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The 1960 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Maryland was won by Senator John F. Kennedy (D–Massachusetts), running with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 53.61% of the popular vote against incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), running with former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., with 46.39% of the popular vote.[3][4]
This is the last time that the losing candidate won a majority of the vote in Kent County. This also marks the last time the Democratic candidate won a majority of the vote in Dorchester County, as it would become the only county in the state to flip from Kennedy to Goldwater and vote Republican thereafter except for a plurality victory by Bill Clinton in 1996.[5]
In this election, Maryland was 7.07% more Democratic than the nation at-large.[6]
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | John F. Kennedy | 565,808 | 53.61% | |
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 489,538 | 46.39% | |
| Write-in | 3 | 0.00% | ||
| Total votes | 1,055,349 | 100% | ||
Results by county
| County | John Fitzgerald Kennedy Democratic |
Richard Milhous Nixon Republican |
Margin | Total votes cast[7] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Allegany | 13,701 | 40.07% | 20,489 | 59.93% | -6,788 | -19.85% | 34,190 |
| Anne Arundel | 26,063 | 46.00% | 30,595 | 54.00% | -4,532 | -8.00% | 56,658 |
| Baltimore | 94,396 | 49.57% | 96,027 | 50.43% | -1,631 | -0.86% | 190,423 |
| Baltimore City | 202,752 | 63.87% | 114,705 | 36.13% | 88,047 | 27.74% | 317,457 |
| Calvert | 2,535 | 54.07% | 2,153 | 45.93% | 382 | 8.15% | 4,688 |
| Caroline | 3,381 | 47.76% | 3,698 | 52.24% | -317 | -4.48% | 7,079 |
| Carroll | 5,763 | 33.49% | 11,445 | 66.51% | -5,682 | -33.02% | 17,208 |
| Cecil | 6,065 | 45.15% | 7,368 | 54.85% | -1,303 | -9.70% | 13,433 |
| Charles | 5,482 | 54.59% | 4,560 | 45.41% | 922 | 9.18% | 10,042 |
| Dorchester | 4,964 | 51.76% | 4,626 | 48.24% | 338 | 3.52% | 9,590 |
| Frederick | 9,910 | 42.50% | 13,408 | 57.50% | -3,498 | -15.00% | 23,319[a] |
| Garrett | 2,357 | 31.79% | 5,057 | 68.21% | -2,700 | -36.42% | 7,414 |
| Harford | 9,293 | 43.46% | 12,090 | 56.54% | -2,797 | -13.08% | 21,383 |
| Howard | 5,412 | 43.42% | 7,051 | 56.57% | -1,639 | -13.15% | 12,465[b] |
| Kent | 3,079 | 48.54% | 3,264 | 51.46% | -185 | -2.92% | 6,343 |
| Montgomery | 66,025 | 51.54% | 62,079 | 48.46% | 3,946 | 3.08% | 128,104 |
| Prince George's | 62,013 | 58.05% | 44,817 | 41.95% | 17,196 | 16.10% | 106,830 |
| Queen Anne's | 3,129 | 51.85% | 2,906 | 48.15% | 223 | 3.70% | 6,035 |
| Somerset | 3,948 | 49.49% | 4,030 | 50.51% | -82 | -1.03% | 7,978 |
| St. Mary's | 5,752 | 65.13% | 3,080 | 34.87% | 2,672 | 30.25% | 8,832 |
| Talbot | 3,462 | 40.94% | 4,995 | 59.06% | -1,533 | -18.13% | 8,457 |
| Washington | 15,632 | 46.72% | 17,828 | 53.28% | -2,196 | -6.56% | 33,460 |
| Wicomico | 7,350 | 45.88% | 8,671 | 54.12% | -1,321 | -8.25% | 16,021 |
| Worcester | 3,347 | 45.71% | 3,976 | 54.29% | -629 | -8.59% | 7,323 |
| Totals | 565,811 | 53.65% | 488,918 | 46.35% | 76,893 | 7.29% | 1,054,729 |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
See also
- United States presidential elections in Maryland
- 1960 United States presidential election
- 1960 United States elections
Notes
- ^ One write-in vote was recorded form this county.
- ^ Two write-in votes were recorded form this county.
References
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1960 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ^ "1960 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65)". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ^ "1960 Presidential General Election Results - Maryland". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1960". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ^ "Maryland - Google Drive". docs.google.com. Retrieved August 27, 2022.
- ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
- ^ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 211 ISBN 0405077114
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