The Nation Decides
1972
77,631,844 votes counted (summed from counties) · Excludes third-party votes in 1 county whose source totals are double-counted.
Per-state electoral vote detail is staged from 1976; earlier years show the national college in the bar above, and states are coloured by their county-summed popular vote.
Missouri: the source double-counts some county totals this year, so third-party vote there is understated (shown with a +).
The Map Beneath the Map
Every county that cast a ballot, shaded by its margin. Hover any county to read it; click to open its 156-year profile. Scrub the timeline above and the map redraws in place. Vote counts exist for all forty elections; the demographic lenses begin in 2000.
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Who Voted for Whom
How each slice of the electorate split between the parties — by their own account. Weighted ANES self-reports from a national sample: they tilt slightly toward the winner and carry no county detail.
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Notes on this election
- Nixon's 49-state sweep. One Virginia elector defected to Libertarian John Hospers.