 300 | 52.63% | 270 | 47.37% | 0 | 0.00% | 30 | 5.26% | 570 | ||||||||||
| Valley | 2,387 | 44.65% | 2,953 | 55.24% | 6 | 0.11% | -566 | -10.59% | 5,346 | ||||||||||
| Wheatland | 793 | 52.24% | 724 | 47.69% | 1 | 0.07% | 69 | 4.55% | 1,518 | ||||||||||
| Wibaux | 387 | 48.01% | 419 | 51.99% | 0 | 0.00% | -32 | -3.98% | 806 | ||||||||||
| Yellowstone | 19,467 | 60.82% | 12,356 | 38.61% | 183 | 0.57% | 7,111 | 22.21% | 32,006 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 141,841 | 51.10% | 134,891 | 48.60% | 847 | 0.31% | 6,950 | 2.50% | 277,579 | ||||||||||