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From March 8 to June 7, 1960, voters and members of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1960 Democratic National Convention through a series of caucuses, conventions, and primaries, partly for the purpose of nominating a candidate for President of the United States in the 1960 election.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1960. The Democratic ticket of Senator John F. Kennedy and his running mate, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon and his running mate, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts John F. Kennedy, facing no formidable opposition in New Hampshire, won the primary in a landslide over Paul C. Fisher, a scientist best known for inventing the Zero Gravity Pen. [1] [2] [3] Kennedy would go on to win the Democratic party's nomination, as well as the presidency in the general election.
District of Columbia Democratic Presidential Primary Results – 1960 [2] Party Candidate Votes Percentage Democratic: Hubert Humphrey: 8,239: 57.4%: Democratic: Wayne Morse: 6,127 42.6% Totals: 14,366: 100.00%
The 1960 West Virginia Democratic primary election on May 20 was seen as a turning point in the Democratic primaries. John F Kennedy had shown that he could win a primary election against the liberal Senator Hubert Humphrey in the Wisconsin primary. Although Kennedy defeated Humphrey in Wisconsin, his reliance on heavily Catholic areas left ...
With 81 delegates to the 1960 Democratic National Convention, Pennsylvania was among the largest states to hold a primary. [9] Pennsylvania's nonbinding Democratic primary did not list candidate's names. However, write-in presidential preference votes were allowed. Delegates were elected directly. [9]
Democratic U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin speaks to a small crowd in the early hours of Wednesday, November 6, 2024, during the Michigan Democratic Party election night event at the Motor City Casino ...
The Democratic platform in 1960 was the longest yet. [8] They called for a loosening of tight economic policy: "We Democrats believe that the economy can and must grow at an average rate of 5 percent annually, almost twice as fast as our annual rate since 1953...As the first step in speeding economic growth, a Democratic president will put an end to the present high-interest-rate, tight-money ...