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Election 1972 Results

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1972 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Richard Nixon (Republican) beat George McGovern (Democrat) in Pennsylvania in 1972, 59.1% to 39.1%, a margin of 20.0 points and 917,570 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 3.2 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+23.1.

Pennsylvania changed party: in 1968 it went Democratic, for Hubert Humphrey.

Republicans led in 66 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 1. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 783,970 votes and went to the Democrat by 11.2 points. The closest was Forest, where 865 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 2,714,521 59.1%
George McGovern Democratic 1,796,951 39.1%
All other candidates 80,633 1.8%
Total4,592,105

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 431,736 55.1% 344,096 43.9% 8,138 783,970 D+11.2
Allegheny 282,496 42.3% 371,737 55.6% 14,302 668,535 R+13.3
Delaware 94,144 34.3% 175,414 63.9% 4,893 274,451 R+29.6
Montgomery 91,959 34.1% 173,662 64.3% 4,397 270,018 R+30.3
Bucks 56,784 35.5% 99,684 62.3% 3,591 160,059 R+26.8
Westmoreland 59,322 43.1% 75,085 54.6% 3,120 137,527 R+11.5
Luzerne 51,128 38.3% 81,358 60.9% 1,120 133,606 R+22.6
Lancaster 24,223 22.6% 81,036 75.6% 1,879 107,138 R+53.0
Chester 31,118 29.3% 72,726 68.4% 2,415 106,259 R+39.2
Berks 36,563 34.5% 66,172 62.4% 3,392 106,127 R+27.9
Erie 42,022 39.8% 61,542 58.2% 2,149 105,713 R+18.5
Lackawanna 45,465 43.4% 58,838 56.1% 566 104,869 R+12.8
York 27,520 29.5% 63,606 68.2% 2,154 93,280 R+38.7
Lehigh 33,325 35.8% 58,023 62.4% 1,654 93,002 R+26.6
Washington 34,781 44.1% 42,587 54.0% 1,494 78,862 R+9.9
Dauphin 22,587 28.9% 54,307 69.4% 1,376 78,270 R+40.5
Beaver 31,570 40.8% 43,637 56.4% 2,130 77,337 R+15.6
Northampton 32,335 43.5% 41,822 56.3% 124 74,281 R+12.8
Cambria 27,950 38.3% 43,825 60.1% 1,200 72,975 R+21.8
Schuylkill 26,077 36.4% 44,071 61.6% 1,447 71,595 R+25.1
Cumberland 14,562 25.2% 42,099 72.9% 1,114 57,775 R+47.7
Fayette 22,475 44.5% 27,288 54.1% 716 50,479 R+9.5
Mercer 18,087 38.4% 27,961 59.4% 1,052 47,100 R+21.0
Butler 14,695 32.2% 29,665 65.1% 1,214 45,574 R+32.8
Blair 10,023 22.7% 33,126 75.1% 961 44,110 R+52.4
Lawrence 17,595 41.6% 23,712 56.1% 990 42,297 R+14.5
Lycoming 11,999 28.5% 28,913 68.7% 1,175 42,087 R+40.2
Northumberland 13,885 34.4% 25,912 64.2% 588 40,385 R+29.8
Franklin 9,456 27.5% 24,093 70.0% 866 34,415 R+42.5
Centre 13,194 38.6% 20,683 60.5% 320 34,197 R+21.9
Lebanon 6,683 20.7% 25,008 77.4% 629 32,320 R+56.7
Indiana 10,833 37.0% 18,122 61.9% 319 29,274 R+24.9
Somerset 8,743 30.3% 19,739 68.4% 359 28,841 R+38.1
Crawford 9,371 32.8% 18,393 64.4% 805 28,569 R+31.6
Armstrong 10,490 36.8% 17,557 61.6% 451 28,498 R+24.8
Clearfield 9,246 35.0% 16,780 63.5% 383 26,409 R+28.5
Columbia 7,222 32.4% 14,187 63.6% 900 22,309 R+31.2
Venango 6,302 30.3% 13,991 67.3% 501 20,794 R+37.0
Bradford 5,204 25.4% 15,050 73.6% 204 20,458 R+48.1
Carbon 7,774 39.4% 11,639 59.0% 299 19,712 R+19.6
Adams 5,529 28.6% 13,593 70.2% 243 19,365 R+41.6
Monroe 5,619 29.9% 12,701 67.5% 494 18,814 R+37.6
Jefferson 5,024 29.8% 11,631 68.9% 221 16,876 R+39.2
McKean 4,513 27.1% 11,958 71.7% 202 16,673 R+44.7
Bedford 3,836 25.0% 11,243 73.3% 259 15,338 R+48.3
Warren 4,877 32.2% 10,018 66.1% 272 15,167 R+33.9
Clarion 4,509 30.4% 10,073 68.0% 239 14,821 R+37.5
Susquehanna 4,154 29.7% 9,476 67.8% 349 13,979 R+38.1
Tioga 3,733 26.8% 10,028 72.1% 157 13,918 R+45.2
Mifflin 3,667 26.5% 9,989 72.1% 199 13,855 R+45.6
Greene 5,562 41.1% 7,790 57.5% 191 13,543 R+16.5
Huntingdon 3,394 25.7% 9,606 72.7% 216 13,216 R+47.0
Clinton 4,772 36.4% 8,205 62.5% 142 13,119 R+26.2
Elk 4,710 36.5% 7,900 61.2% 298 12,908 R+24.7
Wayne 2,733 22.8% 8,948 74.5% 328 12,009 R+51.8
Perry 2,731 24.8% 8,082 73.3% 212 11,025 R+48.5
Union 2,278 24.3% 6,905 73.6% 202 9,385 R+49.3
Snyder 1,834 19.6% 7,308 78.2% 203 9,345 R+58.6
Wyoming 2,112 24.5% 6,423 74.4% 96 8,631 R+49.9
Juniata 2,156 32.4% 4,412 66.3% 85 6,653 R+33.9
Montour 1,755 27.9% 4,386 69.6% 157 6,298 R+41.8
Potter 1,710 27.4% 4,422 70.9% 104 6,236 R+43.5
Pike 1,385 22.7% 4,568 74.8% 155 6,108 R+52.1
Fulton 1,192 31.4% 2,515 66.2% 90 3,797 R+34.8
Cameron 828 29.3% 1,935 68.4% 64 2,827 R+39.2
Sullivan 885 31.5% 1,886 67.2% 37 2,808 R+35.6
Forest 509 26.6% 1,374 71.7% 32 1,915 R+45.2

Counties as they stood in 1972; 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