1972 United States presidential election in Idaho

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1972 United States presidential election in Idaho
Flag of Idaho.svg
  1968 November 7, 1972 [1] 1976  
  Richard Nixon presidential portrait (1).jpg George McGovern (D-SD) (3x4-1).jpg John G. Schmitz (cropped 3x4).jpg
Nominee Richard Nixon George McGovern John G. Schmitz
Party Republican Democratic American Independent
Home state California South Dakota California
Running mate Spiro Agnew Sargent Shriver Thomas J. Anderson
Electoral vote400
Popular vote199,38480,82628,869
Percentage64.24%26.04%9.30%

Idaho Presidential Election Results 1972.svg
County Results
Nixon
  50-60%
  60-70%
  70-80%

The 1972 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Idaho voters chose four [2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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Idaho was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (RCalifornia), with 64.2 percent of the popular vote, against George McGovern (DSouth Dakota), with 26.0% of the popular vote. [3] [4]

In a state that would reflect McGovern's national results, [5] [6] the Democratic nominee did not win a single county in Idaho. In fact, John G. Schmitz, running under the "American Independent" banner as a remnant of George Wallace's 1968 campaign, ran second ahead of McGovern in Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi and Madison Counties. [7] Although due to the salience of the civil rights issue there had occurred numerous cases of unpledged and "Dixiecrat" candidates receiving almost the entire vote of Deep Southern counties, and a smaller number in other antebellum slave states, Schmitz' performances in Jefferson County was at the time the best by a third-party presidential candidate in any non-Southern county since 1936 when William Lemke reached over twenty-eight percent of the vote in the North Dakota counties of Burke, Sheridan and Hettinger. [8] With 9.30% of the popular vote, Idaho would be Schmitz's strongest state in the 1972 election. [9]

Nixon was the first Republican to sweep all Idaho's counties since Warren G. Harding in 1920, the first to carry Clearwater and Lewis Counties since Herbert Hoover in 1928, whilst the previous occasion the Republicans had won adjacent Nez Perce County was Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. [10]

Results

1972 United States presidential election in Idaho
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Richard Nixon (inc.) 199,384 64.24%
Democratic George McGovern 80,82626.04%
American Independent John G. Schmitz 28,8699.30%
Peace and Freedom Benjamin Spock 9030.29%
Socialist Workers Linda Jenness 3970.13%
Total votes310,379 100.00%

Results by county

CountyRichard Milhous Nixon
Republican
George Stanley McGovern
Democratic
John George Schmitz [11]
American Independent
Various candidates [11]
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %
Ada 36,66567.51%12,68723.36%4,7278.70%2320.43%23,97844.15%54,311
Adams 96367.77%29320.62%16211.40%30.21%67047.15%1,421
Bannock 12,85657.93%7,84035.33%1,3486.07%1470.66%5,01622.60%22,191
Bear Lake 2,21369.48%71622.48%2517.88%50.16%1,49747.00%3,185
Benewah 1,49455.54%1,06239.48%1294.80%50.19%43216.06%2,690
Bingham 6,88664.33%2,47623.13%1,31212.26%310.29%4,41041.20%10,705
Blaine 2,11360.98%1,24035.79%972.80%150.43%87325.19%3,465
Boise 67666.27%25625.10%868.43%20.20%42041.18%1,020
Bonner 4,40557.47%2,59933.91%6328.25%290.38%1,80623.56%7,665
Bonneville 13,13461.19%4,19919.56%4,07318.97%600.28%8,93541.62%21,466
Boundary 1,58759.26%86032.11%2188.14%130.49%72727.15%2,678
Butte 78856.45%38727.72%22015.76%10.07%40128.72%1,396
Camas 34474.30%9520.52%245.18%00.00%24953.78%463
Canyon 18,38368.45%5,63020.96%2,76910.31%750.28%12,75347.48%26,857
Caribou 2,06969.95%61420.76%2749.26%10.03%1,45549.19%2,958
Cassia 4,57674.26%1,08017.53%4737.68%330.54%3,49656.73%6,162
Clark 33974.34%6414.04%5211.40%10.22%27560.31%456
Clearwater 1,59050.67%1,41245.00%1123.57%240.76%1785.67%3,138
Custer 98969.06%27419.13%16611.59%30.21%71549.93%1,432
Elmore 3,07866.55%1,15324.93%3828.26%120.26%1,92541.62%4,625
Franklin 2,78771.59%61115.69%49012.59%50.13%2,17655.90%3,893
Fremont 2,62161.38%81919.18%82519.32%50.12%1,796 [lower-alpha 1] 42.06%4,270
Gem 2,71761.32%1,06924.13%63714.38%80.18%1,64837.19%4,431
Gooding 3,12470.73%1,03023.32%2565.80%70.16%2,09447.41%4,417
Idaho 3,23562.20%1,62231.19%3306.34%140.27%1,61331.01%5,201
Jefferson 2,98358.38%71513.99%1,40627.51%60.12%1,577 [lower-alpha 1] 30.86%5,110
Jerome 3,66175.11%88818.22%3166.48%90.18%2,77356.89%4,874
Kootenai 9,95861.33%5,16231.79%1,0766.63%420.26%4,79629.54%16,238
Latah 6,04355.35%4,54841.66%2682.45%590.54%1,49513.69%10,918
Lemhi 1,81261.99%52618.00%57819.77%70.24%1,234 [lower-alpha 1] 42.22%2,923
Lewis 96156.97%63537.64%855.04%60.36%32619.32%1,687
Lincoln 1,12074.37%31320.78%664.38%70.46%80753.59%1,506
Madison 3,60669.13%71013.61%88917.04%110.21%2,717 [lower-alpha 1] 52.09%5,216
Minidoka 4,09768.66%1,42323.85%4307.21%170.28%2,67444.81%5,967
Nez Perce 6,23252.19%5,08142.55%4333.63%1951.63%1,1519.64%11,941
Oneida 1,20471.45%40223.86%774.57%20.12%80247.60%1,685
Owyhee 1,63070.14%46319.92%2299.85%20.09%1,16750.22%2,324
Payette 3,57767.85%1,11321.11%56510.72%170.32%2,46446.74%5,272
Power 1,40564.45%62528.67%1426.51%80.37%78035.78%2,180
Shoshone 3,86853.67%3,02041.90%2863.97%330.46%84811.77%7,207
Teton 93268.58%29821.93%1299.49%00.00%63446.65%1,359
Twin Falls 13,07573.98%3,34418.92%1,1276.38%1270.72%9,73155.06%17,673
Valley 1,32461.55%53724.97%28013.02%100.46%78736.59%2,151
Washington 2,26462.33%93525.74%42211.62%110.30%1,32936.59%3,632
Totals199,38464.24%80,82626.04%28,8699.30%1,3000.42%118,55838.20%310,379

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 In this county where Schmitz ran second ahead of McGovern, margin given is Nixon vote minus Schmitz vote and percentage margin Nixon percent minus Schmitz percent.

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