The 1972 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose 9 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Kentucky was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R–California) with 63.77 percent of the popular vote against Senator George McGovern (D–South Dakota) with 34.77%. Nixon won all but eight of the 120 counties in the state. Electors Frank Stubblefield (D), Romano L. Mazzoli (D), Gene Snyder (R), Tim Lee Carter (R), William P. Curlin Jr. (D), Carl D. Perkins (D), John Sherman Cooper (R), and Marlow W. Cook (R) were pledged to and voted for Nixon.
This was the first time ever that a Republican won Franklin County, Harrison County, Henry County, Meade County, Owen County, or Trimble County, and the first time that every county in the Jackson Purchase voted Republican. Nixon was also the first Republican since Abraham Lincoln in 1864 to carry Fulton County, Marshall County, or Hickman County.
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