1968 United States presidential election in Florida

1968 United States presidential election in Florida

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TurnoutIncrease79%
 
Nominee Richard Nixon Hubert Humphrey George Wallace
Party Republican Democratic American Independent
Home state New York[a] Minnesota Alabama
Running mate Spiro Agnew Edmund Muskie Curtis LeMay
Electoral vote 14 0 0
Popular vote 886,804 676,794 624,207
Percentage 40.53% 30.93% 28.53%

County Results

President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Richard Nixon
Republican

The 1968 United States presidential election in Florida was held on November 5, 1968. Florida voters chose fourteen electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Nixon obtained his support in Central Florida, Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey got his support from Southern Florida, and third-party candidate George Wallace got his support from the Florida Panhandle, or Northern Florida. This was one of the better states for George Wallace, due to the Northern part of the state being against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which Lyndon Johnson had signed into law. This led to Democratic party gains in support from black voters. The party simultaneously lost the great majority of white voters. One exception to this abandonment by white voters came in the Jewish sections of Miami.[1]

45% of white voters supported Nixon, 32% supported Wallace, and 23% supported Humphrey.[2][3][4] The Republican Party held their convention in Miami Beach that year.[5]


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  1. ^ Phillips, Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 281-282 ISBN 1400852293
  2. ^ Black & Black 1992, p. 147.
  3. ^ Black & Black 1992, p. 295.
  4. ^ Black & Black 1992, p. 335.
  5. ^ Mailer, Norman (2012). Miami and the Siege of Chicago. New York Review Books. ISBN 9781590175538.