United States presidential election in Virginia, 1968

November 5, 1968

President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Richard Nixon
Republican

The 1968 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 5, 1968. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Virginia voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President of the United States.

Virginia was won by former Vice-President Richard Nixon of New York with 43.41% of the vote, who was running against incumbent Vice-President Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Nixon also won the national election with 43.42% of the vote. Regardless, all candidates had strong regional support in the state; Nixon's votes came mostly from Northern Virginia and the Appalachian Mountain areas, while Humphrey's votes were mainly from the Tidewater region. Wallace received the most votes in the Southern Virginia counties.^[1]

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Results

United States presidential election in Virginia, 1968^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Republican	Richard Nixon	590,319	43.41%	12
	Democratic	Hubert Humphrey	442,387	32.53%	0
	American Independent	George Wallace	320,272	23.55%	0
	Socialist Labor	Henning A. Blomen	4,671	0.34%	0
	Peace and Freedom	Dick Gregory	1,680	0.12%	0
	Prohibition	E. Harold Munn	599	0.04%	0
Totals			1,359,928	100.00%	12

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