1972 United States presidential election in Maine

none June 2025 September 2023 1972 United States presidential election 1972 United States presidential election in Maine Maine presidential no 1968 United States presidential election in Maine 1968 1976 United States presidential election in Maine 1976 November 7, 1972 x200px Richard Nixon presidential portrait (1).jpg Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) California Spiro Agnew 4 256,458 61.46% George McGovern (D-SD) (3x4-1).jpg George McGovern Democratic Party (United States) South Dakota Sargent Shriver 0 160,584 38.48% 350px County results 350px Congressional district results 350px Municipality results 350px Nixon #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #D40000 70–80% #AA0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% McGovern #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% #1666CB 70–80% #0645B4 80–90% Tie #AE8BB1 50% President Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) The 1972 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election which was held throughout all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. This was the first presidential election in which Maine allocated its electoral votes using the congressional district method, giving 2 electoral votes to the overall winner of the state and 1 electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district. Maine was won by the incumbent Republican president Richard Nixon by a landslide 23 point margin over his Democratic challenger, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota. Nixon took 61.46% of the vote, totaling up to 256,458 votes, to McGovern’s 38.48%, and 160,584 votes. In the midst of Nixon’s massive 49-state landslide victory, Maine voted almost exactly as the country did, only voting about 0.7% more Republican than the nation as a whole. Richard Nixon swept every county in the state except for Androscoggin, where McGovern won by a mere 103 votes.http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1972&fips=23&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1972 Presidential General Election Results - Maine 2015-10-02 2015-07-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20150701164135/http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1972&fips=23&f=0&off=0&elect=0 live Androscoggin was the solitary county McGovern won in the Northeast outside of Massachusetts or in the city limits of Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. Nixon's victory was the first of five consecutive Republican victories in the state, as Maine would not vote for a Democratic candidate again until Bill Clinton in 1992; it has since become a Democratic-leaning state. Since 1972 no presidential candidate of either party has surpassed Nixon’s 61.46% of the vote in Maine (the closest being Ronald Reagan’s 60.83% in 1984). Results 1972 United States presidential election in Mainehttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1972&fips=23&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1972 Presidential General Election Results - Maine 2008-08-25 Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas 2016-02-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20160215195236/http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1972&fips=23&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 live PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Richard Nixon (incumbent) 256,458 61.46% 4 Democratic George McGovern 160,584 38.48% 0 American Independent John G. Schmitz (write-in) 117 0.03% 0 Peace and Freedom Benjamin Spock (write-in) 3 0.00% 0 Socialist Workers Linda Jenness (write-in) 2 0.00% 0 Communist Gus Hall (write-in) 2 0.00% 0 Libertarian John Hospers (write-in) 1 0.00% 0 Write-ins Scattered (Other write-ins) 104 0.02% 0 Totals 417,271 100.00% 4 Voter turnout 60%/68% By congressional district Nixon won both congressional districts, including one held by a Democrat. District Nixon McGovern RepresentativeMaine 1 1st 61.42% 38.58%Peter KyrosMaine 2 2nd61.58% 38.42%William Hathaway (92nd Congress)William Cohen (93rd Congress) Results by county CountyRichard NixonRepublicanGeorge McGovernDemocraticVarious candidatesWrite-insMarginTotal votes cast # % # % # % # %Androscoggin19,40649.86%19,50950.12%90.02%-103-0.26%38,924Aroostook19,05162.37%11,47437.56%220.07%7,57724.81%30,547Cumberland51,26860.59%33,32639.38%230.03%17,94221.21%84,617Franklin5,95866.50%2,98833.35%140.16%2,97033.15%8,960Hancock11,88973.90%4,19126.05%70.04%7,69847.85%16,087Kennebec24,61759.99%16,37939.91%390.10%8,23820.08%41,035Knox8,47870.19%3,60129.81%4,87740.38%12,079Lincoln7,58072.28%2,90327.68%40.04%4,67744.60%10,487Oxford12,11464.36%6,66135.39%480.26%5,45328.97%18,823Penobscot30,18661.92%18,55238.06%110.02%11,63423.86%48,749Piscataquis4,61764.70%2,51835.29%10.01%2,09929.41%7,136Sagadahoc6,46365.35%3,41434.52%130.13%3,04930.83%9,890Somerset10,07962.97%5,92136.99%50.03%4,15825.98%16,005Waldo6,48068.78%2,94131.21%10.01%3,53937.57%9,422Washington7,82067.57%3,74232.33%120.10%4,07835.24%11,574York30,45257.53%22,46442.44%200.04%7,98815.09%52,936Totals256,45861.46%160,58438.48%2290.05%95,87422.98%417,271 See also United States presidential elections in Maine References expanded 1972 Maine Category:1972 Maine elections