| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
County Results
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Elections in Utah |
---|
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 [2] 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. [3] [4] 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. [5]
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. [6]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Republican | Richard Nixon | 238,728 | 56.49% | |
Democratic | Hubert Humphrey | 156,665 | 37.07% | |
American Independent | George Wallace | 26,906 | 6.37% | |
Peace and Freedom | Eldridge Cleaver | 180 | 0.04% | |
Socialist Workers Party | Fred Halstead | 89 | 0.02% | |
Total votes | 422,568 | 100% |
County | Richard Milhous Nixon Republican |
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Democratic |
George Corley Wallace American Independent |
Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
[7] Peace and Freedom |
Frederick W. Halstead
[7] Socialist Workers |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Beaver | 989 | 50.87% | 795 | 40.90% | 158 | 8.13% | 2 | 0.10% | 0 | 0.00% | 194 | 9.98% | 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 | 29.44% | 34,087 |
Duchesne | 1,733 | 61.15% | 858 | 30.28% | 243 | 8.57% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 875 | 30.88% | 2,834 |
Emery | 1,223 | 50.89% | 1,019 | 42.41% | 161 | 6.70% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 204 | 8.49% | 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 | 30.89% | 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 | 13.21% | 2,226 |
Kane | 814 | 71.72% | 147 | 12.95% | 174 | 15.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 0 | 0.00% | 640 [b] | 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 | 28.74% | 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 | 25.43% | 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 | 12.83% | 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 |