1968 United States presidential election in New York
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The1968 United States presidential election in New Yorktook 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 thepresidentandvice president.
New Yorkwas won by incumbentDemocraticvice presidentHubert Humphrey,defeatingRepublicanformer vice presidentRichard Nixonby a margin of 5.46 percentage points and more than 370,000 votes.MaineSenatorEdmund Muskiewas 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 Wallacewon 5.29% as the nominee of theAmerican Independent Party.Wallace ran asegregationistandright-wing populistcampaign 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-Americansin 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% moreDemocraticthan 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 FallsvotedDemocratic,while the smallercountiesin New York mainly turned out for Nixon as theRepublicancandidate. Nixon thus became the first Republican to win the White House without carryingErie CountysinceAbraham Lincolnin1864,the first to do so without carryingNiagaraorSchenectadyCounties sinceRutherford B. Hayesin1876,as well as the first to do so without carryingAlbanyorQueensCounties sinceHerbert Hooverin1928.
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 fromliberalvoters across America.
This was the first time sinceSamuel J. Tildenwon the state in1876that 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, asCaliforniawould 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. PolkwithTennessee in 1844,Woodrow WilsonwithNew Jersey in 1916,andDonald TrumpwithNew York in 2016).
Results[edit]
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 |
New York City results[edit]
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% |
Results by county[edit]
County | Hubert Humphrey Democratic |
Richard Nixon Republican |
George Wallace Courage |
Dick Gregory[7] Peace and Freedom |
Various candidates[7] 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 |
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican[edit]
- Allegany
- Broome
- Cattaraugus
- Cayuga
- Chautauqua
- Chemung
- Chenango
- Clinton
- Columbia
- Cortland
- Delaware
- Dutchess
- Essex
- Franklin
- Fulton
- Genesee
- Greene
- Hamilton
- Herkimer
- Jefferson
- Lewis
- Livingston
- Madison
- Monroe
- Montgomery
- Nassau
- Onondaga
- Oneida
- Ontario
- Orange
- Orleans
- Oswego
- Otsego
- Putnam
- Rensselaer
- Richmond(Staten Island, borough ofNew York City)
- Rockland
- St. Lawrence
- Saratoga
- Schoharie
- Schuyler
- Seneca
- Steuben
- Suffolk
- Sullivan
- Tioga
- Tompkins
- Ulster
- Warren
- Washington
- Wayne
- Westchester
- Wyoming
- Yates
See also[edit]
- United States presidential elections in New York
- 1968 Democratic National Convention
- Civil Rights Movement
- Presidency of Richard Nixon
- Watergate Scandal
- Vietnam War
Notes[edit]
- ^Although he was born in California and he served as a U.S. Representative and Senator from California, in 1968 Richard Nixon's official state of residence was New York, having moved there to practice law after his defeat in the1962 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.
- ^abNew York law forbids the use of the word "American" in a party's name, and so theAmerican Independent Partywas named as the"Courage Party"on the ballot in New York State.[2]
References[edit]
- ^Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970,part 2, p. 1072.
- ^"Courage Party in State Wants Wallace on Ballot".The New York Times.June 18, 1972.RetrievedMarch 21,2017.
- ^Phillips;The Emerging Republican Majority,p. 10.
- ^"1968 Presidential General Election Results — New York".Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.RetrievedJanuary 9,2018.
- ^Lewis L. Gould (2010).1968: The Election That Changed America.Government Institutes. pp. 16–18.
- ^"New York — CountingTheVotes".January 6, 2017. Archived from the original on January 6, 2017.RetrievedAugust 13,2022.
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