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Election 1968 Results

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1968 presidential election in New Jersey

Richard Nixon (Republican) beat Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) in New Jersey in 1968, 46.1% to 44.0%, a margin of 2.1 points and 61,261 votes.

New Jersey voted 1.4 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+0.7.

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

Republicans led in 14 of the 21 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 7. The largest, Bergen, cast 413,037 votes and went to the Republican by 15.2 points. The closest was Salem, where 235 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 1,325,467 46.1%
Hubert Humphrey Democratic 1,264,206 44.0%
George Wallace American Independent 262,187 9.1%
All other candidates 23,535 0.8%
Total2,875,395

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Bergen 162,182 39.3% 224,911 54.5% 25,944 413,037 R+15.2
Essex 185,440 51.9% 140,084 39.2% 31,571 357,095 D+12.7
Hudson 124,939 51.1% 91,324 37.3% 28,297 244,560 D+13.7
Union 109,674 45.5% 110,309 45.7% 21,273 241,256 R+0.3
Middlesex 103,339 45.8% 96,515 42.8% 25,676 225,530 D+3.0
Camden 87,347 46.2% 77,642 41.1% 23,898 188,887 D+5.1
Passaic 74,442 43.1% 79,862 46.3% 18,353 172,657 R+3.1
Monmouth 69,669 40.9% 87,311 51.2% 13,476 170,456 R+10.3
Morris 52,398 35.4% 85,512 57.8% 10,152 148,062 R+22.4
Mercer 63,218 50.4% 45,354 36.1% 16,957 125,529 D+14.2
Burlington 41,651 41.8% 46,177 46.3% 11,919 99,747 R+4.5
Somerset 27,580 35.1% 42,459 54.1% 8,436 78,475 R+19.0
Ocean 26,909 34.5% 41,995 53.9% 9,059 77,963 R+19.4
Atlantic 35,581 45.7% 32,807 42.1% 9,446 77,834 D+3.6
Gloucester 27,438 39.9% 30,596 44.5% 10,697 68,731 R+4.6
Cumberland 21,661 47.6% 18,388 40.4% 5,439 45,488 D+7.2
Sussex 8,325 28.5% 18,043 61.7% 2,872 29,240 R+33.2
Warren 12,822 44.2% 13,950 48.1% 2,214 28,986 R+3.9
Cape May 9,664 34.3% 14,970 53.1% 3,538 28,172 R+18.8
Hunterdon 8,755 31.9% 15,851 57.8% 2,833 27,439 R+25.9
Salem 11,172 42.6% 11,407 43.5% 3,672 26,251 R+0.9

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.

New Jersey in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+5.9
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+15.9
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+14.1
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+17.8
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+15.6
2004 John Kerry (D) D+6.7
2000 Al Gore (D) D+15.8
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+17.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+2.4
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+13.6
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+20.9
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+13.4
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+2.2
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+24.8
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+2.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+31.7
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+0.8
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+30.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+14.8
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.4
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.4
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+3.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+20.0
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+1.9
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+20.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+34.8
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+39.2
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+11.7
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.7
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+17.7
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+18.6
1900 William McKinley (R) R+14.2
1896 William McKinley (R) R+23.6
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+4.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+1.7
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+0.8
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+5.7
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+9.0
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+1.8