I remember riding in the car as my parents drove to the polls in 1948. My dad was going to vote for Dewey and Mom supported Truman. No friction between them that I recall, just slightly different viewpoints.
I first voted in 1964, and despite registering as a Republican (and remained one until 2004) I was scared by Goldwater, and voted for LBJ.
And I have been politically harmless since then.
Canadian here. I don’t remember the 1972 election, but I remember the Watergate Hearings that came on TV after Captain Kangaroo. I remember the the 1976 Carter/ Ford election.
I do remember the 1979 and 1980 Canadian elections.
I think it must have been the 1978 New Zealand election, with Robert Muldoon retaining his position as PM. He was Prime Minister for so long, though, that it’s a bit of a blur.
The first and only time I have voted was when I was 21 in 1990. I felt it was my duty. I immediately recognised the futility and have cynically never voted again since.
It might have been the 2004 election (the memories are foggy, as I was only 10 at the time). I predicted Bush to win that year, and my prediction was correct. 2008, I predicted Obama, and the same for 2012 when I first voted.
My response is very similar to FairyChatMom’s. I was 6 in 1960, part of a Catholic family in Baltimore. My parents were excited by the prospect of a Catholic being elected president. I remember them taking us to Patterson Park at night to see Kennedy’s helicopter land and to hear him speak.
I voted for the first time in 1972. Being a draft-age young man, I voted for McGovern. Luckily, my lottery number was 136, which was a safe number in 1974 when I could have been drafted.
First election I really remember was Reagan vs Mondale. I was around eleven years old and made a campaign sign for Mondale in pencil on lined school paper and tacked it to a telephone pole. You couldn’t actually read it from further than 10" away, of course, which is no doubt why Mondale lost 49 states. An early hard lesson about politics. I still remember going out in a light drizzle to take my sign down in humiliation as the returns came in.
My first vote was cast in the 1992 primaries for Clinton. Been casting ballots since (won’t pretend that I’ve never missed a primary/local but I try) for the Democrats but this is in Illinois so it’s pretty much just another one on the pile.
First one I remember? 1972. I was five and my mom was campaigning for McGovern.
First voted? 1988. I was 21 having missed 1984 by one year. Bush-Dukakis. Urgh.
The first one I remember is Carter vs. Reagan; I would have been eight, just about to turn nine. I was the one of only a couple of people in my classroom who didn’t vote for Reagan! I don’t think I was coached by my very Democrat family.
Later in life when I could think for myself, I mostly aligned with Republicans. My first election was absentee from Germany, and I voted for Bush instead of Clinton. Bush-the-next was the last Republican I voted for as president, and the last I plan to unless there’s an actual contest.
1960 I remember but being like 4 I think its more from Dad bitching about it after the fact (he despised JFK) than I do all the hoopla at the time.
My first was Carter/Ford in 1976. I had been a big McGovern fan in 72 and had hoped he would run again but after his trouncing by Nixon he was pretty much done. I did get active in a sort of anti/joke campaign against our PA governor in the primaries – Necrophiliacs For Shapp – which started out of a bar I knew and grew into this really odd thing like the old Turtle Club (Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles). We had a lot of fun with it but that was not uncommon back then. I ended up voting for Ford because the Carter supporters went over the top promising “us young people” that Jimmy was going to do everything from legalizing pot to making college educations free. Yeah - like either of those things would ever happen. 
Besides ---- I wasn’t sure the national budget could afford paying for all the Windex we would need to buy to keep Amy’s glasses clean. Ah — c’mon. Someone else has to remember that old joke.
The first one I remember was Nixon-McGovern in 72. I would have just turned 10 about a week or two before.
I turned 18 just before the Carter-Reagan election in 80. That was my first year at college, out of state, and I hadn’t gotten registered back home for an absentee ballot, so I didn’t vote until 84.
First one I remember was 1980- Reagan v. Carter. I was alive and aware for Carter v. Ford in 1976, but I don’t remember it crossing my 3 year old/4 year old brain (election was about 1.5 months after my 4th birthday).
First election I voted in was the 1990 mid-term elections, and the first presidential election was the 1992 Presidential elections - Bush 41 v. Clinton 42.
The first election I voted in was the one that elected Dwight Eisenhower in 1952 (was 22 YO at the time). The first election I remember was when Roosevelt II beat Wendell Wilkie in 1940.
The first one I remember was when my mother took me into the voting booth with her to vote for Stevenson in 1956. The first election I voted in was 1972 - though I volunteered to work on elections since 1966.
I was 6 in 1968 when Humphrey ran against Nixon. My Mom like Humphrey, my Dad like Nixon. I thought Nixon looked dangerous and seemed untrustworthy. I had no opinion on Humphrey, but wanted Nixon to lose.
I’m not claiming I’m psychic. I might be implying Nixon’s flaws were evident to a six-year-old.
First election I remember at all was Bush-Dukakis in '88. My elementary school (private school in suburban New Orleans) had a mock election for the two candidates: Bush won overwhelmingly, even though I voted for Dukakis (as my parents did).
The first I remember in detail was the '91 Louisiana governor’s race – David Duke vs Edwin Edwards. My mother was horrified and volunteered for the Edwards campaign. I remember heated arguments in the middle school hallways with some who thought Duke was better, and others who thought they were both equally bad (Edwin Edwards had a history of corruption).
The first election I can remember being aware of was the 1959 general election in the UK. I was 11, in those days there was much more evident street campaigning, and ours was becoming a marginal constituency that might help decide the overall outcome (it certainly became it next time around in 1964 - I went down to a meeting in a pub car-park where the then Prime Minister, Douglas-Home, was speaking to a large and boisterous crowd, to lots of booing and cheering).
I was a keen “candidate” for Labour in the school’s mock election in 1966, and the following year I had a temporary clerical job with the local council before going up to university, so I volunteered for extra duty as a polling clerk in the local elections (just crossing off the names in the register as people turned up - I wasn’t allowed to handle the actual ballot papers, as I recall).
The first time I actually voted was in the local elections of 1970. In the general election later that year, I did some canvasssing for Labour in Cambridge, where I was a student, and we were roped in to provide a cheer and a photo-opportunity for Harold Wilson on a brief stop at the railway station.
The first election I remember was 1992’s Clinton/Bush/Perot, when I was 7. It was put on Nickelodeon News, and you could vote via phone. I leaned towards Perot at the time, as I thought he was cooler sounding, but I never voted. Clinton won–the results usually reflected the real election, as kids tend to vote with their parents.
The first time I voted* was in 2008’s McCain/Obama, age 23. Definitely voted for Obama. Parents switched their vote at the last minute to McCain, disappointing my sister and me. I voted in 2012 and again in 2014.
I could have voted in 2004, but I was at college and didn’t know where I should vote, and had no car on campus. I only went home every other weekend at most. So I just sat there as Bush won again.
I would have voted for Bush in 2000, though. I barely remember even hearing anything about Gore here in Arkansas.
First I remember was Reagan\Carter in 1980. My school had a mini-election by homeroom, and I remember a map that had red pushpins for Reagan and green for Carter. The map was overwhelmingly red, with a handful of greens - with one lone white pin for John Anderson (remember him?). I recall being told in 1976 that if Carter won, we’d have school on Saturdays, and if you got in trouble, you’d be sent to work on his peanut farm. Dirty tricks for the cartoons-and-cereal set.
First vote was the 1986 midterms, and my first Presidential vote was for Dukakis in '88. Even then I knew it was a futile gesture of protest. But I’ve only missed two elections since then, both minor runoffs.
I guess the first one I remember was Nixon in 1972, I was 6. The first one I voted in was Reagan-Mondale in 1984, I was 18.
Nixon/Kennedy. I was around 7. I was raised in a union family thus it was drilled into me to vote Democrat. I even helped my dad hand out LBJ bumper stickers and other material. My first vote went to Carter as did my second vote, it being drilled into me the Reagan was evil and would get up into wars. Reagan won and I noticed he didn’t get us into wars and the economy improved substantially. Since then I’ve endeavored to ignore campaign BS, really more on actions.