Results
| 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 | 43.42% | 301 | Spiro Theodore Agnew | Maryland | 301 |
| Hubert Horatio Humphrey | Democratic | Minnesota | 31,271,839 | 42.72% | 191 | Edmund Sixtus Muskie | Maine | 191 |
| George Corley Wallace | American Independent | Alabama | 9,901,118 | 13.53% | 46 | Curtis Emerson LeMay | California | 46 |
| Other | 243,258 | 0.33% | — | 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).
| Popular vote | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nixon | 43.42% | |||
| Humphrey | 42.72% | |||
| Wallace | 13.53% | |||
| Others | 0.33% | |||
| Electoral vote | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nixon | 55.95% | |||
| Humphrey | 35.50% | |||
| Wallace | 8.55% | |||
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Results by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote
Read more about this topic: List Of 1968 Swing States, Aftermath
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