1960 United States presidential election in New York

none June 2025 September 2023 1960 United States presidential election in New York New York Flag of New York (1909–2020).svg presidential no 1956 United States presidential election in New York 1956 1964 United States presidential election in New York 1964 66.9%Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, p. 1072. 1.0 pp November 8, 1960 x200px Jfk2 (3x4).jpg John F. Kennedy Democratic Party (United States) Liberal Massachusetts Lyndon B. Johnson 45 3,830,085 52.53% Richard Nixon official portrait as Vice President (cropped).tiff Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) California Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. 0 3,446,419 47.27% 400px 400px County results Kennedy #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% Nixon #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% President Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican John F. Kennedy Democratic 1960 United States presidential election thumb|right|Jack Paar interviewing John F. Kennedy on New York City's The Tonight Show, 1959. The 1960 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 8, 1960. All 50 states were part of the 1960 United States presidential election. Voters chose 45 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. New York was won by Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who was running against incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. Kennedy was running with Texas Senator, and his strongest opponent in the 1960 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Lyndon B. Johnson for vice president, and Nixon ran with internationally popular former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. 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.http://uselectionatlas.org Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections Uselectionatlas.org 2013-07-13 In typical form for the time, the highly populated centers of New York City, Buffalo, and Albany, voted primarily Democratic, while the suburban areas such as Nassau and Westchester and the rural counties in New York turned out for Nixon as the Republican candidate. Kennedy won the election in New York by a solid 5-point margin, representing a dramatic shift toward the Democratic Party in the state: just four years earlier, Dwight Eisenhower had carried New York State for the Republicans with over 60% of the vote. The results of this election in New York are typical of the nationwide trend of the urbanization of the Democratic Party, and Kennedy's dominance in heavily populated New York City was a vital component to his victory in the state. Kennedy took 62.62% of the overall vote in New York City, to Nixon's 37.04%, and carried four out of five boroughs. Kennedy's victory in Queens, in the midst of a virtual tie nationwide, marked a dramatic turning point for the heavily populated borough's political leanings. Nixon for his part ran on a platform of continuing the "peace and prosperity" felt throughout the United States under President Eisenhower, which gained him popularity in the developing regions of the West and Pacific States, while Kennedy attained his popularity in urban regions, in part, due to his progressive stand on international politics.http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=kennedy-nixon THE KENNEDY-NIXON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES, 1960 – The Museum of Broadcast Communications The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) 2013-07-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20120511211530/http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=kennedy-nixon 2012-05-11 dead This included taking a stronger stance with the Soviet Union, which was a very important issue to many city-dwellers, fearing annihilation during the height of the post-nuclear age. The electors of New York were vital to Kennedy's overall victory, as he defeated Nixon 303–219 in the United States Electoral College. Had Nixon carried New York, then all other things being equal he would have won pluralities in both the popular and electoral vote. However, the Republican nominee would have still finished two votes short of an overall majority in the Electoral College, as he would have had a total of 265 of the 267 pledged electors needed to win compared to 258 for Kennedy. The 14 unpledged electors of Mississippi and Alabama would have held the balance of power in the Electoral College (unable to influence the overall result, these electors opted to cast their votes in favor of Virginia Senator Harry F. Byrd). 1960 was the last US presidential election in which New York State had the highest population of any state in the United States. In November 1962, the state of California would overtake New York as the most populous state in the nation, thus ending New York's tenure of being the most populous state after approximately 150 years. However, New York State still had more people who would cast votes in the 1964 presidential election compared to the number of people who would do so in California. Kennedy won the city of Syracuse, which had not supported a Democratic presidential nominee since 1944, while Kennedy cut deeply into the Republican majority in Onondaga County, where a 46.84% Republican majority in the county in 1956 was reduced to an 8.24% Republican majority in 1960.Williams 1961 30https://www.syracuse.com/kirst/2013/11/jfk_assassination_the_maxwell.html JFK Assassination: The Maxwell dean who helped pen President Johnson's words of mourning November 21, 2013 Syracuse.com 2024-03-08 Results 1960 United States presidential election in New YorkPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Democratic John F. Kennedy 3,423,909 46.96% Liberal John F. Kennedy 406,176 5.57% Total John F. Kennedy 3,830,085 52.53% 45 Republican Richard Nixon 3,446,419 47.27% 0 Socialist Workers Farrell Dobbs 14,319 0.20% 0 Write-ins 256 <0.01% 0 Totals 7,291,079 100.0% 45 New York City results 1960 Presidential Election in New York CityManhattanThe BronxBrooklynQueens Staten IslandTotal Democratic-LiberalJohn F. Kennedy414,902389,818646,582446,34838,6731,936,32362.62%65.28%67.88%66.16%54.71%43.39% RepublicanRichard Nixon217,271182,393327,497367,68850,3561,145,20537.04%34.19%31.76%33.51%45.07%56.50% Socialist WorkersFarrell Dobbs3,3632,0573,1661,8509310,5290.34%0.53%0.36%0.32%0.23%0.10%TOTAL635,567574,282977,306815,89989,1233,092,177100.00% Results by county County John F. KennedyDemocratic/Liberal Richard NixonRepublican Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % Albany 91,973 59.84% 61,600 40.08% 119 0.08% 30,373 19.76% 153,692 Allegany 5,280 26.81% 14,408 73.16% 7 0.04% -9,128 -46.35% 19,695 Bronx 389,818 67.88% 182,393 31.76% 2,071 0.36% 207,425 36.12% 574,282 Broome 38,462 40.49% 56,467 59.44% 62 0.07% -18,005 -18.95% 94,991 Cattaraugus 14,797 40.46% 21,749 59.47% 27 0.07% -6,952 -19.01% 36,573 Cayuga 17,257 45.75% 20,437 54.18% 28 0.07% -3,180 -8.43% 37,722 Chautauqua 28,143 42.62% 37,836 57.30% 52 0.08% -9,693 -14.68% 66,031 Chemung 17,899 40.32% 26,469 59.62% 28 0.06% -8,570 -19.30% 44,396 Chenango 5,659 28.01% 14,533 71.93% 12 0.06% -8,874 -43.92% 20,204 Clinton 13,782 55.24% 11,154 44.70% 15 0.06% 2,628 10.54% 24,951 Columbia 8,747 35.46% 15,893 64.44% 24 0.10% -7,146 -28.98% 24,664 Cortland 5,921 32.47% 12,305 67.48% 9 0.05% -6,384 -35.01% 18,235 Delaware 5,662 25.72% 16,336 74.21% 15 0.07% -10,674 -48.49% 22,013 Dutchess 29,842 39.26% 46,109 60.67% 53 0.07% -16,267 -21.41% 76,004 Erie 277,203 56.62% 211,957 43.30% 404 0.08% 65,246 13.32% 489,564 Essex 6,334 35.38% 11,557 64.56% 10 0.06% -5,223 -29.18% 17,901 Franklin 9,946 51.38% 9,385 48.48% 27 0.14% 561 2.90% 19,358 Fulton 10,409 41.83% 14,455 58.09% 19 0.08% -4,046 -16.26% 24,883 Genesee 10,343 41.23% 14,724 58.70% 18 0.07% -4,381 -17.47% 25,085 Greene 6,441 35.16% 11,878 64.84% 1 0.01% -5,437 -29.68% 18,320 Hamilton 795 26.82% 2,168 73.14% 1 0.03% -1,373 -46.32% 2,964 Herkimer 14,977 45.71% 17,758 54.19% 33 0.10% -2,781 -8.48% 32,768 Jefferson 15,800 39.39% 24,290 60.55% 25 0.06% -8,490 -21.16% 40,115 Kings 646,582 66.16% 327,497 33.51% 3,227 0.33% 319,085 32.65% 977,306 Lewis 4,056 37.92% 6,632 62.00% 9 0.08% -2,576 -24.08% 10,697 Livingston 7,765 36.19% 13,681 63.77% 8 0.04% -5,916 -27.58% 21,454 Madison 8,433 34.15% 16,245 65.78% 19 0.08% -7,812 -31.63% 24,697 Monroe 141,378 48.76% 148,423 51.19% 147 0.05% -7,045 -2.43% 289,948 Montgomery 15,976 51.82% 14,837 48.13% 14 0.05% 1,139 3.69% 30,827 Nassau 263,303 44.76% 324,255 55.12% 761 0.13% -60,952 -10.36% 588,319 New York 414,902 65.28% 217,271 34.19% 3,394 0.53% 197,631 31.09% 635,567 Niagara 51,680 50.78% 50,001 49.13% 84 0.08% 1,679 1.65% 101,765 Oneida 63,368 51.53% 59,513 48.39% 100 0.08% 3,855 3.14% 122,981 Onondaga 90,836 45.84% 107,170 54.08% 150 0.08% -16,334 -8.24% 198,156 Ontario 12,251 38.37% 19,654 61.55% 26 0.08% -7,403 -23.18% 31,931 Orange 31,471 39.25% 48,646 60.67% 65 0.08% -17,175 -21.42% 80,182 Orleans 5,515 34.76% 10,344 65.20% 5 0.03% -4,829 -30.44% 15,864 Oswego 15,544 39.28% 24,013 60.69% 11 0.03% -8,469 -21.41% 39,568 Otsego 7,899 31.16% 17,422 68.73% 26 0.10% -9,523 -37.57% 25,347 Putnam 8,013 40.09% 11,946 59.77% 28 0.14% -3,933 -19.68% 19,987 Queens 446,348 54.71% 367,688 45.07% 1,863 0.23% 78,660 9.64% 815,899 Rensselaer 36,109 47.33% 40,124 52.59% 61 0.08% -4,015 -5.26% 76,294 Richmond 38,673 43.39% 50,356 56.50% 94 0.11% -11,683 -13.11% 89,123 Rockland 27,178 45.00% 33,107 54.81% 113 0.19% -5,929 -9.81% 60,398 St. Lawrence 19,430 42.89% 25,848 57.06% 24 0.05% -6,418 -14.17% 45,302 Saratoga 18,179 42.03% 25,035 57.88% 36 0.08% -6,856 -15.85% 43,250 Schenectady 37,003 47.90% 40,180 52.01% 70 0.09% -3,177 -4.11% 77,253 Schoharie 4,342 36.18% 7,644 63.69% 16 0.13% -3,302 -27.51% 12,002 Schuyler 2,315 30.76% 5,201 69.10% 11 0.15% -2,886 -38.34% 7,527 Seneca 5,693 39.44% 8,741 60.55% 1 0.01% -3,048 -21.11% 14,435 Steuben 13,898 31.91% 29,638 68.06% 13 0.03% -15,740 -36.15% 43,549 Suffolk 114,033 40.59% 166,644 59.32% 268 0.10% -52,611 -18.73% 280,945 Sullivan 11,486 45.44% 13,744 54.37% 49 0.19% -2,258 -8.93% 25,279 Tioga 4,855 27.85% 12,572 72.12% 4 0.02% -7,717 -44.27% 17,431 Tompkins 8,659 33.65% 17,061 66.30% 13 0.05% -8,402 -32.65% 25,733 Ulster 23,017 38.68% 36,418 61.20% 67 0.11% -13,401 -22.52% 59,502 Warren 7,328 33.65% 14,433 66.27% 17 0.08% -7,105 -32.62% 21,778 Washington 8,274 35.48% 15,037 64.49% 6 0.03% -6,763 -29.01% 23,317 Wayne 9,476 30.79% 21,290 69.18% 11 0.04% -11,814 -38.39% 30,777 Westchester 171,410 43.21% 224,562 56.61% 691 0.17% -53,152 -13.40% 396,663 Wyoming 5,508 33.78% 10,793 66.19% 6 0.04% -5,285 -32.41% 16,307 Yates 2,409 25.88% 6,892 74.04% 7 0.08% -4,483 -48.16% 9,308Totals3,830,08552.53%3,446,41947.27%14,5750.20%383,6665.26%7,291,079 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Albany Clinton Erie Franklin Niagara Oneida Montgomery Queens See also United States presidential elections in New York Civil Rights Movement Conservative Coalition Cuban Missile Crisis Presidency of John F. Kennedy Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson The Cold War References Works cited Williams John Aspects of the American Presidential Election of 1960 Australian Quarterly Australian Institute of Policy and Science 1961 33 1 25–36 10.2307/20633678 20633678 https://www.jstor.org/stable/20633678 subscription expanded New York 1960 Category:1960 New York (state) elections