Kennedy Wins 56% of Vote In University-Wide Survey

University and Radcliffe students picked their choice for President yesterday, and it was Kennedy by a near-landslide. Final returns from the CRIMSON poll of undergraduates and grad students gave the Massachusetts Senator 3461 votes to his Republican opponent's 2412.

It was the first time within memory that a Democrat achieved an absolute majority within both the College and the whole University.

Kennedy's overall showing--56 per cent of the votes to Nixon's 39--contrasted sharply with the tally in the last Presidential election, when Elsenhower won majorities from both undergraduate and graduate students.

The victory of the Democratic nominee represented not only a change in the political complexion of the University, but also a shift in the allegiances of the individual students polled--especially in the College. The poll showed that in 1956 the undergraduates would have backed Stevenson by the slight margin of 109 votes, as contrasted with this year's 767-vote Democratic plurality.

Business School Only Holdout

Only the Business School held out against the Democratic sweep. In a poll taken there by the Harbus News, Nixon floated to victory on a tide of more than two-thirds of the ballots cast.

The young executives across the Charles, however, were completely alone in their sentiment. Every other graduate school polled, every House, every Radcliffe hall, and every undergraduate class gave majorities to Kennedy.

The New York TIMES last night endorsed Kennedy.

Strongest support for the Democratic nominee came from the graduate schools of Arts and Sciences, Divinity, Education, and Public Administration, where he was chosen by 75 per cent of the voters.

His weakest spots outside the Business School were Dunster and Winthrop Houses, and even there he won by substantial margins. Adams retained its 1956 place as the most Democratic House, voting more than two to one in that direction.

A theory that each year of study at the College creates more Democrats failed to hold up as well in this election as last. In the previous race, the Union voted heavily Republican, while upperclassmen gave Stevenson a bare edge. This time, the four classes voted almost identically, although the freshmen remained, by a hair, the most Republican.

Results from other questions asked in the poll will be published tomorrow. The mail poll of the Faculty is not yet completed.

The New York Times last night endorsed Kennedy. University Poll Totals   Kennedy  Nixon  Undecided Adams  185  70%  72  27%  7 Dunster  154  51  138  46  9 Eliot  154  59  104  40  5 Kirkland  200  55  99  32  9 Leverett  211  58  130  36  23 Lowell  193  59  117  36  13 Quincy  213  64  102  30  19 Winthrop  104  52  90  45  6 Total Upperclass Resident  1414  59  852  36  96 Dudley  57  69    28  3 Freshman Union  482  59  310  88  27 Total College  1953  60  1186  36  126 Radcliffe  457  64  201  23  56 Business School  242  24  681  68  82* Law School  571  66  264  30  34 Other Grad Schools  268  75  80  22  11 Total Graduate  1051  48  1025  47  127 Total University  3461  56  2412  39  209 HARVARD-RADCLIFFE BREAKDOWN BY CLASSES   Kennedy  Nixon  Undecided 1961  553  62%  301  24%  35 1962  594  60  346  35  45 1963  651  60  373  35  55 1964  611  60  367  36  41

Write-in votes: Dobbs (Socialist Workers), 9; Hass (Socialist Labor), 1; Daly (America First), 1; Tomilnson (World Leadership), 1; miscellaneous or "neither," 21.

*Business School totals courtesy of the Harbue News.

Write-in votes: Dobbs (Socialist Workers), 9; Hass (Socialist Labor), 1; Daly (America First), 1; Tomilnson (World Leadership), 1; miscellaneous or "neither," 21.

*Business School totals courtesy of the Harbue News.