See main article: 1968 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1968 United States presidential election in South Dakota |
| Country: | South Dakota |
| Flag Year: | 1963 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1964 United States presidential election in South Dakota |
| Previous Year: | 1964 |
| Next Election: | 1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota |
| Next Year: | 1972 |
| Election Date: | November 5, 1968[1] |
| Image1: | Nixon_30-0316a_(cropped).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Richard Nixon |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | New York |
| Running Mate1: | Spiro Agnew |
| Electoral Vote1: | 4 |
| Popular Vote1: | 149,841 |
| Percentage1: | 53.27% |
| Nominee2: | Hubert Humphrey |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Minnesota |
| Running Mate2: | Edmund Muskie |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 118,023 |
| Percentage2: | 41.96% |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Richard Nixon |
| After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Map Size: | 350px |
The 1968 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Voters chose four[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
South Dakota was won by former Vice President Richard Nixon (R–New York), with 53.27 percent of the popular vote, against Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D–Minnesota), with 41.96 percent of the popular vote. Independent candidate George Wallace would carry five Southern states, but finished with a mere 4.76 percent of South Dakota's popular vote.[3] [4] Although the West River region of South Dakota possessed powerful racial conflicts akin to Wallace's native South – although between Whites and Native Americans rather than between Whites and Blacks – significant anti-Southern feeling amongst its Yankee descendants limited Wallace's appeal even there,[5] and in the East River with fewer Native Americans and a strong Scandinavian-American influence,[6] Wallace possessed generally insignificant appeal. Although he performed reasonably in some West River counties, within the more populous East River Wallace cracked half his national percentage (6.75%) only in Hyde and Sully Counties. Consequently, South Dakota proved Wallace's eighth-weakest state nationally.
| County[7] | Richard Nixon Republican | Hubert Humphrey Democratic | George Wallace Independent | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | ||||||||
| Aurora | 1,043 | 46.71% | 1,060 | 47.47% | 130 | 5.82% | -17 | -0.76% | 2,233 | ||||||||||
| Beadle | 4,214 | 42.66% | 5,357 | 54.23% | 307 | 3.11% | -1,143 | -11.57% | 9,878 | ||||||||||
| Bennett | 665 | 53.93% | 457 | 37.06% | 111 | 9.00% | 208 | 16.87% | 1,233 | ||||||||||
| Bon Homme | 2,411 | 55.01% | 1,773 | 40.45% | 199 | 4.54% | 638 | 14.56% | 4,383 | ||||||||||
| Brookings | 4,674 | 57.84% | 3,202 | 39.62% | 205 | 2.54% | 1,472 | 18.22% | 8,081 | ||||||||||
| Brown | 6,685 | 45.95% | 7,302 | 50.20% | 560 | 3.85% | -617 | -4.25% | 14,547 | ||||||||||
| Brule | 1,237 | 43.94% | 1,425 | 50.62% | 153 | 5.44% | -188 | -6.68% | 2,815 | ||||||||||
| Buffalo | 261 | 47.11% | 265 | 47.83% | 28 | 5.05% | -4 | -0.72% | 554 | ||||||||||
| Butte | 2,090 | 63.28% | 1,017 | 30.79% | 196 | 5.93% | 1,073 | 32.49% | 3,303 | ||||||||||
| Campbell | 1,216 | 79.27% | 245 | 15.97% | 73 | 4.76% | 971 | 63.30% | 1,534 | ||||||||||
| Charles Mix | 2,093 | 44.77% | 2,369 | 50.67% | 213 | 4.56% | -276 | -5.90% | 4,675 | ||||||||||
| Clark | 1,596 | 52.50% | 1,325 | 43.59% | 119 | 3.91% | 271 | 8.91% | 3,040 | ||||||||||
| Clay | 2,249 | 51.28% | 2,006 | 45.74% | 131 | 2.99% | 243 | 5.54% | 4,386 | ||||||||||
| Codington | 3,929 | 46.49% | 4,235 | 50.11% | 288 | 3.41% | -306 | -3.62% | 8,452 | ||||||||||
| Corson | 1,108 | 55.15% | 821 | 40.87% | 80 | 3.98% | 287 | 14.28% | 2,009 | ||||||||||
| Custer | 1,143 | 55.38% | 727 | 35.22% | 194 | 9.40% | 416 | 20.16% | 2,064 | ||||||||||
| Davison | 3,869 | 50.12% | 3,585 | 46.44% | 265 | 3.43% | 284 | 3.68% | 7,719 | ||||||||||
| Day | 2,062 | 43.81% | 2,463 | 52.33% | 182 | 3.87% | -401 | -8.52% | 4,707 | ||||||||||
| Deuel | 1,398 | 53.26% | 1,076 | 40.99% | 151 | 5.75% | 322 | 12.27% | 2,625 | ||||||||||
| Dewey | 941 | 52.72% | 721 | 40.39% | 123 | 6.89% | 220 | 12.33% | 1,785 | ||||||||||
| Douglas | 1,613 | 70.68% | 592 | 25.94% | 77 | 3.37% | 1,021 | 44.74% | 2,282 | ||||||||||
| Edmunds | 1,534 | 52.18% | 1,225 | 41.67% | 181 | 6.16% | 309 | 10.51% | 2,940 | ||||||||||
| Fall River | 1,843 | 59.57% | 965 | 31.19% | 286 | 9.24% | 878 | 28.38% | 3,094 | ||||||||||
| Faulk | 997 | 49.48% | 819 | 40.65% | 199 | 9.88% | 178 | 8.83% | 2,015 | ||||||||||
| Grant | 2,259 | 51.81% | 1,890 | 43.35% | 211 | 4.84% | 369 | 8.46% | 4,360 | ||||||||||
| Gregory | 1,810 | 54.40% | 1,266 | 38.05% | 251 | 7.54% | 544 | 16.35% | 3,327 | ||||||||||
| Haakon | 759 | 60.96% | 377 | 30.28% | 109 | 8.76% | 382 | 30.68% | 1,245 | ||||||||||
| Hamlin | 1,649 | 56.36% | 1,149 | 39.27% | 128 | 4.37% | 500 | 17.09% | 2,926 | ||||||||||
| Hand | 1,650 | 54.78% | 1,136 | 37.72% | 226 | 7.50% | 514 | 17.06% | 3,012 | ||||||||||
| Hanson | 901 | 50.08% | 826 | 45.91% | 72 | 4.00% | 75 | 4.17% | 1,799 | ||||||||||
| Harding | 564 | 63.02% | 266 | 29.72% | 65 | 7.26% | 298 | 33.30% | 895 | ||||||||||
| Hughes | 3,204 | 61.46% | 1,666 | 31.96% | 343 | 6.58% | 1,538 | 29.50% | 5,213 | ||||||||||
| Hutchinson | 3,544 | 69.07% | 1,412 | 27.52% | 175 | 3.41% | 2,132 | 41.55% | 5,131 | ||||||||||
| Hyde | 713 | 53.81% | 499 | 37.66% | 113 | 8.53% | 214 | 16.15% | 1,325 | ||||||||||
| Jackson | 480 | 56.80% | 267 | 31.60% | 98 | 11.60% | 213 | 25.20% | 845 | ||||||||||
| Jerauld | 1,002 | 55.57% | 745 | 41.32% | 56 | 3.11% | 257 | 14.25% | 1,803 | ||||||||||
| Jones | 562 | 55.75% | 358 | 35.52% | 88 | 8.73% | 204 | 20.23% | 1,008 | ||||||||||
| Kingsbury | 2,300 | 58.42% | 1,491 | 37.87% | 146 | 3.71% | 809 | 20.55% | 3,937 | ||||||||||
| Lake | 2,876 | 53.68% | 2,294 | 42.81% | 188 | 3.51% | 582 | 10.87% | 5,358 | ||||||||||
| Lawrence | 4,185 | 60.23% | 2,425 | 34.90% | 338 | 4.86% | 1,760 | 25.33% | 6,948 | ||||||||||
| Lincoln | 3,259 | 59.89% | 1,961 | 36.03% | 222 | 4.08% | 1,298 | 23.86% | 5,442 | ||||||||||
| Lyman | 1,063 | 57.87% | 643 | 35.00% | 131 | 7.13% | 420 | 22.87% | 1,837 | ||||||||||
| Marshall | 1,471 | 47.01% | 1,518 | 48.51% | 140 | 4.47% | -47 | -1.50% | 3,129 | ||||||||||
| McCook | 1,959 | 51.55% | 1,653 | 43.50% | 188 | 4.95% | 306 | 8.05% | 3,800 | ||||||||||
| McPherson | 2,105 | 80.34% | 389 | 14.85% | 126 | 4.81% | 1,716 | 65.49% | 2,620 | ||||||||||
| Meade | 2,392 | 56.19% | 1,522 | 35.75% | 343 | 8.06% | 870 | 20.44% | 4,257 | ||||||||||
| Mellette | 611 | 55.70% | 407 | 37.10% | 79 | 7.20% | 204 | 18.60% | 1,097 | ||||||||||
| Miner | 1,045 | 43.69% | 1,255 | 52.47% | 92 | 3.85% | -210 | -8.78% | 2,392 | ||||||||||
| Minnehaha | 20,141 | 53.31% | 16,462 | 43.57% | 1,177 | 3.12% | 3,679 | 9.74% | 37,780 | ||||||||||
| Moody | 1,689 | 48.87% | 1,614 | 46.70% | 153 | 4.43% | 75 | 2.17% | 3,456 | ||||||||||
| Pennington | 9,671 | 53.29% | 7,303 | 40.24% | 1,174 | 6.47% | 2,368 | 13.05% | 18,148 | ||||||||||
| Perkins | 1,498 | 60.38% | 869 | 35.03% | 114 | 4.59% | 629 | 25.35% | 2,481 | ||||||||||
| Potter | 1,273 | 57.81% | 780 | 35.42% | 149 | 6.77% | 493 | 22.39% | 2,202 | ||||||||||
| Roberts | 2,225 | 42.68% | 2,651 | 50.85% | 337 | 6.46% | -426 | -8.17% | 5,213 | ||||||||||
| Sanborn | 1,024 | 49.71% | 956 | 46.41% | 80 | 3.88% | 68 | 3.30% | 2,060 | ||||||||||
| Shannon | 533 | 29.68% | 1,202 | 66.93% | 61 | 3.40% | -669 | -37.25% | 1,796 | ||||||||||
| Spink | 2,068 | 42.08% | 2,669 | 54.30% | 178 | 3.62% | -601 | -12.22% | 4,915 | ||||||||||
| Stanley | 572 | 51.58% | 439 | 39.59% | 98 | 8.84% | 133 | 11.99% | 1,109 | ||||||||||
| Sully | 676 | 60.09% | 356 | 31.64% | 93 | 8.27% | 320 | 28.45% | 1,125 | ||||||||||
| Todd | 683 | 38.78% | 987 | 56.05% | 91 | 5.17% | -304 | -17.27% | 1,761 | ||||||||||
| Tripp | 2,242 | 58.25% | 1,362 | 35.39% | 245 | 6.37% | 880 | 22.86% | 3,849 | ||||||||||
| Turner | 3,246 | 67.61% | 1,350 | 28.12% | 205 | 4.27% | 1,896 | 39.49% | 4,801 | ||||||||||
| Union | 2,212 | 49.70% | 2,014 | 45.25% | 225 | 5.06% | 198 | 4.45% | 4,451 | ||||||||||
| Walworth | 2,204 | 60.19% | 1,276 | 34.84% | 182 | 4.97% | 928 | 25.35% | 3,662 | ||||||||||
| Washabaugh | 224 | 49.89% | 203 | 45.21% | 22 | 4.90% | 21 | 4.68% | 449 | ||||||||||
| Yankton | 3,977 | 56.08% | 2,733 | 38.54% | 382 | 5.39% | 1,244 | 17.54% | 7,092 | ||||||||||
| Ziebach | 449 | 52.58% | 350 | 40.98% | 55 | 6.44% | 99 | 11.60% | 854 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 149,841 | 53.27% | 118,023 | 41.96% | 13,400 | 4.76% | 31,818 | 11.31% | 281,264 | ||||||||||