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Election 1968 Results

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1968 presidential election in New York

Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) beat Richard Nixon (Republican) in New York in 1968, 49.8% to 44.3%, a margin of 5.5 points and 370,538 votes.

New York voted 6.2 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.

Republicans led in 52 of the 62 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 10. The largest, Kings, cast 774,840 votes and went to the Democrat by 28.7 points. The closest was Chautauqua, where 58 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
Hubert Humphrey won Democratic 3,378,470 49.8%
Richard Nixon Republican 3,007,932 44.3%
George Wallace American Independent 358,864 5.3%
All other candidates 44,800 0.7%
Total6,790,066

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kings 470,519 60.7% 247,936 32.0% 56,385 774,840 D+28.7
Queens 385,876 51.2% 306,620 40.7% 61,517 754,013 D+10.5
Nassau 273,185 42.7% 329,792 51.5% 36,917 639,894 R+8.8
New York 347,367 65.9% 135,458 25.7% 44,361 527,186 D+40.2
Erie 266,956 58.2% 167,853 36.6% 24,255 459,064 D+21.6
Bronx 262,796 59.6% 142,314 32.3% 35,919 441,029 D+27.3
Westchester 170,159 42.9% 201,652 50.8% 25,221 397,032 R+7.9
Suffolk 126,940 34.5% 218,027 59.2% 23,425 368,392 R+24.7
Monroe 152,538 50.1% 143,233 47.1% 8,496 304,267 D+3.1
Onondaga 89,584 46.5% 95,806 49.7% 7,189 192,579 R+3.2
Albany 86,816 60.3% 52,948 36.8% 4,286 144,050 D+23.5
Oneida 48,265 45.9% 52,875 50.3% 3,992 105,132 R+4.4
Richmond 36,063 37.1% 54,631 56.2% 6,465 97,159 R+19.1
Broome 40,485 44.7% 46,872 51.8% 3,210 90,567 R+7.1
Niagara 45,040 50.9% 38,796 43.8% 4,652 88,488 D+7.1
Rockland 37,807 45.4% 40,880 49.1% 4,575 83,262 R+3.7
Dutchess 32,933 40.2% 45,032 54.9% 4,029 81,994 R+14.8
Orange 29,654 37.4% 44,955 56.7% 4,670 79,279 R+19.3
Schenectady 37,294 50.7% 33,687 45.8% 2,518 73,499 D+4.9
Rensselaer 32,616 46.7% 34,674 49.7% 2,483 69,773 R+2.9
Ulster 22,159 36.9% 34,798 58.0% 3,089 60,046 R+21.0
Chautauqua 28,619 48.2% 28,561 48.1% 2,239 59,419 D+0.1
Saratoga 18,969 40.9% 25,658 55.4% 1,718 46,345 R+14.4
Chemung 16,883 42.7% 20,693 52.3% 1,994 39,570 R+9.6
Steuben 13,216 34.0% 24,189 62.3% 1,413 38,818 R+28.3
St. Lawrence 16,900 43.6% 20,982 54.1% 909 38,791 R+10.5
Oswego 15,713 42.3% 20,041 53.9% 1,433 37,187 R+11.6
Jefferson 14,534 42.9% 18,552 54.8% 770 33,856 R+11.9
Cayuga 15,589 47.1% 16,167 48.9% 1,325 33,081 R+1.7
Cattaraugus 13,702 43.5% 16,594 52.7% 1,194 31,490 R+9.2
Ontario 12,652 41.3% 17,114 55.9% 846 30,612 R+14.6
Herkimer 11,717 41.9% 15,192 54.4% 1,037 27,946 R+12.4
Wayne 9,561 34.3% 17,470 62.6% 869 27,900 R+28.3
Montgomery 12,352 48.0% 12,566 48.8% 834 25,752 R+0.8
Tompkins 10,253 40.8% 13,446 53.6% 1,408 25,107 R+12.7
Sullivan 11,338 46.7% 11,657 48.0% 1,269 24,264 R+1.3
Putnam 8,488 35.9% 13,293 56.2% 1,871 23,652 R+20.3
Clinton 10,843 46.0% 11,951 50.7% 775 23,569 R+4.7
Genesee 10,235 43.6% 12,418 52.9% 813 23,466 R+9.3
Columbia 8,289 35.9% 13,857 60.0% 962 23,108 R+24.1
Otsego 8,571 37.4% 13,543 59.2% 775 22,889 R+21.7
Fulton 9,480 42.9% 11,895 53.8% 743 22,118 R+10.9
Madison 7,510 34.0% 13,819 62.5% 775 22,104 R+28.5
Washington 7,267 35.1% 12,694 61.4% 721 20,682 R+26.2
Warren 6,929 33.8% 12,963 63.3% 580 20,472 R+29.5
Livingston 7,506 38.0% 11,659 59.0% 587 19,752 R+21.0
Delaware 5,761 30.5% 12,366 65.6% 735 18,862 R+35.0
Chenango 6,137 33.1% 11,785 63.6% 620 18,542 R+30.5
Greene 5,915 33.2% 10,954 61.5% 945 17,814 R+28.3
Allegany 5,368 31.2% 11,222 65.3% 593 17,183 R+34.1
Cortland 6,190 36.5% 10,209 60.2% 549 16,948 R+23.7
Tioga 5,702 33.7% 10,441 61.8% 756 16,899 R+28.0
Franklin 7,145 44.9% 8,314 52.2% 453 15,912 R+7.3
Essex 5,562 36.0% 9,377 60.6% 524 15,463 R+24.7
Orleans 5,149 36.4% 8,509 60.2% 475 14,133 R+23.8
Wyoming 4,814 34.9% 8,459 61.3% 528 13,801 R+26.4
Seneca 5,614 42.6% 7,083 53.8% 466 13,163 R+11.2
Schoharie 4,194 38.8% 6,166 57.0% 454 10,814 R+18.2
Lewis 3,465 37.4% 5,524 59.5% 288 9,277 R+22.2
Yates 2,316 28.6% 5,482 67.7% 301 8,099 R+39.1
Schuyler 2,164 32.7% 4,105 62.0% 354 6,623 R+29.3
Hamilton 809 26.6% 2,123 69.8% 111 3,043 R+43.2

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.

New York in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+12.6
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+23.1
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+22.5
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+28.2
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+26.9
2004 John Kerry (D) D+18.3
2000 Al Gore (D) D+25.0
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+28.9
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+15.8
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.1
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+8.0
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+2.7
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+17.3
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+5.5
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+37.3
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+22.5
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+11.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+1.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+5.0
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+3.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+19.9
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+12.7
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+2.3
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+26.6
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+37.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+7.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+12.6
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+12.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+10.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.3
1896 William McKinley (R) R+18.9
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+1.1
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.1
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+1.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+3.2
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+6.5
1868 Horatio Seymour (D) D+1.2