1968 United States presidential election in New Mexico

none June 2025 September 2023 1968 United States presidential election 1968 United States presidential election in New Mexico New Mexico presidential no 1964 United States presidential election in New Mexico 1964 1972 United States presidential election in New Mexico 1972 November 5, 1968 x160px Nixon_30-0316a_(cropped).jpg Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) New YorkAlthough 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. Spiro Agnew 4 169,692 51.85% Hubert Humphrey vice presidential portrait color02 (Cropped).jpg Hubert Humphrey Democratic Party (United States) Minnesota Edmund Muskie 0 130,081 39.75% George Wallace (D-AL) (3x4).jpg George Wallace American Independent Party ff9955 Alabama S. Marvin Griffin 0 25,737 7.86% 1968 United States presidential election in New Mexico results map by county.svg 265px County results Nixon #f2b3be 40–50% #e27f90 50–60% #cc2f4a 60–70% Humphrey #b9d7ff 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% President Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Party (United States) Richard Nixon Republican Party (United States) The 1968 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 5, 1968. All fifty states and The District of Columbia, were part of the 1968 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. New Mexico had been a long-time political bellwether, having supported the winning candidate in every presidential election since statehood in 1912. However, a definite Republican trend was detectable in 1964, when Goldwater was able to win a vote share two percent above his national mean and Johnson feared losing traditionally Southern Democratic "Little Texas".Johnson, Robert David; All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 Presidential Election, p. 168 0521737524 The 1966 midterm elections saw the state join with larger "Sunbelt" dynamics and Democratic candidates for statewide offices would lose twelve percent or more of their previous vote share,Wolf, T. Phillip; 'The 1966 Election in New Mexico'; The Western Political Quarterly, vol. 20, No. 2, Part 2 (June 1967), pp. 586-592 in the process showing that Hispanic candidates were becoming a liability in Albuquerque and the east due to considerable in-migration,Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 463 978-0-691-16324-6 and legislative GOP percentages reached levels not observed for over four decades.Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 467 Local issues of public school finance and land-grant claims for the Hispanic and Native American populations of the state proved a further liability for the incumbent Democratic Party.Wolf, T. Phillip; 'The 1968 Elections in New Mexico', The Western Political Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3 (September 1969), pp. 510-516 The issue of the stalemated Vietnam War was another problem for the Democratic Party in a state severely affected by poverty, and anti-war Eugene McCarthy gained substantial support among New Mexico Democrats before the assassination of Bobby Kennedy largely turned them toward eventual nominee Hubert Humphrey. Incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey and segregationist American Independent Party candidate and former Governor of Alabama George Wallace campaigned in New Mexico during the autumn, whilst running mate Spiro Agnew did all the campaigning for Republican Richard Nixon in the state. Despite his failure to visit, New Mexico was won by former Vice President Nixon by a 12-point margin against Humphrey.https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1968&fips=35&f=1&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1968 Presidential General Election Results – New Mexico Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections 2018-02-12 Wallace, far from his base in the Deep South, did well among working and lower-middle class unionized workersConverse, Philip E.; Miller, Warren E.; Rusk, Jerrold G. and Wolfe, Arthur C.; 'Continuity and Change in American Politics: Parties and Issues in the 1968 Election'; The American Political Science Review, vol. 63, no. 4 (December 1969), pp. 1083-1105 and farmers in the "Little Texas" region, but received some of his poorest national percentages in the north-central highland regions – Mora County gave Wallace his eleventh-smallest vote share of any county in the country. Nixon was the first Republican to carry Lea and Eddy counties since 1928. Nixon's victory was the first of six consecutive Republican victories in the state, as New Mexico would not vote for a Democratic candidate again until Bill Clinton in 1992, after which it has always gone Democratic except in 2004 when George W. Bush very narrowly won the state over John Kerry. Results 1968 United States presidential election in New Mexico Republican Party (United States) Richard Nixon Spiro Agnew 169,692 51.85% +11.61 Democratic Party (United States) Hubert Humphrey Edmund Muskie 130,081 39.75% −19.47 American Independent Party George Wallace Marvin Griffin 25,737 7.86% N/A People's Constitutional Party Ventura Chavez Adelico Moya 1,519 0.46% N/A Socialist Workers Party (United States) Fred Halstead Paul Boutelle 252 0.08% N/A 327,281 100.00% Republican Party (United States) Results by county County Richard NixonRepublican Hubert HumphreyDemocratic George WallaceAmerican Independent Various candidatesOther parties Margin Total votescast # % # % # % # % # % Bernalillo 56,234 54.96% 40,835 39.91% 4,920 4.81% 332 0.32% 15,399 15.05% 102,321 Catron 674 62.29% 278 25.69% 128 11.83% 2 0.18% 396 36.60% 1,082 Chaves 8,866 63.61% 3,612 25.91% 1,425 10.22% 35 0.25% 5,254 37.70% 13,938 Colfax 2,212 44.39% 2,477 49.71% 263 5.28% 31 0.62% -265 -5.32% 4,983 Curry 5,562 53.99% 2,915 28.30% 1,754 17.03% 71 0.69% 2,647 25.69% 10,302 De Baca 658 57.67% 345 30.24% 130 11.39% 8 0.70% 313 27.43% 1,141 Doña Ana 10,824 54.15% 7,658 38.31% 1,453 7.27% 55 0.28% 3,166 15.84% 19,990 Eddy 7,193 47.74% 6,093 40.44% 1,671 11.09% 109 0.72% 1,100 7.30% 15,066 Grant 2,908 38.52% 3,817 50.56% 793 10.50% 31 0.41% -909 -12.04% 7,549 Guadalupe 1,176 51.42% 1,027 44.91% 77 3.37% 7 0.31% 149 6.51% 2,287 Harding 450 57.69% 284 36.41% 44 5.64% 2 0.26% 166 21.28% 780 Hidalgo 606 39.25% 678 43.91% 257 16.65% 3 0.19% -72 -4.66% 1,544 Lea 7,415 48.21% 4,751 30.89% 3,025 19.67% 191 1.24% 2,664 17.32% 15,382 Lincoln 2,004 64.52% 802 25.82% 287 9.24% 13 0.42% 1,202 38.70% 3,106 Los Alamos 3,447 54.92% 2,552 40.66% 268 4.27% 9 0.14% 895 14.26% 6,276 Luna 1,952 50.10% 1,438 36.91% 490 12.58% 16 0.41% 514 13.19% 3,896 McKinley 4,376 45.71% 4,491 46.91% 547 5.71% 159 1.66% -115 -1.20% 9,573 Mora 1,155 50.97% 1,069 47.18% 35 1.54% 7 0.31% 86 3.79% 2,266 Otero 4,475 43.77% 3,978 38.91% 1,688 16.51% 83 0.81% 497 4.86% 10,224 Quay 2,123 51.38% 1,399 33.86% 567 13.72% 43 1.04% 724 17.52% 4,132 Rio Arriba 3,935 43.23% 4,799 52.72% 269 2.96% 99 1.09% -864 -9.49% 9,102 Roosevelt 3,256 58.11% 1,547 27.61% 773 13.80% 27 0.48% 1,709 30.50% 5,603 San Juan 7,664 54.03% 4,036 28.45% 2,304 16.24% 181 1.28% 3,628 25.58% 14,185 San Miguel 4,027 48.12% 4,088 48.85% 195 2.33% 58 0.69% -61 -0.73% 8,368 Sandoval 1,959 41.43% 2,609 55.18% 129 2.73% 31 0.66% -650 -13.75% 4,728 Santa Fe 9,359 48.12% 9,544 49.07% 492 2.53% 54 0.28% -185 -0.95% 19,449 Sierra 1,624 57.06% 930 32.68% 282 9.91% 10 0.35% 694 24.38% 2,846 Socorro 2,230 52.07% 1,871 43.68% 173 4.04% 9 0.21% 359 8.39% 4,283 Taos 3,119 49.89% 2,993 47.87% 124 1.98% 16 0.26% 126 2.02% 6,252 Torrance 1,316 52.98% 974 39.21% 188 7.57% 6 0.24% 342 13.77% 2,484 Union 1,217 55.42% 678 30.87% 279 12.70% 22 1.00% 539 24.55% 2,196 Valencia 5,676 47.51% 5,513 46.15% 707 5.92% 51 0.43% 163 1.36% 11,947Totals169,69251.85%130,08139.75%25,7377.86%1,7710.54%39,61112.10%327,281 Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican 20em Bernalillo Curry Lea Luna Quay Roosevelt De Baca Valencia Taos Mora Otero Guadalupe Eddy Socorro Torrance Los Alamos Doña Ana Chaves Sierra San Juan Catron Results by congressional district This table shows the results by congressional district. Nixon won both of New Mexico's congressional districts. The candidates are listed based on what place they got nationally.1968 United States Presidential Election, Results by Congressional District https://elecmapco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/sidebar/index.html?appid=b9b65438b2844f3383af457a0f068d4f November 25, 2024 Western Washington University District Nixon Humphrey Wallace1st52.4%43.1%4.5%2nd51.8%36.4%11.9% Notes References New Mexico Category:1968 New Mexico elections 1968