Presidential election · 1968
1968 electoral map
Richard Nixon (Republican) won the 1968 presidential election with 301 electoral votes to Hubert Humphrey's 191. Nixon carried 32 of the 51 states that took part (including Washington, D.C.).
Winner
Richard Nixon
301
Democratic
Hubert Humphrey
191
George Wallace 46
official Electoral College count
American IndependentRepublicanDemocraticNot a state yet / did not vote
Good to know
- Some electoral votes were split within states, cast by faithless electors or not counted, so the coloured states do not add up exactly to the official totals shown here. Each state is coloured by the party that won most of its electors.
States won in 1968
George Wallace· American Independent
5 statesRichard Nixon· Republican
32 statesCalifornia 40Illinois 26Ohio 26New Jersey 17Florida 14Indiana 13North Carolina 13Missouri 12Virginia 12Wisconsin 12Tennessee 11Iowa 9Kentucky 9Oklahoma 8South Carolina 8Kansas 7Colorado 6Oregon 6Arizona 5Nebraska 5Idaho 4Montana 4New Hampshire 4New Mexico 4North Dakota 4South Dakota 4Utah 4Alaska 3Delaware 3Nevada 3Vermont 3Wyoming 3
Electoral College in 1968
51 states and Washington, D.C. held 538 electoral votes in 1968. The largest prize was New York with 43 electoral votes.
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Sources: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): results by state, electors by state and year, and the 1968 election article.