1952 Republican National Convention ( Vice Presidential tally ) : 1952 United States presidential election Source ( Popular Vote ) : Source ( Electoral Vote ) : 1956 Republican National Convention ( Vice Presidential tally ) : 1956 United States presidential election : Source ( Popular Vote ) : Source ( Electoral Vote ) : 1960 Republican presidential primaries : 1960 Republican National Convention ( Presidential tally ) : 1960 United States presidential election : There were 537 electoral votes , up from 531 in 1956 , because of the addition of 2 U.S. Senators and 1 U.S. Representative from each of the new states of Alaska and Hawaii . ( The House of Representatives was temporarily expanded from 435 members to 437 to accommodate this , and would go back to 435 when reapportioned according to the 1960 census . ) Source ( Popular Vote ) : Note : Sullivan / Curtis ran only in Texas . In Washington , Constitution Party ran Curtis for President and B. N. Miller for vice-president , receiving 1,401 votes . Source ( Electoral Vote ) : ( a ) '' This figure is problematic ; see Alabama popular vote above . '' ( b ) '' Byrd was not directly on the ballot . Instead , his electoral votes came from unpledged Democratic electors and a faithless elector . '' ( c ) '' Oklahoma faithless elector Henry D. Irwin , though pledged to vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge , Jr. , instead voted for non-candidate Harry F. Byrd . However , unlike other electors who voted for Byrd and Strom Thurmond as Vice President , Irwin voted for Barry Goldwater as Vice President . '' ( d ) '' In Mississippi , the slate of unpledged Democratic electors won . They cast their 8 votes for Byrd and Thurmond . '' 1964 Republican presidential primaries : 1968 Republican presidential primaries : 1968 Republican National Convention ( Presidential tally ) : 1968 United States presidential election : Source ( Popular Vote ) : Source ( Electoral Vote ) : 1972 Republican presidential primaries : 1972 Republican National Convention ( Presidential tally ) : New York Conservative Party presidential convention , 1972 : Source ( Popular Vote ) : Source ( Electoral Vote ) : ( a ) A Virginia faithless elector , Roger MacBride , though pledged to vote for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew , instead voted for Libertarian candidates John Hospers and Theodora Nathan . ( b ) In Arizona , Pima and Yavapai counties had a ballot malfunction that counted many votes for both a major party candidate and Linda Jenness of the Socialist Workers Party . A court ordered that the ballots be counted for both . As a consequence , Jenness received 16 % and 8 % of the vote in Pima and Yavapai , respectively . 30,579 of her 30,945 Arizona votes are from those two counties . Some sources do not count these votes for Jenness
1956 Republican National Convention
1956 Republican National Convention
Electoral history of Richard Nixon