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  2. 1960 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1960. The Democratic ticket of Senator John F. Kennedy and his running mate, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon and his running mate, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

  3. 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. However, the popular vote is not used to determine who is elected as the nation's ...

  4. 1962 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts

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    The election was won by Ted Kennedy, the youngest brother of then-President John F. Kennedy, who would remain Senator until his death in 2009. As of 2024, Kennedy and Lodge's combined age of 65 remains the youngest for two major candidates in a United States Senate election.

  5. 1960 United States elections - Wikipedia

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    The 1960 United States elections were held on November 8, and elected the members of the 87th United States Congress. Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon in the presidential election, and although Republicans made gains in both chambers of Congress, the Democratic Party easily maintained control of Congress.

  6. 1960 United States presidential election in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Maryland was won by Senator John F. Kennedy (D–Massachusetts), running with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 53.61% of the popular vote against incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), running with former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., with 46.39% of the popular vote. [3] [4]

  7. 1960 United States presidential election in West Virginia

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    West Virginia was won by Senator John F. Kennedy (D–Massachusetts), running with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 52.73 percent of the popular vote against incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), running with United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., with 47.27 percent of the popular vote. [3] [4]

  8. 1960 United States presidential election in Massachusetts

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    In Suffolk County, where Boston is located, Kennedy won a landslide with 74.4% of the vote to Nixon’s 25%, the first time in history that a presidential candidate had received more than 70% of the vote in the county. Kennedy was also the first Democrat to carry Norfolk County since Martin van Buren in 1836. [3]

  9. 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 ...