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Elections in Arizona |
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The 1968 United States presidential election in Arizona 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 five electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Arizona was won by the Republican nominees, Richard Nixon of New York and his running mate Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and his running mate U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine.
Nixon carried the state with 54.78% of the vote to Humphrey's 35.02%, a victory margin of 19.76%.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Richard Nixon | 266,721 | 54.78% | |
Democratic | Hubert Humphrey | 170,514 | 35.02% | |
American Independent | George Wallace | 46,573 | 9.56% | |
Democratic (DFL) | Eugene McCarthy | 2,751 | 0.56% | |
Peace and Freedom | Eldridge Cleaver | 217 | 0.04% | |
Socialist Workers | Fred Halstead | 85 | 0.02% | |
Socialist Labor | Henning A. Blomen | 75 | 0.02% | |
Total votes | 486,936 | 100% |
County | Richard Nixon Republican |
Hubert Humphrey Democratic |
George Wallace American Independent |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast [2] | |||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Apache | 2,092 | 49.83% | 1,668 | 39.73% | 402 | 9.58% | 36 | 0.86% | 424 | 10.10% | 4,198 |
Cochise | 7,619 | 45.59% | 6,597 | 39.48% | 2,393 | 14.32% | 102 | 0.61% | 1,022 | 6.11% | 16,711 |
Coconino | 6,765 | 59.38% | 3,504 | 30.76% | 1,049 | 9.21% | 74 | 0.65% | 3,261 | 28.62% | 11,392 |
Gila | 3,610 | 37.19% | 4,831 | 49.77% | 1,222 | 12.59% | 43 | 0.44% | -1,221 | -12.58% | 9,706 |
Graham | 2,327 | 47.21% | 1,726 | 35.02% | 859 | 17.43% | 17 | 0.34% | 601 | 12.19% | 4,929 |
Greenlee | 1,026 | 27.35% | 2,434 | 64.89% | 276 | 7.36% | 15 | 0.40% | -1,408 | -37.54% | 3,751 |
Maricopa | 162,262 | 59.08% | 86,204 | 31.39% | 24,941 | 9.08% | 1,244 | 0.45% | 76,058 | 27.69% | 274,651 |
Mohave | 3,208 | 51.64% | 2,109 | 33.95% | 883 | 14.21% | 12 | 0.19% | 1,099 | 17.69% | 6,212 |
Navajo | 4,596 | 51.00% | 2,930 | 32.51% | 1,438 | 15.96% | 48 | 0.53% | 1,666 | 18.49% | 9,012 |
Pima | 49,479 | 50.61% | 39,786 | 40.70% | 7,221 | 7.39% | 1,280 | 1.31% | 9,693 | 9.91% | 97,766 |
Pinal | 6,883 | 42.37% | 7,409 | 45.61% | 1,869 | 11.50% | 85 | 0.52% | -526 | -3.24% | 16,246 |
Santa Cruz | 1,702 | 48.17% | 1,557 | 44.07% | 242 | 6.85% | 32 | 0.91% | 145 | 4.10% | 3,533 |
Yavapai | 8,296 | 58.44% | 3,989 | 28.10% | 1,837 | 12.94% | 74 | 0.52% | 4,307 | 30.34% | 14,196 |
Yuma | 6,856 | 46.85% | 5,770 | 39.43% | 1,941 | 13.26% | 66 | 0.45% | 1,086 | 7.42% | 14,633 |
Totals | 266,721 | 54.78% | 170,514 | 35.02% | 46,573 | 9.56% | 3,128 | 0.64% | 96,207 | 19.76% | 486,936 |