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The number of popular votes Kennedy and Nixon received in Georgia is also difficult to determine because voters voted for 12 separate electors. [112] The vote totals of 458,638 for Kennedy and 274,472 for Nixon reflect the number of votes for the Kennedy and Nixon electors who received the highest number of votes.
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 .
The results of this election in New York are typical of the nationwide trend of the urbanization of the Democratic Party, and Kennedy's dominance in heavily populated New York City was a vital component to his victory in the state. Kennedy took 62.62% of the overall vote in New York City, to Nixon's 37.04%, and carried four out of five boroughs.
The popular vote was a non-binding "beauty contest". [9] Delegates were instead elected by direct votes by congressional district on delegate candidates. [8] [10] All candidates were write-ins. Kennedy ran a write-in campaign, and no candidate actively ran against him in Illinois. [9] Not all of the vote-getters had been declared candidates.
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.
— After encouraging his supporters not to vote for him and endorsing former President Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. still received nearly 594,000 votes, about 0.4 percent of the popular vote ...
But, how many votes did he get in Pennsylvania? Currently, with a little more than 96 percent of ballots counted in Pennsylvania, Trump has 3.4 million votes in his column. Harris has slightly ...
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 ...