Electoral History of Richard Nixon - 1968 Presidential

1968 Presidential

1968 Republican presidential primaries:

  • Ronald Reagan - 1,696,632 (37.93%)
  • Richard Nixon - 1,679,443 (37.54%)
  • James A. Rhodes - 614,492 (13.74%)
  • Nelson A. Rockefeller - 164,340 (3.67%)
  • Unpledged - 140,639 (3.14%)
  • Eugene McCarthy (write-in) - 44,520 (1.00%)
  • Harold Stassen - 31,655 (0.71%)
  • John Volpe - 31,465 (0.70%)
  • Others - 21,456 (0.51%)
  • George Wallace (write-in) - 15,291 (0.34%)
  • Robert Kennedy (write-in) - 14,524 (0.33%)
  • Hubert Humphrey (write-in) - 5,698 (0.13)
  • Lyndon Johnson (write-in) - 4,824 (0.11%)
  • George Romney - 4,447 (0.10%)
  • Raymond P. Shafer - 1,223 (0.03%)
  • William W. Scranton - 724 (0.02%)
  • Charles H. Percy - 689 (0.02%)
  • Barry M. Goldwater - 598 (0.01%)
  • John V. Lindsay - 591 (0.01%)

1968 Republican National Convention (Presidential tally):

  • First ballot:
    • Richard Nixon - 692
    • Nelson Rockefeller - 277
    • Ronald Reagan - 182
    • James A. Rhodes - 55
    • George Romney - 50
    • Clifford Case - 22
    • Frank Carlson - 20
    • Winthrop Rockefeller - 18
    • Hiram Fong - 14
    • Harold Stassen - 2
    • John V. Lindsay - 1
  • Second ballot:
    • Richard Nixon - 1238
    • Nelson Rockefeller - 93
    • Ronald Reagan - 2

United States presidential election, 1968:

Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral
vote
Running mate
Count Pct Vice-presidential candidate Home state Elect. vote
Richard Milhous Nixon Republican New York 31,783,783 43.4% 301 Spiro Theodore Agnew Maryland 301
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Democratic Minnesota 31,271,839 42.7% 191 Edmund Sixtus Muskie Maine 191
George Corley Wallace American Independent Alabama 9,901,118 13.5% 46 Curtis Emerson LeMay California 46
Eugene McCarthy Independent Minnesota 25,634 0.0% 0 (None) 0
Other 243,258 0.3% Other
Total 73,199,998 100% 538 538
Needed to win 270 270

Source (Popular Vote): Leip, David. 1968 Presidential Election Results. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (August 7, 2005). Source (Electoral Vote): Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996. Official website of the National Archives. (August 7, 2005).

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