1968 United States presidential election in Ohio

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1968 United States presidential election in Ohio

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Nominee  | Richard Nixon | Hubert Humphrey | George Wallace
Party  | Republican | Democratic | American Independent
Home state  | New York[a] | Minnesota | Alabama
Running mate  | Spiro Agnew | Edmund Muskie | S. Marvin Griffin
Electoral vote  | 26 | 0  | 0
Popular vote  | 1,791,014 | 1,700,586  | 467,495
Percentage  | 45.23% | 42.95%  | 11.81%

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County Results

Nixon

40-50%

50-60%

60-70%

Humphrey

40-50%

50-60%

60-70%

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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Richard Nixon
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The 1968 United States presidential election in Ohio took place on November 5, 1968. All 50 states and The District of Columbia were part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Ohio voters chose 26 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Ohio was won by the Republican Party candidate, former Vice President Richard Nixon by a narrow margin of 2.28%. Nixon won the vast majority of Ohio's counties, including the major cities of Columbus, Cincinnati, Canton and Hamilton. The Democratic Party candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, kept the race close by winning the major cities of Cleveland, Toledo, Akron, Dayton, Youngstown, Lorain, and Springfield.

The American Independent Party candidate, former Alabama governor George Wallace, had his best performance in the Midwestern United States, taking 11.81% of the popular vote, despite being far from his base of support in the Deep South. This was due to Ohio's presence along the borders of Kentucky and West Virginia, which are considered part of the southern United States. In the north, Wallace appealed to blue-collar workers and union members who usually voted Democratic, but who had become disgruntled with the racial violence and anti-Vietnam War protests. As a result, this split in the Democratic vote between Humphrey and Wallace was enough for Nixon to narrowly carry Ohio.[citation needed]

As of the 2024 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Mercer County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[1] Nixon became the first ever Republican to win the White House without carrying Clark, Cuyahoga, Harrison, Lorain, Lucas, Mahoning, or Portage Counties, as well as the first to do so without carrying Montgomery or Tuscarawas Counties since William Howard Taft in 1908.

## Campaign

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A United States Supreme Court case involving ballot access occurred during the election cycle in Ohio, Williams v. Rhodes. The case involved the American Independent Party along with the Socialist Labor Party; with the American Independent Party getting enough signatures but not filing its petition prior to the February 7 deadline while the Socialist Labor Party had been of the ballot since 1948 and that year in 1968 they did not collect enough signatures. Both of the parties sued the state in a US District Court arguing being kept off the ballot was in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution before later merging the cases. In the District Court it was found that both political parties must be given write-in status but the state did not have to put the candidates names on the ballot. The US Supreme Court found it violated the Equal Protection Clause in a 6-3 decision.[2]

## Results

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1968 United States presidential election in Ohio[3]

Party  | Candidate  | Votes  | Percentage  | Electoral votes
| Republican | Richard Nixon | 1,791,014 | 45.23% | 26
| Democrat | Hubert Humphrey | 1,700,586  | 42.95%  | 0
| American Independent | George Wallace | 467,495  | 11.81%  | 0
| No party  | Dick Gregory (write-in)  | 372  | 0.01%  | 0
| No party  | Henning A. Blomen (write-in)  | 120  | 0.00%  | 0
| No party  | Fred Halstead (write-in)  | 69  | 0.00%  | 0
| No party  | Charlene Mitchell (write-in)  | 23  | 0.00%  | 0
| No party  | E. Harold Munn (write-in)  | 19  | 0.00%  | 0
Totals | 3,959,698 | 100.00% | 26
Voter turnout (Voting age)  |  | 63%

### Results by county

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County  | Richard Nixon
Republican  | Hubert Humphrey
Democratic  | George Wallace
American Independent  | Various candidates
Write-ins  | Margin  | Total votes cast

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#  | %  | #  | %  | #  | %  | #  | %  | #  | %
Adams | 3,973  | 51.54%  | 2,685  | 34.83%  | 1,049  | 13.61%  | 1  | 0.01%  | 1,288  | 16.71%  | 7,708
Allen | 23,124  | 60.30%  | 10,994  | 28.67%  | 4,231  | 11.03%  |  |  | 12,130  | 31.63%  | 38,349
Ashland | 9,745  | 62.49%  | 4,526  | 29.02%  | 1,323  | 8.48%  |  |  | 5,219  | 33.47%  | 15,594
Ashtabula | 17,058  | 46.66%  | 16,738  | 45.79%  | 2,753  | 7.53%  | 6  | 0.02%  | 320  | 0.87%  | 36,555
Athens | 7,837  | 47.79%  | 7,351  | 44.82%  | 1,207  | 7.36%  | 5  | 0.03%  | 486  | 2.97%  | 16,400
Auglaize | 9,368  | 56.96%  | 5,550  | 33.74%  | 1,528  | 9.29%  | 1  | 0.01%  | 3,818  | 23.22%  | 16,447
Belmont | 11,512  | 31.94%  | 22,056  | 61.19%  | 2,478  | 6.87%  |  |  | -10,544  | -29.25%  | 36,046
Brown | 4,700  | 44.27%  | 3,610  | 34.00%  | 2,307  | 21.73%  |  |  | 1,090  | 10.27%  | 10,617
Butler | 35,962  | 48.73%  | 23,649  | 32.04%  | 14,188  | 19.22%  | 3  | 0.00%  | 12,313  | 16.69%  | 73,802
Carroll | 4,634  | 52.39%  | 3,119  | 35.26%  | 1,092  | 12.34%  | 1  | 0.01%  | 1,515  | 17.13%  | 8,846
Champaign | 6,863  | 53.83%  | 4,264  | 33.44%  | 1,621  | 12.71%  | 2  | 0.02%  | 2,599  | 20.39%  | 12,750
Clark | 23,748  | 43.58%  | 24,029  | 44.10%  | 6,710  | 12.31%  | 4  | 0.01%  | -281  | -0.52%  | 54,491
Clermont | 15,299  | 48.04%  | 8,859  | 27.82%  | 7,690  | 24.15%  | 1  | 0.00%  | 6,440  | 20.22%  | 31,849
Clinton | 6,265  | 56.56%  | 2,982  | 26.92%  | 1,830  | 16.52%  |  |  | 3,283  | 29.64%  | 11,077
Columbiana | 19,947  | 46.21%  | 19,382  | 44.90%  | 3,832  | 8.88%  | 9  | 0.02%  | 565  | 1.31%  | 43,170
Coshocton | 7,256  | 53.59%  | 5,013  | 37.03%  | 1,270  | 9.38%  |  |  | 2,243  | 16.56%  | 13,539
Crawford | 11,898  | 56.64%  | 6,737  | 32.07%  | 2,373  | 11.30%  |  |  | 5,161  | 24.57%  | 21,008
Cuyahoga | 238,791  | 35.44%  | 363,540  | 53.95%  | 71,360  | 10.59%  | 148  | 0.02%  | -124,749  | -18.51%  | 673,839
Darke | 10,926  | 53.78%  | 7,371  | 36.28%  | 2,015  | 9.92%  | 3  | 0.01%  | 3,555  | 17.50%  | 20,315
Defiance | 7,348  | 52.64%  | 5,686  | 40.73%  | 925  | 6.63%  |  |  | 1,662  | 11.91%  | 13,959
Delaware | 9,029  | 57.72%  | 4,056  | 25.93%  | 2,557  | 16.34%  | 2  | 0.01%  | 4,973  | 31.79%  | 15,644
Erie | 13,023  | 48.50%  | 11,388  | 42.41%  | 2,437  | 9.08%  | 1  | 0.00%  | 1,635  | 6.09%  | 26,849
Fairfield | 14,810  | 52.03%  | 9,533  | 33.49%  | 4,124  | 14.49%  |  |  | 5,277  | 18.54%  | 28,467
Fayette | 5,339  | 51.99%  | 2,966  | 28.88%  | 1,962  | 19.11%  | 2  | 0.02%  | 2,373  | 23.11%  | 10,269
Franklin | 148,933  | 51.78%  | 101,240  | 35.20%  | 37,390  | 13.00%  | 61  | 0.02%  | 47,693  | 16.58%  | 287,624
Fulton | 7,817  | 64.14%  | 3,338  | 27.39%  | 1,033  | 8.48%  |  |  | 4,479  | 36.75%  | 12,188
Gallia | 5,134  | 58.10%  | 2,660  | 30.10%  | 1,039  | 11.76%  | 3  | 0.03%  | 2,474  | 28.00%  | 8,836
Geauga | 11,857  | 51.76%  | 7,825  | 34.16%  | 3,226  | 14.08%  |  |  | 4,032  | 17.60%  | 22,908
Greene | 17,589  | 45.36%  | 15,178  | 39.14%  | 5,999  | 15.47%  | 9  | 0.02%  | 2,411  | 6.22%  | 38,775
Guernsey | 7,336  | 49.44%  | 5,815  | 39.19%  | 1,685  | 11.36%  | 1  | 0.01%  | 1,521  | 10.25%  | 14,837
Hamilton | 183,611  | 50.24%  | 135,057  | 36.95%  | 46,742  | 12.79%  | 73  | 0.02%  | 48,554  | 13.29%  | 365,483
Hancock | 15,032  | 61.08%  | 6,918  | 28.11%  | 2,659  | 10.80%  |  |  | 8,114  | 32.97%  | 24,609
Hardin | 6,963  | 53.82%  | 4,180  | 32.31%  | 1,794  | 13.87%  |  |  | 2,783  | 21.51%  | 12,937
Harrison | 3,532  | 45.87%  | 3,594  | 46.68%  | 574  | 7.45%  |  |  | -62  | -0.81%  | 7,700
Henry | 6,970  | 63.21%  | 3,256  | 29.53%  | 799  | 7.25%  | 1  | 0.01%  | 3,714  | 33.68%  | 11,026
Highland | 6,489  | 51.81%  | 3,828  | 30.56%  | 2,208  | 17.63%  |  |  | 2,661  | 21.25%  | 12,525
Hocking | 3,998  | 45.94%  | 3,701  | 42.53%  | 1,003  | 11.53%  |  |  | 297  | 3.41%  | 8,702
Holmes | 3,350  | 58.47%  | 1,898  | 33.13%  | 479  | 8.36%  | 2  | 0.03%  | 1,452  | 25.34%  | 5,729
Huron | 9,456  | 53.38%  | 6,515  | 36.78%  | 1,741  | 9.83%  | 2  | 0.01%  | 2,941  | 16.60%  | 17,714
Jackson | 5,870  | 53.52%  | 4,021  | 36.66%  | 1,077  | 9.82%  |  |  | 1,849  | 16.86%  | 10,968
Jefferson | 12,949  | 33.53%  | 21,917  | 56.76%  | 3,740  | 9.69%  | 9  | 0.02%  | -8,968  | -23.23%  | 38,615
Knox | 9,072  | 55.01%  | 5,725  | 34.71%  | 1,695  | 10.28%  |  |  | 3,347  | 20.30%  | 16,492
Lake | 28,450  | 43.40%  | 27,932  | 42.61%  | 9,160  | 13.97%  | 17  | 0.03%  | 518  | 0.79%  | 65,559
Lawrence | 9,782  | 46.75%  | 8,671  | 41.44%  | 2,470  | 11.81%  |  |  | 1,111  | 5.31%  | 20,923
Licking | 19,542  | 48.89%  | 15,021  | 37.58%  | 5,405  | 13.52%  | 2  | 0.01%  | 4,521  | 11.31%  | 39,970
Logan | 8,362  | 56.12%  | 4,889  | 32.81%  | 1,647  | 11.05%  | 1  | 0.01%  | 3,473  | 23.31%  | 14,899
Lorain | 34,252  | 39.95%  | 42,642  | 49.74%  | 8,825  | 10.29%  | 8  | 0.01%  | -8,390  | -9.79%  | 85,727
Lucas | 69,403  | 38.98%  | 91,346  | 51.31%  | 17,260  | 9.69%  | 28  | 0.02%  | -21,943  | -12.33%  | 178,037
Madison | 5,882  | 57.15%  | 2,780  | 27.01%  | 1,631  | 15.85%  |  |  | 3,102  | 30.14%  | 10,293
Mahoning | 42,948  | 34.75%  | 68,433  | 55.38%  | 12,189  | 9.86%  | 8  | 0.01%  | -25,485  | -20.63%  | 123,578
Marion | 12,887  | 53.10%  | 8,611  | 35.48%  | 2,772  | 11.42%  | 1  | 0.00%  | 4,276  | 17.62%  | 24,271
Medina | 14,089  | 52.31%  | 9,194  | 34.14%  | 3,632  | 13.49%  | 18  | 0.07%  | 4,895  | 18.17%  | 26,933
Meigs | 4,759  | 56.29%  | 2,921  | 34.55%  | 774  | 9.15%  | 1  | 0.01%  | 1,838  | 21.74%  | 8,455
Mercer | 6,313  | 44.43%  | 6,801  | 47.86%  | 1,095  | 7.71%  |  |  | -488  | -3.43%  | 14,209
Miami | 16,997  | 50.62%  | 13,228  | 39.40%  | 3,348  | 9.97%  | 4  | 0.01%  | 3,769  | 11.22%  | 33,577
Monroe | 2,686  | 42.27%  | 3,105  | 48.87%  | 562  | 8.84%  | 1  | 0.02%  | -419  | -6.60%  | 6,354
Montgomery | 84,766  | 40.93%  | 96,082  | 46.39%  | 26,232  | 12.67%  | 40  | 0.02%  | -11,316  | -5.46%  | 207,120
Morgan | 3,030  | 57.51%  | 1,789  | 33.95%  | 450  | 8.54%  |  |  | 1,241  | 23.56%  | 5,269
Morrow | 4,898  | 55.58%  | 2,405  | 27.29%  | 1,509  | 17.12%  |  |  | 2,493  | 28.29%  | 8,812
Muskingum | 15,260  | 48.13%  | 13,089  | 41.28%  | 3,356  | 10.59%  |  |  | 2,171  | 6.85%  | 31,705
Noble | 2,615  | 53.06%  | 1,726  | 35.02%  | 587  | 11.91%  |  |  | 889  | 18.04%  | 4,928
Ottawa | 7,149  | 47.30%  | 6,319  | 41.81%  | 1,647  | 10.90%  |  |  | 830  | 5.49%  | 15,115
Paulding | 4,074  | 53.01%  | 2,703  | 35.17%  | 908  | 11.82%  |  |  | 1,371  | 17.84%  | 7,685
Perry | 4,815  | 44.96%  | 4,811  | 44.92%  | 1,084  | 10.12%  |  |  | 4  | 0.04%  | 10,710
Pickaway | 6,690  | 53.25%  | 3,536  | 28.14%  | 2,335  | 18.58%  | 3  | 0.02%  | 3,154  | 25.11%  | 12,564
Pike | 3,247  | 40.01%  | 3,445  | 42.45%  | 1,423  | 17.54%  |  |  | -198  | -2.44%  | 8,115
Portage | 15,064  | 41.27%  | 16,348  | 44.78%  | 5,093  | 13.95%  |  |  | -1,284  | -3.51%  | 36,505
Preble | 6,544  | 52.63%  | 3,817  | 30.70%  | 2,073  | 16.67%  |  |  | 2,727  | 21.93%  | 12,434
Putnam | 7,188  | 59.38%  | 3,530  | 29.16%  | 1,387  | 11.46%  |  |  | 3,658  | 30.22%  | 12,105
Richland | 23,484  | 53.63%  | 14,988  | 34.23%  | 5,311  | 12.13%  | 4  | 0.01%  | 8,496  | 19.40%  | 43,787
Ross | 11,284  | 50.72%  | 6,873  | 30.90%  | 4,087  | 18.37%  | 2  | 0.01%  | 4,411  | 19.82%  | 22,246
Sandusky | 11,696  | 53.10%  | 8,581  | 38.96%  | 1,745  | 7.92%  | 3  | 0.01%  | 3,115  | 14.14%  | 22,025
Scioto | 15,310  | 47.37%  | 13,836  | 42.81%  | 3,171  | 9.81%  |  |  | 1,474  | 4.56%  | 32,317
Seneca | 12,040  | 52.30%  | 8,970  | 38.97%  | 2,010  | 8.73%  |  |  | 3,070  | 13.33%  | 23,020
Shelby | 7,248  | 47.60%  | 6,479  | 42.55%  | 1,499  | 9.85%  |  |  | 769  | 5.05%  | 15,226
Stark | 68,414  | 47.88%  | 57,675  | 40.36%  | 16,775  | 11.74%  | 24  | 0.02%  | 10,739  | 7.52%  | 142,888
Summit | 82,649  | 39.56%  | 100,068  | 47.89%  | 26,157  | 12.52%  | 67  | 0.03%  | -17,419  | -8.33%  | 208,941
Trumbull | 33,076  | 39.97%  | 40,365  | 48.77%  | 9,314  | 11.25%  | 5  | 0.01%  | -7,289  | -8.80%  | 82,760
Tuscarawas | 14,102  | 43.44%  | 15,617  | 48.11%  | 2,741  | 8.44%  | 1  | 0.00%  | -1,515  | -4.67%  | 32,461
Union | 6,415  | 62.66%  | 2,431  | 23.74%  | 1,392  | 13.60%  |  |  | 3,984  | 38.92%  | 10,238
Van Wert | 7,835  | 57.92%  | 4,360  | 32.23%  | 1,332  | 9.85%  |  |  | 3,475  | 25.69%  | 13,527
Vinton | 2,219  | 52.31%  | 1,608  | 37.91%  | 414  | 9.76%  | 1  | 0.02%  | 611  | 14.40%  | 4,242
Warren | 12,663  | 48.68%  | 6,756  | 25.97%  | 6,595  | 25.35%  |  |  | 5,907  | 22.71%  | 26,014
Washington | 11,888  | 58.25%  | 6,922  | 33.92%  | 1,597  | 7.83%  | 1  | 0.00%  | 4,966  | 24.33%  | 20,408
Wayne | 15,151  | 58.34%  | 8,891  | 34.24%  | 1,924  | 7.41%  | 4  | 0.02%  | 6,260  | 24.10%  | 25,970
Williams | 8,059  | 59.76%  | 4,456  | 33.04%  | 970  | 7.19%  |  |  | 3,603  | 26.72%  | 13,485
Wood | 16,111  | 53.81%  | 10,867  | 36.30%  | 2,952  | 9.86%  | 9  | 0.03%  | 5,244  | 17.51%  | 29,939
Wyandot | 5,265  | 57.90%  | 2,919  | 32.10%  | 910  | 10.01%  |  |  | 2,346  | 25.80%  | 9,094
Totals | 1,791,014 | 45.23% | 1,700,586 | 42.95% | 467,495 | 11.81% | 603 | 0.02% | 90,428 | 2.28% | 3,959,698

#### Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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* Adams
* Ashland
* Ashtabula
* Athens
* Auglaize
* Brown
* Butler
* Carroll
* Champaign
* Clermont
* Clinton
* Columbiana
* Coshocton
* Crawford
* Darke
* Defiance
* Erie
* Fairfield
* Fayette
* Franklin
* Gallia
* Geauga
* Greene
* Guernsey
* Hamilton
* Hardin
* Henry
* Highland
* Hocking
* Holmes
* Huron
* Jackson
* Knox
* Lake
* Lawrence
* Licking
* Logan
* Madison
* Marion
* Medina
* Meigs
* Miami
* Morgan
* Morrow
* Muskingum
* Noble
* Ottawa
* Paulding
* Perry
* Pickaway
* Preble
* Putnam
* Richland
* Ross
* Sandusky
* Scioto
* Seneca
* Shelby
* Stark
* Van Wert
* Vinton
* Warren
* Washington
* Wayne
* Williams
* Wood
* Wyandot

## See also

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* United States presidential elections in Ohio

## Notes

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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.

## References

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1. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
2. ^ "Williams v. Rhodes". Oyez. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
3. ^ "1968 Presidential General Election Results – Ohio". Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved February 24, 2012.

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