Minority Winner

John F. Kennedy will be the nation's 14th "minority" President, the virtually complete election tally showed last week. The count, according to United Press International:

Popular Vote Percentage

Kennedy 34,130,719 49.753 Nixon 33,955,913 49.498 Others* 512,557 0.749

Of the major-party vote, Kennedy got 50.132% and Nixon 49.868%--a spread of only 0.264%, lowest since the 0.236% that separated Democrat Grover Cleveland and Republican James Elaine in 1884.

*Including Eric Haas (Socialist Labor Party), Farrell Dobbs (Socialist Workers Party), Merritt B. Curtis (Constitution Party), and the Mississippi independent electors.

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