1972 United States presidential election in Indiana
# 1972 United States presidential election in Indiana

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The 1972 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 7, 1972. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Indiana was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.

Nixon carried Indiana with 66.11% of the vote to McGovern's 33.34%, a victory margin of 32.77% as well as the best Republican performance in Indiana history. Although Indiana is one of the most reliable Republican states in the country, this is the only occasion where a Republican candidate (indeed, where any Presidential candidate) carried every county in the state. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time a Republican won Democratic-leaning Lake County in the northwestern corner of the state.

## Results

General election results :

| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Republican | Richard Nixon (incumbent) | 1,405,154 | 66.11% |
| | Democratic | George McGovern | 708,568 | 33.34% |
| | Socialist Workers | Evelyn Reed | 5,575 | 0.26% |
| | Peace and Freedom | Benjamin Spock | 4,554 | 0.21% |
| | Socialist Labor | Louis Fisher | 1,688 | 0.08% |
| Total votes | Total votes | Total votes | 2,125,529 | 100% |

### Results by county

| County | Richard Milhous Nixon Republican | Richard Milhous Nixon Republican | George Stanley McGovern Democratic | George Stanley McGovern Democratic | Evelyn Reed Socialist Workers | Evelyn Reed Socialist Workers | Benjamin Spock Peace and Freedom | Benjamin Spock Peace and Freedom | Louis Fisher Socialist Labor | Louis Fisher Socialist Labor | Margin | Margin | Total votes cast |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| County | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | Total votes cast |
| Adams | 7,549 | 65.24% | 3,971 | 34.32% | 10 | 0.09% | 38 | 0.33% | 4 | 0.03% | 3,578 | 30.92% | 11,572 |
| Allen | 76,924 | 66.20% | 38,621 | 33.24% | 364 | 0.31% | 212 | 0.18% | 78 | 0.07% | 38,303 | 32.96% | 116,199 |
| Bartholomew | 17,365 | 70.87% | 6,974 | 28.46% | 86 | 0.35% | 67 | 0.27% | 10 | 0.04% | 10,391 | 42.41% | 24,502 |
| Benton | 3,703 | 70.01% | 1,566 | 29.61% | 2 | 0.04% | 15 | 0.28% | 3 | 0.06% | 2,137 | 40.40% | 5,289 |
| Blackford | 3,876 | 62.33% | 2,311 | 37.16% | 19 | 0.31% | 6 | 0.10% | 7 | 0.11% | 1,565 | 25.16% | 6,219 |
| Boone | 9,874 | 75.10% | 3,235 | 24.61% | 12 | 0.09% | 22 | 0.17% | 4 | 0.03% | 6,639 | 50.50% | 13,147 |
| Brown | 2,737 | 65.06% | 1,443 | 34.30% | 2 | 0.05% | 19 | 0.45% | 6 | 0.14% | 1,294 | 30.76% | 4,207 |
| Carroll | 5,885 | 72.32% | 2,214 | 27.21% | 7 | 0.09% | 28 | 0.34% | 3 | 0.04% | 3,671 | 45.11% | 8,137 |
| Cass | 12,681 | 69.77% | 5,317 | 29.25% | 122 | 0.67% | 42 | 0.23% | 14 | 0.08% | 7,364 | 40.51% | 18,176 |
| Clark | 16,111 | 59.42% | 10,838 | 39.97% | 109 | 0.40% | 38 | 0.14% | 17 | 0.06% | 5,273 | 19.45% | 27,113 |
| Clay | 7,146 | 65.34% | 3,742 | 34.21% | 17 | 0.16% | 25 | 0.23% | 7 | 0.06% | 3,404 | 31.12% | 10,937 |
| Clinton | 9,849 | 69.42% | 4,283 | 30.19% | 17 | 0.12% | 27 | 0.19% | 11 | 0.08% | 5,566 | 39.23% | 14,187 |
| Crawford | 2,623 | 58.96% | 1,801 | 40.48% | 3 | 0.07% | 18 | 0.40% | 4 | 0.09% | 822 | 18.48% | 4,449 |
| Daviess | 8,490 | 70.33% | 3,538 | 29.31% | 12 | 0.10% | 29 | 0.24% | 2 | 0.02% | 4,952 | 41.02% | 12,071 |
| Dearborn | 7,689 | 64.69% | 4,137 | 34.81% | 39 | 0.33% | 14 | 0.12% | 6 | 0.05% | 3,552 | 29.89% | 11,885 |
| Decatur | 6,761 | 68.84% | 2,994 | 30.48% | 35 | 0.36% | 22 | 0.22% | 10 | 0.10% | 3,767 | 38.35% | 9,822 |
| DeKalb | 8,834 | 66.44% | 4,354 | 32.74% | 67 | 0.50% | 23 | 0.17% | 19 | 0.14% | 4,480 | 33.69% | 13,297 |
| Delaware | 32,468 | 64.21% | 17,936 | 35.47% | 43 | 0.09% | 97 | 0.19% | 23 | 0.05% | 14,532 | 28.74% | 50,567 |
| Dubois | 6,637 | 50.36% | 6,365 | 48.30% | 144 | 1.09% | 22 | 0.17% | 11 | 0.08% | 272 | 2.06% | 13,179 |
| Elkhart | 31,009 | 70.57% | 12,659 | 28.81% | 132 | 0.30% | 109 | 0.25% | 32 | 0.07% | 18,350 | 41.76% | 43,941 |
| Fayette | 7,273 | 67.16% | 3,519 | 32.50% | 20 | 0.18% | 9 | 0.08% | 8 | 0.07% | 3,754 | 34.67% | 10,829 |
| Floyd | 13,198 | 58.31% | 9,243 | 40.83% | 10 | 0.04% | 26 | 0.11% | 159 | 0.70% | 3,955 | 17.47% | 22,636 |
| Fountain | 5,979 | 66.41% | 2,977 | 33.07% | 11 | 0.12% | 28 | 0.31% | 8 | 0.09% | 3,002 | 33.34% | 9,003 |
| Franklin | 4,324 | 66.74% | 2,131 | 32.89% | 6 | 0.09% | 14 | 0.22% | 4 | 0.06% | 2,193 | 33.85% | 6,479 |
| Fulton | 6,170 | 73.82% | 2,150 | 25.72% | 3 | 0.04% | 27 | 0.32% | 8 | 0.10% | 4,020 | 48.10% | 8,358 |
| Gibson | 9,115 | 61.51% | 5,633 | 38.01% | 17 | 0.11% | 44 | 0.30% | 10 | 0.07% | 3,482 | 23.50% | 14,819 |
| Grant | 20,969 | 72.41% | 7,912 | 27.32% | 19 | 0.07% | 37 | 0.13% | 21 | 0.07% | 13,057 | 45.09% | 28,958 |
| Greene | 8,453 | 64.80% | 4,450 | 34.11% | 109 | 0.84% | 22 | 0.17% | 11 | 0.08% | 4,003 | 30.69% | 13,045 |
| Hamilton | 20,247 | 82.74% | 4,151 | 16.96% | 14 | 0.06% | 51 | 0.21% | 7 | 0.03% | 16,096 | 65.78% | 24,470 |
| Hancock | 11,019 | 77.87% | 3,069 | 21.69% | 32 | 0.23% | 25 | 0.18% | 5 | 0.04% | 7,950 | 56.18% | 14,150 |
| Harrison | 5,910 | 59.77% | 3,927 | 39.71% | 18 | 0.18% | 27 | 0.27% | 6 | 0.06% | 1,983 | 20.05% | 9,888 |
| Hendricks | 17,699 | 79.89% | 4,384 | 19.79% | 33 | 0.15% | 33 | 0.15% | 4 | 0.02% | 13,315 | 60.10% | 22,153 |
| Henry | 14,538 | 71.94% | 5,610 | 27.76% | 18 | 0.09% | 30 | 0.15% | 12 | 0.06% | 8,928 | 44.18% | 20,208 |
| Howard | 23,089 | 73.67% | 8,083 | 25.79% | 69 | 0.22% | 73 | 0.23% | 27 | 0.09% | 15,006 | 47.88% | 31,341 |
| Huntington | 10,858 | 68.48% | 4,908 | 30.96% | 10 | 0.06% | 30 | 0.19% | 49 | 0.31% | 5,950 | 37.53% | 15,855 |
| Jackson | 9,546 | 64.99% | 4,984 | 33.93% | 121 | 0.82% | 25 | 0.17% | 13 | 0.09% | 4,562 | 31.06% | 14,689 |
| Jasper | 6,369 | 76.21% | 1,920 | 22.97% | 46 | 0.55% | 14 | 0.17% | 8 | 0.10% | 4,449 | 53.24% | 8,357 |
| Jay | 6,090 | 64.21% | 3,349 | 35.31% | 3 | 0.03% | 35 | 0.37% | 7 | 0.07% | 2,741 | 28.90% | 9,484 |
| Jefferson | 6,722 | 60.54% | 4,267 | 38.43% | 85 | 0.77% | 22 | 0.20% | 7 | 0.06% | 2,455 | 22.11% | 11,103 |
| Jennings | 5,156 | 63.21% | 2,903 | 35.59% | 61 | 0.75% | 24 | 0.29% | 13 | 0.16% | 2,253 | 27.62% | 8,157 |
| Johnson | 17,537 | 77.17% | 5,067 | 22.30% | 48 | 0.21% | 58 | 0.26% | 14 | 0.06% | 12,470 | 54.88% | 22,724 |
| Knox | 11,940 | 65.62% | 6,089 | 33.46% | 111 | 0.61% | 40 | 0.22% | 16 | 0.09% | 5,851 | 32.16% | 18,196 |
| Kosciusko | 16,216 | 78.93% | 4,233 | 20.60% | 11 | 0.05% | 67 | 0.33% | 18 | 0.09% | 11,983 | 58.33% | 20,545 |
| LaGrange | 4,152 | 71.11% | 1,658 | 28.40% | 5 | 0.09% | 18 | 0.31% | 6 | 0.10% | 2,494 | 42.71% | 5,839 |
| Lake | 115,480 | 56.24% | 88,510 | 43.10% | 912 | 0.44% | 277 | 0.13% | 163 | 0.08% | 26,970 | 13.13% | 205,342 |
| LaPorte | 26,243 | 65.98% | 13,222 | 33.24% | 193 | 0.49% | 79 | 0.20% | 39 | 0.10% | 13,021 | 32.74% | 39,776 |
| Lawrence | 10,936 | 71.55% | 4,278 | 27.99% | 36 | 0.24% | 23 | 0.15% | 11 | 0.07% | 6,658 | 43.56% | 15,284 |
| Madison | 39,036 | 64.92% | 20,921 | 34.79% | 56 | 0.09% | 90 | 0.15% | 31 | 0.05% | 18,115 | 30.12% | 60,134 |
| Marion | 206,065 | 66.52% | 102,166 | 32.98% | 482 | 0.16% | 839 | 0.27% | 214 | 0.07% | 103,899 | 33.54% | 309,766 |
| Marshall | 11,908 | 73.02% | 4,349 | 26.67% | 28 | 0.17% | 14 | 0.09% | 9 | 0.06% | 7,559 | 46.35% | 16,308 |
| Martin | 3,470 | 62.99% | 2,021 | 36.69% | 5 | 0.09% | 10 | 0.18% | 3 | 0.05% | 1,449 | 26.30% | 5,509 |
| Miami | 9,477 | 70.46% | 3,889 | 28.91% | 52 | 0.39% | 22 | 0.16% | 10 | 0.07% | 5,588 | 41.55% | 13,450 |
| Monroe | 19,953 | 56.05% | 15,241 | 42.82% | 232 | 0.65% | 148 | 0.42% | 22 | 0.06% | 4,712 | 13.24% | 35,596 |
| Montgomery | 10,997 | 75.99% | 3,431 | 23.71% | 20 | 0.14% | 19 | 0.13% | 4 | 0.03% | 7,566 | 52.28% | 14,471 |
| Morgan | 11,980 | 77.62% | 3,390 | 21.96% | 21 | 0.14% | 31 | 0.20% | 13 | 0.08% | 8,590 | 55.65% | 15,435 |
| Newton | 3,771 | 75.00% | 1,252 | 24.90% | 4 | 0.08% | 1 | 0.02% | 0 | 0.00% | 2,519 | 50.10% | 5,028 |
| Noble | 7,916 | 64.75% | 4,250 | 34.76% | 33 | 0.27% | 17 | 0.14% | 10 | 0.08% | 3,666 | 29.99% | 12,226 |
| Ohio | 1,368 | 59.50% | 922 | 40.10% | 6 | 0.26% | 3 | 0.13% | 0 | 0.00% | 446 | 19.40% | 2,299 |
| Orange | 5,715 | 65.89% | 2,932 | 33.80% | 4 | 0.05% | 21 | 0.24% | 2 | 0.02% | 2,783 | 32.08% | 8,674 |
| Owen | 3,896 | 69.25% | 1,708 | 30.36% | 7 | 0.12% | 11 | 0.20% | 4 | 0.07% | 2,188 | 38.89% | 5,626 |
| Parke | 5,014 | 69.16% | 2,207 | 30.44% | 8 | 0.11% | 14 | 0.19% | 7 | 0.10% | 2,807 | 38.72% | 7,250 |
| Perry | 5,204 | 54.72% | 4,277 | 44.97% | 6 | 0.06% | 18 | 0.19% | 5 | 0.05% | 927 | 9.75% | 9,510 |
| Pike | 4,252 | 61.28% | 2,648 | 38.16% | 7 | 0.10% | 25 | 0.36% | 7 | 0.10% | 1,604 | 23.12% | 6,939 |
| Porter | 26,877 | 74.60% | 8,943 | 24.82% | 87 | 0.24% | 86 | 0.24% | 37 | 0.10% | 17,934 | 49.78% | 36,030 |
| Posey | 6,771 | 65.24% | 3,586 | 34.55% | 5 | 0.05% | 8 | 0.08% | 8 | 0.08% | 3,185 | 30.69% | 10,378 |
| Pulaski | 4,243 | 69.04% | 1,863 | 30.31% | 20 | 0.33% | 13 | 0.21% | 7 | 0.11% | 2,380 | 38.72% | 6,146 |
| Putnam | 7,879 | 70.08% | 3,339 | 29.70% | 1 | 0.01% | 19 | 0.17% | 5 | 0.04% | 4,540 | 40.38% | 11,243 |
| Randolph | 8,754 | 71.57% | 3,409 | 27.87% | 12 | 0.10% | 46 | 0.38% | 11 | 0.09% | 5,345 | 43.70% | 12,232 |
| Ripley | 6,594 | 64.45% | 3,601 | 35.20% | 7 | 0.07% | 15 | 0.15% | 14 | 0.14% | 2,993 | 29.25% | 10,231 |
| Rush | 5,965 | 76.95% | 1,764 | 22.76% | 8 | 0.10% | 13 | 0.17% | 2 | 0.03% | 4,171 | 53.60% | 7,782 |
| Scott | 3,564 | 55.77% | 2,785 | 43.58% | 9 | 0.14% | 23 | 0.36% | 10 | 0.16% | 779 | 12.19% | 6,391 |
| Shelby | 10,794 | 72.44% | 4,028 | 27.03% | 50 | 0.34% | 19 | 0.13% | 9 | 0.06% | 6,766 | 45.41% | 14,900 |
| Spencer | 5,518 | 58.61% | 3,867 | 41.07% | 17 | 0.18% | 6 | 0.06% | 7 | 0.07% | 1,651 | 17.54% | 9,415 |
| St. Joseph | 64,808 | 60.55% | 41,629 | 38.89% | 318 | 0.30% | 166 | 0.16% | 118 | 0.11% | 23,179 | 21.65% | 107,039 |
| Starke | 5,520 | 64.43% | 2,994 | 34.95% | 35 | 0.41% | 11 | 0.13% | 7 | 0.08% | 2,526 | 29.49% | 8,567 |
| Steuben | 5,636 | 69.80% | 2,401 | 29.73% | 5 | 0.06% | 29 | 0.36% | 4 | 0.05% | 3,235 | 40.06% | 8,075 |
| Sullivan | 5,338 | 59.30% | 3,624 | 40.26% | 15 | 0.17% | 17 | 0.19% | 7 | 0.08% | 1,714 | 19.04% | 9,001 |
| Switzerland | 1,872 | 53.53% | 1,612 | 46.10% | 8 | 0.23% | 2 | 0.06% | 3 | 0.09% | 260 | 7.43% | 3,497 |
| Tippecanoe | 31,565 | 68.08% | 14,598 | 31.48% | 31 | 0.07% | 153 | 0.33% | 19 | 0.04% | 16,967 | 36.59% | 46,366 |
| Tipton | 5,674 | 72.67% | 2,095 | 26.83% | 24 | 0.31% | 14 | 0.18% | 1 | 0.01% | 3,579 | 45.84% | 7,808 |
| Union | 2,043 | 72.50% | 765 | 27.15% | 2 | 0.07% | 7 | 0.25% | 1 | 0.04% | 1,278 | 45.35% | 2,818 |
| Vanderburgh | 48,806 | 68.32% | 22,163 | 31.02% | 242 | 0.34% | 184 | 0.26% | 42 | 0.06% | 26,643 | 37.30% | 71,437 |
| Vermillion | 4,764 | 57.24% | 3,515 | 42.23% | 10 | 0.12% | 26 | 0.31% | 8 | 0.10% | 1,249 | 15.01% | 8,323 |
| Vigo | 29,730 | 60.73% | 18,898 | 38.60% | 170 | 0.35% | 139 | 0.28% | 20 | 0.04% | 10,832 | 22.13% | 48,957 |
| Wabash | 10,011 | 68.29% | 4,601 | 31.39% | 8 | 0.05% | 31 | 0.21% | 8 | 0.05% | 5,410 | 36.91% | 14,659 |
| Warren | 2,746 | 69.96% | 1,164 | 29.66% | 3 | 0.08% | 8 | 0.20% | 4 | 0.10% | 1,582 | 40.31% | 3,925 |
| Warrick | 8,520 | 65.84% | 4,296 | 33.20% | 85 | 0.66% | 31 | 0.24% | 9 | 0.07% | 4,224 | 32.64% | 12,941 |
| Washington | 4,758 | 60.06% | 3,086 | 38.95% | 62 | 0.78% | 9 | 0.11% | 7 | 0.09% | 1,672 | 21.11% | 7,922 |
| Wayne | 21,610 | 73.60% | 7,655 | 26.07% | 23 | 0.08% | 53 | 0.18% | 20 | 0.07% | 13,955 | 47.53% | 29,361 |
| Wells | 6,425 | 65.77% | 3,244 | 33.21% | 72 | 0.74% | 18 | 0.18% | 10 | 0.10% | 3,181 | 32.56% | 9,769 |
| White | 7,419 | 73.19% | 2,675 | 26.39% | 11 | 0.11% | 23 | 0.23% | 9 | 0.09% | 4,744 | 46.80% | 10,137 |
| Whitley | 7,489 | 65.67% | 3,838 | 33.65% | 11 | 0.10% | 55 | 0.48% | 11 | 0.10% | 3,651 | 32.02% | 11,404 |
| Totals | 1,405,154 | 66.11% | 708,568 | 33.34% | 5,575 | 0.26% | 4,544 | 0.21% | 1,688 | 0.08% | 696,586 | 32.77% | 2,125,529 |
