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Incumbent President Richard Nixon won reelection in the 1972 presidential election defeating George McGovern. In the 1972 presidential election Richard Nixon received 520 electoral votes and George McGovern received 17 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Nixon 47,169,911 and McGovern 29,170,383. McGovern won 14 electoral votes from Massachusetts and 3 electoral votes from District of Columbia.
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What are two reasons that this election is so historical?
1) It was the first national level election to be held in the United States in 2008. 2) It was the last national level election to be held in the United States in 2008.
How many states did Alf Landon win in 1936 presidential election?
Alf Landon and his running mate, Frank Knox, carried two states in the 1936 election: Maine and Vermont.
How many senators from a state are elected in any given election?
Every two years, one U.S. Senate seat of each of two thirds of the states comes up for election.
What year did mike Moore lose the election?
He lost the 1990 election, after being Prime Minister for only two months.
Who was the first President of the US to be elected by 48 states?
Woodrow Wilson had that distinction. The last two of the 48 states, New Mexico and Arizona, were admitted in 1912 before the election, so the 1912 election was the first in which 48 states voted.
Allegations of voter fraud in the 1960 presidential election occured in which two states?
lllinois and Texas
A political party that challenges the two major parties in an election is a?
In a two-party system such as that in the United States, this is referred to as a "third party".
What two states generally vote republican but voted democratic in this election?
the soviet reunion and that Canada place
What are the method of selection of the senate?
Senators in the United States are selected through direct election by the people of each state. Each state elects two Senators to represent them in the Senate. Senators serve staggered six-year terms to ensure that only one-third of the Senate is up for election every two years.
The last federalist to win a presidential election?
The ONLY two Federalists to win the presidential election were John Adams and of course George Washington.
All states that have only two consonants?
The only states in the United States that have exactly two consonants in their names are Iowa and Ohio. These states have the consonants "w" and "h" in common. Other states may have two consonants, but they also have additional vowels or consonants in their names.
VWhat two states provided Andrew Jackson with the greatest number of electoral votes in the election of 1828?
Those states were Pennsylvania (28) and Virginia (24).
