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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. Electoral history of John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. 1960 United States presidential election in Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    This was the first presidential election in which Hawaii participated; the state had been admitted to the Union just over a year earlier. The islands favored Senator John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, by a narrow margin of 115 votes, or 0.06%, after a court-ordered recount overturned an initial result favoring Vice President Richard Nixon, a Republican.

  5. 1960 United States presidential election in New York

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    Kennedy won New York with 52.53% of the vote to Nixon's 47.27%, a victory margin of 5.26%. New York weighed in for this election as 5% more Democratic than the national average. The presidential election of 1960 was a very partisan election for New York, with 99.8% of the electorate voting for either the Democratic or the Republican Parties. [2]

  6. 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.

  7. List of United States presidential elections by Electoral ...

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    The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...

  8. 1960 United States presidential election in Texas - Wikipedia

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    The 1960 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. The Democratic Party candidate John F. Kennedy , narrowly won the state of Texas with 50.52 percent of the vote to the Republican candidate Vice President Richard Nixon 's 48.52%, a margin of two percent ...

  9. 1960 United States presidential election in California

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    The survey showed Kennedy winning 55 to 45% in a then-hypothetical general election race against Nixon. [3] The survey also demonstrated Kennedy to have a strong lead in California among Catholics, who constituted one-fifth of the state's populace. [3] Kennedy, however, remained undecided as to whether or not he would compete in the state's ...