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Presidential Candidate | Vice Presidential Candidate | Political Party | Popular Vote | Electoral Vote |
![](IMAGES/COLOR/0000DD.gif) | Richard Nixon | Spiro Agnew | Republican |
47,168,710 |
60.67% |
520 |
96.7% |
![](IMAGES/COLOR/DD0000.gif) | George McGovern | R. Sargent Shriver | Democratic |
29,173,222 |
37.52% |
17 |
3.2% |
![](IMAGES/COLOR/FFFF00.gif) | John Hospers | Theodora Nathan | Libertarian |
3,674 |
0.00% |
1 |
0.2% |
![](IMAGES/COLOR/00DD00.gif) | John Schmitz | Thomas Anderson | American |
1,100,896 |
1.42% |
0 |
0.0% |
![Y](IMAGES/COLOR/FFFF00.gif) | Other (+) | - | - |
297,528 |
0.38% |
0 |
0.0% | | Total | 77,744,030 | | 538 | | | Map Key
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Turnout
![Voter Turnout Graph](IMAGES/VTO/pevto55.png) |
![Popular Vote Pie Chart](../USPRESIDENT/GENERAL/NPIE/pepie1972.png) | ![Electoral Vote Pie Chart](../USPRESIDENT/GENERAL/NPIE/pepiee1972.png) |
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