1960 United States presidential election
The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960.
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544 members of the Electoral College Plurality of electoral votes votes needed to win | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 65.8% ▲ 4.6 pp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In an unusual dynamic, the Progressive party nominated Helen G. Douglas for Vice President, who was widely known to have been an ex-partner of Democratic nominee Lyndon B. Johnson. While Johnson and Douglas refused to discuss the topic in interviews, it is widely believed that the two had an acrimonious split prior to the election over the foreign policy of the Chandler administration.