1968 United States presidential election in Missouri explained

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Election Name:	1968 United States presidential election in Missouri
Country:	Missouri
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1964 United States presidential election in Missouri
Previous Year:	1964
Next Election:	1972 United States presidential election in Missouri
Next Year:	1972
Election Date:	November 5, 1968
Image1:	Nixon_30-0316a_(cropped).jpg
Nominee1:	Richard Nixon
Party1:	Republican Party (United States)
Home State1:	New York
Running Mate1:	Spiro Agnew
Electoral Vote1:	12
Popular Vote1:	811,932
Percentage1:	44.87%
Nominee2:	Hubert Humphrey
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	Minnesota
Running Mate2:	Edmund Muskie
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	791,444
Percentage2:	43.74%
Image3:	George Wallace (D-AL) (3x4).jpg
Nominee3:	George Wallace
Party3:	American Independent Party
Colour3:	ff9955
Home State3:	Alabama
Running Mate3:	S. Marvin Griffin
Electoral Vote3:	0
Popular Vote3:	206,126
Percentage3:	11.39%
Map Size:	340px
President
Before Election:	Lyndon B. Johnson
Before Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:	Richard Nixon
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)

The 1968 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 5, 1968. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Former Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, narrowly won Missouri with 811,932 votes and 44.87 percent of the vote, with Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic nominee, taking 791,444 votes and 43.74 percent of the vote, followed by American Party of Missouri candidate George Wallace, who took 206,126 votes and 11.39 percent of the vote. Wallace's strongest support came from the Missouri Bootheel, with its significant rural black population and powerful cultural and geographic ties to Kentucky's Jackson Purchase, the Arkansas Delta and West Tennessee.^[1] He carried the state's southeasternmost county, Pemiscot, and ran second ahead of Nixon in two others nearby. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Missouri voted for a different candidate than neighboring Arkansas.

Nixon overcame Humphrey's 85,000-vote margin in St. Louis by dominating the state's interior and holding his deficit to Humphrey in Jackson County, where most of Kansas City is located, to 21,000 votes. Nixon was the first Republican to win Audrain County and Boone County since 1868, whilst Callaway and Platte counties voted Republican for the first time ever.^[2]

Results

Presidential Candidate	Running Mate	Party	Electoral Vote (EV)	Popular Vote (PV)
Richard M. Nixon	Spiro Agnew	Republican	12^[3]	811,932	44.87%
Hubert H. Humphrey	Edmund Muskie	Democrat	0	791,444	43.74%
George Wallace	S. Marvin Griffin	American Party of Missouri	0	206,126	11.39%

Results by county

County	Richard Nixon Republican		Hubert Humphrey Democratic		George Wallace American Independent		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%
	Adair		4,624		58.82%		2,645		33.65%		592		7.53%		1,979		25.17%		7,861
	Andrew		3,398		58.97%		2,005		34.80%		359		6.23%		1,393		24.17%		5,762
	Atchison		2,206		51.36%		1,752		40.79%		337		7.85%		454		10.57%		4,295
	Audrain		5,005		46.24%		4,806		44.41%		1,012		9.35%		199		1.83%		10,823
	Barry		5,537		57.12%		3,398		35.06%		758		7.82%		2,139		22.06%		9,693
	Barton		2,928		55.68%		1,832		34.84%		499		9.49%		1,096		20.84%		5,259
	Bates		4,087		49.49%		3,370		40.81%		801		9.70%		717		8.68%		8,258
	Benton		2,899		61.13%		1,345		28.36%		498		10.50%		1,554		32.77%		4,742
	Bollinger		2,283		50.08%		1,693		37.14%		583		12.79%		590		12.94%		4,559
	Boone		11,917		46.36%		11,771		45.80%		2,015		7.84%		146		0.56%		25,703
	Buchanan		16,101		46.38%		15,860		45.69%		2,752		7.93%		241		0.69%		34,713
	Butler		6,326		46.98%		4,379		32.52%		2,759		20.49%		1,947		14.46%		13,464
	Caldwell		2,631		57.81%		1,490		32.74%		430		9.45%		1,141		25.07%		4,551
	Callaway		4,277		46.03%		3,738		40.23%		1,276		13.73%		539		5.80%		9,291
	Camden		3,500		61.00%		1,605		27.97%		633		11.03%		1,895		33.03%		5,738
	Cape Girardeau		10,298		53.34%		6,656		34.48%		2,351		12.18%		3,642		18.86%		19,305
	Carroll		3,680		54.13%		2,473		36.38%		645		9.49%		1,207		17.75%		6,798
	Carter		861		45.60%		738		39.09%		289		15.31%		123		6.51%		1,888
	Cass		5,271		45.14%		4,468		38.26%		1,938		16.60%		803		6.88%		11,677
	Cedar		2,940		64.08%		1,218		26.55%		430		9.37%		1,722		37.53%		4,588
	Chariton		2,404		45.50%		2,371		44.87%		509		9.63%		33		0.63%		5,284
	Christian		4,019		64.43%		1,586		25.42%		633		10.15%		2,433		39.01%		6,238
	Clark		2,111		53.55%		1,489		37.77%		342		8.68%		622		15.78%		3,942
	Clay		19,643		44.48%		17,547		39.73%		6,972		15.79%		2,096		4.75%		44,162
	Clinton		2,659		45.82%		2,525		43.51%		619		10.67%		134		2.31%		5,803
	Cole		11,575		60.55%		5,916		30.95%		1,625		8.50%		5,659		29.60%		19,116
	Cooper		4,115		55.29%		2,798		37.59%		530		7.12%		1,317		17.70%		7,443
	Crawford		3,525		55.78%		2,123		33.60%		671		10.62%		1,402		22.18%		6,319
	Dade		2,250		64.34%		917		26.22%		330		9.44%		1,333		38.12%		3,497
	Dallas		2,835		62.49%		1,237		27.26%		465		10.25%		1,598		35.23%		4,537
	Daviess		2,288		53.23%		1,676		38.99%		334		7.77%		612		14.24%		4,298
	DeKalb		2,112		54.87%		1,452		37.72%		285		7.40%		660		17.15%		3,849
	Dent		2,369		50.97%		1,810		38.94%		469		10.09%		559		12.03%		4,648
	Douglas		2,836		67.11%		978		23.14%		412		9.75%		1,858		43.97%		4,226
	Dunklin		4,366		35.40%		5,063		41.06%		2,903		23.54%		-697		-5.66%		12,332
	Franklin		9,823		50.77%		7,566		39.10%		1,960		10.13%		2,257		11.67%		19,349
	Gasconade		4,400		74.64%		1,131		19.19%		364		6.17%		3,269		55.45%		5,895
	Gentry		2,286		48.73%		2,189		46.66%		216		4.60%		97		2.07%		4,691
	Greene		32,638		55.27%		19,659		33.29%		6,751		11.43%		12,979		21.98%		59,048
	Grundy		3,213		57.29%		1,976		35.24%		419		7.47%		1,237		22.05%		5,608
	Harrison		3,092		59.55%		1,688		32.51%		412		7.94%		1,404		27.04%		5,192
	Henry		3,824		47.68%		3,514		43.82%		682		8.50%		310		3.86%		8,020
	Hickory		1,484		66.55%		537		24.08%		209		9.37%		947		42.47%		2,230
	Holt		2,031		56.09%		1,211		33.44%		379		10.47%		820		22.65%		3,621
	Howard		1,825		39.12%		2,333		50.01%		507		10.87%		-508		-10.89%		4,665
	Howell		5,631		57.24%		2,763		28.08%		1,444		14.68%		2,868		29.16%		9,838
	Iron		1,600		41.60%		1,755		45.63%		491		12.77%		-155		-4.03%		3,846
	Jackson		91,086		39.22%		112,154		48.30%		28,980		12.48%		-21,068		-9.08%		232,220
	Jasper		16,794		54.24%		10,987		35.49%		3,181		10.27%		5,807		18.75%		30,962
	Jefferson		11,708		37.70%		13,230		42.60%		6,115		19.69%		-1,522		-4.90%		31,053
	Johnson		4,834		51.78%		3,484		37.32%		1,018		10.90%		1,350		14.46%		9,336
	Knox		1,562		49.29%		1,257		39.67%		350		11.04%		305		9.62%		3,169
	Laclede		4,860		56.06%		2,958		34.12%		852		9.83%		1,902		21.94%		8,670
	Lafayette		6,840		53.42%		4,859		37.95%		1,105		8.63%		1,981		15.47%		12,804
	Lawrence		6,834		59.73%		3,710		32.42%		898		7.85%		3,124		27.31%		11,442
	Lewis		2,038		43.90%		2,067		44.53%		537		11.57%		-29		-0.63%		4,642
	Lincoln		3,185		41.78%		3,142		41.21%		1,297		17.01%		43		0.57%		7,624
	Linn		3,795		46.05%		3,933		47.72%		513		6.22%		-138		-1.67%		8,241
	Livingston		3,827		48.99%		3,467		44.38%		518		6.63%		360		4.61%		7,812
	Macon		3,804		47.04%		3,462		42.81%		821		10.15%		342		4.23%		8,087
	Madison		2,164		50.33%		1,521		35.37%		615		14.30%		643		14.96%		4,300
	Maries		1,438		47.52%		1,185		39.16%		403		13.32%		253		8.36%		3,026
	Marion		4,732		41.62%		5,416		47.64%		1,221		10.74%		-684		-6.02%		11,369
	McDonald		3,025		51.32%		2,188		37.12%		681		11.55%		837		14.20%		5,894
	Mercer		1,406		60.76%		783		33.84%		125		5.40%		623		26.92%		2,314
	Miller		4,425		64.88%		1,727		25.32%		668		9.79%		2,698		39.56%		6,820
	Mississippi		1,421		26.82%		2,303		43.46%		1,575		29.72%		728		-13.74%		-5,299
	Moniteau		3,210		58.54%		1,687		30.77%		586		10.69%		1,523		27.77%		5,483
	Monroe		1,349		29.07%		2,776		59.81%		516		11.12%		-1,427		-30.74%		4,641
	Montgomery		2,903		53.59%		1,891		34.91%		623		11.50%		1,012		18.68%		5,417
	Morgan		2,906		57.44%		1,649		32.60%		504		9.96%		1,257		24.84%		5,059
	New Madrid		2,317		24.40%		4,195		44.18%		2,984		31.42%		1,211		-12.76%		-9,496
	Newton		7,343		52.87%		5,064		36.46%		1,481		10.66%		2,279		16.41%		13,888
	Nodaway		4,736		48.11%		4,494		45.65%		615		6.25%		242		2.46%		9,845
	Oregon		1,213		34.03%		1,726		48.43%		625		17.54%		-513		-14.40%		3,564
	Osage		3,107		61.63%		1,540		30.55%		394		7.82%		1,567		31.08%		5,041
	Ozark		1,967		68.37%		606		21.06%		304		10.57%		1,361		47.31%		2,877
	Pemiscot		2,191		28.01%		2,681		34.28%		2,950		37.71%		-269		-3.43%		7,822
	Perry		3,858		61.45%		1,958		31.19%		462		7.36%		1,900		30.26%		6,278
	Pettis		6,738		46.08%		6,334		43.32%		1,549		10.59%		404		2.76%		14,621
	Phelps		5,577		47.33%		4,211		35.74%		1,995		16.93%		1,366		11.59%		11,783
	Pike		3,072		43.47%		3,192		45.17%		803		11.36%		-120		-1.70%		7,067
	Platte		4,836		42.74%		4,665		41.22%		1,815		16.04%		171		1.52%		11,316
	Polk		4,145		59.82%		2,170		31.32%		614		8.86%		1,975		28.50%		6,929
	Pulaski		2,555		45.82%		2,303		41.30%		718		12.88%		252		4.52%		5,576
	Putnam		1,971		63.75%		952		30.79%		169		5.47%		1,019		32.96%		3,092
	Ralls		1,175		33.07%		1,900		53.48%		478		13.45%		-725		-20.41%		3,553
	Randolph		3,582		38.58%		4,810		51.80%		893		9.62%		-1,228		-13.22%		9,285
	Ray		2,587		35.90%		3,541		49.14%		1,078		14.96%		-954		-13.24%		7,206
	Reynolds		898		34.79%		1,245		48.24%		438		16.97%		-347		-13.45%		2,581
	Ripley		1,973		48.24%		1,440		35.21%		677		16.55%		533		13.03%		4,090
	St. Charles		13,533		45.63%		10,374		34.98%		5,752		19.39%		3,159		10.65%		29,659
	St. Clair		2,271		54.36%		1,496		35.81%		411		9.84%		775		18.55%		4,178
	St. Francois		7,492		47.60%		6,379		40.53%		1,867		11.86%		1,113		7.07%		15,738
	St. Louis		180,355		46.80%		165,786		43.02%		39,234		10.18%		14,569		3.78%		385,375
	St. Louis City		58,252		26.37%		143,010		64.74%		19,652		8.90%		-84,758		-38.37%		220,914
	Ste. Genevieve		1,937		42.09%		2,225		48.35%		440		9.56%		-288		-6.26%		4,602
	Saline		4,698		46.76%		4,646		46.24%		704		7.01%		52		0.52%		10,048
	Schuyler		1,291		53.17%		969		39.91%		168		6.92%		322		13.26%		2,428
	Scotland		1,554		50.06%		1,340		43.17%		210		6.77%		214		6.89%		3,104
	Scott		3,856		36.23%		4,313		40.52%		2,474		23.25%		-457		-4.29%		10,643
	Shannon		1,048		38.67%		1,216		44.87%		446		16.46%		-168		-6.20%		2,710
	Shelby		1,693		41.33%		2,045		49.93%		358		8.74%		-352		-8.60%		4,096
	Stoddard		3,919		44.43%		3,150		35.71%		1,751		19.85%		769		8.72%		8,820
	Stone		3,006		67.32%		1,004		22.49%		455		10.19%		2,002		44.83%		4,465
	Sullivan		2,332		52.24%		1,907		42.72%		225		5.04%		425		9.52%		4,464
	Taney		3,289		66.82%		1,219		24.77%		414		8.41%		2,070		42.05%		4,922
	Texas		4,022		49.53%		3,117		38.39%		981		12.08%		905		11.14%		8,120
	Vernon		3,590		45.27%		3,557		44.85%		783		9.87%		33		0.42%		7,930
	Warren		2,669		62.55%		1,033		24.21%		565		13.24%		1,636		38.34%		4,267
	Washington		2,641		46.26%		2,292		40.15%		776		13.59%		349		6.11%		5,709
	Wayne		2,156		47.79%		1,714		38.00%		641		14.21%		442		9.79%		4,511
	Webster		4,118		56.90%		2,547		35.19%		572		7.90%		1,571		21.71%		7,237
	Worth		924		48.55%		853		44.82%		126		6.62%		71		3.73%		1,903
	Wright		3,576		66.22%		1,337		24.76%		487		9.02%		2,239		41.46%		5,400
Totals	811,932	44.87%	791,444	43.74%	206,126	11.39%	20,488	1.13%	1,809,502

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Adair
• Atchison
• Andrew
• Audrain
• Barry
• Barton
• Bates
• Bollinger
• Boone
• Buchanan
• Butler
• Caldwell
• Callaway
• Cape Girardeau
• Carroll
• Carter
• Cass
• Chariton
• Clark
• Clay
• Clinton
• Cooper
• Crawford
• Daviess
• DeKalb
• Dent
• Franklin
• Greene
• Gentry
• Henry
• Harrison
• Holt
• Howell
• Jasper
• Johnson
• Knox
• Laclede
• Lafayette
• Lawrence
• Lincoln
• Linn
• Livingston
• Macon
• Madison
• Maries
• McDonald
• Mercer
• Montgomery
• Oregon
• Newton
• Nodaway
• Pettis
• Phelps
• Perry
• Platte
• Polk
• Pulaski
• Ripley
• St. Clair
• St. Francois
• St. Louis
• Schuyler
• Scotland
• Saline
• Stoddard
• Sullivan
• Texas
• Vernon
• Washington
• Webster
• Wayne
• Worth

Counties that flipped from Democratic to American Independent

• Pemiscot

See also

• United States presidential elections in Missouri

Notes and References

1. Book: [[Kevin Phillips (political commentator)|Phillips]], Kevin P.. The Emerging Republican Majority. 368–370. 9780691163246.
2. Book: Menendez, Albert J.. The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004. 239–246. 0786422173.
3. http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1968&fips=29&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1968 Presidential General Election Results – Missouri