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The American Political Almanac
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The Nation Decides

Electoral votes, the popular vote, and how every state moved
Hubert Humphrey
Democrat
Hubert Humphrey
191
Electoral votes
42.7% · 31,421,880
President · The Long Realignment

1968

Nixon def. Humphrey, 301–191
pledged 191–302vote totals summed from county returns
✓ Won
Richard Nixon
Republican
Richard Nixon
301
Electoral votes
43.4% · 31,752,894
George Wallace
American Independent
George Wallace
13.5% of the vote · 46 electoral votes
Electoral college — 247 to win (493 electors · 538 cast)191 D · 301 R · 46 other
Popular vote — a three-cornered race42.7% · 43.4% · other 13.9% · margin R+0.7

73,081,690 votes counted (summed from counties) · Excludes third-party votes in 1 county whose source totals are double-counted.

Electoral map — one tile per state · coloured by county-summed popular vote
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R+40D+40third party won

Grey states were carried by a third-party ticket — the two-party margin shading does not apply there.

Per-state electoral vote detail is staged from 1976; earlier years show the national college in the bar above, and states are coloured by their county-summed popular vote.

Missouri: the source double-counts some county totals this year, so third-party vote there is understated (shown with a +).

The swing from last time
Change in each state’s margin since 1964 · ← toward Republicans · toward Democrats →

The Map Beneath the Map

Three thousand counties, and the demography of the divide

Every county that cast a ballot, shaded by its margin. Hover any county to read it; click to open its 156-year profile. Scrub the timeline above and the map redraws in place. Vote counts exist for all forty elections; the demographic lenses begin in 2000.

County margin

Drawing three thousand counties…

R+40D+40no returns

Who Voted for Whom

The American electorate by income, education, faith and more

How each slice of the electorate split between the parties — by their own account. Weighted ANES self-reports from a national sample: they tilt slightly toward the winner and carry no county detail.

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Notes on this election

  • Wallace carried five Southern states — the last third-party electoral votes won at the ballot box. The New Deal coalition broke.