1972 United States presidential election in Arkansas
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Elections in Arkansas |
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The 1972 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Arkansas voters chose six[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Arkansas was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R–California), with 68.82% of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D–South Dakota), with 30.71% of the popular vote.[3][4] John G. Schmitz was the only other candidate on the ballot, and, as the candidate for the American Independent Party, he received just over three thousand votes.
In a state that would reflect McGovern's national results,[5][6] the Democratic nominee did not win a single county in Arkansas. This marked the first time that Arkansas had voted Republican in a presidential election since Ulysses S. Grant carried the state in 1872, and remains the best showing in the state by a Republican presidential candidate. As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Phillips County, Jefferson County, Lee County, Chicot County, and Desha County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.[7]
Results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Richard Nixon (inc.) | 445,751 | 68.82% | |
Democratic | George McGovern | 198,899 | 30.71% | |
American Independent | John G. Schmitz | 3,016 | 0.47% | |
Total votes | 647,666 | 100% |
Results by county
County | Richard Milhous Nixon Republican |
George Stanley McGovern Democratic |
John George Schmitz American Independent |
Margin | Totals votes cast | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Arkansas | 5,225 | 73.46% | 1,849 | 25.99% | 39 | 0.55% | 3,376 | 47.46% | 7,113 |
Ashley | 5,506 | 76.44% | 1,680 | 23.32% | 17 | 0.24% | 3,826 | 53.12% | 7,203 |
Baxter | 6,754 | 70.65% | 2,677 | 28.00% | 129 | 1.35% | 4,077 | 42.65% | 9,560 |
Benton | 14,621 | 77.86% | 4,083 | 21.74% | 74 | 0.39% | 10,538 | 56.12% | 18,778 |
Boone | 5,484 | 74.49% | 1,862 | 25.29% | 16 | 0.22% | 3,622 | 49.20% | 7,362 |
Bradley | 3,218 | 69.74% | 1,368 | 29.65% | 28 | 0.61% | 1,850 | 40.10% | 4,614 |
Calhoun | 1,298 | 64.26% | 707 | 35.00% | 15 | 0.74% | 591 | 29.26% | 2,020 |
Carroll | 3,565 | 70.09% | 1,401 | 27.55% | 120 | 2.36% | 2,164 | 42.55% | 5,086 |
Chicot | 2,858 | 65.96% | 1,469 | 33.90% | 6 | 0.14% | 1,389 | 32.06% | 4,333 |
Clark | 4,173 | 59.96% | 2,741 | 39.38% | 46 | 0.66% | 1,432 | 20.57% | 6,960 |
Clay | 4,381 | 69.39% | 1,933 | 30.61% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,448 | 38.77% | 6,314 |
Cleburne | 2,870 | 67.15% | 1,400 | 32.76% | 4 | 0.09% | 1,470 | 34.39% | 4,274 |
Cleveland | 1,837 | 71.45% | 734 | 28.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,103 | 42.90% | 2,571 |
Columbia | 5,801 | 72.30% | 2,193 | 27.33% | 29 | 0.36% | 3,608 | 44.97% | 8,023 |
Conway | 4,187 | 58.11% | 3,009 | 41.76% | 9 | 0.12% | 1,178 | 16.35% | 7,205 |
Craighead | 11,312 | 65.94% | 5,843 | 34.06% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,469 | 31.88% | 17,155 |
Crawford | 6,974 | 81.41% | 1,520 | 17.74% | 72 | 0.84% | 5,454 | 63.67% | 8,566 |
Crittenden | 7,971 | 71.06% | 3,246 | 28.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 4,725 | 42.12% | 11,217 |
Cross | 3,743 | 72.78% | 1,221 | 23.74% | 179 | 3.48% | 2,522 | 49.04% | 5,143 |
Dallas | 2,152 | 60.55% | 1,402 | 39.45% | 0 | 0.00% | 750 | 21.10% | 3,554 |
Desha | 3,385 | 66.92% | 1,665 | 32.92% | 8 | 0.16% | 1,720 | 34.01% | 5,058 |
Drew | 3,334 | 74.06% | 1,168 | 25.94% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,166 | 48.11% | 4,502 |
Faulkner | 6,746 | 59.44% | 4,604 | 40.56% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,142 | 18.87% | 11,350 |
Franklin | 3,678 | 74.60% | 1,252 | 25.40% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,426 | 49.21% | 4,930 |
Fulton | 2,030 | 67.89% | 960 | 32.11% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,070 | 35.79% | 2,990 |
Garland | 15,602 | 73.90% | 5,207 | 24.66% | 303 | 1.44% | 10,395 | 49.24% | 21,112 |
Grant | 2,414 | 67.41% | 1,147 | 32.03% | 20 | 0.56% | 1,267 | 35.38% | 3,581 |
Greene | 6,128 | 73.03% | 2,263 | 26.97% | 0 | 0.00% | 3,865 | 46.06% | 8,391 |
Hempstead | 4,963 | 70.80% | 2,047 | 29.20% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,916 | 41.60% | 7,010 |
Hot Spring | 5,378 | 64.54% | 2,872 | 34.47% | 83 | 1.00% | 2,506 | 30.07% | 8,333 |
Howard | 2,682 | 71.50% | 1,069 | 28.50% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,613 | 43.00% | 3,751 |
Independence | 5,076 | 65.74% | 2,630 | 34.06% | 15 | 0.19% | 2,446 | 31.68% | 7,721 |
Izard | 2,001 | 64.26% | 1,108 | 35.58% | 5 | 0.16% | 893 | 28.68% | 3,114 |
Jackson | 4,196 | 66.73% | 2,092 | 33.27% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,104 | 33.46% | 6,288 |
Jefferson | 16,888 | 61.95% | 10,346 | 37.95% | 26 | 0.10% | 6,542 | 24.00% | 27,260 |
Johnson | 4,107 | 66.76% | 2,045 | 33.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,062 | 33.52% | 6,152 |
Lafayette | 2,460 | 71.91% | 952 | 27.83% | 9 | 0.26% | 1,508 | 44.08% | 3,421 |
Lawrence | 3,981 | 69.45% | 1,751 | 30.55% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,230 | 38.90% | 5,732 |
Lee | 3,540 | 64.59% | 1,907 | 34.79% | 34 | 0.62% | 1,633 | 29.79% | 5,481 |
Lincoln | 2,318 | 67.52% | 1,115 | 32.48% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,203 | 35.04% | 3,433 |
Little River | 2,550 | 70.04% | 1,091 | 29.96% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,459 | 40.07% | 3,641 |
Logan | 4,964 | 71.42% | 1,956 | 28.14% | 30 | 0.43% | 3,008 | 43.28% | 6,950 |
Lonoke | 5,298 | 67.62% | 2,504 | 31.96% | 33 | 0.42% | 2,794 | 35.66% | 7,835 |
Madison | 3,372 | 64.09% | 1,889 | 35.91% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,483 | 28.19% | 5,261 |
Marion | 2,331 | 66.66% | 1,108 | 31.68% | 58 | 1.66% | 1,223 | 34.97% | 3,497 |
Miller | 8,355 | 74.53% | 2,855 | 25.47% | 0 | 0.00% | 5,500 | 49.06% | 11,210 |
Mississippi | 10,931 | 74.73% | 3,544 | 24.23% | 152 | 1.04% | 7,387 | 50.50% | 14,627 |
Monroe | 2,897 | 63.45% | 1,578 | 34.56% | 91 | 1.99% | 1,319 | 28.89% | 4,566 |
Montgomery | 1,555 | 68.17% | 688 | 30.16% | 38 | 1.67% | 867 | 38.01% | 2,281 |
Nevada | 2,513 | 68.07% | 1,179 | 31.93% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,334 | 36.13% | 3,692 |
Newton | 1,924 | 69.84% | 831 | 30.16% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,093 | 39.67% | 2,755 |
Ouachita | 6,620 | 62.68% | 3,931 | 37.22% | 11 | 0.10% | 2,689 | 25.46% | 10,562 |
Perry | 1,445 | 63.88% | 810 | 35.81% | 7 | 0.31% | 635 | 28.07% | 2,262 |
Phillips | 6,235 | 58.90% | 4,283 | 40.46% | 68 | 0.64% | 1,952 | 18.44% | 10,586 |
Pike | 2,316 | 73.69% | 798 | 25.39% | 29 | 0.92% | 1,518 | 48.30% | 3,143 |
Poinsett | 7,010 | 77.91% | 1,908 | 21.20% | 80 | 0.89% | 5,102 | 56.70% | 8,998 |
Polk | 3,609 | 74.83% | 1,120 | 23.22% | 94 | 1.95% | 2,489 | 51.61% | 4,823 |
Pope | 6,917 | 67.52% | 3,302 | 32.23% | 25 | 0.24% | 3,615 | 35.29% | 10,244 |
Prairie | 2,186 | 71.46% | 873 | 28.54% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,313 | 42.92% | 3,059 |
Pulaski | 57,576 | 62.95% | 33,611 | 36.75% | 281 | 0.31% | 23,965 | 26.20% | 91,468 |
Randolph | 2,578 | 62.83% | 1,525 | 37.17% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,053 | 25.66% | 4,103 |
St. Francis | 5,692 | 65.95% | 2,674 | 30.98% | 265 | 3.07% | 3,018 | 34.97% | 8,631 |
Saline | 7,972 | 63.64% | 4,503 | 35.95% | 52 | 0.42% | 3,469 | 27.69% | 12,527 |
Scott | 2,424 | 75.87% | 771 | 24.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,653 | 51.74% | 3,195 |
Searcy | 3,163 | 78.76% | 853 | 21.24% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,310 | 57.52% | 4,016 |
Sebastian | 25,219 | 81.23% | 5,770 | 18.58% | 58 | 0.19% | 19,449 | 62.64% | 31,047 |
Sevier | 2,526 | 69.91% | 1,048 | 29.01% | 39 | 1.08% | 1,478 | 40.91% | 3,613 |
Sharp | 2,677 | 69.71% | 1,154 | 30.05% | 9 | 0.23% | 1,523 | 39.66% | 3,840 |
Stone | 1,989 | 67.38% | 958 | 32.45% | 5 | 0.17% | 1,031 | 34.93% | 2,952 |
Union | 11,925 | 76.72% | 3,531 | 22.72% | 87 | 0.56% | 8,394 | 54.01% | 15,543 |
Van Buren | 2,622 | 61.91% | 1,594 | 37.64% | 19 | 0.45% | 1,028 | 24.27% | 4,235 |
Washington | 17,523 | 70.94% | 7,108 | 28.78% | 70 | 0.28% | 10,415 | 42.16% | 24,701 |
White | 8,701 | 67.24% | 4,161 | 32.15% | 79 | 0.61% | 4,540 | 35.08% | 12,941 |
Woodruff | 1,989 | 61.73% | 1,183 | 36.72% | 50 | 1.55% | 806 | 25.02% | 3,222 |
Yell | 3,310 | 66.48% | 1,669 | 33.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 1,641 | 32.96% | 4,979 |
Totals | 445,751 | 68.82% | 198,899 | 30.71% | 3,016 | 0.47% | 246,852 | 38.11% | 647,666 |
References
- ^ "United States Presidential election of 1972 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ^ "1972 Election for the Forty-Seventh Term (1973-77)". Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ^ "1972 Presidential General Election Results - Arkansas". Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ^ "The American Presidency Project - Election of 1972". Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ^ "1972 Presidential Election - 270toWin.com". Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ^ "1972 Election - Voting America". Retrieved January 7, 2017.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016