1972 Presidential Election

The 1972 US Presidential Election was the 47th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 7th 1972.

It saw Republican candidate Richard Nixon finally win the presidency in a landslide on his third attempt against Democrat George McGovern to become 33rd US President, Nixon would later be impeached and replaced with Gerald Ford as 34th president. It was preceded by the 1968 election and succeeded by the 1976 election.