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Gregory ran for president in the 1968 United States presidential election as a write-in candidate of the Freedom and Peace Party, which had broken off from the Peace and Freedom Party. He garnered 47,097 votes, including one from Hunter S. Thompson , [ 21 ] with fellow activist Mark Lane as his running mate in some states.
1968 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania [1] Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Democratic: Hubert Humphrey: 2,259,405: 47.59%: 29: Republican: Richard Nixon: 2,090,017 44.02% 0 American Independent: George Wallace: 378,582 7.97% 0 Peace and Freedom: Dick Gregory: 7,821 0.16% 0 Socialist Labor: Henning A. Blomen ...
Richard Nixon campaign rally, July 1968. The front-runner for the Republican nomination was former Vice President Richard Nixon, who formally began campaigning in January 1968. [9] Nixon had worked behind the scenes and was instrumental in Republican gains in Congress and governorships in the 1966 midterm elections.
The 1968 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 5, 1968. All 50 states and the District of Columbia , were part of the 1968 United States presidential election . Voters chose 43 electors to the Electoral College , which selected the president and vice president .
The 1968 United States elections were held on November 5, and elected members of the 91st United States Congress. The election took place during the Vietnam War , in the same year as the Tet Offensive , the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. , the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy , and the protests of 1968 .
The 1968 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary was held on March 12, 1968, in New Hampshire as one of the Republican Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1968 United States presidential election.
A viral exchange on X blames President Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision to withdraw from the race for Nixon’s election. No, Richard Nixon’s 1968 Election Win Wasn’t ‘A Landslide’ Skip to ...
1968 United States presidential election in Delaware Party Candidate Votes % Republican: Richard Nixon: 96,714 : 45.12% : Democratic: Hubert Humphrey: 89,194 41.61% American Independent George Wallace: 28,459 13.28% Total votes 214,367 : 100.00%