1968 United States presidential election in Georgia explained

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Election Name:	1968 United States presidential election in Georgia
Country:	Georgia (U.S. state)
Flag Year:	1956
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1964 United States presidential election in Georgia
Previous Year:	1964
Next Election:	1972 United States presidential election in Georgia
Next Year:	1972
Election Date:	November 5, 1968
Image1:	George Wallace (D-AL) (3x4).jpg
Nominee1:	George Wallace
Party1:	American Independent Party
Color1:	ff7f00
Home State1:	Alabama
Running Mate1:	Curtis LeMay
Electoral Vote1:	12
Popular Vote1:	535,550
Percentage1:	42.83%
Nominee2:	Richard Nixon
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State2:	New York^[1]
Running Mate2:	Spiro Agnew
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	380,111
Percentage2:	30.40%
Image3:	File:Hubert Humphrey crop.jpg
Nominee3:	Hubert Humphrey
Party3:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State3:	Minnesota
Running Mate3:	Edmund Muskie
Electoral Vote3:	0
Popular Vote3:	334,440
Percentage3:	26.75%
President
Before Election:	Lyndon B. Johnson
Before Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:	Richard Nixon
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)
Map Size:	290px

The 1968 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on November 5, 1968. American Independent Party candidate George Wallace received the most votes, and won all twelve of the state's electoral college votes.^[2]

Wallace, who ran a campaign based upon support for segregation, won all but seventeen of the state's 159 counties. Nixon won ten, all either suburban Atlanta, Athens, or Augusta area counties, or historically pro-Union counties of North Georgia. Owing to Wallace's sweep of almost all of the state south of the Unionist North Georgia counties and outside of Atlanta, Cobb and DeKalb counties were two of only three amongst 210 Southern counties carried by Goldwater for the Republicans for the first time ever or since Reconstruction to vote for Nixon.^[3]

With 42.83% of the popular vote, Georgia would prove to be Wallace's fourth strongest state after Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.^[4]

51% of white voters supported Wallace, 36% supported Nixon, and 13% supported Humphrey.

Results

United States presidential election in Georgia, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	American Independent	George Wallace	535,550	42.83%	12
	Republican	Richard Nixon	380,111	30.40%	0
	Democratic	Hubert Humphrey	334,440	26.75%	0
	Write-ins	Eugene McCarthy	56	0.00%	0
	Write-ins	Dick Gregory	9	0.00%	0
	Write-ins	Fred Halstead	7	0.00%	0
	Write-ins	Eldridge Cleaver	2	0.00%	0
	Write-ins	Charlene Mitchell	2	0.00%	0
	Write-ins	Henning A. Blomen	1	0.00%	0
Totals			1,250,266	100.00%	12
Voter turnout					—

Results by county

County^[5]	George Wallace American Independent		Richard Nixon Republican		Hubert Humphrey Democratic		Various candidates Write-ins		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%		%
	Appling		2,678		63.26%		795		18.78%		760		17.95%				1,883		44.48%		4,233
	Atkinson		1,554		61.47%		288		11.39%		686		27.14%				868		34.33%		2,528
	Bacon		1,935		69.11%		586		20.93%		279		9.96%				1,349		48.18%		2,800
	Baker		1,067		62.25%		99		5.78%		548		31.97%				519		30.28%		1,714
	Baldwin		2,678		37.66%		2,318		32.60%		2,109		29.66%	6	0.10%		360		5.06%		7,111
	Banks		1,434		67.39%		398		18.70%		296		13.91%				1,036		48.69%		2,128
	Barrow		2,731		52.79%		1,372		26.52%		1,070		20.68%				1,359		26.27%		5,173
	Bartow		4,052		49.11%		2,045		24.78%		2,149		26.05%	5	0.10%		1,903		23.06%		8,251
	Ben Hill		1,833		54.38%		661		19.61%		876		25.99%	1	0.00%		957		28.39%		3,371
	Berrien		2,810		73.41%		566		14.79%		451		11.78%	1	0.00%		2,244		58.62%		3,828
	Bibb		17,328		41.86%		13,490		32.59%		10,579		25.55%				3,838		9.27%		41,397
	Bleckley		2,458		68.07%		756		20.94%		396		10.97%	1	0.00%		1,702		47.13%		3,611
	Brantley		1,709		75.52%		237		10.47%		317		14.01%				1,392		61.51%		2,263
	Brooks		2,404		63.60%		589		15.58%		787		20.82%				1,617		42.78%		3,780
	Bryan		1,428		60.28%		381		16.08%		560		23.64%				868		36.64%		2,369
	Bulloch		3,953		50.33%		2,113		26.90%		1,788		22.77%				1,840		23.43%		7,854
	Burke		1,802		36.82%		1,416		28.93%		1,676		34.25%				126		2.57%		4,894
	Butts		1,490		49.13%		584		19.25%		959		31.62%				531		17.51%		3,033
	Calhoun		979		51.26%		234		12.25%		697		36.49%				282		14.77%		1,910
	Camden		1,988		51.17%		751		19.33%		1,146		29.50%				842		21.67%		3,885
	Candler		1,624		58.78%		552		19.98%		587		21.25%				1,037		37.53%		2,763
	Carroll		6,509		54.38%		3,135		26.19%		2,326		19.43%				3,374		28.19%		11,970
	Catoosa		6,449		68.66%		2,043		21.75%		901		9.59%				4,406		46.91%		9,393
	Charlton		1,157		59.52%		332		17.08%		455		23.41%				702		36.11%		1,944
	Chatham		17,238		32.19%		18,106		33.81%		18,201		33.99%				-95		-0.18%		53,545
	Chattahoochee		303		58.16%		70		13.44%		148		28.41%				155		29.75%		521
	Chattooga		3,024		56.35%		1,087		20.26%		1,255		23.39%				1,769		32.96%		5,366
	Cherokee		3,351		44.91%		2,675		35.85%		1,434		19.22%	2	0.00%		676		9.06%		7,462
	Clarke		3,452		23.31%		5,800		39.17%		5,543		37.43%	13	0.10%		-257		-1.74%		14,808
	Clay		608		48.33%		133		10.57%		516		41.02%	1	0.10%		92		7.31%		1,258
	Clayton		11,665		49.77%		8,256		35.22%		3,510		14.98%	7	0.00%		3,409		14.55%		23,438
	Clinch		1,142		64.16%		304		17.08%		334		18.76%				808		45.40%		1,780
	Cobb		17,805		39.38%		18,649		41.25%		8,755		19.37%				-844		-1.87%		45,209
	Coffee		3,785		59.54%		1,241		19.52%		1,331		20.94%				2,454		38.60%		6,357
	Colquitt		6,325		67.82%		1,882		20.18%		1,119		12.00%				4,443		47.64%		9,326
	Columbia		2,207		46.48%		1,636		34.46%		905		19.06%				571		12.02%		4,748
	Cook		2,438		68.41%		521		14.62%		603		16.92%	2	0.10%		1,835		51.49%		3,564
	Coweta		3,791		50.97%		2,442		32.84%		1,204		16.19%				1,349		18.13%		7,437
	Crawford		886		54.66%		246		15.18%		489		30.17%				397		24.49%		1,621
	Crisp		3,271		62.63%		935		17.90%		1,017		19.47%				2,254		43.16%		5,223
	Dade		2,460		73.32%		613		18.27%		282		8.41%				1,847		55.05%		3,355
	Dawson		845		52.81%		509		31.81%		246		15.38%				336		21.00%		1,600
	Decatur		4,576		64.87%		749		10.62%		1,729		24.51%				2,847		40.36%		7,054
	DeKalb		23,954		22.98%		52,485		50.35%		27,796		26.67%	2	0.00%		-24,689		-23.68%		104,237
	Dodge		3,406		59.85%		1,055		18.54%		1,230		21.61%				2,176		38.24%		5,691
	Dooly		1,803		57.49%		454		14.48%		879		28.03%				924		29.46%		3,136
	Dougherty		9,317		49.66%		5,611		29.91%		3,831		20.42%	3	0.00%		3,706		19.75%		18,762
	Douglas		4,159		57.37%		1,848		25.49%		1,242		17.13%				2,311		31.88%		7,249
	Early		2,797		71.55%		327		8.37%		785		20.08%				2,012		51.47%		3,909
	Echols		533		83.02%		53		8.26%		56		8.72%				477		74.30%		642
	Effingham		2,561		64.59%		769		19.39%		635		16.02%				1,792		45.20%		3,965
	Elbert		3,252		60.42%		914		16.98%		1,216		22.59%				2,036		37.83%		5,382
	Emanuel		3,307		54.11%		1,297		21.22%		1,508		24.67%				1,799		29.44%		6,112
	Evans		1,475		58.76%		543		21.63%		492		19.60%				932		37.13%		2,510
	Fannin		1,188		20.16%		3,475		58.98%		1,229		20.86%				-2,246		-38.12%		5,892
	Fayette		1,888		57.09%		867		26.22%		551		16.66%	1	0.00%		1,021		30.87%		3,307
	Floyd		10,001		46.49%		7,470		34.72%		4,036		18.76%	5	0.00%		2,531		11.77%		21,512
	Forsyth		2,397		54.07%		1,389		31.33%		647		14.60%				1,008		22.74%		4,433
	Franklin		2,691		64.49%		716		17.16%		766		18.36%				1,925		46.13%		4,173
	Fulton		36,995		20.66%		64,153		35.83%		77,847		43.47%	73	0.00%		-13,694		-7.64%		179,068
	Gilmer		1,259		31.30%		2,074		51.55%		690		17.15%				-815		-20.25%		4,023
	Glascock		733		75.96%		185		19.17%		47		4.87%				548		56.79%		965
	Glynn		5,341		43.36%		3,725		30.24%		3,247		26.36%	4	0.00%		1,616		13.12%		12,317
	Gordon		3,077		50.83%		1,815		29.99%		1,161		19.18%				1,262		20.84%		6,053
	Grady		3,817		65.78%		561		9.67%		1,425		24.56%				2,392		41.22%		5,803
	Greene		1,223		34.84%		652		18.58%		1,635		46.58%				-412		-11.74%		3,510
	Gwinnett		8,909		50.94%		5,350		30.59%		3,226		18.45%	4	0.00%		3,559		20.35%		17,489
	Habersham		3,008		52.87%		1,611		28.32%		1,070		18.81%				1,397		24.55%		5,689
	Hall		5,546		40.65%		4,923		36.08%		3,174		23.26%				623		4.57%		13,643
	Hancock		1,104		30.25%		381		10.44%		2,165		59.32%				-1,061		-29.07%		3,650
	Haralson		3,251		59.40%		1,451		26.51%		771		14.09%				1,800		32.89%		5,473
	Harris		1,851		46.93%		1,021		25.89%		1,072		27.18%				779		19.75%		3,944
	Hart		3,208		67.20%		586		12.27%		979		20.51%	1	0.00%		2,229		46.69%		4,774
	Heard		1,153		63.63%		303		16.72%		356		19.65%				797		43.98%		1,812
	Henry		3,604		45.40%		2,017		25.41%		2,317		29.19%				1,287		16.21%		7,938
	Houston		7,339		50.76%		4,285		29.64%		2,831		19.58%	2	0.00%		3,054		21.12%		14,457
	Irwin		1,955		68.36%		430		15.03%		474		16.57%	1	0.00%		1,481		51.79%		2,860
	Jackson		3,473		56.48%		1,139		18.52%		1,537		25.00%				1,936		31.48%		6,149
	Jasper		926		41.77%		456		20.57%		835		37.66%				91		4.11%		2,217
	Jeff Davis		1,958		67.26%		577		19.82%		376		12.92%				1,381		47.44%		2,911
	Jefferson		2,090		40.05%		1,227		23.51%		1,899		36.39%	2	0.00%		191		3.66%		5,218
	Jenkins		1,249		49.43%		574		22.71%		704		27.86%				545		21.57%		2,527
	Johnson		2,041		71.16%		381		13.28%		446		15.55%				1,595		55.61%		2,868
	Jones		1,770		49.61%		693		19.42%		1,105		30.97%				665		18.64%		3,568
	Lamar		1,440		51.34%		575		20.50%		790		28.16%				650		23.18%		2,805
	Lanier		1,024		66.41%		241		15.63%		277		17.96%				747		48.45%		1,542
	Laurens		6,649		51.79%		2,738		21.33%		3,451		26.88%				3,198		24.91%		12,838
	Lee		1,201		53.05%		389		17.18%		673		29.73%	1	0.00%		528		23.32%		2,264
	Liberty		1,365		38.68%		592		16.78%		1,572		44.55%				-207		-5.87%		3,529
	Lincoln		1,290		58.93%		408		18.64%		491		22.43%				799		36.50%		2,189
	Long		1,037		58.69%		156		8.83%		574		32.48%				463		26.21%		1,767
	Lowndes		5,679		50.91%		3,073		27.55%		2,402		21.53%				2,606		23.36%		11,154
	Lumpkin		1,048		49.18%		687		32.24%		396		18.58%				361		16.94%		2,131
	McDuffie		1,709		42.46%		1,324		32.89%		991		24.62%	1	0.00%		385		9.57%		4,025
	McIntosh		841		40.07%		315		15.01%		943		44.93%				-102		-4.86%		2,099
	Macon		1,559		50.11%		598		19.22%		954		30.67%				605		19.44%		3,111
	Madison		2,529		67.42%		600		16.00%		621		16.56%	1	0.00%		1,908		50.86%		3,751
	Marion		849		66.22%		186		14.51%		247		19.27%				602		46.95%		1,282
	Meriwether		2,571		47.17%		1,120		20.55%		1,760		32.29%				811		14.88%		5,451
	Miller		1,862		81.60%		249		10.91%		171		7.49%				1,613		70.69%		2,282
	Mitchell		3,647		64.73%		731		12.97%		1,255		22.28%	1	0.00%		2,392		42.45%		5,634
	Monroe		1,422		44.16%		770		23.91%		1,028		31.93%				394		12.23%		3,220
	Montgomery		1,433		62.63%		352		15.38%		503		21.98%				930		40.65%		2,288
	Morgan		1,391		46.68%		616		20.67%		973		32.65%				418		14.03%		2,980
	Murray		1,750		45.50%		1,278		33.23%		818		21.27%				472		12.27%		3,846
	Muscogee		15,804		45.69%		11,193		32.36%		7,591		21.95%	2	0.00%		4,611		13.33%		34,590
	Newton		3,017		45.20%		1,660		24.87%		1,996		29.90%	2	0.00%		1,021		15.30%		6,675
	Oconee		1,405		55.49%		713		28.16%		414		16.35%				692		27.33%		2,532
	Oglethorpe		1,737		66.73%		383		14.71%		483		18.56%				1,254		48.17%		2,603
	Paulding		3,054		60.43%		977		19.33%		1,023		20.24%				2,031		40.19%		5,054
	Peach		1,638		41.96%		904		23.16%		1,362		34.89%				276		7.07%		3,904
	Pickens		1,392		37.34%		1,659		44.50%		677		18.16%				-267		-7.16%		3,728
	Pierce		2,144		66.38%		579		17.93%		507		15.70%				1,565		48.45%		3,230
	Pike		1,442		59.61%		345		14.26%		632		26.13%				810		33.48%		2,419
	Polk		4,240		53.16%		1,729		21.68%		2,007		25.16%				2,233		28.00%		7,976
	Pulaski		1,569		58.59%		595		22.22%		514		19.19%				974		36.37%		2,678
	Putnam		1,177		42.91%		594		21.66%		972		35.44%				205		7.47%		2,743
	Quitman		459		61.45%		90		12.05%		198		26.51%				261		34.94%		747
	Rabun		1,407		52.52%		680		25.38%		590		22.02%	2	0.10%		727		27.14%		2,679
	Randolph		1,438		48.45%		502		16.91%		1,028		34.64%				410		13.81%		2,968
	Richmond		9,532		26.26%		14,993		41.30%		11,770		32.42%	7	0.00%		-3,223		-8.88%		36,302
	Rockdale		2,215		47.91%		1,195		25.85%		1,213		26.24%				1,002		21.67%		4,623
	Schley		619		56.68%		164		15.02%		309		28.30%				310		28.38%		1,092
	Screven		1,830		44.02%		916		22.04%		1,411		33.94%				419		10.08%		4,157
	Seminole		1,922		77.10%		201		8.06%		369		14.80%	1	0.00%		1,553		62.30%		2,493
	Spalding		4,953		45.11%		3,077		28.03%		2,949		26.86%				1,876		17.08%		10,979
	Stephens		2,802		54.60%		1,295		25.23%		1,035		20.17%				1,507		29.37%		5,132
	Stewart		932		56.35%		233		14.09%		489		29.56%				443		26.79%		1,654
	Sumter		3,489		53.08%		1,383		21.04%		1,701		25.88%				1,788		27.20%		6,573
	Talbot		688		45.41%		317		20.92%		510		33.66%				178		11.75%		1,515
	Taliaferro		508		35.83%		232		16.36%		678		47.81%				-170		-11.98%		1,418
	Tattnall		3,405		65.30%		852		16.34%		957		18.35%				2,448		46.95%		5,214
	Taylor		1,626		60.00%		393		14.50%		691		25.50%				935		34.50%		2,710
	Telfair		2,502		58.73%		720		16.90%		1,038		24.37%				1,464		34.36%		4,260
	Terrell		1,798		49.68%		545		15.06%		1,275		35.23%	1	0.00%		523		14.45%		3,619
	Thomas		5,039		50.98%		2,261		22.87%		2,583		26.13%	2	0.00%		2,456		24.85%		9,885
	Tift		3,942		57.79%		1,692		24.81%		1,187		17.40%				2,250		32.98%		6,821
	Toombs		3,405		59.76%		1,397		24.52%		896		15.72%				2,008		35.24%		5,698
	Towns		589		20.66%		1,492		52.33%		770		27.01%				-722		-25.32%		2,851
	Treutlen		1,081		57.01%		474		25.00%		341		17.99%				607		32.01%		1,896
	Troup		6,232		50.39%		3,239		26.19%		2,896		23.42%				2,993		24.20%		12,367
	Turner		1,845		68.95%		419		15.66%		412		15.40%				1,426		53.29%		2,676
	Twiggs		1,167		50.41%		336		14.51%		812		35.08%				355		15.33%		2,315
	Union		906		29.22%		1,221		39.37%		974		31.41%				-247		-7.96%		3,101
	Upson		3,599		54.75%		1,494		22.73%		1,480		22.52%				2,105		32.02%		6,573
	Walker		8,725		60.92%		3,664		25.58%		1,930		13.48%	2	0.00%		5,061		35.34%		14,321
	Walton		4,047		57.83%		1,399		19.99%		1,552		22.18%				2,495		35.65%		6,998
	Ware		5,895		57.81%		2,047		20.07%		2,255		22.11%				3,640		35.70%		10,197
	Warren		767		43.70%		406		23.13%		582		33.16%				185		10.54%		1,755
	Washington		2,029		43.00%		1,247		26.43%		1,443		30.58%				586		12.42%		4,719
	Wayne		3,422		59.88%		1,313		22.97%		980		17.15%				2,109		36.91%		5,715
	Webster		494		69.28%		72		10.10%		147		20.62%				347		48.66%		713
	Wheeler		934		55.83%		251		15.00%		488		29.17%				446		26.66%		1,673
	White		1,157		49.13%		762		32.36%		435		18.47%	1	0.00%		395		16.77%		2,355
	Whitfield		3,954		34.36%		4,828		41.95%		2,723		23.66%	3	0.00%		-874		-7.59%		11,508
	Wilcox		1,822		68.29%		381		14.28%		465		17.43%				1,357		50.86%		2,668
	Wilkes		1,709		48.35%		873		24.70%		953		26.96%				756		21.39%		3,535
	Wilkinson		1,870		55.26%		685		20.24%		829		24.50%				1,041		30.76%		3,384
	Worth		3,049		69.74%		603		13.79%		719		16.45%	1	0.00%		2,330		53.29%		4,372
Totals	535,550	42.83%	380,111	30.40%	334,440	26.75%	165	0.01%	155,439	12.43%	1,250,266

Counties that flipped from Democratic to American Independent

• • • • Banks Bartow Butts Chattooga
        • • Coweta Dawson Elbert Forsyth Franklin Gordon
            • • • • • • • • Habersham Hall Hart Heard Henry Jackson Long Lumpkin Madison Morgan Murray Meriwether Newton Pualding
    • Polk Spalding Stephens
  • Rabun Rockdale

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• • • Clarke Towns Union
• Whitfield

Works cited

• Book: Black . Earl . Earl Black (political scientist) . Black . Merle . Merle Black . The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected . . 1992 . 0674941306.

Notes and References

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.
2. http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1968&f=0&off=0&elect=0&fips=13&submit=Retrieve 1968 Presidential General Election Results - Georgia
3. Menendez, Albert J.; The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004; pp. 94-95
4. Web site: 1968 Presidential Election Statistics. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2018-03-05.
5. Book: Fortson, Jr., Ben W. . Official state of Georgia tabulation by counties for Presidential Electors, U.S. Senator, U.S. Representatives, state officers and constitutional amendments, General Election November 5, 1968 . Georgia Secretary of State . 1968 . Report . PDF.