John F. Kennedy won the 1960 presidential election defeating Richard Nixon. In the 1960 presidential election John F. Kennedy received 303 electoral votes, Richard Nixon received 219 electoral votes, and Harry Byrd received 15 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Kennedy 34,226,731 and Nixon 34,108,157.
In the 1960 U.S Presidential election, John F. Kennedy along with running mate Lyndon B. Johnson ran on the Democratic ticket. Richard M. Nixon along with running mate Henry Cabot Lodge ran on the Republican ticket. Kennedy defeated Nixon with 303 electoral votes. Nixon took 219 electoral votes.
John F. Kennedy won the 1960 US Presidential election.
Presidential elections in the United States are held on the first Tuesday in November, in those years with numbers evenly divisible by 4. So Presidential elections were held in 1960, 1960, 1968, 1974 ... 2000, 2004, etc. The next Presidential election will be in 2012.
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon were the parties in the 1960 Presidential election. Kennedy won and carried 23 states.
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Nixonâ??s opponent in the 1960 Presidential Election was John F. Kennedy. Nixon lost the election when he only received the 219 electoral votes from the states.
Presidential elections in the United States are held on the first Tuesday in November, in those years with numbers evenly divisible by 4. So Presidential elections were held in 1960, 1960, 1968, 1974 ... 2000, 2004, etc. The next Presidential election will be in 2012.
Incumbent President Dwight Eisenhower won reelection in the 1956 presidential election defeating Adlai Stevenson. John F. Kennedy won the 1960 presidential election defeating Richard Nixon. Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 presidential election defeating Barry Goldwater.
In 1959, no one ran for President as it was an off-year for presidential elections in the United States. The next presidential election was held in 1960, when Richard Nixon ran as the Republican candidate and John F. Kennedy ran as the Democratic candidate.
No. He lost the 1960 election to John F. Kennedy. Nixon later won the election in 1968.
John F. Kennedy won the presidential election of 1960. A democrat, Kennedy was preceded by republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Lindon B. Johnson was made the running man by JFK in 1960 presidential election. He was then the deputy primeinister and became the priminister in 1993 when JFk was assassinated.
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Nixon lost in 1960.