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1968 United States presidential election in Georgia

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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
← 1964 November 5, 1968 1972 →
 
Nominee George Wallace Richard Nixon Hubert Humphrey
Party American Independent Republican Democratic
Home state Alabama New York[1] Minnesota
Running mate Curtis LeMay Spiro Agnew Edmund Muskie
Electoral vote 12 0 0
Popular vote 535,550 380,111 334,440
Percentage 42.83% 30.40% 26.75%
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 ten, all either suburban Atlanta, Athens, or Augusta area counties, or historically pro-Union counties of North Georgia. Owing to Wallace's sweep of almost all of the state south of the Unionist North Georgia counties and outside of Atlanta, Cobb and DeKalb counties were two of only three amongst 210 Southern counties carried by Goldwater for the Republicans for the first time ever or since Reconstruction to vote for Nixon.[3]

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

51% of white voters supported Wallace, 36% supported Nixon, and 13% supported Humphrey.[5][6][7]

Results

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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

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County[8] George Wallace
American Independent 		Richard Nixon
Republican 		Hubert Humphrey
Democratic 		Various candidates
Write-ins 		Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # %
Appling 2,678 63.26% 795 18.78% 760 17.95% 1,883 44.48% 4,233
Atkinson 1,554 61.47% 288 11.39% 686 27.14% 868 34.33% 2,528
Bacon 1,935 69.11% 586 20.93% 279 9.96% 1,349 48.18% 2,800
Baker 1,067 62.25% 99 5.78% 548 31.97% 519 30.28% 1,714
Baldwin 2,678 37.66% 2,318 32.60% 2,109 29.66% 6 0.10% 360 5.06% 7,111
Banks 1,434 67.39% 398 18.70% 296 13.91% 1,036 48.69% 2,128
Barrow 2,731 52.79% 1,372 26.52% 1,070 20.68% 1,359 26.27% 5,173
Bartow 4,052 49.11% 2,045 24.78% 2,149 26.05% 5 0.10% 1,903 23.06% 8,251
Ben Hill 1,833 54.38% 661 19.61% 876 25.99% 1 0.00% 957 28.39% 3,371
Berrien 2,810 73.41% 566 14.79% 451 11.78% 1 0.00% 2,244 58.62% 3,828
Bibb 17,328 41.86% 13,490 32.59% 10,579 25.55% 3,838 9.27% 41,397
Bleckley 2,458 68.07% 756 20.94% 396 10.97% 1 0.00% 1,702 47.13% 3,611
Brantley 1,709 75.52% 237 10.47% 317 14.01% 1,392 61.51% 2,263
Brooks 2,404 63.60% 589 15.58% 787 20.82% 1,617 42.78% 3,780
Bryan 1,428 60.28% 381 16.08% 560 23.64% 868 36.64% 2,369
Bulloch 3,953 50.33% 2,113 26.90% 1,788 22.77% 1,840 23.43% 7,854
Burke 1,802 36.82% 1,416 28.93% 1,676 34.25% 126 2.57% 4,894
Butts 1,490 49.13% 584 19.25% 959 31.62% 531 17.51% 3,033
Calhoun 979 51.26% 234 12.25% 697 36.49% 282 14.77% 1,910
Camden 1,988 51.17% 751 19.33% 1,146 29.50% 842 21.67% 3,885
Candler 1,624 58.78% 552 19.98% 587 21.25% 1,037 37.53% 2,763
Carroll 6,509 54.38% 3,135 26.19% 2,326 19.43% 3,374 28.19% 11,970
Catoosa 6,449 68.66% 2,043 21.75% 901 9.59% 4,406 46.91% 9,393
Charlton 1,157 59.52% 332 17.08% 455 23.41% 702 36.11% 1,944
Chatham 17,238 32.19% 18,106 33.81% 18,201 33.99% -95 -0.18% 53,545
Chattahoochee 303 58.16% 70 13.44% 148 28.41% 155 29.75% 521
Chattooga 3,024 56.35% 1,087 20.26% 1,255 23.39% 1,769 32.96% 5,366
Cherokee 3,351 44.91% 2,675 35.85% 1,434 19.22% 2 0.00% 676 9.06% 7,462
Clarke 3,452 23.31% 5,800 39.17% 5,543 37.43% 13 0.10% -257 -1.74% 14,808
Clay 608 48.33% 133 10.57% 516 41.02% 1 0.10% 92 7.31% 1,258
Clayton 11,665 49.77% 8,256 35.22% 3,510 14.98% 7 0.00% 3,409 14.55% 23,438
Clinch 1,142 64.16% 304 17.08% 334 18.76% 808 45.40% 1,780
Cobb 17,805 39.38% 18,649 41.25% 8,755 19.37% -844 -1.87% 45,209
Coffee 3,785 59.54% 1,241 19.52% 1,331 20.94% 2,454 38.60% 6,357
Colquitt 6,325 67.82% 1,882 20.18% 1,119 12.00% 4,443 47.64% 9,326
Columbia 2,207 46.48% 1,636 34.46% 905 19.06% 571 12.02% 4,748
Cook 2,438 68.41% 521 14.62% 603 16.92% 2 0.10% 1,835 51.49% 3,564
Coweta 3,791 50.97% 2,442 32.84% 1,204 16.19% 1,349 18.13% 7,437
Crawford 886 54.66% 246 15.18% 489 30.17% 397 24.49% 1,621
Crisp 3,271 62.63% 935 17.90% 1,017 19.47% 2,254 43.16% 5,223
Dade 2,460 73.32% 613 18.27% 282 8.41% 1,847 55.05% 3,355
Dawson 845 52.81% 509 31.81% 246 15.38% 336 21.00% 1,600
Decatur 4,576 64.87% 749 10.62% 1,729 24.51% 2,847 40.36% 7,054
DeKalb 23,954 22.98% 52,485 50.35% 27,796 26.67% 2 0.00% -24,689 -23.68% 104,237
Dodge 3,406 59.85% 1,055 18.54% 1,230 21.61% 2,176 38.24% 5,691
Dooly 1,803 57.49% 454 14.48% 879 28.03% 924 29.46% 3,136
Dougherty 9,317 49.66% 5,611 29.91% 3,831 20.42% 3 0.00% 3,706 19.75% 18,762
Douglas 4,159 57.37% 1,848 25.49% 1,242 17.13% 2,311 31.88% 7,249
Early 2,797 71.55% 327 8.37% 785 20.08% 2,012 51.47% 3,909
Echols 533 83.02% 53 8.26% 56 8.72% 477 74.30% 642
Effingham 2,561 64.59% 769 19.39% 635 16.02% 1,792 45.20% 3,965
Elbert 3,252 60.42% 914 16.98% 1,216 22.59% 2,036 37.83% 5,382
Emanuel 3,307 54.11% 1,297 21.22% 1,508 24.67% 1,799 29.44% 6,112
Evans 1,475 58.76% 543 21.63% 492 19.60% 932 37.13% 2,510
Fannin 1,188 20.16% 3,475 58.98% 1,229 20.86% -2,246 -38.12% 5,892
Fayette 1,888 57.09% 867 26.22% 551 16.66% 1 0.00% 1,021 30.87% 3,307
Floyd 10,001 46.49% 7,470 34.72% 4,036 18.76% 5 0.00% 2,531 11.77% 21,512
Forsyth 2,397 54.07% 1,389 31.33% 647 14.60% 1,008 22.74% 4,433
Franklin 2,691 64.49% 716 17.16% 766 18.36% 1,925 46.13% 4,173
Fulton 36,995 20.66% 64,153 35.83% 77,847 43.47% 73 0.00% -13,694 -7.64% 179,068
Gilmer 1,259 31.30% 2,074 51.55% 690 17.15% -815 -20.25% 4,023
Glascock 733 75.96% 185 19.17% 47 4.87% 548 56.79% 965
Glynn 5,341 43.36% 3,725 30.24% 3,247 26.36% 4 0.00% 1,616 13.12% 12,317
Gordon 3,077 50.83% 1,815 29.99% 1,161 19.18% 1,262 20.84% 6,053
Grady 3,817 65.78% 561 9.67% 1,425 24.56% 2,392 41.22% 5,803
Greene 1,223 34.84% 652 18.58% 1,635 46.58% -412 -11.74% 3,510
Gwinnett 8,909 50.94% 5,350 30.59% 3,226 18.45% 4 0.00% 3,559 20.35% 17,489
Habersham 3,008 52.87% 1,611 28.32% 1,070 18.81% 1,397 24.55% 5,689
Hall 5,546 40.65% 4,923 36.08% 3,174 23.26% 623 4.57% 13,643
Hancock 1,104 30.25% 381 10.44% 2,165 59.32% -1,061 -29.07% 3,650
Haralson 3,251 59.40% 1,451 26.51% 771 14.09% 1,800 32.89% 5,473
Harris 1,851 46.93% 1,021 25.89% 1,072 27.18% 779 19.75% 3,944
Hart 3,208 67.20% 586 12.27% 979 20.51% 1 0.00% 2,229 46.69% 4,774
Heard 1,153 63.63% 303 16.72% 356 19.65% 797 43.98% 1,812
Henry 3,604 45.40% 2,017 25.41% 2,317 29.19% 1,287 16.21% 7,938
Houston 7,339 50.76% 4,285 29.64% 2,831 19.58% 2 0.00% 3,054 21.12% 14,457
Irwin 1,955 68.36% 430 15.03% 474 16.57% 1 0.00% 1,481 51.79% 2,860
Jackson 3,473 56.48% 1,139 18.52% 1,537 25.00% 1,936 31.48% 6,149
Jasper 926 41.77% 456 20.57% 835 37.66% 91 4.11% 2,217
Jeff Davis 1,958 67.26% 577 19.82% 376 12.92% 1,381 47.44% 2,911
Jefferson 2,090 40.05% 1,227 23.51% 1,899 36.39% 2 0.00% 191 3.66% 5,218
Jenkins 1,249 49.43% 574 22.71% 704 27.86% 545 21.57% 2,527
Johnson 2,041 71.16% 381 13.28% 446 15.55% 1,595 55.61% 2,868
Jones 1,770 49.61% 693 19.42% 1,105 30.97% 665 18.64% 3,568
Lamar 1,440 51.34% 575 20.50% 790 28.16% 650 23.18% 2,805
Lanier 1,024 66.41% 241 15.63% 277 17.96% 747 48.45% 1,542
Laurens 6,649 51.79% 2,738 21.33% 3,451 26.88% 3,198 24.91% 12,838
Lee 1,201 53.05% 389 17.18% 673 29.73% 1 0.00% 528 23.32% 2,264
Liberty 1,365 38.68% 592 16.78% 1,572 44.55% -207 -5.87% 3,529
Lincoln 1,290 58.93% 408 18.64% 491 22.43% 799 36.50% 2,189
Long 1,037 58.69% 156 8.83% 574 32.48% 463 26.21% 1,767
Lowndes 5,679 50.91% 3,073 27.55% 2,402 21.53% 2,606 23.36% 11,154
Lumpkin 1,048 49.18% 687 32.24% 396 18.58% 361 16.94% 2,131
McDuffie 1,709 42.46% 1,324 32.89% 991 24.62% 1 0.00% 385 9.57% 4,025
McIntosh 841 40.07% 315 15.01% 943 44.93% -102 -4.86% 2,099
Macon 1,559 50.11% 598 19.22% 954 30.67% 605 19.44% 3,111
Madison 2,529 67.42% 600 16.00% 621 16.56% 1 0.00% 1,908 50.86% 3,751
Marion 849 66.22% 186 14.51% 247 19.27% 602 46.95% 1,282
Meriwether 2,571 47.17% 1,120 20.55% 1,760 32.29% 811 14.88% 5,451
Miller 1,862 81.60% 249 10.91% 171 7.49% 1,613 70.69% 2,282
Mitchell 3,647 64.73% 731 12.97% 1,255 22.28% 1 0.00% 2,392 42.45% 5,634
Monroe 1,422 44.16% 770 23.91% 1,028 31.93% 394 12.23% 3,220
Montgomery 1,433 62.63% 352 15.38% 503 21.98% 930 40.65% 2,288
Morgan 1,391 46.68% 616 20.67% 973 32.65% 418 14.03% 2,980
Murray 1,750 45.50% 1,278 33.23% 818 21.27% 472 12.27% 3,846
Muscogee 15,804 45.69% 11,193 32.36% 7,591 21.95% 2 0.00% 4,611 13.33% 34,590
Newton 3,017 45.20% 1,660 24.87% 1,996 29.90% 2 0.00% 1,021 15.30% 6,675
Oconee 1,405 55.49% 713 28.16% 414 16.35% 692 27.33% 2,532
Oglethorpe 1,737 66.73% 383 14.71% 483 18.56% 1,254 48.17% 2,603
Paulding 3,054 60.43% 977 19.33% 1,023 20.24% 2,031 40.19% 5,054
Peach 1,638 41.96% 904 23.16% 1,362 34.89% 276 7.07% 3,904
Pickens 1,392 37.34% 1,659 44.50% 677 18.16% -267 -7.16% 3,728
Pierce 2,144 66.38% 579 17.93% 507 15.70% 1,565 48.45% 3,230
Pike 1,442 59.61% 345 14.26% 632 26.13% 810 33.48% 2,419
Polk 4,240 53.16% 1,729 21.68% 2,007 25.16% 2,233 28.00% 7,976
Pulaski 1,569 58.59% 595 22.22% 514 19.19% 974 36.37% 2,678
Putnam 1,177 42.91% 594 21.66% 972 35.44% 205 7.47% 2,743
Quitman 459 61.45% 90 12.05% 198 26.51% 261 34.94% 747
Rabun 1,407 52.52% 680 25.38% 590 22.02% 2 0.10% 727 27.14% 2,679
Randolph 1,438 48.45% 502 16.91% 1,028 34.64% 410 13.81% 2,968
Richmond 9,532 26.26% 14,993 41.30% 11,770 32.42% 7 0.00% -3,223 -8.88% 36,302
Rockdale 2,215 47.91% 1,195 25.85% 1,213 26.24% 1,002 21.67% 4,623
Schley 619 56.68% 164 15.02% 309 28.30% 310 28.38% 1,092
Screven 1,830 44.02% 916 22.04% 1,411 33.94% 419 10.08% 4,157
Seminole 1,922 77.10% 201 8.06% 369 14.80% 1 0.00% 1,553 62.30% 2,493
Spalding 4,953 45.11% 3,077 28.03% 2,949 26.86% 1,876 17.08% 10,979
Stephens 2,802 54.60% 1,295 25.23% 1,035 20.17% 1,507 29.37% 5,132
Stewart 932 56.35% 233 14.09% 489 29.56% 443 26.79% 1,654
Sumter 3,489 53.08% 1,383 21.04% 1,701 25.88% 1,788 27.20% 6,573
Talbot 688 45.41% 317 20.92% 510 33.66% 178 11.75% 1,515
Taliaferro 508 35.83% 232 16.36% 678 47.81% -170 -11.98% 1,418
Tattnall 3,405 65.30% 852 16.34% 957 18.35% 2,448 46.95% 5,214
Taylor 1,626 60.00% 393 14.50% 691 25.50% 935 34.50% 2,710
Telfair 2,502 58.73% 720 16.90% 1,038 24.37% 1,464 34.36% 4,260
Terrell 1,798 49.68% 545 15.06% 1,275 35.23% 1 0.00% 523 14.45% 3,619
Thomas 5,039 50.98% 2,261 22.87% 2,583 26.13% 2 0.00% 2,456 24.85% 9,885
Tift 3,942 57.79% 1,692 24.81% 1,187 17.40% 2,250 32.98% 6,821
Toombs 3,405 59.76% 1,397 24.52% 896 15.72% 2,008 35.24% 5,698
Towns 589 20.66% 1,492 52.33% 770 27.01% -722 -25.32% 2,851
Treutlen 1,081 57.01% 474 25.00% 341 17.99% 607 32.01% 1,896
Troup 6,232 50.39% 3,239 26.19% 2,896 23.42% 2,993 24.20% 12,367
Turner 1,845 68.95% 419 15.66% 412 15.40% 1,426 53.29% 2,676
Twiggs 1,167 50.41% 336 14.51% 812 35.08% 355 15.33% 2,315
Union 906 29.22% 1,221 39.37% 974 31.41% -247 -7.96% 3,101
Upson 3,599 54.75% 1,494 22.73% 1,480 22.52% 2,105 32.02% 6,573
Walker 8,725 60.92% 3,664 25.58% 1,930 13.48% 2 0.00% 5,061 35.34% 14,321
Walton 4,047 57.83% 1,399 19.99% 1,552 22.18% 2,495 35.65% 6,998
Ware 5,895 57.81% 2,047 20.07% 2,255 22.11% 3,640 35.70% 10,197
Warren 767 43.70% 406 23.13% 582 33.16% 185 10.54% 1,755
Washington 2,029 43.00% 1,247 26.43% 1,443 30.58% 586 12.42% 4,719
Wayne 3,422 59.88% 1,313 22.97% 980 17.15% 2,109 36.91% 5,715
Webster 494 69.28% 72 10.10% 147 20.62% 347 48.66% 713
Wheeler 934 55.83% 251 15.00% 488 29.17% 446 26.66% 1,673
White 1,157 49.13% 762 32.36% 435 18.47% 1 0.00% 395 16.77% 2,355
Whitfield 3,954 34.36% 4,828 41.95% 2,723 23.66% 3 0.00% -874 -7.59% 11,508
Wilcox 1,822 68.29% 381 14.28% 465 17.43% 1,357 50.86% 2,668
Wilkes 1,709 48.35% 873 24.70% 953 26.96% 756 21.39% 3,535
Wilkinson 1,870 55.26% 685 20.24% 829 24.50% 1,041 30.76% 3,384
Worth 3,049 69.74% 603 13.79% 719 16.45% 1 0.00% 2,330 53.29% 4,372
Totals 535,550 42.83% 380,111 30.40% 334,440 26.75% 165 0.01% 155,439 12.43% 1,250,266

Counties that flipped from Republican to American Independent

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Counties that flipped from Democratic to American Independent

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Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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Notes

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References

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  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. ^ a b 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.
  5. ^ Black & Black 1992, p. 147.
  6. ^ Black & Black 1992, p. 295.
  7. ^ Black & Black 1992, p. 335.
  8. ^ Fortson, Jr., Ben W. (1968). Official state of Georgia tabulation by counties for Presidential Electors, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representatives, state officers and constitutional amendments, General Election November 5, 1968 (PDF) (Report). Georgia Secretary of State.

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