1968 United States presidential election in Kansas

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1968 United States presidential election in Kansas
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Nominee Richard Nixon Hubert Humphrey George Wallace
Party Republican Democratic Conservative
Home state New York[a] Minnesota Alabama
Running mate Spiro Agnew Edmund Muskie S. Marvin Griffin
Electoral vote 7 0 0
Popular vote 478,674 302,996 88,921
Percentage 54.84% 34.72% 10.19%
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The 1968 United States presidential election in Kansas was held on November 5, 1968 as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Richard Nixon won Kansas against both Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace. Nixon carried every county except traditionally Democratic Wyandotte.[1]

Results

Electoral results
Presidential candidate Party Home state Popular vote Electoral
vote 		Running mate
Count Percentage Vice-presidential candidate Home state Electoral vote
Richard M. Nixon Republican New York 478,674 54.84% 7 Spiro Agnew Maryland 7
Hubert H. Humphrey Democrat Minnesota 302,996 34.72% 0 Edmund Muskie Maine 0
George C. Wallace Conservative Alabama 88,921 10.19% 0 S. Marvin Griffin Georgia 0
E. Harold Munn Prohibition Michigan 2,192 0.25% 0 Rolland Fisher Kansas 0
Total 872,783 100% 7 7
Needed to win 270 270

Results by county

County Richard Nixon
Republican 		Hubert Humphrey
Democratic 		George Wallace
Conservative 		E. Harold Munn
Prohibition 		Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # %
Allen 3,520 59.66% 1,875 31.78% 492 8.34% 13 0.22% 1,645 27.88% 5,900
Anderson 2,168 56.84% 1,242 32.56% 397 10.41% 7 0.18% 926 24.28% 3,814
Atchison 3,644 46.00% 3,379 42.65% 888 11.21% 11 0.14% 265 3.35% 7,922
Barber 2,023 60.55% 1,027 30.74% 283 8.47% 8 0.24% 996 29.81% 3,341
Barton 6,700 54.88% 4,464 36.57% 1,017 8.33% 27 0.22% 2,236 18.31% 12,208
Bourbon 3,983 56.87% 2,241 32.00% 769 10.98% 11 0.16% 1,742 24.87% 7,004
Brown 3,748 69.15% 1,199 22.12% 463 8.54% 10 0.18% 2,549 47.03% 5,420
Butler 7,893 50.79% 5,952 38.30% 1,671 10.75% 25 0.16% 1,941 12.49% 15,541
Chase 1,038 62.61% 462 27.86% 154 9.29% 4 0.24% 576 34.75% 1,658
Chautauqua 1,537 65.52% 478 20.38% 329 14.02% 2 0.09% 1,059 45.14% 2,346
Cherokee 4,211 47.46% 3,597 40.54% 1,054 11.88% 10 0.11% 614 6.92% 8,872
Cheyenne 1,423 70.66% 412 20.46% 174 8.64% 5 0.25% 1,011 50.20% 2,014
Clark 920 58.26% 446 28.25% 210 13.30% 3 0.19% 474 30.01% 1,579
Clay 3,335 71.95% 926 19.98% 357 7.70% 17 0.37% 2,409 51.97% 4,635
Cloud 3,282 56.17% 2,132 36.49% 412 7.05% 17 0.29% 1,150 19.68% 5,843
Coffey 2,223 63.06% 933 26.47% 367 10.41% 2 0.06% 1,290 36.59% 3,525
Comanche 906 62.66% 451 31.19% 85 5.88% 4 0.28% 455 31.47% 1,446
Cowley 8,070 54.30% 5,014 33.74% 1,751 11.78% 26 0.17% 3,056 20.56% 14,861
Crawford 7,344 45.30% 7,191 44.35% 1,653 10.20% 25 0.15% 153 0.95% 16,213
Decatur 1,654 65.74% 652 25.91% 206 8.19% 4 0.16% 1,002 39.83% 2,516
Dickinson 5,574 64.32% 2,399 27.68% 675 7.79% 18 0.21% 3,175 36.64% 8,666
Doniphan 2,402 63.31% 958 25.25% 425 11.20% 9 0.24% 1,444 38.06% 3,794
Douglas 10,533 53.79% 6,936 35.42% 2,080 10.62% 34 0.17% 3,597 18.37% 19,583
Edwards 1,243 54.90% 832 36.75% 182 8.04% 7 0.31% 411 18.15% 2,264
Elk 1,327 64.64% 503 24.50% 216 10.52% 7 0.34% 824 40.14% 2,053
Ellis 3,944 46.72% 3,809 45.12% 671 7.95% 17 0.20% 135 1.60% 8,441
Ellsworth 1,776 57.53% 1,060 34.34% 246 7.97% 5 0.16% 716 23.19% 3,087
Finney 3,295 52.11% 2,521 39.87% 496 7.84% 11 0.17% 774 12.24% 6,323
Ford 4,645 52.80% 3,191 36.27% 935 10.63% 26 0.30% 1,454 16.53% 8,797
Franklin 4,875 59.17% 2,524 30.63% 825 10.01% 15 0.18% 2,351 28.54% 8,239
Geary 2,954 50.70% 2,228 38.24% 625 10.73% 20 0.34% 726 12.46% 5,827
Gove 1,018 59.05% 538 31.21% 164 9.51% 4 0.23% 480 27.84% 1,724
Graham 1,308 60.72% 597 27.72% 243 11.28% 6 0.28% 711 33.00% 2,154
Grant 1,121 57.16% 618 31.51% 217 11.07% 5 0.25% 503 25.65% 1,961
Gray 952 55.25% 612 35.52% 151 8.76% 8 0.46% 340 19.73% 1,723
Greeley 465 59.85% 227 29.21% 82 10.55% 3 0.39% 238 30.64% 777
Greenwood 2,937 65.99% 1,122 25.21% 381 8.56% 11 0.25% 1,815 40.78% 4,451
Hamilton 751 56.25% 410 30.71% 170 12.73% 4 0.30% 341 25.54% 1,335
Harper 2,351 63.99% 1,015 27.63% 297 8.08% 11 0.30% 1,336 36.36% 3,674
Harvey 6,682 61.64% 3,351 30.91% 780 7.19% 28 0.26% 3,331 30.73% 10,841
Haskell 762 54.16% 476 33.83% 167 11.87% 2 0.14% 286 20.33% 1,407
Hodgeman 756 59.20% 387 30.31% 130 10.18% 4 0.31% 369 28.89% 1,277
Jackson 2,678 60.71% 1,225 27.77% 501 11.36% 7 0.16% 1,453 32.94% 4,411
Jefferson 2,781 56.58% 1,355 27.57% 774 15.75% 5 0.10% 1,426 29.01% 4,915
Jewell 2,172 66.18% 842 25.66% 252 7.68% 16 0.49% 1,330 40.52% 3,282
Johnson 55,060 62.63% 26,034 29.61% 6,635 7.55% 183 0.21% 29,026 33.02% 87,912
Kearny 721 58.00% 423 34.03% 95 7.64% 4 0.32% 298 23.97% 1,243
Kingman 2,318 60.29% 1,201 31.24% 319 8.30% 7 0.18% 1,117 29.05% 3,845
Kiowa 1,484 70.87% 481 22.97% 123 5.87% 6 0.29% 1,003 47.90% 2,094
Labette 5,503 51.19% 3,974 36.97% 1,251 11.64% 22 0.20% 1,529 14.22% 10,750
Lane 781 60.64% 385 29.89% 118 9.16% 4 0.31% 396 30.75% 1,288
Leavenworth 7,081 48.35% 5,546 37.87% 2,000 13.66% 18 0.12% 1,535 10.48% 14,645
Lincoln 1,721 68.16% 583 23.09% 217 8.59% 4 0.16% 1,138 45.07% 2,525
Linn 2,250 63.11% 893 25.05% 419 11.75% 3 0.08% 1,357 38.06% 3,565
Logan 1,120 63.78% 411 23.41% 221 12.59% 4 0.23% 709 40.37% 1,756
Lyon 6,558 57.30% 4,020 35.12% 847 7.40% 21 0.18% 2,538 22.18% 11,446
McPherson 6,420 64.98% 2,893 29.28% 543 5.50% 24 0.24% 3,527 35.70% 9,880
Marion 4,287 70.37% 1,494 24.52% 304 4.99% 7 0.11% 2,793 45.85% 6,092
Marshall 3,835 58.85% 1,949 29.91% 731 11.22% 2 0.03% 1,886 28.94% 6,517
Meade 1,511 66.24% 572 25.08% 196 8.59% 2 0.09% 939 41.16% 2,281
Miami 3,614 48.93% 2,739 37.08% 1,023 13.85% 10 0.14% 875 11.85% 7,386
Mitchell 2,428 62.89% 1,144 29.63% 283 7.33% 6 0.16% 1,284 33.26% 3,861
Montgomery 9,697 55.77% 5,210 29.97% 2,456 14.13% 23 0.13% 4,487 25.80% 17,386
Morris 1,938 60.00% 976 30.22% 313 9.69% 3 0.09% 962 29.78% 3,230
Morton 770 51.03% 475 31.48% 262 17.36% 2 0.13% 295 19.55% 1,509
Nemaha 3,003 54.01% 1,925 34.62% 628 11.29% 4 0.07% 1,078 19.39% 5,560
Neosho 3,950 52.92% 2,725 36.51% 784 10.50% 5 0.07% 1,225 16.41% 7,464
Ness 1,352 58.23% 767 33.03% 192 8.27% 11 0.47% 585 25.20% 2,322
Norton 2,543 70.91% 841 23.45% 193 5.38% 9 0.25% 1,702 47.46% 3,586
Osage 3,157 56.15% 1,664 29.60% 792 14.09% 9 0.16% 1,493 26.55% 5,622
Osborne 2,073 65.39% 793 25.02% 301 9.50% 3 0.09% 1,280 40.37% 3,170
Ottawa 1,740 62.66% 777 27.98% 253 9.11% 7 0.25% 963 34.68% 2,777
Pawnee 2,037 54.19% 1,416 37.67% 300 7.98% 6 0.16% 621 16.52% 3,759
Phillips 2,567 68.29% 844 22.45% 340 9.04% 8 0.21% 1,723 45.84% 3,759
Pottawatomie 3,267 63.68% 1,368 26.67% 490 9.55% 5 0.10% 1,899 37.01% 5,130
Pratt 2,670 57.91% 1,490 32.31% 435 9.43% 16 0.35% 1,180 25.60% 4,611
Rawlins 1,438 65.90% 553 25.34% 153 7.01% 38 1.74% 885 40.56% 2,182
Reno 11,804 50.29% 9,872 42.06% 1,710 7.28% 88 0.37% 1,932 8.23% 23,474
Republic 2,841 66.25% 1,187 27.68% 240 5.60% 20 0.47% 1,654 38.57% 4,288
Rice 3,141 56.23% 2,049 36.68% 386 6.91% 10 0.18% 1,092 19.55% 5,586
Riley 8,296 62.17% 4,258 31.91% 772 5.78% 19 0.14% 4,038 30.26% 13,345
Rooks 2,252 63.01% 1,012 28.32% 307 8.59% 3 0.08% 1,240 34.69% 3,574
Rush 1,471 57.46% 864 33.75% 217 8.48% 8 0.31% 607 23.71% 2,560
Russell 3,177 67.04% 1,261 26.61% 290 6.12% 11 0.23% 1,916 40.43% 4,739
Saline 9,324 55.43% 6,286 37.37% 1,169 6.95% 43 0.26% 3,038 18.06% 16,822
Scott 1,374 66.25% 500 24.11% 193 9.31% 7 0.34% 874 42.14% 2,074
Sedgwick 60,853 51.80% 44,041 37.49% 12,255 10.43% 320 0.27% 16,812 14.31% 117,469
Seward 3,065 62.32% 1,291 26.25% 550 11.18% 12 0.24% 1,774 36.07% 4,918
Shawnee 31,140 52.03% 21,735 36.32% 6,817 11.39% 158 0.26% 9,405 15.71% 59,850
Sheridan 1,002 58.36% 563 32.79% 144 8.39% 8 0.47% 439 25.57% 1,717
Sherman 1,803 57.53% 954 30.44% 368 11.74% 9 0.29% 849 27.09% 3,134
Smith 2,558 67.49% 939 24.78% 279 7.36% 14 0.37% 1,619 42.71% 3,790
Stafford 1,851 55.75% 1,205 36.30% 253 7.62% 11 0.33% 646 19.45% 3,320
Stanton 541 59.52% 288 31.68% 78 8.58% 2 0.22% 253 27.84% 909
Stevens 1,157 58.38% 528 26.64% 296 14.93% 1 0.05% 629 31.74% 1,982
Sumner 5,622 54.48% 3,562 34.52% 1,116 10.81% 20 0.19% 2,060 19.96% 10,320
Thomas 1,971 59.82% 1,074 32.59% 241 7.31% 9 0.27% 897 27.23% 3,295
Trego 1,211 58.67% 623 30.18% 226 10.95% 4 0.19% 588 28.49% 2,064
Wabaunsee 1,979 64.17% 695 22.54% 402 13.04% 8 0.26% 1,284 41.63% 3,084
Wallace 608 61.54% 235 23.79% 144 14.57% 1 0.10% 373 37.75% 988
Washington 3,177 68.29% 1,131 24.31% 332 7.14% 12 0.26% 2,046 43.98% 4,652
Wichita 757 60.37% 364 29.03% 130 10.37% 3 0.24% 393 31.34% 1,254
Wilson 3,340 63.35% 1,276 24.20% 640 12.14% 16 0.30% 2,064 39.15% 5,272
Woodson 1,450 62.63% 639 27.60% 222 9.59% 4 0.17% 811 35.03% 2,315
Wyandotte 23,091 33.38% 34,189 49.43% 11,510 16.64% 381 0.55% -11,098 -16.05% 69,171
Totals 478,674 54.84% 302,996 34.72% 88,921 10.19% 2,192 0.25% 175,678 20.12% 872,783

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Although he was born in California and he served as a U.S. Senator from California, in 1968 Richard Nixon’s official state of residence was New York, because he moved there to practice law after his defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial election. During his first term as president, Nixon re-established his residency in California. Consequently, most reliable reference books list Nixon's home state as New York in the 1968 election and his home state as California in the 1972 (and 1960) election.

References

  1. ^ "1968 Presidential General Elections Results — Kansas". Dave Leip’s U.S Election Atlas.