1972 Democratic primaries (percentages)

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This may be old news but PBS has a page giving percentages from some (?) of the 1972 Democratic primaries.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/maps/map_1972results.html

Several states are missing, but it ends with a "totals" table as if the states shown were the only ones with primaries.

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From the looks of the totals table Humphrey should have recieved the nomination, not McGovern.

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From the looks of the totals table Humphrey should have recieved the nomination, not McGovern.

25.8% does not make a nominee.

Neither does 25.3%

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Wallace vs. Nixon:



Nixon narrowly wins, 283-255. This election would be vital, because the parties would be reversed. The South would become ultra-Democratic again, and blue collar workers in the North would vote heavily Democratic as well. DC and Hawaii would become GOP strongholds, as minorities vote Republican.  Wallace would also have done well in the Mountain West. If Wallace had been the nominee, the Democrats would have become the majority party again.

This could easily become an alternate timeline.

I agree with the map, but I'd add Delaware to Wallace's wins.

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From the looks of the totals table Humphrey should have recieved the nomination, not McGovern.

25.8% does not make a nominee.

Neither does 25.3%

Many of the states were winner take all.  All 271 delegates from California voted for McGovern.  Post 1972, Jimmy Carter was head of a commission that implemented proportional apportionment of delegates, and as part of that process became familiar with the nomination process in the various states, which came in handy in 1976.

Didn't know that.  Thanks.