1968 United States presidential election in Georgia

The 1968 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on November 5, 1968. American Independent Party candidate George Wallace received the most votes, and won all twelve of the state’s electoral college votes.[2]

1968 United States presidential election in Georgia

November 5, 1968
 
Nominee George Wallace Richard Nixon Hubert Humphrey
Party American Independent Republican Democratic
Home state Alabama New York[1] Minnesota
Running mate Marvin Griffin Spiro Agnew Edmund Muskie
Electoral vote 12 0 0
Popular vote 535,550 380,111 334,440
Percentage 42.8% 30.4% 26.8%

County Results

President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Richard Nixon
Republican

Wallace, who ran a campaign based upon support for segregation, won all but seventeen of the state’s 159 counties. Nixon won 10, all either suburban Atlanta counties or historically pro-Union counties of North Georgia. Despite Wallace’s sweep of most of the state south of Atlanta, Cobb and DeKalb counties were 2 of only 3 amongst 210 southern counties carried by Goldwater for the Republicans for the first time ever or since Reconstruction to vote for Nixon.[3] The Voting Rights Act and consequent enfranchisement of African-Americans allowed Humphrey to carry seven majority-black counties.

With 42.83% of the popular vote, Georgia would prove to be Wallace's fourth strongest state after Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.[4]

Results

United States presidential election in Georgia, 1968[2]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
American Independent George Wallace 535,550 42.83% 12
Republican Richard Nixon 380,111 30.40% 0
Democratic Hubert Humphrey 334,440 26.75% 0
Write-ins Eugene McCarthy 56 0.00% 0
Write-ins Dick Gregory 9 0.00% 0
Write-ins Fred Halstead 7 0.00% 0
Write-ins Eldridge Cleaver 2 0.00% 0
Write-ins Charlene Mitchell 2 0.00% 0
Write-ins Henning A. Blomen 1 0.00% 0
Totals 1,250,266 100.00% 12
Voter turnout

Results by county

County Richard Milhous Nixon

Republican

Hubert Horatio Humphrey

Democratic

George Corley Wallace

American Independent

Various candidates

Write-ins

Total votes cast
# % # % # % # %
Appling 795 18.78% 760 17.95% 2,678 63.26% 4,233
Atkinson 288 11.39% 686 27.14% 1,554 61.47% 2,528
Bacon 586 20.93% 279 9.96% 1,935 69.11% 2,800
Baker 99 5.78% 548 31.97% 1,067 62.25% 1,714
Baldwin 2,318 32.60% 2,109 29.66% 2,678 37.66% 6 0.10% 7,111
Banks 398 18.70% 296 13.91% 1,434 67.39% 2,128
Barrow 1,372 26.52% 1,070 20.68% 2,731 52.79% 5,173
Bartow 2,045 24.78% 2,149 26.05% 4,052 49.11% 5 0.10% 8,251
Ben Hill 661 19.61% 876 25.99% 1,833 54.38% 1 0.00% 3,371
Berrien 566 14.79% 451 11.78% 2,810 73.41% 1 0.00% 3,828
Bibb 13,490 32.59% 10,579 25.55% 17,328 41.86% 41,397
Bleckley 756 20.94% 396 10.97% 2,458 68.07% 1 0.00% 3,611
Brantley 237 10.47% 317 14.01% 1,709 75.52% 2,263
Brooks 589 15.58% 787 20.82% 2,404 63.60% 3,780
Bryan 381 16.08% 560 23.64% 1,428 60.28% 2,369
Bulloch 2,113 26.90% 1,788 22.77% 3,953 50.33% 7,854
Burke 1,416 28.93% 1,676 34.25% 1,802 36.82% 4,894
Butts 584 19.25% 959 31.62% 1,490 49.13% 3,033
Calhoun 234 12.25% 697 36.49% 979 51.26% 1,910
Camden 751 19.33% 1,146 29.50% 1,988 51.17% 3,885
Candler 552 19.98% 587 21.25% 1,624 58.78% 2,763
Carroll 3,135 26.19% 2,326 19.43% 6,509 54.38% 11,970
Catoosa 2,043 21.75% 901 9.59% 6,449 68.66% 9,393
Charlton 332 17.08% 455 23.41% 1,157 59.52% 1,944
Chatham 18,106 33.81% 18,201 33.99% 17,238 32.19% 53,545
Chattahoochee 70 13.44% 148 28.41% 303 58.16% 521
Chattooga 1,087 20.26% 1,255 23.39% 3,024 56.35% 5,366
Cherokee 2,675 35.85% 1,434 19.22% 3,351 44.91% 2 0.00% 7,462
Clarke 5,800 39.17% 5,543 37.43% 3,452 23.31% 13 0.10% 14,808
Clay 133 10.57% 516 41.02% 608 48.33% 1 0.10% 1,258
Clayton 8,256 35.22% 3,510 14.98% 11,665 49.77% 7 0.00% 23,438
Clinch 304 17.08% 334 18.76% 1,142 64.16% 1,780
Cobb 18,649 41.25% 8,755 19.37% 17,805 39.38% 45,209
Coffee 1,241 19.52% 1,331 20.94% 3,785 59.54% 6,357
Colquitt 1,882 20.18% 1,119 12.00% 6,325 67.82% 9,326
Columbia 1,636 34.46% 905 19.06% 2,207 46.48% 4,748
Cook 521 14.62% 603 16.92% 2,438 68.41% 2 0.10% 3,564
Coweta 2,442 32.84% 1,204 16.19% 3,791 50.97% 7,437
Crawford 246 15.18% 489 30.17% 886 54.66% 1,621
Crisp 935 17.90% 1,017 19.47% 3,271 62.63% 5,223
Dade 613 18.27% 282 8.41% 2,460 73.32% 3,355
Dawson 509 31.81% 246 15.38% 845 52.81% 1,600
Decatur 749 10.62% 1,729 24.51% 4,576 64.87% 7,054
DeKalb 52,485 50.35% 27,796 26.67% 23,954 22.98% 2 0.00% 104,237
Dodge 1,055 18.54% 1,230 21.61% 3,406 59.85% 5,691
Dooly 454 14.48% 879 28.03% 1,803 57.49% 3,136
Dougherty 5,611 29.91% 3,831 20.42% 9,317 49.66% 3 0.00% 18,762
Douglas 1,848 25.49% 1,242 17.13% 4,159 57.37% 7,249
Early 327 8.37% 785 20.08% 2,797 71.55% 3,909
Echols 53 8.26% 56 8.72% 533 83.02% 642
Effingham 769 19.39% 635 16.02% 2,561 64.59% 3,965
Elbert 914 16.98% 1,216 22.59% 3,252 60.42% 5,382
Emanuel 1,297 21.22% 1,508 24.67% 3,307 54.11% 6,112
Evans 543 21.63% 492 19.60% 1,475 58.76% 2,510
Fannin 3,475 58.98% 1,229 20.86% 1,188 20.16% 5,892
Fayette 867 26.22% 551 16.66% 1,888 57.09% 1 0.00% 3,307
Floyd 7,470 34.72% 4,036 18.76% 10,001 46.49% 5 0.00% 21,512
Forsyth 1,389 31.33% 647 14.60% 2,397 54.07% 4,433
Franklin 716 17.16% 766 18.36% 2,691 64.49% 4,173
Fulton 64,153 35.83% 77,847 43.47% 36,995 20.66% 73 0.00% 179,068
Gilmer 2,074 51.55% 690 17.15% 1,259 31.30% 4,023
Glascock 185 19.17% 47 4.87% 733 75.96% 965
Glynn 3,725 30.24% 3,247 26.36% 5,341 43.36% 4 0.00% 12,317
Gordon 1,815 29.99% 1,161 19.18% 3,077 50.83% 6,053
Grady 561 9.67% 1,425 24.56% 3,817 65.78% 5,803
Greene 652 18.58% 1,635 46.58% 1,223 34.84% 3,510
Gwinnett 5,350 30.59% 3,226 18.45% 8,909 50.94% 4 0.00% 17,489
Habersham 1,611 28.32% 1,070 18.81% 3,008 52.87% 5,689
Hall 4,923 36.08% 3,174 23.26% 5,546 40.65% 13,643
Hancock 381 10.44% 2,165 59.32% 1,104 30.25% 3,650
Haralson 1,451 26.51% 771 14.09% 3,251 59.40% 5,473
Harris 1,021 25.89% 1,072 27.18% 1,851 46.93% 3,944
Hart 586 12.27% 979 20.51% 3,208 67.20% 1 0.00% 4,774
Heard 303 16.72% 356 19.65% 1,153 63.63% 1,812
Henry 2,017 25.41% 2,317 29.19% 3,604 45.40% 7,938
Houston 4,285 29.64% 2,831 19.58% 7,339 50.76% 2 0.00% 14,457
Irwin 430 15.03% 474 16.57% 1,955 68.36% 1 0.00% 2,860
Jackson 1,139 18.52% 1,537 25.00% 3,473 56.48% 6,149
Jasper 456 20.57% 835 37.66% 926 41.77% 2,217
Jeff Davis 577 19.82% 376 12.92% 1,958 67.26% 2,911
Jefferson 1,227 23.51% 1,899 36.39% 2,090 40.05% 2 0.00% 5,218
Jenkins 574 22.71% 704 27.86% 1,249 49.43% 2,527
Johnson 381 13.28% 446 15.55% 2,041 71.16% 2,868
Jones 693 19.42% 1,105 30.97% 1,770 49.61% 3,568
Lamar 575 20.50% 790 28.16% 1,440 51.34% 2,805
Lanier 241 15.63% 277 17.96% 1,024 66.41% 1,542
Laurens 2,738 21.33% 3,451 26.88% 6,649 51.79% 12,838
Lee 389 17.18% 673 29.73% 1,201 53.05% 1 0.00% 2,264
Liberty 592 16.78% 1,572 44.55% 1,365 38.68% 3,529
Lincoln 408 18.64% 491 22.43% 1,290 58.93% 2,189
Long 156 8.83% 574 32.48% 1,037 58.69% 1,767
Lowndes 3,073 27.55% 2,402 21.53% 5,679 50.91% 11,154
Lumpkin 687 32.24% 396 18.58% 1,048 49.18% 2,131
McDuffie 1,324 32.89% 991 24.62% 1,709 42.46% 1 0.00% 4,025
McIntosh 315 15.01% 943 44.93% 841 40.07% 2,099
Macon 598 19.22% 954 30.67% 1,559 50.11% 3,111
Madison 600 16.00% 621 16.56% 2,529 67.42% 1 0.00% 3,751
Marion 186 14.51% 247 19.27% 849 66.22% 1,282
Meriwether 1,120 20.55% 1,760 32.29% 2,571 47.17% 5,451
Miller 249 10.91% 171 7.49% 1,862 81.60% 2,282
Mitchell 731 12.97% 1,255 22.28% 3,647 64.73% 1 0.00% 5,634
Monroe 770 23.91% 1,028 31.93% 1,422 44.16% 3,220
Montgomery 352 15.38% 503 21.98% 1,433 62.63% 2,288
Morgan 616 20.67% 973 32.65% 1,391 46.68% 2,980
Murray 1,278 33.23% 818 21.27% 1,750 45.50% 3,846
Muscogee 11,193 32.36% 7,591 21.95% 15,804 45.69% 2 0.00% 34,590
Newton 1,660 24.87% 1,996 29.90% 3,017 45.20% 2 0.00% 6,675
Oconee 713 28.16% 414 16.35% 1,405 55.49% 2,532
Oglethorpe 383 14.71% 483 18.56% 1,737 66.73% 2,603
Paulding 977 19.33% 1,023 20.24% 3,054 60.43% 5,054
Peach 904 23.16% 1,362 34.89% 1,638 41.96% 3,904
Pickens 1,659 44.50% 677 18.16% 1,392 37.34% 3,728
Pierce 579 17.93% 507 15.70% 2,144 66.38% 3,230
Pike 345 14.26% 632 26.13% 1,442 59.61% 2,419
Polk 1,729 21.68% 2,007 25.16% 4,240 53.16% 7,976
Pulaski 595 22.22% 514 19.19% 1,569 58.59% 2,678
Putnam 594 21.66% 972 35.44% 1,177 42.91% 2,743
Quitman 90 12.05% 198 26.51% 459 61.45% 747
Rabun 680 25.38% 590 22.02% 1,407 52.52% 2 0.10% 2,679
Randolph 502 16.91% 1,028 34.64% 1,438 48.45% 2,968
Richmond 14,993 41.30% 11,770 32.42% 9,532 26.26% 7 0.00% 36,302
Rockdale 1,195 25.85% 1,213 26.24% 2,215 47.91% 4,623
Schley 164 15.02% 309 28.30% 619 56.68% 1,092
Screven 916 22.04% 1,411 33.94% 1,830 44.02% 4,157
Seminole 201 8.06% 369 14.80% 1,922 77.10% 1 0.00% 2,493
Spalding 3,077 28.03% 2,949 26.86% 4,953 45.11% 10,979
Stephens 1,295 25.23% 1,035 20.17% 2,802 54.60% 5,132
Stewart 233 14.09% 489 29.56% 932 56.35% 1,654
Sumter 1,383 21.04% 1,701 25.88% 3,489 53.08% 6,573
Talbot 317 20.92% 510 33.66% 688 45.41% 1,515
Taliaferro 232 16.36% 678 47.81% 508 35.83% 1,418
Tattnall 852 16.34% 957 18.35% 3,405 65.30% 5,214
Taylor 393 14.50% 691 25.50% 1,626 60.00% 2,710
Telfair 720 16.90% 1,038 24.37% 2,502 58.73% 4,260
Terrell 545 15.06% 1,275 35.23% 1,798 49.68% 1 0.00% 3,619
Thomas 2,261 22.87% 2,583 26.13% 5,039 50.98% 2 0.00% 9,885
Tift 1,692 24.81% 1,187 17.40% 3,942 57.79% 6,821
Toombs 1,397 24.52% 896 15.72% 3,405 59.76% 5,698
Towns 1,492 52.33% 770 27.01% 589 20.66% 2,851
Treutlen 474 25.00% 341 17.99% 1,081 57.01% 1,896
Troup 3,239 26.19% 2,896 23.42% 6,232 50.39% 12,367
Turner 419 15.66% 412 15.40% 1,845 68.95% 2,676
Twiggs 336 14.51% 812 35.08% 1,167 50.41% 2,315
Union 1,221 39.37% 974 31.41% 906 29.22% 3,101
Upson 1,494 22.73% 1,480 22.52% 3,599 54.75% 6,573
Walker 3,664 25.58% 1,930 13.48% 8,725 60.92% 2 0.00% 14,321
Walton 1,399 19.99% 1,552 22.18% 4,047 57.83% 6,998
Ware 2,047 20.07% 2,255 22.11% 5,895 57.81% 10,197
Warren 406 23.13% 582 33.16% 767 43.70% 1,755
Washington 1,247 26.43% 1,443 30.58% 2,029 43.00% 4,719
Wayne 1,313 22.97% 980 17.15% 3,422 59.88% 5,715
Webster 72 10.10% 147 20.62% 494 69.28% 713
Wheeler 251 15.00% 488 29.17% 934 55.83% 1,673
White 762 32.36% 435 18.47% 1,157 49.13% 1 0.00% 2,355
Whitfield 4,828 41.95% 2,723 23.66% 3,954 34.36% 3 0.00% 11,508
Wilcox 381 14.28% 465 17.43% 1,822 68.29% 2,668
Wilkes 873 24.70% 953 26.96% 1,709 48.35% 3,535
Wilkinson 685 20.24% 829 24.50% 1,870 55.26% 3,384
Worth 603 13.79% 719 16.45% 3,049 69.74% 1 0.00% 4,372
Totals380,11130.40%334,44026.75%535,55042.83%1650.01%1,250,266

References

  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. 1968 Presidential General Election Results - Georgia US Election Atlas
  3. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004; pp. 94-95 ISBN 0786422173
  4. "1968 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.


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