See main article: 1968 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1968 United States presidential election in Connecticut |
| Country: | Connecticut |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1964 United States presidential election in Connecticut |
| Previous Year: | 1964 |
| Election Date: | November 5, 1968 |
| Next Election: | 1972 United States presidential election in Connecticut |
| Next Year: | 1972 |
| Image1: | Hubert Humphrey in New York, 1968 (3x4 crop).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Hubert Humphrey |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | Minnesota |
| Running Mate1: | Edmund Muskie |
| Electoral Vote1: | 8 |
| Popular Vote1: | 621,561 |
| Percentage1: | 49.48% |
| Nominee2: | Richard Nixon |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | New York |
| Running Mate2: | Spiro Agnew |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 556,721 |
| Percentage2: | 44.32% |
| Image3: | George Wallace (D-AL) (3x4).jpg |
| Nominee3: | George Wallace |
| Party3: | George Wallace Party |
| Home State3: | Alabama |
| Running Mate3: | Curtis LeMay |
| Electoral Vote3: | 0 |
| Popular Vote3: | 76,650 |
| Percentage3: | 6.10% |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Richard Nixon |
| After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Colour3: | ff9955 |
The 1968 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the 1968 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Connecticut voted for the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, over the Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon of New York and American Independent candidate, referred to on the ballot as the "George Wallace Party," Southern populist Governor George Wallace of Alabama. Humphrey's running mate was Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine, while Nixon ran with Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland and Wallace's running mate was Curtis LeMay of California.
Humphrey carried Connecticut by a fair margin of 5.16%. This marked the first time since 1888 that Connecticut would back a losing Democrat in a presidential election, and remained the last such occasion until 2000. This was also the last presidential election until Bill Clinton in 1992 that a Democratic candidate would win the state.
To date, this is the last time that the towns of Prospect and Watertown voted Democratic.
| 1968 United States presidential election in Connecticut[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Hubert H. Humphrey | 621,561 | 49.48% | 8 | |
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 556,721 | 44.32% | 0 | |
| George Wallace Party | George Wallace | 76,650 | 6.10% | 0 | |
| Write-ins | Write-ins | 1,300 | 0.10% | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,256,232 | 100.00% | 8 | ||
| County[2] | Hubert Humphrey Democratic | Richard Nixon Republican | Various candidates Other parties | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Fairfield | 139,364 | 41.69% | 173,108 | 51.78% | 21,820 | 6.53% | -33,744 | -10.09% | 334,292 | ||||||||||
| Hartford | 190,865 | 56.19% | 131,740 | 38.78% | 17,096 | 5.03% | 59,125 | 17.41% | 339,701 | ||||||||||
| Litchfield | 29,340 | 45.57% | 31,429 | 48.82% | 3,611 | 5.61% | -2,089 | -3.25% | 64,380 | ||||||||||
| Middlesex | 23,727 | 48.90% | 21,999 | 45.34% | 2,798 | 5.76% | 1,728 | 3.56% | 48,524 | ||||||||||
| New Haven | 159,653 | 50.78% | 130,501 | 41.50% | 24,278 | 7.72% | 29,152 | 9.28% | 314,432 | ||||||||||
| New London | 41,507 | 49.66% | 37,116 | 44.41% | 4,951 | 5.93% | 4,391 | 5.25% | 83,574 | ||||||||||
| Tolland | 18,007 | 49.13% | 16,666 | 45.47% | 1,982 | 5.40% | 1,341 | 3.66% | 36,655 | ||||||||||
| Windham | 19,098 | 55.08% | 14,162 | 40.84% | 1,414 | 4.08% | 4,936 | 14.24% | 34,674 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 621,561 | 49.48% | 556,721 | 44.32% | 77,950 | 6.20% | 64,840 | 5.16% | 1,256,232 | ||||||||||