The 1972 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 7, 1972. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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 County Results
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Indiana was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.
Nixon carried Indiana with 66.11% of the vote to McGovern's 33.34%, a victory margin of 32.77% as well as the best Republican performance in Indiana history. Although Indiana is one of the most reliable Republican states in the country, this is the only occasion where a Republican candidate (indeed, where any Presidential candidate) carried every county in the state.[1] As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last time a Republican won Democratic-leaning Lake County in the northwestern corner of the state.[2]
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Richard Nixon (incumbent) | 1,405,154 | 66.11% | |
| Democratic | George McGovern | 708,568 | 33.34% | |
| Socialist Workers | Evelyn Reed | 5,575 | 0.26% | |
| Peace and Freedom | Benjamin Spock | 4,554 | 0.21% | |
| Socialist Labor | Louis Fisher | 1,688 | 0.08% | |
| Total votes | 2,125,529 | 100% | ||
Results by county
edit| County[4] | Richard Nixon Republican |
George McGovern Democratic |
Evelyn Reed Socialist Workers |
Benjamin Spock Peace and Freedom |
Louis Fisher Socialist Labor |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 7,549 | 65.24% | 3,971 | 34.32% | 10 | 0.09% | 38 | 0.33% | 4 | 0.03% | 3,578 | 30.92% | 11,572 |
| Allen | 76,924 | 66.20% | 38,621 | 33.24% | 364 | 0.31% | 212 | 0.18% | 78 | 0.07% | 38,303 | 32.96% | 116,199 |
| Bartholomew | 17,365 | 70.87% | 6,974 | 28.46% | 86 | 0.35% | 67 | 0.27% | 10 | 0.04% | 10,391 | 42.41% | 24,502 |
| Benton | 3,703 | 70.01% | 1,566 | 29.61% | 2 | 0.04% | 15 | 0.28% | 3 | 0.06% | 2,137 | 40.40% | 5,289 |
| Blackford | 3,876 | 62.33% | 2,311 | 37.16% | 19 | 0.31% | 6 | 0.10% | 7 | 0.11% | 1,565 | 25.17% | 6,219 |
| Boone | 9,874 | 75.10% | 3,235 | 24.61% | 12 | 0.09% | 22 | 0.17% | 4 | 0.03% | 6,639 | 50.49% | 13,147 |
| Brown | 2,737 | 65.06% | 1,443 | 34.30% | 2 | 0.05% | 19 | 0.45% | 6 | 0.14% | 1,294 | 30.76% | 4,207 |
| Carroll | 5,885 | 72.32% | 2,214 | 27.21% | 7 | 0.09% | 28 | 0.34% | 3 | 0.04% | 3,671 | 45.11% | 8,137 |
| Cass | 12,681 | 69.77% | 5,317 | 29.25% | 122 | 0.67% | 42 | 0.23% | 14 | 0.08% | 7,364 | 40.52% | 18,176 |
| Clark | 16,111 | 59.42% | 10,838 | 39.97% | 109 | 0.40% | 38 | 0.14% | 17 | 0.06% | 5,273 | 19.45% | 27,113 |
| Clay | 7,146 | 65.34% | 3,742 | 34.21% | 17 | 0.16% | 25 | 0.23% | 7 | 0.06% | 3,404 | 31.13% | 10,937 |
| Clinton | 9,849 | 69.42% | 4,283 | 30.19% | 17 | 0.12% | 27 | 0.19% | 11 | 0.08% | 5,566 | 39.23% | 14,187 |
| Crawford | 2,623 | 58.96% | 1,801 | 40.48% | 3 | 0.07% | 18 | 0.40% | 4 | 0.09% | 822 | 18.48% | 4,449 |
| Daviess | 8,490 | 70.33% | 3,538 | 29.31% | 12 | 0.10% | 29 | 0.24% | 2 | 0.02% | 4,952 | 41.02% | 12,071 |
| Dearborn | 7,689 | 64.69% | 4,137 | 34.81% | 39 | 0.33% | 14 | 0.12% | 6 | 0.05% | 3,552 | 29.88% | 11,885 |
| Decatur | 6,761 | 68.84% | 2,994 | 30.48% | 35 | 0.36% | 22 | 0.22% | 10 | 0.10% | 3,767 | 38.36% | 9,822 |
| DeKalb | 8,834 | 66.44% | 4,354 | 32.74% | 67 | 0.50% | 23 | 0.17% | 19 | 0.14% | 4,480 | 33.70% | 13,297 |
| Delaware | 32,468 | 64.21% | 17,936 | 35.47% | 43 | 0.09% | 97 | 0.19% | 23 | 0.05% | 14,532 | 28.74% | 50,567 |
| Dubois | 6,637 | 50.36% | 6,365 | 48.30% | 144 | 1.09% | 22 | 0.17% | 11 | 0.08% | 272 | 2.06% | 13,179 |
| Elkhart | 31,009 | 70.57% | 12,659 | 28.81% | 132 | 0.30% | 109 | 0.25% | 32 | 0.07% | 18,350 | 41.76% | 43,941 |
| Fayette | 7,273 | 67.16% | 3,519 | 32.50% | 20 | 0.18% | 9 | 0.08% | 8 | 0.07% | 3,754 | 34.66% | 10,829 |
| Floyd | 13,198 | 58.31% | 9,243 | 40.83% | 10 | 0.04% | 26 | 0.11% | 159 | 0.70% | 3,955 | 17.48% | 22,636 |
| Fountain | 5,979 | 66.41% | 2,977 | 33.07% | 11 | 0.12% | 28 | 0.31% | 8 | 0.09% | 3,002 | 33.34% | 9,003 |
| Franklin | 4,324 | 66.74% | 2,131 | 32.89% | 6 | 0.09% | 14 | 0.22% | 4 | 0.06% | 2,193 | 33.85% | 6,479 |
| Fulton | 6,170 | 73.82% | 2,150 | 25.72% | 3 | 0.04% | 27 | 0.32% | 8 | 0.10% | 4,020 | 48.10% | 8,358 |
| Gibson | 9,115 | 61.51% | 5,633 | 38.01% | 17 | 0.11% | 44 | 0.30% | 10 | 0.07% | 3,482 | 23.50% | 14,819 |
| Grant | 20,969 | 72.41% | 7,912 | 27.32% | 19 | 0.07% | 37 | 0.13% | 21 | 0.07% | 13,057 | 45.09% | 28,958 |
| Greene | 8,453 | 64.80% | 4,450 | 34.11% | 109 | 0.84% | 22 | 0.17% | 11 | 0.08% | 4,003 | 30.69% | 13,045 |
| Hamilton | 20,247 | 82.74% | 4,151 | 16.96% | 14 | 0.06% | 51 | 0.21% | 7 | 0.03% | 16,096 | 65.78% | 24,470 |
| Hancock | 11,019 | 77.87% | 3,069 | 21.69% | 32 | 0.23% | 25 | 0.18% | 5 | 0.04% | 7,950 | 56.18% | 14,150 |
| Harrison | 5,910 | 59.77% | 3,927 | 39.71% | 18 | 0.18% | 27 | 0.27% | 6 | 0.06% | 1,983 | 20.06% | 9,888 |
| Hendricks | 17,699 | 79.89% | 4,384 | 19.79% | 33 | 0.15% | 33 | 0.15% | 4 | 0.02% | 13,315 | 60.10% | 22,153 |
| Henry | 14,538 | 71.94% | 5,610 | 27.76% | 18 | 0.09% | 30 | 0.15% | 12 | 0.06% | 8,928 | 44.18% | 20,208 |
| Howard | 23,089 | 73.67% | 8,083 | 25.79% | 69 | 0.22% | 73 | 0.23% | 27 | 0.09% | 15,006 | 47.88% | 31,341 |
| Huntington | 10,858 | 68.48% | 4,908 | 30.96% | 10 | 0.06% | 30 | 0.19% | 49 | 0.31% | 5,950 | 37.52% | 15,855 |
| Jackson | 9,546 | 64.99% | 4,984 | 33.93% | 121 | 0.82% | 25 | 0.17% | 13 | 0.09% | 4,562 | 31.06% | 14,689 |
| Jasper | 6,369 | 76.21% | 1,920 | 22.97% | 46 | 0.55% | 14 | 0.17% | 8 | 0.10% | 4,449 | 53.24% | 8,357 |
| Jay | 6,090 | 64.21% | 3,349 | 35.31% | 3 | 0.03% | 35 | 0.37% | 7 | 0.07% | 2,741 | 28.90% | 9,484 |
| Jefferson | 6,722 | 60.54% | 4,267 | 38.43% | 85 | 0.77% | 22 | 0.20% | 7 | 0.06% | 2,455 | 22.11% | 11,103 |
| Jennings | 5,156 | 63.21% | 2,903 | 35.59% | 61 | 0.75% | 24 | 0.29% | 13 | 0.16% | 2,253 | 27.62% | 8,157 |
| Johnson | 17,537 | 77.17% | 5,067 | 22.30% | 48 | 0.21% | 58 | 0.26% | 14 | 0.06% | 12,470 | 54.87% | 22,724 |
| Knox | 11,940 | 65.62% | 6,089 | 33.46% | 111 | 0.61% | 40 | 0.22% | 16 | 0.09% | 5,851 | 32.16% | 18,196 |
| Kosciusko | 16,216 | 78.93% | 4,233 | 20.60% | 11 | 0.05% | 67 | 0.33% | 18 | 0.09% | 11,983 | 58.33% | 20,545 |
| LaGrange | 4,152 | 71.11% | 1,658 | 28.40% | 5 | 0.09% | 18 | 0.31% | 6 | 0.10% | 2,494 | 42.71% | 5,839 |
| Lake | 115,480 | 56.24% | 88,510 | 43.10% | 912 | 0.44% | 277 | 0.13% | 163 | 0.08% | 26,970 | 13.14% | 205,342 |
| LaPorte | 26,243 | 65.98% | 13,222 | 33.24% | 193 | 0.49% | 79 | 0.20% | 39 | 0.10% | 13,021 | 32.74% | 39,776 |
| Lawrence | 10,936 | 71.55% | 4,278 | 27.99% | 36 | 0.24% | 23 | 0.15% | 11 | 0.07% | 6,658 | 43.56% | 15,284 |
| Madison | 39,036 | 64.92% | 20,921 | 34.79% | 56 | 0.09% | 90 | 0.15% | 31 | 0.05% | 18,115 | 30.13% | 60,134 |
| Marion | 206,065 | 66.52% | 102,166 | 32.98% | 482 | 0.16% | 839 | 0.27% | 214 | 0.07% | 103,899 | 33.54% | 309,766 |
| Marshall | 11,908 | 73.02% | 4,349 | 26.67% | 28 | 0.17% | 14 | 0.09% | 9 | 0.06% | 7,559 | 46.35% | 16,308 |
| Martin | 3,470 | 62.99% | 2,021 | 36.69% | 5 | 0.09% | 10 | 0.18% | 3 | 0.05% | 1,449 | 26.30% | 5,509 |
| Miami | 9,477 | 70.46% | 3,889 | 28.91% | 52 | 0.39% | 22 | 0.16% | 10 | 0.07% | 5,588 | 41.55% | 13,450 |
| Monroe | 19,953 | 56.05% | 15,241 | 42.82% | 232 | 0.65% | 148 | 0.42% | 22 | 0.06% | 4,712 | 13.23% | 35,596 |
| Montgomery | 10,997 | 75.99% | 3,431 | 23.71% | 20 | 0.14% | 19 | 0.13% | 4 | 0.03% | 7,566 | 52.28% | 14,471 |
| Morgan | 11,980 | 77.62% | 3,390 | 21.96% | 21 | 0.14% | 31 | 0.20% | 13 | 0.08% | 8,590 | 55.66% | 15,435 |
| Newton | 3,771 | 75.00% | 1,252 | 24.90% | 4 | 0.08% | 1 | 0.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,519 | 50.10% | 5,028 |
| Noble | 7,916 | 64.75% | 4,250 | 34.76% | 33 | 0.27% | 17 | 0.14% | 10 | 0.08% | 3,666 | 29.99% | 12,226 |
| Ohio | 1,368 | 59.50% | 922 | 40.10% | 6 | 0.26% | 3 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 446 | 19.40% | 2,299 |
| Orange | 5,715 | 65.89% | 2,932 | 33.80% | 4 | 0.05% | 21 | 0.24% | 2 | 0.02% | 2,783 | 32.09% | 8,674 |
| Owen | 3,896 | 69.25% | 1,708 | 30.36% | 7 | 0.12% | 11 | 0.20% | 4 | 0.07% | 2,188 | 38.89% | 5,626 |
| Parke | 5,014 | 69.16% | 2,207 | 30.44% | 8 | 0.11% | 14 | 0.19% | 7 | 0.10% | 2,807 | 38.72% | 7,250 |
| Perry | 5,204 | 54.72% | 4,277 | 44.97% | 6 | 0.06% | 18 | 0.19% | 5 | 0.05% | 927 | 9.75% | 9,510 |
| Pike | 4,252 | 61.28% | 2,648 | 38.16% | 7 | 0.10% | 25 | 0.36% | 7 | 0.10% | 1,604 | 23.12% | 6,939 |
| Porter | 26,877 | 74.60% | 8,943 | 24.82% | 87 | 0.24% | 86 | 0.24% | 37 | 0.10% | 17,934 | 49.78% | 36,030 |
| Posey | 6,771 | 65.24% | 3,586 | 34.55% | 5 | 0.05% | 8 | 0.08% | 8 | 0.08% | 3,185 | 30.69% | 10,378 |
| Pulaski | 4,243 | 69.04% | 1,863 | 30.31% | 20 | 0.33% | 13 | 0.21% | 7 | 0.11% | 2,380 | 38.73% | 6,146 |
| Putnam | 7,879 | 70.08% | 3,339 | 29.70% | 1 | 0.01% | 19 | 0.17% | 5 | 0.04% | 4,540 | 40.38% | 11,243 |
| Randolph | 8,754 | 71.57% | 3,409 | 27.87% | 12 | 0.10% | 46 | 0.38% | 11 | 0.09% | 5,345 | 43.70% | 12,232 |
| Ripley | 6,594 | 64.45% | 3,601 | 35.20% | 7 | 0.07% | 15 | 0.15% | 14 | 0.14% | 2,993 | 29.25% | 10,231 |
| Rush | 5,965 | 76.95% | 1,764 | 22.76% | 8 | 0.10% | 13 | 0.17% | 2 | 0.03% | 4,171 | 53.59% | 7,782 |
| Scott | 3,564 | 55.77% | 2,785 | 43.58% | 9 | 0.14% | 23 | 0.36% | 10 | 0.16% | 779 | 12.19% | 6,391 |
| Shelby | 10,794 | 72.44% | 4,028 | 27.03% | 50 | 0.34% | 19 | 0.13% | 9 | 0.06% | 6,766 | 45.41% | 14,900 |
| Spencer | 5,518 | 58.61% | 3,867 | 41.07% | 17 | 0.18% | 6 | 0.06% | 7 | 0.07% | 1,651 | 17.54% | 9,415 |
| St. Joseph | 64,808 | 60.55% | 41,629 | 38.89% | 318 | 0.30% | 166 | 0.16% | 118 | 0.11% | 23,179 | 21.66% | 107,039 |
| Starke | 5,520 | 64.43% | 2,994 | 34.95% | 35 | 0.41% | 11 | 0.13% | 7 | 0.08% | 2,526 | 29.48% | 8,567 |
| Steuben | 5,636 | 69.80% | 2,401 | 29.73% | 5 | 0.06% | 29 | 0.36% | 4 | 0.05% | 3,235 | 40.07% | 8,075 |
| Sullivan | 5,338 | 59.30% | 3,624 | 40.26% | 15 | 0.17% | 17 | 0.19% | 7 | 0.08% | 1,714 | 19.04% | 9,001 |
| Switzerland | 1,872 | 53.53% | 1,612 | 46.10% | 8 | 0.23% | 2 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.09% | 260 | 7.43% | 3,497 |
| Tippecanoe | 31,565 | 68.08% | 14,598 | 31.48% | 31 | 0.07% | 153 | 0.33% | 19 | 0.04% | 16,967 | 36.60% | 46,366 |
| Tipton | 5,674 | 72.67% | 2,095 | 26.83% | 24 | 0.31% | 14 | 0.18% | 1 | 0.01% | 3,579 | 45.84% | 7,808 |
| Union | 2,043 | 72.50% | 765 | 27.15% | 2 | 0.07% | 7 | 0.25% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,278 | 45.35% | 2,818 |
| Vanderburgh | 48,806 | 68.32% | 22,163 | 31.02% | 242 | 0.34% | 184 | 0.26% | 42 | 0.06% | 26,643 | 37.30% | 71,437 |
| Vermillion | 4,764 | 57.24% | 3,515 | 42.23% | 10 | 0.12% | 26 | 0.31% | 8 | 0.10% | 1,249 | 15.01% | 8,323 |
| Vigo | 29,730 | 60.73% | 18,898 | 38.60% | 170 | 0.35% | 139 | 0.28% | 20 | 0.04% | 10,832 | 22.13% | 48,957 |
| Wabash | 10,011 | 68.29% | 4,601 | 31.39% | 8 | 0.05% | 31 | 0.21% | 8 | 0.05% | 5,410 | 36.90% | 14,659 |
| Warren | 2,746 | 69.96% | 1,164 | 29.66% | 3 | 0.08% | 8 | 0.20% | 4 | 0.10% | 1,582 | 40.30% | 3,925 |
| Warrick | 8,520 | 65.84% | 4,296 | 33.20% | 85 | 0.66% | 31 | 0.24% | 9 | 0.07% | 4,224 | 32.64% | 12,941 |
| Washington | 4,758 | 60.06% | 3,086 | 38.95% | 62 | 0.78% | 9 | 0.11% | 7 | 0.09% | 1,672 | 21.11% | 7,922 |
| Wayne | 21,610 | 73.60% | 7,655 | 26.07% | 23 | 0.08% | 53 | 0.18% | 20 | 0.07% | 13,955 | 47.53% | 29,361 |
| Wells | 6,425 | 65.77% | 3,244 | 33.21% | 72 | 0.74% | 18 | 0.18% | 10 | 0.10% | 3,181 | 32.56% | 9,769 |
| White | 7,419 | 73.19% | 2,675 | 26.39% | 11 | 0.11% | 23 | 0.23% | 9 | 0.09% | 4,744 | 46.80% | 10,137 |
| Whitley | 7,489 | 65.67% | 3,838 | 33.65% | 11 | 0.10% | 55 | 0.48% | 11 | 0.10% | 3,651 | 32.02% | 11,404 |
| Totals | 1,405,154 | 66.11% | 708,568 | 33.34% | 5,575 | 0.26% | 4,544 | 0.21% | 1,688 | 0.08% | 696,586 | 32.77% | 2,125,529 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ Thomas, G. Scott; The Pursuit of the White House: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics and History, p. 428 ISBN 0313257957
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ 1972 Presidential General Election Results - Indiana
- ^ Our Campaigns; IN US President 1972[better source needed]