1968 United States presidential election in Alaska

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Turnout	49.9% (voting age)[1]
Nominee Richard Nixon Hubert Humphrey George Wallace Party Republican Democratic Independent Alliance American Independent Home state New York[a] Minnesota Alabama Running mate Spiro Agnew Edmund Muskie Curtis LeMay Electoral vote 3 0 0 Popular vote 37,600 35,411 10,024 Percentage 45.28% 42.65% 12.07%
Borough and census area results, estimated Borough and census area results (historical, estimated) State House district results Nixon   40–50%   50–60% Humphrey   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%
President before election Lyndon Johnson Democratic Elected President Richard Nixon Republican

The1968 United States presidential election in Alaska took place on November 5, 1968, as part of thenationwide presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.

Alaska was won byRichard Nixon (R-New York^[a]) with 45.3 percent of the popular vote against incumbent Vice PresidentHubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota) with 42.6 percent.^[2] Nixon ultimately won the national vote as well, defeating Humphrey and becoming the next President. Former and futureGovernorGeorge Wallace (D-Alabama) ran under theAmerican Independent Party ticket, which favored continuingracial segregation within public schools in addition to most other areas of society throughout theSouthern United States.

Wallace received over 12% of the vote in Alaska, unusually well for a state so far removed from his strongholds in theDeep South.^[3] This would begin Alaska's reputation as a state wherethird party candidates of differing political persuasions do relatively well.

In Alaska, voters were more concerned with Alaska oriented issues rather than those seen in the continental United States. The 1968 elections held in Alaska had higher levels of turnout than previous elections when it was a state.^[4]

• Aleutians East Census Area
• Aleutians West Census Area
• Anchorage
• Lake & Peninsula Borough
• Bristol Bay Borough
• Dilingham Census Area
• Kodiak Island Borough
• Northwest Arctic Borough
• Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area
• Fairbanks North Star
• Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
• Denali Borough
• Matanuska-Susitna Borough
• Haines Borough
• Wrangell
• Ketchikan Gateway Borough
• Valdez–Cordova Census Area

Alaska has only voted Democratic once, and that was in the previous 1964 election for incumbent PresidentLyndon B. Johnson, who did not run for re-election; nonetheless, during the state's first four presidential elections Alaska was little or no more Republican than the nation at-large.^[5] Nixon's 45.28 percent stood 1.86 percent above his national figure and Humphrey's 42.65 percent was a trifling 0.07 percent below his national total. This is the last time Democrats carried Kenai Peninsula and Petersburg.^[6] This was the last time Alaska voted to the left ofIowa until2024.

Despite Alaska lying at the opposite end of the country from Wallace's support base in theDeep South, he did not fare badly in the relatively heavily populated areas of Anchorage, the Kenai Peninsula, and the Susitna Valley. In fact, inKenai Peninsula Borough, Wallace managed to receive over twenty percent of the vote.^[3]

Wallace's 12.07 percent of Alaska's vote was 1.46 percent below his percentage for the nation at large, but nonetheless his third-greatest outsideantebellum slave states^[b] andOklahoma,^[c] behind 13.25 percent inNevada and 12.55 percent inIdaho.^[6]

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