1960 United States presidential election
Unpledged Democratic electors

1960 United States presidential election

Section Title: Unpledged Democratic electors
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Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Popular vote	Electoral vote	Running mate

Count	Percentage	Vice-presidential candidate

John Fitzgerald Kennedy	Democratic	Massachusetts	34,220,984(a)	49.72%	303	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Texas	303

Richard Milhous Nixon	Republican	California	34,108,157	49.55%	219	Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.	Massachusetts	219

Harry Flood Byrd	Democratic	Virginia	—(b)	—(b)	15	James Strom Thurmond	South Carolina	14

Barry Morris Goldwater(c)	Arizona	1(c)

(unpledged electors)	Democratic	(n/a)	610,409	0.42%	—(d)	(n/a)	(n/a)	—(d)

Eric Hass	Socialist Labor	New York	47,522	0.07%	0	Georgia Cozzini	Wisconsin	0

Rutherford L. Decker	Prohibition	Missouri	46,203	0.07%	0	E. Harold Munn	Michigan	0

Orval Faubus	States' Rights	Arkansas	44,984	0.07%	0	John G. Crommelin	Alabama	0

Farrell Dobbs	Socialist Workers	New York	40,175	0.06%	0	Myra Tanner Weiss	New York	0

Charles Sullivan	Constitution	Mississippi	(TX) 18,162	0.03%	0	Merritt Curtis	California	0

J. Bracken Lee	Conservative	Utah	(NJ) 8,708	0.01%	0	Kent Courtney	Louisiana	0

Other	11,128	0.02%	—	Other	—

Total	68,832,482	100%	537	537

Needed to win	269	269

Sentence(s)

In the 1960 United States Presidential Election, 269 electoral votes were needed to win.

final_sentence: In the 1960 United States Presidential Election, 269 electoral votes were needed to win.