1968 United States presidential election in Georgia

The 1968 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on November 5, 1968. American Independent Party candidate George Wallace received the most votes, and won all twelve of the state's electoral college votes.[2]

1968 United States presidential election in Georgia

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NomineeGeorge WallaceRichard NixonHubert Humphrey
PartyAmerican IndependentRepublicanDemocratic
Home stateAlabamaNew York[1]Minnesota
Running mateCurtis LeMaySpiro AgnewEdmund Muskie
Electoral vote1200
Popular vote535,550380,111334,440
Percentage42.83%30.40%26.75%

County Results

President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Richard Nixon
Republican

Wallace, who ran a campaign based upon support for segregation, won all but seventeen of the state's 159 counties. Nixon won ten, all either suburban Atlanta, Athens, or Augusta area counties, or historically pro-Union counties of North Georgia. Owing to Wallace's sweep of almost all of the state south of the Unionist North Georgia counties and outside of Atlanta, Cobb and DeKalb counties were two of only three amongst 210 Southern counties carried by Goldwater for the Republicans for the first time ever or since Reconstruction to vote for Nixon.[3]

With 42.83% of the popular vote, Georgia would prove to be Wallace's fourth strongest state after Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.[4]

51% of white voters supported Wallace, 36% supported Nixon, and 13% supported Humphrey.[5][6][7]

Results

United States presidential election in Georgia, 1968[2]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
American IndependentGeorge Wallace535,55042.83%12
RepublicanRichard Nixon380,11130.40%0
DemocraticHubert Humphrey334,44026.75%0
Write-insEugene McCarthy560.00%0
Write-insDick Gregory90.00%0
Write-insFred Halstead70.00%0
Write-insEldridge Cleaver20.00%0
Write-insCharlene Mitchell20.00%0
Write-insHenning A. Blomen10.00%0
Totals1,250,266100.00%12
Voter turnout

Results by county

CountyRichard Milhous Nixon

Republican

Hubert Horatio Humphrey

Democratic

George Corley Wallace

American Independent

Various candidates

Write-ins

Total votes cast
#%#%#%#%
Appling79518.78%76017.95%2,67863.26%4,233
Atkinson28811.39%68627.14%1,55461.47%2,528
Bacon58620.93%2799.96%1,93569.11%2,800
Baker995.78%54831.97%1,06762.25%1,714
Baldwin2,31832.60%2,10929.66%2,67837.66%60.10%7,111
Banks39818.70%29613.91%1,43467.39%2,128
Barrow1,37226.52%1,07020.68%2,73152.79%5,173
Bartow2,04524.78%2,14926.05%4,05249.11%50.10%8,251
Ben Hill66119.61%87625.99%1,83354.38%10.00%3,371
Berrien56614.79%45111.78%2,81073.41%10.00%3,828
Bibb13,49032.59%10,57925.55%17,32841.86%41,397
Bleckley75620.94%39610.97%2,45868.07%10.00%3,611
Brantley23710.47%31714.01%1,70975.52%2,263
Brooks58915.58%78720.82%2,40463.60%3,780
Bryan38116.08%56023.64%1,42860.28%2,369
Bulloch2,11326.90%1,78822.77%3,95350.33%7,854
Burke1,41628.93%1,67634.25%1,80236.82%4,894
Butts58419.25%95931.62%1,49049.13%3,033
Calhoun23412.25%69736.49%97951.26%1,910
Camden75119.33%1,14629.50%1,98851.17%3,885
Candler55219.98%58721.25%1,62458.78%2,763
Carroll3,13526.19%2,32619.43%6,50954.38%11,970
Catoosa2,04321.75%9019.59%6,44968.66%9,393
Charlton33217.08%45523.41%1,15759.52%1,944
Chatham18,10633.81%18,20133.99%17,23832.19%53,545
Chattahoochee7013.44%14828.41%30358.16%521
Chattooga1,08720.26%1,25523.39%3,02456.35%5,366
Cherokee2,67535.85%1,43419.22%3,35144.91%20.00%7,462
Clarke5,80039.17%5,54337.43%3,45223.31%130.10%14,808
Clay13310.57%51641.02%60848.33%10.10%1,258
Clayton8,25635.22%3,51014.98%11,66549.77%70.00%23,438
Clinch30417.08%33418.76%1,14264.16%1,780
Cobb18,64941.25%8,75519.37%17,80539.38%45,209
Coffee1,24119.52%1,33120.94%3,78559.54%6,357
Colquitt1,88220.18%1,11912.00%6,32567.82%9,326
Columbia1,63634.46%90519.06%2,20746.48%4,748
Cook52114.62%60316.92%2,43868.41%20.10%3,564
Coweta2,44232.84%1,20416.19%3,79150.97%7,437
Crawford24615.18%48930.17%88654.66%1,621
Crisp93517.90%1,01719.47%3,27162.63%5,223
Dade61318.27%2828.41%2,46073.32%3,355
Dawson50931.81%24615.38%84552.81%1,600
Decatur74910.62%1,72924.51%4,57664.87%7,054
DeKalb52,48550.35%27,79626.67%23,95422.98%20.00%104,237
Dodge1,05518.54%1,23021.61%3,40659.85%5,691
Dooly45414.48%87928.03%1,80357.49%3,136
Dougherty5,61129.91%3,83120.42%9,31749.66%30.00%18,762
Douglas1,84825.49%1,24217.13%4,15957.37%7,249
Early3278.37%78520.08%2,79771.55%3,909
Echols538.26%568.72%53383.02%642
Effingham76919.39%63516.02%2,56164.59%3,965
Elbert91416.98%1,21622.59%3,25260.42%5,382
Emanuel1,29721.22%1,50824.67%3,30754.11%6,112
Evans54321.63%49219.60%1,47558.76%2,510
Fannin3,47558.98%1,22920.86%1,18820.16%5,892
Fayette86726.22%55116.66%1,88857.09%10.00%3,307
Floyd7,47034.72%4,03618.76%10,00146.49%50.00%21,512
Forsyth1,38931.33%64714.60%2,39754.07%4,433
Franklin71617.16%76618.36%2,69164.49%4,173
Fulton64,15335.83%77,84743.47%36,99520.66%730.00%179,068
Gilmer2,07451.55%69017.15%1,25931.30%4,023
Glascock18519.17%474.87%73375.96%965
Glynn3,72530.24%3,24726.36%5,34143.36%40.00%12,317
Gordon1,81529.99%1,16119.18%3,07750.83%6,053
Grady5619.67%1,42524.56%3,81765.78%5,803
Greene65218.58%1,63546.58%1,22334.84%3,510
Gwinnett5,35030.59%3,22618.45%8,90950.94%40.00%17,489
Habersham1,61128.32%1,07018.81%3,00852.87%5,689
Hall4,92336.08%3,17423.26%5,54640.65%13,643
Hancock38110.44%2,16559.32%1,10430.25%3,650
Haralson1,45126.51%77114.09%3,25159.40%5,473
Harris1,02125.89%1,07227.18%1,85146.93%3,944
Hart58612.27%97920.51%3,20867.20%10.00%4,774
Heard30316.72%35619.65%1,15363.63%1,812
Henry2,01725.41%2,31729.19%3,60445.40%7,938
Houston4,28529.64%2,83119.58%7,33950.76%20.00%14,457
Irwin43015.03%47416.57%1,95568.36%10.00%2,860
Jackson1,13918.52%1,53725.00%3,47356.48%6,149
Jasper45620.57%83537.66%92641.77%2,217
Jeff Davis57719.82%37612.92%1,95867.26%2,911
Jefferson1,22723.51%1,89936.39%2,09040.05%20.00%5,218
Jenkins57422.71%70427.86%1,24949.43%2,527
Johnson38113.28%44615.55%2,04171.16%2,868
Jones69319.42%1,10530.97%1,77049.61%3,568
Lamar57520.50%79028.16%1,44051.34%2,805
Lanier24115.63%27717.96%1,02466.41%1,542
Laurens2,73821.33%3,45126.88%6,64951.79%12,838
Lee38917.18%67329.73%1,20153.05%10.00%2,264
Liberty59216.78%1,57244.55%1,36538.68%3,529
Lincoln40818.64%49122.43%1,29058.93%2,189
Long1568.83%57432.48%1,03758.69%1,767
Lowndes3,07327.55%2,40221.53%5,67950.91%11,154
Lumpkin68732.24%39618.58%1,04849.18%2,131
McDuffie1,32432.89%99124.62%1,70942.46%10.00%4,025
McIntosh31515.01%94344.93%84140.07%2,099
Macon59819.22%95430.67%1,55950.11%3,111
Madison60016.00%62116.56%2,52967.42%10.00%3,751
Marion18614.51%24719.27%84966.22%1,282
Meriwether1,12020.55%1,76032.29%2,57147.17%5,451
Miller24910.91%1717.49%1,86281.60%2,282
Mitchell73112.97%1,25522.28%3,64764.73%10.00%5,634
Monroe77023.91%1,02831.93%1,42244.16%3,220
Montgomery35215.38%50321.98%1,43362.63%2,288
Morgan61620.67%97332.65%1,39146.68%2,980
Murray1,27833.23%81821.27%1,75045.50%3,846
Muscogee11,19332.36%7,59121.95%15,80445.69%20.00%34,590
Newton1,66024.87%1,99629.90%3,01745.20%20.00%6,675
Oconee71328.16%41416.35%1,40555.49%2,532
Oglethorpe38314.71%48318.56%1,73766.73%2,603
Paulding97719.33%1,02320.24%3,05460.43%5,054
Peach90423.16%1,36234.89%1,63841.96%3,904
Pickens1,65944.50%67718.16%1,39237.34%3,728
Pierce57917.93%50715.70%2,14466.38%3,230
Pike34514.26%63226.13%1,44259.61%2,419
Polk1,72921.68%2,00725.16%4,24053.16%7,976
Pulaski59522.22%51419.19%1,56958.59%2,678
Putnam59421.66%97235.44%1,17742.91%2,743
Quitman9012.05%19826.51%45961.45%747
Rabun68025.38%59022.02%1,40752.52%20.10%2,679
Randolph50216.91%1,02834.64%1,43848.45%2,968
Richmond14,99341.30%11,77032.42%9,53226.26%70.00%36,302
Rockdale1,19525.85%1,21326.24%2,21547.91%4,623
Schley16415.02%30928.30%61956.68%1,092
Screven91622.04%1,41133.94%1,83044.02%4,157
Seminole2018.06%36914.80%1,92277.10%10.00%2,493
Spalding3,07728.03%2,94926.86%4,95345.11%10,979
Stephens1,29525.23%1,03520.17%2,80254.60%5,132
Stewart23314.09%48929.56%93256.35%1,654
Sumter1,38321.04%1,70125.88%3,48953.08%6,573
Talbot31720.92%51033.66%68845.41%1,515
Taliaferro23216.36%67847.81%50835.83%1,418
Tattnall85216.34%95718.35%3,40565.30%5,214
Taylor39314.50%69125.50%1,62660.00%2,710
Telfair72016.90%1,03824.37%2,50258.73%4,260
Terrell54515.06%1,27535.23%1,79849.68%10.00%3,619
Thomas2,26122.87%2,58326.13%5,03950.98%20.00%9,885
Tift1,69224.81%1,18717.40%3,94257.79%6,821
Toombs1,39724.52%89615.72%3,40559.76%5,698
Towns1,49252.33%77027.01%58920.66%2,851
Treutlen47425.00%34117.99%1,08157.01%1,896
Troup3,23926.19%2,89623.42%6,23250.39%12,367
Turner41915.66%41215.40%1,84568.95%2,676
Twiggs33614.51%81235.08%1,16750.41%2,315
Union1,22139.37%97431.41%90629.22%3,101
Upson1,49422.73%1,48022.52%3,59954.75%6,573
Walker3,66425.58%1,93013.48%8,72560.92%20.00%14,321
Walton1,39919.99%1,55222.18%4,04757.83%6,998
Ware2,04720.07%2,25522.11%5,89557.81%10,197
Warren40623.13%58233.16%76743.70%1,755
Washington1,24726.43%1,44330.58%2,02943.00%4,719
Wayne1,31322.97%98017.15%3,42259.88%5,715
Webster7210.10%14720.62%49469.28%713
Wheeler25115.00%48829.17%93455.83%1,673
White76232.36%43518.47%1,15749.13%10.00%2,355
Whitfield4,82841.95%2,72323.66%3,95434.36%30.00%11,508
Wilcox38114.28%46517.43%1,82268.29%2,668
Wilkes87324.70%95326.96%1,70948.35%3,535
Wilkinson68520.24%82924.50%1,87055.26%3,384
Worth60313.79%71916.45%3,04969.74%10.00%4,372
Totals380,11130.40%334,44026.75%535,55042.83%1650.01%1,250,266

Counties that flipped from Republican to American Independent

Counties that flipped from Democratic to American Independent

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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