Nixonâ??s opponent in the 1960 Presidential Election was John F. Kennedy. Nixon lost the election when he only received the 219 electoral votes from the states.
No. He won 43.4% of the popular vote; his democratic opponent, Humphrey won 42.7 %, a difference of 0.7%.
Presidential candidate James K. Polk was a pro-expansionist in the election. His opponent, Henry Clay, had no real position on it but had a history of respect for others' lands - being against Jackson's Indian Removal Act - so the clear choice to the people was Polk.
Barry Goldwater
His main opponent was Senator John McCain.
Republican Alf Landon was the challenger in the 1936 presidential election.
DeWitt Clinton (James Madison's opponent in the presidential election of 1812)
No.
In the 1828 US presidential election, Andrew Jackson's main opponent was the sitting President John Quincy Adams. He won by a wide margin.
His opponent was James G. Blaine. Grover Cleaveland won the election.
Nixonâ??s opponent in the 1960 Presidential Election was John F. Kennedy. Nixon lost the election when he only received the 219 electoral votes from the states.
In the 1844 presidential election Polk's opponent was Henry Clay of Kentucky. He was a member of the Whig party.
Alfred E. Smith
Richard Milhous Nixon
The Republican Presidential nominee in the election of 1964 was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater.
In the United States, there was no election in 2009. There was a presidential election in 2008, when the current president Barack Obama claimed victory over his opponent John McCain.
Lyndon Johnson won the 1964 presidential election defeating Barry Goldwater. In the 1964 presidential election the popular vote totals were Johnson 43,129,566 and Goldwater 27,178,188. The largest percentage of popular votes in a presidential election were won by Lyndon Johnson 61.05% in 1964, Franklin Roosevelt 60.80% in 1936, Richard Nixon 60.67% in 1972, and Warren Harding 60.32% in 1920.