(Thread) Interesting factoids about presidential elections.

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1948's the only time a third candidate swept every county in a state, when Strom Thurmond did so in Mississippi (and fell one county short of accomplishing the same in Alabama, two in South Carolina).

Three candidates won a presidential election while not appearing on the ballot in Alabama (Lincoln, Truman, LBJ).

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Elections where the winning candidate lost their home state:

1844: Polk lost Tennessee, barely.
1916: Wilson lost New Jersey by 12%!
1968: Nixon was a resident of New York at the time, which he lost to Humphrey.
2016: This one shouldn't really count since both candidates were New York residents (still fun to know how much Trump is hated by New York, especially New York City. Especially Manhattan).

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1992 was the last time every county in a state flipped from backing one party’s presidential nominee four year earlier to voting against that party’s candidate. Every county in Maine went for Bush in 1988, but they all flipped for either Clinton or Perot four years later.

If that doesn’t count, all of Hawaii flipped from (non-Atlas colors) red to blue in 1988.

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Strom Thurmond was on the ballot in Kentucky in 1948, but he only received about 1.3% of the vote, or just over 10,000 votes statewide (Barkley probably boosted Turman's performance). In Elliott County, Thurmond didn't even receive a single vote.

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Franklin County, MS voted the national winner only once during 1948-1980

1948: Thurmond
1952: Stevenson
1956: Stevenson
1960: Unpledged
1964: Goldwater
1968: Wallace
1972: Nixon
1976: Ford
1980: Carter

I wonder why it swung towards Carter in 1980.

More black people voting?