DBWI: US Federal Election, 1960

Voting intentions, 1960


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437 Commons seats

Seats at dissolution: Sept. 30, 1960

Republican: 299
Democratic: 87
Southern Democratic: 51

Incumbent Prime Minister: Richard Nixon (R)
 
Norton's Law #35 is hereby nullified.

Democratic: 197 seats
Republican: 188 seats
Southern Democratic: 52 seats

Incumbent Prime Minister: Richard Nixon (R)
 

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Southern Dems are going to spilit according to latest reports. Almost certainly going to London this one, first election since 1876 where the British monrach has had to decide who becomes the American PM.

Any idea which Her Majesty will jump. She hasn had a close relationship with the Kennedy's, but the 1876 precedent is to choose the party in power.
 
One of Shivers' demands is that he enters the Cabinet, and that the Lords Government Leader, Marquis Marcos of Manila, become Deputy Prime Minister. I don't think HM or PM Nixon are keen on either of those things.
 
NIXON KILLED IN NY 707 CRASH, SUCCESSOR UNKNOWN

Update: Queen Elizabeth chooses Kennedy:

- Her Majesty the Queen has approved the choice of Democratic Leader John F. Kennedy for Prime Minister of the United States following a bargain reached with Dixiecrat leader Allan Shivers.

Democratic: 233 seats

Republican: 204 seats

Acting Prime Minister: Ferdinand, Lord Marcos (R)
Prime Minister-designate: John Kennedy (D)



Prime Minister-designate Kennedy with Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kennedy in the Prime Minister's Office, Nov. 10, 1960

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Kennedy I Cabinet

Deputy Prime Minister: Robert Kennedy
Minister of Finance: Henry C. Alexander
Minister of Justice: Robert Kennedy
Minister of Health: Luther Terry
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Averell Harriman
Minister of Defense: Robert McNamara
Minister of Federal-Provincial Relations: William Fulbright
Minister of Industry and Commerce: Douglas Dillon
Minister of Agriculture: Hubert Humphrey
Minister of Native Affairs: Philip Sorensen

Government House Leader: Sam Rayburn
Government Lords Leader: Lyndon, Lord Johnson of Austin
Deputy Democratic Leader: Lord Johnson

Chief of Staff, PMO: Kenneth O'Donnell
Press Secretary: Pierre Salinger
Director of the Royal American Constabulary: J. Edgar Hoover
DCI: Richard Helms
 
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