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href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon#U.S._House_of_Representatives_(1947–1950)" title="Richard Nixon">House of Representatives</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1946_California%27s_12th_congressional_district_election" title="1946 California's 12th congressional district election">1946 election</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon#U.S._Senate_(1950–1953)" title="Richard Nixon">Senate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_California" title="1950 United States Senate election in California">1950 election</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Checkers_speech" title="Checkers speech">Checkers speech</a></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">36th Vice President of the United States</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower">Eisenhower administration</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="First inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower">1st inauguration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Second inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower">2nd inauguration</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Richard_Nixon%27s_motorcade" title="Attack on Richard Nixon's motorcade">Motorcade attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitchen_Debate" title="Kitchen Debate">Kitchen Debate</a></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">Post-vice presidency</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1962_California_gubernatorial_election" title="1962 California gubernatorial election">1962 California gubernatorial bid</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon%27s_November_1962_press_conference" title="Richard Nixon's November 1962 press conference">"Last press conference"</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">37th President of the United States</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Presidency of Richard Nixon">Presidency</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Richard_Nixon_presidency" title="Timeline of the Richard Nixon presidency">Timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Presidential transition of Richard Nixon">Transition</a></li> <li>Inaugurations <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Richard_Nixon" title="First inauguration of Richard Nixon">first</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_inauguration_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Second inauguration of Richard Nixon">second</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">Judicial appointments</div><div 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href="/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_Richard_Nixon_administration" title="Foreign policy of the Richard Nixon administration">Foreign</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Richard_Nixon#List_of_international_trips" title="Presidency of Richard Nixon">International trips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon_Doctrine" title="Nixon Doctrine">Nixon Doctrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnamization" title="Vietnamization">Vietnamization</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act" title="National Environmental Policy Act">Environmental</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="United States Environmental Protection Agency">EPA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clean_Water_Act" title="Clean Water Act">Clean Water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration" title="National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration">NOAA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_Parks" title="Legacy of Parks">Legacy of Parks</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannabis_policy_of_the_Richard_Nixon_administration" title="Cannabis policy of the Richard Nixon administration">Cannabis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/War_on_drugs" title="War on drugs">war on drugs</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_policy_of_the_Richard_Nixon_administration" title="Native American policy of the Richard Nixon administration">Native American</a></li></ul></div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">First term</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States#End_of_conscription" title="Conscription in the United States">End of the draft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_visit_by_Richard_Nixon_to_China" title="1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China">Visit to China</a></li> <li><a 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Accords">Paris Peace Accords</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Decent_interval" title="Decent interval">decent interval</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1973 Chilean coup d'état">1973 Chilean coup d'état</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War" title="Yom Kippur War">Yom Kippur War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Nickel_Grass" title="Operation Nickel Grass">airlift</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Middle_East_peace_proposals" title="List of Middle East peace proposals">Mideast Peace Process</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marine_Mammal_Protection_Act" title="Marine Mammal Protection Act">Marine Mammal Protection Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973" title="Endangered Species Act of 1973">Endangered Species Act</a></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Impeachment_process_against_Richard_Nixon" title="Impeachment process against Richard Nixon">Impeachment process</a></div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Watergate_scandal" title="Watergate scandal">Watergate scandal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Watergate_scandal" title="Timeline of the Watergate scandal">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon_White_House_tapes" title="Nixon White House tapes">Tapes</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Nixon" title="United States v. Nixon">United States v. Nixon</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon%27s_resignation_speech" title="Richard Nixon's resignation speech">Resignation speech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Pardon of Richard Nixon">Pardon</a></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">Post-presidency</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nixon_interviews" title="Nixon interviews">Nixon interviews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_Foundation" title="Richard Nixon Foundation">Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_Presidential_Library_and_Museum" title="Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum">Presidential Library and Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Center_for_the_National_Interest" title="Center for the National Interest">Center for the National Interest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Bibliography of Richard Nixon">Bibliography</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Six_Crises" title="Six Crises">Six Crises</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Death and state funeral of Richard Nixon">Death and state funeral</a></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="text-align:center;">Presidential campaigns</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="text-align:center;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_1960_presidential_campaign" title="Richard Nixon 1960 presidential campaign">1960</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election" title="1960 United States presidential election">election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1960 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_Republican_National_Convention" title="1960 Republican National Convention">convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_debates" title="1960 United States presidential debates">debates</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_1968_presidential_campaign" title="Richard Nixon 1968 presidential campaign">1968</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election" title="1968 United States presidential election">election</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1968 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Republican_National_Convention" title="1968 Republican National Convention">convention</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bring_Us_Together" title="Bring Us Together">Bring Us Together</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_1972_presidential_campaign" title="Richard Nixon 1972 presidential 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Convention">convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election" title="1952 United States presidential election">election</a></li></ul></li> <li>1956 <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1956_Republican_National_Convention" title="1956 Republican National Convention">convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_United_States_presidential_election" title="1956 United States presidential election">election</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div> <hr /> <div class="skin-invert-image"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon's signature"><img alt="Richard Nixon's signature" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Richard_Nixon_Signature.svg/150px-Richard_Nixon_Signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="32" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Richard_Nixon_Signature.svg/225px-Richard_Nixon_Signature.svg.png 1.5x, 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He previously served as the 36th <a href="/wiki/Vice_president_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Vice president of the United States">vice president of the United States</a> from 1953 to 1961, and as a <a href="/wiki/United_States_senator" class="mw-redirect" title="United States senator">United States senator</a> from 1950 to 1953 and <a href="/wiki/United_States_representative" class="mw-redirect" title="United States representative">United States representative</a> from 1947 to 1950. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U.S._Congressional_Elections_(1946-1950)"><span id="U.S._Congressional_Elections_.281946-1950.29"></span>U.S. Congressional Elections (1946-1950)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: U.S. Congressional Elections (1946-1950)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="U.S._House_Elections_(1946,_1948)"><span id="U.S._House_Elections_.281946.2C_1948.29"></span>U.S. House Elections (1946, 1948)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: U.S. House Elections (1946, 1948)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1946">1946</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1946"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; ; font-size:95%"> <caption><a href="/wiki/California%27s_12th_congressional_district_election,_1946" class="mw-redirect" title="California's 12th congressional district election, 1946">California's 12th congressional district election, 1946</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/California_Republican_Party" title="California Republican Party">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>65,586 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Voorhis" title="Jerry Voorhis">Jerry Voorhis</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">49,994 </td> <td style="text-align:right">42.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF00FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Prohibition_Party" title="Prohibition Party">Prohibition</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/John_Hoeppel" class="mw-redirect" title="John Hoeppel">John Hoeppel</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,476 </td> <td style="text-align:right">1.3 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1948">1948</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1948"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; ; font-size:95%"> <caption>Democratic Primary,<br /><a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California" title="1948 United States House of Representatives elections in California">California's 12th congressional district election, 1948</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>21,411 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>52.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Zetterberg" title="Stephen Zetterberg">Stephen Zetterberg</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">16,808 </td> <td style="text-align:right">41 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Margaret Cooper </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,772 </td> <td style="text-align:right">6.8 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Nixon ran unopposed in and won the 1948 Republican primary. </p> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; ; font-size:95%"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California" title="1948 United States House of Representatives elections in California">California's 12th congressional district election, 1948</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/California_Republican_Party" title="California Republican Party">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>141,509 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>86.9 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Una Rice </td> <td style="text-align:right">19,631 </td> <td style="text-align:right">12 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#DCDCDC;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td class="fn">Scattering </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,667 </td> <td style="text-align:right">1 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="U.S._Senate_Election_(1950)"><span id="U.S._Senate_Election_.281950.29"></span>U.S. Senate Election (1950)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: U.S. Senate Election (1950)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; ; font-size:95%"> <caption><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_California,_1950" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate election in California, 1950">United States Senate election in California, 1950</a> Democratic Primary </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Helen_Gahagan_Douglas" title="Helen Gahagan Douglas">Helen Gahagan Douglas</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>734,842 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>47 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Boddy" title="Manchester Boddy">Manchester Boddy</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">379,077 </td> <td style="text-align:right">24.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">318,840 </td> <td style="text-align:right">20.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Earl Desmond </td> <td style="text-align:right">96,752 </td> <td style="text-align:right">6.2 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ulysses Meyer </td> <td style="text-align:right">34,707 </td> <td style="text-align:right">2.2 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; ; font-size:95%"> <caption><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_California,_1950" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate election in California, 1950">United States Senate election in California, 1950</a> Republican Primary </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/California_Republican_Party" title="California Republican Party">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>740,465 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>64.6 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Republican_Party" title="California Republican Party">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Manchester_Boddy" title="Manchester Boddy">Manchester Boddy</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">156,884 </td> <td style="text-align:right">13.7 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Republican_Party" title="California Republican Party">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Helen_Gahagan_Douglas" title="Helen Gahagan Douglas">Helen Gahagan Douglas</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">153,788 </td> <td style="text-align:right">13.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Republican_Party" title="California Republican Party">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Earl Desmond </td> <td style="text-align:right">60,613 </td> <td style="text-align:right">5.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Republican_Party" title="California Republican Party">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Ulysses Meyer </td> <td style="text-align:right">18,783 </td> <td style="text-align:right">1.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Republican_Party" title="California Republican Party">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn">Albert Levitt </td> <td style="text-align:right">15,929 </td> <td style="text-align:right">1.4 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; ; font-size:95%"> <caption><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_California,_1950" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senate election in California, 1950">United States Senate election in California, 1950</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/California_Republican_Party" title="California Republican Party">Republican</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>2,183,454 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>59.2 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Helen_Gahagan_Douglas" title="Helen Gahagan Douglas">Helen Gahagan Douglas</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">1,502,507 </td> <td style="text-align:right">40.8 </td></tr> </tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_California_results_map_by_county.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_California_results_map_by_county.svg/330px-1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_California_results_map_by_county.svg.png" decoding="async" width="267" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_California_results_map_by_county.svg/500px-1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_California_results_map_by_county.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_California_results_map_by_county.svg/534px-1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_California_results_map_by_county.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="744" data-file-height="744" /></a><figcaption>1950 California Senate election results by county: <b>Nixon</b>: <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#e27f7f; color:#e27f7f;">    </span> 50–60%</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#d75d5d; color:#d75d5d;">    </span> 60–70%</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#d72f30; color:#d72f30;">    </span> 70–80%</span> <b>Douglas</b>: <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#7996e2; color:#7996e2;">    </span> 50–60%</span></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Presidential_Elections_(Pre-1962)"><span id="Presidential_Elections_.28Pre-1962.29"></span>Presidential Elections (Pre-1962)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Presidential Elections (Pre-1962)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1952_U.S._Presidential_Election">1952 U.S. Presidential Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1952 U.S. Presidential Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b><a href="/wiki/1952_Republican_National_Convention" title="1952 Republican National Convention">1952 Republican National Convention</a> (Vice Presidential tally)</b>:<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a></b> - <b>1,206 (100.00%)</b></li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election" title="1952 United States presidential election">1952 United States Presidential Election Results:</a></b> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Electoral results </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Presidential candidate </th> <th rowspan="2">Party </th> <th rowspan="2">Home state </th> <th colspan="2">Popular vote </th> <th rowspan="2">Electoral<br />vote </th> <th colspan="3">Running mate </th></tr> <tr> <th>Count </th> <th>Percentage </th> <th>Vice-presidential candidate </th> <th>Home state </th> <th>Electoral vote </th></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight David Eisenhower</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Republican Party">Republican</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">34,075,529 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">55.2% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">442 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Richard_M._Nixon" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard M. Nixon">Richard Milhous Nixon</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">442 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II" title="Adlai Stevenson II">Adlai Ewing Stevenson II</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">27,375,090 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">44.3% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">89 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/John_Sparkman" title="John Sparkman">John Jackson Sparkman</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">89 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Hallinan" title="Vincent Hallinan">Vincent Hallinan</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_States,_1948)" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Party (United States, 1948)">Progressive</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">140,746 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Charlotta_Bass" title="Charlotta Bass">Charlotta Bass</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Hamblen" title="Stuart Hamblen">Stuart Hamblen</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Prohibition_Party" title="Prohibition Party">Prohibition</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">73,412 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Enoch_Holtwick" class="mw-redirect" title="Enoch Holtwick">Enoch Holtwick</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur" title="Douglas MacArthur">Douglas MacArthur</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Constitution_Party_(United_States_1952)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution Party (United States 1952)">Constitution</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">17,205 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Harry_F._Byrd" title="Harry F. Byrd">Harry Byrd</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"><b>Other</b> </td> <td>87,165 </td> <td>0.1% </td> <td>— </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"><b>Other</b> </td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <th colspan="3">Total </th> <td>61,769,147 </td> <td>100% </td> <td>531 </td> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td>531 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <th colspan="5">Needed to win </th> <td>266 </td> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td>266 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Source (Popular Vote):</b> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFLeip" class="citation web cs1">Leip, David. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1952&f=0&off=0&elect=0">"1952 Presidential Election Results"</a>. <i>Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 1,</span> 2005</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Dave+Leip%27s+Atlas+of+U.S.+Presidential+Elections&rft.atitle=1952+Presidential+Election+Results&rft.aulast=Leip&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fuselectionatlas.org%2FRESULTS%2Fnational.php%3Fyear%3D1952%26f%3D0%26off%3D0%26elect%3D0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElectoral+history+of+Richard+Nixon" class="Z3988"></span><b>Source (Electoral Vote):</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1952#certificates">"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996"</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" title="National Archives and Records Administration">National Archives and Records Administration</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 1,</span> 2005</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Electoral+College+Box+Scores+1789%E2%80%931996&rft.pub=National+Archives+and+Records+Administration&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archives.gov%2Felectoral-college%2F1952%23certificates&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElectoral+history+of+Richard+Nixon" class="Z3988"></span></p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege1952.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/ElectoralCollege1952.svg/500px-ElectoralCollege1952.svg.png" decoding="async" width="375" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/ElectoralCollege1952.svg/960px-ElectoralCollege1952.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1020" data-file-height="593" /></a><figcaption>1952 electoral vote results</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1956_U.S._Presidential_Election">1956 U.S. Presidential Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1956 U.S. Presidential Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/1956_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1956 Republican Party presidential primaries"><b>1956 Republican Presidential Primaries:</b></a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_Eisenhower" class="mw-redirect" title="Dwight Eisenhower">Dwight Eisenhower</a> - 5,008,132 (85.93%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_W._Bricker" title="John W. Bricker">John W. Bricker</a> - 478,453 (8.21%)</li> <li>Unpledged - 115,014 (1.97%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_F._Knowland" class="mw-redirect" title="William F. Knowland">William F. Knowland</a> - 84,446 (1.45%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Foss" title="Joe Foss">Joe Foss</a> - 59,374 (1.02%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S.C._Arnold" class="mw-redirect" title="S.C. Arnold">S.C. Arnold</a> - 32,732 (0.56%)</li> <li>Others* - 50,283 (0.86%)</li></ul> <p>*Nixon was a write-in candidate in some states' presidential primaries and received 316 votes. </p><p><b><a href="/wiki/1956_Republican_National_Convention" title="1956 Republican National Convention">1956 Republican National Convention</a> (Vice Presidential tally)</b>:<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a></b> <b>(inc.)</b> - <b>1,323</b> <b>(100.00%)</b></li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/1956_United_States_presidential_election" title="1956 United States presidential election">1956 United States Presidential Election Results:</a></b> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Electoral results </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Presidential candidate </th> <th rowspan="2">Party </th> <th rowspan="2">Home state </th> <th colspan="2">Popular vote </th> <th rowspan="2">Electoral<br />vote </th> <th colspan="3">Running mate </th></tr> <tr> <th>Count </th> <th>Percentage </th> <th>Vice-presidential candidate </th> <th>Home state </th> <th>Electoral vote </th></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight David Eisenhower</a> (incumbent)</b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Republican Party">Republican</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">35,579,180 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">57.4% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">457 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Richard_M._Nixon" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard M. Nixon">Richard Milhous Nixon</a> (incumbent)</b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">457 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Adlai_Ewing_Stevenson_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Adlai Ewing Stevenson II">Adlai Ewing Stevenson II</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">26,028,028 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">42.0% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">73 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Estes_Kefauver" title="Estes Kefauver">(Carey) Estes Kefauver</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">73 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Walter_Burgwyn_Jones" title="Walter Burgwyn Jones">Walter Burgwyn Jones</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">—<sup>(a)</sup> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">—<sup>(a)</sup> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Herman_Talmadge" title="Herman Talmadge">Herman Talmadge</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <i>(<a href="/wiki/Unpledged_Elector" class="mw-redirect" title="Unpledged Elector">unpledged electors</a>)</i></b> </td> <td><i>(n/a)</i> </td> <td><i>(n/a)</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">196,145 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.3% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td><b> <i>(n/a)</i></b> </td> <td><i>(n/a)</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/T._Coleman_Andrews" title="T. Coleman Andrews">T. Coleman Andrews</a></b> </td> <td>States' Rights </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">107,929 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.2% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Werdel" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Werdel">Thomas Werdel</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"><b>Other</b> </td> <td>110,046 </td> <td>0.2% </td> <td>— </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"><b>Other</b> </td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <th colspan="3">Total </th> <td>62,021,328 </td> <td>100% </td> <td>531 </td> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td>531 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <th colspan="5">Needed to win </th> <td>266 </td> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td>266 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Source (Popular Vote):</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLeip" class="citation web cs1">Leip, David. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1956&f=0&off=0&elect=0">"1956 Presidential Election Results"</a>. <i>Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 1,</span> 2005</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Dave+Leip%27s+Atlas+of+U.S.+Presidential+Elections&rft.atitle=1956+Presidential+Election+Results&rft.aulast=Leip&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fuselectionatlas.org%2FRESULTS%2Fnational.php%3Fyear%3D1956%26f%3D0%26off%3D0%26elect%3D0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElectoral+history+of+Richard+Nixon" class="Z3988"></span><b>Source (Electoral Vote):</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1956#certificates">"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996"</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" title="National Archives and Records Administration">National Archives and Records Administration</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 1,</span> 2005</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Electoral+College+Box+Scores+1789%E2%80%931996&rft.pub=National+Archives+and+Records+Administration&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archives.gov%2Felectoral-college%2F1956%23certificates&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElectoral+history+of+Richard+Nixon" class="Z3988"></span></p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege1956.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/ElectoralCollege1956.svg/366px-ElectoralCollege1956.svg.png" decoding="async" width="366" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/ElectoralCollege1956.svg/549px-ElectoralCollege1956.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/ElectoralCollege1956.svg/732px-ElectoralCollege1956.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1020" data-file-height="593" /></a><figcaption>1956 electoral vote results</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960_U.S._Presidential_Election">1960 U.S. Presidential Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1960 U.S. Presidential Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b><a href="/wiki/1960_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1960 Republican Party presidential primaries">1960 Republican Presidential Primaries</a></b>:<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a></b> - <b>4,975,938</b> <b>(86.63%)</b></li> <li>Unpledged - 314,234 (5.47%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_H._Bender" title="George H. Bender">George H. Bender</a> - 211,090 (3.68%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cecil_H._Underwood" title="Cecil H. Underwood">Cecil H. Underwood</a> - 123,756 (2.16%)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_L._Lloyd&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James L. Lloyd (page does not exist)">James L. Lloyd</a> - 48,461 (0.84%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller" title="Nelson Rockefeller">Nelson Rockefeller</a> - 30,639 (0.53%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_R._Beckwith" title="Frank R. Beckwith">Frank R. Beckwith</a> - 19,677 (0.34%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> - 12,817 (0.22%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a> - 3,146 (0.06%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_C._Fisher" title="Paul C. Fisher">Paul C. Fisher</a> - 2,388 (0.04%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adlai_Stevenson_II" title="Adlai Stevenson II">Adlai Stevenson</a> - 694 (0.01%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Cabot_Lodge_Jr." title="Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.">Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.</a> - 514 (0.01%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a> (write-in) - 172 (0.00%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Styles_Bridges" title="Styles Bridges">Styles Bridges</a> - 108 (0.00%)</li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/1960_Republican_National_Convention" title="1960 Republican National Convention">1960 Republican National Convention</a> (Presidential tally)</b>:<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a></b> - <b>1,321</b> <b>(99.25%)</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a> - 10 (0.75%)</li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election" title="1960 United States presidential election">1960 United States Presidential Election Results</a></b> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Electoral results </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Presidential candidate </th> <th rowspan="2">Party </th> <th rowspan="2">Home state </th> <th colspan="2">Popular vote </th> <th rowspan="2">Electoral<br />vote </th> <th colspan="3">Running mate </th></tr> <tr> <th>Count </th> <th>Percentage </th> <th>Vice-presidential candidate </th> <th>Home state </th> <th>Electoral vote </th></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">34,220,984<sup>(a)</sup> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">49.7% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">303 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyndon Johnson">Lyndon Baines Johnson</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">303 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Richard_M._Nixon" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard M. Nixon">Richard Milhous Nixon</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Republican Party">Republican</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">34,108,157 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">49.6% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">219 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Henry_Cabot_Lodge_Jr." title="Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.">Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">219 </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2"><b><a href="/wiki/Harry_F._Byrd" title="Harry F. Byrd">Harry Flood Byrd</a></b> </td> <td rowspan="2"><i>(none)</i> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:right;">—<sup>(b)</sup> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:right;">—<sup>(b)</sup> </td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align:right;">15 </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Strom_Thurmond" title="Strom Thurmond">James Strom Thurmond</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">14 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Morris Goldwater</a><sup>(c)</sup></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1<sup>(c)</sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> (<i><a href="/wiki/Unpledged_elector" title="Unpledged elector">unpledged electors</a></i>)</b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td>(<i>n/a</i>) </td> <td style="text-align:right;">286,359 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.4% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">—<sup>(d)</sup> </td> <td><b> (<i>n/a</i>)</b> </td> <td>(<i>n/a</i>) </td> <td style="text-align:right;">—<sup>(d)</sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Orval_Faubus" title="Orval Faubus">Orval Faubus</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/National_States%27_Rights_Party" title="National States' Rights Party">States' Rights</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">44,984 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/John_G._Crommelin" title="John G. Crommelin">John G. Crommelin</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Charles_L._Sullivan" title="Charles L. Sullivan">Charles Sullivan</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Constitution_Party_(United_States_1952)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution Party (United States 1952)">Constitution</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">(TX) 18,162 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Merritt_Curtis" class="mw-redirect" title="Merritt Curtis">Merritt Curtis</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"><b>Other</b> </td> <td>216,982 </td> <td>0.3% </td> <td>— </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"><b>Other</b> </td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <th colspan="3">Total </th> <td>68,895,628 </td> <td>100% </td> <td>537 </td> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td>537 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <th colspan="5">Needed to win </th> <td>269 </td> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td>269 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>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.) <b>Source (Popular Vote):</b><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLeip" class="citation web cs1">Leip, David. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1960&f=0&off=0&elect=0">"1960 Presidential Election Results"</a>. <i>Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 7,</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Dave+Leip%27s+Atlas+of+U.S.+Presidential+Elections&rft.atitle=1960+Presidential+Election+Results&rft.aulast=Leip&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fuselectionatlas.org%2FRESULTS%2Fnational.php%3Fyear%3D1960%26f%3D0%26off%3D0%26elect%3D0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElectoral+history+of+Richard+Nixon" class="Z3988"></span>Note: Sullivan / Curtis ran only in <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a>, Constitution Party ran Curtis for President and <a href="/w/index.php?title=B._N._Miller&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="B. N. Miller (page does not exist)">B. N. Miller</a> for vice-president, receiving 1,401 votes. <b>Source (Electoral Vote):</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1960#certificates">"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996"</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" title="National Archives and Records Administration">National Archives and Records Administration</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 2,</span> 2005</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Electoral+College+Box+Scores+1789%E2%80%931996&rft.pub=National+Archives+and+Records+Administration&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archives.gov%2Felectoral-college%2F1960%23certificates&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElectoral+history+of+Richard+Nixon" class="Z3988"></span><sup>(a)</sup> <i>This figure is problematic; see <a href="#Alabama_popular_vote">Alabama popular vote</a> above.</i> <br /> <sup>(b)</sup> <i>Byrd was not directly on the ballot. Instead, his electoral votes came from <a href="/wiki/Unpledged_Elector" class="mw-redirect" title="Unpledged Elector">unpledged Democratic electors</a> and a faithless elector.</i> <br /> <sup>(c)</sup> <i>Oklahoma <a href="/wiki/Faithless_elector" title="Faithless elector">faithless elector</a> <a href="/wiki/Henry_D._Irwin" title="Henry D. Irwin">Henry D. Irwin</a>, though pledged to vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., instead voted for non-candidate <a href="/wiki/Harry_F._Byrd" title="Harry F. Byrd">Harry F. Byrd</a>. However, unlike other electors who voted for Byrd and <a href="/wiki/Strom_Thurmond" title="Strom Thurmond">Strom Thurmond</a> as Vice President, Irwin voted for <a href="/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a> as Vice President.</i> <br /> </p> <p><sup>(d)</sup> <i>In Mississippi, the slate of unpledged Democratic electors won. They cast their 8 votes for Byrd and Thurmond.</i></p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege1960.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/ElectoralCollege1960.svg/356px-ElectoralCollege1960.svg.png" decoding="async" width="356" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/ElectoralCollege1960.svg/534px-ElectoralCollege1960.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/ElectoralCollege1960.svg/712px-ElectoralCollege1960.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1020" data-file-height="593" /></a><figcaption>1960 electoral vote results</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="California_Gubernatorial_Election_(1962)"><span id="California_Gubernatorial_Election_.281962.29"></span>California Gubernatorial Election (1962)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: California Gubernatorial Election (1962)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; ; font-size:95%"> <caption><a href="/wiki/1962_California_gubernatorial_election" title="1962 California gubernatorial election">1962 Gubernatorial Election, California</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:5px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><b><a href="/wiki/California_Democratic_Party" title="California Democratic Party">Democratic</a></b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Pat_Brown" title="Pat Brown">Pat Brown</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>3,037,109 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;margin-right:0.5em"><b>51.92 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/California_Republican_Party" title="California Republican Party">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,740,351 </td> <td style="text-align:right">46.85 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF00FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Prohibition_Party" title="Prohibition Party">Prohibition</a> </td> <td class="fn">Robert L. Wyckoff </td> <td style="text-align:right">69,700 </td> <td style="text-align:right">1.12 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>5,929,602 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100.00 </b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1962_California_gubernatorial_election_results_map_by_county.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/1962_California_gubernatorial_election_results_map_by_county.svg/330px-1962_California_gubernatorial_election_results_map_by_county.svg.png" decoding="async" width="264" height="264" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/1962_California_gubernatorial_election_results_map_by_county.svg/500px-1962_California_gubernatorial_election_results_map_by_county.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/1962_California_gubernatorial_election_results_map_by_county.svg/528px-1962_California_gubernatorial_election_results_map_by_county.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="810" data-file-height="810" /></a><figcaption>1962 California Gubernatorial election results by county: <b>Brown</b>: <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#a5b0ff; color:#a5b0ff;">    </span> 40-50%</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#7996e2; color:#7996e2;">    </span> 50–60%</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#6674de; color:#6674de;">    </span> 60–70%</span> <b>Nixon</b>: <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#ffb2b2; color:#ffb2b2;">    </span> 40–50%</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#e27f7f; color:#e27f7f;">    </span> 50–60%</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#d75d5d; color:#d75d5d;">    </span> 60–70%</span></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Presidential_Elections_(Post-1962)"><span id="Presidential_Elections_.28Post-1962.29"></span>Presidential Elections (Post-1962)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Presidential Elections (Post-1962)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1964_U.S._Presidential_Election">1964 U.S. Presidential Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 1964 U.S. Presidential Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b><a href="/wiki/1964_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1964 Republican Party presidential primaries">1964 Republican Presidential Primaries</a></b>:<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a> - 2,267,079 (38.33%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller" title="Nelson Rockefeller">Nelson Rockefeller</a> - 1,304,204 (22.05%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_A._Rhodes" class="mw-redirect" title="James A. Rhodes">James A. Rhodes</a> - 615,754 (10.41%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Cabot_Lodge_Jr." title="Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.">Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.</a> - 386,661 (6.54%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_W._Byrnes" title="John W. Byrnes">John W. Byrnes</a> - 299,612 (5.07%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Scranton" title="William Scranton">William Scranton</a> - 245,401 (4.15%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Chase_Smith" title="Margaret Chase Smith">Margaret Chase Smith</a> - 227,007 (3.84%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> - 197,212 (3.33%)</li> <li>Unpledged - 173,652 (2.94%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Stassen" title="Harold Stassen">Harold Stassen</a> - 114,083 (1.93%)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1968_U.S._Presidential_Election">1968 U.S. Presidential Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 1968 U.S. Presidential Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b><a href="/wiki/1968_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1968 Republican Party presidential primaries">1968 Republican Presidential Primaries</a></b>:<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> - 1,696,632 (37.93%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> - 1,679,443 (37.54%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_A._Rhodes" class="mw-redirect" title="James A. Rhodes">James A. Rhodes</a> - 614,492 (13.74%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_A._Rockefeller" class="mw-redirect" title="Nelson A. Rockefeller">Nelson A. Rockefeller</a> - 164,340 (3.67%)</li> <li>Unpledged - 140,639 (3.14%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy" title="Eugene McCarthy">Eugene McCarthy</a> (write-in) - 44,520 (1.00%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Stassen" title="Harold Stassen">Harold Stassen</a> - 31,655 (0.71%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Volpe" class="mw-redirect" title="John Volpe">John Volpe</a> - 31,465 (0.70%)</li> <li>Others - 21,456 (0.51%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Wallace" title="George Wallace">George Wallace</a> (write-in) - 15,291 (0.34%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy" title="Robert F. Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a> (write-in) - 14,524 (0.33%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey" title="Hubert Humphrey">Hubert Humphrey</a> (write-in) - 5,698 (0.13)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyndon Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a> (write-in) - 4,824 (0.11%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_W._Romney" title="George W. Romney">George Romney</a> - 4,447 (0.10%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_P._Shafer" title="Raymond P. Shafer">Raymond P. Shafer</a> - 1,223 (0.03%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_W._Scranton" class="mw-redirect" title="William W. Scranton">William W. Scranton</a> - 724 (0.02%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_H._Percy" title="Charles H. Percy">Charles H. Percy</a> - 689 (0.02%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_M._Goldwater" class="mw-redirect" title="Barry M. Goldwater">Barry M. Goldwater</a> - 598 (0.01%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_V._Lindsay" class="mw-redirect" title="John V. Lindsay">John V. Lindsay</a> - 591 (0.01%)</li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/1968_Republican_National_Convention" title="1968 Republican National Convention">1968 Republican National Convention</a> (Presidential tally)</b>: </p> <ul><li>First ballot: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> - 692</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller" title="Nelson Rockefeller">Nelson Rockefeller</a> - 277</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> - 182</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_A._Rhodes" class="mw-redirect" title="James A. Rhodes">James A. Rhodes</a> - 55</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_W._Romney" title="George W. Romney">George Romney</a> - 50</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Case" class="mw-redirect" title="Clifford Case">Clifford Case</a> - 22</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Carlson" title="Frank Carlson">Frank Carlson</a> - 20</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winthrop_Rockefeller" title="Winthrop Rockefeller">Winthrop Rockefeller</a> - 18</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiram_Fong" title="Hiram Fong">Hiram Fong</a> - 14</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Stassen" title="Harold Stassen">Harold Stassen</a> - 2</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_V._Lindsay" class="mw-redirect" title="John V. Lindsay">John V. Lindsay</a> - 1</li></ul></li> <li>Second ballot: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> - 1238</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Rockefeller" title="Nelson Rockefeller">Nelson Rockefeller</a> - 93</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> - 2</li></ul></li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election" title="1968 United States presidential election">1968 United States Presidential Election Results</a></b>: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Electoral results </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Presidential candidate </th> <th rowspan="2">Party </th> <th rowspan="2">Home state </th> <th colspan="2">Popular vote </th> <th rowspan="2">Electoral<br />vote </th> <th colspan="3">Running mate </th></tr> <tr> <th>Count </th> <th>Percentage </th> <th>Vice-presidential candidate </th> <th>Home state </th> <th>Electoral vote </th></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Richard_M._Nixon" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard M. Nixon">Richard Milhous Nixon</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Republican_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Republican Party">Republican</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">31,783,783 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">43.4% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">301 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" title="Spiro Agnew">Spiro Theodore Agnew</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">301 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey" title="Hubert Humphrey">Hubert Horatio Humphrey</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Democratic Party">Democratic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">31,271,839 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">42.7% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">191 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Muskie" title="Edmund Muskie">Edmund Sixtus Muskie</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">191 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/George_Wallace" title="George Wallace">George Corley Wallace</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_American_Independent_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="United States American Independent Party">American Independent</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,901,118 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">13.5% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">46 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Curtis_E._LeMay" class="mw-redirect" title="Curtis E. LeMay">Curtis Emerson LeMay</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">46 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy" title="Eugene McCarthy">Eugene McCarthy</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">25,634 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td><b> <i>(None)</i></b> </td> <td> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"><b>Other</b> </td> <td>243,258 </td> <td>0.3% </td> <td>— </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"><b>Other</b> </td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <th colspan="3">Total </th> <td>73,199,998 </td> <td>100% </td> <td>538 </td> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td>538 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <th colspan="5">Needed to win </th> <td>270 </td> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td>270 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Source (Popular Vote):</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLeip" class="citation web cs1">Leip, David. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1968&f=0&off=0&elect=0">"1968 Presidential Election Results"</a>. <i>Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 7,</span> 2005</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Dave+Leip%27s+Atlas+of+U.S.+Presidential+Elections&rft.atitle=1968+Presidential+Election+Results&rft.aulast=Leip&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fuselectionatlas.org%2FRESULTS%2Fnational.php%3Fyear%3D1968%26f%3D0%26off%3D0%26elect%3D0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElectoral+history+of+Richard+Nixon" class="Z3988"></span> </p> <p><b>Source (Electoral Vote):</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1968#certificates">"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996"</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" title="National Archives and Records Administration">National Archives and Records Administration</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 7,</span> 2005</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Electoral+College+Box+Scores+1789%E2%80%931996&rft.pub=National+Archives+and+Records+Administration&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archives.gov%2Felectoral-college%2F1968%23certificates&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElectoral+history+of+Richard+Nixon" class="Z3988"></span></p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege1968.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/ElectoralCollege1968.svg/500px-ElectoralCollege1968.svg.png" decoding="async" width="360" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/ElectoralCollege1968.svg/960px-ElectoralCollege1968.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1020" data-file-height="593" /></a><figcaption>1968 electoral vote results</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1972_U.S._Presidential_Election">1972 U.S. Presidential Election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 1972 U.S. Presidential Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)_presidential_primaries,_1972" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1972">1972 Republican Presidential Primaries</a></b>:<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a></b> <b>(inc.)</b> - <b>5,378,704 (86.92%)</b></li> <li>Unpledged - 317,048 (5.12%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_M._Ashbrook" title="John M. Ashbrook">John M. Ashbrook</a> - 311,543 (5.03%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_McCloskey" title="Pete McCloskey">Pete McCloskey</a> - 132,731 (2.15%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Wallace" title="George Wallace">George Wallace</a> - 20,907 (0.34%)</li> <li>None of the names shown - 8,916 (0.14%)</li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/1972_Republican_National_Convention" title="1972 Republican National Convention">1972 Republican National Convention</a> (Presidential tally)</b>:<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a></b> <b>(inc.)</b> - <b>1,347 (99.93%)</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_McCloskey" title="Pete McCloskey">Pete McCloskey</a> - 1 (0.07%)</li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party (New York)">New York Conservative Party Presidential Convention</a>, 1972</b>:<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a></b> <b>(inc.)</b> - <b>156</b> <b>(69.96%)</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_G._Schmitz" title="John G. Schmitz">John G. Schmitz</a> - 38 (17.04%)</li> <li>Abstaining - 29 (13.00%)</li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election" title="1972 United States presidential election"><b>1972 United States Presidential Election Results:</b></a> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Electoral results </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Presidential candidate </th> <th rowspan="2">Party </th> <th rowspan="2">Home state </th> <th colspan="2">Popular vote </th> <th rowspan="2">Electoral<br />vote </th> <th colspan="3">Running mate </th></tr> <tr> <th>Count </th> <th>Percentage </th> <th>Vice-presidential candidate </th> <th>Home state </th> <th>Electoral vote </th></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Richard_M._Nixon" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard M. Nixon">Richard Milhous Nixon</a> (incumbent)</b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>47,168,710</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>60.7%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>520</b> </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Spiro_T._Agnew" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiro T. Agnew">Spiro Theodore Agnew</a> (incumbent)</b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>520</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/George_McGovern" title="George McGovern">George Stanley McGovern</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota">South Dakota</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">29,173,222 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">37.5% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">17 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/R._Sargent_Shriver" class="mw-redirect" title="R. Sargent Shriver">Robert Sargent Shriver</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">17 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/John_Hospers" title="John Hospers">John G. Hospers</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)" title="Libertarian Party (United States)">Libertarian</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">3,674 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.0% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1<sup>(a)</sup> </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Theodora_Nathan" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodora Nathan">Theodora Nathan</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1<sup>(a)</sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/John_G._Schmitz" title="John G. Schmitz">John G. Schmitz</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/American_Independent_Party" title="American Independent Party">American Independent</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,100,868 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">1.4% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_J._Anderson_(author)" title="Thomas J. Anderson (author)">Thomas J. Anderson</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Linda_Jenness" title="Linda Jenness">Linda Jenness</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(United_States)" title="Socialist Workers Party (United States)">Socialist Workers</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">83,380<sup>(b)</sup> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Pulley" title="Andrew Pulley">Andrew Pulley</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Spock" title="Benjamin Spock">Benjamin Spock</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Party_(United_States,_1970s)" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Party (United States, 1970s)">People's</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">78,759 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.1% </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td> <td><b> <a href="/wiki/Julius_Hobson" title="Julius Hobson">Julius Hobson</a></b> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="District of Columbia">District of Columbia</a> </td> <td style="text-align:right;">0 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:left;"><b>Other</b> </td> <td>135,414 </td> <td>0.2% </td> <td>— </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:left;"><b>Other</b> </td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <th colspan="3">Total </th> <td>77,744,027 </td> <td>100% </td> <td>538 </td> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td>538 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:right"> <th colspan="5">Needed to win </th> <td>270 </td> <td colspan="2"> </td> <td>270 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Source (Popular Vote):</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFLeip" class="citation web cs1">Leip, David. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1972&f=0&off=0&elect=0">"1972 Presidential Election Results"</a>. <i>Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 7,</span> 2005</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Dave+Leip%27s+Atlas+of+U.S.+Presidential+Elections&rft.atitle=1972+Presidential+Election+Results&rft.aulast=Leip&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fuselectionatlas.org%2FRESULTS%2Fnational.php%3Fyear%3D1972%26f%3D0%26off%3D0%26elect%3D0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElectoral+history+of+Richard+Nixon" class="Z3988"></span> <b>Source (Electoral Vote):</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1972#certificates">"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996"</a>. <a href="/wiki/National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" title="National Archives and Records Administration">National Archives and Records Administration</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 7,</span> 2005</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Electoral+College+Box+Scores+1789%E2%80%931996&rft.pub=National+Archives+and+Records+Administration&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.archives.gov%2Felectoral-college%2F1972%23certificates&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElectoral+history+of+Richard+Nixon" class="Z3988"></span> <sup>(a)</sup>A <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> <a href="/wiki/Faithless_elector" title="Faithless elector">faithless elector</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roger_MacBride" title="Roger MacBride">Roger MacBride</a>, though pledged to vote for <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" title="Spiro Agnew">Spiro Agnew</a>, instead voted for Libertarian candidates <a href="/wiki/John_Hospers" title="John Hospers">John Hospers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Theodora_Nathan" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodora Nathan">Theodora Nathan</a>.<br /> </p> <p><sup>(b)</sup>In <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>, 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.</p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege1972.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/ElectoralCollege1972.svg/500px-ElectoralCollege1972.svg.png" decoding="async" width="353" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/ElectoralCollege1972.svg/960px-ElectoralCollege1972.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="1020" data-file-height="593" /></a><figcaption>1972 electoral vote results</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Electoral_history_of_Richard_Nixon&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=59954">Our Campaigns - US Vice President - R Convention Race - Jul 07, 1952</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Although he was born in Texas and grew up in Kansas before his military career, at the time of his election Eisenhower was president of <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> and was, officially, a New York resident. During his first term as president, he moved his private residence to <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Gettysburg, Pennsylvania">Gettysburg</a> and officially changed his residency to Pennsylvania.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55198">"Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1956"</a>. <i>www.ourcampaigns.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2024-12-01</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.ourcampaigns.com&rft.atitle=Our+Campaigns+-+US+President+-+R+Primaries+Race+-+Feb+01%2C+1956&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourcampaigns.com%2FRaceDetail.html%3FRaceID%3D55198&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElectoral+history+of+Richard+Nixon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=59951">Our Campaigns - US Vice President - R Convention Race - Aug 20, 1956</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">There 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 <i>Senate Manual</i> as a source, and the <i>Senate Manual</i> has Eisenhower's home state as Pennsylvania. The brief description for the book <i>Republican Party National Convention (26th : 1956 : San Francisco)</i> in the Library of Congress' online catalog refers to “Dwight D. Eisenhower of Pennsylvania”. Finally, the <i>Maryland Manual</i> has Eisenhower residing in <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Gettysburg, Pennsylvania">Gettysburg, Pennsylvania</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55201">Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1960</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=57987">Our Campaigns - US President - R Convention Race - Jul 25, 1960</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55203">Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Feb 01, 1964</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=47021">Our Campaigns - US President - D Primaries Race - Mar 12, 1968</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Although 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.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_senate_manual&docid=sd001_107-41">"Electoral Votes for President and Vice President"</a>. <i>Senate Manual</i>. Government Printing Office. 2005<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2006-03-14</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Senate+Manual&rft.atitle=Electoral+Votes+for+President+and+Vice+President&rft.date=2005&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ffrwebgate.access.gpo.gov%2Fcgi-bin%2Fgetdoc.cgi%3Fdbname%3D107_senate_manual%26docid%3Dsd001_107-41&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AElectoral+history+of+Richard+Nixon" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=46959">Our Campaigns - US President - R Primaries Race - Mar 07, 1972</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=57991">Our Campaigns - US President - R Convention Race - Aug 21, 1972</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=175097">Our Campaigns - NY US President - C Convention Race - Aug 30, 1972</a></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox-styles+.navbox{margin-top:-1px}.mw-parser-output .navbox-inner,.mw-parser-output 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title="Richard Nixon's visit to the Lincoln Memorial">1970 Lincoln Memorial visit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_visit_by_Richard_Nixon_to_China" title="1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China">1972 visit to China</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shanghai_Communiqu%C3%A9" title="Shanghai Communiqué">Shanghai Communiqué</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A9tente" title="Détente">Détente</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moscow_Summit_(1972)" title="Moscow Summit (1972)">1972 Moscow Summit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treaty" title="Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty">Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strategic_Arms_Limitation_Talks" title="Strategic Arms Limitation Talks">SALT I Treaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agreement_on_the_Prevention_of_Nuclear_War" title="Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War">Prevention of Nuclear War Agreement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Threshold_Test_Ban_Treaty" title="Threshold Test Ban Treaty">Threshold Test Ban Treaty</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973" title="Endangered Species Act of 1973">Endangered Species Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shafer_Commission" title="Shafer Commission">National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_on_Drugs" class="mw-redirect" title="War on Drugs">War on Drugs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Drug_Enforcement_Administration#History_and_mandate" title="Drug Enforcement Administration">Drug Enforcement Administration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cannabis_policy_of_the_Richard_Nixon_administration" title="Cannabis policy of the Richard Nixon administration">Cannabis policy</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon%27s_Enemies_List" title="Nixon's Enemies List">Enemies List</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Master_list_of_Nixon%27s_political_opponents" title="Master list of Nixon's political opponents">list of opponents</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_CHAOS" title="Operation CHAOS">Operation CHAOS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watergate_scandal" title="Watergate scandal">Watergate</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Watergate_scandal" title="Timeline of the Watergate scandal">timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon_White_House_tapes" title="Nixon White House tapes">White House tapes</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Nixon" title="United States v. Nixon">United States v. Nixon</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Watergate_Committee" title="United States Senate Watergate Committee">Senate Watergate Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impeachment_process_against_Richard_Nixon" title="Impeachment process against Richard Nixon">impeachment process</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I_am_not_a_crook" class="mw-redirect" title="I am not a crook">I am not a crook</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watergate_scandal#Resignation" title="Watergate scandal">Resignation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon%27s_resignation_speech" title="Richard Nixon's resignation speech">speech</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Pardon of Richard Nixon">Pardon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_of_the_Union" title="State of the Union">State of the Union Address</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1970_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1970 State of the Union Address">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1971 State of the Union Address">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1972 State of the Union Address">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1973 State of the Union Address">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="1974 State of the Union Address">1974</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilson_desk" title="Wilson desk">Wilson desk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Richard_Nixon" title="List of federal judges appointed by Richard Nixon">Judicial appointments</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_Supreme_Court_candidates" title="Richard Nixon Supreme Court candidates">Supreme Court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_judicial_appointment_controversies" title="Richard Nixon judicial appointment controversies">controversies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Richard_Milhous_Nixon/Executive_orders" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Author:Richard Milhous Nixon/Executive orders">Executive Orders</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Richard_Milhous_Nixon/Presidential_Proclamations" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Author:Richard Milhous Nixon/Presidential Proclamations">Presidential Proclamations</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Life and<br />politics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_Foundation" title="Richard Nixon Foundation">Richard Nixon Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_Presidential_Library_and_Museum" title="Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum">Presidential Library and Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birthplace_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Birthplace of Richard Nixon">Birthplace and boyhood home</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Checkers_speech" title="Checkers speech">Checkers speech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Richard_Nixon%27s_motorcade" title="Attack on Richard Nixon's motorcade">1958 motorcade attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitchen_Debate" title="Kitchen Debate">Kitchen Debate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_40" title="Operation 40">Operation 40</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon%27s_November_1962_press_conference" title="Richard Nixon's November 1962 press conference">"Last press conference"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florida_White_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida White House">Florida White House</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/La_Casa_Pacifica" title="La Casa Pacifica">La Casa Pacifica</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Center_for_the_National_Interest" title="Center for the National Interest">Nixon Center</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nixon_v._General_Services_Administration" title="Nixon v. General Services Administration">Nixon v. General Services Administration</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Death and state funeral of Richard Nixon">Death and state funeral</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Books</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Six_Crises" title="Six Crises"><i>Six Crises</i> (1962)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Bibliography of Richard Nixon">Bibliography</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Elections</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>U.S. House of Representatives: <a href="/wiki/1946_California%27s_12th_congressional_district_election" title="1946 California's 12th congressional district election">1946</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="1948 United States House of Representatives elections">1948</a></li> <li>U.S. Senate: <a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_Senate_election_in_California" title="1950 United States Senate election in California">1950</a></li> <li>California gubernatorial election: <a href="/wiki/1962_California_gubernatorial_election" title="1962 California gubernatorial election">1962</a></li> <li>GOP presidential primaries: <a href="/wiki/1960_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1960 Republican Party presidential primaries">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1964 Republican Party presidential primaries">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1968 Republican Party presidential primaries">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1972 Republican Party presidential primaries">1972</a></li> <li>GOP national conventions: <a href="/wiki/1952_Republican_National_Convention" title="1952 Republican National Convention">1952</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_Republican_National_Convention" title="1956 Republican National Convention">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_Republican_National_Convention" title="1960 Republican National Convention">1960</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_1960_presidential_campaign" title="Richard Nixon 1960 presidential campaign">campaign</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Republican_National_Convention" title="1968 Republican National Convention">1968</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_1968_presidential_campaign" title="Richard Nixon 1968 presidential campaign">campaign</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Republican_National_Convention" title="1972 Republican National Convention">1972</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon_1972_presidential_campaign" title="Richard Nixon 1972 presidential campaign">campaign</a></li></ul></li> <li>Presidential elections: <a href="/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election" title="1952 United States presidential election">1952</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Presidential transition of Dwight D. Eisenhower">transition</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_United_States_presidential_election" title="1956 United States presidential election">1956</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election" title="1960 United States presidential election">1960</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_debates" title="1960 United States presidential debates">debates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_transition_of_John_F._Kennedy" title="Presidential transition of John F. Kennedy">Kennedy transition</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election" title="1968 United States presidential election">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election" title="1972 United States presidential election">1972</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Cultural depictions of Richard Nixon">Popular<br />culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Nixon_goes_to_China" title="Nixon goes to China">Nixon goes to China</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Millhouse_(film)" title="Millhouse (film)"><i>Millhouse</i> (1971 film)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/An_Evening_with_Richard_Nixon" title="An Evening with Richard Nixon">An Evening with Richard Nixon</a></i> (1972 play)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Richard_(film)" title="Richard (film)">Richard</a></i> (1972 film)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Another_Nice_Mess" title="Another Nice Mess">Another Nice Mess</a></i> (1972 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_More_Years" title="Four More Years"><i>Four More Years</i> (1972 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impeach_the_President" title="Impeach the President"><i>Impeach the President</i> (1973 song)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Werewolf_of_Washington" title="The Werewolf of Washington">The Werewolf of Washington</a></i> (1973 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_House_Madness" title="White House Madness"><i>White House Madness</i> (1975 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/All_the_President%27s_Men_(film)" title="All the President's Men (film)"><i>All the President's Men</i> (1976 film)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Public_Burning" title="The Public Burning">The Public Burning</a></i> (1977 novel)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Washington:_Behind_Closed_Doors" title="Washington: Behind Closed Doors">Washington: Behind Closed Doors</a></i> (1977 miniseries)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secret_Honor" title="Secret Honor"><i>Secret Honor</i> (1984 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon_in_China" title="Nixon in China"><i>Nixon in China</i> (1987 opera)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Final_Days_(1989_film)" title="The Final Days (1989 film)">The Final Days</a></i> (1989 film)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nixon_(film)" title="Nixon (film)"><i>Nixon</i> (1995 film)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elvis_Meets_Nixon" title="Elvis Meets Nixon"><i>Elvis Meets Nixon</i> (1997 film)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_Futurama_characters#Richard_Nixon" title="List of Futurama characters">Futurama</a></i> (1999 TV series)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_(film)" title="Dick (film)"><i>Dick</i> (1999 film)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nixon%27s_China_Game" title="Nixon's China Game">Nixon's China Game</a></i> (2000 film)</li> <li><i><a 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