1968 United States presidential election in Utah

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1968 United States presidential election in Utah

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Turnout	76.7% (voting age) [2]
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 vote 4 0 0 Popular vote 238,728 156,665 26,906 Percentage 56.49% 37.07% 6.37%
County Results Nixon   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Humphrey   50–60%   60–70%
President before election Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Elected President Richard Nixon Republican

The 1968 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. State voters chose four ^[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Utah was won by former Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), with 56.49 percent of the popular vote, against Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D–Minnesota), with 37.07 percent of the popular vote. American Independent Party candidate George Wallace performed decently, finishing with 6.37 percent of the popular vote. ^{[4] [5]} By outpolling Humphrey in arch-Republican Kane County, Wallace became the first third-party candidate to finish even second in any non-Southern county since 1936 when William Lemke finished ahead of Alf Landon in the North Dakota counties of Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Mountrail, Towner and Williams. ^[6]

With 56.49 percent of the popular vote, Utah would prove to be Nixon's third strongest state in the 1968 election after Nebraska and Idaho. ^[7]

Utah had the highest voter turnout in terms of the voting age population out of any state in the 1968 presidential election. ^[8]

Results

1968 United States presidential election in Utah ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Richard Nixon	238,728	56.49%
	Democratic	Hubert Humphrey	156,665	37.07%
	American Independent	George Wallace	26,906	6.37%
	Peace and Freedom	Eldridge Cleaver	180	0.04%
	Socialist Workers	Fred Halstead	89	0.02%
Total votes			422,568	100.00%

Results by county

County [9] [10]	Richard Nixon Republican		Hubert Humphrey Democratic		George Wallace American Independent		Eldridge Cleaver Peace and Freedom		Fred Halstead Socialist Workers		Margin		Total votes cast
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Beaver	989	50.87%	795	40.90%	158	8.13%	2	0.10%	0	0.00%	194	9.97%	1,944
Box Elder	7,680	65.71%	3,093	26.46%	907	7.76%	6	0.05%	2	0.02%	4,587	39.25%	11,688
Cache	11,906	68.81%	4,327	25.01%	1,050	6.07%	17	0.10%	3	0.02%	7,579	43.80%	17,303
Carbon	2,618	36.17%	4,344	60.01%	271	3.74%	2	0.03%	4	0.06%	-1,726	-23.84%	7,239
Daggett	152	52.23%	97	33.33%	42	14.43%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	55	18.90%	291
Davis	20,658	60.60%	10,624	31.17%	2,787	8.18%	18	0.05%	0	0.00%	10,034	29.43%	34,087
Duchesne	1,733	61.15%	858	30.28%	243	8.57%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	875	30.87%	2,834
Emery	1,223	50.89%	1,019	42.41%	161	6.70%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	204	8.48%	2,403
Garfield	1,033	69.47%	314	21.12%	139	9.35%	0	0.00%	1	0.07%	719	48.35%	1,487
Grand	1,435	60.88%	707	30.00%	215	9.12%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	728	30.88%	2,357
Iron	3,337	66.59%	1,157	23.09%	514	10.26%	2	0.04%	1	0.02%	2,180	43.50%	5,011
Juab	1,201	53.95%	907	40.75%	118	5.30%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	294	13.20%	2,226
Kane	814	71.72%	147	12.95%	174	15.33%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	640 [b]	56.39%	1,135
Millard	2,318	66.06%	971	27.67%	220	6.27%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	1,347	38.39%	3,509
Morgan	1,020	59.89%	551	32.35%	130	7.63%	1	0.06%	1	0.06%	469	27.54%	1,703
Piute	411	64.42%	167	26.18%	60	9.40%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	244	38.24%	638
Rich	525	70.28%	183	24.50%	39	5.22%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	342	45.78%	747
Salt Lake	101,942	54.03%	77,247	40.94%	9,323	4.94%	97	0.05%	54 [c]	0.03%	24,695	13.09%	188,663
San Juan	1,393	59.66%	680	29.12%	262	11.22%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	713	30.54%	2,335
Sanpete	3,304	62.20%	1,696	31.93%	307	5.78%	5	0.09%	0	0.00%	1,608	30.27%	5,312
Sevier	3,190	67.24%	1,167	24.60%	384	8.09%	1	0.02%	2	0.04%	2,023	42.64%	4,744
Summit	1,782	62.37%	961	33.64%	113	3.96%	0	0.00%	1	0.04%	821	28.73%	2,857
Tooele	3,422	41.39%	4,250	51.41%	592	7.16%	3	0.04%	0	0.00%	-828	-10.02%	8,267
Uintah	3,034	65.64%	1,145	24.77%	437	9.45%	5	0.11%	1	0.02%	1,889	40.87%	4,622
Utah	29,226	59.01%	16,629	33.57%	3,666	7.40%	5	0.01%	2	0.00%	12,597	25.44%	49,528
Wasatch	1,611	60.95%	941	35.60%	86	3.25%	1	0.04%	4	0.15%	670	25.35%	2,643
Washington	3,226	64.52%	975	19.50%	796	15.92%	1	0.02%	2	0.04%	2,251	45.02%	5,000
Wayne	511	62.85%	248	30.50%	54	6.64%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	263	32.35%	813
Weber	27,034	52.82%	20,465	39.98%	3,658	7.15%	14	0.03%	11	0.02%	6,569	12.84%	51,182
Totals	238,728	56.49%	156,665	37.07%	26,906	6.37%	180	0.04%	89	0.02%	82,063	19.42%	422,568

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Beaver
• Daggett
• Duchesne
• Emery
• Grand
• Juab
• Morgan
• Salt Lake
• Summit
• Utah
• Wayne
• Wasatch
• Weber

Results by congressional district

This table shows the results by congressional district. The candidate who won the largest amount of the vote nationally is shown first. Nixon won both of the Utah's 2 congressional districts. ^[11]

District [9] [11]	Nixon		Humphrey		Wallace
	#	%	#	%	#	%
1st	122,293	58.81%	70,363	33.84%	15,185	7.30%
2nd	116,435	54.25%	86,302	40.21%	11,721	5.46%

See also

• United States presidential elections in Utah

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.
2. In this county where Wallace ran second ahead of Humphrey, the margin given is that between Nixon and Wallace.
3. These votes were mistakenly assigned to San Juan County in the state's abstract.

References

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8. "Population Estimates and Projections" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. March 1972. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
9. "Abstract of the Returns of an Election held in the State of Utah, Tuesday, November 5, 1968" (PDF). Retrieved December 29, 2025.
10. Scammon, Richard M., ed. (1970). America Votes 8: A Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics. Washington D.C.: Congressional Quarterly. p. 384. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
11. Park-Egan, Kiernan. "1968 United States Presidential Election, Results by Congressional District". U.S. Presidential Election Results by Congressional District, 1952 to 2020. Retrieved October 30, 2023.