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Electoral history of Richard Nixon

{{short description|List of political elections featuring Richard Nixon as a candidate}}

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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) =

==1946==

{{Election box begin no change | title=California's 12th congressional district election, 1946}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Republican Party

|candidate = Richard Nixon

|votes = 65,586

|percentage = 56.0

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Democratic Party

|candidate = Jerry Voorhis

|votes = 49,994

|percentage = 42.7

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = Prohibition Party

|candidate = John Hoeppel

|votes = 1,476

|percentage = 1.3

}}

{{Election box end}}

==1948==

{{Election box begin no change | title=Democratic Primary,
California's 12th congressional district election, 1948}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Democratic Party

|candidate = Richard Nixon (incumbent)

|votes = 21,411

|percentage = 52.2

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Democratic Party

|candidate = Stephen Zetterberg

|votes = 16,808

|percentage = 41

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Democratic Party

|candidate = Margaret Cooper

|votes = 2,772

|percentage = 6.8

}}

{{Election box end}}

Nixon ran unopposed in and won the 1948 Republican primary.

{{Election box begin no change | title=California's 12th congressional district election, 1948}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Republican Party

|candidate = Richard Nixon (incumbent)

|votes = 141,509

|percentage = 86.9

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = Independent (politician)

|candidate = Una Rice

|votes = 19,631

|percentage = 12

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = Independent (politician)

|candidate = Scattering

|votes = 1,667

|percentage = 1

}}

{{Election box end}}

= U.S. Senate Election (1950) =

{{Election box begin no change | title=United States Senate election in California, 1950 Democratic Primary}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Democratic Party

|candidate = Helen Gahagan Douglas

|votes = 734,842

|percentage = 47

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Democratic Party

|candidate = Manchester Boddy

|votes = 379,077

|percentage = 24.2

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Democratic Party

|candidate = Richard Nixon

|votes = 318,840

|percentage = 20.4

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Democratic Party

|candidate = Earl Desmond

|votes = 96,752

|percentage = 6.2

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Democratic Party

|candidate = Ulysses Meyer

|votes = 34,707

|percentage = 2.2

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin no change | title=United States Senate election in California, 1950 Republican Primary}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Republican Party

|candidate = Richard Nixon

|votes = 740,465

|percentage = 64.6

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Republican Party

|candidate = Manchester Boddy

|votes = 156,884

|percentage = 13.7

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Republican Party

|candidate = Helen Gahagan Douglas

|votes = 153,788

|percentage = 13.4

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Republican Party

|candidate = Earl Desmond

|votes = 60,613

|percentage = 5.3

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Republican Party

|candidate = Ulysses Meyer

|votes = 18,783

|percentage = 1.6

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Republican Party

|candidate = Albert Levitt

|votes = 15,929

|percentage = 1.4

}}

{{Election box end}}

{{Election box begin no change | title=United States Senate election in California, 1950}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Republican Party

|candidate = Richard Nixon

|votes = 2,183,454

|percentage = 59.2

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Democratic Party

|candidate = Helen Gahagan Douglas

|votes = 1,502,507

|percentage = 40.8

}}

{{Election box end}}

File:1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_California_results_map_by_county.svg

Presidential Elections (Pre-1962)

= 1952 U.S. Presidential Election =

1952 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=59954 Our Campaigns - US Vice President - R Convention Race - Jul 07, 1952]

1952 United States Presidential Election Results:

{{start U.S. presidential ticket box| pv_footnote=| ev_footnote=}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Dwight David Eisenhower| party=Republican| state=New YorkAlthough he was born in Texas and grew up in Kansas before his military career, at the time of his election Eisenhower was president of Columbia University and was, officially, a New York resident. During his first term as president, he moved his private residence to Gettysburg and officially changed his residency to Pennsylvania.| pv=34,075,529| pv_pct=55.2%| ev=442| vp_name=Richard Milhous Nixon| vp_state=California}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Adlai Ewing Stevenson II| party=Democratic| state=Illinois| pv=27,375,090| pv_pct=44.3%| ev=89| vp_name=John Jackson Sparkman| vp_state=Alabama}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Vincent Hallinan| party=Progressive| state=California| pv=140,746| pv_pct=0.2%| ev=0| vp_name=Charlotta Bass| vp_state=New York }}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Stuart Hamblen| party=Prohibition| state=Texas| pv=73,412| pv_pct=0.1%| ev=0| vp_name=Enoch Holtwick| vp_state=Illinois}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Douglas MacArthur| party=Constitution| state=Arkansas| pv=17,205| pv_pct=0.0%| ev=0| vp_name=Harry Byrd| vp_state=Virginia}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box other| footnote=| pv=87,165| pv_pct=0.1%| }}

{{end U.S. presidential ticket box| pv=61,769,147| ev=531| to_win=266}}

Source (Popular Vote): {{Leip PV source 2| year=1952| as of=August 1, 2005}}Source (Electoral Vote): {{National Archives EV source| year=1952| as of=August 1, 2005}}File:ElectoralCollege1952.svg

= 1956 U.S. Presidential Election =

1956 Republican Presidential Primaries:{{Cite web |title=Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1956 |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55198 |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=www.ourcampaigns.com}}

*Nixon was a write-in candidate in some states' presidential primaries and received 316 votes.

1956 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=59951 Our Campaigns - US Vice President - R Convention Race - Aug 20, 1956]

1956 United States Presidential Election Results:

{{start U.S. presidential ticket box| pv_footnote=| ev_footnote=}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Dwight David Eisenhower (incumbent)| party=Republican| state=PennsylvaniaThere is some confusion about Eisenhower's home state in this election. Both [Leip] and the National Archives give Eisenhower's home state as New York, his state of residence when he was first elected in 1952. There are strong reasons to believe that these two sources are erroneous for 1956: The National Archives cites the Senate Manual as a source, and the Senate Manual has Eisenhower's home state as Pennsylvania. The brief description for the book Republican Party National Convention (26th : 1956 : San Francisco) in the Library of Congress' online catalog refers to “Dwight D. Eisenhower of Pennsylvania”. Finally, the Maryland Manual has Eisenhower residing in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.| pv=35,579,180| pv_pct=57.4%| ev=457| vp_name=Richard Milhous Nixon (incumbent)| vp_state=California}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Adlai Ewing Stevenson II| party=Democratic| state=Illinois| pv=26,028,028| pv_pct=42.0%| ev=73| vp_name=(Carey) Estes Kefauver| vp_state=Tennessee}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Walter Burgwyn Jones| party=Democratic| state=Alabama| pv=—(a)| pv_pct=—(a)| ev=1| vp_name=Herman Talmadge| vp_state=Georgia}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=(unpledged electors)| party=(n/a)| state=(n/a)| pv=196,145| pv_pct=0.3%| ev=0| vp_name=(n/a)| vp_state=(n/a)| }}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=T. Coleman Andrews| party=States' Rights| state=Virginia| pv=107,929| pv_pct=0.2%| ev=0| vp_name=Thomas Werdel| vp_state=California}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box other| footnote=| pv=110,046| pv_pct=0.2%}}

{{end U.S. presidential ticket box| pv=62,021,328| ev=531| to_win=266}}

Source (Popular Vote): {{Leip PV source 2| year=1956| as of=August 1, 2005}}Source (Electoral Vote): {{National Archives EV source| year=1956| as of=August 1, 2005}}File:ElectoralCollege1956.svg

= 1960 U.S. Presidential Election =

1960 Republican Presidential Primaries:[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55201 Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1960]

1960 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=57987 Our Campaigns - US President - R Convention Race - Jul 25, 1960]

1960 United States Presidential Election Results

{{start U.S. presidential ticket box}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name= John Fitzgerald Kennedy| party=Democratic| state=Massachusetts | pv=34,220,984(a) |pv_pct=49.7%| ev=303| vp_name=Lyndon Baines Johnson| vp_state=Texas}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Richard Milhous Nixon| party=Republican| state=California| pv=34,108,157| pv_pct=49.6%| ev=219| vp_name=Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.| vp_state=Massachusetts}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box rowspan| name=Harry Flood Byrd| party=(none)| state=Virginia| pv=—(b)| pv_pct=—(b)| ev=15| vp_count=2| vp_name=James Strom Thurmond| vp_state=South Carolina| vp_ev=14}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box vp subrow| vp_name=Barry Morris Goldwater(c)| vp_state=Arizona| vp_ev=1(c)}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row |name= (unpledged electors) | party= Democratic | state= (n/a) | pv=286,359| pv_pct=0.4% | ev=—(d)| vp_name= (n/a) | vp_state= (n/a) }}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Orval Faubus| party=States' Rights| state=Arkansas| pv=44,984| pv_pct=0.1%| ev=0| vp_name=John G. Crommelin| vp_state=Alabama|}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Charles Sullivan| party=Constitution| state=Mississippi| pv= (TX) 18,162| pv_pct=0.0%| ev=0| vp_name=Merritt Curtis| vp_state=California}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box other| pv=216,982| pv_pct=0.3%}}

{{end U.S. presidential ticket box| pv=68,895,628| ev=537| to_win=269}}

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):{{Leip PV source 2| year=1960| as of= February 7, 2008}}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): {{National Archives EV source| year=1960| as of=August 2, 2005}}(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.File:ElectoralCollege1960.svg

California Gubernatorial Election (1962)

{{Election box begin no change | title=1962 Gubernatorial Election, California}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Democratic Party

|candidate = Pat Brown (incumbent)

|votes = 3,037,109

|percentage = 51.92

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = California Republican Party

|candidate = Richard Nixon

|votes = 2,740,351

|percentage = 46.85

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link no change|

|party = Prohibition Party

|candidate = Robert L. Wyckoff

|votes = 69,700

|percentage = 1.12

}}

{{Election box total no change|

|votes = 5,929,602

|percentage = 100.00

}}

{{Election box end}}

File:1962 California gubernatorial election results map by county.svg

Presidential Elections (Post-1962)

= 1964 U.S. Presidential Election =

1964 Republican Presidential Primaries:[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55203 Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1964]

= 1968 U.S. Presidential Election =

1968 Republican Presidential Primaries:[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=47021 Our Campaigns - US President - D Primaries Race - Mar 12, 1968]

1968 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):

1968 United States Presidential Election Results:

{{start U.S. presidential ticket box| pv_footnote=| ev_footnote=}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Richard Milhous Nixon| party=Republican| state=New YorkAlthough he was born in California and he served as a US Senator from California, in 1968 Richard Nixon's official state of residence was New York, having moved there to practice law after his defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial election. During his first term as president, Nixon re-established his residency in California. Consequently, most reliable reference books list Nixon's home state as New York in the 1968 election and his home state as California in the 1972 (and 1960) election.| pv=31,783,783| pv_pct=43.4%| ev=301| vp_name=Spiro Theodore Agnew| vp_state=Maryland}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Hubert Horatio Humphrey| party=Democratic| state=Minnesota| pv=31,271,839| pv_pct=42.7%| ev=191| vp_name=Edmund Sixtus Muskie| vp_state=Maine}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=George Corley Wallace| party=American Independent| state=Alabama| pv=9,901,118| pv_pct=13.5%| ev=46| vp_name=Curtis Emerson LeMay| vp_state=California{{cite web| url=http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_senate_manual&docid=sd001_107-41| title=Electoral Votes for President and Vice President| work=Senate Manual| publisher=Government Printing Office| year=2005| access-date=2006-03-14}}}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Eugene McCarthy| party=Independent| state=Minnesota| pv=25,634| pv_pct=0.0%| ev=0| vp_name=(None)| vp_state=}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box other| footnote=| pv=243,258| pv_pct=0.3%}}

{{end U.S. presidential ticket box| pv=73,199,998| ev=538| to_win=270}}

Source (Popular Vote): {{Leip PV source 2| year=1968| as of=August 7, 2005}}

Source (Electoral Vote): {{National Archives EV source| year=1968| as of=August 7, 2005}}File:ElectoralCollege1968.svg

= 1972 U.S. Presidential Election =

1972 Republican Presidential Primaries:[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=46959 Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Mar 07, 1972]

1972 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=57991 Our Campaigns - US President - R Convention Race - Aug 21, 1972]

New York Conservative Party Presidential Convention, 1972:[http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=175097 Our Campaigns - NY US President - C Convention Race - Aug 30, 1972]

1972 United States Presidential Election Results:

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{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Richard Milhous Nixon (incumbent)| party=Republican| state=California| pv=47,168,710| pv_pct=60.7%| ev=520| vp_name=Spiro Theodore Agnew (incumbent)| vp_state=Maryland}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=George Stanley McGovern| party=Democratic| state=South Dakota| pv=29,173,222| pv_pct=37.5%| ev=17| vp_name=Robert Sargent Shriver| vp_state=Maryland}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=John G. Hospers| party=Libertarian| state=California| pv=3,674| pv_pct=0.0%| ev=1(a)| vp_name=Theodora Nathan| vp_state=Oregon}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=John G. Schmitz| party=American Independent| state=California| pv=1,100,868| pv_pct=1.4%| ev=0| vp_name=Thomas J. Anderson| vp_state=Tennessee}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Linda Jenness| party=Socialist Workers| state=Georgia| pv=83,380(b)| pv_pct=0.1%| ev=0| vp_name=Andrew Pulley| vp_state=Illinois}}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box row| name=Benjamin Spock| party=People's| state=California| pv=78,759| pv_pct=0.1%| ev=0| vp_name=Julius Hobson| vp_state=District of Columbia }}

{{U.S. presidential ticket box other| footnote=| pv=135,414| pv_pct=0.2%}}

{{end U.S. presidential ticket box| pv=77,744,027| ev=538| to_win=270}}

Source (Popular Vote): {{Leip PV source 2| year=1972| as of=August 7, 2005}}

Source (Electoral Vote): {{National Archives EV source| year=1972| as of=August 7, 2005}}

(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.File:ElectoralCollege1972.svg

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