1968 United States presidential election in Wyoming

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1968 United States presidential election in Wyoming
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  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 Independent
Home state New York [a] Minnesota Alabama
Running mate Spiro Agnew Edmund Muskie Marvin Griffin
Electoral vote300
Popular vote70,92745,17311,105
Percentage55.76%35.51%8.73%

Wyoming 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 Wyoming took place on November 5, 1968. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1968 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

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Wyoming was won by the Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, running with Governor of Maryland Spiro Agnew. Together they defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and his running mate, Senator Edmund Muskie from Maine.

Nixon carried Wyoming with 55.76% of the vote to Humphrey's 35.51%, a victory margin of 20.25%. This marked a 33.45% swing to the right from 1964, when the state had voted for Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson by 13.2%. Also on the ballot was former and future Alabama Governor George Wallace, running as an Independent in Wyoming. Although Wallace carried five states in the South, he had only modest appeal in Wyoming. His performance was the best by any third-party candidate in Wyoming since Robert La Follette won nearly a third of the vote in 1924, but nonetheless did not equal his vote share in the fellow Western states of Alaska, Idaho and Nevada.

With 55.76 percent of the popular vote, Wyoming would prove to be Nixon's fifth strongest state in the 1968 election after Nebraska, Idaho, Utah and North Dakota. [1]

Results

1968 United States presidential election in Wyoming [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Richard Nixon 70,927 55.76%
Democratic Hubert Humphrey 45,17335.51%
Independent George Wallace 11,1058.73%
Total votes127,205 100.00%

Results by county

County [2] Richard Nixon
Republican
Hubert Humphrey
Democrat
George Wallace
Independent
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %
Albany 4,42248.71%4,07944.93%5786.37%3433.78%9,079
Big Horn 2,77164.07%1,20127.77%3538.16%1,57036.30%4,325
Campbell 1,69466.67%55821.96%28911.37%1,13644.71%2,541
Carbon 2,53244.77%2,72548.18%3997.05%-193-3.41%5,656
Converse 1,65869.61%49220.65%2329.74%1,16648.96%2,382
Crook 1,24071.55%31818.35%17510.10%92253.20%1,733
Fremont 5,41757.64%3,09332.91%8889.45%2,32424.73%9,398
Goshen 2,71957.65%1,52932.42%4689.92%1,19025.23%4,716
Hot Springs 1,27359.38%70532.88%1667.74%56826.50%2,144
Johnson 1,73773.85%39816.92%2179.23%1,33956.93%2,352
Laramie 9,82446.80%9,51945.35%1,6497.86%3051.45%20,992
Lincoln 2,03057.01%1,24634.99%2858.00%78422.02%3,561
Natrona 10,67957.19%5,90031.59%2,09511.22%4,77925.60%18,674
Niobrara 1,13676.24%25016.78%1046.98%88659.46%1,490
Park 4,67765.56%1,85225.96%6058.48%2,82539.60%7,134
Platte 1,61354.36%1,03534.88%31910.75%57819.48%2,967
Sheridan 5,16361.22%2,65931.53%6127.26%2,50429.69%8,434
Sublette 1,15268.25%31018.36%22613.39%84249.89%1,688
Sweetwater 2,72636.60%4,08654.85%6378.55%-1,360-18.25%7,449
Teton 1,41969.25%46122.50%1698.25%95846.75%2,049
Uinta 1,51052.36%1,19941.57%1756.07%31110.79%2,884
Washakie 2,03864.01%94829.77%1986.22%1,09034.24%3,184
Weston 1,49763.08%61025.71%26611.21%88737.37%2,373
Totals70,92755.76%45,17335.51%11,1058.73%25,75420.25%127,205
County flips from 1964:
Democratic
Hold
Republican
Hold
Gain from Democratic Wyoming county flips between the 1964-68 presidential elections.png
County flips from 1964:

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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References

  1. "1968 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  2. 1 2 Wyoming Secretary of State (1969). "Summary - Official Vote General Election, November 5, 1968". 1969 Wyoming Official Directory and 1968 Election Returns. p. 81. Retrieved October 18, 2024.