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The1960 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the1960 United States presidential election. State voters chose ten[2] representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
Louisiana was won bySenatorJohn F. Kennedy (D–Massachusetts), running with Texas SenatorLyndon B. Johnson, with 50.42% of the popular vote againstincumbent Vice PresidentRichard Nixon (R–California), running withUnited States Ambassador to the United NationsHenry Cabot Lodge Jr., with 28.59% of the popular vote.[3][4] There was also a failed effort in Louisiana to influence electors to vote for Nixon instead of Kennedy.
Louisiana has a higher Roman Catholic population than the rest of Southern United States, which benefitted Kennedy, the second Roman Catholic to head a major party ticket. This Catholic base was concentrated in the southern half of the state, especiallyAcadiana. Nixon and a slate ofunpledged electors aligned with theNational States' Rights Party split the northern Protestant parishes, with Nixon winning the less fertilepoor white parishes and the unpledged slate the northernBlack Belt.
As of the2024 presidential election[update], this is the last election in whichJefferson andSt. Tammany Parishes in theNew Orleans suburbs have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[5]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | John F. Kennedy | 407,339 | 50.42% | |
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 230,980 | 28.59% | |
| States' Rights | Unpledged electors | 169,572 | 20.99% | |
| Total votes | 807,891 | 100% | ||
| Parish[6] | John F. Kennedy Democratic | Richard Nixon Republican | Unpledged electors States’ Rights | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Acadia | 11,440 | 75.84% | 2,616 | 17.34% | 1,028 | 6.82% | 8,824 | 58.50% | 15,084 |
| Allen | 3,719 | 59.84% | 1,676 | 26.97% | 820 | 13.19% | 2,043 | 32.87% | 6,215 |
| Ascension | 5,689 | 74.76% | 1,012 | 13.30% | 909 | 11.94% | 4,677 | 61.46% | 7,610 |
| Assumption | 3,019 | 71.69% | 766 | 18.19% | 426 | 10.12% | 2,253 | 53.50% | 4,211 |
| Avoyelles | 7,625 | 75.98% | 1,270 | 12.66% | 1,140 | 11.36% | 6,355 | 63.32% | 10,035 |
| Beauregard | 2,903 | 48.67% | 2,432 | 40.77% | 630 | 10.56% | 471 | 7.90% | 5,965 |
| Bienville | 625 | 17.62% | 1,230 | 34.67% | 1,693 | 47.72% | -463[a] | -13.05% | 3,548 |
| Bossier | 2,198 | 25.21% | 3,429 | 39.32% | 3,093 | 35.47% | 336[a] | 3.85% | 8,720 |
| Caddo | 11,481 | 24.80% | 25,139 | 54.29% | 9,681 | 20.91% | -13,658 | -29.49% | 46,301 |
| Calcasieu | 24,233 | 64.40% | 10,243 | 27.22% | 3,151 | 8.37% | 13,990 | 37.18% | 37,627 |
| Caldwell | 694 | 34.00% | 716 | 35.08% | 631 | 30.92% | -22 | -1.08% | 2,041 |
| Cameron | 1,944 | 83.08% | 322 | 13.76% | 74 | 3.16% | 1,622 | 69.32% | 2,340 |
| Catahoula | 558 | 26.17% | 971 | 45.54% | 603 | 28.28% | 368[a] | 17.26% | 2,132 |
| Claiborne | 489 | 12.69% | 1,336 | 34.67% | 2,029 | 52.65% | -693[a] | -17.98% | 3,854 |
| Concordia | 768 | 23.06% | 1,009 | 30.29% | 1,554 | 46.65% | -545[a] | -16.36% | 3,331 |
| DeSoto | 1,183 | 26.65% | 1,603 | 36.11% | 1,653 | 37.24% | -50[a] | -1.13% | 4,439 |
| East Baton Rouge | 26,326 | 46.65% | 17,749 | 31.45% | 12,360 | 21.90% | 8,577 | 15.20% | 56,435 |
| East Carroll | 364 | 23.88% | 448 | 29.40% | 712 | 46.72% | -264[a] | -17.32% | 1,524 |
| East Feliciana | 475 | 24.65% | 313 | 16.24% | 1,139 | 59.11% | -664[b] | -34.46% | 1,927 |
| Evangeline | 7,865 | 80.55% | 1,105 | 11.32% | 794 | 8.13% | 6,760 | 69.23% | 9,764 |
| Franklin | 1,213 | 30.03% | 1,336 | 33.08% | 1,490 | 36.89% | -154[a] | -3.81% | 4,039 |
| Grant | 1,219 | 31.40% | 1,254 | 32.30% | 1,409 | 36.30% | -155[a] | -4.00% | 3,882 |
| Iberia | 9,235 | 59.70% | 3,551 | 22.95% | 2,684 | 17.35% | 5,684 | 36.75% | 15,470 |
| Iberville | 4,558 | 72.25% | 1,000 | 15.85% | 751 | 11.90% | 3,558 | 56.40% | 6,309 |
| Jackson | 1,398 | 34.10% | 1,799 | 43.88% | 903 | 22.02% | -401 | -9.78% | 4,100 |
| Jefferson | 32,119 | 51.28% | 17,215 | 27.48% | 13,304 | 21.24% | 14,904 | 23.80% | 62,638 |
| Jefferson Davis | 5,904 | 67.77% | 2,251 | 25.84% | 557 | 6.39% | 3,653 | 41.93% | 8,712 |
| Lafayette | 14,132 | 62.30% | 6,047 | 26.66% | 2,505 | 11.04% | 8,085 | 35.64% | 22,684 |
| Lafourche | 12,244 | 76.26% | 2,930 | 18.25% | 881 | 5.49% | 9,314 | 58.01% | 16,055 |
| LaSalle | 843 | 21.94% | 2,123 | 55.26% | 876 | 22.80% | 1,247[a] | 32.46% | 3,842 |
| Lincoln | 1,051 | 20.57% | 2,766 | 54.14% | 1,292 | 25.29% | 1,474[a] | 28.85% | 5,109 |
| Livingston | 2,881 | 43.47% | 954 | 14.39% | 2,793 | 42.14% | 88[b] | 1.33% | 6,628 |
| Madison | 235 | 12.45% | 629 | 33.32% | 1,024 | 54.24% | -395[a] | -20.92% | 1,888 |
| Morehouse | 1,085 | 22.70% | 2,551 | 53.37% | 1,144 | 23.93% | 1,407[a] | 29.44% | 4,780 |
| Natchitoches | 2,781 | 39.39% | 2,562 | 36.29% | 1,717 | 24.32% | 219 | 3.10% | 7,060 |
| Orleans | 87,242 | 49.64% | 47,111 | 26.80% | 41,414 | 23.56% | 40,131 | 22.84% | 175,767 |
| Ouachita | 5,202 | 26.97% | 10,525 | 54.56% | 3,564 | 18.47% | -5,323 | -27.59% | 19,291 |
| Plaquemines | 1,087 | 21.12% | 712 | 13.84% | 3,347 | 65.04% | -2,260[b] | -43.92% | 5,146 |
| Pointe Coupee | 2,953 | 71.81% | 674 | 16.39% | 485 | 11.79% | 2,279 | 55.42% | 4,112 |
| Rapides | 9,651 | 40.58% | 8,155 | 34.29% | 5,976 | 25.13% | 1,496 | 6.29% | 23,782 |
| Red River | 377 | 19.67% | 406 | 21.18% | 1,134 | 59.15% | -728[a] | -37.97% | 1,917 |
| Richland | 996 | 25.74% | 1,378 | 35.62% | 1,495 | 38.64% | -117[a] | -3.02% | 3,869 |
| Sabine | 2,412 | 40.96% | 2,419 | 41.08% | 1,058 | 17.97% | -7 | -0.12% | 5,889 |
| St. Bernard | 4,660 | 42.56% | 1,431 | 13.07% | 4,858 | 44.37% | -198[b] | -1.81% | 10,949 |
| St. Charles | 4,708 | 71.31% | 1,377 | 20.86% | 517 | 7.83% | 3,331 | 50.45% | 6,602 |
| St. Helena | 678 | 37.48% | 296 | 16.36% | 835 | 46.16% | -157[b] | -8.68% | 1,809 |
| St. James | 4,362 | 82.09% | 620 | 11.67% | 332 | 6.25% | 3,742 | 70.42% | 5,314 |
| St. John the Baptist | 3,782 | 80.13% | 488 | 10.34% | 450 | 9.53% | 3,294 | 69.79% | 4,720 |
| St. Landry | 14,625 | 72.18% | 3,083 | 15.22% | 2,554 | 12.60% | 11,542 | 56.96% | 20,262 |
| St. Martin | 5,506 | 77.96% | 858 | 12.15% | 699 | 9.90% | 4,648 | 65.81% | 7,063 |
| St. Mary | 6,671 | 61.59% | 2,992 | 27.62% | 1,169 | 10.79% | 3,679 | 33.97% | 10,832 |
| St. Tammany | 5,179 | 46.81% | 2,850 | 25.76% | 3,034 | 27.42% | 2,145[b] | 19.39% | 11,063 |
| Tangipahoa | 6,648 | 46.32% | 3,285 | 22.89% | 4,418 | 30.79% | 2,230[b] | 15.53% | 14,351 |
| Tensas | 247 | 20.45% | 510 | 42.22% | 451 | 37.33% | 59[a] | 4.89% | 1,208 |
| Terrebonne | 8,992 | 68.07% | 3,126 | 23.66% | 1,092 | 8.27% | 5,866 | 44.41% | 13,210 |
| Union | 1,034 | 25.45% | 2,017 | 49.64% | 1,012 | 24.91% | -983 | -24.19% | 4,063 |
| Vermilion | 11,257 | 77.13% | 2,170 | 14.87% | 1,168 | 8.00% | 9,087 | 62.26% | 14,595 |
| Vernon | 3,145 | 51.06% | 1,991 | 32.32% | 1,024 | 16.62% | 1,154 | 18.74% | 6,160 |
| Washington | 5,678 | 49.81% | 1,847 | 16.20% | 3,875 | 33.99% | 1,803[b] | 15.82% | 11,400 |
| Webster | 1,273 | 16.60% | 3,139 | 40.94% | 3,255 | 42.45% | -116[a] | -1.51% | 7,667 |
| West Baton Rouge | 2,315 | 73.70% | 390 | 12.42% | 436 | 13.88% | 1,879[b] | 59.82% | 3,141 |
| West Carroll | 784 | 32.36% | 742 | 30.62% | 897 | 37.02% | -113[b] | -4.66% | 2,423 |
| West Feliciana | 271 | 30.42% | 196 | 22.00% | 424 | 47.59% | -153[b] | -17.17% | 891 |
| Winn | 1,108 | 27.05% | 1,839 | 44.90% | 1,149 | 28.05% | 690[a] | 16.85% | 4,096 |
| Totals | 407,339 | 50.42% | 230,980 | 28.59% | 169,572 | 20.99% | 176,359 | 21.83% | 807,891 |
State and district results of the1960 United States presidential election | ||
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