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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 York[a]) with 45.3 percent of the popular vote against incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D-Minnesota) with 42.6 percent.[2] 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 far-right 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.[3]
In Alaska, voters were more concerned with Alaska orientated 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.[4]
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- ^ "Population Estimates and Projections" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. March 1972. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ^ "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1968" (PDF). Clerk.house.gov. Retrieved September 3, 2013.
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:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Chinn, Ronald E. (September 1969). "The 1968 Election in Alaska". The Western Political Quarterly. 22 (3): 456–461.