1968 United States presidential election in Oklahoma

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1968 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
Flag of Oklahoma (1941-1988).svg
  1964 November 5, 1968 1972  
  Nixon 30-0316a (cropped).jpg Hubert Humphrey in New York, 1968 (3x4 crop).jpg George Wallace (D-AL) (3x4).jpg
Nominee Richard Nixon Hubert Humphrey George Wallace
Party Republican Democratic American Independent
Home state New York [a] Minnesota Alabama
Running mate Spiro Agnew Edmund Muskie Curtis LeMay
Electoral vote800
Popular vote449,697301,658191,731
Percentage47.68%31.99%20.33%

Oklahoma Presidential Election Results 1968.svg
County Results

President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Richard Nixon
Republican

The 1968 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 5, 1968. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States.

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Former Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, won the state of Oklahoma with 449,697 votes and 47.68 percent of the vote, with Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic nominee, taking 301,658 votes and 31.99 percent of the vote, followed by American Independent George Wallace, who took 191,731 votes and 20.33 percent of the vote. [1] Nixon was the first Republican to ever carry Marshall County.

Wallace’s performance is the second-best by a third-party candidate in Oklahoma, [2] behind Ross Perot in 1992. Oklahoma was also Wallace's best performance in a state that had not been a part of the Confederacy. The Wallace pluralities in Atoka and Pushmataha Counties in the southeast marked the only occasion that a third-party candidate has ever carried any Oklahoma county.

Results

Electoral results
Presidential candidatePartyHome statePopular voteElectoral
vote
Running mate
CountPercentageVice-presidential candidateHome stateElectoral vote
Richard Nixon Republican New York 449,69747.68%8 Spiro Agnew Maryland 8
Hubert Humphrey Democrat Minnesota 301,65831.99%0 Edmund Muskie Maine 0
George Wallace American Alabama 191,73120.33%0 Curtis LeMay California 0
Total943,086100%88
Needed to win270270

Results by county

CountyRichard Nixon
Republican
Hubert Humphrey
Democratic
George Wallace
American Independent
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %
Adair 2,87753.02%1,54928.55%1,00018.43%1,32824.47%5,426
Alfalfa 2,67269.46%86522.49%3108.06%1,80746.97%3,847
Atoka 1,13127.29%1,40033.78%1,61338.92%-213-5.14%4,144
Beaver 2,11468.70%62420.28%33911.02%1,49048.42%3,077
Beckham 2,93542.92%2,35434.42%1,55022.66%5818.50%6,839
Blaine 3,03660.08%1,28525.43%73214.49%1,75134.65%5,053
Bryan 2,72733.24%3,21439.17%2,26427.59%-487-5.93%8,205
Caddo 4,71243.70%4,21239.07%1,85817.23%5004.63%10,782
Canadian 5,89149.12%3,57729.83%2,52521.05%2,31419.29%11,993
Carter 5,12735.73%5,80740.47%3,41423.79%-680-4.74%14,348
Cherokee 3,97147.32%2,55430.44%1,86622.24%1,41716.88%8,391
Choctaw 1,41426.03%2,26841.74%1,75132.23%-517-9.51%5,433
Cimarron 1,12253.81%43620.91%52725.28%59528.53%2,085
Cleveland 12,44648.29%8,61733.43%4,71118.28%3,82914.86%25,774
Coal 66929.64%96342.67%62527.69%-294-13.03%2,257
Comanche 9,22539.82%8,06134.80%5,87925.38%1,1645.02%23,165
Cotton 1,01632.64%1,19238.29%90529.07%-176-5.65%3,113
Craig 2,68644.67%2,09834.89%1,22920.44%5889.78%6,013
Creek 6,93443.34%5,15132.20%3,91324.46%1,78311.14%15,998
Custer 4,70956.31%2,71732.49%93611.19%1,99223.82%8,362
Delaware 3,16847.29%2,12931.78%1,40220.93%1,03915.51%6,699
Dewey 1,50853.46%77327.40%54019.14%73526.06%2,821
Ellis 1,60162.54%53320.82%42616.64%1,06841.72%2,560
Garfield 14,37061.99%5,80225.03%3,01112.99%8,56836.96%23,183
Garvin 3,78636.75%3,84537.33%2,67025.92%-59-0.58%10,301
Grady 4,24238.15%4,76042.81%2,11719.04%-518-4.66%11,119
Grant 2,40361.82%1,04726.94%43711.24%1,35634.88%3,887
Greer 1,22535.26%1,41940.85%83023.89%-194-5.59%3,474
Harmon 64430.04%1,09751.17%40318.80%-453-21.13%2,144
Harper 1,48363.00%51822.01%35315.00%96540.99%2,354
Haskell 1,51637.05%1,56338.20%1,01324.76%-47-1.15%4,092
Hughes 1,89733.60%2,57845.67%1,17020.73%-681-12.07%5,645
Jackson 2,24830.36%3,37145.52%1,78624.12%-1,123-15.16%7,405
Jefferson 78025.09%1,62852.36%70122.55%-848-27.27%3,109
Johnston 1,04832.37%1,21637.55%97430.08%-168-5.18%3,238
Kay 12,75159.06%6,03127.93%2,80913.01%6,72031.13%21,591
Kingfisher 3,55864.64%1,22622.27%72013.08%2,33242.37%5,504
Kiowa 2,41843.22%2,21939.67%95717.11%1993.55%5,594
Latimer 1,09132.73%1,35040.50%89226.76%-259-7.77%3,333
LeFlore 3,60032.83%4,02036.66%3,34530.51%-420-3.83%10,965
Lincoln 3,85547.43%2,30428.35%1,96924.22%1,55119.08%8,128
Logan 3,96048.55%2,50830.75%1,68920.71%1,45217.80%8,157
Love 67728.52%93139.22%76632.27%-165-6.95%2,374
McClain 2,04736.98%1,84233.27%1,64729.75%2053.71%5,536
McCurtain 2,79532.43%2,94434.16%2,88033.41%-64-0.75%8,619
McIntosh 1,53233.71%1,75938.70%1,25427.59%-227-4.99%4,545
Major 2,55072.84%59416.97%35710.20%1,95655.87%3,501
Marshall 1,20935.71%1,19135.17%98629.12%180.54%3,386
Mayes 4,26044.63%2,85529.91%2,43125.47%1,40514.72%9,546
Murray 1,45434.18%1,77341.68%1,02724.14%-319-7.50%4,254
Muskogee 8,70738.39%9,37741.34%4,59620.26%-670-2.95%22,680
Noble 2,91158.92%1,41228.58%61812.51%1,49930.34%4,941
Nowata 2,11646.92%1,31429.14%1,08023.95%80217.78%4,510
Okfuskee 1,68637.94%1,77739.99%98122.07%-91-2.05%4,444
Oklahoma 93,21249.73%60,39532.22%33,83418.05%32,81717.51%187,441
Okmulgee 4,70934.81%6,08945.02%2,72820.17%-1,380-10.21%13,526
Osage 5,49946.50%3,91933.14%2,40720.36%1,58013.36%11,825
Ottawa 5,00044.48%4,82042.88%1,42112.64%1801.60%11,241
Pawnee 2,43751.09%1,34328.16%99020.75%1,09422.93%4,770
Payne 9,57753.73%5,77232.38%2,47513.89%3,80521.35%17,824
Pittsburg 3,97828.79%6,11244.24%3,72626.97%-2,134-15.45%13,816
Pontotoc 4,16138.26%4,29139.45%2,42522.29%-130-1.19%10,877
Pottawatomie 6,89939.44%6,72138.42%3,87322.14%1781.02%17,493
Pushmataha 1,22532.72%1,23232.91%1,28734.38%-55-1.47%3,744
Roger Mills 1,10245.31%72029.61%61025.08%38215.70%2,432
Rogers 4,63144.37%2,66525.53%3,14130.09%1,49014.28%10,437
Seminole 3,71138.09%3,88939.92%2,14221.99%-178-1.83%9,742
Sequoyah 2,79736.93%2,61834.57%2,15828.50%1792.36%7,573
Stephens 5,50838.46%5,24936.65%3,56624.90%2591.81%14,323
Texas 3,72963.65%1,17620.07%95416.28%2,55343.58%5,859
Tillman 1,74835.71%1,77136.18%1,37628.11%-23-0.47%4,895
Tulsa 81,47657.11%32,74822.95%28,44319.94%48,72834.16%142,667
Wagoner 3,18741.76%2,18328.60%2,26229.64%92512.12%7,632
Washington 12,81262.36%4,64122.59%3,09115.05%8,17139.77%20,544
Washita 2,59249.65%1,77133.92%85816.43%82115.73%5,221
Woods 3,44963.81%1,43926.62%5179.57%2,01037.19%5,405
Woodward 3,74864.01%1,44424.66%66311.32%2,30439.35%5,855
Totals449,69747.68%301,65831.99%191,73120.33%148,03915.69%943,086

Counties that flipped Democratic to American Independent

Counties that flipped Democratic to Republican

See also

Notes

  1. 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

  1. Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; 1968 Presidential General Election Results – Oklahoma
  2. Thomas, G. Scott; The Pursuit of the White House: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics and History, p. 444 ISBN   0313257957