The American Vote
Candidate

Hubert Humphrey

Democratic

Elections
1
Won
0
Electoral votes, all elections
191
Years
1968

Record

Hubert Humphrey: result of each presidential election
YearElectoral votesPopular voteResult
1968
191
of 538
31,209,677
42.7%
Lost

Popular vote is the sum of the sourced state counts, shown only where every state that held a popular vote has one; sums from county returns (1868–1972) can run a few tenths of a point below national totals published elsewhere.

Electoral votesNational Archives, Electoral College results: 1968 (public domain, read 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

SourceStatistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1968 (Public domain: a work of the United States government (17 U.S.C. 105), retrieved 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

Election by election

1968Democratic · Lost

States carried · 14 of 51
Closest states won
  1. Texasby 38,960 · 1.3 pts
  2. Marylandby 20,315 · 1.6 pts
  3. Washingtonby 27,527 · 2.1 pts
Closest states lost
  1. MissouriNixon by 20,488 · 1.1 pts
  2. New JerseyNixon by 61,261 · 2.1 pts
  3. OhioNixon by 90,428 · 2.3 pts

Margins computed for 51 of 51 states: those with a sourced popular vote that names Humphrey.

SourceStatistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1968 (Public domain: a work of the United States government (17 U.S.C. 105), retrieved 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled

From the National Archives

American Independent Party candidate Wallace received 9,906,473 popular votes for President.

National Archives, Electoral College results for 1968, archives.gov, read October 3, 2026. Quoted as published.

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