1968 United States presidential election in Colorado

1968 United States presidential election in Colorado
Nixon 40-50% 50-60% 60-70%	Humphrey 40-50% 50-60% 60-70%
President before election; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Democratic	Elected President; Richard Nixon ; Republican

Last updated February 19, 2024

The 1968 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. State voters chose six^[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Colorado was won by former Vice President Richard Nixon (R–New York), with 50.46% of the popular vote, against Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D–Minnesota), with 41.32% of the popular vote. American Independent Party candidate George Wallace performed quite well, finishing with 7.50% of the popular vote.^[3]^[4] This was the last election until 2020 that Colorado voted more Democratic than its neighbor, New Mexico.^[5]

Nixon's victory was the first of six consecutive Republican victories in the state, as Colorado wouldn't vote Democratic again until Bill Clinton in 1992. After voting Republican again for the next three elections in 1996, 2000, and in 2004, it has since become a safe Democratic state.

Results

1968 United States presidential election in Colorado
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Richard Nixon	409,345	50.46%
	Democratic	Hubert Humphrey	335,174	41.32%
	American Independent	George Wallace	60,813	7.50%
	Socialist Labor	Henning A. Blomen	3,016	0.37%
	New Party	Dick Gregory	1,393	0.17%
	Write-ins	—	948	0.12%
	Prohibition	E. Harold Munn	275	0.03%
	Socialist Workers	Fred Halstead	235	0.03%
Total votes			811,199	100%

Results by county

County	Richard Milhous Nixon ^[6] Republican		Hubert Horatio Humphrey ^[6] Democratic		George Corley Wallace ^[6] American Independent		Henning A. Blomen ^[6] Socialist Labor		Various candidates^[6] Other parties		Margin
County	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#
Hinsdale	66.15%	127	22.40%	43	11.46%	22	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	43.75%	84
Grand	67.53%	1,167	25.06%	433	7.35%	127	0.06%	1	0.23%	4	42.48%	734
Jackson	67.52%	474	25.21%	177	7.26%	51	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	42.31%	297
Rio Blanco	64.64%	1,294	25.07%	502	10.19%	204	0.10%	2	0.05%	1	39.56%	792
Moffat	62.11%	1,785	26.62%	765	11.20%	322	0.07%	2	0.03%		35.49%	1,020
Washington	60.95%	1,634	25.89%	694	13.13%	352	0.04%	1	0.04%		35.06%	940
Douglas	61.65%	1,910	27.66%	857	10.56%	327	0.13%	4	0.19%	6	33.99%	1,053
Yuma	62.68%	2,529	29.12%	1,175	8.18%	330	0.02%	1	0.00%	0	33.56%	1,354
Elbert	60.92%	1,043	28.27%	484	10.81%	185	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	32.65%	559
Custer	60.56%	433	28.53%	204	10.77%	77	0.14%	1	0.14%	1	32.03%	229
Larimer	62.36%	18,438	30.96%	9,152	6.15%	1,819	0.53%	156	0.38%	111	31.41%	9,286
Park	58.69%	601	27.93%	286	13.09%	134	0.29%	3	0.20%	2	30.76%	315
Morgan	61.25%	4,598	30.77%	2,310	7.90%	593	0.08%	6	0.07%	5	30.48%	2,288
Kit Carson	61.09%	1,977	31.71%	1,026	7.17%	232	0.03%	1	0.03%	1	29.39%	951
Baca	57.62%	1,441	28.75%	719	13.59%	340	0.04%	1	0.12%	3	28.87%	722
Sedgwick	60.92%	1,007	33.03%	546	6.05%	100	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	27.89%	461
Arapahoe	59.76%	33,712	32.92%	18,569	7.01%	3,953	0.31%	175	0.20%	110	26.85%	15,143
Montezuma	56.50%	2,461	30.97%	1,349	12.51%	545	0.02%	1	0.14%	6	25.53%	1,112
Summit	57.45%	536	32.26%	301	10.18%	95	0.11%	1	0.11%	1	25.19%	235
Lincoln	57.10%	1,407	32.83%	809	10.02%	247	0.04%	1	0.04%	1	24.27%	598
Logan	56.97%	4,323	33.22%	2,521	9.70%	736	0.11%	8	0.04%	3	23.75%	1,802
Phillips	56.93%	1,237	33.27%	723	9.71%	211	0.09%	2	0.09%	2	23.65%	514
Dolores	52.97%	392	29.32%	217	17.70%	131	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	23.65%	175
La Plata	57.18%	4,269	33.79%	2,523	9.01%	673	0.01%	1	0.13%	10	23.39%	1,746
Teller	52.39%	722	29.25%	403	18.07%	249	0.29%	4	0.00%	0	23.15%	319
Cheyenne	55.70%	664	32.89%	392	11.41%	136	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	22.82%	272
Gunnison	58.23%	1,411	35.74%	866	5.74%	139	0.29%	7	0.08%	2	22.49%	545
Weld	57.36%	17,101	34.95%	10,420	7.34%	2,189	0.34%	101	0.18%	54	22.41%	6,681
Jefferson	57.00%	50,847	35.19%	31,392	7.59%	6,767	0.22%	192	0.18%	159	21.81%	19,455
Kiowa	56.29%	689	34.56%	423	9.15%	112	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	21.73%	266
Boulder	57.99%	27,671	36.51%	17,422	5.23%	2,497	0.26%	125	0.57%	273	21.48%	10,249
Rio Grande	58.32%	2,442	37.31%	1,562	4.35%	182	0.02%	1	0.00%	0	21.02%	880
Gilpin	52.96%	358	32.25%	218	14.64%	99	0.15%	1	0.74%	5	20.71%	140
Delta	55.60%	3,692	35.05%	2,327	9.31%	618	0.05%	3	0.18%	12	20.56%	1,365
Pitkin	56.16%	1,135	36.02%	728	6.73%	136	1.09%	22	0.00%	0	20.14%	407
Ouray	52.01%	401	32.43%	250	15.56%	120	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	19.58%	151
El Paso	53.87%	32,066	35.67%	21,232	10.41%	6,199	0.05%	31	0.21%	127	18.20%	10,834
Routt	53.90%	1,602	36.20%	1,076	9.83%	292	0.07%	2	0.13%	4	17.70%	526
Fremont	53.51%	4,908	35.89%	3,292	10.54%	967	0.05%	5	0.12%	11	17.62%	1,616
Montrose	52.93%	3,547	35.73%	2,394	11.24%	753	0.10%	7	0.16%	11	17.21%	1,153
Alamosa	55.01%	2,277	38.03%	1,574	6.93%	287	0.02%	1	0.02%	1	16.98%	703
Clear Creek	52.79%	1,011	37.55%	719	9.56%	183	0.10%	2	0.16%	3	15.25%	292
Garfield	52.29%	3,157	37.64%	2,273	10.05%	607	0.02%	1	0.08%	5	14.64%	884
San Miguel	53.22%	422	39.22%	311	7.57%	60	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	14.00%	111
Crowley	50.39%	775	36.74%	565	12.74%	196	0.13%	2	0.07%	1	13.65%	210
Saguache	52.48%	824	41.27%	648	6.18%	97	0.06%	1	0.06%	1	11.21%	176
Chaffee	51.11%	2,121	40.17%	1,667	8.63%	358	0.10%	4	0.07%	3	10.94%	454
Mesa	49.72%	10,745	40.60%	8,775	9.61%	2,076	0.08%	17	0.27%	58	9.11%	1,970
San Juan	46.09%	165	37.43%	134	16.48%	59	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	8.66%	31
Otero	49.85%	4,690	41.36%	3,891	7.68%	723	1.11%	104	0.39%	37	8.49%	799
Archuleta	49.69%	486	41.82%	409	8.49%	83	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	7.87%	77
Prowers	49.17%	2,741	41.78%	2,329	9.02%	503	0.04%	2	0.20%	11	7.39%	412
Eagle	49.11%	1,049	43.40%	927	7.49%	160	0.00%	0	0.00%	0	5.71%	122
Bent	47.49%	1,228	43.54%	1,126	8.93%	231	0.04%	1	0.04%	1	3.94%	102
Adams	43.92%	24,343	45.31%	25,111	10.29%	5,702	0.49%	270	0.12%	67	-1.39%	-768
Mineral	43.77%	116	47.55%	126	8.30%	22	0.38%	1	0.00%	0	-3.77%	-10
Conejos	45.76%	1,361	50.17%	1,492	3.93%	117	0.13%	4	0.20%	6	-4.40%	-131
Denver	43.66%	92,003	50.34%	106,081	5.41%	11,408	0.58%	1,221	0.29%	604	-6.68%	-14,078
Lake	35.55%	1,025	53.76%	1,550	9.95%	287	0.73%	21	0.14%	4	-18.21%	-525
Pueblo	34.53%	16,646	56.45%	27,215	7.93%	3,823	1.09%	525	0.17%	82	-21.92%	-10,569
Huerfano	35.20%	1,133	60.08%	1,934	4.66%	150	0.06%	2	0.06%	2	-24.88%	-801
Las Animas	33.35%	2,499	61.42%	4,602	5.18%	388	0.05%	4	0.15%	11	-28.07%	-2,103
Costilla	32.76%	477	64.08%	933	2.20%	32	0.96%	14	1.79%	26	-31.32%	-456

Notes

↑ Although he was born in California and he served as a U.S. Senator from California, in 1968 Richard Nixon's official state of residence was New York, because he moved there to practice law after his defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial election. During his first term as president, Nixon re-established his residency in California. Consequently, most reliable reference books list Nixon's home state as New York in the 1968 election and his home state as California in the 1972 (and 1960) election.

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References

↑ "United States Presidential election of 1968 – Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved May 22, 2017.
↑ "1968 Election for the Forty-Sixth Term (1969-73)" . Retrieved May 22, 2017.
↑ "1968 Presidential General Election Results – Colorado" . Retrieved May 22, 2017.
↑ "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1968" . Retrieved May 22, 2017.
↑ "Election Night Reporting".
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[2] Although he was born in California and he served as a U.S. Senator from California, in 1968 Richard Nixon's official state of residence was New York, because he moved there to practice law after his defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial election. During his first term as president, Nixon re-established his residency in California. Consequently, most reliable reference books list Nixon's home state as New York in the 1968 election and his home state as California in the 1972 (and 1960) election.

[1] "United States Presidential election of 1968 – Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved May 22, 2017.

[3] "1968 Election for the Forty-Sixth Term (1969-73)" . Retrieved May 22, 2017.

[4] "1968 Presidential General Election Results – Colorado" . Retrieved May 22, 2017.

[5] "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1968" . Retrieved May 22, 2017.

[6] "Election Night Reporting".

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