Election in Oklahoma
1968 United States presidential election in Oklahoma
Nominee
Richard Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
George Wallace
Party
Republican
Democratic
American Independent
Home state
New York [a]
Minnesota
Alabama
Running mate
Spiro Agnew
Edmund Muskie
Curtis LeMay
Electoral vote
8
0
0
Popular vote
449,697
301,658
191,731
Percentage
47.7%
32.0%
20.3%
County Results
Nixon
30-40%
40-50%
50-60%
60-70%
70-80%
Humphrey
30-40%
40-50%
50-60%
Wallace
30-40%
President before election
Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic
Elected President
Richard Nixon
Republican
The 1968 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 5, 1968. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1968 United States presidential election . Voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College , which selected the president and vice president of the United States.
Former Vice President Richard Nixon , the Republican nominee, won the state of Oklahoma with 449,697 votes and 47.68 percent of the vote, with Vice President Hubert Humphrey , the Democratic nominee, taking 301,658 votes and 31.99 percent of the vote, followed by American Independent George Wallace , who took 191,731 votes and 20.33 percent of the vote.[1] Wallace’s performance is the second-best by a third-party candidate in the Sooner State,[2] behind Ross Perot in 1992 . The Wallace pluralities in Atoka and Pushmataha Counties in the southeast marked the only occasion that a third-party candidate has ever carried any Oklahoma county.
Results [ ]
Electoral results
Presidential candidate
Party
Home state
Popular vote
Electoral vote
Running mate
Count
Percentage
Vice-presidential candidate
Home state
Electoral vote
Richard Nixon
Republican
New York
449,697
47.68%
8
Spiro Agnew
Maryland
8
Hubert Humphrey
Democrat
Minnesota
301,658
31.99%
0
Edmund Muskie
Maine
0
George Wallace
American
Alabama
191,731
20.33%
0
Curtis LeMay
California
0
Total
943,086
100%
8
8
Needed to win
270
270
Results by county [ ]
County
Richard Milhous Nixon
Republican
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Democratic
George Corley Wallace
American Independent
Total votes cast
#
%
#
%
#
%
Adair
2,877
53.02%
1,549
28.55%
1,000
18.43%
5,426
Alfalfa
2,672
69.46%
865
22.49%
310
8.06%
3,847
Atoka
1,131
27.29%
1,400
33.78%
1,613
38.92%
4,144
Beaver
2,114
68.70%
624
20.28%
339
11.02%
3,077
Beckham
2,935
42.92%
2,354
34.42%
1,550
22.66%
6,839
Blaine
3,036
60.08%
1,285
25.43%
732
14.49%
5,053
Bryan
2,727
33.24%
3,214
39.17%
2,264
27.59%
8,205
Caddo
4,712
43.70%
4,212
39.07%
1,858
17.23%
10,782
Canadian
5,891
49.12%
3,577
29.83%
2,525
21.05%
11,993
Carter
5,127
35.73%
5,807
40.47%
3,414
23.79%
14,348
Cherokee
3,971
47.32%
2,554
30.44%
1,866
22.24%
8,391
Choctaw
1,414
26.03%
2,268
41.74%
1,751
32.23%
5,433
Cimarron
1,122
53.81%
436
20.91%
527
25.28%
2,085
Cleveland
12,446
48.29%
8,617
33.43%
4,711
18.28%
25,774
Coal
669
29.64%
963
42.67%
625
27.69%
2,257
Comanche
9,225
39.82%
8,061
34.80%
5,879
25.38%
23,165
Cotton
1,016
32.64%
1,192
38.29%
905
29.07%
3,113
Craig
2,686
44.67%
2,098
34.89%
1,229
20.44%
6,013
Creek
6,934
43.34%
5,151
32.20%
3,913
24.46%
15,998
Custer
4,709
56.31%
2,717
32.49%
936
11.19%
8,362
Delaware
3,168
47.29%
2,129
31.78%
1,402
20.93%
6,699
Dewey
1,508
53.46%
773
27.40%
540
19.14%
2,821
Ellis
1,601
62.54%
533
20.82%
426
16.64%
2,560
Garfield
14,370
61.99%
5,802
25.03%
3,011
12.99%
23,183
Garvin
3,786
36.75%
3,845
37.33%
2,670
25.92%
10,301
Grady
4,242
38.15%
4,760
42.81%
2,117
19.04%
11,119
Grant
2,403
61.82%
1,047
26.94%
437
11.24%
3,887
Greer
1,225
35.26%
1,419
40.85%
830
23.89%
3,474
Harmon
644
30.04%
1,097
51.17%
403
18.80%
2,144
Harper
1,483
63.00%
518
22.01%
353
15.00%
2,354
Haskell
1,516
37.05%
1,563
38.20%
1,013
24.76%
4,092
Hughes
1,897
33.60%
2,578
45.67%
1,170
20.73%
5,645
Jackson
2,248
30.36%
3,371
45.52%
1,786
24.12%
7,405
Jefferson
780
25.09%
1,628
52.36%
701
22.55%
3,109
Johnston
1,048
32.37%
1,216
37.55%
974
30.08%
3,238
Kay
12,751
59.06%
6,031
27.93%
2,809
13.01%
21,591
Kingfisher
3,558
64.64%
1,226
22.27%
720
13.08%
5,504
Kiowa
2,418
43.22%
2,219
39.67%
957
17.11%
5,594
Latimer
1,091
32.73%
1,350
40.50%
892
26.76%
3,333
Le Flore
3,600
32.83%
4,020
36.66%
3,345
30.51%
10,965
Lincoln
3,855
47.43%
2,304
28.35%
1,969
24.22%
8,128
Logan
3,960
48.55%
2,508
30.75%
1,689
20.71%
8,157
Love
677
28.52%
931
39.22%
766
32.27%
2,374
McClain
2,047
36.98%
1,842
33.27%
1,647
29.75%
5,536
McCurtain
2,795
32.43%
2,944
34.16%
2,880
33.41%
8,619
McIntosh
1,532
33.71%
1,759
38.70%
1,254
27.59%
4,545
Major
2,550
72.84%
594
16.97%
357
10.20%
3,501
Marshall
1,209
35.71%
1,191
35.17%
986
29.12%
3,386
Mayes
4,260
44.63%
2,855
29.91%
2,431
25.47%
9,546
Murray
1,454
34.18%
1,773
41.68%
1,027
24.14%
4,254
Muskogee
8,707
38.39%
9,377
41.34%
4,596
20.26%
22,680
Noble
2,911
58.92%
1,412
28.58%
618
12.51%
4,941
Nowata
2,116
46.92%
1,314
29.14%
1,080
23.95%
4,510
Okfuskee
1,686
37.94%
1,777
39.99%
981
22.07%
4,444
Oklahoma
93,212
49.73%
60,395
32.22%
33,834
18.05%
187,441
Okmulgee
4,709
34.81%
6,089
45.02%
2,728
20.17%
13,526
Osage
5,499
46.50%
3,919
33.14%
2,407
20.36%
11,825
Ottawa
5,000
44.48%
4,820
42.88%
1,421
12.64%
11,241
Pawnee
2,437
51.09%
1,343
28.16%
990
20.75%
4,770
Payne
9,577
53.73%
5,772
32.38%
2,475
13.89%
17,824
Pittsburg
3,978
28.79%
6,112
44.24%
3,726
26.97%
13,816
Pontotoc
4,161
38.26%
4,291
39.45%
2,425
22.29%
10,877
Pottawatomie
6,899
39.44%
6,721
38.42%
3,873
22.14%
17,493
Pushmataha
1,225
32.72%
1,232
32.91%
1,287
34.38%
3,744
Roger Mills
1,102
45.31%
720
29.61%
610
25.08%
2,432
Rogers
4,631
44.37%
2,665
25.53%
3,141
30.09%
10,437
Seminole
3,711
38.09%
3,889
39.92%
2,142
21.99%
9,742
Sequoyah
2,797
36.93%
2,618
34.57%
2,158
28.50%
7,573
Stephens
5,508
38.46%
5,249
36.65%
3,566
24.90%
14,323
Texas
3,729
63.65%
1,176
20.07%
954
16.28%
5,859
Tillman
1,748
35.71%
1,771
36.18%
1,376
28.11%
4,895
Tulsa
81,476
57.11%
32,748
22.95%
28,443
19.94%
142,667
Wagoner
3,187
41.76%
2,183
28.60%
2,262
29.64%
7,632
Washington
12,812
62.36%
4,641
22.59%
3,091
15.05%
20,544
Washita
2,592
49.65%
1,771
33.92%
858
16.43%
5,221
Woods
3,449
63.81%
1,439
26.62%
517
9.57%
5,405
Woodward
3,748
64.01%
1,444
24.66%
663
11.32%
5,855
Totals
449,697
47.68%
301,658
31.99%
191,731
20.33%
943,086
See also [ ]
Notes [ ]
^ 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.
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