1968 United States presidential election in Arkansas
The 1968 United States presidential election in Arkansas was held on November 5, 1968 as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. American Independent candidate George Wallace won the state of Arkansas with 235,627 votes, with Republican Richard Nixon winning 189,062 and Democrat Hubert Humphrey winning 184,901.[1]
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With 38.65% of the popular vote, Arkansas would prove to be Wallace's weakest state that he carried in the 1968 election after Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Georgia.[2] This was the first time since 1872 that Arkansas did not vote for the Democratic candidate, and would be the last time until 2008 that Arkansas did not back the winner of the presidential election.
46% of white voters supported Wallace, 36% supported Nixon, and 19% supported Humphrey.[3][4][5]
Results
| 1968 United States presidential election in Arkansas[6] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| American Independent | George Wallace | 240,982 | 38.87% | 6 | |
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 190,759 | 30.77% | 0 | |
| Democratic | Hubert Humphrey | 188,228 | 30.36% | 0 | |
| Totals | 619,969 | 100.00% | 6 | ||
| Voter turnout (Voting age/Registered voters) | 54%/73% | ||||
Results by county
| County | Richard Milhous Nixon
Republican |
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Democratic |
George Corley Wallace
American Independent |
Total votes cast | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Arkansas | 1,806 | 23.76% | 2,019 | 26.57% | 3,775 | 49.67% | 7,600 |
| Ashley | 1,470 | 18.59% | 2,035 | 25.74% | 4,401 | 55.67% | 7,906 |
| Baxter | 3,401 | 49.53% | 1,952 | 28.43% | 1,513 | 22.04% | 6,866 |
| Benton | 8,104 | 49.94% | 4,088 | 25.19% | 4,036 | 24.87% | 16,228 |
| Boone | 3,349 | 45.10% | 1,907 | 25.68% | 2,169 | 29.21% | 7,425 |
| Bradley | 802 | 16.69% | 1,457 | 30.32% | 2,546 | 52.99% | 4,805 |
| Calhoun | 287 | 13.11% | 688 | 31.42% | 1,215 | 55.48% | 2,190 |
| Carroll | 2,596 | 51.22% | 1,298 | 25.61% | 1,174 | 23.16% | 5,068 |
| Chicot | 865 | 15.32% | 2,595 | 45.95% | 2,187 | 38.73% | 5,647 |
| Clark | 1,642 | 22.96% | 2,733 | 38.22% | 2,776 | 38.82% | 7,151 |
| Clay | 2,410 | 37.91% | 1,663 | 26.16% | 2,285 | 35.94% | 6,358 |
| Cleburne | 1,301 | 31.27% | 1,202 | 28.89% | 1,657 | 39.83% | 4,160 |
| Cleveland | 312 | 12.63% | 407 | 16.48% | 1,751 | 70.89% | 2,470 |
| Columbia | 1,916 | 23.24% | 2,487 | 30.16% | 3,843 | 46.60% | 8,246 |
| Conway | 1,973 | 30.40% | 2,560 | 39.44% | 1,958 | 30.16% | 6,491 |
| Craighead | 5,047 | 32.50% | 3,738 | 24.07% | 6,742 | 43.42% | 15,527 |
| Crawford | 2,723 | 37.73% | 1,578 | 21.86% | 2,917 | 40.41% | 7,218 |
| Crittenden | 2,454 | 23.18% | 3,475 | 32.83% | 4,657 | 43.99% | 10,586 |
| Cross | 1,093 | 19.16% | 1,555 | 27.26% | 3,056 | 53.58% | 5,704 |
| Dallas | 672 | 18.43% | 1,253 | 34.36% | 1,722 | 47.22% | 3,647 |
| Desha | 972 | 17.00% | 2,270 | 39.71% | 2,474 | 43.28% | 5,716 |
| Drew | 1,040 | 22.27% | 1,324 | 28.35% | 2,307 | 49.39% | 4,671 |
| Faulkner | 2,791 | 25.55% | 3,756 | 34.39% | 4,375 | 40.06% | 10,922 |
| Franklin | 1,333 | 29.02% | 1,149 | 25.02% | 2,111 | 45.96% | 4,593 |
| Fulton | 1,198 | 36.34% | 1,019 | 30.91% | 1,080 | 32.76% | 3,297 |
| Garland | 7,674 | 37.83% | 5,655 | 27.88% | 6,955 | 34.29% | 20,284 |
| Grant | 627 | 17.07% | 852 | 23.20% | 2,194 | 59.73% | 3,673 |
| Greene | 2,859 | 35.40% | 2,197 | 27.20% | 3,021 | 37.40% | 8,077 |
| Hempstead | 1,783 | 24.62% | 2,322 | 32.07% | 3,136 | 43.31% | 7,241 |
| Hot Spring | 1,780 | 22.10% | 2,137 | 26.53% | 4,139 | 51.38% | 8,056 |
| Howard | 1,286 | 32.09% | 1,061 | 26.48% | 1,660 | 41.43% | 4,007 |
| Independence | 2,782 | 35.48% | 2,289 | 29.19% | 2,770 | 35.33% | 7,841 |
| Izard | 931 | 31.16% | 948 | 31.73% | 1,109 | 37.12% | 2,988 |
| Jackson | 1,356 | 19.56% | 2,051 | 29.59% | 3,525 | 50.85% | 6,932 |
| Jefferson | 4,860 | 20.22% | 9,125 | 37.96% | 10,053 | 41.82% | 24,038 |
| Johnson | 1,667 | 32.64% | 1,747 | 34.21% | 1,693 | 33.15% | 5,107 |
| Lafayette | 672 | 18.75% | 1,208 | 33.71% | 1,704 | 47.54% | 3,584 |
| Lawrence | 1,788 | 28.77% | 1,613 | 25.96% | 2,813 | 45.27% | 6,214 |
| Lee | 834 | 17.10% | 2,135 | 43.79% | 1,907 | 39.11% | 4,876 |
| Lincoln | 488 | 12.91% | 1,209 | 31.98% | 2,084 | 55.12% | 3,781 |
| Little River | 745 | 22.51% | 1,092 | 32.99% | 1,473 | 44.50% | 3,310 |
| Logan | 2,341 | 36.02% | 1,998 | 30.74% | 2,160 | 33.24% | 6,499 |
| Lonoke | 1,677 | 21.80% | 2,014 | 26.18% | 4,002 | 52.02% | 7,693 |
| Madison | 2,320 | 47.14% | 1,574 | 31.98% | 1,028 | 20.89% | 4,922 |
| Marion | 1,385 | 42.59% | 990 | 30.44% | 877 | 26.97% | 3,252 |
| Miller | 2,662 | 24.99% | 2,929 | 27.49% | 5,062 | 47.52% | 10,653 |
| Mississippi | 4,369 | 28.17% | 4,993 | 32.19% | 6,147 | 39.64% | 15,509 |
| Monroe | 804 | 16.10% | 1,783 | 35.71% | 2,406 | 48.19% | 4,993 |
| Montgomery | 885 | 35.04% | 649 | 25.69% | 992 | 39.27% | 2,526 |
| Nevada | 840 | 21.42% | 1,308 | 33.36% | 1,773 | 45.22% | 3,921 |
| Newton | 1,467 | 50.83% | 852 | 29.52% | 567 | 19.65% | 2,886 |
| Ouachita | 2,209 | 18.65% | 4,603 | 38.87% | 5,031 | 42.48% | 11,843 |
| Perry | 740 | 32.31% | 634 | 27.69% | 916 | 40.00% | 2,290 |
| Phillips | 2,154 | 18.78% | 5,039 | 43.92% | 4,279 | 37.30% | 11,472 |
| Pike | 1,104 | 33.51% | 656 | 19.91% | 1,535 | 46.59% | 3,295 |
| Poinsett | 2,140 | 27.14% | 1,672 | 21.20% | 4,074 | 51.66% | 7,886 |
| Polk | 2,094 | 40.30% | 1,290 | 24.83% | 1,812 | 34.87% | 5,196 |
| Pope | 3,319 | 38.30% | 2,578 | 29.75% | 2,769 | 31.95% | 8,666 |
| Prairie | 693 | 19.35% | 875 | 24.43% | 2,014 | 56.23% | 3,582 |
| Pulaski | 26,709 | 33.32% | 27,597 | 34.43% | 25,844 | 32.24% | 80,150 |
| Randolph | 1,237 | 29.35% | 1,367 | 32.44% | 1,610 | 38.21% | 4,214 |
| St. Francis | 1,608 | 17.58% | 3,284 | 35.91% | 4,254 | 46.51% | 9,146 |
| Saline | 2,614 | 23.15% | 3,111 | 27.55% | 5,569 | 49.31% | 11,294 |
| Scott | 1,162 | 34.18% | 1,000 | 29.41% | 1,238 | 36.41% | 3,400 |
| Searcy | 1,909 | 56.83% | 724 | 21.55% | 726 | 21.61% | 3,359 |
| Sebastian | 12,073 | 44.65% | 6,320 | 23.37% | 8,649 | 31.98% | 27,042 |
| Sevier | 1,217 | 31.64% | 1,129 | 29.35% | 1,501 | 39.02% | 3,847 |
| Sharp | 1,136 | 32.83% | 1,025 | 29.62% | 1,299 | 37.54% | 3,460 |
| Stone | 987 | 37.05% | 698 | 26.20% | 979 | 36.75% | 2,664 |
| Union | 4,919 | 28.60% | 4,426 | 25.74% | 7,853 | 45.66% | 17,198 |
| Van Buren | 1,325 | 35.83% | 1,149 | 31.07% | 1,224 | 33.10% | 3,698 |
| Washington | 10,640 | 48.67% | 6,131 | 28.04% | 5,092 | 23.29% | 21,863 |
| White | 3,887 | 32.02% | 3,198 | 26.34% | 5,054 | 41.63% | 12,139 |
| Woodruff | 625 | 17.22% | 1,270 | 35.00% | 1,734 | 47.78% | 3,629 |
| Yell | 1,819 | 34.44% | 1,513 | 28.65% | 1,949 | 36.91% | 5,281 |
| Totals[lower-alpha 2] | 189,062 | 31.01% | 184,901 | 30.33% | 235,627 | 38.65% | 609,590 |
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.
- These totals are less than the sum of the county tables for all three candidates.
References
- Leip, David. "1968 Presidential General Election Results – Arkansas". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
- "1968 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
- Black & Black 1992, p. 147.
- Black & Black 1992, p. 295.
- Black & Black 1992, p. 335.
- Gans, Curtis (2011). Voter Turnout in the United States, 1788-2009. Washington, DC: CQPress. p. 579. ISBN 9781604265958.
Works cited
- Black, Earl; Black, Merle (1992). The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674941306.
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