Elections / 1968 · President

Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey.

Hubert Humphrey (D) vs Richard Nixon (R), with George Wallace (American Independent) carrying counties. Every state below links to its full contest page with county-level results.

Nominees: Hubert Humphrey (D) · Richard Nixon (R) · George Wallace (American Independent)

National popular vote

73,204,976 votes counted

Humphrey (D)

31,274,594

42.7%

Nixon (R)

31,784,459

43.4%

Wallace + others

10,145,926

13.9%

Margin

R+0.7

The county map

3,137 county-level results on record for 1968

Democrats carried 696 counties, Republicans 1,862, third-party candidates 579. 2,019 counties flipped parties from the previous cycle.

Biggest county swings: Jefferson County, MS (D+148.0 swing) · Claiborne County, MS (D+141.4 swing) · Holmes County, MS (D+138.5 swing) · Wilkinson County, MS (D+134.7 swing) · Issaquena County, MS (D+129.8 swing) · Noxubee County, MS (D+124.7 swing)

Results by state

Every row links to the state's contest page with its county map.

State	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
Alaska	R	−2.1%	34,855	36,597	81,160
Alabama	O	+4.7%	196,579	146,923	1,049,909
Arkansas	O	−0.4%	188,228	190,759	619,969
Arizona	R	−19.8%	170,514	266,721	486,936
California	R	−3.1%	3,244,318	3,467,664	7,251,587
Colorado	R	−9.2%	335,174	409,345	810,251
Connecticut	D	+5.2%	621,547	556,703	1,256,199
District of Columbia	D	+63.6%	139,566	31,012	170,578
Delaware	R	−3.5%	89,194	96,714	214,367
Florida	R	−9.6%	676,794	886,804	2,187,805
Georgia	O	−3.7%	334,438	380,111	1,250,264
Hawaii	D	+21.1%	141,324	91,425	236,218
Iowa	R	−12.2%	476,699	619,106	1,167,931
Idaho	R	−26.1%	89,273	165,369	291,183
Illinois	R	−2.9%	2,039,814	2,174,774	4,619,749
Indiana	R	−12.3%	806,659	1,067,885	2,123,597
Kansas	R	−20.1%	302,996	478,674	872,783
Kentucky	R	−6.1%	397,541	462,411	1,055,893
Louisiana	O	+4.7%	309,615	257,535	1,097,450
Massachusetts	D	+30.1%	1,469,218	766,844	2,331,752
Maryland	D	+1.6%	538,310	517,995	1,235,039
Maine	D	+12.2%	217,312	169,254	392,936
Michigan	D	+6.7%	1,593,082	1,370,665	3,306,250
Minnesota	D	+12.5%	857,738	658,643	1,588,506
Missouri	R	−1.1%	791,444	811,932	1,809,502
Mississippi	O	+9.5%	150,644	88,516	654,509
Montana	R	−9.0%	114,117	138,835	274,404
North Carolina	R	−10.3%	464,113	627,192	1,587,493
North Dakota	R	−17.7%	94,769	138,669	247,882
Nebraska	R	−28.0%	170,784	321,163	536,851
New Hampshire	R	−8.2%	130,589	154,903	297,299
New Jersey	R	−2.1%	1,264,206	1,325,467	2,875,395
New Mexico	R	−12.1%	130,081	169,692	327,281
Nevada	R	−8.2%	60,598	73,188	154,218
New York	D	+5.5%	3,378,470	3,007,932	6,790,066
Ohio	R	−2.3%	1,700,586	1,791,014	3,959,698
Oklahoma	R	−15.7%	301,658	449,697	943,086
Oregon	R	−6.0%	358,866	408,433	819,622
Pennsylvania	D	+3.6%	2,259,405	2,090,017	4,747,928
Rhode Island	D	+32.2%	246,518	122,359	385,000
South Carolina	R	−8.5%	197,486	254,062	666,982
South Dakota	R	−11.3%	118,023	149,841	281,264
Tennessee	R	−9.7%	351,233	472,592	1,248,617
Texas	D	+1.3%	1,266,804	1,227,844	3,079,216
Utah	R	−19.4%	156,665	238,728	422,568
Virginia	R	−10.9%	442,387	590,319	1,361,491
Vermont	R	−9.2%	70,255	85,142	161,404
Washington	D	+2.1%	616,037	588,510	1,304,281
Wisconsin	R	−3.6%	748,804	809,997	1,689,196
West Virginia	D	+8.8%	374,091	307,555	754,206
Wyoming	R	−20.2%	45,173	70,927	127,205