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The 1972 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose 9 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.[2]
Kentucky was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R–California) with 63.77 percent of the popular vote against Senator George McGovern (D–South Dakota) with 34.77%.[3][4] Nixon won all but eight of the 120 counties in the state.[5] Electors Frank Stubblefield (D), Romano L. Mazzoli (D), Gene Snyder (R), Tim Lee Carter (R), William P. Curlin Jr. (D), Carl D. Perkins (D), John Sherman Cooper (R), and Marlow W. Cook (R) were pledged to and voted for Nixon.
This was the first time ever that a Republican won Franklin County, Harrison County, Henry County, Meade County, Owen County, or Trimble County, and the first time that every county in the Jackson Purchase voted Republican. Nixon was also the first Republican since Abraham Lincoln in 1864 to carry Fulton County, Marshall County, or Hickman County.
Results
[edit]Presidential Candidate | Running Mate | Party | Electoral Vote (EV) | Popular Vote (PV) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Richard Nixon of California (incumbent) | Spiro Agnew (incumbent) | Republican | 9 | 676,446 | 63.37% |
George McGovern | Sargent Shriver | Democratic | 0 | 371,159 | 34.77% |
John G. Schmitz | Thomas J. Anderson | American | 0 | 17,627 | 1.65% |
Benjamin Spock | Julius Hobson | People's | 0 | 1,118 | 0.10% |
Linda Jenness | Andrew Pulley | Socialist Workers | 0 | 685 | 0.06% |
Gus Hall | Jarvis Tyner | Communist | 0 | 464 | 0.04% |
Results by county
[edit]County[6] | Richard Nixon Republican |
George McGovern Democratic |
John G. Schmitz American |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Adair | 3,859 | 69.77% | 1,610 | 29.11% | 55 | 0.99% | 7 | 0.13% | 2,249 | 40.66% | 5,531 |
Allen | 3,025 | 69.83% | 1,259 | 29.06% | 43 | 0.99% | 5 | 0.12% | 1,766 | 40.77% | 4,332 |
Anderson | 2,298 | 62.62% | 1,302 | 35.48% | 60 | 1.63% | 10 | 0.27% | 996 | 27.14% | 3,670 |
Ballard | 1,542 | 49.92% | 1,411 | 45.68% | 128 | 4.14% | 8 | 0.26% | 131 | 4.24% | 3,089 |
Barren | 6,070 | 62.60% | 3,384 | 34.90% | 230 | 2.37% | 12 | 0.12% | 2,686 | 27.70% | 9,696 |
Bath | 1,919 | 58.47% | 1,347 | 41.04% | 12 | 0.37% | 4 | 0.12% | 572 | 17.43% | 3,282 |
Bell | 6,518 | 66.06% | 3,219 | 32.62% | 96 | 0.97% | 34 | 0.34% | 3,299 | 33.44% | 9,867 |
Boone | 7,355 | 71.55% | 2,595 | 25.24% | 316 | 3.07% | 14 | 0.14% | 4,760 | 46.31% | 10,280 |
Bourbon | 3,180 | 62.02% | 1,860 | 36.28% | 78 | 1.52% | 9 | 0.18% | 1,320 | 25.74% | 5,127 |
Boyd | 12,812 | 65.92% | 6,434 | 33.10% | 170 | 0.87% | 21 | 0.11% | 6,378 | 32.82% | 19,437 |
Boyle | 4,317 | 63.66% | 2,395 | 35.32% | 54 | 0.80% | 15 | 0.22% | 1,922 | 28.34% | 6,781 |
Bracken | 1,628 | 64.30% | 873 | 34.48% | 29 | 1.15% | 2 | 0.08% | 755 | 29.82% | 2,532 |
Breathitt | 1,846 | 40.65% | 2,677 | 58.95% | 13 | 0.29% | 5 | 0.11% | -831 | -18.30% | 4,541 |
Breckinridge | 3,574 | 64.25% | 1,921 | 34.53% | 62 | 1.11% | 6 | 0.11% | 1,653 | 29.72% | 5,563 |
Bullitt | 4,517 | 59.80% | 2,827 | 37.43% | 191 | 2.53% | 18 | 0.24% | 1,690 | 22.37% | 7,553 |
Butler | 2,941 | 77.03% | 835 | 21.87% | 36 | 0.94% | 6 | 0.16% | 2,106 | 55.16% | 3,818 |
Caldwell | 2,952 | 66.32% | 1,345 | 30.22% | 139 | 3.12% | 15 | 0.34% | 1,607 | 36.10% | 4,451 |
Calloway | 5,167 | 59.17% | 3,468 | 39.72% | 85 | 0.97% | 12 | 0.14% | 1,699 | 19.45% | 8,732 |
Campbell | 20,025 | 68.01% | 8,585 | 29.16% | 770 | 2.62% | 65 | 0.22% | 11,440 | 38.85% | 29,445 |
Carlisle | 1,169 | 55.75% | 872 | 41.58% | 48 | 2.29% | 8 | 0.38% | 297 | 14.17% | 2,097 |
Carroll | 1,228 | 47.71% | 1,308 | 50.82% | 35 | 1.36% | 3 | 0.12% | -80 | -3.11% | 2,574 |
Carter | 4,082 | 60.68% | 2,591 | 38.52% | 39 | 0.58% | 15 | 0.22% | 1,491 | 22.16% | 6,727 |
Casey | 3,727 | 78.83% | 913 | 19.31% | 53 | 1.12% | 35 | 0.74% | 2,814 | 59.52% | 4,728 |
Christian | 7,414 | 63.34% | 4,063 | 34.71% | 215 | 1.84% | 13 | 0.11% | 3,351 | 28.63% | 11,705 |
Clark | 4,506 | 68.43% | 2,020 | 30.68% | 51 | 0.77% | 8 | 0.12% | 2,486 | 37.75% | 6,585 |
Clay | 4,046 | 69.99% | 1,709 | 29.56% | 22 | 0.38% | 4 | 0.07% | 2,337 | 40.43% | 5,781 |
Clinton | 2,632 | 79.59% | 659 | 19.93% | 13 | 0.39% | 3 | 0.09% | 1,973 | 59.66% | 3,307 |
Crittenden | 2,248 | 71.52% | 859 | 27.33% | 32 | 1.02% | 4 | 0.13% | 1,389 | 44.19% | 3,143 |
Cumberland | 2,294 | 76.42% | 686 | 22.85% | 20 | 0.67% | 2 | 0.07% | 1,608 | 53.57% | 3,002 |
Daviess | 17,234 | 65.64% | 8,168 | 31.11% | 757 | 2.88% | 97 | 0.37% | 9,066 | 34.53% | 26,256 |
Edmonson | 2,327 | 75.70% | 722 | 23.49% | 17 | 0.55% | 8 | 0.26% | 1,605 | 52.21% | 3,074 |
Elliott | 782 | 34.04% | 1,499 | 65.26% | 7 | 0.30% | 9 | 0.39% | -717 | -31.22% | 2,297 |
Estill | 3,054 | 69.42% | 1,322 | 30.05% | 20 | 0.45% | 3 | 0.07% | 1,732 | 39.37% | 4,399 |
Fayette | 42,362 | 66.54% | 19,828 | 31.14% | 1,315 | 2.07% | 161 | 0.25% | 22,534 | 35.40% | 63,666 |
Fleming | 2,484 | 62.38% | 1,455 | 36.54% | 25 | 0.63% | 18 | 0.45% | 1,029 | 25.84% | 3,982 |
Floyd | 6,099 | 44.20% | 7,544 | 54.67% | 117 | 0.85% | 40 | 0.29% | -1,445 | -10.47% | 13,800 |
Franklin | 7,781 | 56.88% | 5,601 | 40.95% | 264 | 1.93% | 33 | 0.24% | 2,180 | 15.93% | 13,679 |
Fulton | 1,807 | 61.32% | 1,024 | 34.75% | 111 | 3.77% | 5 | 0.17% | 783 | 26.57% | 2,947 |
Gallatin | 719 | 53.38% | 612 | 45.43% | 14 | 1.04% | 2 | 0.15% | 107 | 7.95% | 1,347 |
Garrard | 3,143 | 67.49% | 1,441 | 30.94% | 65 | 1.40% | 8 | 0.17% | 1,702 | 36.55% | 4,657 |
Grant | 2,086 | 64.03% | 1,054 | 32.35% | 111 | 3.41% | 7 | 0.21% | 1,032 | 31.68% | 3,258 |
Graves | 6,098 | 60.38% | 3,701 | 36.64% | 266 | 2.63% | 35 | 0.35% | 2,397 | 23.74% | 10,100 |
Grayson | 4,155 | 67.99% | 1,839 | 30.09% | 98 | 1.60% | 19 | 0.31% | 2,316 | 37.90% | 6,111 |
Green | 2,755 | 68.82% | 1,209 | 30.20% | 36 | 0.90% | 3 | 0.07% | 1,546 | 38.62% | 4,003 |
Greenup | 6,828 | 59.70% | 4,491 | 39.27% | 104 | 0.91% | 14 | 0.12% | 2,337 | 20.43% | 11,437 |
Hancock | 1,583 | 64.61% | 791 | 32.29% | 67 | 2.73% | 9 | 0.37% | 792 | 32.32% | 2,450 |
Hardin | 8,740 | 65.93% | 4,060 | 30.63% | 429 | 3.24% | 27 | 0.20% | 4,680 | 35.30% | 13,256 |
Harlan | 6,527 | 59.42% | 4,349 | 39.59% | 80 | 0.73% | 29 | 0.26% | 2,178 | 19.83% | 10,985 |
Harrison | 2,732 | 59.70% | 1,780 | 38.90% | 53 | 1.16% | 11 | 0.24% | 952 | 20.80% | 4,576 |
Hart | 3,582 | 60.31% | 2,307 | 38.84% | 41 | 0.69% | 9 | 0.15% | 1,275 | 21.47% | 5,939 |
Henderson | 6,231 | 60.68% | 3,889 | 37.87% | 113 | 1.10% | 36 | 0.35% | 2,342 | 22.81% | 10,269 |
Henry | 1,919 | 52.49% | 1,688 | 46.17% | 47 | 1.29% | 2 | 0.05% | 231 | 6.32% | 3,656 |
Hickman | 1,430 | 56.66% | 976 | 38.67% | 113 | 4.48% | 5 | 0.20% | 454 | 17.99% | 2,524 |
Hopkins | 7,133 | 68.67% | 3,129 | 30.12% | 112 | 1.08% | 14 | 0.13% | 4,004 | 38.55% | 10,388 |
Jackson | 5,303 | 92.18% | 436 | 7.58% | 6 | 0.10% | 8 | 0.14% | 4,867 | 84.60% | 5,753 |
Jefferson | 142,436 | 60.41% | 88,143 | 37.39% | 4,766 | 2.02% | 419 | 0.18% | 54,293 | 23.02% | 235,764 |
Jessamine | 3,819 | 72.91% | 1,269 | 24.23% | 133 | 2.54% | 17 | 0.32% | 2,550 | 48.68% | 5,238 |
Johnson | 4,907 | 72.25% | 1,840 | 27.09% | 33 | 0.49% | 12 | 0.18% | 3,067 | 45.16% | 6,792 |
Kenton | 28,076 | 66.66% | 12,872 | 30.56% | 1,055 | 2.50% | 118 | 0.28% | 15,204 | 36.10% | 42,121 |
Knott | 1,479 | 34.50% | 2,774 | 64.71% | 24 | 0.56% | 10 | 0.23% | -1,295 | -30.21% | 4,287 |
Knox | 5,017 | 72.93% | 1,805 | 26.24% | 36 | 0.52% | 21 | 0.31% | 3,212 | 46.69% | 6,879 |
LaRue | 2,449 | 61.53% | 1,483 | 37.26% | 40 | 1.01% | 8 | 0.20% | 966 | 24.27% | 3,980 |
Laurel | 7,276 | 75.63% | 2,274 | 23.64% | 62 | 0.64% | 8 | 0.08% | 5,002 | 51.99% | 9,620 |
Lawrence | 2,392 | 60.48% | 1,529 | 38.66% | 31 | 0.78% | 3 | 0.08% | 863 | 21.82% | 3,955 |
Lee | 1,629 | 68.22% | 744 | 31.16% | 12 | 0.50% | 3 | 0.13% | 885 | 37.06% | 2,388 |
Leslie | 3,299 | 77.88% | 913 | 21.55% | 7 | 0.17% | 17 | 0.40% | 2,386 | 56.33% | 4,236 |
Letcher | 4,213 | 58.54% | 2,908 | 40.41% | 59 | 0.82% | 17 | 0.24% | 1,305 | 18.13% | 7,197 |
Lewis | 3,124 | 71.57% | 1,200 | 27.49% | 31 | 0.71% | 10 | 0.23% | 1,924 | 44.08% | 4,365 |
Lincoln | 3,623 | 65.03% | 1,882 | 33.78% | 54 | 0.97% | 12 | 0.22% | 1,741 | 31.25% | 5,571 |
Livingston | 1,673 | 59.96% | 1,065 | 38.17% | 47 | 1.68% | 5 | 0.18% | 608 | 21.79% | 2,790 |
Logan | 3,573 | 57.86% | 2,459 | 39.82% | 127 | 2.06% | 16 | 0.26% | 1,114 | 18.04% | 6,175 |
Lyon | 1,030 | 58.52% | 687 | 39.03% | 41 | 2.33% | 2 | 0.11% | 343 | 19.49% | 1,760 |
Madison | 8,659 | 65.60% | 4,328 | 32.79% | 178 | 1.35% | 34 | 0.26% | 4,331 | 32.81% | 13,199 |
Magoffin | 2,243 | 52.39% | 2,024 | 47.28% | 8 | 0.19% | 6 | 0.14% | 219 | 5.11% | 4,281 |
Marion | 2,370 | 49.74% | 2,351 | 49.34% | 31 | 0.65% | 13 | 0.27% | 19 | 0.40% | 4,765 |
Marshall | 4,290 | 59.16% | 2,806 | 38.69% | 147 | 2.03% | 9 | 0.12% | 1,484 | 20.47% | 7,252 |
Martin | 2,495 | 77.87% | 661 | 20.63% | 40 | 1.25% | 8 | 0.25% | 1,834 | 57.24% | 3,204 |
Mason | 3,529 | 58.46% | 2,459 | 40.73% | 42 | 0.70% | 7 | 0.12% | 1,070 | 17.73% | 6,037 |
McCracken | 11,260 | 57.69% | 7,567 | 38.77% | 642 | 3.29% | 49 | 0.25% | 3,693 | 18.92% | 19,518 |
McCreary | 3,203 | 80.56% | 684 | 17.20% | 81 | 2.04% | 8 | 0.20% | 2,519 | 63.36% | 3,976 |
McLean | 2,298 | 65.10% | 1,191 | 33.74% | 36 | 1.02% | 5 | 0.14% | 1,107 | 31.36% | 3,530 |
Meade | 2,492 | 60.93% | 1,541 | 37.68% | 51 | 1.25% | 6 | 0.15% | 951 | 23.25% | 4,090 |
Menifee | 596 | 43.89% | 732 | 53.90% | 28 | 2.06% | 2 | 0.15% | -136 | -10.01% | 1,358 |
Mercer | 3,575 | 66.08% | 1,707 | 31.55% | 118 | 2.18% | 10 | 0.18% | 1,868 | 34.53% | 5,410 |
Metcalfe | 1,896 | 58.55% | 1,308 | 40.40% | 25 | 0.77% | 9 | 0.28% | 588 | 18.15% | 3,238 |
Monroe | 3,770 | 82.57% | 768 | 16.82% | 24 | 0.53% | 4 | 0.09% | 3,002 | 65.75% | 4,566 |
Montgomery | 2,868 | 62.63% | 1,657 | 36.19% | 46 | 1.00% | 8 | 0.17% | 1,211 | 26.44% | 4,579 |
Morgan | 1,535 | 45.56% | 1,815 | 53.87% | 11 | 0.33% | 8 | 0.24% | -280 | -8.31% | 3,369 |
Muhlenberg | 5,596 | 62.33% | 3,246 | 36.16% | 130 | 1.45% | 6 | 0.07% | 2,350 | 26.17% | 8,978 |
Nelson | 3,495 | 53.54% | 2,828 | 43.32% | 181 | 2.77% | 24 | 0.37% | 667 | 10.22% | 6,528 |
Nicholas | 1,076 | 56.22% | 804 | 42.01% | 33 | 1.72% | 1 | 0.05% | 272 | 14.21% | 1,914 |
Ohio | 2,392 | 71.75% | 906 | 27.17% | 31 | 0.93% | 5 | 0.15% | 1,486 | 44.58% | 3,334 |
Oldham | 3,041 | 68.00% | 1,311 | 29.32% | 110 | 2.46% | 10 | 0.22% | 1,730 | 38.68% | 4,472 |
Owen | 1,456 | 54.92% | 1,161 | 43.79% | 32 | 1.21% | 2 | 0.08% | 295 | 11.13% | 2,651 |
Owsley | 1,328 | 83.68% | 251 | 15.82% | 7 | 0.44% | 1 | 0.06% | 1,077 | 67.86% | 1,587 |
Pendleton | 1,966 | 67.28% | 909 | 31.11% | 40 | 1.37% | 7 | 0.24% | 1,057 | 36.17% | 2,922 |
Perry | 5,373 | 59.37% | 3,601 | 39.79% | 54 | 0.60% | 22 | 0.24% | 1,772 | 19.58% | 9,050 |
Pike | 12,535 | 56.46% | 9,513 | 42.85% | 119 | 0.54% | 33 | 0.15% | 3,022 | 13.61% | 22,200 |
Powell | 1,766 | 58.40% | 1,230 | 40.67% | 17 | 0.56% | 11 | 0.36% | 536 | 17.73% | 3,024 |
Pulaski | 10,602 | 76.99% | 3,080 | 22.37% | 80 | 0.58% | 8 | 0.06% | 7,522 | 54.62% | 13,770 |
Robertson | 456 | 51.01% | 421 | 47.09% | 15 | 1.68% | 2 | 0.22% | 35 | 3.92% | 894 |
Rockcastle | 3,437 | 77.31% | 968 | 21.77% | 33 | 0.74% | 8 | 0.18% | 2,469 | 55.54% | 4,446 |
Rowan | 3,245 | 59.45% | 2,169 | 39.74% | 32 | 0.59% | 12 | 0.22% | 1,076 | 19.71% | 5,458 |
Russell | 3,992 | 76.48% | 1,169 | 22.39% | 41 | 0.79% | 18 | 0.34% | 2,823 | 54.09% | 5,220 |
Scott | 3,255 | 64.76% | 1,642 | 32.67% | 119 | 2.37% | 10 | 0.20% | 1,613 | 32.09% | 5,026 |
Shelby | 3,893 | 64.19% | 2,074 | 34.20% | 87 | 1.43% | 11 | 0.18% | 1,819 | 29.99% | 6,065 |
Simpson | 2,285 | 62.57% | 1,325 | 36.28% | 33 | 0.90% | 9 | 0.25% | 960 | 26.29% | 3,652 |
Spencer | 1,120 | 68.75% | 481 | 29.53% | 24 | 1.47% | 4 | 0.25% | 639 | 39.22% | 1,629 |
Taylor | 4,035 | 67.79% | 1,859 | 31.23% | 48 | 0.81% | 10 | 0.17% | 2,176 | 36.56% | 5,952 |
Todd | 1,964 | 59.25% | 1,222 | 36.86% | 117 | 3.53% | 12 | 0.36% | 742 | 22.39% | 3,315 |
Trigg | 1,767 | 52.95% | 1,514 | 45.37% | 49 | 1.47% | 7 | 0.21% | 253 | 7.58% | 3,337 |
Trimble | 935 | 54.61% | 757 | 44.22% | 18 | 1.05% | 2 | 0.12% | 178 | 10.39% | 1,712 |
Union | 2,701 | 58.67% | 1,855 | 40.29% | 29 | 0.63% | 19 | 0.41% | 846 | 18.38% | 4,604 |
Warren | 12,481 | 66.78% | 5,934 | 31.75% | 194 | 1.04% | 82 | 0.44% | 6,547 | 35.03% | 18,691 |
Washington | 2,378 | 58.70% | 1,552 | 38.31% | 106 | 2.62% | 15 | 0.37% | 826 | 20.39% | 4,051 |
Wayne | 3,514 | 64.83% | 1,853 | 34.19% | 40 | 0.74% | 13 | 0.24% | 1,661 | 30.64% | 5,420 |
Webster | 2,396 | 57.57% | 1,712 | 41.13% | 42 | 1.01% | 12 | 0.29% | 684 | 16.44% | 4,162 |
Whitley | 6,788 | 74.91% | 2,199 | 24.27% | 53 | 0.58% | 22 | 0.24% | 4,589 | 50.64% | 9,062 |
Wolfe | 936 | 48.83% | 957 | 49.92% | 19 | 0.99% | 5 | 0.26% | -21 | -1.09% | 1,917 |
Woodford | 3,363 | 70.34% | 1,268 | 26.52% | 145 | 3.03% | 5 | 0.10% | 2,095 | 43.82% | 4,781 |
Totals | 676,446 | 63.37% | 371,159 | 34.77% | 17,627 | 1.65% | 2,267 | 0.21% | 305,287 | 28.60% | 1,067,499 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
[edit]- Ballard
- Bath
- Bourbon
- Calloway
- Carlisle
- Franklin
- Gallatin
- Graves
- Harlan
- Harrison
- Henderson
- Henry
- Hopkins
- Letcher
- Livingston
- Lyon
- Marion
- Marshall
- Mason
- McCracken
- Meade
- McLean
- Nelson
- Nicholas
- Owen
- Perry
- Pike
- Webster
- Scott
- Simpson
- Shelby
- Trigg
- Trimble
- Union
Counties that flipped from American Independent to Republican
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1972 – Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ "1972 Election for the Forty-Seventh Term (1973-77)". Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ "1972 Presidential General Election Results – Kentucky". Retrieved August 12, 2020.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1972". Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ Leip, David (2016). "1972 Presidential General Election Data – Kentucky". US Election Atlas. Retrieved November 30, 2018.
- ^ Our Campaigns; KY US Presidential Race, November 07, 1972