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Richard Nixon served as the 37thpresident of the United States from 1969 to 1974. He previously served as the 36thvice president of the United States from 1953 to 1961, and as aUnited States senator from 1950 to 1953 andUnited States representative from 1947 to 1950.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 65,586 | 56.0 | |
| Democratic | Jerry Voorhis | 49,994 | 42.7 | |
| Prohibition | John Hoeppel | 1,476 | 1.3 | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Richard Nixon (incumbent) | 21,411 | 52.2 | |
| Democratic | Stephen Zetterberg | 16,808 | 41 | |
| Democratic | Margaret Cooper | 2,772 | 6.8 | |
Nixon ran unopposed in and won the 1948 Republican primary.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Richard Nixon (incumbent) | 141,509 | 86.9 | |
| Independent | Una Rice | 19,631 | 12 | |
| Independent | Scattering | 1,667 | 1 | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Helen Gahagan Douglas | 734,842 | 47 | |
| Democratic | Manchester Boddy | 379,077 | 24.2 | |
| Democratic | Richard Nixon | 318,840 | 20.4 | |
| Democratic | Earl Desmond | 96,752 | 6.2 | |
| Democratic | Ulysses Meyer | 34,707 | 2.2 | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 740,465 | 64.6 | |
| Republican | Manchester Boddy | 156,884 | 13.7 | |
| Republican | Helen Gahagan Douglas | 153,788 | 13.4 | |
| Republican | Earl Desmond | 60,613 | 5.3 | |
| Republican | Ulysses Meyer | 18,783 | 1.6 | |
| Republican | Albert Levitt | 15,929 | 1.4 | |
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 2,183,454 | 59.2 | |
| Democratic | Helen Gahagan Douglas | 1,502,507 | 40.8 | |

1952 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):[1]
1952 United States Presidential Election Results:
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Dwight David Eisenhower | Republican | New York[2] | 34,075,529 | 55.2% | 442 | Richard Milhous Nixon | California | 442 |
| Adlai Ewing Stevenson II | Democratic | Illinois | 27,375,090 | 44.3% | 89 | John Jackson Sparkman | Alabama | 89 |
| Vincent Hallinan | Progressive | California | 140,746 | 0.2% | 0 | Charlotta Bass | New York | 0 |
| Stuart Hamblen | Prohibition | Texas | 73,412 | 0.1% | 0 | Enoch Holtwick | Illinois | 0 |
| Douglas MacArthur | Constitution | Arkansas | 17,205 | 0.0% | 0 | Harry Byrd | Virginia | 0 |
| Other | 87,165 | 0.1% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 61,769,147 | 100% | 531 | 531 | ||||
| Needed to win | 266 | 266 | ||||||
Source (Popular Vote):Leip, David."1952 Presidential Election Results".Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. RetrievedAugust 1, 2005.Source (Electoral Vote):"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996".National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedAugust 1, 2005.

1956 Republican Presidential Primaries:[3]
*Nixon was a write-in candidate in some states' presidential primaries and received 316 votes.
1956 Republican National Convention (Vice Presidential tally):[4]
1956 United States Presidential Election Results:
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Dwight David Eisenhower (incumbent) | Republican | Pennsylvania[5] | 35,579,180 | 57.4% | 457 | Richard Milhous Nixon (incumbent) | California | 457 |
| Adlai Ewing Stevenson II | Democratic | Illinois | 26,028,028 | 42.0% | 73 | (Carey) Estes Kefauver | Tennessee | 73 |
| Walter Burgwyn Jones | Democratic | Alabama | —(a) | —(a) | 1 | Herman Talmadge | Georgia | 1 |
| (unpledged electors) | (n/a) | (n/a) | 196,145 | 0.3% | 0 | (n/a) | (n/a) | 0 |
| T. Coleman Andrews | States' Rights | Virginia | 107,929 | 0.2% | 0 | Thomas Werdel | California | 0 |
| Other | 110,046 | 0.2% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 62,021,328 | 100% | 531 | 531 | ||||
| Needed to win | 266 | 266 | ||||||
Source (Popular Vote):Leip, David."1956 Presidential Election Results".Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. RetrievedAugust 1, 2005.Source (Electoral Vote):"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996".National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedAugust 1, 2005.

1960 Republican Presidential Primaries:[6]
1960 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):[7]
1960 United States Presidential Election Results
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy | Democratic | Massachusetts | 34,220,984(a) | 49.7% | 303 | Lyndon Baines Johnson | Texas | 303 |
| Richard Milhous Nixon | Republican | California | 34,108,157 | 49.6% | 219 | Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. | Massachusetts | 219 |
| Harry Flood Byrd | (none) | Virginia | —(b) | —(b) | 15 | James Strom Thurmond | South Carolina | 14 |
| Barry Morris Goldwater(c) | Arizona | 1(c) | ||||||
| (unpledged electors) | Democratic | (n/a) | 286,359 | 0.4% | —(d) | (n/a) | (n/a) | —(d) |
| Orval Faubus | States' Rights | Arkansas | 44,984 | 0.1% | 0 | John G. Crommelin | Alabama | 0 |
| Charles Sullivan | Constitution | Mississippi | (TX) 18,162 | 0.0% | 0 | Merritt Curtis | California | 0 |
| Other | 216,982 | 0.3% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 68,895,628 | 100% | 537 | 537 | ||||
| Needed to win | 269 | 269 | ||||||
There were 537 electoral votes, up from 531 in 1956, because of the addition of 2 U.S. Senators and 1 U.S. Representative from each of the new states of Alaska and Hawaii. (The House of Representatives was temporarily expanded from 435 members to 437 to accommodate this, and would go back to 435 when reapportioned according to the 1960 census.)Source (Popular Vote):Leip, David."1960 Presidential Election Results".Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. RetrievedFebruary 7, 2008.Note: Sullivan / Curtis ran only inTexas. InWashington, Constitution Party ran Curtis for President andB. N. Miller for vice-president, receiving 1,401 votes.Source (Electoral Vote):"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996".National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedAugust 2, 2005.(a)This figure is problematic; seeAlabama popular vote above.
(b)Byrd was not directly on the ballot. Instead, his electoral votes came fromunpledged Democratic electors and a faithless elector.
(c)Oklahomafaithless electorHenry D. Irwin, though pledged to vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., instead voted for non-candidateHarry F. Byrd. However, unlike other electors who voted for Byrd andStrom Thurmond as Vice President, Irwin voted forBarry Goldwater as Vice President.
(d)In Mississippi, the slate of unpledged Democratic electors won. They cast their 8 votes for Byrd and Thurmond.

| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Pat Brown (incumbent) | 3,037,109 | 51.92 | |
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 2,740,351 | 46.85 | |
| Prohibition | Robert L. Wyckoff | 69,700 | 1.12 | |
| Total votes | 5,929,602 | 100.00 | ||

1964 Republican Presidential Primaries:[8]
1968 Republican Presidential Primaries:[9]
1968 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):
1968 United States Presidential Election Results:
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Richard Milhous Nixon | Republican | New York[10] | 31,783,783 | 43.4% | 301 | Spiro Theodore Agnew | Maryland | 301 |
| Hubert Horatio Humphrey | Democratic | Minnesota | 31,271,839 | 42.7% | 191 | Edmund Sixtus Muskie | Maine | 191 |
| George Corley Wallace | American Independent | Alabama | 9,901,118 | 13.5% | 46 | Curtis Emerson LeMay | California[11] | 46 |
| Eugene McCarthy | Independent | Minnesota | 25,634 | 0.0% | 0 | (None) | 0 | |
| Other | 243,258 | 0.3% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 73,199,998 | 100% | 538 | 538 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
Source (Popular Vote):Leip, David."1968 Presidential Election Results".Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. RetrievedAugust 7, 2005.
Source (Electoral Vote):"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996".National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedAugust 7, 2005.

1972 Republican Presidential Primaries:[12]
1972 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):[13]
New York Conservative Party Presidential Convention, 1972:[14]
1972 United States Presidential Election Results:
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Richard Milhous Nixon (incumbent) | Republican | California | 47,168,710 | 60.7% | 520 | Spiro Theodore Agnew (incumbent) | Maryland | 520 |
| George Stanley McGovern | Democratic | South Dakota | 29,173,222 | 37.5% | 17 | Robert Sargent Shriver | Maryland | 17 |
| John G. Hospers | Libertarian | California | 3,674 | 0.0% | 1(a) | Theodora Nathan | Oregon | 1(a) |
| John G. Schmitz | American Independent | California | 1,100,868 | 1.4% | 0 | Thomas J. Anderson | Tennessee | 0 |
| Linda Jenness | Socialist Workers | Georgia | 83,380(b) | 0.1% | 0 | Andrew Pulley | Illinois | 0 |
| Benjamin Spock | People's | California | 78,759 | 0.1% | 0 | Julius Hobson | District of Columbia | 0 |
| Other | 135,414 | 0.2% | — | Other | — | |||
| Total | 77,744,027 | 100% | 538 | 538 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
Source (Popular Vote):Leip, David."1972 Presidential Election Results".Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. RetrievedAugust 7, 2005.Source (Electoral Vote):"Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996".National Archives and Records Administration. RetrievedAugust 7, 2005.(a)AVirginiafaithless elector,Roger MacBride, though pledged to vote forRichard Nixon andSpiro Agnew, instead voted for Libertarian candidatesJohn Hospers andTheodora Nathan.
(b)InArizona, Pima and Yavapai counties had a ballot malfunction that counted many votes for both a major party candidate and Linda Jenness of the Socialist Workers Party. A court ordered that the ballots be counted for both. As a consequence, Jenness received 16% and 8% of the vote in Pima and Yavapai, respectively. 30,579 of her 30,945 Arizona votes are from those two counties. Some sources do not count these votes for Jenness.
