1960 United States presidential election in Louisiana
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The 1960 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. State voters chose ten[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Louisiana was won by Senator John F. Kennedy (D–Massachusetts), running with Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 50.42% of the popular vote against incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), running with United States Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., with 28.59% of the popular vote.[3][4] There was also a failed effort in Louisiana to influence electors to vote for Nixon instead of Kennedy.
Louisiana has a higher Roman Catholic population than the rest of Southern United States, which benefitted Kennedy, the second Roman Catholic to head a major party ticket. This Catholic base was concentrated in the southern half of the state, especially Acadiana. Nixon and a slate of unpledged electors aligned with the National States' Rights Party split the northern Protestant parishes, with Nixon winning the less fertile poor white parishes and the unpledged slate the northern Black Belt.
As of the 2024 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Jefferson and St. Tammany Parishes in the New Orleans suburbs have voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[5]
Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | John F. Kennedy | 407,339 | 50.42% | |
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 230,980 | 28.59% | |
| States' Rights | Unpledged electors | 169,572 | 20.99% | |
| Total votes | 807,891 | 100% | ||
Results by parish
[edit]| Parish[6] | John F. Kennedy Democratic |
Richard Nixon Republican |
Unpledged electors States’ Rights |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Acadia | 11,440 | 75.84% | 2,616 | 17.34% | 1,028 | 6.82% | 8,824 | 58.50% | 15,084 |
| Allen | 3,719 | 59.84% | 1,676 | 26.97% | 820 | 13.19% | 2,043 | 32.87% | 6,215 |
| Ascension | 5,689 | 74.76% | 1,012 | 13.30% | 909 | 11.94% | 4,677 | 61.46% | 7,610 |
| Assumption | 3,019 | 71.69% | 766 | 18.19% | 426 | 10.12% | 2,253 | 53.50% | 4,211 |
| Avoyelles | 7,625 | 75.98% | 1,270 | 12.66% | 1,140 | 11.36% | 6,355 | 63.32% | 10,035 |
| Beauregard | 2,903 | 48.67% | 2,432 | 40.77% | 630 | 10.56% | 471 | 7.90% | 5,965 |
| Bienville | 625 | 17.62% | 1,230 | 34.67% | 1,693 | 47.72% | -463[a] | -13.05% | 3,548 |
| Bossier | 2,198 | 25.21% | 3,429 | 39.32% | 3,093 | 35.47% | 336[a] | 3.85% | 8,720 |
| Caddo | 11,481 | 24.80% | 25,139 | 54.29% | 9,681 | 20.91% | -13,658 | -29.49% | 46,301 |
| Calcasieu | 24,233 | 64.40% | 10,243 | 27.22% | 3,151 | 8.37% | 13,990 | 37.18% | 37,627 |
| Caldwell | 694 | 34.00% | 716 | 35.08% | 631 | 30.92% | -22 | -1.08% | 2,041 |
| Cameron | 1,944 | 83.08% | 322 | 13.76% | 74 | 3.16% | 1,622 | 69.32% | 2,340 |
| Catahoula | 558 | 26.17% | 971 | 45.54% | 603 | 28.28% | 368[a] | 17.26% | 2,132 |
| Claiborne | 489 | 12.69% | 1,336 | 34.67% | 2,029 | 52.65% | -693[a] | -17.98% | 3,854 |
| Concordia | 768 | 23.06% | 1,009 | 30.29% | 1,554 | 46.65% | -545[a] | -16.36% | 3,331 |
| DeSoto | 1,183 | 26.65% | 1,603 | 36.11% | 1,653 | 37.24% | -50[a] | -1.13% | 4,439 |
| East Baton Rouge | 26,326 | 46.65% | 17,749 | 31.45% | 12,360 | 21.90% | 8,577 | 15.20% | 56,435 |
| East Carroll | 364 | 23.88% | 448 | 29.40% | 712 | 46.72% | -264[a] | -17.32% | 1,524 |
| East Feliciana | 475 | 24.65% | 313 | 16.24% | 1,139 | 59.11% | -664[b] | -34.46% | 1,927 |
| Evangeline | 7,865 | 80.55% | 1,105 | 11.32% | 794 | 8.13% | 6,760 | 69.23% | 9,764 |
| Franklin | 1,213 | 30.03% | 1,336 | 33.08% | 1,490 | 36.89% | -154[a] | -3.81% | 4,039 |
| Grant | 1,219 | 31.40% | 1,254 | 32.30% | 1,409 | 36.30% | -155[a] | -4.00% | 3,882 |
| Iberia | 9,235 | 59.70% | 3,551 | 22.95% | 2,684 | 17.35% | 5,684 | 36.75% | 15,470 |
| Iberville | 4,558 | 72.25% | 1,000 | 15.85% | 751 | 11.90% | 3,558 | 56.40% | 6,309 |
| Jackson | 1,398 | 34.10% | 1,799 | 43.88% | 903 | 22.02% | -401 | -9.78% | 4,100 |
| Jefferson | 32,119 | 51.28% | 17,215 | 27.48% | 13,304 | 21.24% | 14,904 | 23.80% | 62,638 |
| Jefferson Davis | 5,904 | 67.77% | 2,251 | 25.84% | 557 | 6.39% | 3,653 | 41.93% | 8,712 |
| Lafayette | 14,132 | 62.30% | 6,047 | 26.66% | 2,505 | 11.04% | 8,085 | 35.64% | 22,684 |
| Lafourche | 12,244 | 76.26% | 2,930 | 18.25% | 881 | 5.49% | 9,314 | 58.01% | 16,055 |
| LaSalle | 843 | 21.94% | 2,123 | 55.26% | 876 | 22.80% | 1,247[a] | 32.46% | 3,842 |
| Lincoln | 1,051 | 20.57% | 2,766 | 54.14% | 1,292 | 25.29% | 1,474[a] | 28.85% | 5,109 |
| Livingston | 2,881 | 43.47% | 954 | 14.39% | 2,793 | 42.14% | 88[b] | 1.33% | 6,628 |
| Madison | 235 | 12.45% | 629 | 33.32% | 1,024 | 54.24% | -395[a] | -20.92% | 1,888 |
| Morehouse | 1,085 | 22.70% | 2,551 | 53.37% | 1,144 | 23.93% | 1,407[a] | 29.44% | 4,780 |
| Natchitoches | 2,781 | 39.39% | 2,562 | 36.29% | 1,717 | 24.32% | 219 | 3.10% | 7,060 |
| Orleans | 87,242 | 49.64% | 47,111 | 26.80% | 41,414 | 23.56% | 40,131 | 22.84% | 175,767 |
| Ouachita | 5,202 | 26.97% | 10,525 | 54.56% | 3,564 | 18.47% | -5,323 | -27.59% | 19,291 |
| Plaquemines | 1,087 | 21.12% | 712 | 13.84% | 3,347 | 65.04% | -2,260[b] | -43.92% | 5,146 |
| Pointe Coupee | 2,953 | 71.81% | 674 | 16.39% | 485 | 11.79% | 2,279 | 55.42% | 4,112 |
| Rapides | 9,651 | 40.58% | 8,155 | 34.29% | 5,976 | 25.13% | 1,496 | 6.29% | 23,782 |
| Red River | 377 | 19.67% | 406 | 21.18% | 1,134 | 59.15% | -728[a] | -37.97% | 1,917 |
| Richland | 996 | 25.74% | 1,378 | 35.62% | 1,495 | 38.64% | -117[a] | -3.02% | 3,869 |
| Sabine | 2,412 | 40.96% | 2,419 | 41.08% | 1,058 | 17.97% | -7 | -0.12% | 5,889 |
| St. Bernard | 4,660 | 42.56% | 1,431 | 13.07% | 4,858 | 44.37% | -198[b] | -1.81% | 10,949 |
| St. Charles | 4,708 | 71.31% | 1,377 | 20.86% | 517 | 7.83% | 3,331 | 50.45% | 6,602 |
| St. Helena | 678 | 37.48% | 296 | 16.36% | 835 | 46.16% | -157[b] | -8.68% | 1,809 |
| St. James | 4,362 | 82.09% | 620 | 11.67% | 332 | 6.25% | 3,742 | 70.42% | 5,314 |
| St. John the Baptist | 3,782 | 80.13% | 488 | 10.34% | 450 | 9.53% | 3,294 | 69.79% | 4,720 |
| St. Landry | 14,625 | 72.18% | 3,083 | 15.22% | 2,554 | 12.60% | 11,542 | 56.96% | 20,262 |
| St. Martin | 5,506 | 77.96% | 858 | 12.15% | 699 | 9.90% | 4,648 | 65.81% | 7,063 |
| St. Mary | 6,671 | 61.59% | 2,992 | 27.62% | 1,169 | 10.79% | 3,679 | 33.97% | 10,832 |
| St. Tammany | 5,179 | 46.81% | 2,850 | 25.76% | 3,034 | 27.42% | 2,145[b] | 19.39% | 11,063 |
| Tangipahoa | 6,648 | 46.32% | 3,285 | 22.89% | 4,418 | 30.79% | 2,230[b] | 15.53% | 14,351 |
| Tensas | 247 | 20.45% | 510 | 42.22% | 451 | 37.33% | 59[a] | 4.89% | 1,208 |
| Terrebonne | 8,992 | 68.07% | 3,126 | 23.66% | 1,092 | 8.27% | 5,866 | 44.41% | 13,210 |
| Union | 1,034 | 25.45% | 2,017 | 49.64% | 1,012 | 24.91% | -983 | -24.19% | 4,063 |
| Vermilion | 11,257 | 77.13% | 2,170 | 14.87% | 1,168 | 8.00% | 9,087 | 62.26% | 14,595 |
| Vernon | 3,145 | 51.06% | 1,991 | 32.32% | 1,024 | 16.62% | 1,154 | 18.74% | 6,160 |
| Washington | 5,678 | 49.81% | 1,847 | 16.20% | 3,875 | 33.99% | 1,803[b] | 15.82% | 11,400 |
| Webster | 1,273 | 16.60% | 3,139 | 40.94% | 3,255 | 42.45% | -116[a] | -1.51% | 7,667 |
| West Baton Rouge | 2,315 | 73.70% | 390 | 12.42% | 436 | 13.88% | 1,879[b] | 59.82% | 3,141 |
| West Carroll | 784 | 32.36% | 742 | 30.62% | 897 | 37.02% | -113[b] | -4.66% | 2,423 |
| West Feliciana | 271 | 30.42% | 196 | 22.00% | 424 | 47.59% | -153[b] | -17.17% | 891 |
| Winn | 1,108 | 27.05% | 1,839 | 44.90% | 1,149 | 28.05% | 690[a] | 16.85% | 4,096 |
| Totals | 407,339 | 50.42% | 230,980 | 28.59% | 169,572 | 20.99% | 176,359 | 21.83% | 807,891 |
Parishes that flipped from Republican to Democratic
[edit]- Allen
- Acadia
- Beauregard
- Assumption
- Calcasieu
- East Baton Rouge
- Iberia
- Jefferson Davis
- Jefferson
- Lafourche
- Lafayette
- Natchitoches
- Orleans
- Rapides
- Saint Charles
- St. James
- St. John the Baptist
- St. Landry
- St. Martin
- St. Mary
- St. Tammany
- Tangipahoa
- Terrebonne
- Vernon
Parishes that flipped from Republican to Unpledged
[edit]Parishes that flipped from Unpledged to Republican
[edit]Parishes that flipped from Democratic to Unpledged
[edit]See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r In this parish where Kennedy ran third behind both Nixon and the unpledged slate, margin given is Nixon vote minus unpledged vote and percentage margin Nixon percentage minus unpledged percentage.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k In this parish where Nixon ran third behind both Kennedy and the unpledged slate, margin given is Kennedy vote minus unpledged vote and percentage margin Kennedy percentage minus unpledged percentage.
References
[edit]- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1960 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ^ "1960 Election for the Forty-Fourth Term (1961-65)". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ^ "1960 Presidential General Election Results — Louisiana". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project — Election of 1960". Retrieved June 8, 2017.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ "LA US President Race, November 08, 1960". Our Campaigns.
