Electoral history of Richard Nixon explained

Richard Nixon served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974. He previously served as the 36th vice president of the United States from 1953 to 1961, and as a United States senator from 1950 to 1953 and United States representative from 1947 to 1950.

U.S. Congressional Elections (1946-1950)

U.S. House Elections (1946, 1948)

1948

Nixon ran unopposed in and won the 1948 Republican primary.

U.S. Senate Election (1950)

Presidential Elections (Pre-1962)

1952 U.S. Presidential Election

1952 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):^[1]

• Richard Nixon - 1,206 (100.00%)

1952 United States Presidential Election Results:Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote):

1956 U.S. Presidential Election

1956 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):^[2]

• Richard Nixon (inc.) - 1,323 (100.00%)

1956 United States Presidential Election Results:Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote):

1960 U.S. Presidential Election

1960 Republican Presidential Primaries

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• Richard Nixon - 4,975,938 (86.63%)
• Unpledged - 314,234 (5.47%)
• George H. Bender - 211,090 (3.68%)
• Cecil H. Underwood - 123,756 (2.16%)
• James L. Lloyd - 48,461 (0.84%)
• Nelson Rockefeller - 30,639 (0.53%)
• Frank R. Beckwith - 19,677 (0.34%)
• John F. Kennedy - 12,817 (0.22%)
• Barry Goldwater - 3,146 (0.06%)
• Paul C. Fisher - 2,388 (0.04%)
• Adlai Stevenson - 694 (0.01%)
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. - 514 (0.01%)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower (write-in) - 172 (0.00%)
• Styles Bridges - 108 (0.00%)

1960 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):^[4]

• Richard Nixon - 1,321 (99.25%)
• Barry Goldwater - 10 (0.75%)

1960 United States Presidential Election Results

There were 537 electoral votes, up from 531 in 1956, because of the addition of 2 U.S. Senators and 1 U.S. Representative from each of the new states of Alaska and Hawaii. (The House of Representatives was temporarily expanded from 435 members to 437 to accommodate this, and would go back to 435 when reapportioned according to the 1960 census.)Source (Popular Vote):Note: Sullivan / Curtis ran only in Texas. In Washington, Constitution Party ran Curtis for President and B. N. Miller for vice-president, receiving 1,401 votes.Source (Electoral Vote): ^(a) This figure is problematic; see Alabama popular vote above.
^(b) Byrd was not directly on the ballot. Instead, his electoral votes came from unpledged Democratic electors and a faithless elector.
^(c) Oklahoma faithless elector Henry D. Irwin, though pledged to vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., instead voted for non-candidate Harry F. Byrd. However, unlike other electors who voted for Byrd and Strom Thurmond as Vice President, Irwin voted for Barry Goldwater as Vice President.
^(d) In Mississippi, the slate of unpledged Democratic electors won. They cast their 8 votes for Byrd and Thurmond.

Presidential Elections (Post-1962)

1964 U.S. Presidential Election

1964 Republican Presidential Primaries

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• Barry Goldwater - 2,267,079 (38.33%)
• Nelson Rockefeller - 1,304,204 (22.05%)
• James A. Rhodes - 615,754 (10.41%)
• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. - 386,661 (6.54%)
• John W. Byrnes - 299,612 (5.07%)
• William Scranton - 245,401 (4.15%)
• Margaret Chase Smith - 227,007 (3.84%)
• Richard Nixon - 197,212 (3.33%)
• Unpledged - 173,652 (2.94%)
• Harold Stassen - 114,083 (1.93%)

1968 U.S. Presidential Election

1968 Republican Presidential Primaries

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• Ronald Reagan - 1,696,632 (37.93%)
• Richard Nixon - 1,679,443 (37.54%)
• James A. Rhodes - 614,492 (13.74%)
• Nelson A. Rockefeller - 164,340 (3.67%)
• Unpledged - 140,639 (3.14%)
• Eugene McCarthy (write-in) - 44,520 (1.00%)
• Harold Stassen - 31,655 (0.71%)
• John Volpe - 31,465 (0.70%)
• Others - 21,456 (0.51%)
• George Wallace (write-in) - 15,291 (0.34%)
• Robert F. Kennedy (write-in) - 14,524 (0.33%)
• Hubert Humphrey (write-in) - 5,698 (0.13)
• Lyndon Johnson (write-in) - 4,824 (0.11%)
• George Romney - 4,447 (0.10%)
• Raymond P. Shafer - 1,223 (0.03%)
• William W. Scranton - 724 (0.02%)
• Charles H. Percy - 689 (0.02%)
• Barry M. Goldwater - 598 (0.01%)
• John V. Lindsay - 591 (0.01%)

1968 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):

• First ballot:
  • Richard Nixon - 692
  • Nelson Rockefeller - 277
  • Ronald Reagan - 182
  • James A. Rhodes - 55
  • George Romney - 50
  • Clifford Case - 22
  • Frank Carlson - 20
  • Winthrop Rockefeller - 18
  • Hiram Fong - 14
  • Harold Stassen - 2
  • John V. Lindsay - 1
• Second ballot:
  • Richard Nixon - 1238
  • Nelson Rockefeller - 93
  • Ronald Reagan - 2

1968 United States Presidential Election Results

Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote):

1972 U.S. Presidential Election

1972 Republican Presidential Primaries

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• Richard Nixon (inc.) - 5,378,704 (86.92%)
• Unpledged - 317,048 (5.12%)
• John M. Ashbrook - 311,543 (5.03%)
• Pete McCloskey - 132,731 (2.15%)
• George Wallace - 20,907 (0.34%)
• None of the names shown - 8,916 (0.14%)

1972 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):^[8]

• Richard Nixon (inc.) - 1,347 (99.93%)
• Pete McCloskey - 1 (0.07%)

New York Conservative Party Presidential Convention, 1972:^[9]

• Richard Nixon (inc.) - 156 (69.96%)
• John G. Schmitz - 38 (17.04%)
• Abstaining - 29 (13.00%)

1972 United States Presidential Election Results:Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote): ^(a)A Virginia faithless elector, Roger MacBride, though pledged to vote for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, instead voted for Libertarian candidates John Hospers and Theodora Nathan.
^(b)In Arizona, Pima and Yavapai counties had a ballot malfunction that counted many votes for both a major party candidate and Linda Jenness of the Socialist Workers Party. A court ordered that the ballots be counted for both. As a consequence, Jenness received 16% and 8% of the vote in Pima and Yavapai, respectively. 30,579 of her 30,945 Arizona votes are from those two counties. Some sources do not count these votes for Jenness.

References

1. http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=59954 Our Campaigns - US Vice President - R Convention Race - Jul 07, 1952
2. http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=59951 Our Campaigns - US Vice President - R Convention Race - Aug 20, 1956
3. http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55201 Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1960
4. http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=57987 Our Campaigns - US President - R Convention Race - Jul 25, 1960
5. http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55203 Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1964
6. http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=47021 Our Campaigns - US President - D Primaries Race - Mar 12, 1968
7. http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=46959 Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Mar 07, 1972
8. http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=57991 Our Campaigns - US President - R Convention Race - Aug 21, 1972
9. http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=175097 Our Campaigns - NY US President - C Convention Race - Aug 30, 1972