1960 United States presidential election in Maryland
November 8, 1960[1]
 
Nominee John F. Kennedy Richard Nixon
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Massachusetts California
Running mate Lyndon B. Johnson Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Electoral vote 9 0
Popular vote 565,811 489,538
Percentage 53.61% 46.39%
County Results
President before election

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Republican

 Elected President

John F. Kennedy
Democratic

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

Maryland was won by Senator John F. Kennedy (D–Massachusetts), running with Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 53.61% of the popular vote against incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), running with former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., with 46.39% of the popular vote.[3][4]

This is the last time that the losing candidate won a majority of the vote in Kent County. This also marks the last time the Democratic candidate won a majority of the vote in Dorchester County, as it would become the only county in the state to flip from Kennedy to Goldwater and vote Republican thereafter except for a plurality victory by Bill Clinton in 1996.[5]

In this election, Maryland was 7.07% more Democratic than the nation at-large.[6]

Results

1960 United States presidential election in Maryland
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic John F. Kennedy 565,808 53.61%
Republican Richard Nixon 489,538 46.39%
Write-in 3 0.00%
Total votes 1,055,349 100%

Results by county

County John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic		 Richard Milhous Nixon
Republican		 Margin Total votes cast[7]
#  % #  % #  %
Allegany 13,701 40.07% 20,489 59.93% -6,788 -19.85% 34,190
Anne Arundel 26,063 46.00% 30,595 54.00% -4,532 -8.00% 56,658
Baltimore 94,396 49.57% 96,027 50.43% -1,631 -0.86% 190,423
Baltimore City 202,752 63.87% 114,705 36.13% 88,047 27.74% 317,457
Calvert 2,535 54.07% 2,153 45.93% 382 8.15% 4,688
Caroline 3,381 47.76% 3,698 52.24% -317 -4.48% 7,079
Carroll 5,763 33.49% 11,445 66.51% -5,682 -33.02% 17,208
Cecil 6,065 45.15% 7,368 54.85% -1,303 -9.70% 13,433
Charles 5,482 54.59% 4,560 45.41% 922 9.18% 10,042
Dorchester 4,964 51.76% 4,626 48.24% 338 3.52% 9,590
Frederick 9,910 42.50% 13,408 57.50% -3,498 -15.00% 23,319[lower-alpha 1]
Garrett 2,357 31.79% 5,057 68.21% -2,700 -36.42% 7,414
Harford 9,293 43.46% 12,090 56.54% -2,797 -13.08% 21,383
Howard 5,412 43.42% 7,051 56.57% -1,639 -13.15% 12,465[lower-alpha 2]
Kent 3,079 48.54% 3,264 51.46% -185 -2.92% 6,343
Montgomery 66,025 51.54% 62,079 48.46% 3,946 3.08% 128,104
Prince George's 62,013 58.05% 44,817 41.95% 17,196 16.10% 106,830
Queen Anne's 3,129 51.85% 2,906 48.15% 223 3.70% 6,035
Somerset 3,948 49.49% 4,030 50.51% -82 -1.03% 7,978
St. Mary's 5,752 65.13% 3,080 34.87% 2,672 30.25% 8,832
Talbot 3,462 40.94% 4,995 59.06% -1,533 -18.13% 8,457
Washington 15,632 46.72% 17,828 53.28% -2,196 -6.56% 33,460
Wicomico 7,350 45.88% 8,671 54.12% -1,321 -8.25% 16,021
Worcester 3,347 45.71% 3,976 54.29% -629 -8.59% 7,323
Totals565,81153.65%488,91846.35%76,8937.29%1,054,729

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ One write-in vote was recorded form this county.
  2. ↑ Two write-in votes were recorded form this county.

References

  1. ↑ "United States Presidential election of 1960 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ "1960 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65)". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ "1960 Presidential General Election Results - Maryland". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1960". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Maryland - Google Drive". docs.google.com. Retrieved August 27, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  7. ↑ Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; p. 211 ISBN 0405077114
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