1968 United States presidential election in South Dakota

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1968 United States presidential election in South Dakota
Flag of South Dakota (1963-1992).svg
  1964 November 5, 1968 [1] 1972  
  Nixon 30-0316a (cropped).jpg Hubert Humphrey in New York, 1968 (3x4 crop).jpg
Nominee Richard Nixon Hubert Humphrey
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York [lower-alpha 1] Minnesota
Running mate Spiro Agnew Edmund Muskie
Electoral vote40
Popular vote149,841118,023
Percentage53.27%41.96%

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President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Richard Nixon
Republican

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

Contents

South Dakota was won by former Vice President Richard Nixon (RNew York), with 53.27 percent of the popular vote, against Vice President Hubert Humphrey (DMinnesota), with 41.96 percent of the popular vote. Independent candidate George Wallace would carry five Southern states, but finished with a mere 4.76 percent of South Dakota's popular vote. [3] [4] Although the West River region of South Dakota possessed powerful racial conflicts akin to Wallace's native South – although between Whites and Native Americans rather than between Whites and Blacks – significant anti-Southern feeling amongst its Yankee descendants limited Wallace's appeal even there, [5] and in the East River with fewer Native Americans and a strong Scandinavian-American influence, [6] Wallace possessed generally insignificant appeal. Although he performed reasonably in some West River counties, within the more populous East River Wallace cracked half his national percentage (6.75%) only in Hyde and Sully Counties. Consequently, South Dakota proved Wallace's eighth-weakest state nationally.

Results

1968 United States presidential election in South Dakota
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Richard Nixon 149,841 53.27%
Democratic Hubert Humphrey 118,02341.96%
Independent George Wallace 13,4004.76%
Total votes281,264 100%

Results by county

County [7] Richard Nixon
Republican
Hubert Humphrey
Democratic
George Wallace
Independent
MarginTotal votes cast
#%#%#%#%
Aurora 1,04346.71%1,06047.47%1305.82%-17-0.76%2,233
Beadle 4,21442.66%5,35754.23%3073.11%-1,143-11.57%9,878
Bennett 66553.93%45737.06%1119.00%20816.87%1,233
Bon Homme 2,41155.01%1,77340.45%1994.54%63814.56%4,383
Brookings 4,67457.84%3,20239.62%2052.54%1,47218.22%8,081
Brown 6,68545.95%7,30250.20%5603.85%-617-4.25%14,547
Brule 1,23743.94%1,42550.62%1535.44%-188-6.68%2,815
Buffalo 26147.11%26547.83%285.05%-4-0.72%554
Butte 2,09063.28%1,01730.79%1965.93%1,07332.49%3,303
Campbell 1,21679.27%24515.97%734.76%97163.30%1,534
Charles Mix 2,09344.77%2,36950.67%2134.56%-276-5.90%4,675
Clark 1,59652.50%1,32543.59%1193.91%2718.91%3,040
Clay 2,24951.28%2,00645.74%1312.99%2435.54%4,386
Codington 3,92946.49%4,23550.11%2883.41%-306-3.62%8,452
Corson 1,10855.15%82140.87%803.98%28714.28%2,009
Custer 1,14355.38%72735.22%1949.40%41620.16%2,064
Davison 3,86950.12%3,58546.44%2653.43%2843.68%7,719
Day 2,06243.81%2,46352.33%1823.87%-401-8.52%4,707
Deuel 1,39853.26%1,07640.99%1515.75%32212.27%2,625
Dewey 94152.72%72140.39%1236.89%22012.33%1,785
Douglas 1,61370.68%59225.94%773.37%1,02144.74%2,282
Edmunds 1,53452.18%1,22541.67%1816.16%30910.51%2,940
Fall River 1,84359.57%96531.19%2869.24%87828.38%3,094
Faulk 99749.48%81940.65%1999.88%1788.83%2,015
Grant 2,25951.81%1,89043.35%2114.84%3698.46%4,360
Gregory 1,81054.40%1,26638.05%2517.54%54416.35%3,327
Haakon 75960.96%37730.28%1098.76%38230.68%1,245
Hamlin 1,64956.36%1,14939.27%1284.37%50017.09%2,926
Hand 1,65054.78%1,13637.72%2267.50%51417.06%3,012
Hanson 90150.08%82645.91%724.00%754.17%1,799
Harding 56463.02%26629.72%657.26%29833.30%895
Hughes 3,20461.46%1,66631.96%3436.58%1,53829.50%5,213
Hutchinson 3,54469.07%1,41227.52%1753.41%2,13241.55%5,131
Hyde 71353.81%49937.66%1138.53%21416.15%1,325
Jackson 48056.80%26731.60%9811.60%21325.20%845
Jerauld 1,00255.57%74541.32%563.11%25714.25%1,803
Jones 56255.75%35835.52%888.73%20420.23%1,008
Kingsbury 2,30058.42%1,49137.87%1463.71%80920.55%3,937
Lake 2,87653.68%2,29442.81%1883.51%58210.87%5,358
Lawrence 4,18560.23%2,42534.90%3384.86%1,76025.33%6,948
Lincoln 3,25959.89%1,96136.03%2224.08%1,29823.86%5,442
Lyman 1,06357.87%64335.00%1317.13%42022.87%1,837
Marshall 1,47147.01%1,51848.51%1404.47%-47-1.50%3,129
McCook 1,95951.55%1,65343.50%1884.95%3068.05%3,800
McPherson 2,10580.34%38914.85%1264.81%1,71665.49%2,620
Meade 2,39256.19%1,52235.75%3438.06%87020.44%4,257
Mellette 61155.70%40737.10%797.20%20418.60%1,097
Miner 1,04543.69%1,25552.47%923.85%-210-8.78%2,392
Minnehaha 20,14153.31%16,46243.57%1,1773.12%3,6799.74%37,780
Moody 1,68948.87%1,61446.70%1534.43%752.17%3,456
Pennington 9,67153.29%7,30340.24%1,1746.47%2,36813.05%18,148
Perkins 1,49860.38%86935.03%1144.59%62925.35%2,481
Potter 1,27357.81%78035.42%1496.77%49322.39%2,202
Roberts 2,22542.68%2,65150.85%3376.46%-426-8.17%5,213
Sanborn 1,02449.71%95646.41%803.88%683.30%2,060
Shannon 53329.68%1,20266.93%613.40%-669-37.25%1,796
Spink 2,06842.08%2,66954.30%1783.62%-601-12.22%4,915
Stanley 57251.58%43939.59%988.84%13311.99%1,109
Sully 67660.09%35631.64%938.27%32028.45%1,125
Todd 68338.78%98756.05%915.17%-304-17.27%1,761
Tripp 2,24258.25%1,36235.39%2456.37%88022.86%3,849
Turner 3,24667.61%1,35028.12%2054.27%1,89639.49%4,801
Union 2,21249.70%2,01445.25%2255.06%1984.45%4,451
Walworth 2,20460.19%1,27634.84%1824.97%92825.35%3,662
Washabaugh 22449.89%20345.21%224.90%214.68%449
Yankton 3,97756.08%2,73338.54%3825.39%1,24417.54%7,092
Ziebach 44952.58%35040.98%556.44%9911.60%854
Totals149,84153.27%118,02341.96%13,4004.76%31,81811.31%281,264

Counties that flipped from 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.

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