The 1972 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose five[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
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 County Results
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Nebraska was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R–California), with 70.5% of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D–South Dakota), with 29.5% of the popular vote.[3][4]
In a state that would reflect McGovern's national results,[5][6] the Democratic nominee did not win a single county in Nebraska. Out of Nixon's three campaigns, this was the only one in which Nebraska was not his strongest state, although he did outperform his past two performances here in popular vote percentage. Instead, Nebraska was his seventh strongest state after Mississippi, Georgia, Oklahoma, Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina.
Results
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Richard Nixon (inc.) | 406,298 | 70.50% | |
| Democratic | George McGovern | 169,991 | 29.50% | |
| Total votes | 576,289 | 100% | ||
Results by county
edit| County[7] | Richard Nixon Republican |
George McGovern Democratic |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 8,841 | 72.47% | 3,359 | 27.53% | 5,482 | 44.94% | 12,200 |
| Antelope | 3,228 | 79.14% | 851 | 20.86% | 2,377 | 58.28% | 4,079 |
| Arthur | 236 | 83.99% | 45 | 16.01% | 191 | 67.98% | 281 |
| Banner | 404 | 80.80% | 96 | 19.20% | 308 | 61.60% | 500 |
| Blaine | 343 | 85.96% | 56 | 14.04% | 287 | 71.92% | 399 |
| Boone | 2,406 | 73.15% | 883 | 26.85% | 1,523 | 46.30% | 3,289 |
| Box Butte | 3,431 | 78.14% | 960 | 21.86% | 2,471 | 56.28% | 4,391 |
| Boyd | 1,419 | 73.71% | 506 | 26.29% | 913 | 47.42% | 1,925 |
| Brown | 1,462 | 81.58% | 330 | 18.42% | 1,132 | 63.16% | 1,792 |
| Buffalo | 8,587 | 74.19% | 2,988 | 25.81% | 5,599 | 48.38% | 11,575 |
| Burt | 2,937 | 76.54% | 900 | 23.46% | 2,037 | 53.08% | 3,837 |
| Butler | 2,301 | 55.94% | 1,812 | 44.06% | 489 | 11.88% | 4,113 |
| Cass | 4,503 | 71.39% | 1,805 | 28.61% | 2,698 | 42.78% | 6,308 |
| Cedar | 2,995 | 62.37% | 1,807 | 37.63% | 1,188 | 24.74% | 4,802 |
| Chase | 1,318 | 81.11% | 307 | 18.89% | 1,011 | 62.22% | 1,625 |
| Cherry | 2,610 | 84.93% | 463 | 15.07% | 2,147 | 69.86% | 3,073 |
| Cheyenne | 3,120 | 76.66% | 950 | 23.34% | 2,170 | 53.32% | 4,070 |
| Clay | 2,542 | 74.70% | 861 | 25.30% | 1,681 | 49.40% | 3,403 |
| Colfax | 2,799 | 71.66% | 1,107 | 28.34% | 1,692 | 43.32% | 3,906 |
| Cuming | 3,810 | 78.90% | 1,019 | 21.10% | 2,791 | 57.80% | 4,829 |
| Custer | 4,836 | 80.83% | 1,147 | 19.17% | 3,689 | 61.66% | 5,983 |
| Dakota | 2,879 | 62.22% | 1,748 | 37.78% | 1,131 | 24.44% | 4,627 |
| Dawes | 2,987 | 80.77% | 711 | 19.23% | 2,276 | 61.54% | 3,698 |
| Dawson | 6,211 | 81.35% | 1,424 | 18.65% | 4,787 | 62.70% | 7,635 |
| Deuel | 1,001 | 81.71% | 224 | 18.29% | 777 | 63.42% | 1,225 |
| Dixon | 2,299 | 70.96% | 941 | 29.04% | 1,358 | 41.92% | 3,240 |
| Dodge | 9,837 | 72.00% | 3,826 | 28.00% | 6,011 | 44.00% | 13,663 |
| Douglas | 101,579 | 67.82% | 48,201 | 32.18% | 53,378 | 35.64% | 149,780 |
| Dundy | 1,003 | 81.94% | 221 | 18.06% | 782 | 63.88% | 1,224 |
| Fillmore | 2,511 | 66.41% | 1,270 | 33.59% | 1,241 | 32.82% | 3,781 |
| Franklin | 1,510 | 71.60% | 599 | 28.40% | 911 | 43.20% | 2,109 |
| Frontier | 1,315 | 80.23% | 324 | 19.77% | 991 | 60.46% | 1,639 |
| Furnas | 2,282 | 77.15% | 676 | 22.85% | 1,606 | 54.30% | 2,958 |
| Gage | 6,298 | 63.71% | 3,588 | 36.29% | 2,710 | 27.42% | 9,886 |
| Garden | 1,161 | 85.05% | 204 | 14.95% | 957 | 70.10% | 1,365 |
| Garfield | 903 | 81.21% | 209 | 18.79% | 694 | 62.42% | 1,112 |
| Gosper | 829 | 77.40% | 242 | 22.60% | 587 | 54.80% | 1,071 |
| Grant | 376 | 84.49% | 69 | 15.51% | 307 | 68.98% | 445 |
| Greeley | 1,005 | 56.94% | 760 | 43.06% | 245 | 13.88% | 1,765 |
| Hall | 10,987 | 72.26% | 4,218 | 27.74% | 6,769 | 44.52% | 15,205 |
| Hamilton | 2,960 | 76.55% | 907 | 23.45% | 2,053 | 53.10% | 3,867 |
| Harlan | 1,549 | 74.19% | 539 | 25.81% | 1,010 | 48.38% | 2,088 |
| Hayes | 486 | 79.80% | 123 | 20.20% | 363 | 59.60% | 609 |
| Hitchcock | 1,339 | 78.63% | 364 | 21.37% | 975 | 57.26% | 1,703 |
| Holt | 4,147 | 79.75% | 1,053 | 20.25% | 3,094 | 59.50% | 5,200 |
| Hooker | 394 | 88.34% | 52 | 11.66% | 342 | 76.68% | 446 |
| Howard | 1,691 | 64.15% | 945 | 35.85% | 746 | 28.30% | 2,636 |
| Jefferson | 3,008 | 67.08% | 1,476 | 32.92% | 1,532 | 34.16% | 4,484 |
| Johnson | 1,637 | 64.10% | 917 | 35.90% | 720 | 28.20% | 2,554 |
| Kearney | 2,203 | 74.38% | 759 | 25.62% | 1,444 | 48.76% | 2,962 |
| Keith | 2,513 | 79.07% | 665 | 20.93% | 1,848 | 58.14% | 3,178 |
| Keya Paha | 563 | 79.41% | 146 | 20.59% | 417 | 58.82% | 709 |
| Kimball | 1,650 | 79.06% | 437 | 20.94% | 1,213 | 58.12% | 2,087 |
| Knox | 3,318 | 72.02% | 1,289 | 27.98% | 2,029 | 44.04% | 4,607 |
| Lancaster | 42,573 | 62.15% | 25,924 | 37.85% | 16,649 | 24.30% | 68,497 |
| Lincoln | 7,502 | 69.97% | 3,220 | 30.03% | 4,282 | 39.94% | 10,722 |
| Logan | 320 | 81.42% | 73 | 18.58% | 247 | 62.84% | 393 |
| Loup | 345 | 85.61% | 58 | 14.39% | 287 | 71.22% | 403 |
| Madison | 8,580 | 79.42% | 2,224 | 20.58% | 6,356 | 58.84% | 10,804 |
| McPherson | 247 | 85.47% | 42 | 14.53% | 205 | 70.94% | 289 |
| Merrick | 2,418 | 73.16% | 887 | 26.84% | 1,531 | 46.32% | 3,305 |
| Morrill | 1,740 | 76.99% | 520 | 23.01% | 1,220 | 53.98% | 2,260 |
| Nance | 1,413 | 68.79% | 641 | 31.21% | 772 | 37.58% | 2,054 |
| Nemaha | 2,600 | 74.10% | 909 | 25.90% | 1,691 | 48.20% | 3,509 |
| Nuckolls | 2,089 | 67.65% | 999 | 32.35% | 1,090 | 35.30% | 3,088 |
| Otoe | 4,815 | 73.70% | 1,718 | 26.30% | 3,097 | 47.40% | 6,533 |
| Pawnee | 1,299 | 71.26% | 524 | 28.74% | 775 | 42.52% | 1,823 |
| Perkins | 1,165 | 76.70% | 354 | 23.30% | 811 | 53.40% | 1,519 |
| Phelps | 3,356 | 82.03% | 735 | 17.97% | 2,621 | 64.06% | 4,091 |
| Pierce | 2,451 | 78.96% | 653 | 21.04% | 1,798 | 57.92% | 3,104 |
| Platte | 7,871 | 73.38% | 2,855 | 26.62% | 5,016 | 46.76% | 10,726 |
| Polk | 2,050 | 71.25% | 827 | 28.75% | 1,223 | 42.50% | 2,877 |
| Red Willow | 3,701 | 79.90% | 931 | 20.10% | 2,770 | 59.80% | 4,632 |
| Richardson | 3,662 | 70.83% | 1,508 | 29.17% | 2,154 | 41.66% | 5,170 |
| Rock | 937 | 87.16% | 138 | 12.84% | 799 | 74.32% | 1,075 |
| Saline | 2,828 | 51.59% | 2,654 | 48.41% | 174 | 3.18% | 5,482 |
| Sarpy | 11,514 | 74.68% | 3,904 | 25.32% | 7,610 | 49.36% | 15,418 |
| Saunders | 4,282 | 63.13% | 2,501 | 36.87% | 1,781 | 26.26% | 6,783 |
| Scotts Bluff | 8,649 | 75.78% | 2,764 | 24.22% | 5,885 | 51.56% | 11,413 |
| Seward | 3,707 | 63.98% | 2,087 | 36.02% | 1,620 | 27.96% | 5,794 |
| Sheridan | 2,386 | 83.22% | 481 | 16.78% | 1,905 | 66.44% | 2,867 |
| Sherman | 1,099 | 57.54% | 811 | 42.46% | 288 | 15.08% | 1,910 |
| Sioux | 639 | 83.20% | 129 | 16.80% | 510 | 66.40% | 768 |
| Stanton | 1,662 | 77.66% | 478 | 22.34% | 1,184 | 55.32% | 2,140 |
| Thayer | 2,274 | 69.93% | 978 | 30.07% | 1,296 | 39.86% | 3,252 |
| Thomas | 397 | 84.47% | 73 | 15.53% | 324 | 68.94% | 470 |
| Thurston | 1,565 | 65.07% | 840 | 34.93% | 725 | 30.14% | 2,405 |
| Valley | 2,011 | 72.29% | 771 | 27.71% | 1,240 | 44.58% | 2,782 |
| Washington | 4,290 | 75.38% | 1,401 | 24.62% | 2,889 | 50.76% | 5,691 |
| Wayne | 2,659 | 74.67% | 902 | 25.33% | 1,757 | 49.34% | 3,561 |
| Webster | 1,631 | 70.09% | 696 | 29.91% | 935 | 40.18% | 2,327 |
| Wheeler | 361 | 81.12% | 84 | 18.88% | 277 | 62.24% | 445 |
| York | 4,651 | 77.92% | 1,318 | 22.08% | 3,333 | 55.84% | 5,969 |
| Totals | 406,298 | 70.50% | 169,991 | 29.50% | 236,307 | 41.00% | 576,289 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1972 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ "1972 Election for the Forty-Seventh Term (1973-77)". Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ "1972 Presidential General Election Results - Nebraska". Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1972". Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ "1972 Presidential Election - 270toWin.com". Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ "1972 Election - Voting America". Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ "NE US President Race, November 07, 1972". Our Campaigns.