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Wallace became the most recent third-party candidate (as of 2025) to carry any state in a presidential election. This was the first presidential election after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which began restoring voting rights to Black Americans in the South, who had been disenfranchised for decades under Jim Crow. [4]
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 ...
The 1968 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon, the 36th vice president of the United States, began when Nixon, the Republican nominee of 1960, formally announced his candidacy, following a year's preparation and five years' political reorganization after defeats in the 1960 presidential election and the 1962 California gubernatorial election.
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 .
Presidential election year: Election day: November 5: Incumbent president: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic) Next Congress: 91st: Presidential election; Partisan control: Republican gain: Popular vote margin: Republican +0.7%: Electoral vote: Richard Nixon (R) 301: Hubert Humphrey (D) 191: George Wallace (AI) 46: 1968 presidential election results.
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.
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 ...
Had Humphrey come out victorious in California, Nixon would have earned only 261 electoral votes, and thus, the election would have been sent to the United States House of Representatives. As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last time California had less electoral votes than New York, or that a Democrat had won Kings County. [2]