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1960 United States presidential election
November 8, 1960
537 members of the Electoral College
269 electoral votes needed to win
Opinion polls
Turnout63.8%[1] Increase 3.6 pp
 
Nominee John F. Kennedy Richard Nixon Unpledged Electors/Harry F. Byrd
Party Democratic Republican Southern Democratic/Dixiecrat/
Unpledged Democratic
Home state Massachusetts California Virginia
Running mate Lyndon B. Johnson Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Strom Thurmond
Electoral vote 303 219[a] 15[a]
States carried 22 26 2
Popular vote 34,220,984[b] 34,108,157 286,359[c]
Percentage 49.72% 49.55% 0.42%
Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Kennedy/Johnson, red denotes those won by Nixon/Lodge, light blue 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. One Oklahoma faithless elector voted for Harry F. Byrd for President and Barry Goldwater for Vice President giving Nixon 219 electoral votes and Byrd 15.
  2. Official tallies for the popular vote are complicated by unpledged electors in Alabama. The voters of Alabama were faced with voting each of the 11 presidential electors in individual races; while each of the 11 races featured a Republican elector pledged to Nixon, only five races featured a Democratic elector pledged to Kennedy, and the remaining six races featured a Democratic elector that was unpledged. Kennedy is commonly provided the popular votes of the highest-voted Kennedy-pledged elector in Alabama, while the remainder of the Democratic vote is given to the unpledged electors.
  3. Official tallies for the popular vote are complicated by unpledged electors in Alabama. The voters of Alabama were faced with voting each of the 11 presidential electors in individual races; while each of the 11 races featured a Republican elector pledged to Nixon, only five races featured a Democratic elector pledged to Kennedy, and the remaining six races featured a Democratic elector that was unpledged. This number does not include Alabama votes.