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1960 Presidential Election Primaries
Primary Date and Location
Republican Candidate
Number of Votes for Candidate and Percentage of All Votes
Democractic Candidate
Number of Votes for Candidate and Percentage of All Votes
March 8 - New Hampshire
Richard M. Nixon (N.Y.)
65204 (89.3%)
John F. Kennedy (Mass.)
43372 (85.3%)
Nelson A. Rockefeller (N.Y.)*
2745 (3.8%)
Others
7527 (14.8%)
John F. Kennedy (Mass.)*
2196 (3.0%)
Others*
2886 (4.0%)
April 5 - Wisconsin
Nixon
339383 (100.0%)
Kennedy
476024 (56.5%)
Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn.)
366753 (43.5%)
April 12 - Illinois
Nixon
782849 (99.9%)
Kennedy*
34332 (64.6%)
Others*
442 (.1%)
Adlai E. Stevenson (Ill.)*
8029 (15.1%)
Stuart Symington (Mo.)*
5744 (10.8%)
Humphrey*
4283 (8.1%)
Lyndon B. Johnson (Texas)*
442 (.8%)
Others*
337 (.6%)
April 19 - New Jersey
Unpledged delegates at large
304766 (100.0%)
Unpledged delegates at large
217608 (100.0%)
April 26 - Massachusetts
Nixon*
53164 (86.0%)
Kennedy*
91607 (92.4%)
Rockefeller*
4068 (6.6%)
Stevenson*
4684 (4.7%)
Kennedy*
2989 (4.8%)
Humphrey*
794 (.8%)
Henry Cabot Lodge (Mass.)*
373 (.6%)
Richard M. Nixon (Calif.)*
646 (.7%)
Adlai E. Stevenson (Ill.)*
266 (.4%)
Symington*
443 (.4%)
Barry Goldwater (Ariz.)*
221 (.4%)
Johnson*
268 (.3%)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (Pa.)*
172 (.3%)
Others*
721 (.7%)
Others*
592 (1.0%)
April 26 - Pennsylvania
Nixon
968538 (98.1%)
Kennedy*
183073 (71.3%)
Rockefeller*
12491 (1.3%)
Stevenson*
29660 (11.5%)
Kennedy*
3886 (.4%)
Nixon*
15136 (5.9%)
Stevenson*
428
Humphrey*
13860 (5.4%)
Goldwater*
286
Symington*
6791 (2.6%)
Others*
1202 (.1%)
Johnson*
2918 (1.1%)
Rockefeller*
1078 (.4%)
Others*
4297 (1.7%)
May 3 - District of Columbia
Unpledged Delegates
9468 (100.0%)
Humphrey
8239 (57.4%)
Wayne L. Morse (Ore.)
6127 (42.6%)
May 3 - Indiana
Nixon
408408 (95.4%)
Kennedy
353832 (81.0%)
Others
19677 (4.6%)
Others
82937 (19.0%)
May 3 - Ohio
Nixon
504072 (100.0%)
Michael V. DiSalle (Ohio)
315312 (100.0%)
May 10 - Nebraska
Nixon*
74356 (93.8%)
Kennedy
80408 (88.7%)
Rockefeller*
2028 (2.6%)
Symington*
4083 (4.5%)
Goldwater*
1068 (1.3%)
Humphrey*
3202 (3.5%)
Others*
1805 (2.3%)
Stevenson*
1368 (1.5%)
Johnson*
962 (1.1%)
Others*
669 (.7%)
May 10 - West Virginia
Unpledged delegates at large
123756 (100.0%)
Kennedy
236510 (60.8%)
Humphrey
152187 (39.2%)
May 17- Maryland
Kennedy
201769 (70.3%)
Morse
49420 (17.2%)
Unpledged delegates
24350 (8.5%)
Others
11417 (4.0%)
May 20 - Oregon
Nixon
211276 (93.1%)
Kennedy
146332 (51.0%)
Rockefeller*
9307 (4.1%)
Morse
91715 (31.9%)
Kennedy*
2864 (1.3%)
Humphrey
16319 (5.7%)
Goldwater*
1571 (.7%)
Symington
12496 (4.4%)
Others*
2015 (.9%)
Johnson
11101 (3.9%)
Stevenson*
7924 (2.8%)
Others*
1210 (.4%)
May 24 - Florida
Nixon
51036 (100.0%)
George A. Smathers (Fla.)
322235 (100.0%)
June 7 - California
Nixon
1517652 (100.0%)
Edmund G. Brown (Calif.)
1354031 (67.7%)
George H. McLain (Calif.)
646387 (32.3%)
June 7 - South Dakota
Unpledged delegates
48461 (100.0%)
Humphrey
24773 (100.0%)
*Write-In
TOTALS - Republican Primary
Nixon
4975938 (89.9%)
Unpledged Delegates
486451 (8.8%)
Rockefeller
30639 (.6%)
Kennedy
11935 (.2%)
Goldwater
3146 (.1%)
Stevenson
694
Lodge
373
Eisenhower
172
Others
28619 (.5%)
Total
5537967
TOTALS - Democratic Primary
Kennedy
1847259 (32.5%)
Brown
1354031 (23.8%)
McLain
646387 (11.4%)
Humphrey
590410 (10.4%)
Smathers
322235 (5.7%)
DiSalle
315312 (5.5%)
Unpledged Delegates
241958 (4.3%)
Morse
147262 (2.6%)
Stevenson
51665 (.9%)
Symington
29557 (.5%)
Nixon
15782 (.3%)
Johnson
15691 (.3%)
Others
109115 (1.9%)
Total
5686664
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