Nixon in 1972 won the most counties.
I'm bumping this up to finally answer the question in this thread, although neither poster in this thread above me has been active for more than a decade. I recall reading somewhere that McGovern only won 56 congressional districts. In fact, the map below displays the results by congressional district that year:
As one can see, virtually all of McGovern's congressional districts were in urban areas. Out in the West, he carried that decade's version of OR-03 (Portland), that decade's version of CA-06 (Sacramento), that decade's versions of CA-13 (Oakland) and CA-14 (San Francisco), one other district in the Bay Area, and at least four districts in Los Angeles County. McGovern won only two congressional districts in the Old Confederacy-TX-18 (Houston) and TX-20 (San Antonio).
He carried one district in Baltimore, three districts in Minnesota (the Iron Range and the Twin Cities), three districts in Wisconsin (Milwaukee and Madison), at least five or six congressional districts in Chicago (Cook County), that decade's version of MO-01 (St. Louis), two districts in Michigan (Detroit), and three districts in Ohio (Akron, Cleveland, and Toledo). McGovern won at least three districts in Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh and Philadelphia), one in New Jersey (Newark or Jersey City), and at least a dozen in New York City, along with one in Buffalo. Finally, he carried ten of Massachusetts's twelve congressional districts; Massachusetts, of course, was the only state that he won. Nixon won every congressional district in 36 states.
Is there a results by congressinal distrcit map for 1932 or 1936?
