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The1968 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 5, 1968. All 50 states andthe District of Columbia, were part of the1968 United States presidential election. Voters chose 43 electors to theElectoral College, which selected thepresident andvice president.
New York was won by incumbentDemocraticvice presidentHubert Humphrey, defeatingRepublican former vice presidentRichard Nixon by a margin of 5.46 percentage points and more than 370,000 votes.Maine SenatorEdmund Muskie was Humphrey's vice-presidential running mate, while Nixon's running mate wasMaryland GovernorSpiro Agnew.
Humphrey took 49.76% of the vote to Nixon's 44.30% in New York, while formerAlabama GovernorGeorge Wallace won 5.29% as the nominee of theAmerican Independent Party. Wallace ran asegregationist andright-wing populist campaign which failed to gain much traction in theNortheast. Wallace did best in suburban and exurban counties, as well as in the New York City borough ofStaten Island. Wallace's stances were popular with voters who resentedrace riots, the increasing influence ofAfrican-Americans in the national Democratic Party, and thecounterculture, but were anathema to voters in the inner cities and most ofUpstate New York.[3]
New York weighed in for this election as 7% moreDemocratic than the nation. Almost six percent of the electorate voted forthird parties, mainly the American Independent Party.[4] In typical form for the time, the major cities ofNew York City,Buffalo,Albany,Schenectady, andNiagara Falls votedDemocratic, while the smallercounties in New York mainly turned out for Nixon as theRepublican candidate. Nixon thus became the first Republican to win the White House without carryingErie County sinceAbraham Lincoln in1864, the first to do so without carryingNiagara orSchenectady Counties sinceRutherford B. Hayes in1876, as well as the first to do so without carryingAlbany orQueens Counties sinceHerbert Hoover in1928.
Despite Nixon winning most of the state's counties, Humphrey's landslide margin in New York City — receiving 60.6% of the vote in the five boroughs to Nixon's 33.9%, and losing only Staten Island to Nixon — provided him with enough raw votes for a statewide victory. Humphrey was seen by many as promising to continue the legacy of presidentLyndon B. Johnson,[5] and this garnered him strong support fromliberal voters across America.
This was the first time sinceSamuel J. Tilden won the state in1876 that New York voted for a losing Democratic candidate. As of2020[update], this remains the last time that New York had the largest number of electoral votes in the nation, asCalifornia would overtake it after the1970 census.[6] Nixon is one of four presidents to win the presidency while losing his home state (the others beingJames K. Polk withTennessee in 1844,Woodrow Wilson withNew Jersey in 1916, andDonald Trump withNew York in 2016).
Eldridge Cleaver, the presidential nominee for thePeace and Freedom Party was not listed on the ballot in New York as he was found in court to have been underage for president as Cleaver was 33 and that "he had failed to file a proper acceptance of the nomination".[7]
| 1968 United States presidential election in New York | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Hubert Humphrey | 3,066,848 | 45.17% | ||
| Liberal | Hubert Humphrey | 311,622 | 4.59% | ||
| Total | Hubert Humphrey | 3,378,470 | 49.76% | 43 | |
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 3,007,932 | 44.30% | 0 | |
| Courage[b] | George Wallace | 358,864 | 5.29% | 0 | |
| Peace and Freedom | Dick Gregory | 24,517 | 0.36% | 0 | |
| Socialist Workers | Fred Halstead | 11,851 | 0.17% | 0 | |
| Socialist Labor | Henning Blomen | 8,432 | 0.12% | 0 | |
| Totals | 6,790,066 | 100.0% | 43 | ||
| 1968 presidential election in New York City | Manhattan | The Bronx | Brooklyn | Queens | Staten Island | Total | |||
| Democratic- Liberal | Hubert Humphrey | 370,806 | 277,385 | 489,174 | 410,546 | 34,770 | 1,582,681 | 60.56% | |
| 70.04% | 62.40% | 63.12% | 53.60% | 35.18% | |||||
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 135,458 | 142,314 | 247,936 | 306,620 | 54,631 | 886,959 | 33.94% | |
| 25.59% | 32.02% | 31.99% | 40.03% | 55.28% | |||||
| Courage | George Wallace | 12,958 | 21,950 | 33,563 | 44,198 | 9,112 | 121,781 | 4.66% | |
| 2.45% | 4.94% | 4.33% | 5.77% | 9.22% | |||||
| Peace and Freedom | Dick Gregory | 8,610 | 1,767 | 2,857 | 3,104 | 123 | 16,461 | 0.63% | |
| 1.63% | 0.40% | 0.37% | 0.41% | 0.12% | |||||
| Socialist Labor | Henning A. Blomen | 818 | 836 | 1,039 | 1,091 | 164 | 3,948 | 0.15% | |
| 0.15% | 0.19% | 0.13% | 0.14% | 0.17% | |||||
| Socialist Workers | Fred Halstead | 742 | 265 | 400 | 353 | 24 | 1,784 | 0.07% | |
| 0.14% | 0.06% | 0.05% | 0.05% | 0.02% | |||||
| TOTAL | 529,392 | 444,517 | 774,969 | 765,912 | 98,824 | 2,613,614 | 100.00% | ||
| County | Hubert Humphrey Democratic | Richard Nixon Republican | George Wallace Courage | Dick Gregory[8] Peace and Freedom | Various candidates[8] Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
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| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Albany | 80,724 | 57.93% | 52,948 | 38.00% | 5,025 | 3.61% | 189 | 0.14% | 508 | 0.36% | 27,776 | 19.93% | 139,351 |
| Allegany | 4,986 | 29.08% | 11,222 | 65.45% | 851 | 4.96% | 22 | 0.13% | 75 | 0.44% | −6,236 | −36.37% | 17,145 |
| Bronx | 277,385 | 62.40% | 142,314 | 32.02% | 21,950 | 4.94% | 1,767 | 0.40% | 1,116 | 0.25% | 135,071 | 30.38% | 444,517 |
| Broome | 37,451 | 41.93% | 46,872 | 52.48% | 4,618 | 5.17% | 110 | 0.12% | 321 | 0.36% | −9,421 | −10.55% | 89,311 |
| Cattaraugus | 12,733 | 40.88% | 16,594 | 53.27% | 1,674 | 5.37% | 31 | 0.10% | 125 | 0.40% | −3,861 | −12.39% | 31,148 |
| Cayuga | 14,604 | 44.71% | 16,167 | 49.49% | 1,826 | 5.59% | 20 | 0.06% | 53 | 0.16% | −1,563 | −4.78% | 32,666 |
| Chautauqua | 26,431 | 45.18% | 28,561 | 48.82% | 3,273 | 5.59% | 47 | 0.08% | 195 | 0.33% | −2,130 | −3.64% | 58,507 |
| Chemung | 15,820 | 40.00% | 20,693 | 52.32% | 2,807 | 7.10% | 35 | 0.09% | 198 | 0.50% | −4,873 | −12.32% | 39,553 |
| Chenango | 5,706 | 30.92% | 11,785 | 63.86% | 887 | 4.81% | 12 | 0.07% | 65 | 0.35% | −6,079 | −32.94% | 18,455 |
| Clinton | 10,153 | 43.82% | 11,951 | 51.58% | 931 | 4.02% | 28 | 0.12% | 113 | 0.49% | −1,798 | −7.76% | 23,168 |
| Columbia | 7,762 | 33.62% | 13,857 | 60.03% | 1,372 | 5.94% | 41 | 0.18% | 54 | 0.23% | −6,095 | −26.41% | 23,085 |
| Cortland | 5,791 | 34.47% | 10,209 | 60.76% | 720 | 4.29% | 31 | 0.18% | 67 | 0.40% | −4,418 | −26.29% | 16,801 |
| Delaware | 5,360 | 28.36% | 12,366 | 65.44% | 1,121 | 5.93% | 18 | 0.10% | 33 | 0.17% | −7,006 | −37.08% | 18,898 |
| Dutchess | 31,025 | 37.80% | 45,032 | 54.87% | 5,662 | 6.90% | 214 | 0.26% | 189 | 0.23% | −14,007 | −17.07% | 82,067 |
| Erie | 250,054 | 55.18% | 167,853 | 37.04% | 33,402 | 7.37% | 679 | 0.15% | 1,283 | 0.28% | 82,201 | 18.14% | 453,165 |
| Essex | 5,218 | 33.98% | 9,377 | 61.07% | 701 | 4.57% | 15 | 0.10% | 50 | 0.33% | −4,159 | −27.09% | 15,355 |
| Franklin | 6,678 | 42.80% | 8,314 | 53.29% | 544 | 3.49% | 9 | 0.06% | 59 | 0.38% | −1,636 | −10.49% | 15,602 |
| Fulton | 8,871 | 40.66% | 11,895 | 54.52% | 989 | 4.53% | 20 | 0.09% | 43 | 0.20% | −3,024 | −13.86% | 21,818 |
| Genesee | 9,533 | 41.18% | 12,418 | 53.64% | 1,141 | 4.93% | 9 | 0.04% | 49 | 0.21% | −2,885 | −12.46% | 23,150 |
| Greene | 5,499 | 30.56% | 10,954 | 60.87% | 1,421 | 7.90% | 20 | 0.11% | 127 | 0.70% | −5,455 | −30.31% | 17,997 |
| Hamilton | 762 | 24.96% | 2,123 | 69.54% | 163 | 5.34% | 1 | 0.03% | 4 | 0.13% | −1,361 | −44.58% | 3,053 |
| Herkimer | 10,940 | 39.54% | 15,192 | 54.91% | 1,455 | 5.26% | 15 | 0.05% | 75 | 0.27% | −4,252 | −15.37% | 27,665 |
| Jefferson | 13,438 | 40.59% | 18,552 | 56.03% | 1,016 | 3.07% | 17 | 0.05% | 100 | 0.30% | −5,114 | −15.44% | 33,109 |
| Kings | 489,174 | 63.12% | 247,936 | 31.99% | 33,563 | 4.33% | 2,857 | 0.37% | 1,537 | 0.20% | 241,238 | 31.13% | 774,969 |
| Lewis | 3,205 | 34.91% | 5,524 | 60.17% | 430 | 4.68% | 5 | 0.05% | 19 | 0.21% | −2,319 | −25.26% | 9,180 |
| Livingston | 6,989 | 35.82% | 11,659 | 59.75% | 775 | 3.97% | 24 | 0.12% | 66 | 0.34% | −4,670 | −23.93% | 19,513 |
| Madison | 7,056 | 32.06% | 13,819 | 62.79% | 1,053 | 4.78% | 14 | 0.06% | 68 | 0.31% | −6,763 | −30.73% | 22,010 |
| Monroe | 141,437 | 47.66% | 143,233 | 48.27% | 10,875 | 3.66% | 446 | 0.15% | 764 | 0.26% | −1,796 | −0.61% | 296,755 |
| Montgomery | 11,449 | 45.33% | 12,566 | 49.75% | 1,147 | 4.54% | 24 | 0.10% | 71 | 0.28% | −1,117 | −4.42% | 25,257 |
| Nassau | 278,599 | 43.31% | 329,792 | 51.27% | 30,860 | 4.80% | 2,107 | 0.33% | 2,224 | 0.35% | −51,193 | −7.96% | 643,195 |
| New York | 370,806 | 70.04% | 135,458 | 25.59% | 12,958 | 2.45% | 8,610 | 1.63% | 1,632 | 0.31% | 235,348 | 44.45% | 529,392 |
| Niagara | 41,999 | 47.77% | 38,796 | 44.12% | 6,617 | 7.53% | 59 | 0.07% | 454 | 0.52% | 3,203 | 3.65% | 87,925 |
| Oneida | 44,685 | 43.07% | 52,875 | 50.96% | 5,666 | 5.46% | 75 | 0.07% | 460 | 0.44% | −8,190 | −7.89% | 103,761 |
| Onondaga | 83,576 | 44.02% | 95,806 | 50.46% | 9,459 | 4.98% | 272 | 0.14% | 767 | 0.40% | −12,230 | −6.44% | 189,865 |
| Ontario | 11,719 | 38.94% | 17,114 | 56.86% | 1,180 | 3.92% | 28 | 0.09% | 57 | 0.19% | −5,395 | −17.92% | 30,098 |
| Orange | 28,122 | 35.09% | 44,955 | 56.09% | 6,473 | 8.08% | 129 | 0.16% | 502 | 0.63% | −16,833 | −21.00% | 80,149 |
| Orleans | 4,786 | 34.13% | 8,509 | 60.67% | 696 | 4.96% | 6 | 0.04% | 35 | 0.25% | −3,723 | −26.54% | 14,024 |
| Oswego | 14,636 | 39.72% | 20,041 | 54.39% | 1,962 | 5.33% | 39 | 0.11% | 167 | 0.45% | −5,405 | −14.67% | 36,845 |
| Otsego | 7,981 | 35.16% | 13,543 | 59.67% | 1,091 | 4.81% | 44 | 0.19% | 49 | 0.22% | −5,562 | −24.51% | 22,696 |
| Putnam | 8,472 | 34.84% | 13,293 | 54.67% | 2,388 | 9.82% | 45 | 0.18% | 129 | 0.53% | −4,821 | −19.83% | 24,314 |
| Queens | 410,546 | 53.60% | 306,620 | 40.03% | 44,198 | 5.77% | 3,104 | 0.41% | 1,544 | 0.20% | 103,926 | 13.57% | 765,912 |
| Rensselaer | 30,232 | 44.02% | 34,674 | 50.49% | 3,461 | 5.04% | 53 | 0.08% | 261 | 0.38% | −4,442 | −6.47% | 68,681 |
| Richmond | 34,770 | 35.18% | 54,631 | 55.28% | 9,112 | 9.22% | 123 | 0.12% | 202 | 0.20% | −19,861 | −20.10% | 98,824 |
| Rockland | 36,948 | 44.35% | 40,880 | 49.07% | 5,028 | 6.04% | 303 | 0.36% | 178 | 0.21% | −3,932 | −4.72% | 83,307 |
| St. Lawrence | 15,662 | 41.29% | 20,982 | 55.31% | 1,178 | 3.11% | 52 | 0.14% | 63 | 0.17% | −5,320 | −14.02% | 37,933 |
| Saratoga | 17,766 | 38.69% | 25,658 | 55.87% | 2,220 | 4.83% | 36 | 0.08% | 255 | 0.56% | −7,892 | −17.18% | 45,922 |
| Schenectady | 34,786 | 48.31% | 33,687 | 46.79% | 3,246 | 4.51% | 86 | 0.12% | 247 | 0.34% | 1,099 | 1.52% | 72,002 |
| Schoharie | 3,883 | 36.03% | 6,166 | 57.21% | 689 | 6.39% | 12 | 0.11% | 27 | 0.25% | −2,283 | −21.18% | 10,777 |
| Schuyler | 2,034 | 30.38% | 4,105 | 61.31% | 522 | 7.80% | 8 | 0.12% | 27 | 0.40% | −2,071 | −30.93% | 6,696 |
| Seneca | 5,222 | 40.15% | 7,083 | 54.46% | 635 | 4.88% | 17 | 0.13% | 51 | 0.39% | −1,861 | −14.31% | 13,005 |
| Steuben | 12,229 | 31.61% | 24,189 | 62.52% | 2,194 | 5.67% | 20 | 0.05% | 58 | 0.15% | −11,960 | −30.91% | 38,690 |
| Suffolk | 122,590 | 32.71% | 218,027 | 58.18% | 31,304 | 8.35% | 776 | 0.21% | 2,178 | 0.58% | −95,437 | −25.47% | 374,767 |
| Sullivan | 10,860 | 44.88% | 11,657 | 48.17% | 1,487 | 6.15% | 56 | 0.23% | 138 | 0.57% | −797 | −3.29% | 24,198 |
| Tioga | 5,336 | 31.47% | 10,441 | 61.58% | 1,127 | 6.65% | 9 | 0.05% | 43 | 0.25% | −5,105 | −30.11% | 16,956 |
| Tompkins | 10,343 | 40.97% | 13,446 | 53.26% | 1,236 | 4.90% | 161 | 0.64% | 124 | 0.49% | −3,103 | −12.29% | 25,248 |
| Ulster | 20,886 | 34.59% | 34,798 | 57.62% | 4,183 | 6.93% | 191 | 0.32% | 394 | 0.65% | −13,912 | −23.03% | 60,387 |
| Warren | 6,460 | 31.85% | 12,963 | 63.92% | 807 | 3.98% | 15 | 0.07% | 35 | 0.17% | −6,503 | −32.07% | 20,280 |
| Washington | 6,806 | 33.09% | 12,694 | 61.71% | 930 | 4.52% | 17 | 0.08% | 123 | 0.60% | −5,888 | −28.62% | 20,569 |
| Wayne | 8,907 | 32.17% | 17,470 | 63.09% | 1,211 | 4.37% | 14 | 0.05% | 93 | 0.34% | −8,563 | −30.92% | 27,689 |
| Westchester | 173,954 | 43.40% | 201,652 | 50.31% | 22,115 | 5.52% | 1,318 | 0.33% | 1,906 | 0.48% | −27,698 | −6.91% | 400,807 |
| Wyoming | 4,477 | 32.52% | 8,459 | 61.45% | 799 | 5.80% | 5 | 0.04% | 25 | 0.18% | −3,982 | −28.93% | 13,765 |
| Yates | 2,158 | 26.59% | 5,482 | 67.54% | 440 | 5.42% | 7 | 0.09% | 30 | 0.37% | −3,324 | −40.95% | 8,117 |
| Totals | 3,378,470 | 49.76% | 3,007,932 | 44.30% | 358,864 | 5.29% | 24,517 | 0.36% | 20,283 | 0.30% | 370,538 | 5.46% | 6,790,066 |
Results are grouped by the percentage of the popular vote nationally in that order. The candidates are listed by the percentage of the vote won in that respective district.[9]
| District[9] | Nixon | Humphrey | Wallace |
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| 1st | 58% | 33% | 9% |
| 2nd | 56.2% | 37% | 6.8% |
| 3rd | 48.9% | 47.2% | 3.9% |
| 4th | 53% | 42.1% | 5% |
| 5th | 51.3% | 43.6% | 5.1% |
| 6th | 45.6% | 49% | 3.4% |
| 7th | 33.7% | 60.6% | 5.7% |
| 8th | 40.3% | 54.2% | 5.5% |
| 9th | 48.2% | 43.2% | 7.9% |
| 10th | 29% | 67.9% | 3.2% |
| 11th | 32.7% | 62.5% | 4.8% |
| 12th | 17.5% | 79.5% | 3% |
| 13rd | 26.8% | 70% | 3.2% |
| 14th | 33.8% | 59.8% | 6.4% |
| 15th | 50.7% | 42% | 7.3% |
| 16th | 57.2% | 35.8% | 7% |
| 17th | 38.3% | 59.3% | 2.4% |
| 18th | 9.5% | 89.9% | 0.6% |
| 19th | 26.6% | 69.4% | 3.9% |
| 20th | 24.5% | 72.5% | 4.81% |
| 21st | 25.7% | 70% | 4.4% |
| 22nd | 30.5% | 64.4% | 5.1% |
| 23rd | 26.8% | 69.2% | 4% |
| 24th | 46.9% | 45.7% | 7.4% |
| 25th | 52% | 41.8% | 6.2% |
| 26th | 50.9% | 44.7% | 4.4% |
| 27th | 51.4% | 41.2% | 7.3% |
| 28th | 58.2% | 35.5% | 6.3% |
| 29th | 42.3% | 53.8% | 3.9% |
| 30th | 50.1% | 45.6% | 4.4% |
| 31st | 54% | 41.5% | 4.5% |
| 32nd | 51.6% | 43.3% | 5.1% |
| 33rd | 52.3% | 42.1% | 5.6% |
| 34th | 51.5% | 43.5% | 4.9% |
| 35th | 54.3% | 41% | 4.7% |
| 36th | 49.3% | 47.2% | 3.5% |
| 37th | 48.7% | 46.7% | 4.6% |
| 38th | 53.3% | 41% | 5.7% |
| 39th | 41.6% | 51.3% | 7.1% |
| 40th | 42.8% | 50.4% | 6.8% |
| 41st | 20% | 72.6% | 7.4% |
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