Elections in Georgia |
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The 1960 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. Georgia voters chose 12[4] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Georgia was won by Senator John F. Kennedy (D–Massachusetts), running with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 62.54% of the popular vote against incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), running with United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., with 37.43% of the popular vote.[5][6] This is the first election where any Georgia county cast more than one hundred thousand votes, namely Fulton. Following this election Georgia would transfer from being a Deep South Democratic state, to a Sun Belt Republican state, and the state has only voted Democratic four times since. This was due to The Civil Rights Act, and the growth of Atlanta suburban counties such as Gwinnett and Cobb, which would not support the Democratic nominee again until 2016, with the exception of favorite son Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Democratic | John F. Kennedy | 458,638 | 62.54% | |
Republican | Richard Nixon | 274,472 | 37.43% | |
Write-ins | — | 239[b] | 0.03% | |
Total votes | 733,349 | 100% |
Results by county
County | John F. Kennedy Democratic |
Richard Nixon Republican |
Margin | Total votes cast[7] | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
# | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Appling | 1,973 | 73.35% | 717 | 26.65% | 1,256 | 46.70% | 2,690 |
Atkinson | 1,298 | 84.45% | 239 | 15.55% | 1,059 | 68.90% | 1,537 |
Bacon | 1,168 | 66.86% | 579 | 33.14% | 589 | 33.72% | 1,747 |
Baker | 720 | 91.60% | 66 | 8.40% | 654 | 83.20% | 786 |
Baldwin | 2,262 | 64.15% | 1,264 | 35.85% | 998 | 28.30% | 3,526 |
Banks | 1,170 | 84.11% | 221 | 15.89% | 949 | 68.22% | 1,391 |
Barrow | 2,759 | 82.70% | 577 | 17.30% | 2,182 | 65.40% | 3,336 |
Bartow | 3,545 | 73.29% | 1,292 | 26.71% | 2,253 | 46.58% | 4,837 |
Ben Hill | 1,881 | 77.12% | 558 | 22.88% | 1,323 | 54.24% | 2,439 |
Berrien | 2,787 | 88.34% | 368 | 11.66% | 2,419 | 76.68% | 3,155 |
Bibb | 14,387 | 57.76% | 10,523 | 42.24% | 3,864 | 15.52% | 24,910 |
Bleckley | 1,751 | 73.45% | 633 | 26.55% | 1,118 | 46.90% | 2,384 |
Brantley | 1,333 | 79.49% | 344 | 20.51% | 989 | 58.98% | 1,677 |
Brooks | 1,500 | 66.23% | 765 | 33.77% | 735 | 32.46% | 2,265 |
Bryan | 1,323 | 75.56% | 428 | 24.44% | 895 | 51.12% | 1,751 |
Bulloch | 3,373 | 69.13% | 1,506 | 30.87% | 1,867 | 38.26% | 4,879 |
Burke | 1,162 | 53.08% | 1,027 | 46.92% | 135 | 6.16% | 2,189 |
Butts | 1,673 | 81.41% | 382 | 18.59% | 1,291 | 62.82% | 2,055 |
Calhoun | 803 | 85.97% | 131 | 14.03% | 672 | 71.94% | 934 |
Camden | 1,321 | 58.17% | 950 | 41.83% | 371 | 16.34% | 2,271 |
Candler | 943 | 68.53% | 433 | 31.47% | 510 | 37.06% | 1,376 |
Carroll | 4,698 | 73.10% | 1,729 | 26.90% | 2,969 | 46.20% | 6,427 |
Catoosa | 2,114 | 50.48% | 2,074 | 49.52% | 40 | 0.96% | 4,188 |
Charlton | 733 | 71.72% | 289 | 28.28% | 444 | 43.44% | 1,022 |
Chatham | 16,240 | 47.52% | 17,935 | 52.48% | -1,695 | -4.96% | 34,175 |
Chattahoochee | 190 | 74.22% | 66 | 25.78% | 124 | 48.44% | 256 |
Chattooga | 3,686 | 69.78% | 1,596 | 30.22% | 2,090 | 39.56% | 5,282 |
Cherokee | 3,077 | 56.79% | 2,341 | 43.21% | 736 | 13.58% | 5,418 |
Clarke | 4,812 | 68.14% | 2,250 | 31.86% | 2,562 | 36.28% | 7,062 |
Clay | 528 | 86.27% | 84 | 13.73% | 444 | 72.54% | 612 |
Clayton | 5,892 | 66.61% | 2,953 | 33.39% | 2,939 | 33.22% | 8,845 |
Clinch | 898 | 69.34% | 397 | 30.66% | 501 | 38.68% | 1,295 |
Cobb | 12,906 | 61.03% | 8,240 | 38.97% | 4,666 | 22.06% | 21,146 |
Coffee | 3,376 | 77.38% | 987 | 22.62% | 2,389 | 54.76% | 4,363 |
Colquitt | 4,397 | 72.30% | 1,685 | 27.70% | 2,712 | 44.60% | 6,082 |
Columbia | 1,190 | 50.75% | 1,155 | 49.25% | 35 | 1.50% | 2,345 |
Cook | 1,935 | 82.90% | 399 | 17.10% | 1,536 | 65.80% | 2,334 |
Coweta | 3,855 | 76.88% | 1,159 | 23.12% | 2,696 | 53.76% | 5,014 |
Crawford | 797 | 79.70% | 203 | 20.30% | 594 | 59.40% | 1,000 |
Crisp | 2,365 | 71.06% | 963 | 28.94% | 1,402 | 42.12% | 3,328 |
Dade | 943 | 50.92% | 909 | 49.08% | 34 | 1.84% | 1,852 |
Dawson | 916 | 69.55% | 401 | 30.45% | 515 | 39.10% | 1,317 |
Decatur | 2,780 | 75.18% | 918 | 24.82% | 1,862 | 50.36% | 3,698 |
DeKalb | 24,116 | 50.07% | 24,046 | 49.93% | 70 | 0.14% | 48,162 |
Dodge | 3,630 | 76.20% | 1,134 | 23.80% | 2,496 | 52.40% | 4,764 |
Dooly | 1,733 | 88.74% | 220 | 11.26% | 1,513 | 77.48% | 1,953 |
Dougherty | 4,522 | 51.12% | 4,323 | 48.88% | 199 | 2.24% | 8,845 |
Douglas | 2,576 | 69.40% | 1,136 | 30.60% | 1,440 | 38.80% | 3,712 |
Early | 1,904 | 88.23% | 254 | 11.77% | 1,650 | 76.46% | 2,158 |
Echols | 257 | 70.41% | 108 | 29.59% | 149 | 40.82% | 365 |
Effingham | 880 | 49.86% | 885 | 50.14% | -5 | -0.28% | 1,765 |
Elbert | 3,672 | 85.77% | 609 | 14.23% | 3,063 | 71.54% | 4,281 |
Emanuel | 2,513 | 69.17% | 1,120 | 30.83% | 1,393 | 38.34% | 3,633 |
Evans | 1,069 | 65.34% | 567 | 34.66% | 502 | 30.68% | 1,636 |
Fannin | 1,579 | 34.32% | 3,022 | 65.68% | -1,443 | -31.36% | 4,601 |
Fayette | 1,198 | 76.94% | 359 | 23.06% | 839 | 53.88% | 1,557 |
Floyd | 7,350 | 54.61% | 6,108 | 45.39% | 1,242 | 9.22% | 13,458 |
Forsyth | 2,309 | 73.30% | 841 | 26.70% | 1,468 | 46.60% | 3,150 |
Franklin | 3,209 | 91.24% | 308 | 8.76% | 2,901 | 82.48% | 3,517 |
Fulton | 55,803 | 50.85% | 53,940 | 49.15% | 1,863 | 1.70% | 109,743 |
Gilmer | 1,472 | 44.31% | 1,850 | 55.69% | -378 | -11.38% | 3,322 |
Glascock | 299 | 62.42% | 180 | 37.58% | 119 | 24.84% | 479 |
Glynn | 3,584 | 55.05% | 2,926 | 44.95% | 658 | 10.10% | 6,510 |
Gordon | 2,153 | 65.22% | 1,148 | 34.78% | 1,005 | 30.44% | 3,301 |
Grady | 2,541 | 81.10% | 592 | 18.90% | 1,949 | 62.20% | 3,133 |
Greene | 1,979 | 85.78% | 328 | 14.22% | 1,651 | 71.56% | 2,307 |
Gwinnett | 6,479 | 73.50% | 2,336 | 26.50% | 4,143 | 47.00% | 8,815 |
Habersham | 2,530 | 73.87% | 895 | 26.13% | 1,635 | 47.74% | 3,425 |
Hall | 6,303 | 68.47% | 2,903 | 31.53% | 3,400 | 36.94% | 9,206 |
Hancock | 780 | 73.17% | 286 | 26.83% | 494 | 46.34% | 1,066 |
Haralson | 2,783 | 59.82% | 1,869 | 40.18% | 914 | 19.64% | 4,652 |
Harris | 1,362 | 64.95% | 735 | 35.05% | 627 | 29.90% | 2,097 |
Hart | 3,963 | 93.51% | 275 | 6.49% | 3,688 | 87.02% | 4,238 |
Heard | 1,224 | 87.12% | 181 | 12.88% | 1,043 | 74.24% | 1,405 |
Henry | 2,957 | 73.96% | 1,041 | 26.04% | 1,916 | 47.92% | 3,998 |
Houston | 4,033 | 69.65% | 1,757 | 30.35% | 2,276 | 39.30% | 5,790 |
Irwin | 1,625 | 82.20% | 352 | 17.80% | 1,273 | 64.40% | 1,977 |
Jackson | 3,653 | 88.56% | 472 | 11.44% | 3,181 | 77.12% | 4,125 |
Jasper | 949 | 77.79% | 271 | 22.21% | 678 | 55.58% | 1,220 |
Jeff Davis | 825 | 67.24% | 402 | 32.76% | 423 | 34.48% | 1,227 |
Jefferson | 1,270 | 56.29% | 986 | 43.71% | 284 | 12.58% | 2,256 |
Jenkins | 1,354 | 81.22% | 313 | 18.78% | 1,041 | 62.44% | 1,667 |
Johnson | 1,298 | 72.68% | 488 | 27.32% | 810 | 45.36% | 1,786 |
Jones | 1,415 | 74.32% | 489 | 25.68% | 926 | 48.64% | 1,904 |
Lamar | 1,363 | 74.00% | 479 | 26.00% | 884 | 48.00% | 1,842 |
Lanier | 1,049 | 84.12% | 198 | 15.88% | 851 | 68.24% | 1,247 |
Laurens | 4,648 | 71.16% | 1,884 | 28.84% | 2,764 | 42.32% | 6,532 |
Lee | 404 | 67.90% | 191 | 32.10% | 213 | 35.80% | 595 |
Liberty | 1,590 | 63.12% | 929 | 36.88% | 661 | 26.24% | 2,519 |
Lincoln | 669 | 77.25% | 197 | 22.75% | 472 | 54.50% | 866 |
Long | 278 | 23.64% | 898 | 76.36% | -620 | -52.72% | 1,176 |
Lowndes | 3,605 | 55.35% | 2,908 | 44.65% | 697 | 10.70% | 6,513 |
Lumpkin | 875 | 63.87% | 495 | 36.13% | 380 | 27.74% | 1,370 |
McDuffie | 1,079 | 50.94% | 1,039 | 49.06% | 40 | 1.88% | 2,118 |
McIntosh | 794 | 63.78% | 451 | 36.22% | 343 | 27.56% | 1,245 |
Macon | 1,488 | 77.26% | 438 | 22.74% | 1,050 | 54.52% | 1,926 |
Madison | 2,418 | 92.18% | 205 | 7.82% | 2,213 | 84.36% | 2,623 |
Marion | 645 | 80.73% | 154 | 19.27% | 491 | 61.46% | 799 |
Meriwether | 3,100 | 81.45% | 706 | 18.55% | 2,394 | 62.90% | 3,806 |
Miller | 1,116 | 94.74% | 62 | 5.26% | 1,054 | 89.48% | 1,178 |
Mitchell | 3,264 | 88.36% | 430 | 11.64% | 2,834 | 76.72% | 3,694 |
Monroe | 1,642 | 73.86% | 581 | 26.14% | 1,061 | 47.72% | 2,223 |
Montgomery | 1,451 | 79.20% | 381 | 20.80% | 1,070 | 58.40% | 1,832 |
Morgan | 1,488 | 79.96% | 373 | 20.04% | 1,115 | 59.92% | 1,861 |
Murray | 1,876 | 66.98% | 925 | 33.02% | 951 | 33.96% | 2,801 |
Muscogee | 8,553 | 47.17% | 9,578 | 52.83% | -1,025 | -5.66% | 18,131 |
Newton | 3,185 | 81.81% | 708 | 18.19% | 2,477 | 63.62% | 3,893 |
Oconee | 1,218 | 80.40% | 297 | 19.60% | 921 | 60.80% | 1,515 |
Oglethorpe | 1,406 | 90.83% | 142 | 9.17% | 1,264 | 81.66% | 1,548 |
Paulding | 2,396 | 74.69% | 812 | 25.31% | 1,584 | 49.38% | 3,208 |
Peach | 1,433 | 69.53% | 628 | 30.47% | 805 | 39.06% | 2,061 |
Pickens | 1,473 | 43.12% | 1,943 | 56.88% | -470 | -13.76% | 3,416 |
Pierce | 1,449 | 72.70% | 544 | 27.30% | 905 | 45.40% | 1,993 |
Pike | 1,028 | 80.12% | 255 | 19.88% | 773 | 60.24% | 1,283 |
Polk | 4,351 | 71.36% | 1,746 | 28.64% | 2,605 | 42.72% | 6,097 |
Pulaski | 1,156 | 77.58% | 334 | 22.42% | 822 | 55.16% | 1,490 |
Putnam | 1,104 | 78.35% | 305 | 21.65% | 799 | 56.70% | 1,409 |
Quitman | 388 | 85.27% | 67 | 14.73% | 321 | 70.54% | 455 |
Rabun | 1,552 | 76.98% | 464 | 23.02% | 1,088 | 53.96% | 2,016 |
Randolph | 1,436 | 75.86% | 457 | 24.14% | 979 | 51.72% | 1,893 |
Richmond | 9,868 | 45.17% | 11,978 | 54.83% | -2,110 | -9.66% | 21,846 |
Rockdale | 1,765 | 78.06% | 496 | 21.94% | 1,269 | 56.12% | 2,261 |
Schley | 467 | 77.19% | 138 | 22.81% | 329 | 54.38% | 605 |
Screven | 1,490 | 60.89% | 957 | 39.11% | 533 | 21.78% | 2,447 |
Seminole | 1,579 | 95.35% | 77 | 4.65% | 1,502 | 90.70% | 1,656 |
Spalding | 4,426 | 71.63% | 1,753 | 28.37% | 2,673 | 43.26% | 6,179 |
Stephens | 3,087 | 79.11% | 815 | 20.89% | 2,272 | 58.22% | 3,902 |
Stewart | 646 | 68.14% | 302 | 31.86% | 344 | 36.28% | 948 |
Sumter | 2,274 | 70.27% | 962 | 29.73% | 1,312 | 40.54% | 3,236 |
Talbot | 771 | 78.83% | 207 | 21.17% | 564 | 57.66% | 978 |
Taliaferro | 655 | 81.57% | 148 | 18.43% | 507 | 63.14% | 803 |
Tattnall | 1,908 | 68.71% | 869 | 31.29% | 1,039 | 37.42% | 2,777 |
Taylor | 1,201 | 76.69% | 365 | 23.31% | 836 | 53.38% | 1,566 |
Telfair | 2,922 | 78.70% | 791 | 21.30% | 2,131 | 57.40% | 3,713 |
Terrell | 1,352 | 82.59% | 285 | 17.41% | 1,067 | 65.18% | 1,637 |
Thomas | 3,226 | 58.54% | 2,285 | 41.46% | 941 | 17.08% | 5,511 |
Tift | 2,964 | 67.56% | 1,423 | 32.44% | 1,541 | 35.12% | 4,387 |
Toombs | 2,209 | 68.03% | 1,038 | 31.97% | 1,171 | 36.06% | 3,247 |
Towns | 1,052 | 45.27% | 1,272 | 54.73% | -220 | -9.46% | 2,324 |
Treutlen | 927 | 81.10% | 216 | 18.90% | 711 | 62.20% | 1,143 |
Troup | 5,745 | 67.17% | 2,808 | 32.83% | 2,937 | 34.34% | 8,553 |
Turner | 1,545 | 82.49% | 328 | 17.51% | 1,217 | 64.98% | 1,873 |
Twiggs | 845 | 76.26% | 263 | 23.74% | 582 | 52.52% | 1,108 |
Union | 1,185 | 43.53% | 1,537 | 56.47% | -352 | -12.94% | 2,722 |
Upson | 3,262 | 76.52% | 1,001 | 23.48% | 2,261 | 53.04% | 4,263 |
Walker | 4,566 | 53.14% | 4,027 | 46.86% | 539 | 6.28% | 8,593 |
Walton | 3,095 | 88.48% | 403 | 11.52% | 2,692 | 76.96% | 3,498 |
Ware | 5,099 | 69.53% | 2,235 | 30.47% | 2,864 | 39.06% | 7,334 |
Warren | 471 | 55.67% | 375 | 44.33% | 96 | 11.34% | 846 |
Washington | 2,004 | 67.70% | 956 | 32.30% | 1,048 | 35.40% | 2,960 |
Wayne | 2,862 | 67.40% | 1,384 | 32.60% | 1,478 | 34.80% | 4,246 |
Webster | 297 | 79.41% | 77 | 20.59% | 220 | 58.82% | 374 |
Wheeler | 970 | 81.10% | 226 | 18.90% | 744 | 62.20% | 1,196 |
White | 1,784 | 72.94% | 662 | 27.06% | 1,122 | 45.88% | 2,446 |
Whitfield | 3,604 | 46.49% | 4,148 | 53.51% | -544 | -7.02% | 7,752 |
Wilcox | 1,714 | 84.85% | 306 | 15.15% | 1,408 | 69.70% | 2,020 |
Wilkes | 1,786 | 81.89% | 395 | 18.11% | 1,391 | 63.78% | 2,181 |
Wilkinson | 1,324 | 67.72% | 631 | 32.28% | 693 | 35.44% | 1,955 |
Worth | 2,110 | 86.19% | 338 | 13.81% | 1,772 | 72.38% | 2,448 |
Totals | 458,638 | 62.54% | 274,472 | 37.43% | 184,166 | 25.11% | 733,349 |
Notes
- ^ In Georgia, a primary referendum won which didn’t bind Democratic electors to act unpledged but instead gave them the choice to vote freely from their pledges, but after it became clear their 12 elector votes wouldn’t sway the results each elector ultimately voted for Kennedy. For this reason the popular vote for the pledge-free electors are attributed to Kennedy. [2][3] See the Unpledged elector page for clarification.
- ^ These write-in votes were not separated by county and only given as a statewide total.
References
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1960 – Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved June 7, 2017.
- ^ "GEORGIA ELECTORS 'FREED' BY VOTERS; Democrats Back Unpledged Slate -- Party Leaders Cite Confusion on Wording (Published 1960)". September 16, 1960. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ Novotny, Patrick (2004). "John F. Kennedy, the 1960 Election, and Georgia's Unpledged Electors in the Electoral College". Georgia Historical Quarterly. 88 (3): 375–397. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
- ^ "1960 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65)". Retrieved June 7, 2017.
- ^ "1960 Presidential General Election Results – Georgia". Retrieved June 7, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1960". Retrieved June 7, 2017.
- ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 111-113 ISBN 0405077114
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