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Election 1968 Results

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1968 presidential election in California

Richard Nixon (Republican) beat Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) in California in 1968, 47.8% to 44.7%, a margin of 3.1 points and 223,346 votes.

California voted 2.4 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+0.7.

California changed party: in 1964 it went Democratic, for Lyndon B. Johnson.

Republicans led in 37 of the 58 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 21. The largest, Los Angeles, cast 2,657,982 votes and went to the Republican by 1.6 points. The closest was Trinity, where 7 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Richard Nixon won Republican 3,467,664 47.8%
Hubert Humphrey Democratic 3,244,318 44.7%
George Wallace American Independent 487,270 6.7%
All other candidates 52,335 0.7%
Total7,251,587

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Los Angeles 1,223,251 46.0% 1,266,480 47.6% 168,251 2,657,982 R+1.6
Orange 148,869 29.9% 314,905 63.1% 34,933 498,707 R+33.3
San Diego 167,669 36.1% 261,540 56.3% 35,654 464,863 R+20.2
Alameda 219,545 53.9% 153,285 37.6% 34,519 407,349 D+16.3
Santa Clara 173,511 48.4% 163,446 45.6% 21,410 358,367 D+2.8
San Francisco 177,509 59.2% 100,970 33.7% 21,468 299,947 D+25.5
Sacramento 118,769 50.9% 97,177 41.7% 17,300 233,246 D+9.3
San Mateo 106,519 47.2% 98,654 43.7% 20,495 225,668 D+3.5
San Bernardino 89,418 40.0% 111,974 50.1% 22,224 223,616 R+10.1
Contra Costa 101,668 46.4% 97,486 44.5% 19,763 218,917 D+1.9
Riverside 61,146 38.8% 83,414 52.9% 13,110 157,670 R+14.1
Fresno 65,153 47.4% 59,901 43.6% 12,342 137,396 D+3.8
Ventura 47,794 41.1% 59,705 51.4% 8,762 116,261 R+10.2
Kern 49,284 42.5% 53,990 46.6% 12,558 115,832 R+4.1
San Joaquin 42,073 42.7% 47,293 48.0% 9,223 98,589 R+5.3
Santa Barbara 37,565 40.2% 50,068 53.6% 5,787 93,420 R+13.4
Marin 36,278 43.8% 41,422 50.1% 5,055 82,755 R+6.2
Sonoma 33,587 43.0% 38,088 48.8% 6,384 78,059 R+5.8
Monterey 28,261 42.1% 33,670 50.2% 5,193 67,124 R+8.1
Stanislaus 31,316 48.1% 29,573 45.5% 4,174 65,063 D+2.7
Tulare 22,180 39.5% 29,314 52.2% 4,695 56,189 R+12.7
Solano 27,271 53.5% 17,683 34.7% 5,998 50,952 D+18.8
Santa Cruz 20,492 41.0% 25,365 50.8% 4,087 49,944 R+9.8
Butte 12,887 32.9% 22,225 56.7% 4,099 39,211 R+23.8
San Luis Obispo 15,828 41.8% 19,420 51.3% 2,633 37,881 R+9.5
Humboldt 16,476 45.5% 16,719 46.2% 3,019 36,214 R+0.7
Napa 14,762 45.3% 14,270 43.8% 3,580 32,612 D+1.5
Shasta 14,510 49.6% 11,821 40.4% 2,899 29,230 D+9.2
Placer 14,050 48.2% 12,427 42.6% 2,667 29,144 D+5.6
Yolo 15,833 54.7% 11,123 38.4% 2,004 28,960 D+16.3
Merced 14,453 51.0% 11,595 40.9% 2,301 28,349 D+10.1
Imperial 7,481 36.6% 10,818 52.9% 2,147 20,446 R+16.3
Kings 8,643 47.7% 7,796 43.1% 1,662 18,101 D+4.7
Mendocino 7,935 44.3% 8,305 46.4% 1,664 17,904 R+2.1
El Dorado 6,054 39.7% 7,468 49.0% 1,719 15,241 R+9.3
Sutter 4,624 31.8% 8,665 59.6% 1,256 14,545 R+27.8
Madera 6,932 48.5% 6,229 43.6% 1,142 14,303 D+4.9
Siskiyou 6,260 45.6% 6,334 46.1% 1,138 13,732 R+0.5
Nevada 4,607 39.1% 6,061 51.4% 1,126 11,794 R+12.3
Yuba 4,461 40.0% 5,371 48.2% 1,318 11,150 R+8.2
Tehama 4,565 41.5% 5,198 47.3% 1,236 10,999 R+5.8
Tuolumne 3,913 42.9% 4,330 47.5% 876 9,119 R+4.6
Lake 3,777 41.5% 4,464 49.0% 870 9,111 R+7.5
Glenn 2,466 34.5% 3,848 53.9% 824 7,138 R+19.4
Inyo 2,314 34.6% 3,641 54.4% 732 6,687 R+19.8
San Benito 2,809 45.1% 2,961 47.5% 459 6,229 R+2.4
Lassen 2,930 47.1% 2,553 41.1% 735 6,218 D+6.1
Calaveras 2,134 36.6% 3,042 52.2% 656 5,832 R+15.6
Plumas 2,961 52.8% 2,097 37.4% 553 5,611 D+15.4
Amador 2,440 45.3% 2,269 42.1% 681 5,390 D+3.2
Del Norte 2,236 43.3% 2,387 46.2% 545 5,168 R+2.9
Colusa 1,858 40.6% 2,361 51.6% 358 4,577 R+11.0
Trinity 1,433 43.3% 1,426 43.1% 448 3,307 D+0.2
Modoc 1,264 38.7% 1,713 52.4% 290 3,267 R+13.7
Mariposa 1,187 39.6% 1,496 49.9% 314 2,997 R+10.3
Mono 465 26.5% 1,130 64.3% 163 1,758 R+37.8
Sierra 559 46.9% 548 45.9% 86 1,193 D+0.9
Alpine 83 32.8% 150 59.3% 20 253 R+26.5

Counties as they stood in 1968; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

California in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+20.1
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+29.2
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+30.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+23.1
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+24.1
2004 John Kerry (D) D+9.9
2000 Al Gore (D) D+11.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+12.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+3.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.2
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+16.8
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+1.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+13.5
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+3.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+18.3
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+0.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.6
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+0.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.5
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.1
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+35.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.5
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+49.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+41.9
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+0.4
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+22.5
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+34.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+13.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+0.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+2.8
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+6.6
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.1
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+1.8
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+13.3
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+0.5