Who won Texas in the 1968 presidential election?

Humphrey (Democratic) carried Texas in 1968, winning its 25 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Texas have in 1968?

Texas cast 25 electoral votes in the 1968 presidential election.

Did Texas vote for the national winner in 1968?

No. Texas backed Humphrey, while Richard Nixon won the presidency nationally.

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1968

Texas: Humphrey carries 25 EV.

Texas cast its 25 electoral votes for Humphrey (Democratic). National winner: Richard Nixon (Republican) — Texas voted against the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Texas, 1968

In 1968, Texas awarded its 25 electoral votes to Humphrey of the Democratic party. Nationally the result broke the other way — Richard Nixon (Republican) won the presidency, leaving Texas among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 4th consecutive election in which Texas backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1956. It stood apart from its neighbors: New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana went the other way that year. Across the 44 presidential elections Texas has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (28 times). The vote fell within the Cold War Realignment — Nixon, Reagan, and the Republican South.

In the national count, Richard Nixon took 301 of the 538 electoral votes, against Hubert Humphrey's 191. Richard Nixon led the national popular vote with 43.42% of the ballots cast.

The 1968 national map

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