1972 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

none June 2025 1972 United States presidential election May 2024 1972 United States presidential election in Oklahoma Oklahoma 1941 presidential no 1968 United States presidential election in Oklahoma 1968 1976 United States presidential election in Oklahoma 1976 November 7, 1972 x200px Richard Nixon presidential portrait (1).jpg Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) California Spiro Agnew 8 759,025 73.70% George McGovern (D-SD) (3x4-1).jpg George McGovern Democratic Party (United States) South Dakota Sargent Shriver 0 247,147 24.00% 350px 350px County results Nixon #cc2f4a 60–70% #d40000 70–80% #aa0000 80–90% President Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) The 1972 United States presidential election in Oklahoma was held on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Oklahoma voted in a landslide for incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon over his Democratic challenger George McGovern. Nixon's winning margin of 49.70 percentage points made Oklahoma his third-strongest state, behind Mississippi and Georgia,https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1972&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1972 Presidential Election Statistics Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-03-05 and 26.55 percentage points more Republican than the nation at-large. Although in the twenty-first century Oklahoma has rivaled Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and increasingly West Virginia as the most Republican state in the nation, no presidential candidate in Oklahoma has ever equaled Nixon's margin of victory. Indeed, in the thirteen presidential elections since this one, only twice has any state been carried by a larger percentage margin – both by Ronald Reagan in Utah, as part of the 1980 and 1984 elections. Nixon won with over 60% of the vote in all 77 counties in the state, four years after he had won Oklahoma despite finishing behind both Democrat Hubert Humphrey and American Independent George Wallace in Atoka, Choctaw, Love, McCurtain and Pushmataha counties.Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections; 1968 Presidential General Election Results – Oklahoma American Independent John G. Schmitz was the only other candidate on the ballot, and he received 2.30 percent of the vote, although managing over eleven percent in the Panhandle county of Cimarron. Nixon's feat of winning every county in Oklahoma would not be achieved by any presidential candidate again until George W. Bush did so in 2004, since when every county has stayed in the GOP column in presidential elections. This was the last time until 2004 that Hughes County and Haskell County voted Republican in a presidential election. Carter, Cotton, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Murray, and Tillman counties voted Republican for the first time since 1928; Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Johnston, McCurtain, and Love counties for the first time ever; and Latimer and Pittsburg counties since 1920. In archconservative Oklahoma, McGovern was uniformly viewed as a left-wing extremist because of his support for busing and civil rights, plus his opposition to the Vietnam War, support for granting amnesty to draft dodgersPerry, James Moorhead; Us and Them: How the Press Covered the 1972 Election, p. 136 0517505525. and support for a thousand-dollar giveaway to each American as a solution to poverty.Grantham, Dewey W.; The Life and Death of the Solid South: A Political History, p. 179 0813148723. Many, especially Republican campaigners, also believed McGovern would legalise abortion and illicit drugs if he were electedDavis, Lanny; Scandal: How "Gotcha" Politics Is Destroying America, pp. 65–66 1466892803. – despite the fact that his running mate Sargent Shriver was firmly anti-abortion. Consequently, even the most loyal Southern Democrats from the southeastern part of the state almost completely deserted their traditional party for Nixon: Bryan, Coal, Johnston, and the above-mentioned Choctaw, Love and McCurtain counties deserted their traditional Democratic Party for the first time ever.Menendez Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, pp. 99, 282–283 0786422173. Nixon also almost completely captured the twenty percent of Oklahoman voters who had supported Wallace in 1968:See Judis, John B., and Teixeira, Ruy; The Emerging Democratic Majority, p. 19 0743254783. exit polls suggested he won them over McGovern by a ratio of ten to one, and in the two Wallace counties of Pushmataha and Atoka Nixon totaled over seventy percent of the vote which increased from around thirty percent in 1968. Results 1972 United States presidential election in Oklahomahttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1972&fips=40&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1972 Presidential General Election Results – Oklahoma 2016-02-09 Dave Leip’s U.S. Election AtlasPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Richard Nixon (incumbent) 759,025 73.70% 8 Democratic George McGovern 247,147 24.00% 0 American Independent John G. Schmitz 23,728 2.30% 0 Totals 1,029,900 100.00% 9 Voter turnout — Results by county County Richard NixonRepublican George McGovernDemocratic John G. SchmitzAmerican Independent Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # %Adair4,72073.12%1,60124.80%1342.08%3,11948.32%6,455Alfalfa3,20881.48%64116.28%882.24%2,56765.20%3,937Atoka2,90572.86%99324.91%892.23%1,91247.95%3,987Beaver2,56280.41%52216.38%1023.20%2,04064.03%3,186Beckham4,47271.72%1,60825.79%1552.49%2,86445.93%6,235Blaine3,95877.73%96318.91%1713.36%2,99558.82%5,092Bryan5,39761.91%3,14436.06%1772.03%2,25325.85%8,718Caddo7,68370.41%2,92126.77%3082.82%4,76243.64%10,912Canadian11,40078.28%2,75118.89%4132.84%8,64959.39%14,564Carter9,36866.41%4,57732.45%1611.14%4,79133.96%14,106Cherokee7,08069.37%2,89928.40%2272.22%4,18140.97%10,206Choctaw3,39964.40%1,79834.07%811.53%1,60130.33%5,278Cimarron1,35071.62%32317.14%21211.25%1,02754.48%1,885Cleveland25,77768.71%11,12629.66%6151.64%14,65139.05%37,518Coal1,46167.05%68031.21%381.74%78135.84%2,179Comanche19,75979.85%4,55918.42%4271.73%15,20061.43%24,745Cotton2,05070.23%79827.34%712.43%1,25242.89%2,919Craig4,16370.36%1,64227.75%1121.89%2,52142.61%5,917Creek12,39675.11%3,70522.45%4022.44%8,69152.66%16,503Custer7,26774.30%2,29823.50%2152.20%4,96950.80%9,780Delaware5,47670.30%2,13527.41%1782.29%3,34142.89%7,789Dewey2,10674.79%62622.23%842.98%1,48052.56%2,816Ellis2,05977.76%47317.86%1164.38%1,58659.90%2,648Garfield19,34879.07%4,55718.62%5642.30%14,79160.45%24,469Garvin7,24570.72%2,68526.21%3153.07%4,56044.51%10,245Grady7,76267.50%3,44029.92%2972.58%4,32237.58%11,499Grant2,82975.34%80521.44%1213.22%2,02453.90%3,755Greer2,15466.40%1,00430.95%862.65%1,15035.45%3,244Harmon1,31968.38%56829.45%422.18%75138.93%1,929Harper1,97679.84%38515.56%1144.61%1,59164.28%2,475Haskell2,81563.12%1,40831.57%2375.31%1,40731.55%4,460Hughes3,49764.86%1,78733.14%1082.00%1,71031.72%5,392Jackson5,51971.61%2,05426.65%1341.74%3,46544.96%7,707Jefferson1,70962.12%96935.22%732.65%74026.90%2,751Johnston2,20567.72%98330.19%682.09%1,22237.53%3,256Kay17,24478.44%4,24619.31%4942.25%12,99859.13%21,984Kingfisher4,86181.90%91215.37%1622.73%3,94966.53%5,935Kiowa3,71169.81%1,49528.12%1102.07%2,21641.69%5,316Latimer2,52064.80%1,23931.86%1303.34%1,28132.94%3,889LeFlore7,93267.45%3,43329.19%3943.35%4,49938.26%11,759Lincoln6,51274.98%1,91922.10%2542.92%4,59352.88%8,685Logan6,54368.85%2,76029.04%2002.10%3,78339.81%9,503Love1,40766.75%67131.83%301.42%73634.92%2,108McClain4,24173.16%1,35023.29%2063.55%2,89149.87%5,797McCurtain6,44170.20%2,56827.99%1661.81%3,87342.21%9,175McIntosh3,21663.89%1,68633.49%1322.62%1,53030.40%5,034Major3,20383.89%51213.41%1032.70%2,69170.48%3,818Marshall2,27365.37%1,11332.01%912.62%1,16033.36%3,477Mayes7,53572.08%2,65625.41%2632.52%4,87946.67%10,454Murray2,98368.23%1,29429.60%952.17%1,68938.63%4,372Muskogee15,16165.65%7,38031.96%5512.39%7,78133.69%23,092Noble4,08578.38%99919.17%1282.46%3,08659.21%5,212Nowata3,29372.61%1,09624.17%1463.22%2,19748.44%4,535Okfuskee2,86266.73%1,32830.96%992.31%1,53435.77%4,289Oklahoma156,43775.24%46,98622.60%4,5022.17%109,45152.64%207,925Okmulgee8,70663.82%4,49432.94%4423.24%4,21230.88%13,642Osage9,28873.77%2,96823.57%3352.66%6,32050.20%12,591Ottawa8,34868.63%3,65730.07%1581.30%4,69138.56%12,163Pawnee4,28077.30%1,13520.50%1222.20%3,14556.80%5,537Payne17,01973.77%5,64424.46%4071.76%11,37549.31%23,070Pittsburg9,98966.42%4,74831.57%3032.01%5,24134.85%15,040Pontotoc8,76272.04%3,16025.98%2401.97%5,60246.06%12,162Pottawatomie13,30871.30%4,82225.84%5342.86%8,48645.46%18,664Pushmataha2,45668.24%1,01628.23%1273.53%1,44040.01%3,599Roger Mills1,69678.16%42019.35%542.49%1,27658.81%2,170Rogers9,69776.19%2,60720.48%4243.33%7,09055.71%12,728Seminole6,87970.02%2,74627.95%1992.03%4,13342.07%9,824Sequoyah6,84271.64%2,51926.37%1901.99%4,32345.27%9,551Stephens 10,30971.61%3,62325.17%4643.22%6,68646.44%14,396Texas5,72682.54%92413.32%2874.14%4,80269.22%6,937Tillman3,33170.92%1,25626.74%1102.34%2,07544.18%4,697Tulsa125,27877.75%32,77920.34%3,0691.90%92,49957.41%161,126Wagoner6,56972.13%2,25724.78%2813.09%4,31247.35%9,107Washington16,34779.74%3,65817.84%4952.41%12,68961.90%20,500Washita3,57871.45%1,30526.06%1252.50%2,27345.39%5,008Woods4,41376.23%1,23421.32%1422.45%3,17954.91%5,789Woodward5,35080.05%1,10416.52%2293.43%4,24663.53%6,683Totals759,02573.70%247,14724.00%23,7282.30%511,87849.70%1,029,900 See also United States presidential elections in Oklahoma References expanded 1972 Oklahoma