TEXAS 4-H CONGRESS - ONE VOTE DOES COUNT!

1. One vote saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment in 1868.

2. In 1875, one vote changed France from a Monarchy to a Republic.

3. One vote elected Rutherford B. Hayes to the Presidency in 1876.

4. One vote saved the Selective Service System, known as the draft, only 16 weeks before Pearl Harbor in 1941.

5. In 1948, Lyndon Johnson won his first election to the United States Senate by only 87 votes. His opponent, Coke Stevenson, former Governor of Texas, received 494,104 votes, and Johnson received 494,191 earning the name of “Landslide Lyndon.”

6. In the 1960 Presidential Election, John F. Kennedy’s national plurality was less than one vote per precinct. He defeated Vice President Nixon by less than 120,000 votes out of almost 69 million votes cast.

7. In 1962, the Governor of Minnesota, after 3 months of recounting and certifying ballots, was elected by the hairline margin of 91 votes.

8. In the New Hampshire 1974 Senatorial election, only two votes separated the winner and the loser. For the first time in U.S. history, a special selection was ordered to select a U.S. Senator, and J.A. Durkin won over Louis B. Wyman.

9. In the 1981 election for Governor of New Jersey, Thomas Kean was declared the winner over James Florio by only 1,677 votes out of over 2.3 million votes cast. This was after a recount which added about 200 votes to the winner’s margin.

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