1972 Presidential General Election Results

Presidential Candidate Vice Presidential Candidate Political Party Popular Vote Electoral Vote Richard Nixon Spiro Agnew Republican 47,168,710 60.67% 520 96.7% George McGovern R. Sargent Shriver Democratic 29,173,222 37.52% 17 3.2% John Hospers Theodora Nathan Libertarian 3,674 0.00% 1 0.2% John Schmitz Thomas Anderson American 1,100,896 1.42% 0 0.0% Linda Jenness Andrew Pulley Socialist Workers 83,380 0.11% 0 0.0% Benjamin Spock Julius Hobson People's 78,759 0.10% 0 0.0% Louis Fisher Genevieve Gunderson Socialist Labor 53,814 0.07% 0 0.0% Write-ins - - 26,639 0.03% 0 0.0% Gus Hall Jarvis Tyner Communist 25,598 0.03% 0 0.0% Evelyn Reed Clifton DeBerry Socialist Workers 13,878 0.02% 0 0.0% E. Harold Munn Marshall Uncapher Prohibition 13,497 0.02% 0 0.0% John Mahalchik Irving Homer America First 1,743 0.00% 0 0.0% Gabriel Green Daniel Fry Universal 220 0.00% 0 0.0% Total 77,744,030 538 Map Key  > 40%  > 50%  > 60%  > 70% Turnout Maps   Data and Statistics: Popular Vote State-Level Data (Table) Popular Vote State-Level Data (Graphs) Voter Turnout State-Level Data Electoral Vote State-Level Data Election 1972 Statistics Compare National Data by Year (Table) Compare National Data by Year (Graphs) Compare National Maps by Year National JavaCompare! Data Sources for Popular Vote Election Tools for 1972 Electoral College Calculator for 1972 Blog Interactive Map Widget Code for This Contest (uselectionatlas.org Weblogs) Results for an Individual State: AlabamaAlaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Election Notes: In Virginia, one Nixon Elector cast his vote for John Hospers (President) and Theodora Nathan (Vice President). Electoral Vote Map Note: there is no implied geographical significance as to the location of the shaded areas for Virginia's split electoral votes.