John F. Kennedy carried Georgia D+25.1.

John F. Kennedy (D) vs Richard Nixon (R) in Georgia, 1960. The state ran 25.0 points more Democratic than the nation (D+0.2 nationally).

Nominees: John F. Kennedy (D) · Richard Nixon (R) · Unpledged Democratic electors (Harry F. Byrd) (Unpledged)

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Georgia result

733,110 votes counted

Kennedy (D)

458,638

62.6%

Nixon (R)

274,472

37.4%

Byrd) + others

0

0.0%

Margin

D+25.1

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1960 presidential election

Georgia, 1960

KennedyD+25.1

How it voted

Share of the 1960 vote

John F. Kennedy ✓Democratic	62.6%	458,638
Richard NixonRepublican	37.4%	274,472
OtherAll other candidates	0.0%	0

D+60

R+60

159 counties, each filled by 1960 D-vs-R margin. Hover any county for its result.

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Georgia's presidential margins

1892–2024, the 1960 contest in context

Georgia's presidential margins

Year	Margin (D minus R)
1892	+36.3%
1896	+21.0%
1900	+38.7%
1904	+45.9%
1908	+23.4%
1912	+72.4%
1916	+72.9%
1920	+42.3%
1924	+55.9%
1928	+12.0%
1932	+83.8%
1936	+74.5%
1940	+69.9%
1944	+63.5%
1948	+42.5%
1952	+39.3%
1956	+34.1%
1960	+25.1%
1964	−8.3%
1968	−3.7%
1972	−50.6%
1976	+33.9%
1980	+14.8%
1984	−20.4%
1988	−20.3%
1992	+0.6%
1996	−1.2%
2000	−11.7%
2004	−16.6%
2008	−5.2%
2012	−7.8%
2016	−5.1%
2020	+0.3%
2024	−2.2%

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County results — 1960

159 counties; every row links to the county's full page.

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County	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
Appling County	D	+46.7%	1,973	717	2,690
Atkinson County	D	+68.9%	1,298	239	1,537
Bacon County	D	+33.7%	1,168	579	1,747
Baker County	D	+83.2%	720	66	786
Baldwin County	D	+28.3%	2,262	1,264	3,526
Banks County	D	+68.2%	1,170	221	1,391
Barrow County	D	+65.4%	2,759	577	3,336
Bartow County	D	+46.6%	3,545	1,292	4,837
Ben Hill County	D	+54.2%	1,881	558	2,439
Berrien County	D	+76.7%	2,787	368	3,155
Bibb County	D	+15.5%	14,387	10,523	24,910
Bleckley County	D	+46.9%	1,751	633	2,384
Brantley County	D	+59.0%	1,333	344	1,677
Brooks County	D	+32.5%	1,500	765	2,265
Bryan County	D	+51.1%	1,323	428	1,751
Bulloch County	D	+38.3%	3,373	1,506	4,879
Burke County	D	+6.2%	1,162	1,027	2,189
Butts County	D	+62.8%	1,673	382	2,055
Calhoun County	D	+71.9%	803	131	934
Camden County	D	+16.3%	1,321	950	2,271
Candler County	D	+37.1%	943	433	1,376
Carroll County	D	+46.2%	4,698	1,729	6,427
Catoosa County	D	+1.0%	2,114	2,074	4,188
Charlton County	D	+43.4%	733	289	1,022
Chatham County	R	−5.0%	16,240	17,935	34,175
Chattahoochee County	D	+48.4%	190	66	256
Chattooga County	D	+39.6%	3,686	1,596	5,282
Cherokee County	D	+13.6%	3,077	2,341	5,418
Clarke County	D	+36.3%	4,812	2,250	7,062
Clay County	D	+72.5%	528	84	612
Clayton County	D	+33.2%	5,892	2,953	8,845
Clinch County	D	+38.7%	898	397	1,295
Cobb County	D	+22.1%	12,906	8,240	21,146
Coffee County	D	+54.8%	3,376	987	4,363
Colquitt County	D	+44.6%	4,397	1,685	6,082
Columbia County	D	+1.5%	1,190	1,155	2,345
Cook County	D	+65.8%	1,935	399	2,334
Coweta County	D	+53.8%	3,855	1,159	5,014
Crawford County	D	+59.4%	797	203	1,000
Crisp County	D	+42.1%	2,365	963	3,328
Dade County	D	+1.8%	943	909	1,852
Dawson County	D	+39.1%	916	401	1,317
Decatur County	D	+50.4%	2,780	918	3,698
DeKalb County	D	+0.1%	24,116	24,046	48,162
Dodge County	D	+52.4%	3,630	1,134	4,764
Dooly County	D	+77.5%	1,733	220	1,953
Dougherty County	D	+2.2%	4,522	4,323	8,845
Douglas County	D	+38.8%	2,576	1,136	3,712
Early County	D	+76.5%	1,904	254	2,158
Echols County	D	+40.8%	257	108	365
Effingham County	R	−0.3%	880	885	1,765
Elbert County	D	+71.5%	3,672	609	4,281
Emanuel County	D	+38.3%	2,513	1,120	3,633
Evans County	D	+30.7%	1,069	567	1,636
Fannin County	R	−31.4%	1,579	3,022	4,601
Fayette County	D	+53.9%	1,198	359	1,557
Floyd County	D	+9.2%	7,350	6,108	13,458
Forsyth County	D	+46.6%	2,309	841	3,150
Franklin County	D	+82.5%	3,209	308	3,517
Fulton County	D	+1.7%	55,803	53,940	109,743
Gilmer County	R	−11.4%	1,472	1,850	3,322
Glascock County	D	+24.8%	299	180	479
Glynn County	D	+10.1%	3,584	2,926	6,510
Gordon County	D	+30.4%	2,153	1,148	3,301
Grady County	D	+62.2%	2,541	592	3,133
Greene County	D	+71.6%	1,979	328	2,307
Gwinnett County	D	+47.0%	6,479	2,336	8,815
Habersham County	D	+47.7%	2,530	895	3,425
Hall County	D	+36.9%	6,303	2,903	9,206
Hancock County	D	+46.3%	780	286	1,066
Haralson County	D	+19.6%	2,783	1,869	4,652
Harris County	D	+29.9%	1,362	735	2,097
Hart County	D	+87.0%	3,963	275	4,238
Heard County	D	+74.2%	1,224	181	1,405
Henry County	D	+47.9%	2,957	1,041	3,998
Houston County	D	+39.3%	4,033	1,757	5,790
Irwin County	D	+64.4%	1,625	352	1,977
Jackson County	D	+77.1%	3,653	472	4,125
Jasper County	D	+55.6%	949	271	1,220
Jeff Davis County	D	+34.5%	825	402	1,227
Jefferson County	D	+12.6%	1,270	986	2,256
Jenkins County	D	+62.4%	1,354	313	1,667
Johnson County	D	+45.4%	1,298	488	1,786
Jones County	D	+48.6%	1,415	489	1,904
Lamar County	D	+48.0%	1,363	479	1,842
Lanier County	D	+68.2%	1,049	198	1,247
Laurens County	D	+42.3%	4,648	1,884	6,532
Lee County	D	+35.8%	404	191	595
Liberty County	D	+26.2%	1,590	929	2,519
Lincoln County	D	+54.5%	669	197	866
Long County	R	−52.7%	278	898	1,176
Lowndes County	D	+10.7%	3,605	2,908	6,513
Lumpkin County	D	+27.7%	875	495	1,370
Macon County	D	+54.5%	1,488	438	1,926
Madison County	D	+84.4%	2,418	205	2,623
Marion County	D	+61.5%	645	154	799
McDuffie County	D	+1.9%	1,079	1,039	2,118
McIntosh County	D	+27.6%	794	451	1,245
Meriwether County	D	+62.9%	3,100	706	3,806
Miller County	D	+89.5%	1,116	62	1,178
Mitchell County	D	+76.7%	3,264	430	3,694
Monroe County	D	+47.7%	1,642	581	2,223
Montgomery County	D	+58.4%	1,451	381	1,832
Morgan County	D	+59.9%	1,488	373	1,861
Murray County	D	+34.0%	1,876	925	2,801
Muscogee County	R	−5.7%	8,553	9,578	18,131
Newton County	D	+63.6%	3,185	708	3,893
Oconee County	D	+60.8%	1,218	297	1,515
Oglethorpe County	D	+81.7%	1,406	142	1,548
Paulding County	D	+49.4%	2,396	812	3,208
Peach County	D	+39.1%	1,433	628	2,061
Pickens County	R	−13.8%	1,473	1,943	3,416
Pierce County	D	+45.4%	1,449	544	1,993
Pike County	D	+60.2%	1,028	255	1,283
Polk County	D	+42.7%	4,351	1,746	6,097
Pulaski County	D	+55.2%	1,156	334	1,490
Putnam County	D	+56.7%	1,104	305	1,409
Quitman County	D	+70.5%	388	67	455
Rabun County	D	+54.0%	1,552	464	2,016
Randolph County	D	+51.7%	1,436	457	1,893
Richmond County	R	−9.7%	9,868	11,978	21,846
Rockdale County	D	+56.1%	1,765	496	2,261
Schley County	D	+54.4%	467	138	605
Screven County	D	+21.8%	1,490	957	2,447
Seminole County	D	+90.7%	1,579	77	1,656
Spalding County	D	+43.3%	4,426	1,753	6,179
Stephens County	D	+58.2%	3,087	815	3,902
Stewart County	D	+36.3%	646	302	948
Sumter County	D	+40.5%	2,274	962	3,236
Talbot County	D	+57.7%	771	207	978
Taliaferro County	D	+63.1%	655	148	803
Tattnall County	D	+37.4%	1,908	869	2,777
Taylor County	D	+53.4%	1,201	365	1,566
Telfair County	D	+57.4%	2,922	791	3,713
Terrell County	D	+65.2%	1,352	285	1,637
Thomas County	D	+17.1%	3,226	2,285	5,511
Tift County	D	+35.1%	2,964	1,423	4,387
Toombs County	D	+36.1%	2,209	1,038	3,247
Towns County	R	−9.5%	1,052	1,272	2,324
Treutlen County	D	+62.2%	927	216	1,143
Troup County	D	+34.3%	5,745	2,808	8,553
Turner County	D	+65.0%	1,545	328	1,873
Twiggs County	D	+52.5%	845	263	1,108
Union County	R	−12.9%	1,185	1,537	2,722
Upson County	D	+53.0%	3,262	1,001	4,263
Walker County	D	+6.3%	4,566	4,027	8,593
Walton County	D	+77.0%	3,095	403	3,498
Ware County	D	+39.1%	5,099	2,235	7,334
Warren County	D	+11.3%	471	375	846
Washington County	D	+35.4%	2,004	956	2,960
Wayne County	D	+34.8%	2,862	1,384	4,246
Webster County	D	+58.8%	297	77	374
Wheeler County	D	+62.2%	970	226	1,196
White County	D	+45.9%	1,784	662	2,446
Whitfield County	R	−7.0%	3,604	4,148	7,752
Wilcox County	D	+69.7%	1,714	306	2,020
Wilkes County	D	+63.8%	1,786	395	2,181
Wilkinson County	D	+35.4%	1,324	631	1,955
Worth County	D	+72.4%	2,110	338	2,448