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 County results Allen: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Hooper: 40-50% Schwenn: 40–50% 50–60% | |||||||||||||||||||||
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The1968 United States Senate election in Alabama took place on November 5, 1968. Incumbent Democratic U.S. SenatorJ. Lister Hill retired. He was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor of AlabamaJames Allen, who won a hotly contested primary overArmistead I. Selden Jr. In the general election, Allen easily defeated Republican Probate JudgePerry O. Hooper Sr. and National Democratic nominee Robert Schwenn.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | James B. Allen | 224,483 | 41.88% | |
| Democratic | Armistead I. Selden Jr. | 190,283 | 35.50% | |
| Democratic | Bob Smith | 72,928 | 13.61% | |
| Democratic | Jim Folsom | 32,004 | 5.97% | |
| Democratic | John G. Crommelin | 10,926 | 2.04% | |
| Democratic | Margaret Stewart | 5,368 | 1.00% | |
| Total votes | 535,992 | 100.00% | ||
Because no candidate received a majority in the first round, Allen and Selden advanced to a run-off election on June 4.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | James B. Allen | 196,511 | 50.52% | |
| Democratic | Armistead I. Selden Jr. | 192,448 | 49.48% | |
| Total votes | 388,959 | 100.00% | ||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | James B. Allen | 638,774 | 69.99% |  19.13 | |
| Republican | Perry O. Hooper Sr. | 201,227 | 22.05% |  27.09 | |
| NDPA | Robert P. Schwenn | 72,699 | 7.97% | N/A | |
| Total votes | 912,700 | 100.00% | |||
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| County | James Browning Allen Democratic | Perry Oliver Hooper senior Republican | Robert P. Schwenn National Democratic | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Autauga | 4,368 | 60.84% | 1,629 | 22.69% | 1,183 | 16.48% | 2,739 | 38.15% | 7,180 |
| Baldwin | 13,111 | 80.60% | 3,030 | 18.63% | 125 | 0.77% | 10,081 | 61.98% | 16,266 |
| Barbour | 5,451 | 75.23% | 496 | 6.85% | 1,299 | 17.93% | 4,152[a] | 57.30% | 7,246 |
| Bibb | 3,609 | 80.11% | 314 | 6.97% | 582 | 12.92% | 3,027[a] | 67.19% | 4,505 |
| Blount | 5,914 | 72.84% | 2,182 | 26.88% | 23 | 0.28% | 3,732 | 45.97% | 8,119 |
| Bullock | 1,914 | 47.47% | 518 | 12.85% | 1,600 | 39.68% | 314[a] | 7.79% | 4,032 |
| Butler | 3,558 | 60.92% | 2,069 | 35.43% | 213 | 3.65% | 1,489 | 25.50% | 5,840 |
| Calhoun | 20,377 | 79.46% | 3,347 | 13.05% | 1,921 | 7.49% | 17,030 | 66.41% | 25,645 |
| Chambers | 7,953 | 85.80% | 1,091 | 11.77% | 225 | 2.43% | 6,862 | 74.03% | 9,269 |
| Cherokee | 4,743 | 92.85% | 318 | 6.23% | 47 | 0.92% | 4,425 | 86.63% | 5,108 |
| Chilton | 5,154 | 62.52% | 2,743 | 33.27% | 347 | 4.21% | 2,411 | 29.25% | 8,244 |
| Choctaw | 3,742 | 94.26% | 181 | 4.56% | 47 | 1.18% | 3,561 | 89.70% | 3,970 |
| Clarke | 5,139 | 85.54% | 760 | 12.65% | 109 | 1.81% | 4,379 | 72.89% | 6,008 |
| Clay | 4,013 | 84.61% | 689 | 14.53% | 41 | 0.86% | 3,324 | 70.08% | 4,743 |
| Cleburne | 3,440 | 87.33% | 484 | 12.29% | 15 | 0.38% | 2,956 | 75.04% | 3,939 |
| Coffee | 8,620 | 87.19% | 1,077 | 10.89% | 189 | 1.91% | 7,543 | 76.30% | 9,886 |
| Colbert | 11,112 | 76.78% | 2,060 | 14.23% | 1,300 | 8.98% | 9,052 | 62.55% | 14,472 |
| Conecuh | 3,529 | 85.55% | 544 | 13.19% | 52 | 1.26% | 2,985 | 72.36% | 4,125 |
| Coosa | 2,661 | 73.53% | 492 | 13.59% | 466 | 12.88% | 2,169 | 59.93% | 3,619 |
| Covington | 8,825 | 74.33% | 2,871 | 24.18% | 176 | 1.48% | 5,954 | 50.15% | 11,872 |
| Crenshaw | 3,668 | 74.92% | 949 | 19.38% | 279 | 5.70% | 2,719 | 55.54% | 4,896 |
| Cullman | 11,134 | 67.60% | 5,225 | 31.72% | 111 | 0.67% | 5,909 | 35.88% | 16,470 |
| Dale | 7,861 | 86.07% | 941 | 10.30% | 331 | 3.62% | 6,920 | 75.77% | 9,133 |
| Dallas | 7,507 | 57.07% | 2,444 | 18.58% | 3,202 | 24.34% | 4,305[a] | 32.73% | 13,153 |
| DeKalb | 8,998 | 62.66% | 5,340 | 37.18% | 23 | 0.16% | 3,658 | 25.47% | 14,361 |
| Elmore | 7,552 | 72.07% | 2,284 | 21.80% | 643 | 6.14% | 5,268 | 50.27% | 10,479 |
| Escambia | 8,110 | 88.82% | 956 | 10.47% | 65 | 0.71% | 7,154 | 78.35% | 9,131 |
| Etowah | 23,759 | 79.69% | 4,425 | 14.84% | 1,629 | 5.46% | 19,334 | 64.85% | 29,813 |
| Fayette | 4,757 | 85.30% | 792 | 14.20% | 28 | 0.50% | 3,965 | 71.10% | 5,577 |
| Franklin | 5,734 | 67.32% | 2,579 | 30.28% | 205 | 2.41% | 3,155 | 37.04% | 8,518 |
| Geneva | 7,798 | 92.07% | 406 | 4.79% | 266 | 3.14% | 7,392 | 87.27% | 8,470 |
| Greene | 1,544 | 40.04% | 181 | 4.69% | 2,131 | 55.26% | -587[a] | -15.22% | 3,856 |
| Hale | 2,765 | 53.94% | 418 | 8.15% | 1,943 | 37.90% | 822[a] | 16.04% | 5,126 |
| Henry | 4,003 | 84.86% | 157 | 3.33% | 557 | 11.81% | 3,446[a] | 73.05% | 4,717 |
| Houston | 14,815 | 89.46% | 1,396 | 8.43% | 350 | 2.11% | 13,419 | 81.03% | 16,561 |
| Jackson | 8,327 | 87.08% | 1,086 | 11.36% | 150 | 1.57% | 7,241 | 75.72% | 9,563 |
| Jefferson | 94,603 | 59.26% | 53,094 | 33.26% | 11,943 | 7.48% | 41,509 | 26.00% | 159,640 |
| Lamar | 5,263 | 92.72% | 334 | 5.88% | 79 | 1.39% | 4,929 | 86.84% | 5,676 |
| Lauderdale | 12,421 | 74.89% | 3,414 | 20.58% | 750 | 4.52% | 9,007 | 54.31% | 16,585 |
| Lawrence | 5,632 | 86.58% | 692 | 10.64% | 181 | 2.78% | 4,940 | 75.94% | 6,505 |
| Lee | 7,975 | 68.54% | 2,442 | 20.99% | 1,219 | 10.48% | 5,533 | 47.55% | 11,636 |
| Limestone | 7,888 | 82.64% | 1,207 | 12.65% | 450 | 4.71% | 6,681 | 69.99% | 9,545 |
| Lowndes | 1,463 | 53.14% | 618 | 22.45% | 672 | 24.41% | 791[a] | 28.73% | 2,753 |
| Macon | 1,599 | 33.89% | 482 | 10.22% | 2,637 | 55.89% | -1,038[a] | -22.00% | 4,718 |
| Madison | 27,249 | 55.97% | 16,699 | 34.30% | 4,741 | 9.74% | 10,550 | 21.67% | 48,689 |
| Marengo | 4,886 | 55.43% | 674 | 7.65% | 3,254 | 36.92% | 1,632[a] | 18.52% | 8,814 |
| Marion | 6,534 | 80.28% | 1,567 | 19.25% | 38 | 0.47% | 4,967 | 61.03% | 8,139 |
| Marshall | 12,686 | 80.38% | 2,933 | 18.58% | 163 | 1.03% | 9,753 | 61.80% | 15,782 |
| Mobile | 53,656 | 74.85% | 16,473 | 22.98% | 1,556 | 2.17% | 37,183 | 51.87% | 71,685 |
| Monroe | 4,842 | 84.22% | 561 | 9.76% | 346 | 6.02% | 4,281 | 74.47% | 5,749 |
| Montgomery | 15,815 | 36.89% | 18,598 | 43.39% | 8,452 | 19.72% | -2,783 | -6.49% | 42,865 |
| Morgan | 15,353 | 79.52% | 3,600 | 18.65% | 353 | 1.83% | 11,753 | 60.88% | 19,306 |
| Perry | 2,557 | 46.84% | 580 | 10.62% | 2,322 | 42.54% | 235[a] | 4.30% | 5,459 |
| Pickens | 4,379 | 75.40% | 341 | 5.87% | 1,088 | 18.73% | 3,291[a] | 56.66% | 5,808 |
| Pike | 4,570 | 62.37% | 1,785 | 24.36% | 972 | 13.27% | 2,785 | 38.01% | 7,327 |
| Randolph | 5,176 | 83.78% | 789 | 12.77% | 213 | 3.45% | 4,387 | 71.01% | 6,178 |
| Russell | 7,850 | 92.20% | 543 | 6.38% | 121 | 1.42% | 7,307 | 85.82% | 8,514 |
| Shelby | 7,287 | 74.64% | 2,142 | 21.94% | 334 | 3.42% | 5,145 | 52.70% | 9,763 |
| St. Clair | 6,893 | 75.68% | 1,849 | 20.30% | 366 | 4.02% | 5,044 | 55.38% | 9,108 |
| Sumter | 2,165 | 45.95% | 277 | 5.88% | 2,270 | 48.17% | -105[a] | -2.23% | 4,712 |
| Talladega | 13,649 | 85.48% | 1,744 | 10.92% | 574 | 3.59% | 11,905 | 74.56% | 15,967 |
| Tallapoosa | 8,695 | 79.87% | 1,605 | 14.74% | 587 | 5.39% | 7,090 | 65.12% | 10,887 |
| Tuscaloosa | 18,530 | 70.05% | 3,801 | 14.37% | 4,121 | 15.58% | 14,409[a] | 54.47% | 26,452 |
| Walker | 14,542 | 83.63% | 2,779 | 15.98% | 67 | 0.39% | 11,763 | 67.65% | 17,388 |
| Washington | 4,022 | 89.36% | 318 | 7.07% | 161 | 3.58% | 3,704 | 82.29% | 4,501 |
| Wilcox | 2,012 | 58.68% | 639 | 18.64% | 778 | 22.69% | 1,234[a] | 35.99% | 3,429 |
| Winston | 3,017 | 57.93% | 2,173 | 41.72% | 18 | 0.35% | 844 | 16.21% | 5,208 |
| Totals | 638,774 | 69.99% | 201,227 | 22.05% | 72,699 | 7.97% | 437,547 | 47.94% | 912,700 |
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