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Wallace also received the vote of one North Carolina elector who was pledged to Nixon. Wallace's percentage vote of 13.53% is considerably less than the 19% won by Ross Perot in 1992 who unlike Wallace did not win any electoral votes. Wallace was the most popular 1968 presidential candidate among young men. [14]
Governor George Wallace (D-AL) Electoral history of George Wallace , 45th governor of Alabama (1963–1967, 1971–1979, 1983–1987), 1968 American Independent Party presidential nominee and candidate for 1964, 1972 and 1976 Democratic Party presidential nomination
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, ... Wallace also received the vote of one North Carolina elector who had been ... from the National Archives and Records ...
The incumbent in 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 1969. In the election of 1964, incumbent Democratic U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson won the largest popular vote landslide in U.S. presidential election history over Republican U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater.
In early polls it was thought that Wallace would carry the state, [6] but a major swing against him and toward Republican nominee Richard Nixon during October and November saw Nixon win the state, with 39.5 percent of the vote, whilst Wallace's 31.3 percent still pushed Democratic nominee and incumbent Vice-President Hubert Humphrey into third ...
Popular vote Electoral vote Running mate Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote Richard Nixon: Republican: New York: 1,067,885 50.29% 13 Spiro Agnew: Maryland: 13 Hubert Humphrey: Democrat: Minnesota: 806,659 37.99% 0 Edmund Muskie: Maine: 0 George Wallace: George Wallace Party: Alabama: 243,108 11.45% 0 S ...
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.
The American Independent candidate, Southern populist Governor George Wallace of Alabama, did not have a serious impact on the race. While taking 13.53% nationally and winning electoral votes from five Deep South states, A Boston Globe poll in October had Wallace with 8% support but had collapsed to take only 3.73% of the vote in Massachusetts ...