1960 United States presidential election in Missouri

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1960 United States presidential election in Missouri
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  1956 November 8, 1960 [1] 1964  
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Nominee John F. Kennedy Richard Nixon
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Massachusetts California
Running mate Lyndon B. Johnson Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Electoral vote130
Popular vote972,201962,221
Percentage50.26%49.74%

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County Results

President before election

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

Elected President

John F. Kennedy
Democratic

The 1960 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 [2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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In the nation's third-closest race, Missouri was won by Senator John F. Kennedy (DMassachusetts), running with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 50.26 percent of the popular vote against incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (RCalifornia), running with United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., with 49.74 percent of the popular vote. [3] [4] As of the 2020 presidential election , this is the last election in which Osage County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. [5] It also remains the most recent election in which a Northern Democrat has carried Missouri. The only subsequent Democratic nominees to carry the state have been from the South (Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, Jimmy Carter of Georgia, and Bill Clinton of neighboring Arkansas)--although Northern Democrat Barack Obama of neighboring Illinois came very close to winning it in 2008, losing it by a razor-thin margin of 0.13 points or fewer than 4,000 votes.

A 101,000-vote margin in Kennedy's favor in St. Louis was nearly 10 times Kennedy's statewide margin.

Results

1960 United States presidential election in Missouri
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic John F. Kennedy 972,201 50.26%
Republican Richard Nixon 962,22149.74%
Total votes1,934,422 100%

Results by county

CountyJohn F. Kennedy
Democratic
Richard Nixon
Republican
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %
Adair 3,16036.62%5,46963.38%-2,309-26.76%8,629
Andrew 2,17036.87%3,71663.13%-1,546-26.26%5,886
Atchison 2,16744.90%2,65955.10%-492-10.20%4,826
Audrain 6,41056.40%4,95543.60%1,45512.80%11,365
Barry 3,91936.88%6,70663.12%-2,787-26.24%10,625
Barton 2,41739.49%3,70360.51%-1,286-21.02%6,120
Bates 3,90641.84%5,42958.16%-1,523-16.32%9,335
Benton 1,49630.04%3,48469.96%-1,988-39.92%4,980
Bollinger 1,93540.14%2,88659.86%-951-19.72%4,821
Boone 11,51452.41%10,45347.59%1,0614.82%21,967
Buchanan 19,34847.43%21,44852.57%-2,100-5.14%40,796
Butler 5,40638.19%8,75161.81%-3,345-23.62%14,157
Caldwell 1,73635.79%3,11564.21%-1,379-28.42%4,851
Callaway 5,34456.86%4,05443.14%1,29013.72%9,398
Camden 1,75933.39%3,50966.61%-1,750-33.22%5,268
Cape Girardeau 8,17241.90%11,33158.10%-3,159-16.20%19,503
Carroll 3,29641.98%4,55558.02%-1,259-16.04%7,851
Carter 68339.43%1,04960.57%-366-21.14%1,732
Cass 5,71846.71%6,52353.29%-805-6.58%12,241
Cedar 1,54729.32%3,73070.68%-2,183-41.36%5,277
Chariton 3,55053.37%3,10246.63%4486.74%6,652
Christian 1,62225.96%4,62774.04%-3,005-48.08%6,249
Clark 2,03943.56%2,64256.44%-603-12.88%4,681
Clay 17,31847.74%18,95552.26%-1,637-4.52%36,273
Clinton 3,16748.29%3,39151.71%-224-3.42%6,558
Cole 8,53246.64%9,76353.36%-1,231-6.72%18,295
Cooper 3,85845.23%4,67254.77%-814-9.54%8,530
Crawford 2,38737.00%4,06563.00%-1,678-26.00%6,452
Dade 1,21728.95%2,98771.05%-1,770-42.10%4,204
Dallas 1,48229.62%3,52270.38%-2,040-40.76%5,004
Daviess 2,22041.03%3,19158.97%-971-17.94%5,411
DeKalb 1,69740.59%2,48459.41%-787-18.82%4,181
Dent 2,59344.67%3,21255.33%-619-10.66%5,805
Douglas 1,01421.92%3,61178.08%-2,597-56.16%4,625
Dunklin 6,56849.47%6,70850.53%-140-1.06%13,276
Franklin 10,32447.07%11,61052.93%-1,286-5.86%21,934
Gasconade 1,65125.38%4,85474.62%-3,203-49.24%6,505
Gentry 2,43945.79%2,88854.21%-449-8.42%5,327
Greene 20,45735.64%36,94364.36%-16,486-28.72%57,400
Grundy 2,41535.32%4,42264.68%-2,007-29.36%6,837
Harrison 2,20034.56%4,16665.44%-1,966-30.88%6,366
Henry 4,60143.35%6,01256.65%-1,411-13.30%10,613
Hickory 61524.60%1,88575.40%-1,270-50.80%2,500
Holt 1,55136.31%2,72063.69%-1,169-27.38%4,271
Howard 3,30261.41%2,07538.59%1,22722.82%5,377
Howell 2,73427.82%7,09572.18%-4,361-44.36%9,829
Iron 1,85146.59%2,12253.41%-271-6.82%3,973
Jackson 142,86953.62%123,58946.38%19,2807.24%266,458
Jasper 14,96240.70%21,80459.30%-6,842-18.60%36,766
Jefferson 17,05456.91%12,91043.09%4,14413.82%29,964
Johnson 4,71240.34%6,97059.66%-2,258-19.32%11,682
Knox 1,79648.94%1,87451.06%-78-2.12%3,670
Laclede 3,15635.22%5,80564.78%-2,649-29.56%8,961
Lafayette 5,55540.95%8,01159.05%-2,456-18.10%13,566
Lawrence 4,48334.78%8,40665.22%-3,923-30.44%12,889
Lewis 2,72651.57%2,56048.43%1663.14%5,286
Lincoln 3,79352.22%3,47147.78%3224.44%7,264
Linn 4,53447.13%5,08652.87%-552-5.74%9,620
Livingston 3,79542.93%5,04557.07%-1,250-14.14%8,840
Macon 4,20846.07%4,92553.93%-717-7.86%9,133
Madison 1,87438.77%2,96061.23%-1,086-22.46%4,834
Maries 1,71650.47%1,68449.53%320.94%3,400
Marion 6,75851.24%6,43148.76%3272.48%13,189
McDonald 2,49638.69%3,95561.31%-1,459-22.62%6,451
Mercer 1,14632.74%2,35467.26%-1,208-34.52%3,500
Miller 2,58436.57%4,48263.43%-1,898-26.86%7,066
Mississippi 3,85559.45%2,62940.55%1,22618.90%6,484
Moniteau 2,27139.68%3,45360.32%-1,182-20.64%5,724
Monroe 4,01172.53%1,51927.47%2,49245.06%5,530
Montgomery 2,80444.81%3,45455.19%-650-10.38%6,258
Morgan 1,97937.93%3,23962.07%-1,260-24.14%5,218
New Madrid 7,37363.68%4,20536.32%3,16827.36%11,578
Newton 5,67838.66%9,01061.34%-3,332-22.68%14,688
Nodaway 5,31847.02%5,99352.98%-675-5.96%11,311
Oregon 1,93449.49%1,97450.51%-40-1.02%3,908
Osage 2,90051.99%2,67848.01%2223.98%5,578
Ozark 72121.74%2,59578.26%-1,874-56.52%3,316
Pemiscot 7,31262.09%4,46437.91%2,84824.18%11,776
Perry 2,99143.49%3,88656.51%-895-13.02%6,877
Pettis 6,99743.56%9,06656.44%-2,069-12.88%16,063
Phelps 4,57644.69%5,66355.31%-1,087-10.62%10,239
Pike 4,09651.23%3,90048.77%1962.46%7,996
Platte 5,86055.12%4,77144.88%1,08910.24%10,631
Polk 2,44033.48%4,84966.52%-2,409-33.04%7,289
Pulaski 3,09648.52%3,28551.48%-189-2.96%6,381
Putnam 1,06028.11%2,71171.89%-1,651-43.78%3,771
Ralls 2,49562.69%1,48537.31%1,01025.38%3,980
Randolph 6,43460.62%4,18039.38%2,25421.24%10,614
Ray 4,56556.31%3,54243.69%1,02312.62%8,107
Reynolds 1,04447.82%1,13952.18%-95-4.36%2,183
Ripley 1,71737.92%2,81162.08%-1,094-24.16%4,528
St. Charles 11,89052.20%10,88847.80%1,0024.40%22,778
St. Clair 1,86536.85%3,19663.15%-1,331-26.30%5,061
St. Francois 7,20541.56%10,13158.44%-2,926-16.88%17,336
St. Louis 166,50851.31%157,99248.69%8,5162.62%324,500
St. Louis City 202,31966.63%101,33133.37%100,98833.26%303,650
Ste. Genevieve 3,21162.14%1,95637.86%1,25524.28%5,167
Saline 5,96949.52%6,08550.48%-116-0.96%12,054
Schuyler 1,36144.96%1,66655.04%-305-10.08%3,027
Scotland 1,88449.80%1,89950.20%-15-0.40%3,783
Scott 6,34952.23%5,80747.77%5424.46%12,156
Shannon 1,38649.24%1,42950.76%-43-1.52%2,815
Shelby 2,87058.19%2,06241.81%80816.38%4,932
Stoddard 5,31745.51%6,36654.49%-1,049-8.98%11,683
Stone 89021.76%3,20178.24%-2,311-56.48%4,091
Sullivan 2,50443.88%3,20256.12%-698-12.24%5,706
Taney 1,43928.05%3,69271.95%-2,253-43.90%5,131
Texas 3,60640.68%5,25859.32%-1,652-18.64%8,864
Vernon 4,18643.73%5,38756.27%-1,201-12.54%9,573
Warren 1,40732.32%2,94667.68%-1,539-35.36%4,353
Washington 2,64943.53%3,43756.47%-788-12.94%6,086
Wayne 2,15241.22%3,06958.78%-917-17.56%5,221
Webster 2,70737.03%4,60362.97%-1,896-25.94%7,310
Worth 1,32349.40%1,35550.60%-32-1.20%2,678
Wright 1,95327.34%5,19172.66%-3,238-45.32%7,144
Totals972,20150.26%962,22149.74%9,9800.52%1,934,422

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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