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Hocking County, presidential election of 1960

Hocking County

56.47%Richard Nixon (R), the most votes9,319Votes counted for president

Every election in Hocking County, 1852-2024Ohio in 1960

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What this is

Hocking County counted 9,319 votes for president across 2 candidates in 1960. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.

The count, as certified

Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Richard NixonRepublican5,26256.47%
John F. KennedyDemocratic4,05743.53%

Turnout: None found in the records checked

This year in context

Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.

Ohio that year
Ohio went to Richard Nixon (Republican) with 53.28%, a 6.6-point margin over John F. Kennedy. The country elected John F. Kennedy.
Against the state
Hocking County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was R+12.9 against Ohio's R+6.6: 6.4 points more Republican than Ohio. It ranked 68th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1956
From 1956 to 1960 the county's lean moved 6.3 points toward the Democrats, from R+19.3 to R+12.9.
Matched
Hocking County voted with Ohio and did not vote for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.

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Where this appears

The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.

Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1960 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1960 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1960-11-08 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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