1960 United States presidential election in Indiana
November 8, 1960
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A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of the vice president of the United States Richard Nixon and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. defeated the Democratic ticket of the junior U.S. senator from Massachusetts John F. Kennedy and the senior U.S. senator from Texas Lyndon B. Johnson. Kennedy defeated Nixon in the national election with 303 electoral votes.[2]
Primary elections
Republican Party
Nixon faced only token opposition from Frank R. Beckwith, an African American lawyer from Indianapolis. Although certain to carry the state's 32 delegates, the low stakes caused Nixon's supporters to worry that a small turnout could damage the candidate's public image in the days leading up to the primary.[3]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 408,408 | 95.40 | |
| Republican | Frank R. Beckwith | 19,677 | 4.60 | |
| Total votes | 428,085 | 100.00 | ||
Democratic Party
Kennedy campaign director Larry O'Brien visited Indiana in April 1959. He found that the field was relatively clear in the state, with only whispers of a possible favorite son candidacy by freshman U.S. senator Vance Hartke. While O'Brien determined that "there was no great groundswell for Kennedy" in Indiana, he found no evidence of a serious effort by Kennedy's rivals to contest the state. The absence of the other candidates allowed Kennedy to establish an early, commanding lead in the race for the state's 34 delegates.[5]
Despite running effectively unopposed, Kennedy's Catholicism was a significant liability in the primary.[5] Kennedy faced two paper candidates—retired pipefitter John H. Latham of Rockville, Indiana, and perennial candidate Lar Daly—who together polled nearly 19 percent of the primary vote. Significant voter rolloff, when combined with the votes for Latham and Daly, suggested that as many as one in four Democratic primary voters did not vote for Kennedy.[6]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | John F. Kennedy | 353,832 | 81.01 | |
| Democratic | John H. Latham | 42,084 | 9.64 | |
| Democratic | Lar Daly | 40,853 | 9.35 | |
| Total votes | 436,769 | 100.00 | ||
General election
Results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Richard Nixon Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. |
1,175,120 | 55.03 | 4.87 | |
| Democratic | John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson |
952,358 | 44.60 | 4.90 | |
| Prohibition | Rutherford Decker E. Harold Munn |
6,746 | 0.32 | 0.01 | |
| Socialist Labor | Eric Hass Georgia Cozzini |
1,136 | 0.05 | 0.02 | |
| Total votes | 2,135,360 | 100.00 | |||
Results by county
| County | Richard Nixon Republican |
John F. Kennedy Democratic |
Others | Margin | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
| Adams | 6,972 | 61.11% | 4,338 | 38.02% | 99 | 0.87% | 2,634 | 23.09% | 11,409 |
| Allen | 60,103 | 60.33% | 39,235 | 39.39% | 280 | 0.28% | 20,868 | 20.94% | 99,618 |
| Bartholomew | 13,606 | 59.09% | 9,290 | 40.35% | 130 | 0.56% | 4,316 | 18.74% | 23,026 |
| Benton | 3,626 | 60.11% | 2,399 | 39.77% | 7 | 0.12% | 1,227 | 20.34% | 6,032 |
| Blackford | 3,738 | 53.33% | 3,228 | 46.06% | 43 | 0.61% | 510 | 7.27% | 7,009 |
| Boone | 8,979 | 62.28% | 5,377 | 37.30% | 60 | 0.42% | 3,602 | 24.98% | 14,416 |
| Brown | 1,679 | 51.76% | 1,533 | 47.26% | 32 | 0.99% | 146 | 4.50% | 3,244 |
| Carroll | 5,411 | 61.88% | 3,299 | 37.73% | 34 | 0.39% | 2,112 | 24.15% | 8,744 |
| Cass | 11,392 | 58.19% | 8,091 | 41.33% | 94 | 0.48% | 3,301 | 16.86% | 19,577 |
| Clark | 12,803 | 46.89% | 14,431 | 52.85% | 70 | 0.26% | -1,628 | -5.96% | 27,304 |
| Clay | 7,434 | 57.92% | 5,342 | 41.62% | 58 | 0.45% | 2,092 | 16.30% | 12,834 |
| Clinton | 9,620 | 59.32% | 6,533 | 40.28% | 64 | 0.39% | 3,087 | 19.04% | 16,217 |
| Crawford | 2,915 | 55.47% | 2,305 | 43.86% | 35 | 0.67% | 610 | 11.61% | 5,255 |
| Daviess | 8,285 | 60.20% | 5,433 | 39.48% | 45 | 0.33% | 2,852 | 20.72% | 13,763 |
| Dearborn | 7,619 | 54.99% | 6,216 | 44.87% | 19 | 0.14% | 1,403 | 10.12% | 13,854 |
| Decatur | 6,240 | 60.17% | 4,080 | 39.34% | 50 | 0.48% | 2,160 | 20.83% | 10,370 |
| DeKalb | 8,957 | 62.66% | 5,277 | 36.92% | 61 | 0.43% | 3,680 | 25.74% | 14,295 |
| Delaware | 26,167 | 52.75% | 23,266 | 46.90% | 177 | 0.36% | 2,901 | 5.85% | 49,610 |
| Dubois | 5,117 | 38.32% | 8,214 | 61.51% | 22 | 0.16% | -3,097 | -23.19% | 13,353 |
| Elkhart | 28,056 | 62.77% | 16,264 | 36.39% | 373 | 0.83% | 11,792 | 26.38% | 44,693 |
| Fayette | 6,729 | 55.97% | 5,246 | 43.63% | 48 | 0.40% | 1,483 | 12.34% | 12,023 |
| Floyd | 11,629 | 48.38% | 12,346 | 51.36% | 62 | 0.26% | -717 | -2.98% | 24,037 |
| Fountain | 6,123 | 58.71% | 4,277 | 41.01% | 29 | 0.28% | 1,846 | 17.70% | 10,429 |
| Franklin | 4,108 | 53.73% | 3,523 | 46.08% | 14 | 0.18% | 585 | 7.65% | 7,645 |
| Fulton | 6,038 | 66.11% | 3,047 | 33.36% | 48 | 0.53% | 2,991 | 32.75% | 9,133 |
| Gibson | 8,838 | 53.89% | 7,479 | 45.61% | 82 | 0.50% | 1,359 | 8.28% | 16,399 |
| Grant | 19,021 | 57.92% | 13,642 | 41.54% | 178 | 0.54% | 5,379 | 16.38% | 32,841 |
| Greene | 8,810 | 57.81% | 6,325 | 41.51% | 104 | 0.68% | 2,485 | 16.30% | 15,239 |
| Hamilton | 13,409 | 70.63% | 5,511 | 29.03% | 64 | 0.34% | 7,898 | 41.60% | 18,984 |
| Hancock | 7,543 | 60.21% | 4,930 | 39.35% | 55 | 0.44% | 2,613 | 20.86% | 12,528 |
| Harrison | 5,374 | 53.80% | 4,566 | 45.71% | 49 | 0.49% | 808 | 8.09% | 9,989 |
| Hendricks | 12,490 | 65.51% | 6,481 | 33.99% | 95 | 0.50% | 6,009 | 31.52% | 19,066 |
| Henry | 13,752 | 58.44% | 9,629 | 40.92% | 149 | 0.63% | 4,123 | 17.52% | 23,530 |
| Howard | 17,938 | 56.94% | 13,415 | 42.58% | 149 | 0.47% | 4,523 | 14.36% | 31,502 |
| Huntington | 10,658 | 59.44% | 7,163 | 39.95% | 109 | 0.61% | 3,495 | 19.49% | 17,930 |
| Jackson | 8,213 | 55.27% | 6,582 | 44.29% | 66 | 0.44% | 1,631 | 10.98% | 14,861 |
| Jasper | 5,364 | 64.32% | 2,959 | 35.48% | 16 | 0.19% | 2,405 | 28.84% | 8,339 |
| Jay | 6,519 | 56.73% | 4,899 | 42.63% | 74 | 0.64% | 1,620 | 14.10% | 11,492 |
| Jefferson | 6,333 | 55.11% | 5,119 | 44.54% | 40 | 0.35% | 1,214 | 10.57% | 11,492 |
| Jennings | 4,478 | 56.63% | 3,403 | 43.03% | 27 | 0.34% | 1,075 | 13.60% | 7,908 |
| Johnson | 12,426 | 62.38% | 7,400 | 37.15% | 93 | 0.47% | 5,026 | 25.23% | 19,919 |
| Knox | 11,490 | 53.40% | 9,918 | 46.10% | 108 | 0.50% | 1,572 | 7.30% | 21,516 |
| Kosciusko | 13,539 | 69.11% | 5,839 | 29.80% | 213 | 1.09% | 7,700 | 39.31% | 19,591 |
| LaGrange | 4,433 | 69.03% | 1,965 | 30.60% | 24 | 0.37% | 2,468 | 38.43% | 6,422 |
| Lake | 78,278 | 37.04% | 132,554 | 62.72% | 526 | 0.25% | -54,276 | -25.68% | 211,358 |
| LaPorte | 22,738 | 52.71% | 20,317 | 47.10% | 85 | 0.20% | 2,421 | 5.61% | 43,140 |
| Lawrence | 11,119 | 61.15% | 6,977 | 38.37% | 86 | 0.47% | 4,142 | 22.78% | 18,182 |
| Madison | 31,098 | 52.31% | 28,154 | 47.36% | 193 | 0.32% | 2,944 | 4.95% | 59,445 |
| Marion | 166,202 | 57.67% | 121,336 | 42.10% | 668 | 0.23% | 44,866 | 15.57% | 288,206 |
| Marshall | 10,460 | 62.47% | 6,210 | 37.09% | 74 | 0.44% | 4,250 | 25.38% | 16,744 |
| Martin | 2,756 | 51.55% | 2,585 | 48.35% | 5 | 0.09% | 171 | 3.20% | 5,346 |
| Miami | 8,844 | 58.45% | 6,191 | 40.92% | 96 | 0.63% | 2,653 | 17.53% | 15,131 |
| Monroe | 14,513 | 65.42% | 7,535 | 33.97% | 136 | 0.61% | 6,978 | 31.45% | 22,184 |
| Montgomery | 10,957 | 66.36% | 5,477 | 33.17% | 77 | 0.47% | 5,480 | 33.19% | 16,511 |
| Morgan | 9,416 | 63.36% | 5,375 | 36.17% | 69 | 0.46% | 4,041 | 27.19% | 14,860 |
| Newton | 3,517 | 65.12% | 1,870 | 34.62% | 14 | 0.26% | 1,647 | 30.50% | 5,401 |
| Noble | 8,069 | 60.27% | 5,264 | 39.32% | 54 | 0.40% | 2,805 | 20.95% | 13,387 |
| Ohio | 1,314 | 56.25% | 1,015 | 43.45% | 7 | 0.30% | 299 | 12.80% | 2,336 |
| Orange | 5,589 | 59.19% | 3,818 | 40.44% | 35 | 0.37% | 1,771 | 18.75% | 9,442 |
| Owen | 3,700 | 60.38% | 2,379 | 38.82% | 49 | 0.80% | 1,321 | 21.56% | 6,128 |
| Parke | 4,662 | 57.94% | 3,361 | 41.77% | 23 | 0.29% | 1,301 | 16.17% | 8,046 |
| Perry | 4,372 | 46.97% | 4,920 | 52.86% | 16 | 0.17% | -548 | -5.89% | 9,308 |
| Pike | 4,606 | 59.69% | 3,046 | 39.48% | 64 | 0.83% | 1,560 | 20.21% | 7,716 |
| Porter | 15,666 | 59.18% | 10,733 | 40.54% | 75 | 0.28% | 4,933 | 18.64% | 26,474 |
| Posey | 5,369 | 54.47% | 4,457 | 45.22% | 31 | 0.31% | 912 | 9.25% | 9,857 |
| Pulaski | 3,905 | 57.67% | 2,746 | 40.56% | 120 | 1.77% | 1,159 | 17.11% | 6,771 |
| Putnam | 6,583 | 57.63% | 4,798 | 42.00% | 42 | 0.37% | 1,785 | 15.63% | 11,423 |
| Randolph | 9,528 | 64.92% | 5,035 | 34.31% | 114 | 0.78% | 4,493 | 30.61% | 14,677 |
| Ripley | 6,053 | 55.95% | 4,730 | 43.72% | 35 | 0.32% | 1,323 | 12.23% | 10,818 |
| Rush | 6,215 | 63.54% | 3,516 | 35.94% | 51 | 0.52% | 2,699 | 27.60% | 9,782 |
| St. Joseph | 53,621 | 45.64% | 63,553 | 54.09% | 325 | 0.28% | -9,932 | -8.45% | 117,499 |
| Scott | 3,213 | 50.99% | 3,064 | 48.63% | 24 | 0.38% | 149 | 2.36% | 6,301 |
| Shelby | 9,421 | 56.75% | 7,111 | 42.83% | 70 | 0.42% | 2,310 | 13.92% | 16,602 |
| Spencer | 5,050 | 53.88% | 4,303 | 45.91% | 20 | 0.21% | 747 | 7.97% | 9,373 |
| Starke | 4,592 | 53.28% | 3,995 | 46.35% | 32 | 0.37% | 597 | 6.93% | 8,619 |
| Steuben | 5,464 | 67.63% | 2,588 | 32.03% | 27 | 0.33% | 2,876 | 35.60% | 8,079 |
| Sullivan | 6,012 | 49.85% | 5,975 | 49.54% | 73 | 0.61% | 37 | 0.31% | 12,060 |
| Switzerland | 1,929 | 49.40% | 1,955 | 50.06% | 21 | 0.54% | -26 | -0.66% | 3,905 |
| Tippecanoe | 24,572 | 63.55% | 14,041 | 36.31% | 55 | 0.14% | 10,531 | 27.24% | 38,668 |
| Tipton | 4,924 | 59.88% | 3,299 | 40.12% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,625 | 19.76% | 8,223 |
| Union | 2,087 | 63.73% | 1,180 | 36.03% | 8 | 0.24% | 907 | 27.70% | 3,275 |
| Vanderburgh | 41,068 | 52.90% | 36,330 | 46.80% | 237 | 0.31% | 4,738 | 6.10% | 77,635 |
| Vermillion | 4,798 | 46.92% | 5,391 | 52.71% | 38 | 0.37% | -593 | -5.79% | 10,227 |
| Vigo | 24,940 | 49.70% | 25,105 | 50.03% | 133 | 0.27% | -165 | -0.33% | 50,178 |
| Wabash | 10,420 | 68.12% | 4,788 | 31.30% | 89 | 0.58% | 5,632 | 36.82% | 15,297 |
| Warren | 2,870 | 64.29% | 1,574 | 35.26% | 20 | 0.45% | 1,296 | 29.03% | 4,464 |
| Warrick | 6,482 | 56.10% | 5,042 | 43.64% | 30 | 0.26% | 1,440 | 12.46% | 11,554 |
| Washington | 5,057 | 56.74% | 3,821 | 42.87% | 35 | 0.39% | 1,236 | 13.87% | 8,913 |
| Wayne | 19,764 | 60.66% | 12,721 | 39.05% | 95 | 0.29% | 7,043 | 21.61% | 32,580 |
| Wells | 6,034 | 58.91% | 4,128 | 40.30% | 80 | 0.78% | 1,906 | 18.61% | 10,242 |
| White | 6,678 | 62.93% | 3,914 | 36.88% | 20 | 0.19% | 2,764 | 26.05% | 10,612 |
| Whitley | 6,621 | 60.50% | 4,266 | 38.98% | 56 | 0.51% | 2,355 | 21.52% | 10,943 |
| TOTAL | 1,175,120 | 55.03% | 952,358 | 44.60% | 7,882 | 0.37% | 222,762 | 10.43% | 2,135,360 |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
See also
Notes
- ^ Excluding Lake County, Indiana, which did not report the total number of registered voters. The General Election Report of the secretary of state of Indiana shows 2,013,887 registered voters in the 91 remaining counties, but the county figures add up to 2,354,856.[1]
References
- ^ Hendricks 1960, pp. 35–36.
- ^ Petersen 1963, p. 113.
- ^ "Nixon Backers Worry in Indiana". New York Times. May 1, 1960.
- ^ a b McGillivray & Scammon 1994, p. 915.
- ^ a b Oliphant & Wilkie 2017, p. 157–58.
- ^
- "Nixon Backers Worry in Indiana". New York Times. May 1, 1960.
- "Survey Shows 30,000 Failed of Full Vote". Decatur Daily Democrat. May 6, 1960.
- ^ a b Hendricks 1960, p. 5.
Bibliography
- Hendricks, Charles O. (1960). Annual Election Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Indiana: 1960 General Election Statistics. Indianapolis: Indiana Secretary of State.
- McGillivray, Alice V.; Scammon, Richard M. (1994). America at the Polls, 1960–1992: Kennedy to Clinton; A Handbook of American Presidential Election Statistics. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly.
- Oliphant, Thomas; Wilkie, Curtis (2017). The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK's Five-Year Campaign. New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Petersen, Svend (1963). A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company. LCCN 62-21786.