1968 United States presidential election in Wyoming

1968 United States presidential election in Wyoming
Nixon 40-50% 50-60% 60-70% 70-80%	Humphrey 40-50% 50-60%
President before election; Lyndon B. Johnson; Democratic	Elected President ; Richard Nixon; Republican

The 1968 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 5, 1968. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1968 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Wyoming was won by the Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, running with Governor of Maryland Spiro Agnew. Together they defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and his running mate, Senator Edmund Muskie from Maine.

Nixon carried Wyoming with 55.76% of the vote to Humphrey's 35.51%, a victory margin of 20.25%. This marked a 33.45% swing to the right from 1964, when the state had voted for Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson by 13.2%. Also on the ballot was former and future Alabama Governor George Wallace, running as an Independent in Wyoming. Although Wallace carried five states in the South, he had only modest appeal in Wyoming. His performance was the best by any third-party candidate in Wyoming since Robert La Follette won nearly a third of the vote in 1924, but nonetheless did not equal his vote share in the fellow Western states of Alaska, Idaho and Nevada.

With 55.76 percent of the popular vote, Wyoming would prove to be Nixon's fifth strongest state in the 1968 election after Nebraska, Idaho, Utah and North Dakota.^[1]

Results

1968 United States presidential election in Wyoming^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Richard Nixon	70,927	55.76%
	Democratic	Hubert Humphrey	45,173	35.51%
	Independent	George Wallace	11,105	8.73%
Total votes			127,205	100.00%

Results by county

County^[2]	Richard Nixon Republican		Lyndon B. Johnson Democrat		George Wallace Independent		Margin		Total votes cast
County^[2]	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast
Albany	4,422	48.71%	4,079	44.93%	578	6.37%	343	3.78%	9,079
Big Horn	2,771	64.07%	1,201	27.77%	353	8.16%	1,570	36.30%	4,325
Campbell	1,694	66.67%	558	21.96%	289	11.37%	1,136	44.71%	2,541
Carbon	2,532	44.77%	2,725	48.18%	399	7.05%	-193	-3.41%	5,656
Converse	1,658	69.61%	492	20.65%	232	9.74%	1,166	48.96%	2,382
Crook	1,240	71.55%	318	18.35%	175	10.10%	922	53.20%	1,733
Fremont	5,417	57.64%	3,093	32.91%	888	9.45%	2,324	24.73%	9,398
Goshen	2,719	57.65%	1,529	32.42%	468	9.92%	1,190	25.23%	4,716
Hot Springs	1,273	59.38%	705	32.88%	166	7.74%	568	26.50%	2,144
Johnson	1,737	73.85%	398	16.92%	217	9.23%	1,339	56.93%	2,352
Laramie	9,824	46.80%	9,519	45.35%	1,649	7.86%	305	1.45%	20,992
Lincoln	2,030	57.01%	1,246	34.99%	285	8.00%	784	22.02%	3,561
Natrona	10,679	57.19%	5,900	31.59%	2,095	11.22%	4,779	25.60%	18,674
Niobrara	1,136	76.24%	250	16.78%	104	6.98%	886	59.46%	1,490
Park	4,677	65.56%	1,852	25.96%	605	8.48%	2,825	39.60%	7,134
Platte	1,613	54.36%	1,035	34.88%	319	10.75%	578	19.48%	2,967
Sheridan	5,163	61.22%	2,659	31.53%	612	7.26%	2,504	29.69%	8,434
Sublette	1,152	68.25%	310	18.36%	226	13.39%	842	49.89%	1,688
Sweetwater	2,726	36.60%	4,086	54.85%	637	8.55%	-1,360	-18.25%	7,449
Teton	1,419	69.25%	461	22.50%	169	8.25%	958	46.75%	2,049
Uinta	1,510	52.36%	1,199	41.57%	175	6.07%	311	10.79%	2,884
Washakie	2,038	64.01%	948	29.77%	198	6.22%	1,090	34.24%	3,184
Weston	1,497	63.08%	610	25.71%	266	11.21%	887	37.37%	2,373
Totals	70,927	55.76%	45,173	35.51%	11,105	8.73%	25,754	20.25%	127,205

County flips from 1964:

Democratic

Hold

Republican

Hold

Gain from Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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.

References

^ "1968 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
^ ^a ^b Wyoming Secretary of State (1969). "Summary - Official Vote General Election, November 5, 1968". 1969 Wyoming Official Directory and 1968 Election Returns. p. 81. Retrieved October 18, 2024.

[1] 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.

[2] "1968 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.

[directory-3] Wyoming Secretary of State (1969). "Summary - Official Vote General Election, November 5, 1968". 1969 Wyoming Official Directory and 1968 Election Returns. p. 81. Retrieved October 18, 2024.

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