Election/1960 United States presidential election (1960 Pres Wiki)

The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democratic United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee. This was the first election in which fifty states participated, and the last in which the District of Columbia did not, marking the first participation of Alaska and Hawaii. This made it the only presidential election where the threshold for victory was 269 electoral votes. It was also the first election in which an incumbent president was ineligible to run for a third term because of the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment.

Close states
Margin of victory less than 1% (95 electoral votes):
 * 1) New Jersey, 0.28% (8714 votes)
 * 2) Illinois, 0.19% (8,858 votes)
 * 3) Missouri, 0.52% (9,980 votes) (tipping point state for Kennedy win)
 * 4) California, 0.55% (35,623 votes)
 * 5) New Mexico, 0.74% (2,294 votes)
 * 6) New Jersey, 0.80% (22,091 votes) (tipping point state for Nixon win)

Margin of victory less than 5% (161 electoral votes):
 * 1) Minnesota, 1.43% (22,018 votes)
 * 2) Delaware, 1.64% (3,217 votes)
 * 3) Alaska, 1.88% (1,144 votes)
 * 4) Texas, 2.00% (46,257 votes)
 * 5) Michigan, 2.01% (66,841 votes)
 * 6) Nevada, 2.32% (2,493 votes)
 * 7) Pennsylvania, 2.32% (116,326 votes)
 * 8) Washington, 2.41% (29,975 votes)
 * 9) South Carolina, 2.48% (9,571 votes)
 * 10) Montana, 2.50% (6,950 votes)
 * 11) Mississippi, 2.64% (7,886 votes)
 * 12) Florida, 3.03% (46,776 votes)
 * 13) Wisconsin, 3.72% (64,370 votes)
 * 14) North Carolina, 4.22% (57,716 votes)

Margin of victory over 5%, but under 10% (160 electoral votes):
 * 1) Oregon, 5.24% (40,658 votes)
 * 2) New York, 5.26% (383,666 votes)
 * 3) West Virginia, 5.46% (45,791 votes)
 * 4) Virginia, 5.47% (42,194 votes)
 * 5) Ohio, 6.57% (273,363 votes)
 * 6) New Hampshire, 6.84% (20,217 votes)
 * 7) Arkansas, 7.13% (30,541 votes)
 * 8) Tennessee, 7.15% (75,124 votes)
 * 9) Kentucky, 7.18% (80,752 votes)
 * 10) Maryland, 7.22% (76,270 votes)
 * 11) Connecticut, 7.46% (91,242 votes)
 * 12) Idaho, 7.56% (22,744 votes)
 * 13) Utah, 9.64% (36,113 votes)
 * 14) Colorado, 9.73% (71,613 votes)