Pemilihan umum Presiden Amerika Serikat 1960

Pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 1960 adalah pemilihan presiden empat tahunan ke-44, yang diselenggarakan pada hari Selasa, 8 November 1960. Partai Republik mencalonkan petahana Wakil Presiden Richard Nixon, sedangkan Partai Demokrat mencalonkan John F. Kennedy, Senator AS dari Massachusetts. Presiden petahana, Dwight D. Eisenhower dari partai Republik, tidak memenuhi syarat untuk pemilihan kembali setelah terpilih maksimum dua kali diperbolehkan oleh Amendemen ke-Dua Puluh Dua; ia adalah Presiden pertama dipengaruhi oleh perubahan itu. Ini adalah pemilihan presiden pertama di mana pemilih di Alaska dan Hawaii mampu berpartisipasi, karena mereka telah menjadi negara bagian pada tahun 1959.

Pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 1960
1956 1964 8 November 1960
537 suara elektoral Lembaga Pemilihan 269 suara elektoral untuk menang
Kehadiran pemilih	62.8%
Kandidat
Calon John F. Kennedy Richard Nixon Partai Demokrat Republik Negara bagian Massachusetts California Wakil Lyndon B. Johnson Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Suara elektoral 303 219 Negara bagian 23 26 Suara rakyat 34,220,984 34,108,157 Persentase 49.72% 49.55%
Peta persebaran suara Templat:United States presidential election, 1960 imagemap Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Kennedy/Johnson, Red denotes those won by Nixon/Lodge. Orange denotes the electoral votes for Harry F. Byrd by Alabama and Mississippi unpledged electors, and an Oklahoma "faithless elector". Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
Presiden petahana Dwight D. Eisenhower Republik Presiden terpilih John F. Kennedy Demokrat

Bacaan lebih lanjut

• Alexander, Herbert E. (1962). Financing the 1960 Election. OCLC 249214383. 
• Ambrose, Stephen. Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913–1962 (1987) ch 25–26
• Campbell, Angus; et al. (1966). Elections and the Political Order, statistical studies of survey data
• Casey, Shaun A. The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon, 1960 (Oxford UP, 2009) 261 pp.
• Dallek, Robert Gold (1991). "Chapter 16: The Making of a Vice President". Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908–1960. ISBN 0-19-505435-0. 
• Divine, Robert A. Foreign Policy and U.S. Presidential Elections, 1952–1960 (1974).
• Donaldson, Gary A. The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). 199 pp.
• Ingle, H. Larry, "Billy Graham: The Evangelical in Politics, 1960s-Style," in Peter Bien and Chuck Fager, eds. In Stillness there is Fullness: A Peacemaker's Harvest, (Kimo Press, 2000)
• Kallina, Edmund F. (1988). Courthouse Over White House: Chicago and the Presidential Election of 1960. ISBN 0-8130-0864-6. 
• Kraus, Sidney (1977). The Great Debates: Kennedy vs. Nixon, 1960. ISBN 0-253-32631-1. 
• Lisle, T. David (1988). "Southern Baptists and the Issue of Catholic Autonomy in the 1960 Presidential Campaign". Dalam Paul Harper and Joann P. Krieg, ed. John F. Kennedy: The Promise Revisited. hlm. 273–285. Pemeliharaan CS1: Teks tambahan: editors list (link)
• O'Brien, Michael (2005). John F. Kennedy: A Biography. Ch. 21–24. ISBN 978-0312281298. 
• Pietrusza, David (2008). 1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies. Union Square Press. 
• Rorabaugh, W. J. (2009). The Real Making of the President: Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1887-3. 
• White, Theodore H. (1980) [1961]. The Making of the President, 1960. New York: Atheneum. ISBN 0-689-70600-6. 

Sumber primer

• Gallup, George H., ed. The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1935–1971. 3 vols. Random House, 1972. poll results
• Nixon, Richard M. (1978). RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. ISBN 0-671-70741-8. 

Historiografi

• Brands, Hal. "Burying Theodore White: Recent Accounts of the 1960 Presidential Election," Presidential Studies Quarterly 2010. Vol. 40#2 pp 364+. online edition

Pranala luar

• The Election Wall's 1960 Election Video Page
• 1960 popular vote by counties
• 1960 popular vote by states
• 1960 popular vote by states (with bar graphs)
• Gallery of 1960 Election Posters/Buttons
• Campaign commercials from the 1960 election
• How close was the 1960 election? — Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Battleground West Virginia: Electing the President in 1960—West Virginia Archives and History On-Line Exhibit
• Andrew Marr. "JFK: The Making of Modern Politics". BBC 2. Diakses tanggal November 23, 2010. 
• Election of 1960 in Counting the Votes