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United States presidential election, 1960

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All 537 electoral votes of the Electoral College
269 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout61.2% [1] Increase 2.2%
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Nominee Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Massachusetts California
Running mate Lyndon B. Johnson Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Electoral vote 303 219
States carried 22 26
Popular vote 34,220,984 34,108,157
Percentage 49.72% 49.55%

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Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Kennedy/Johnson, red denotes those won by Nixon/Lodge, orange denotes the electoral votes for Byrd/ Thurmond by Alabama and Mississippi unpledged electors, and a vote for Byrd/ Goldwater by an Oklahoma faithless elector. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.

President before election

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

Elected President

John F. Kennedy
Democratic

  1. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved October 21, 2012.