1968 United States presidential election in Utah explained

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Election Name:	1968 United States presidential election in Utah
Country:	Utah
Flag Year:	1922
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1964 United States presidential election in Utah
Previous Year:	1964
Next Election:	1972 United States presidential election in Utah
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:	238,728
Percentage1:	56.49%
Nominee2:	Hubert Humphrey
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	Minnesota
Running Mate2:	Edmund Muskie
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	156,665
Percentage2:	37.07%
Image3:	George Wallace (D-AL) (3x4).jpg
Nominee3:	George Wallace
Party3:	American Independent Party
Home State3:	Alabama
Running Mate3:	Curtis LeMay
Electoral Vote3:	0
Popular Vote3:	26,906
Percentage3:	6.37%
Color3:	FF7F00
Map Size:	250px
President
Before Election:	Lyndon B. Johnson
Before Party:	Democratic Party (United States)
After Election:	Richard Nixon
After Party:	Republican Party (United States)
Turnout:	76.7% (voting age)^[2]

The 1968 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. State voters chose four^[3] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Utah was won by former Vice President Richard Nixon (R–California), with 56.49 percent of the popular vote, against Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D–Minnesota), with 37.07 percent of the popular vote. American Independent Party candidate George Wallace performed decently, finishing with 6.37 percent of the popular vote.^{[4] [5]} By outpolling Humphrey in arch-Republican Kane County, Wallace became the first third-party candidate to finish even second in any non-Southern county since 1936 when William Lemke finished ahead of Alf Landon in the North Dakota counties of Bottineau, Burke, Divide, Mountrail, Towner and Williams.^[6]

With 56.49 percent of the popular vote, Utah would prove to be Nixon's third strongest state in the 1968 election after Nebraska and Idaho.^[7]

Utah had the highest voter turnout in terms of the voting age population out of any state in the 1968 presidential election.^[8]

Results

Results by county

County	Richard Nixon Republican		Hubert Humphrey Democratic		George Wallace American Independent		Eldridge Cleaver^[9] Peace and Freedom		Fred Halstead Socialist Workers		Margin		Total votes cast
		%		%		%		%		%		%
	Beaver		989		50.87%		795		40.90%		158		8.13%		2		0.10%		0		0.00%		194		9.97%		1,944
	Box Elder		7,680		65.71%		3,093		26.46%		907		7.76%		6		0.05%		2		0.02%		4,587		39.25%		11,688
	Cache		11,906		68.81%		4,327		25.01%		1,050		6.07%		17		0.10%		3		0.02%		7,579		43.80%		17,303
	Carbon		2,618		36.17%		4,344		60.01%		271		3.74%		2		0.03%		4		0.06%		-1,726		-23.84%		7,239
	Daggett		152		52.23%		97		33.33%		42		14.43%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		55		18.90%		291
	Davis		20,658		60.60%		10,624		31.17%		2,787		8.18%		18		0.05%		0		0.00%		10,034		29.43%		34,087
	Duchesne		1,733		61.15%		858		30.28%		243		8.57%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		875		30.87%		2,834
	Emery		1,223		50.89%		1,019		42.41%		161		6.70%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		204		8.48%		2,403
	Garfield		1,033		69.47%		314		21.12%		139		9.35%		1		0.07%		0		0.00%		719		48.35%		1,487
	Grand		1,435		60.88%		707		30.00%		215		9.12%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		728		30.88%		2,357
	Iron		3,337		66.59%		1,157		23.09%		514		10.26%		2		0.04%		1		0.02%		2,180		43.50%		5,011
	Juab		1,201		53.95%		907		40.75%		118		5.30%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		294		13.20%		2,226
	Kane		814		71.72%		147		12.95%		174		15.33%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		640		56.39%		1,135
	Millard		2,318		66.06%		971		27.67%		220		6.27%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		1,347		38.39%		3,509
	Morgan		1,020		59.89%		551		32.35%		130		7.63%		2		0.12%		1		0.06%		469		27.54%		1,703
	Piute		411		64.42%		167		26.18%		60		9.40%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		244		38.24%		638
	Rich		525		70.28%		183		24.50%		39		5.22%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		342		45.78%		747
	Salt Lake		101,942		54.03%		77,247		40.94%		9,323		4.94%		97		0.05%		0		0.00%		24,695		13.09%		188,663
	San Juan		1,393		59.66%		680		29.12%		262		11.22%		54		2.26%		0		0.00%		713		30.54%		2,335
	Sanpete		3,304		62.20%		1,696		31.93%		307		5.78%		5		0.09%		0		0.00%		1,608		30.27%		5,312
	Sevier		3,190		67.24%		1,167		24.60%		384		8.09%		1		0.02%		2		0.04%		2,023		42.64%		4,744
	Summit		1,782		62.37%		961		33.64%		113		3.96%		1		0.04%		0		0.00%		821		28.73%		2,857
	Tooele		3,422		41.39%		4,250		51.41%		592		7.16%		3		0.04%		0		0.00%		-828		-10.02%		8,267
	Uintah		3,034		65.64%		1,145		24.77%		437		9.45%		5		0.11%		1		0.02%		1,889		40.87%		4,622
	Utah		29,226		59.01%		16,629		33.57%		3,666		7.40%		5		0.01%		2		0.00%		12,597		25.44%		49,528
	Wasatch		1,611		60.95%		941		35.60%		86		3.25%		1		0.04%		4		0.15%		670		25.35%		2,643
	Washington		3,226		64.52%		975		19.50%		796		15.92%		1		0.02%		2		0.04%		2,251		45.02%		5,000
	Wayne		511		62.85%		248		30.50%		54		6.64%		0		0.00%		0		0.00%		263		32.35%		813
	Weber		27,034		52.82%		20,465		39.98%		3,658		7.15%		14		0.03%		11		0.02%		6,569		12.84%		51,182
Totals	238,728	56.49%	156,665	37.07%	26,906	6.37%	180	0.04%	89	0.02%	82,063	19.42%	422,568

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

• Beaver
• Daggett
• Duchesne
• Emery
• Grand
• Juab
• Morgan
• Salt Lake
• Summit
• Utah
• Wayne
• Wasatch
• Weber

Results by congressional district

This table shows the results by congressional district. The candidate who won the largest amount of the vote nationally is shown first. Nixon won both of the Utah's 2 congressional districts.^[10]

District	Nixon	Humphrey	Wallace
	1st		58.8%		33.9%		7.3%
	2nd		54.3%		40.2%		5.5%

See also

• United States presidential elections in Utah

Notes and References

1. Web site: United States Presidential election of 1968 - Encyclopædia Britannica. May 25, 2017.
2. Web site: March 1972 . Population Estimates and Projections . August 10, 2024 . United States Census Bureau.
3. Web site: 1968 Election for the Forty-Sixth Term (1969-73). May 25, 2017.
4. Web site: 1968 Presidential General Election Results - Utah. May 25, 2017.
5. Web site: The American Presidency Project - Election of 1968. May 25, 2017.
6. Scammon, Richard M. (compiler); America at the Polls: A Handbook of Presidential Election Statistics 1920-1964; pp. 339, 343
7. Web site: 1968 Presidential Election Statistics. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2018-03-05.
8. Web site: March 1972 . Population Estimates and Projections . August 10, 2024 . United States Census Bureau.
9. Our Campaigns; UT US President November 05, 1968
10. Web site: Park-Egan . Kiernan . 1968 United States Presidential Election, Results by Congressional District . 30 October 2023 . U.S. Presidential Election Results by Congressional District, 1952 to 2020.