<span>George McGovern was defeated
by Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election. The United States
presidential election held in the year 1972 was actually the 47th quadrennial
presidential election. It was held on a Tuesday on the 7th of
November. George McGovern was the nominated candidate of the Democratic Party
and Nixon was the nominated candidate of the Republican Party for the
presidential election of 1972. Nixon was the hands down winner as he got more
than 60% of the popular vote.</span>
In the 1972 presidential election, the Democratic Party nominee and U.S. Senator George McGovern and the Republican nominee Richard Nixon were the strongest opponents. However, Nixon was the one who won the election by an overwhelming majority: he gained 60.7% of the popular vote, and carried 49 states; he became the first Republican to gain a majority in the South. As for McGovern, he only took 37.5% of the popular vote, and even failed to win his home state of South Dakota.
