User:1968 US Presidential Election
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Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote
Results by district, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote
Map gallery
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Presidential election results by county
Republican presidential election results by county
Democratic presidential election results by county
American Independent presidential election results by county
"Other" presidential election results by county
Cartogram of presidential election results by county
Cartogram of Republican presidential election results by county
Cartogram of Democratic presidential election results by county
Cartogram of American Independent presidential election results by county
Cartogram of "Other" presidential election results by county
Results by state
[change | change source]Source:[1]
| Richard Nixon
Republican |
Hubert H. Humphrey
Democratic |
George Wallace
American Independent |
Margin | Margin
swing[a] |
State Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | electoral
votes |
# | % | electoral
votes |
# | % | electoral
votes |
# | % | electoral
votes |
# | % | % | # | |
| TOTALS: | 538 | 31,783,783 | 43.42 | 301 | 31,271,839 | 42.72 | 191 | 9,901,118 | 13.53 | 46 | 511,944 | 0.70 | 23.3% | 73,199,998 | US |
States that flipped from Democratic to Republican
[change | change source]States that flipped from Republican to American Independent
[change | change source]States that flipped from Democratic to American Independent
[change | change source]Close states
[change | change source]States where winner won by less than 5 percentage points (223 electoral votes):
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States where winner won by more than 5 percentage points, but less than 10 percentage points (155 electoral votes): Notes: In Alabama, Wallace was the official Democratic Party nominee, while Humphrey ran on the ticket of short-lived National Democratic Party of Alabama, loyal to him as an official Democratic Party nominee.[2]
In North Carolina one Nixon Elector cast his ballot for George Wallace (President) and Curtis LeMay (Vice President).[3]
Statistics
[change | change source]Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Republican)
- Hooker County, Nebraska 87.94%
- Jackson County, Kentucky 84.09%
- McIntosh County, North Dakota 82.65%
- McPherson County, South Dakota 80.34%
- Sioux County, Iowa 80.04%
Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (Democratic)
- Duval County, Texas 88.74%
- Jim Hogg County, Texas 82.06%
- Washington, D.C. 81.82%
- Webb County, Texas 79.65%
- Suffolk County, Massachusetts 75.62%
Counties with Highest Percent of Vote (American Independent)
- Geneva County, Alabama 91.73%
- George County, Mississippi 91.20%
- Lamar County, Alabama 88.25%
- Calhoun County, Mississippi 87.80%
- Holmes County, Florida 87.21%
- 1 2 "1968 Presidential General Election Data – National". Archived from the original on April 7, 2023. Retrieved March 18, 2013. Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "auto" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Wasson, Don F. (November 3, 1968). "Alabamians Must Sort Out Most Confusing Ballot in State History". The Selma Times-Journal. p. 3. Archived from the original on May 16, 2022. Retrieved May 16, 2022.
- ↑ "1968 Presidential General Election Results – North Carolina". Uselectionatlas.org. Archived from the original on November 3, 2008. Retrieved November 3, 2008.
- ↑ Percentage point difference in margin from the 1964 election, of Republican over Democrat margins
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