1968 United States presidential election in North Dakota

1968 United States presidential election in North Dakota
Nixon 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90%	Humphrey 40–50% 50–60%
President before election; Lyndon B. Johnson ; Democratic	Elected President; Richard Nixon ; Republican

Last updated June 01, 2025

The 1968 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.^[2]

North Dakota was won by former Vice President Richard Nixon (Republican Party, New York), with 55.94% of the popular vote, against Vice President Hubert Humphrey (Democratic Party, Minnesota), with 38.23% of the popular vote, a 17.71% margin of victory. Independent candidate George Wallace received 5.75% of the popular vote.^[3]^[4] North Dakota was Nixon's fourth strongest state after Nebraska, Idaho and Utah.^[5]

This is the last election in which North Dakota had four electoral college votes; it lost its 2nd district due to reapportionment based on the 1970 census.

Results

1968 United States presidential election in North Dakota
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Richard Nixon	138,669	55.94%
	Democratic–NPL	Hubert Humphrey	94,769	38.23%
	Independent	George Wallace	14,244	5.75%
	Independent	Fred Halstead	128	0.05%
	Independent	E. Harold Munn	38	0.02%
	Write-ins	Various candidates	34	0.01%
Total votes			247,882	100%

Results by county

County^[6]	Richard Nixon Republican		Hubert Humphrey Democratic-NPL		George Wallace Independent		Fred Halstead Independent		Various candidates Other parties		Margin		Total votes cast
County^[6]	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast
Adams	1,020	57.27%	641	35.99%	116	6.51%	1	0.06%	3	0.17%	379	21.28%	1,781
Barnes	3,831	56.30%	2,623	38.55%	348	5.11%	1	0.01%	2	0.03%	1,208	17.75%	6,805
Benson	1,707	46.86%	1,772	48.64%	164	4.50%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-65	-1.78%	3,643
Billings	395	61.91%	174	27.27%	69	10.82%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	221	34.64%	638
Bottineau	2,633	60.06%	1,520	34.67%	230	5.25%	1	0.02%	0	0.00%	1,113	25.39%	4,384
Bowman	927	56.46%	559	34.04%	156	9.50%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	368	22.42%	1,642
Burke	1,239	56.83%	808	37.06%	132	6.06%	1	0.05%	0	0.00%	431	19.77%	2,180
Burleigh	10,661	64.03%	5,139	30.87%	818	4.91%	25	0.15%	6	0.04%	5,522	33.16%	16,649
Cass	15,240	55.88%	10,819	39.67%	1,167	4.28%	33	0.12%	12	0.04%	4,421	16.21%	27,271
Cavalier	1,953	50.85%	1,631	42.46%	257	6.69%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	322	8.39%	3,841
Dickey	2,087	62.34%	1,098	32.80%	161	4.81%	2	0.06%	0	0.00%	989	29.54%	3,348
Divide	1,032	50.39%	914	44.63%	102	4.98%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	118	5.76%	2,048
Dunn	1,207	56.17%	772	35.92%	169	7.86%	1	0.05%	0	0.00%	435	20.25%	2,149
Eddy	1,018	51.10%	893	44.83%	76	3.82%	3	0.15%	2	0.10%	125	6.27%	1,992
Emmons	1,991	65.04%	756	24.70%	311	10.16%	2	0.07%	1	0.03%	1,235	40.34%	3,061
Foster	1,119	52.31%	897	41.94%	123	5.75%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	222	10.37%	2,139
Golden Valley	735	61.30%	348	29.02%	115	9.59%	1	0.08%	0	0.00%	387	32.28%	1,199
Grand Forks	9,802	52.00%	7,695	40.82%	1,332	7.07%	18	0.10%	2	0.01%	2,107	11.18%	18,849
Grant	1,648	71.78%	488	21.25%	157	6.84%	2	0.09%	1	0.04%	1,160	50.53%	2,296
Griggs	1,110	49.84%	1,008	45.26%	109	4.89%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	102	4.58%	2,227
Hettinger	1,424	63.97%	638	28.66%	163	7.32%	1	0.04%	0	0.00%	786	35.31%	2,226
Kidder	1,204	61.84%	548	28.15%	192	9.86%	1	0.05%	2	0.10%	656	33.69%	1,947
LaMoure	2,008	57.90%	1,269	36.59%	189	5.45%	2	0.06%	0	0.00%	739	21.31%	3,468
Logan	1,416	70.45%	459	22.84%	135	6.72%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	957	47.61%	2,010
McHenry	2,226	54.21%	1,595	38.85%	281	6.84%	3	0.07%	1	0.02%	631	15.36%	4,106
McIntosh	2,258	82.65%	342	12.52%	129	4.72%	3	0.11%	0	0.00%	1,916	70.13%	2,732
McKenzie	1,625	59.63%	935	34.31%	164	6.02%	1	0.04%	0	0.00%	690	25.32%	2,725
McLean	2,764	54.95%	2,050	40.76%	216	4.29%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	714	14.19%	5,030
Mercer	2,039	69.38%	730	24.84%	169	5.75%	1	0.03%	0	0.00%	1,309	44.54%	2,939
Morton	4,465	55.02%	3,156	38.89%	489	6.03%	1	0.01%	4	0.05%	1,309	16.13%	8,115
Mountrail	1,494	44.33%	1,662	49.32%	212	6.29%	2	0.06%	0	0.00%	-168	-4.99%	3,370
Nelson	1,526	48.26%	1,477	46.71%	157	4.97%	1	0.03%	1	0.03%	49	1.55%	3,162
Oliver	616	63.44%	269	27.70%	85	8.75%	1	0.10%	0	0.00%	347	35.74%	971
Pembina	2,574	56.01%	1,686	36.68%	335	7.29%	1	0.02%	0	0.00%	888	19.33%	4,596
Pierce	1,700	57.07%	1,048	35.18%	229	7.69%	1	0.03%	1	0.03%	652	21.89%	2,979
Ramsey	3,189	54.56%	2,384	40.79%	269	4.60%	3	0.05%	0	0.00%	805	13.77%	5,845
Ransom	1,943	57.43%	1,286	38.01%	153	4.52%	1	0.03%	0	0.00%	657	19.42%	3,383
Renville	851	46.86%	880	48.46%	84	4.63%	1	0.06%	0	0.00%	-29	-1.60%	1,816
Richland	4,224	54.38%	3,098	39.89%	443	5.70%	1	0.01%	1	0.01%	1,126	14.49%	7,767
Rolette	1,211	37.23%	1,870	57.49%	172	5.29%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-659	-20.26%	3,253
Sargent	1,386	48.65%	1,308	45.91%	154	5.41%	1	0.04%	0	0.00%	78	2.74%	2,849
Sheridan	1,295	74.99%	350	20.27%	79	4.57%	1	0.06%	2	0.12%	945	54.72%	1,727
Sioux	482	45.26%	525	49.30%	58	5.45%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-43	-4.04%	1,065
Slope	379	55.57%	238	34.90%	64	9.38%	1	0.15%	0	0.00%	141	20.67%	682
Stark	4,365	58.64%	2,577	34.62%	500	6.72%	1	0.01%	1	0.01%	1,788	24.02%	7,444
Steele	952	46.87%	991	48.79%	88	4.33%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	-39	-1.92%	2,031
Stutsman	5,162	56.21%	3,532	38.46%	477	5.19%	5	0.05%	8	0.09%	1,630	17.75%	9,184
Towner	1,109	49.84%	990	44.49%	124	5.57%	2	0.09%	0	0.00%	119	5.35%	2,225
Traill	2,692	57.55%	1,740	37.20%	243	5.19%	2	0.04%	1	0.02%	952	20.35%	4,678
Walsh	3,410	50.06%	2,948	43.28%	453	6.65%	1	0.01%	0	0.00%	462	6.78%	6,812
Ward	9,079	53.11%	7,105	41.56%	896	5.24%	11	0.06%	4	0.02%	1,974	11.55%	17,095
Wells	2,266	59.92%	1,265	33.45%	247	6.53%	4	0.11%	0	0.00%	1,001	26.47%	3,782
Williams	3,980	51.51%	3,263	42.23%	483	6.25%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	717	9.28%	7,726
Totals	138,669	55.94%	94,769	38.23%	14,244	5.75%	128	0.05%	72	0.03%	43,900	17.71%	247,882

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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.

References

↑ "United States Presidential election of 1968 - Encyclopædia Britannica" . Retrieved May 26, 2017.
↑ "1968 Election for the Forty-Sixth Term (1969-73)" . Retrieved May 26, 2017.
↑ "1968 Presidential General Election Results – North Dakota" . Retrieved May 26, 2017.
↑ "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1968" . Retrieved May 26, 2017.
↑ "1968 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
↑ "ND US President Race, November 05, 1968". Our Campaigns.

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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 26, 2017.

[3] "1968 Election for the Forty-Sixth Term (1969-73)" . Retrieved May 26, 2017.

[4] "1968 Presidential General Election Results – North Dakota" . Retrieved May 26, 2017.

[5] "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1968" . Retrieved May 26, 2017.

[6] "1968 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.

[7] "ND US President Race, November 05, 1968". Our Campaigns.

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See also: Political party strength in North Dakota