United States presidential election in Alabama, 1968

United States presidential election in Alabama, 1968

November 5, 1968

All 10 Alabama electoral votes to the Electoral College   Nominee George Wallace Hubert Humphrey Richard Nixon Party American Independent Democratic Republican Home state Alabama Minnesota New York Running mate Curtis LeMay Edmund Muskie Spiro Agnew Electoral vote 10 0 0 Popular vote 691,425 196,597 146,923 Percentage 65.86% 18.72% 13.99%

County Results   Humphrey—60-70%   Humphrey—50-60%   Humphrey—<50%   Wallace—<50%   Wallace—50-60%   Wallace—60-70%   Wallace—70-80%   Wallace—80-90%   Wallace—>90%

President before election Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Elected President Richard Nixon Republican

The United States presidential election in Alabama, 1968 was held on November 5, 1968.

Southern populist and segregationist candidate George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama running as a third party candidate with his American Independent Party, won his home state in a landslide. Wallace received the official Democratic Party ballot line in Alabama, while national Democratic Party nominee Hubert H. Humphrey was forced to run on the National Democratic party ballot line. ^[1]

Wallace won 65.86% to Democrat Hubert Humphrey's 18.72%, a 47.13% margin. Republican Richard Nixon, while narrowly winning the election nationally, finished a distant third in Alabama with only 13.99%.

Reflecting his statewide landslide, Wallace won 64 of the state's 67 counties. As African-Americans in the South were slowly gaining the right to vote as a result of federal civil rights legislation passed in 1964 and 1965, Wallace's weakest region was Alabama's Black Belt, where he won most counties with narrow majorities or pluralities. He lost three counties in this region, Sumter County, Greene County, and Macon County, all with large black populations, to pro-civil rights candidate Hubert Humphrey. In black-majority Macon County, pro-civil rights Democrat Hubert Humphrey won a commanding landslide, taking 69.7% of the vote to Wallace's 25.4%, reflecting the deep divide between the state's white and black voter populations.

Results

General Election Results^[2]

Party	Nominee	Popular Vote	Percentage	Electoral Vote
Democrat (American Independent)	George Wallace	691,425	65.86%	10
National Democratic (Democratic)	Hubert Humphrey	196,597	18.72%	0
Republican	Richard Nixon	146,923	13.99%	0
N/A	All Others	14,990	1.42%	0

References

1. "1968 Presidential General Election Results - Alabama". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2014-09-02.
2. http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1968&fips=1&f=0

See also