Hijacking The Electoral College Faithless Electors Plotted To Deny Kennedy won 303 to 219 in the electoral college, and he won the reported national popular vote by 112,827, a margin of 0.17 percent. fourteen unpledged electors from mississippi and alabama cast their votes for senator harry f. byrd, as did a faithless elector from oklahoma. Goldwater received 1 electoral vote for vice president from oklahoma. john f. kennedy, the thirty fifth president of the united states, was assassinated on november 22, 1963. he was succeeded by vice president lyndon b. johnson, who took the oath of office in dallas, texas that day.
Overview And Live Results Ohio Constitutional Amendment Ballot 2020 In the end john f. kennedy (d) had won with 303 electoral votes and 34,226,731 popular votes compared to richard m. nixon (r) 219 electoral votes and 34,108,157 popular votes. Results of the presidential election of 1960, won by john f. kennedy with 303 electoral votes. Kennedy defeated nixon when votes were finally counted in the electoral college, by a margin of 303 to 219. but in the popular vote, kennedy won by just 112,000 votes out of 68 million cast, or a margin on 0.2 percent. Senator harry f. byrd (d va) was not on the ballot, but received 15 electoral votes, including 14 votes from unpledged electors (6 in alabama and 8 in mississippi) and 1 vote from a faithless elector (oklahoma).
1960 Electoral Votes Map Kennedy defeated nixon when votes were finally counted in the electoral college, by a margin of 303 to 219. but in the popular vote, kennedy won by just 112,000 votes out of 68 million cast, or a margin on 0.2 percent. Senator harry f. byrd (d va) was not on the ballot, but received 15 electoral votes, including 14 votes from unpledged electors (6 in alabama and 8 in mississippi) and 1 vote from a faithless elector (oklahoma). Byrd was accorded the votes of 14 unpledged electors from alabama and mississippi, plus one vote by a republican elector from oklahoma. This page is for the electoral history of john f. kennedy, who served as the 35th president of the united states (1961–1963), as well as a united states senator (1953–1960) and united states representative (1947–1953) from massachusetts. John f. kennedy, the democratic senator from massachusetts, narrowly defeated republican vice president richard nixon on november 8, 1960, winning 303 electoral votes to nixon’s 219 and securing approximately 49.72 percent of the popular vote to nixon’s 49.55 percent. He plunged to victory by taking 21 states with 299 electoral votes, 30 more than necessary to win. he also was leading minnesota and illinois for another 38 electoral votes.
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