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| Turnout | 75.9% (of registered voters) 71.0% (of voting age population)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 County Results
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The1968 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the1968 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose seven[2] representatives, or electors, to theElectoral College, who voted forpresident andvice president.
West Virginia was won by the Democratic candidate,Vice PresidentHubert Humphrey, with 49.60 percent of the popular vote, against the Republican candidate, formerSenator and Vice PresidentRichard Nixon, with 40.78 percent of the popular vote.American Party candidate and former and futureAlabama GovernorGeorge Wallace also appeared on the ballot, finishing with 9.62 percent of the popular vote.[3][4]
West Virginia was Wallace's weakestantebellum slave state, whilst it was Humphrey's strongest as it had been for outgoingPresident Johnson. Wallace fared best inthe Eastern Panhandle, urbanisedKanawha County and the emergingRust Belt of the extremeNorthern Panhandle, but even in those areas he did not crack a sixth of the vote in any county.
Strong unionisation meant that the state's predominant poverty-stricken white population did not turn to Wallace in significant numbers.[5] The state's relative loyalty to Humphrey was enhanced by its deep ties to the New Deal and the resultant unionisation, as in all ofAppalachian coal country between the 1930s and 1990s.[6] This was helped by the fact that Johnson focused on this state, alongside Texas and culturally allied Kentucky, as critical for Humphrey's hope of regaining the White House.[7] Humphrey nonetheless did lose eighteen percent on Johnson's record performance from 1964.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Hubert Humphrey | 374,091 | 49.60% | |
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 307,555 | 40.78% | |
| American | George Wallace | 72,560 | 9.62% | |
| Total votes | 754,206 | 100.00% | ||
| County[8] | Hubert Humphrey Democratic | Richard Nixon Republican | George Wallace American | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Barbour | 3,210 | 47.34% | 3,206 | 47.28% | 365 | 5.38% | 4 | 0.06% | 6,781 |
| Berkeley | 4,929 | 34.06% | 7,223 | 49.91% | 2,321 | 16.04% | -2,294 | -15.85% | 14,473 |
| Boone | 6,391 | 62.13% | 2,970 | 28.87% | 926 | 9.00% | 3,421 | 33.26% | 10,287 |
| Braxton | 3,268 | 54.02% | 2,441 | 40.35% | 341 | 5.64% | 827 | 13.67% | 6,050 |
| Brooke | 7,506 | 57.12% | 4,191 | 31.89% | 1,444 | 10.99% | 3,315 | 25.23% | 13,141 |
| Cabell | 19,018 | 44.12% | 19,418 | 45.05% | 4,666 | 10.83% | -400 | -0.93% | 43,102 |
| Calhoun | 1,682 | 46.57% | 1,612 | 44.63% | 318 | 8.80% | 70 | 1.94% | 3,612 |
| Clay | 1,916 | 51.24% | 1,474 | 39.42% | 349 | 9.33% | 442 | 11.82% | 3,739 |
| Doddridge | 844 | 29.60% | 1,861 | 65.28% | 146 | 5.12% | -1,017 | -35.68% | 2,851 |
| Fayette | 14,546 | 66.96% | 5,246 | 24.15% | 1,931 | 8.89% | 9,300 | 42.81% | 21,723 |
| Gilmer | 1,582 | 49.48% | 1,401 | 43.82% | 214 | 6.69% | 181 | 5.66% | 3,197 |
| Grant | 786 | 19.76% | 2,936 | 73.81% | 256 | 6.44% | -2,150 | -54.05% | 3,978 |
| Greenbrier | 6,318 | 46.46% | 5,559 | 40.88% | 1,722 | 12.66% | 759 | 5.58% | 13,599 |
| Hampshire | 1,791 | 40.30% | 1,959 | 44.08% | 694 | 15.62% | -168 | -3.78% | 4,444 |
| Hancock | 10,174 | 54.03% | 6,181 | 32.82% | 2,476 | 13.15% | 3,993 | 21.21% | 18,831 |
| Hardy | 1,767 | 43.90% | 1,768 | 43.93% | 490 | 12.17% | -1 | -0.03% | 4,025 |
| Harrison | 18,872 | 54.22% | 13,703 | 39.37% | 2,234 | 6.42% | 5,169 | 14.85% | 34,809 |
| Jackson | 3,462 | 36.13% | 5,173 | 53.99% | 947 | 9.88% | -1,711 | -17.86% | 9,582 |
| Jefferson | 3,129 | 45.16% | 2,718 | 39.23% | 1,082 | 15.62% | 411 | 5.93% | 6,929 |
| Kanawha | 46,650 | 46.70% | 41,712 | 41.76% | 11,524 | 11.54% | 4,938 | 4.94% | 99,886 |
| Lewis | 3,168 | 40.43% | 4,027 | 51.40% | 640 | 8.17% | -859 | -10.97% | 7,835 |
| Lincoln | 4,386 | 50.82% | 3,662 | 42.43% | 583 | 6.75% | 724 | 8.39% | 8,631 |
| Logan | 13,686 | 67.42% | 4,754 | 23.42% | 1,861 | 9.17% | 8,932 | 44.00% | 20,301 |
| Marion | 17,246 | 58.94% | 10,177 | 34.78% | 1,838 | 6.28% | 7,069 | 24.16% | 29,261 |
| Marshall | 8,449 | 49.47% | 7,252 | 42.46% | 1,379 | 8.07% | 1,197 | 7.01% | 17,080 |
| Mason | 4,549 | 42.77% | 5,208 | 48.97% | 879 | 8.26% | -659 | -6.20% | 10,636 |
| McDowell | 12,842 | 67.81% | 4,020 | 21.23% | 2,075 | 10.96% | 8,822 | 46.58% | 18,937 |
| Mercer | 12,739 | 48.83% | 9,985 | 38.28% | 3,363 | 12.89% | 2,754 | 10.55% | 26,087 |
| Mineral | 4,225 | 42.07% | 4,545 | 45.26% | 1,273 | 12.68% | -320 | -3.19% | 10,043 |
| Mingo | 8,677 | 62.89% | 3,988 | 28.90% | 1,133 | 8.21% | 4,689 | 33.99% | 13,798 |
| Monongalia | 13,128 | 54.83% | 9,261 | 38.68% | 1,556 | 6.50% | 3,867 | 16.15% | 23,945 |
| Monroe | 2,412 | 40.95% | 2,925 | 49.66% | 553 | 9.39% | -513 | -8.71% | 5,890 |
| Morgan | 1,015 | 27.28% | 2,244 | 60.32% | 461 | 12.39% | -1,229 | -33.04% | 3,720 |
| Nicholas | 4,858 | 51.81% | 3,678 | 39.22% | 841 | 8.97% | 1,180 | 12.59% | 9,377 |
| Ohio | 15,026 | 49.65% | 13,073 | 43.20% | 2,164 | 7.15% | 1,953 | 6.45% | 30,263 |
| Pendleton | 1,643 | 45.29% | 1,687 | 46.50% | 298 | 8.21% | -44 | -1.21% | 3,628 |
| Pleasants | 1,522 | 46.69% | 1,534 | 47.06% | 204 | 6.26% | -12 | -0.37% | 3,260 |
| Pocahontas | 1,948 | 43.93% | 2,040 | 46.01% | 446 | 10.06% | -92 | -2.08% | 4,434 |
| Preston | 4,020 | 39.35% | 5,636 | 55.16% | 561 | 5.49% | -1,616 | -15.81% | 10,217 |
| Putnam | 5,009 | 43.18% | 5,252 | 45.27% | 1,340 | 11.55% | -243 | -2.09% | 11,601 |
| Raleigh | 17,744 | 60.14% | 8,775 | 29.74% | 2,987 | 10.12% | 8,969 | 30.40% | 29,506 |
| Randolph | 5,562 | 50.72% | 4,508 | 41.11% | 897 | 8.18% | 1,054 | 9.61% | 10,967 |
| Ritchie | 1,281 | 27.42% | 3,106 | 66.50% | 284 | 6.08% | -1,825 | -39.08% | 4,671 |
| Roane | 2,639 | 38.17% | 3,851 | 55.70% | 424 | 6.13% | -1,212 | -17.53% | 6,914 |
| Summers | 3,521 | 52.75% | 2,305 | 34.53% | 849 | 12.72% | 1,216 | 18.22% | 6,675 |
| Taylor | 2,953 | 45.92% | 3,012 | 46.84% | 466 | 7.25% | -59 | -0.92% | 6,431 |
| Tucker | 1,758 | 48.82% | 1,511 | 41.96% | 332 | 9.22% | 247 | 6.86% | 3,601 |
| Tyler | 1,324 | 29.20% | 2,897 | 63.90% | 313 | 6.90% | -1,573 | -34.70% | 4,534 |
| Upshur | 2,319 | 31.72% | 4,565 | 62.44% | 427 | 5.84% | -2,246 | -30.72% | 7,311 |
| Wayne | 8,227 | 50.41% | 6,004 | 36.79% | 2,088 | 12.79% | 2,223 | 13.62% | 16,319 |
| Webster | 2,582 | 62.87% | 1,241 | 30.22% | 284 | 6.92% | 1,341 | 32.65% | 4,107 |
| Wetzel | 4,038 | 45.12% | 4,122 | 46.06% | 789 | 8.82% | -84 | -0.94% | 8,949 |
| Wirt | 820 | 40.78% | 1,051 | 52.26% | 140 | 6.96% | -231 | -11.48% | 2,011 |
| Wood | 14,293 | 39.02% | 18,960 | 51.76% | 3,379 | 9.22% | -4,667 | -12.74% | 36,632 |
| Wyoming | 6,641 | 57.27% | 3,947 | 34.04% | 1,007 | 8.68% | 2,694 | 23.23% | 11,595 |
| Totals | 374,091 | 49.60% | 307,555 | 40.78% | 72,560 | 9.62% | 66,536 | 8.82% | 754,206 |
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