United States presidential election in North Carolina, 1972

← 1968

November 7, 1972

1976 →


Nominee	Richard M. Nixon	George McGovern
Party	Republican	Democratic
Home state	California	South Dakota
Running mate	Spiro T. Agnew	Sargent Shriver
Electoral vote	13	0
Popular vote	1,054,889	438,705
Percentage	69.5%	28.9%

President before election

Richard Nixon
Republican

Elected President

Richard Nixon
Republican

The 1972 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 7, 1972 throughout all fifty states and D.C., which was part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose thirteen representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

North Carolina voted strongly for Republican nominee President Richard Nixon, over Democratic nominee Senator George McGovern. North Carolina voted overwhelmingly for President Nixon, who won 69.46% to 28.89%, one of the biggest margins in the country. This is the most Republican result in the state.

McGovern won only the typically extremely strong Democratic counties of Northampton and Orange – two counties with a record of having voted Democratic at every election since 1904, apart from Orange County’s vote against the Catholic Al Smith in 1928. Even in these counties, where most Democratic candidates expect to receive well over sixty percent of the vote and Walter Mondale in his disastrous 1984 loss won by over 13 percent, McGovern won by only 236 votes in Northampton County and 1,002 out of over twenty-three thousand in Orange County.

...
Wikipedia