1968 United States presidential election in South Dakota

1968 United States presidential election in South Dakota

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Nominee Richard Nixon Hubert Humphrey
Party Republican Democratic
Home state New York[a] Minnesota
Running mate Spiro Agnew Edmund Muskie
Electoral vote 4 0
Popular vote 149,841 118,023
Percentage 53.27% 41.96%


President before election

Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic

Elected President

Richard Nixon
Republican

The 1968 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Voters chose four[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

South Dakota was won by former Vice President Richard Nixon (RNew York), with 53.27 percent of the popular vote, against Vice President Hubert Humphrey (DMinnesota), with 41.96 percent of the popular vote. Independent candidate George Wallace would carry five Southern states, but finished with a mere 4.76 percent of South Dakota's popular vote.[3][4] Although the West River region of South Dakota possessed powerful racial conflicts akin to Wallace's native South – although between Whites and Native Americans rather than between Whites and Blacks – significant anti-Southern feeling amongst its Yankee descendants limited Wallace's appeal even there,[5] and in the East River with fewer Native Americans and a strong Scandinavian-American influence,[6] Wallace possessed generally insignificant appeal. Although he performed reasonably in some West River counties, within the more populous East River Wallace cracked half his national percentage (6.75%) only in Hyde and Sully Counties. Consequently, South Dakota proved Wallace's eighth-weakest state nationally.

  1. ^ "United States Presidential election of 1968 - Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "1968 Election for the Forty-Sixth Term (1969-73)". Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "1968 Presidential General Election Results - South Dakota". Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  4. ^ "The American Presidency Project – Election of 1968". Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  5. ^ Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 381-382 ISBN 9780691163246
  6. ^ Phillips; The Emerging Republican Majority, p. 414


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