American Psephology
The 1960 Presidential Election in Alabama
On November 8, 1960, Alabama's voters voted for eleven at-large electors. Four electoral slates ran.
The Democratic candidates pledged to Kennedy:
- C. G. Allen - 318,303 votes
- Dave Archer - 317,171 votes
- C. Leonard Beard - 318,266 votes
- J. E. Brantley - 318,266 votes
- Karl Harrison - 316,934 votes
The unpledged Democratic candidates:
- Frank M. Dixon - 324,050 votes
- J. Bruce Henderson - 323,018 votes
- Edmund Blair - 322,593 votes
- C. E. Hornsby, Jr. - 322,124 votes
- W. W. Malone - 322,084 votes
- Frank Mizell - 320,957 votes
The Republican candidates:
- Robert S. Cartledge - 236,110 votes
- Charles H. Chapman, Jr. - 237,370 votes
- J. N. Dennis - 236,765 votes
- Cecil Durham - 237,981 votes
- W. H. Gillespie - 236,915 votes
- Perry O. Hooper - 234,976 votes
- W. J. Kennamer - 235,414 votes
- Tom McNaron - 234,856 votes
- Mrs. John Simpson - 234,002 votes
- T. B. Thompson - 233,450 votes
- George Witcher - 230,951 votes
The National States' Rights candidates:
- George E. Allen - 4367 votes
- Annette M. Bartee - 3769 votes
- Lodwick H. Bartee - 3775 votes
- Lee J. Crowder - 3757 votes
- Therman De Lee - 3735 votes
- Mrs. Lila Evans - 3484 votes
- Willie Bazzell Garrett - 2796 votes
- John Douglas Knowles - 3555 votes
- Sanford D. Rudd - 3396 votes
- Jack Andrew Tomlinson - 3477 votes
- Ernest Wilson - 3460 votes
The Independent Afro-American Unity candidates:
- Grover C. Allen - 1485 votes
- Mrs. Marie W. Bailey - 1274 votes
- Grover Banks - 1205 votes
- James H. Hollie - 1077 votes
- Eddie Jones - 1185 votes
- James Kersh - 1007 votes
- Will Mike - 998 votes
- Isaac Nicholson - 1154 votes
- Ernest Thomas Taylor - 1143 votes
- Jasper J. Thomas - 1063 votes
- James C. Williams - 1077 votes
The county returns could not easily be ascertained, due to the visible split between the two factions within the Democratic slate. The various sources I have consulted have gone about this matter in varying different ways, which I shall not attempt to figure out. The following returns are marked with the elector they are taken from, rather than the party as a whole.
| C. Allen (Dem.) | Durham (Rep.) | George Allen (States' Rights) | Grover Allen (IAAUP) | |
| Autauga | 1324 | 1149 | 56 | 9 |
| Baldwin | 5647 | 4812 | 145 | 32 |
| Barbour | 2148 | 1166 | 15 | 3 |
| Bibb | 1697 | 1052 | 3 | 1 |
| Blount | 3404 | 2557 | 9 | 4 |
| Bullock | 757 | 412 | 1 | 4 |
| Butler | 2872 | 1231 | 11 | 7 |
| Calhoun | 9590 | 4821 | 92 | 33 |
| Chambers | 5165 | 1865 | 40 | 31 |
| Cherokee | 3097 | 872 | 3 | 1 |
| Chilton | 1798 | 3201 | 5 | 3 |
| Choctaw | 1094 | 612 | 63 | 29 |
| Clarke | 1878 | 2016 | 47 | 26 |
| Clay | 1743 | 1548 | 16 | 7 |
| Cleburne | 1510 | 1008 | 2 | 2 |
| Coffee | 4470 | 1381 | 11 | 5 |
| Colbert | 7550 | 2815 | 83 | 60 |
| Conecuh | 1815 | 650 | 30 | 20 |
| Coosa | 1493 | 1073 | 5 | 4 |
| Covington | 5744 | 2047 | 21 | 12 |
| Crenshaw | 2923 | 573 | 1 | 4 |
| Cullman | 6346 | 4248 | 5 | 17 |
| Dale | 2563 | 1634 | 13 | 8 |
| Dallas | 2103 | 2872 | 60 | 9 |
| DeKalb | 5844 | 5585 | 7 | 5 |
| Elmore | 3440 | 1919 | 32 | 18 |
| Escambia | 3990 | 1810 | 70 | 35 |
| Etowah | 14,372 | 7128 | 134 | 51 |
| Fayette | 2274 | 1923 | 3 | 5 |
| Franklin | 3422 | 4069 | 15 | 1 |
| Geneva | 3050 | 1502 | 5 | 2 |
| Greene | 723 | 381 | 11 | 8 |
| Hale | 1309 | 741 | 9 | 1 |
| Henry | 2115 | 588 | 5 | 6 |
| Houston | 3897 | 4055 | 41 | 24 |
| Jackson | 4789 | 2036 | 20 | 3 |
| Jefferson | 44,369 | 60,004 | 1140 | 385 |
| Lamar | 2386 | 964 | 28 | 13 |
| Lauderdale | 8565 | 3570 | 58 | 26 |
| Lawrence | 2929 | 1365 | 6 | 1 |
| Lee | 3759 | 2301 | 30 | 9 |
| Limestone | 4147 | 991 | 7 | 1 |
| Lowndes | 796 | 432 | 12 | 1 |
| Macon | 1327 | 877 | 14 | 11 |
| Madison | 10,959 | 5299 | 74 | 54 |
| Marengo | 1436 | 1235 | 83 | 37 |
| Marion | 3099 | 2938 | 14 | 3 |
| Marshall | 6595 | 3398 | 6 | 2 |
| Mobile | 28,626 | 24,608 | 1150 | 158 |
| Monroe | 2130 | 989 | 25 | 9 |
| Montgomery | 9421 | 11778 | 182 | 67 |
| Morgan | 7822 | 4357 | 19 | 2 |
| Perry | 973 | 744 | 44 | 31 |
| Pickens | 1836 | 1277 | 23 | 20 |
| Pike | 3421 | 1006 | 17 | 4 |
| Randolph | 3175 | 1697 | 7 | 26 |
| Russell | 3480 | 1770 | 40 | 8 |
| Shelby | 3225 | 3157 | 38 | 8 |
| St. Clair | 3039 | 2589 | 11 | 1 |
| Sumter | 765 | 623 | 47 | 27 |
| Talladega | 5729 | 4723 | 17 | 60 |
| Tallapoosa | 5460 | 2150 | 26 | 12 |
| Tuscaloosa | 8254 | 5598 | 117 | 23 |
| Walker | 8109 | 5463 | 0 | 0 |
| Washington | 1929 | 792 | 36 | 19 |
| Wilcox | 905 | 513 | 4 | 3 |
| Winston | 1681 | 3421 | 3 | 3 |
| Total | 318,303 | 237,981 | 4367 | 1485 |
The Democratic slate was duly elected; their vote was split on December 19, with six going to Byrd and Thurmond and five to Kennedy and Johnson.