United States presidential election in New York, 1960

United States presidential election in New York, 1960

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Nominee John F. Kennedy Richard Nixon Party Democratic Republican Home state Massachusetts California Running mate Lyndon B. Johnson Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Electoral vote 45 0 Popular vote 3,830,085 3,446,419 Percentage 52.53% 47.27%
County Results   Kennedy—60-70%   Kennedy—50-60%   Nixon—50-60%   Nixon—60-70%   Nixon—70-80%

The 1960 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 8, 1960. All 50 states were part of the 1960 United States presidential election. New York voters chose forty five electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President.

New York was won by Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who was running against incumbent Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. Kennedy was running with Texas Senator, and strongest opponent in the 1960 Democratic Primaries, Lyndon B. Johnson for Vice President, and Nixon ran with internationally popular United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr..

Kennedy won New York with 52.53% of the vote to Nixon's 47.27%, a victory margin of 5.26%.

New York weighed in for this election as 5% more Democratic than the national average.

The presidential election of 1960 was a very partisan election for New York, with 99.8% of the electorate voting for either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. In typical form for the time, the highly populated centers of New York City, Buffalo, and Albany, voted primarily Democratic, while the smaller counties in New York turned out for Nixon as the Republican candidate.