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Election 1968 Results

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1968 presidential election in Minnesota

Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) beat Richard Nixon (Republican) in Minnesota in 1968, 54.0% to 41.5%, a margin of 12.5 points and 199,095 votes.

Minnesota voted 13.2 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+0.7.

The Democratic hold continued from 1964, when Lyndon B. Johnson won.

Democrats led in 55 of the 87 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 32. The largest, Hennepin, cast 407,024 votes and went to the Democrat by 12.3 points. The closest was Grant, where 53 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Hubert Humphrey won	Democratic	857,738	54.0%
Richard Nixon	Republican	658,643	41.5%
All other candidates		72,129	4.5%
Total		1,588,510

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Hennepin	220,078 54.1%	170,002 41.8%	16,944	407,024	D+12.3
Ramsey	122,568 62.6%	64,068 32.7%	9,020	195,656	D+29.9
St. Louis	72,267 71.0%	25,981 25.5%	3,549	101,797	D+45.5
Anoka	30,656 61.1%	16,358 32.6%	3,120	50,134	D+28.5
Dakota	28,416 56.9%	19,290 38.7%	2,202	49,908	D+18.3
Stearns	15,990 47.6%	15,422 45.9%	2,168	33,580	D+1.7
Olmsted	13,417 42.1%	17,292 54.3%	1,131	31,840	R+12.2
Washington	16,449 56.8%	10,921 37.7%	1,584	28,954	D+19.1
Otter Tail	7,400 35.7%	12,483 60.3%	818	20,701	R+24.6
Blue Earth	9,254 47.4%	9,571 49.0%	712	19,537	R+1.6
Mower	11,022 56.6%	7,736 39.7%	728	19,486	D+16.9
Winona	8,627 49.5%	7,998 45.9%	818	17,443	D+3.6
Freeborn	8,671 52.4%	7,315 44.2%	577	16,563	D+8.2
Clay	7,987 48.2%	7,910 47.8%	663	16,560	D+0.5
Itasca	10,512 64.9%	4,898 30.2%	796	16,206	D+34.6
Goodhue	7,220 45.2%	8,283 51.9%	461	15,964	R+6.7
Wright	8,793 55.8%	6,321 40.1%	639	15,753	D+15.7
Rice	7,785 50.8%	7,037 45.9%	497	15,319	D+4.9
Polk	8,380 55.2%	6,074 40.0%	715	15,169	D+15.2
Crow Wing	7,411 50.1%	6,687 45.2%	697	14,795	D+4.9
Kandiyohi	7,639 57.0%	5,086 38.0%	675	13,400	D+19.1
Brown	4,585 37.1%	7,039 57.0%	726	12,350	R+19.9
McLeod	4,861 40.3%	6,619 54.9%	584	12,064	R+14.6
Carlton	8,538 71.0%	3,016 25.1%	464	12,018	D+45.9
Martin	4,271 35.7%	7,115 59.4%	587	11,973	R+23.8
Scott	6,656 56.2%	4,632 39.1%	549	11,837	D+17.1
Carver	4,590 39.0%	6,649 56.4%	541	11,780	R+17.5
Morrison	6,111 54.3%	4,511 40.1%	634	11,256	D+14.2
Steele	4,631 41.4%	6,193 55.3%	366	11,190	R+14.0
Douglas	4,826 44.5%	5,464 50.4%	549	10,839	R+5.9
Fillmore	3,918 36.9%	6,257 59.0%	432	10,607	R+22.1
Faribault	4,335 41.7%	5,662 54.5%	387	10,384	R+12.8
Becker	4,875 47.8%	4,728 46.4%	593	10,196	D+1.4
Nobles	5,171 51.2%	4,451 44.0%	485	10,107	D+7.1
Lyon	5,317 53.4%	4,331 43.5%	318	9,966	D+9.9
Renville	4,535 45.8%	4,821 48.7%	550	9,906	R+2.9
Le Sueur	5,094 53.2%	4,189 43.7%	298	9,581	D+9.4
Beltrami	5,034 52.6%	3,912 40.9%	619	9,565	D+11.7
Todd	3,992 42.2%	4,883 51.6%	585	9,460	R+9.4
Redwood	3,680 39.6%	5,134 55.3%	471	9,285	R+15.7
Nicollet	4,244 46.0%	4,671 50.6%	319	9,234	R+4.6
Meeker	4,213 48.4%	4,044 46.5%	447	8,704	D+1.9
Benton	4,022 50.2%	3,470 43.3%	524	8,016	D+6.9
Cass	3,569 44.9%	3,888 48.9%	493	7,950	R+4.0
Wabasha	3,452 43.8%	4,081 51.7%	353	7,886	R+8.0
Houston	2,703 35.2%	4,450 57.9%	528	7,681	R+22.7
Chisago	4,102 53.6%	3,053 39.9%	496	7,651	D+13.7
Waseca	3,057 40.2%	4,292 56.4%	256	7,605	R+16.2
Cottonwood	3,046 41.2%	4,050 54.8%	295	7,391	R+13.6
Sibley	2,540 35.5%	4,250 59.4%	364	7,154	R+23.9
Chippewa	3,701 51.8%	3,195 44.7%	251	7,147	D+7.1
Pine	4,044 56.8%	2,591 36.4%	482	7,117	D+20.4
Koochiching	4,697 66.0%	2,104 29.6%	315	7,116	D+36.4
Yellow Medicine	3,587 50.8%	3,060 43.3%	413	7,060	D+7.5
Mille Lacs	3,494 50.7%	2,990 43.4%	406	6,890	D+7.3
Jackson	3,515 52.0%	2,886 42.7%	365	6,766	D+9.3
Sherburne	3,481 52.8%	2,737 41.5%	375	6,593	D+11.3
Swift	3,716 57.6%	2,476 38.4%	259	6,451	D+19.2
Watonwan	2,701 42.0%	3,446 53.6%	286	6,433	R+11.6
Isanti	3,439 54.3%	2,429 38.3%	469	6,337	D+15.9
Marshall	3,161 53.1%	2,367 39.7%	428	5,956	D+13.3
Lake	4,266 72.4%	1,351 22.9%	274	5,891	D+49.5
Murray	2,662 45.2%	2,906 49.4%	320	5,888	R+4.1
Lac Qui Parle	2,937 50.4%	2,672 45.8%	219	5,828	D+4.5
Pipestone	2,234 38.9%	3,241 56.5%	263	5,738	R+17.5
Dodge	2,437 42.7%	3,064 53.7%	208	5,709	R+11.0
Aitkin	3,094 54.7%	2,254 39.8%	309	5,657	D+14.8
Pennington	2,998 54.9%	2,247 41.1%	220	5,465	D+13.7
Wadena	2,198 40.8%	2,912 54.1%	276	5,386	R+13.3
Rock	2,084 38.8%	3,056 56.9%	234	5,374	R+18.1
Pope	2,592 48.3%	2,504 46.6%	272	5,368	D+1.6
Stevens	2,247 44.4%	2,560 50.6%	255	5,062	R+6.2
Roseau	2,649 52.6%	2,048 40.7%	338	5,035	D+11.9
Norman	2,828 56.4%	1,981 39.5%	203	5,012	D+16.9
Hubbard	1,920 38.8%	2,720 54.9%	310	4,950	R+16.2
Kanabec	2,154 50.7%	1,847 43.5%	247	4,248	D+7.2
Wilkin	1,946 46.7%	2,037 48.9%	182	4,165	R+2.2
Grant	1,982 48.4%	1,929 47.1%	184	4,095	D+1.3
Lincoln	2,109 52.3%	1,732 43.0%	189	4,030	D+9.4
Big Stone	2,119 53.7%	1,645 41.7%	182	3,946	D+12.0
Clearwater	2,046 57.5%	1,284 36.1%	231	3,561	D+21.4
Kittson	1,894 53.9%	1,436 40.9%	183	3,513	D+13.0
Traverse	1,669 54.1%	1,277 41.4%	138	3,084	D+12.7
Mahnomen	1,508 57.9%	893 34.3%	204	2,605	D+23.6
Red Lake	1,467 63.3%	718 31.0%	133	2,318	D+32.3
Cook	777 44.9%	853 49.3%	99	1,729	R+4.4
Lake Of The Woods	875 56.2%	607 39.0%	76	1,558	D+17.2

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.

Minnesota in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+4.2
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+7.1
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+1.5
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+7.7
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+10.2
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+3.5
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+2.4
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+16.1
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+11.6
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+7.0
1984	Walter Mondale (D)	D+0.2
1980	Jimmy Carter (D)	D+3.9
1976	Jimmy Carter (D)	D+12.9
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+5.5
1968	Hubert Humphrey (D)	D+12.5
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+27.8
1960	John F. Kennedy (D)	D+1.4
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+7.6
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+11.2
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+17.3
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+5.5
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+3.8
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+30.8
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+23.6
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+16.9
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+44.4
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+51.2
1916	Charles Evans Hughes (R)	R+0.1
1912	Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+26.2
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+55.1
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+24.5
1896	William McKinley (R)	R+15.4
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+8.2
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+14.5
1884	James G. Blaine (R)	R+21.9
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+26.9
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes (R)	R+19.4
1872	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+22.7
1868	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+21.8

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