The 1972 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the
1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the
Electoral College, who voted for
president
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.
McGovern won only the typically extremely strong Democratic counties of
Northampton and
Orange
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– two counties with a record of having voted Democratic at every election since 1912, apart from Orange County’s vote against the Catholic
Al Smith in 1928. Even in these counties, where most Democratic candidates expect to receive well over sixty percent of the vote and
Walter Mondale
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in his disastrous
1984
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loss won by over 13 percent,
[David Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections]
1984 Presidential General Election Data Graphs – North Carolina
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This is the first election in which a presidential candidate won North Carolina with more than 1,000,000 votes.
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Results
Results by county
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North Carolina
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1972
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1972 North Carolina elections