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Election 1960 Results

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1960 presidential election in California

Richard Nixon (Republican) beat John F. Kennedy (Democrat) in California in 1960, 50.1% to 49.6%, a margin of 0.5 points and 35,623 votes.

California voted 0.7 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.2.

The Republican hold continued from 1956, when Dwight D. Eisenhower won.

Republicans led in 32 of the 58 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 26. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 2,634,499 votes and went to the Democrat by 0.8 points. The closest was Tehama, where 39 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Richard Nixon won Republican 3,259,722 50.1%
John F. Kennedy Democratic 3,224,099 49.6%
All other candidates 22,757 0.3%
Total6,506,578

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 1,323,818 50.2% 1,302,661 49.4% 8,020 2,634,499 D+0.8
Alameda 217,172 54.0% 183,354 45.6% 1,474 402,000 D+8.4
San Diego 171,259 43.3% 223,056 56.4% 1,106 395,421 R+13.1
San Francisco 197,734 57.8% 143,001 41.8% 1,484 342,219 D+16.0
Orange 112,007 38.9% 174,891 60.8% 701 287,599 R+21.9
Santa Clara 117,667 47.0% 131,735 52.7% 690 250,092 R+5.6
San Mateo 97,154 48.0% 104,570 51.7% 528 202,252 R+3.7
Sacramento 109,695 56.3% 84,252 43.3% 809 194,756 D+13.1
San Bernardino 90,888 47.5% 99,481 52.0% 944 191,313 R+4.5
Contra Costa 93,622 52.9% 82,922 46.8% 579 177,123 D+6.0
Fresno 72,164 55.2% 57,930 44.3% 608 130,702 D+10.9
Riverside 50,877 43.4% 65,855 56.2% 544 117,276 R+12.8
Kern 51,440 49.1% 52,800 50.4% 465 104,705 R+1.3
San Joaquin 42,855 46.8% 48,441 52.9% 361 91,657 R+6.1
Ventura 35,334 50.0% 35,074 49.6% 315 70,723 D+0.4
Santa Barbara 29,409 43.0% 38,805 56.7% 188 68,402 R+13.7
Marin 27,888 42.5% 37,620 57.3% 157 65,665 R+14.8
Sonoma 29,147 45.5% 34,641 54.1% 244 64,032 R+8.6
Stanislaus 30,302 49.8% 30,213 49.6% 375 60,890 D+0.1
Monterey 25,805 43.4% 33,428 56.3% 180 59,413 R+12.8
Tulare 24,887 45.6% 29,456 54.0% 239 54,582 R+8.4
Solano 26,977 58.8% 18,751 40.9% 141 45,869 D+17.9
Santa Cruz 16,659 39.9% 24,858 59.6% 187 41,704 R+19.7
Humboldt 20,391 52.7% 18,074 46.7% 226 38,691 D+6.0
Butte 15,163 41.9% 20,838 57.6% 174 36,175 R+15.7
San Luis Obispo 14,975 45.3% 17,862 54.0% 218 33,055 R+8.7
Napa 13,499 46.9% 15,125 52.6% 154 28,778 R+5.7
Merced 15,545 56.2% 11,990 43.4% 111 27,646 D+12.9
Shasta 14,691 60.5% 9,462 38.9% 148 24,301 D+21.5
Placer 13,304 55.8% 10,439 43.7% 120 23,863 D+12.0
Yolo 12,395 54.9% 10,104 44.7% 90 22,589 D+10.1
Imperial 9,119 46.0% 10,606 53.5% 81 19,806 R+7.5
Mendocino 9,476 50.2% 9,301 49.3% 94 18,871 D+0.9
Kings 9,439 57.1% 6,991 42.3% 92 16,522 D+14.8
Siskiyou 8,245 56.4% 6,279 42.9% 96 14,620 D+13.4
Madera 8,126 57.8% 5,869 41.8% 62 14,057 D+16.1
El Dorado 6,175 50.1% 6,065 49.2% 97 12,337 D+0.9
Sutter 4,379 36.6% 7,520 62.9% 55 11,954 R+26.3
Tehama 5,483 49.6% 5,522 50.0% 47 11,052 R+0.4
Yuba 4,882 47.7% 5,293 51.7% 58 10,233 R+4.0
Nevada 4,633 45.7% 5,419 53.4% 89 10,141 R+7.8
Tuolumne 3,781 50.3% 3,691 49.1% 44 7,516 D+1.2
Glenn 3,410 46.4% 3,911 53.2% 35 7,356 R+6.8
Lake 2,897 40.8% 4,176 58.7% 36 7,109 R+18.0
Del Norte 3,225 51.2% 3,024 48.0% 45 6,294 D+3.2
San Benito 2,876 48.4% 3,056 51.4% 13 5,945 R+3.0
Lassen 3,472 59.1% 2,365 40.2% 40 5,877 D+18.8
Inyo 2,443 45.1% 2,962 54.6% 15 5,420 R+9.6
Plumas 3,333 62.0% 2,015 37.5% 30 5,378 D+24.5
Calaveras 2,509 46.8% 2,820 52.6% 32 5,361 R+5.8
Amador 2,690 55.0% 2,175 44.5% 22 4,887 D+10.5
Colusa 2,348 48.3% 2,497 51.4% 16 4,861 R+3.1
Trinity 2,262 61.2% 1,418 38.3% 18 3,698 D+22.8
Modoc 1,691 47.6% 1,839 51.8% 20 3,550 R+4.2
Mariposa 1,338 45.2% 1,599 54.0% 26 2,963 R+8.8
Mono 457 33.2% 912 66.3% 6 1,375 R+33.1
Sierra 647 52.6% 576 46.8% 8 1,231 D+5.8
Alpine 40 23.3% 132 76.7% 172 R+53.5

Counties as they stood in 1960; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

California in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+20.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+29.2
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+30.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+24.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.9
2000 Al Gore (D) D+11.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+12.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.2
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.3
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+0.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.6
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+35.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.5
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+49.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.9
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.4
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+22.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+34.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+13.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+0.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+6.6
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+1.8
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+0.5