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Election 1960 Results

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1960 presidential election in Pennsylvania

John F. Kennedy (Democrat) beat Richard Nixon (Republican) in Pennsylvania in 1960, 51.1% to 48.7%, a margin of 2.3 points and 116,326 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 2.2 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.2.

Pennsylvania changed party: in 1956 it went Republican, for Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Republicans led in 52 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 15. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 915,277 votes and went to the Democrat by 36.2 points. The closest was Carbon, where 195 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
John F. Kennedy won Democratic 2,556,282 51.1%
Richard Nixon Republican 2,439,956 48.7%
All other candidates 10,303 0.2%
Total5,006,541

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 622,544 68.0% 291,000 31.8% 1,733 915,277 D+36.2
Allegheny 428,455 57.1% 320,970 42.8% 1,293 750,718 D+14.3
Delaware 124,629 47.8% 135,672 52.0% 482 260,783 R+4.2
Montgomery 92,212 39.2% 142,796 60.7% 318 235,326 R+21.5
Luzerne 102,998 59.1% 70,711 40.6% 562 174,271 D+18.5
Westmoreland 85,641 55.3% 68,825 44.4% 374 154,840 D+10.9
Lackawanna 80,098 61.7% 49,636 38.2% 49 129,783 D+23.5
Bucks 57,177 45.7% 67,501 54.0% 438 125,116 R+8.3
Berks 50,572 44.9% 61,743 54.8% 391 112,706 R+9.9
Lancaster 33,233 29.7% 78,390 70.1% 266 111,889 R+40.4
Erie 53,723 50.9% 51,525 48.8% 295 105,543 D+2.1
Dauphin 33,962 35.3% 61,726 64.2% 427 96,115 R+28.9
York 39,164 41.0% 55,922 58.6% 393 95,479 R+17.6
Lehigh 39,640 42.1% 54,278 57.6% 249 94,167 R+15.5
Washington 53,729 58.3% 38,348 41.6% 120 92,197 D+16.7
Cambria 52,409 58.5% 37,062 41.4% 151 89,622 D+17.1
Schuylkill 44,430 50.1% 44,187 49.8% 70 88,687 D+0.3
Beaver 47,182 56.0% 36,796 43.7% 212 84,190 D+12.3
Chester 30,167 36.2% 53,059 63.6% 147 83,373 R+27.5
Northampton 41,552 50.5% 40,683 49.4% 71 82,306 D+1.1
Fayette 41,560 60.4% 27,120 39.4% 181 68,861 D+21.0
Blair 19,445 35.5% 35,297 64.4% 67 54,809 R+28.9
Mercer 24,243 45.3% 29,109 54.4% 128 53,480 R+9.1
Cumberland 15,968 30.8% 35,636 68.8% 197 51,801 R+38.0
Northumberland 22,233 44.6% 27,568 55.3% 40 49,841 R+10.7
Lycoming 18,351 37.9% 30,083 62.0% 48 48,482 R+24.2
Lawrence 24,309 50.6% 23,646 49.2% 109 48,064 D+1.4
Butler 17,805 38.5% 28,348 61.2% 152 46,305 R+22.8
Lebanon 11,761 31.5% 25,525 68.3% 67 37,353 R+36.8
Somerset 14,739 41.7% 20,554 58.2% 42 35,335 R+16.5
Armstrong 14,799 42.6% 19,883 57.2% 63 34,745 R+14.6
Franklin 12,088 35.4% 22,010 64.5% 36 34,134 R+29.1
Clearfield 14,212 42.8% 18,911 57.0% 72 33,195 R+14.2
Indiana 13,174 41.2% 18,756 58.6% 83 32,013 R+17.4
Crawford 12,050 39.0% 18,754 60.7% 102 30,906 R+21.7
Centre 8,601 31.9% 18,357 68.0% 46 27,004 R+36.1
Venango 8,064 31.9% 17,193 68.0% 23 25,280 R+36.1
Carbon 12,391 49.5% 12,586 50.3% 55 25,032 R+0.8
Columbia 9,322 37.8% 15,310 62.1% 19 24,651 R+24.3
Bradford 6,920 29.8% 16,252 70.0% 33 23,205 R+40.2
Jefferson 7,811 36.0% 13,845 63.8% 38 21,694 R+27.8
McKean 7,767 36.1% 13,699 63.6% 66 21,532 R+27.5
Adams 7,895 37.9% 12,933 62.0% 26 20,854 R+24.2
Bedford 6,030 32.4% 12,542 67.4% 32 18,604 R+35.0
Warren 6,525 35.9% 11,611 63.8% 59 18,195 R+28.0
Monroe 6,312 35.6% 11,299 63.7% 115 17,726 R+28.1
Greene 9,645 56.2% 7,498 43.7% 16 17,159 D+12.5
Susquehanna 5,760 36.1% 10,201 63.9% 9 15,970 R+27.8
Huntingdon 4,710 29.7% 11,116 70.1% 38 15,864 R+40.4
Clarion 5,506 34.7% 10,307 65.0% 34 15,847 R+30.3
Elk 8,398 53.9% 7,155 46.0% 14 15,567 D+8.0
Mifflin 4,816 31.7% 10,315 67.8% 72 15,203 R+36.2
Tioga 4,076 26.9% 11,082 73.0% 15 15,173 R+46.2
Clinton 5,965 39.3% 9,184 60.6% 12 15,161 R+21.2
Wayne 4,425 32.0% 9,360 67.8% 26 13,811 R+35.7
Perry 3,413 29.5% 8,134 70.3% 23 11,570 R+40.8
Snyder 1,998 19.7% 8,103 80.1% 16 10,117 R+60.3
Union 1,993 21.0% 7,466 78.8% 13 9,472 R+57.8
Wyoming 2,726 30.6% 6,188 69.4% 7 8,921 R+38.8
Potter 2,715 34.7% 5,099 65.1% 16 7,830 R+30.4
Juniata 2,615 35.2% 4,805 64.7% 11 7,431 R+29.5
Montour 2,629 38.7% 4,154 61.2% 8 6,791 R+22.5
Pike 1,676 29.5% 4,000 70.4% 7 5,683 R+40.9
Fulton 1,672 38.2% 2,698 61.6% 9 4,379 R+23.4
Cameron 1,353 38.8% 2,129 61.1% 5 3,487 R+22.3
Sullivan 1,471 44.8% 1,808 55.1% 5 3,284 R+10.3
Forest 828 35.5% 1,497 64.2% 7 2,332 R+28.7

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4