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Richard Nixon (Republican) Next Congress: 93rd: Presidential election; Partisan control: Republican hold: Popular vote margin: Republican +23.2%: Electoral vote: Richard Nixon (R) 520: George McGovern (D) 17: 1972 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Nixon, blue denotes states won by McGovern. Numbers indicate the electoral ...
Nixon during an August 1972 campaign stop McGovern speaking at an October 1972 campaign rally. McGovern ran on a platform of immediately ending the Vietnam War and instituting a guaranteed minimum income for the nation's poor. His campaign was harmed by his views during the primaries, which alienated many powerful Democrats, the perception that ...
Voters chose 27 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Pennsylvania strongly voted for the Republican nominee, President Richard Nixon, over the Democratic nominee, Senator George McGovern. Nixon won Pennsylvania by a large margin of 19.98%, winning every county except for Philadelphia ...
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McGovern also carried the state by a surprisingly comfortable nine-point margin, making the state 32% more Democratic than the national average in the 1972 election. McGovern, a staunch liberal Democrat best known for his strong principled opposition to the Vietnam War, was painted by the Nixon campaign as an extremist too far to the left of ...
Nixon ran with Vice President, and former Maryland Governor, Spiro Agnew for vice president, and McGovern ran with United States Ambassador Sargent Shriver for vice president. In the midst of a nationwide Republican landslide, Nixon took 58.54% of the vote in New York State to McGovern's 41.21%, a margin of 17.34%.
Voters chose ten electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Minnesota was won by the Republican candidate, incumbent President Richard Nixon, who won the state over U.S. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota by a margin of 95,923 votes, or 5.51%, the closest state in the election. This ...
Poll source Date(s) administered Richard Nixon (R) Hubert Humphrey (D) George Wallace (A) [a] Other Undecided Margin Harris [28]: May 20–26, 1969 51%: 33% 11%