The 1972 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 7, 1972. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven electors to the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President.
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Kansas was won by incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon by a landslide of 38 points; Nixon succeeded in securing re-election against Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota. Nixon ran with Vice President, and former Maryland Governor, Spiro Agnew for vice president, and McGovern ran with United States Ambassador Sargent Shriver for vice president. In the midst of a nationwide Republican landslide, Nixon took 67.66 percent of Kansas’ vote to McGovern's 29.50 percent.
Kansas voters turned out heavily for Nixon, who won every county in the state, making it the last time any presidential candidate has won every single county in the state.[1] McGovern's loss was heavily influenced by his portrayal as a left-wing extremist by the Republican Party throughout the campaign. As of the 2024 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which the Republican presidential nominee carried Wyandotte County, home to Kansas City.[2]
Results
edit| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Richard M. Nixon (incumbent) | Republican | California | 619,812 | 67.66% | 7 | Spiro Agnew (incumbent) | Maryland | 7 |
| George McGovern | Democrat | South Dakota | 270,287 | 29.50% | 0 | Sargent Shriver | Maryland | 0 |
| John G. Schmitz | Conservative | California | 21,808 | 2.38% | 0 | Thomas J. Anderson | Tennessee | 0 |
| E. Harold Munn | Prohibition | Michigan | 4,188 | 0.46% | 0 | Marshall E. Uncapher | Kansas | 0 |
| Total | 916,095 | 100% | 7 | 7 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
Results by county
edit| County[3] | Richard Nixon Republican |
George McGovern Democratic |
John G. Schmitz Conservative |
E. Harold Munn Prohibition |
Margin | Total votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Allen | 3,938 | 69.47% | 1,610 | 28.40% | 88 | 1.55% | 33 | 0.58% | 2,328 | 41.07% | 5,669 |
| Anderson | 2,718 | 70.86% | 1,035 | 26.98% | 69 | 1.80% | 14 | 0.36% | 1,683 | 43.88% | 3,836 |
| Atchison | 5,471 | 67.83% | 2,404 | 29.80% | 159 | 1.97% | 32 | 0.40% | 3,067 | 38.03% | 8,066 |
| Barber | 2,308 | 74.26% | 727 | 23.39% | 64 | 2.07% | 9 | 0.29% | 1,581 | 50.87% | 3,108 |
| Barton | 8,479 | 68.87% | 3,481 | 28.27% | 313 | 2.54% | 39 | 0.32% | 4,998 | 40.60% | 12,312 |
| Bourbon | 4,776 | 70.09% | 1,912 | 28.06% | 79 | 1.16% | 47 | 0.69% | 2,864 | 42.03% | 6,814 |
| Brown | 4,314 | 78.92% | 1,038 | 18.99% | 97 | 1.77% | 17 | 0.31% | 3,276 | 59.93% | 5,466 |
| Butler | 11,045 | 67.39% | 4,669 | 28.49% | 578 | 3.53% | 97 | 0.59% | 6,376 | 38.90% | 16,389 |
| Chase | 1,184 | 76.04% | 315 | 20.23% | 47 | 3.02% | 11 | 0.71% | 869 | 55.81% | 1,557 |
| Chautauqua | 1,546 | 78.00% | 378 | 19.07% | 55 | 2.77% | 3 | 0.15% | 1,168 | 58.93% | 1,982 |
| Cherokee | 6,019 | 67.03% | 2,806 | 31.25% | 128 | 1.43% | 27 | 0.30% | 3,213 | 35.78% | 8,980 |
| Cheyenne | 1,440 | 75.51% | 399 | 20.92% | 62 | 3.25% | 6 | 0.31% | 1,041 | 54.59% | 1,907 |
| Clark | 1,142 | 76.03% | 311 | 20.71% | 36 | 2.40% | 13 | 0.87% | 831 | 55.32% | 1,502 |
| Clay | 3,562 | 78.42% | 887 | 19.53% | 46 | 1.01% | 47 | 1.03% | 2,675 | 58.89% | 4,542 |
| Cloud | 3,832 | 66.38% | 1,806 | 31.28% | 95 | 1.65% | 40 | 0.69% | 2,026 | 35.10% | 5,773 |
| Coffey | 2,667 | 75.70% | 782 | 22.20% | 54 | 1.53% | 20 | 0.57% | 1,885 | 53.50% | 3,523 |
| Comanche | 1,052 | 77.18% | 281 | 20.62% | 23 | 1.69% | 7 | 0.51% | 771 | 56.56% | 1,363 |
| Cowley | 10,332 | 70.51% | 3,592 | 24.51% | 641 | 4.37% | 88 | 0.60% | 6,740 | 46.00% | 14,653 |
| Crawford | 9,652 | 58.02% | 6,683 | 40.17% | 230 | 1.38% | 72 | 0.43% | 2,969 | 17.85% | 16,637 |
| Decatur | 1,707 | 70.22% | 616 | 25.34% | 92 | 3.78% | 16 | 0.66% | 1,091 | 44.88% | 2,431 |
| Dickinson | 6,515 | 75.34% | 1,957 | 22.63% | 132 | 1.53% | 43 | 0.50% | 4,558 | 52.71% | 8,647 |
| Doniphan | 2,856 | 78.40% | 690 | 18.94% | 88 | 2.42% | 9 | 0.25% | 2,166 | 59.46% | 3,643 |
| Douglas | 15,316 | 55.64% | 11,646 | 42.31% | 484 | 1.76% | 81 | 0.29% | 3,670 | 13.33% | 27,527 |
| Edwards | 1,534 | 64.54% | 757 | 31.85% | 75 | 3.16% | 11 | 0.46% | 777 | 32.69% | 2,377 |
| Elk | 1,522 | 76.02% | 428 | 21.38% | 47 | 2.35% | 5 | 0.25% | 1,094 | 54.64% | 2,002 |
| Ellis | 5,463 | 55.67% | 4,113 | 41.91% | 206 | 2.10% | 31 | 0.32% | 1,350 | 13.76% | 9,813 |
| Ellsworth | 2,087 | 65.20% | 1,028 | 32.11% | 68 | 2.12% | 18 | 0.56% | 1,059 | 33.09% | 3,201 |
| Finney | 4,335 | 65.66% | 2,062 | 31.23% | 175 | 2.65% | 30 | 0.45% | 2,273 | 34.43% | 6,602 |
| Ford | 6,232 | 67.12% | 2,804 | 30.20% | 200 | 2.15% | 49 | 0.53% | 3,428 | 36.92% | 9,285 |
| Franklin | 6,011 | 72.71% | 2,056 | 24.87% | 161 | 1.95% | 39 | 0.47% | 3,955 | 47.84% | 8,267 |
| Geary | 4,299 | 70.02% | 1,708 | 27.82% | 95 | 1.55% | 38 | 0.62% | 2,591 | 42.20% | 6,140 |
| Gove | 1,226 | 69.86% | 466 | 26.55% | 53 | 3.05% | 10 | 0.58% | 760 | 43.31% | 1,755 |
| Graham | 1,440 | 73.32% | 488 | 24.85% | 27 | 1.37% | 9 | 0.46% | 952 | 48.47% | 1,964 |
| Grant | 1,469 | 73.19% | 476 | 23.72% | 47 | 2.34% | 15 | 0.75% | 993 | 49.47% | 2,007 |
| Gray | 1,235 | 69.15% | 511 | 28.61% | 37 | 2.07% | 3 | 0.17% | 724 | 40.54% | 1,786 |
| Greeley | 639 | 68.49% | 212 | 22.72% | 76 | 8.15% | 6 | 0.64% | 427 | 45.77% | 933 |
| Greenwood | 3,157 | 74.49% | 951 | 22.44% | 99 | 2.34% | 31 | 0.73% | 2,206 | 52.05% | 4,238 |
| Hamilton | 941 | 67.26% | 394 | 28.16% | 53 | 3.79% | 11 | 0.79% | 547 | 39.10% | 1,399 |
| Harper | 2,628 | 75.71% | 729 | 21.00% | 89 | 2.56% | 25 | 0.72% | 1,899 | 54.71% | 3,471 |
| Harvey | 8,287 | 67.23% | 3,555 | 28.84% | 421 | 3.42% | 64 | 0.52% | 4,732 | 38.39% | 12,327 |
| Haskell | 1,036 | 71.55% | 383 | 26.45% | 21 | 1.45% | 8 | 0.55% | 653 | 45.10% | 1,448 |
| Hodgeman | 853 | 68.40% | 331 | 26.54% | 49 | 3.93% | 14 | 1.12% | 522 | 41.86% | 1,247 |
| Jackson | 3,363 | 71.98% | 1,191 | 25.49% | 100 | 2.14% | 18 | 0.39% | 2,172 | 46.49% | 4,672 |
| Jefferson | 3,679 | 72.69% | 1,237 | 24.44% | 113 | 2.23% | 32 | 0.63% | 2,442 | 48.25% | 5,061 |
| Jewell | 2,242 | 74.04% | 716 | 23.65% | 56 | 1.85% | 14 | 0.46% | 1,526 | 50.39% | 3,028 |
| Johnson | 76,161 | 74.14% | 24,324 | 23.68% | 1,923 | 1.87% | 319 | 0.31% | 51,837 | 50.46% | 102,727 |
| Kearny | 876 | 70.87% | 325 | 26.29% | 27 | 2.18% | 8 | 0.65% | 551 | 44.58% | 1,236 |
| Kingman | 2,756 | 68.90% | 1,107 | 27.68% | 121 | 3.03% | 16 | 0.40% | 1,649 | 41.22% | 4,000 |
| Kiowa | 1,559 | 76.35% | 406 | 19.88% | 54 | 2.64% | 23 | 1.13% | 1,153 | 56.47% | 2,042 |
| Labette | 6,399 | 64.76% | 3,210 | 32.49% | 234 | 2.37% | 38 | 0.38% | 3,189 | 32.27% | 9,881 |
| Lane | 943 | 73.21% | 294 | 22.83% | 41 | 3.18% | 10 | 0.78% | 649 | 50.38% | 1,288 |
| Leavenworth | 10,762 | 67.70% | 4,727 | 29.74% | 368 | 2.31% | 40 | 0.25% | 6,035 | 37.96% | 15,897 |
| Lincoln | 1,649 | 75.57% | 476 | 21.81% | 54 | 2.47% | 3 | 0.14% | 1,173 | 53.76% | 2,182 |
| Linn | 2,593 | 73.41% | 876 | 24.80% | 48 | 1.36% | 15 | 0.42% | 1,717 | 48.61% | 3,532 |
| Logan | 1,164 | 69.99% | 428 | 25.74% | 68 | 4.09% | 3 | 0.18% | 736 | 44.25% | 1,663 |
| Lyon | 9,157 | 69.67% | 3,720 | 28.30% | 234 | 1.78% | 32 | 0.24% | 5,437 | 41.37% | 13,143 |
| Marion | 4,373 | 72.17% | 1,478 | 24.39% | 194 | 3.20% | 14 | 0.23% | 2,895 | 47.78% | 6,059 |
| Marshall | 4,127 | 67.68% | 1,823 | 29.90% | 139 | 2.28% | 9 | 0.15% | 2,304 | 37.78% | 6,098 |
| McPherson | 7,457 | 70.56% | 2,858 | 27.04% | 189 | 1.79% | 65 | 0.62% | 4,599 | 43.52% | 10,569 |
| Meade | 1,712 | 74.56% | 526 | 22.91% | 46 | 2.00% | 12 | 0.52% | 1,186 | 51.65% | 2,296 |
| Miami | 5,234 | 69.04% | 2,140 | 28.23% | 190 | 1.97% | 17 | 0.18% | 3,094 | 40.81% | 7,581 |
| Mitchell | 2,830 | 71.59% | 1,030 | 26.06% | 82 | 2.07% | 11 | 0.28% | 1,800 | 45.53% | 3,953 |
| Montgomery | 11,717 | 73.66% | 3,685 | 23.17% | 459 | 2.89% | 46 | 0.29% | 8,032 | 50.49% | 15,907 |
| Morris | 2,471 | 76.12% | 704 | 21.69% | 62 | 1.91% | 9 | 0.28% | 1,767 | 54.43% | 3,246 |
| Morton | 1,165 | 72.68% | 363 | 22.65% | 66 | 4.12% | 9 | 0.56% | 802 | 50.03% | 1,603 |
| Nemaha | 3,422 | 64.06% | 1,777 | 33.26% | 136 | 2.55% | 7 | 0.13% | 1,645 | 30.80% | 5,342 |
| Neosho | 5,034 | 65.06% | 2,559 | 33.07% | 131 | 1.69% | 14 | 0.18% | 2,475 | 31.99% | 7,738 |
| Ness | 1,539 | 68.37% | 652 | 28.96% | 49 | 2.18% | 11 | 0.49% | 887 | 39.41% | 2,251 |
| Norton | 2,688 | 75.80% | 776 | 21.88% | 75 | 2.12% | 7 | 0.20% | 1,912 | 53.92% | 3,546 |
| Osage | 4,073 | 71.11% | 1,522 | 26.57% | 119 | 2.08% | 14 | 0.24% | 2,551 | 44.54% | 5,728 |
| Osborne | 2,182 | 73.42% | 724 | 24.36% | 51 | 1.72% | 15 | 0.50% | 1,458 | 49.06% | 2,972 |
| Ottawa | 2,065 | 72.94% | 705 | 24.90% | 48 | 1.70% | 13 | 0.46% | 1,360 | 48.04% | 2,831 |
| Pawnee | 2,370 | 65.83% | 1,110 | 30.83% | 98 | 2.72% | 22 | 0.61% | 1,260 | 35.00% | 3,600 |
| Phillips | 2,919 | 76.15% | 827 | 21.58% | 80 | 2.09% | 7 | 0.18% | 2,092 | 54.57% | 3,833 |
| Pottawatomie | 3,947 | 73.51% | 1,298 | 24.18% | 116 | 2.16% | 8 | 0.15% | 2,649 | 49.33% | 5,369 |
| Pratt | 3,253 | 71.20% | 1,214 | 26.57% | 80 | 1.75% | 22 | 0.48% | 2,039 | 44.63% | 4,569 |
| Rawlins | 1,553 | 70.46% | 560 | 25.41% | 87 | 3.95% | 4 | 0.18% | 993 | 45.05% | 2,204 |
| Reno | 15,714 | 63.81% | 8,183 | 33.23% | 500 | 2.03% | 231 | 0.94% | 7,531 | 30.58% | 24,628 |
| Republic | 2,921 | 71.80% | 1,059 | 26.03% | 65 | 1.60% | 23 | 0.57% | 1,862 | 45.77% | 4,068 |
| Rice | 3,843 | 66.22% | 1,825 | 31.45% | 101 | 1.74% | 34 | 0.59% | 2,018 | 34.77% | 5,803 |
| Riley | 11,120 | 66.16% | 5,333 | 31.73% | 310 | 1.84% | 46 | 0.27% | 5,787 | 34.43% | 16,809 |
| Rooks | 2,457 | 71.74% | 904 | 26.39% | 55 | 1.61% | 9 | 0.26% | 1,553 | 45.35% | 3,425 |
| Rush | 1,639 | 65.25% | 806 | 32.09% | 49 | 1.95% | 18 | 0.72% | 833 | 33.16% | 2,512 |
| Russell | 3,168 | 73.81% | 1,011 | 23.56% | 99 | 2.26% | 14 | 0.32% | 2,157 | 50.25% | 4,292 |
| Saline | 12,592 | 68.74% | 5,406 | 29.51% | 260 | 1.42% | 61 | 0.33% | 7,186 | 39.23% | 18,319 |
| Scott | 1,547 | 74.30% | 449 | 21.57% | 68 | 3.27% | 18 | 0.86% | 1,098 | 52.73% | 2,082 |
| Sedgwick | 83,949 | 65.74% | 39,220 | 30.71% | 3,897 | 3.05% | 635 | 0.50% | 44,729 | 35.03% | 127,701 |
| Seward | 3,866 | 77.27% | 989 | 19.77% | 126 | 2.52% | 22 | 0.44% | 2,877 | 57.50% | 5,003 |
| Shawnee | 43,727 | 66.75% | 20,383 | 31.12% | 1,179 | 1.80% | 217 | 0.33% | 23,344 | 35.63% | 65,506 |
| Sheridan | 1,134 | 64.40% | 552 | 31.35% | 69 | 3.92% | 6 | 0.34% | 582 | 33.05% | 1,761 |
| Sherman | 2,225 | 69.92% | 785 | 24.67% | 164 | 5.15% | 8 | 0.25% | 1,440 | 45.25% | 3,182 |
| Smith | 2,600 | 74.26% | 818 | 23.36% | 63 | 1.80% | 20 | 0.57% | 1,782 | 50.90% | 3,501 |
| Stafford | 2,200 | 70.35% | 844 | 26.99% | 59 | 1.89% | 24 | 0.77% | 1,356 | 43.36% | 3,127 |
| Stanton | 754 | 71.54% | 259 | 24.57% | 37 | 3.51% | 4 | 0.38% | 495 | 46.97% | 1,054 |
| Stevens | 1,392 | 74.48% | 408 | 21.83% | 58 | 3.10% | 11 | 0.59% | 984 | 52.65% | 1,869 |
| Sumner | 6,941 | 68.08% | 2,685 | 26.34% | 522 | 5.12% | 47 | 0.46% | 4,256 | 41.74% | 10,195 |
| Thomas | 2,300 | 67.73% | 943 | 27.77% | 144 | 4.24% | 9 | 0.27% | 1,357 | 39.96% | 3,396 |
| Trego | 1,369 | 66.91% | 621 | 30.35% | 49 | 2.39% | 7 | 0.34% | 748 | 36.56% | 2,046 |
| Wabaunsee | 2,461 | 76.83% | 662 | 20.67% | 72 | 2.25% | 8 | 0.25% | 1,799 | 56.16% | 3,203 |
| Wallace | 782 | 73.22% | 214 | 20.04% | 69 | 6.46% | 3 | 0.28% | 568 | 53.18% | 1,068 |
| Washington | 3,301 | 75.13% | 996 | 22.67% | 79 | 1.80% | 18 | 0.41% | 2,305 | 52.46% | 4,394 |
| Wichita | 794 | 69.89% | 288 | 25.35% | 51 | 4.49% | 3 | 0.26% | 506 | 44.54% | 1,136 |
| Wilson | 3,568 | 74.80% | 1,043 | 21.87% | 136 | 2.85% | 23 | 0.48% | 2,525 | 52.93% | 4,770 |
| Woodson | 1,592 | 72.59% | 550 | 25.08% | 43 | 1.96% | 8 | 0.36% | 1,042 | 47.51% | 2,193 |
| Wyandotte | 34,157 | 52.70% | 28,206 | 43.52% | 1,887 | 2.91% | 566 | 0.87% | 5,951 | 9.18% | 64,816 |
| Totals | 619,812 | 67.66% | 270,287 | 29.50% | 21,808 | 2.38% | 4,188 | 0.46% | 349,525 | 38.16% | 916,095 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ "1972 Presidential General Election Results – Kansas". Uselections.org. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ "KS US President Race, November 07, 1972". Our Campaigns.