1972 Democratic primaries (percentages)

[jimrtex]

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.

It has all the states that had primaries, and the numbers match the numbers in Congressional Quarterlies Presidential Elections.  An oddity is that PBS has the states ordered by postal code (NC before NE, and MA before MD).

It is interesting that many of the candidates were write-ins.  In NH, Muskie, McGovern, Yorty, and Hartke were regular candidates, while Mills,  Kennedy, Humphrey, Jackson, and Wallace were write-ins.   Only Muskie and McCarthy were on the Illinois ballot.   Wallace was a write-in in California.

[jimrtex]

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.