1960 United States presidential election in Alabama explained

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Ongoing:	No
Party Name:	no
Type:	Presidential
Election Name:	1960 United States presidential election in Alabama
Country:	Alabama
Election Date:	November 8, 1960
Votes For Election:	All 11 Alabama votes to the Electoral College
Previous Election:	1956 United States presidential election in Alabama
Previous Year:	1956
Next Election:	1964 United States presidential election in Alabama
Next Year:	1964
Image1:	Harry F. Byrd (cropped).jpg
Nominee1:	Harry F. Byrd (by unpledged electors)
Party1:	Southern Democrat
Color1:	FF7F00
Home State1:	Virginia
Running Mate1:	Strom Thurmond
Electoral Vote1:	6
Popular Vote1:	324,050
Percentage1:	56.83%
Nominee2:	John F. Kennedy
Party2:	Democratic
Color2:	0000FF
Home State2:	Massachusetts
Running Mate2:	Lyndon B. Johnson
Electoral Vote2:	5
Popular Vote2:	318,303
Percentage2:	55.82%
Image3:	Richard Nixon official portrait as Vice President (cropped).tiff
Nominee3:	Richard Nixon
Party3:	Republican
Color3:	FF0000
Home State3:	California
Running Mate3:	Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Electoral Vote3:	0
Popular Vote3:	237,981
Percentage3:	41.73%
Map Size:	300px

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]

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 to, 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]

Results

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

Results by county

County^[12]	John F. Kennedy and unpledged Democratic		Richard Nixon Republican		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%
	Autauga		1,324		52.17%		1,149		45.27%		65		2.56%		175		6.90%		2,538
	Baldwin		5,647		53.09%		4,812		45.24%		177		1.67%		835		7.85%		10,636
	Barbour		2,148		64.47%		1,166		34.99%		18		0.54%		982		29.48%		3,332
	Bibb		1,697		61.66%		1,052		38.23%		3		0.11%		645		23.43%		2,752
	Blount		3,404		56.98%		2,557		42.80%		13		0.22%		847		14.18%		5,974
	Bullock		757		64.48%		412		35.09%		5		0.43%		345		29.39%		1,174
	Butler		2,873		69.69%		1,231		29.87%		18		0.44%		1,642		39.82%		4,122
	Calhoun		9,590		65.97%		4,821		33.17%		125		0.86%		4,769		32.80%		14,536
	Chambers		5,165		72.74%		1,865		26.26%		71		1.00%		3,300		46.48%		7,101
	Cherokee		3,097		77.95%		872		21.95%		4		0.10%		2,225		56.00%		3,973
	Chilton		1,798		35.91%		3,201		63.93%		8		0.16%		-1,403		-28.02%		5,007
	Choctaw		1,094		60.85%		612		34.04%		92		5.11%		482		26.81%		1,798
	Clarke		1,878		47.34%		2,016		50.82%		73		1.84%		-138		-3.48%		3,967
	Clay		1,743		52.71%		1,548		46.81%		16		0.48%		195		5.90%		3,307
	Cleburne		1,510		59.87%		1,008		39.97%		4		0.16%		502		19.90%		2,522
	Coffee		4,470		76.19%		1,381		23.54%		16		0.27%		3,089		52.65%		5,867
	Colbert		7,550		71.85%		2,815		26.79%		143		1.36%		4,735		45.06%		10,508
	Conecuh		1,815		72.17%		650		25.84%		50		1.99%		1,165		46.33%		2,515
	Coosa		1,493		57.98%		1,073		41.67%		9		0.35%		420		16.31%		2,575
	Covington		5,744		73.42%		2,047		26.16%		33		0.42%		3,697		47.26%		7,824
	Crenshaw		2,923		83.49%		573		16.37%		5		0.14%		2,350		67.12%		3,501
	Cullman		6,346		59.87%		4,248		40.08%		5		0.05%		2,098		19.79%		10,599
	Dale		2,563		60.76%		1,634		38.74%		21		0.50%		929		22.02%		4,218
	Dallas		2,103		41.69%		2,872		56.94%		69		1.37%		-769		-15.25%		5,044
	DeKalb		5,844		51.08%		5,585		48.82%		12		0.10%		259		2.26%		11,441
	Elmore		3,440		63.60%		1,919		35.48%		50		0.92%		1,521		28.12%		5,409
	Escambia		3,990		67.57%		1,810		30.65%		105		1.78%		2,180		36.92%		5,905
	Etowah		14,372		66.28%		7,128		32.87%		185		0.85%		7,244		33.41%		21,685
	Fayette		2,274		54.08%		1,923		45.73%		8		0.19%		351		8.35%		4,205
	Franklin		3,422		45.58%		4,069		54.20%		16		0.22%		-647		-8.62%		7,507
	Geneva		3,050		66.90%		1,502		32.95%		7		0.15%		1,548		33.95%		4,559
	Greene		723		64.38%		381		33.93%		19		1.69%		342		30.45%		1,123
	Hale		1,309		63.54%		741		35.97%		10		0.49%		568		27.57%		2,060
	Henry		2,115		77.93%		588		21.67%		11		0.40%		1,527		56.26%		2,714
	Houston		3,897		48.61%		4,055		50.58%		65		0.81%		-158		-1.97%		8,017
	Jackson		4,789		69.93%		2,036		29.73%		23		0.34%		2,753		40.20%		6,848
	Jefferson		44,369		41.90%		60,004		56.66%		1,525		1.44%		-15,635		-14.76%		105,898
	Lamar		2,386		70.36%		964		28.43%		41		1.21%		1,422		41.93%		3,391
	Lauderdale		8,565		70.10%		3,570		29.22%		84		0.68%		4,995		40.88%		12,219
	Lawrence		2,929		68.10%		1,365		31.74%		7		0.16%		1,564		36.36%		4,301
	Lee		3,759		61.63%		2,301		37.73%		39		0.64%		1,458		23.90%		6,099
	Limestone		4,147		80.59%		991		19.26%		8		0.15%		3,156		61.33%		5,146
	Lowndes		796		64.19%		432		34.84%		12		0.97%		364		29.35%		1,240
	Macon		1,327		59.53%		877		39.34%		25		1.13%		450		20.19%		2,229
	Madison		10,959		66.88%		5,299		32.34%		128		0.78%		5,660		34.54%		16,386
	Marengo		1,436		51.45%		1,235		44.25%		120		4.30%		201		7.20%		2,791
	Marion		3,099		51.19%		2,938		48.53%		17		0.28%		161		2.66%		6,054
	Marshall		6,595		65.94%		3,398		33.98%		8		0.08%		3,197		31.96%		10,001
	Mobile		28,626		52.48%		24,608		45.12%		1,308		2.40%		4,018		7.36%		54,542
	Monroe		2,130		67.55%		989		31.37%		34		1.08%		1,141		36.18%		3,153
	Montgomery		9,421		43.92%		11,778		54.91%		249		1.17%		-2,357		-10.99%		21,448
	Morgan		7,822		64.11%		4,357		35.71%		21		0.18%		3,465		28.40%		12,200
	Perry		973		54.30%		744		41.52%		75		4.18%		229		12.78%		1,792
	Pickens		1,836		58.17%		1,277		40.46%		43		1.37%		559		17.71%		3,156
	Pike		3,421		76.91%		1,006		22.62%		21		0.47%		2,415		54.29%		4,448
	Randolph		3,175		64.73%		1,697		34.60%		33		0.67%		1,478		30.13%		4,905
	Russell		3,480		65.69%		1,770		33.41%		48		0.90%		1,710		32.28%		5,298
	Shelby		3,225		50.17%		3,157		49.11%		46		0.72%		68		1.06%		6,428
	St. Clair		3,039		53.88%		2,589		45.90%		12		0.22%		450		7.98%		5,640
	Sumter		765		52.33%		623		42.61%		74		5.06%		142		9.72%		1,462
	Talladega		5,729		54.41%		4,723		44.86%		77		0.73%		1,006		9.55%		10,529
	Tallapoosa		5,460		71.39%		2,150		28.11%		38		0.50%		3,310		43.28%		7,648
	Tuscaloosa		8,254		58.99%		5,598		40.01%		140		1.00%		2,656		18.98%		13,992
	Walker		8,109		59.75%		5,463		40.25%		0		0.00%		2,646		19.50%		13,572
	Washington		1,929		69.49%		792		28.53%		55		1.98%		1,137		40.96%		2,776
	Wilcox		905		63.51%		513		36.00%		7		0.49%		392		27.51%		1,425
	Winston		1,681		32.93%		3,421		67.01%		3		0.06%		-1,740		-34.08%		5,105
Total	318,303	56.39%	237,981	42.16%	8,189	1.45%	80,322	14.23%	564,473

See also

• United States presidential elections in Alabama
• United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alabama. 270 to Win. August 25, 2016.
2. Web site: Alabama and the 1960 Popular Vote. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. August 25, 2016.
3. Web site: Trende. Sean. Did JFK Lose the Popular Vote?. RealClearPolitics. September 11, 2016.
4. Web site: 1960 Presidential General Election Results – Alabama. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. August 25, 2016.
5. Web site: Kennedy Wins 1960 Presidential Election in Closest Race of the 20th Century. CQ Almanac Online. August 25, 2016.
6. Book: White. Theodore H.. Theodore H. White. The Making of the President, 1960. 1961. 461.
7. News: Fund. John. A Minority President. August 25, 2016. Opinion Journal. November 20, 2003. https://web.archive.org/web/20031123133522/http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110004320. November 23, 2003.
8. Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
9. Book: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1963 . Walker Printing Co. . Montgomery, Alabama . 663–671 . 11 June 2021.
10. News: Official Results of Election . The New York Times . December 16, 1960.
11. Web site: Election Statistics, 1920 to Present. Office of the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives. April 7, 2021.
12. Web site: AL US Presidential election, November 08, 1960. Our campaigns.