1960 United States presidential election

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1960 United States presidential election
← 1956 November 8, 1960 1964 →
544 members of the Electoral College
Plurality of electoral votes votes needed to win
Turnout65.8% ▲ 4.6 pp
 
Nominee Barry Goldwater Lyndon B. Johnson Sid McMath
Party Republican Democratic Progressive
Home state Arizona Texas Arkansas
Running mate Wallace F. Bennett Russell B. Long Helen G. Douglas
Electoral vote 274 204 66
Popular vote 35,628,738 26,117,348 12,820,679
Percentage 50.3% 37.4% 10.1%
President before election

Happy Chandler
Democratic

Elected President

Barry Goldwater
Republican

The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960.

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.

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