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Pages in category "Candidates in the 1968 United States presidential election" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Additionally, this was the last election until 1988 in which the incumbent president was not on the ballot, and one of only two elections held since the Democrats and Republicans became the two major parties in U.S. politics where a presidential candidate from either party lost despite carrying two of the three Rust Belt states of Michigan ...
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
1968 United States vice-presidential candidates (7 P) Pages in category "Candidates in the 1968 United States elections" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
1968 United States vice-presidential candidates (7 P) Pages in category "1968 United States presidential election" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
From March 12 to June 11, 1968, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1968 United States presidential election.Former vice president Richard Nixon was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1968 Republican National Convention held from August 5 to August 8, 1968, in Miami Beach, Florida.
As of 2024, Wallace is the most recent third-party Presidential candidate to win a state's entire share of electoral votes. Nixon became the first former (non-sitting) vice president to win a presidential election; he was the only person to achieve that until former Vice President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
The 1968 presidential campaign of Hubert Humphrey began when Hubert Humphrey, the 38th and incumbent Vice President of the United States, decided to seek the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States on April 27, 1968, after incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson withdrew his bid for reelection to a second full term on March 31, 1968, and endorsed him as his successor.