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  2. 1960 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    Despite this, Kennedy's popular vote margin was the second-narrowest in presidential history, only surpassed by the 0.11% margin of the election of 1880, and the smallest ever for a Democrat (notwithstanding the presidential elections in which the winners lost the popular vote).

  3. List of United States presidential elections in which the ...

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    Consequently, there are multiple possible ways to calculate the popular vote that each candidate received. Historian and Kennedy associate Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote that, "It is impossible to determine what Kennedy's popular vote in Alabama was" and under one hypothesized scenario "Nixon would have won the popular vote by 58,000". [43]

  4. List of United States presidential elections by popular vote ...

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    In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote.

  5. 1960 United States elections - Wikipedia

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    Kennedy's popular vote margin of victory was the closest in any presidential election in the 20th century, with Kennedy garnering 0.17% more of the popular vote than his opponent. [2] [3] Nixon, the first sitting vice president to win either party's nomination since John C. Breckinridge in 1860, easily won his party's nomination.

  6. John F. Kennedy 1960 presidential campaign - Wikipedia

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    On December 16, Kennedy overtook Nixon in the popular vote and on December 27, Jamieson ruled that Kennedy had won by 115 votes. [ 105 ] However, Governor William F. Quinn had signed the certificate giving Hawaii's three electoral votes to the Republicans, but he later signed another certificate after the recount showed Kennedy winning.

  7. Presidency of John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia

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    Kennedy won the popular vote by a narrow margin of 120,000 votes out of a record 68.8 million ballots cast. [2] He won the electoral vote by a wider margin, receiving 303 votes to Nixon's 219. 14 unpledged electors [a] from two states—Alabama and Mississippi—voted for Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, as did one faithless elector [b] in ...

  8. Electoral history of John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia

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    President John F. Kennedy. Electoral history of John F. Kennedy, who served as the 35th president of the United States (1961–1963) and as a United States senator (1953–1960) and United States representative (1947–1953) from Massachusetts.

  9. 1960 United States presidential election in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    In the nation's second-closest race following Hawaii, Illinois was won by Senator John F. Kennedy (D–Massachusetts), running with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 49.98% of the popular vote against incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), running with former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr ...