1968 United States presidential election in Alaska

none June 2025 September 2023 1968 United States presidential election 1968 United States presidential election in Alaska Alaska presidential no 1964 United States presidential election in Alaska 1964 1972 United States presidential election in Alaska 1972 November 5, 1968 x160px Nixon_30-0316a_(cropped).jpg Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) New Yorkhomestate Although Nixon was born in California and although he served as a U.S. senator from California, in 1968 his 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, he 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. Spiro Agnew 3 37,600 45.28% Hubert Humphrey vice presidential portrait color02 (Cropped).jpg Hubert Humphrey Democratic Party (United States) Minnesota Edmund Muskie 0 35,411 42.65% George Wallace (D-AL) (3x4).jpg George Wallace Independent Alabama Curtis LeMay 0 10,024 12.07% ff9955 400px Borough and census area results, estimated 400px Borough and census area results (historical, estimated) 425px State House district results 2 Nixon #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% Humphrey #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389e3 60–70% President Lyndon Johnson Democratic Party (United States) Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) 49.9% (voting age)March 1972 Population Estimates and Projections https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/1972/demo/p25-479.pdf August 10, 2024 United States Census Bureau American Independent Party The 1968 United States presidential election in Alaska took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the nationwide presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Alaska was won by Richard Nixon (R-New Yorkhomestate) with 45.3 percent of the popular vote against incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota) with 42.6 percent.Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1968 https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electioninfo/1968election.pdf 2013-09-03 Clerk.house.gov Nixon ultimately won the national vote as well, defeating Humphrey and becoming the next President. Former and future Governor George Wallace (D-Alabama) ran under the American Independent Party ticket, which favored continuing racial segregation within public schools in addition to most other areas of society throughout the Southern United States. Wallace received over 12% of the vote in Alaska, unusually well for a state so far removed from his strongholds in the Deep South. This would begin Alaska's reputation as a state where third party candidates of differing political persuasions do relatively well. In Alaska, voters were more concerned with Alaska oriented issues rather than those seen in the continental United States. The 1968 elections held in Alaska had higher levels of turnout than previous elections when it was a state.Chinn Ronald E. September 1969 The 1968 Election in Alaska https://www.jstor.org/stable/446336 The Western Political Quarterly 22 3 456–461 10.2307/446336 446336 subscription Results 1968 United States presidential election in AlaskaPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Richard Nixon 37,600 45.28% 3 Democratic Hubert Humphrey 35,411 42.65% 0 American Independent George Wallace 10,024 12.07% 0 Totals 83,035 100.00% 3 Boroughs and Census Areas that flipped from Democratic to Republican 24em Aleutians East Census Area Aleutians West Census Area Anchorage Lake & Peninsula Borough Bristol Bay Borough Dilingham Census Area Kodiak Island Borough Northwest Arctic Borough Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area Fairbanks North Star Southeast Fairbanks Census Area Denali Borough Matanuska-Susitna Borough Haines Borough Wrangell Ketchikan Gateway Borough Valdez–Cordova Census Area Analysis Alaska has only voted Democratic once, and that was in the previous 1964 election for incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, who did not run for re-election; nonetheless, during the state's first four presidential elections Alaska was little or no more Republican than the nation at-large.Counting the Votes; Alaska https://web.archive.org/web/20170107171406/http://www.countingthevotes.com/alaska 2017-01-07 Nixon's 45.28 percent stood 1.86 percent above his national figure and Humphrey's 42.65 percent was a trifling 0.07 percent below his national total. This is the last time Democrats carried Kenai Peninsula and Petersburg. This was the last time Alaska voted to the left of Iowa until 2024. Despite Alaska lying at the opposite end of the country from Wallace's support base in the Deep South, he did not fare badly in the relatively heavily populated areas of Anchorage, the Kenai Peninsula, and the Susitna Valley. In fact, in Kenai Peninsula Borough, Wallace managed to receive over twenty percent of the vote.Popular vote at 1968 presidential election: Percent for George C. Wallace Wallace's 12.07 percent of Alaska's vote was 1.46 percent below his percentage for the nation at large, but nonetheless his third-greatest outside antebellum slave statesWallace's share here was also larger than his 9.62 percent in the border state of West Virginia. and Oklahoma,Oklahoma was not a state until 1907 but did have slavery as a territory before 1865. behind 13.25 percent in Nevada and 12.55 percent in Idaho.David Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections; 1968 Presidential General Election Data - National See also United States presidential elections in Alaska Notes References Category:1968 Alaska elections Alaska 1968