1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi

none June 2025 September 2023 1972 United States presidential election November 7, 1972 Mississippi Flag of Mississippi (1894-1996).svg presidential no 1976 1976 United States presidential election in Mississippi 1968 1968 United States presidential election in Mississippi x200px Richard Nixon presidential portrait (1).jpg Richard Nixon California Republican Party (United States) 7 Spiro Agnew 78.20% 505,125 George McGovern George McGovern (D-SD) (3x4-1).jpg South Dakota Democratic Party (United States) 0 Sargent Shriver 19.63% 126,782 President Republican Party (United States) Richard Nixon Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) 190px County results 190px Congressional district results 304px Nixon #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% McGovern #86b6f2 50–60% 1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi The 1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent President Nixon won the state of Mississippi with 78.20% of the vote.http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?f=0&fips=28&year=1972 1972 Presidential General Election Results – Mississippi May 13, 2016 This was the highest percentage Nixon received in any state in the election.Moreland Steed Baker 1991 56 Nixon even received a higher share of the vote in Mississippi than McGovern did in the District of Columbia, making this one of only two elections since D.C. sent electors, where Washington, D.C. wasn't the largest margin for either candidate, along with 1964. In Mississippi, voters voted for electors individually instead of as a slate, as in the other states. McGovern carried only three counties – Claiborne, Holmes, and Jefferson – all of which have overwhelming majority black populations.Grantham Dewey W. The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds 2019 247–248 University of Arkansas Press 978-1610753890 This was also the first time since 1944 that Mississippi backed the national winner in a presidential election. 2024 11 As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Republican presidential candidate: Quitman, Bolivar, Sharkey, Wilkinson, Humphreys, Coahoma, Noxubee, and Tunica. Marshall County wouldn't vote Republican again until 2024.Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016 The proportion of white voters supporting McGovern was utterly negligible and estimated at maximally three percent.Black Earl Competing Responses to the New Southern Politics: Republican and Democratic Southern Strategies, 1964–76 Perspectives on the American South: An Annual Review of Society, Politics, and Culture Reed John Shelton Black Merle 2021 Routledge 9781136764882 Calculated estimates indicate that 100% of white voters supported Nixon while 0% supported McGovern.Black Black 1992 295Black Black 1992 335 Results 1972 United States presidential election in MississippiPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Richard Nixon (incumbent) 505,125 78.20% 7 Democrat George McGovern 126,782 19.63% 0 Independent John Schmitz 11,598 1.80% 0 Independent Linda Jenness 2,458 0.38% 0 Totals 645,963 100.0% 7 Results by individual elector General election resultsMississippi 1972 Presidential Elector Candidates https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/pr1972-election.html PoliticalGraveyard.comParty Pledged to Elector Votes Republican Party Richard Nixon B. B. McClendon, Jr.505,125 Republican Party Richard Nixon H. F. McCarty, Jr.500,702 Republican Party Richard Nixon Clyde Q. Sheely500,493 Republican Party Richard Nixon Paul V. Lacoste500,378 Republican Party Richard Nixon J. B. Bright499,990 Republican Party Richard Nixon William Neville, Jr.499,194 Republican Party Richard Nixon Joe A. Moore497,430 Democratic Party George McGovern Frank A. Riley126,782 Democratic Party George McGovern Robert S. Reeves126,116 Democratic Party George McGovern Bobby Garraway124,922 Democratic Party George McGovern Mathew Page124,871 Democratic Party George McGovern Daniel Harvey124,037 Democratic Party George McGovern Obie Clark123,664 Democratic Party George McGovern William Bruce Guy123,080 Independent John G. Schmitz William Hollis Burrow11,598 Independent John G. Schmitz Homer Brown Wells11,030 Independent John G. Schmitz Robert L. Baker10,993 Independent John G. Schmitz Robert W. Schaffer10,925 Independent John G. Schmitz Mrs. Robert W. Saul10,888 Independent John G. Schmitz Curtis W. Caine10,789 Independent John G. Schmitz Andrew Cvitanovich10,569 Independent Linda Jenness John Earl Brown2,458 Independent Linda Jenness Robert Donnell1,478 Independent Linda Jenness Shirley M. Roberts1,415 Independent Linda Jenness Delores Buford1,386 Independent Linda Jenness James Westley Miggins1,359 Independent Linda Jenness Darius Singleton1,313Total votes 645,963 Results by county Countyhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=2392 MS US President Race, November 07, 1972 Our Campaigns Richard NixonRepublican George McGovernDemocratic John G. SchmitzIndependent Linda JennessIndependent Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # % Adams 8,500 67.16% 3,697 29.21% 255 2.01% 205 1.62% 4,803 37.95% 12,657 Alcorn 5,732 83.28% 982 14.27% 134 1.95% 35 0.51% 4,750 69.01% 6,883 Amite 2,846 68.94% 1,185 28.71% 93 2.25% 4 0.10% 1,661 40.23% 4,128 Attala 4,738 79.50% 1,103 18.51% 116 1.95% 3 0.05% 3,635 60.99% 5,960 Benton 1,483 66.35% 701 31.36% 51 2.28% 0 0.00% 782 34.99% 2,235 Bolivar 7,397 66.12% 3,616 32.32% 155 1.39% 19 0.17% 3,781 33.80% 11,187 Calhoun 3,023 90.37% 245 7.32% 75 2.24% 2 0.06% 2,778 83.05% 3,345 Carroll 1,777 73.31% 580 23.93% 66 2.72% 1 0.04% 1,197 49.38% 2,424 Chickasaw 3,753 84.66% 579 13.06% 62 1.40% 39 0.88% 3,174 71.60% 4,433 Choctaw 2,301 86.57% 326 12.26% 29 1.09% 2 0.08% 1,975 74.31% 2,658 Claiborne 1,521 41.76% 2,076 57.00% 31 0.85% 14 0.38% -555 -15.24% 3,642 Clarke 4,561 81.56% 954 17.06% 74 1.32% 3 0.05% 3,607 64.50% 5,592 Clay 4,035 71.39% 1,410 24.95% 116 2.05% 91 1.61% 2,625 46.44% 5,652 Coahoma 6,602 61.56% 3,708 34.57% 333 3.10% 82 0.76% 2,894 26.99% 10,725 Copiah 5,498 73.11% 1,803 23.98% 125 1.66% 94 1.25% 3,695 49.13% 7,520 Covington 3,842 84.09% 642 14.05% 77 1.69% 8 0.18% 3,200 70.04% 4,569 DeSoto 7,917 80.88% 1,557 15.91% 314 3.21% 1 0.01% 6,360 64.97% 9,789 Forrest 14,418 80.56% 2,933 16.39% 531 2.96% 16 0.09% 11,485 64.17% 17,898 Franklin 2,361 78.73% 561 18.71% 63 2.10% 14 0.47% 1,800 60.02% 2,999 George 3,979 92.90% 270 6.30% 33 0.77% 1 0.02% 3,709 86.60% 4,283 Greene 2,884 83.52% 513 14.86% 43 1.25% 13 0.38% 2,371 68.66% 3,453 Grenada 4,800 75.09% 1,471 23.01% 107 1.67% 14 0.22% 3,329 52.08% 6,392 Hancock 5,133 86.28% 745 12.52% 64 1.08% 7 0.12% 4,388 73.76% 5,949 Harrison 28,962 84.02% 4,761 13.81% 534 1.55% 213 0.62% 24,201 70.21% 34,470 Hinds 49,877 77.82% 12,679 19.78% 1,126 1.76% 414 0.65% 37,198 58.04% 64,096 Holmes 3,158 47.23% 3,459 51.73% 57 0.85% 12 0.18% -301 -4.50% 6,686 Humphreys 2,334 69.01% 892 26.37% 86 2.54% 70 2.07% 1,442 42.64% 3,382 Issaquena 701 60.80% 395 34.26% 34 2.95% 23 1.99% 306 26.54% 1,153 Itawamba 4,419 89.20% 509 10.27% 24 0.48% 2 0.04% 3,910 78.93% 4,954 Jackson 22,204 88.68% 2,534 10.12% 282 1.13% 18 0.07% 19,670 78.56% 25,038 Jasper 3,597 78.47% 935 20.40% 50 1.09% 2 0.04% 2,662 58.07% 4,584 Jefferson 1,131 43.37% 1,457 55.87% 16 0.61% 4 0.15% -326 -12.50% 2,608 Jefferson Davis 2,830 72.83% 1,005 25.86% 43 1.11% 8 0.21% 1,825 46.97% 3,886 Jones 16,489 83.79% 2,790 14.18% 320 1.63% 80 0.41% 13,699 69.61% 19,679 Kemper 2,748 75.25% 837 22.92% 65 1.78% 2 0.05% 1,911 52.33% 3,652 Lafayette 5,391 76.89% 1,545 22.04% 67 0.96% 8 0.11% 3,846 54.85% 7,011 Lamar 5,022 88.38% 493 8.68% 161 2.83% 6 0.11% 4,529 79.70% 5,682 Lauderdale 18,337 81.79% 3,453 15.40% 613 2.73% 17 0.08% 14,884 66.39% 22,420 Lawrence 3,394 81.70% 709 17.07% 50 1.20% 1 0.02% 2,685 64.63% 4,154 Leake 4,217 79.13% 1,053 19.76% 56 1.05% 3 0.06% 3,164 59.37% 5,329 Lee 10,730 82.60% 1,632 12.56% 520 4.00% 109 0.84% 9,098 70.04% 12,991 Leflore 6,779 75.58% 2,038 22.72% 148 1.65% 4 0.04% 4,741 52.86% 8,969 Lincoln 7,593 86.01% 1,070 12.12% 161 1.82% 4 0.05% 6,523 73.89% 8,828 Lowndes 10,098 78.70% 2,398 18.69% 326 2.54% 9 0.07% 7,700 60.01% 12,831 Madison 5,047 57.20% 3,464 39.26% 239 2.71% 74 0.84% 1,583 17.94% 8,824 Marion 6,805 79.40% 1,693 19.75% 65 0.76% 7 0.08% 5,112 59.65% 8,570 Marshall 3,326 62.10% 1,875 35.01% 115 2.15% 40 0.75% 1,451 27.09% 5,356 Monroe 7,273 84.10% 1,279 14.79% 84 0.97% 12 0.14% 5,994 69.31% 8,648 Montgomery 3,210 76.32% 925 21.99% 67 1.59% 4 0.10% 2,285 54.33% 4,206 Neshoba 6,815 88.22% 812 10.51% 93 1.20% 5 0.06% 6,003 77.71% 7,725 Newton 5,585 88.05% 597 9.41% 157 2.48% 4 0.06% 4,988 78.64% 6,343 Noxubee 2,239 66.28% 1,052 31.14% 83 2.46% 4 0.12% 1,187 35.14% 3,378 Oktibbeha 6,160 75.56% 1,880 23.06% 100 1.23% 13 0.16% 4,280 52.50% 8,153 Panola 5,284 70.61% 2,091 27.94% 105 1.40% 3 0.04% 3,193 42.67% 7,483 Pearl River 7,487 88.04% 901 10.60% 111 1.31% 5 0.06% 6,586 77.44% 8,504 Perry 2,689 84.14% 446 13.95% 60 1.88% 1 0.03% 2,243 70.19% 3,196 Pike 6,542 72.08% 2,332 25.69% 188 2.07% 14 0.15% 4,210 46.39% 9,076 Pontotoc 4,476 89.45% 488 9.75% 40 0.80% 0 0.00% 3,988 79.70% 5,004 Prentiss 4,607 91.12% 398 7.87% 51 1.01% 0 0.00% 4,209 83.25% 5,056 Quitman 2,524 74.41% 790 23.29% 59 1.74% 19 0.56% 1,734 51.12% 3,392 Rankin 12,187 85.19% 1,913 13.37% 197 1.38% 8 0.06% 10,274 71.82% 14,305 Scott 5,244 79.95% 1,213 18.49% 91 1.39% 11 0.17% 4,031 61.46% 6,559 Sharkey 1,426 67.94% 655 31.21% 15 0.71% 3 0.14% 771 36.73% 2,099 Simpson 5,669 85.87% 871 13.19% 51 0.77% 11 0.17% 4,798 72.68% 6,602 Smith 4,419 92.35% 329 6.88% 36 0.75% 1 0.02% 4,090 85.47% 4,785 Stone 2,467 88.49% 293 10.51% 27 0.97% 1 0.04% 2,174 77.98% 2,788 Sunflower 5,389 73.27% 1,874 25.48% 77 1.05% 15 0.20% 3,515 47.79% 7,355 Tallahatchie 3,442 77.37% 835 18.77% 157 3.53% 15 0.34% 2,607 58.60% 4,449 Tate 3,966 75.74% 1,151 21.98% 104 1.85% 15 0.27% 2,815 53.76% 5,236 Tippah 3,937 85.87% 569 12.41% 76 1.66% 3 0.07% 3,368 73.46% 4,585 Tishomingo 4,177 89.23% 443 9.46% 52 1.11% 9 0.19% 3,734 79.77% 4,681 Tunica 1,446 62.19% 858 36.90% 18 0.77% 3 0.13% 588 25.29% 2,325 Union 5,477 87.91% 658 10.56% 90 1.44% 5 0.08% 4,819 77.35% 6,230 Walthall 3,110 79.66% 747 19.13% 41 1.05% 6 0.15% 2,363 60.53% 3,904 Warren 10,420 71.97% 3,480 24.04% 452 3.12% 126 0.87% 6,940 47.93% 14,478 Washington 9,634 63.78% 4,623 30.61% 535 3.54% 312 2.07% 5,011 33.17% 15,104 Wayne 4,648 82.08% 975 17.22% 35 0.62% 5 0.09% 3,673 64.86% 5,663 Webster 3,624 89.15% 403 9.91% 38 0.93% 0 0.00% 3,221 79.24% 4,065 Wilkinson 1,608 52.65% 1,409 46.14% 32 1.05% 5 0.16% 199 6.51% 3,054 Winston 5,155 78.64% 1,354 20.66% 39 0.59% 7 0.11% 3,801 57.98% 6,555 Yalobusha 2,944 77.53% 797 20.99% 48 1.26% 8 0.21% 2,147 56.54% 3,797 Yazoo 5,555 72.58% 2,008 26.23% 84 1.10% 7 0.09% 3,547 46.35% 7,654Totals505,12578.20%126,78219.63%11,5981.80%2,4580.38%378,34358.57%645,963 By congressional district Nixon won all 5 congressional districts.1972 United States Presidential Election, Results by Congressional District https://wwu.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/minimalist/index.html?appid=29e29b308b5b40aa8fa2cf696592e97f July 9, 2024 Western Washington University DistrictNixonMcGovern1st80.1%19.9%2nd77.4%22.6%3rd79.3%20.7%4th75.7%24.3%5th86.8%13.2% Notes References Works cited Black Earl Earl Black (political scientist) Black Merle Merle Black The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected Harvard University Press 1992 https://archive.org/details/vitalsouthhowpre0000blac 0674941306 Moreland Laurence Steed Robert Baker Tod The 1988 Presidential Election in the South: Continuity Amidst Change in Southern Party Politics Praeger Publishers 1991 https://archive.org/details/1988presidential0000unse 0275931455 Mississippi 1972 Category:1972 Mississippi elections