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Election 1968 Results

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1968 presidential election in Oregon

Richard Nixon (Republican) beat Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) in Oregon in 1968, 49.8% to 43.8%, a margin of 6.0 points and 49,567 votes.

Oregon voted 5.3 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+0.7.

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

Republicans led in 30 of the 36 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 6. The largest, Multnomah, cast 243,518 votes and went to the Democrat by 7.3 points. The closest was Lincoln, where 22 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
Richard Nixon won	Republican	408,433	49.8%
Hubert Humphrey	Democratic	358,866	43.8%
George Wallace	American Independent	49,683	6.1%
All other candidates		2,640	0.3%
Total		819,622

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Multnomah	124,651 51.2%	106,831 43.9%	12,036	243,518	D+7.3
Lane	34,521 42.9%	39,563 49.1%	6,465	80,549	R+6.3
Clackamas	27,939 43.7%	32,363 50.6%	3,659	63,961	R+6.9
Washington	22,943 38.3%	34,105 57.0%	2,794	59,842	R+18.7
Marion	22,327 40.2%	30,417 54.8%	2,758	55,502	R+14.6
Jackson	12,714 36.5%	19,577 56.2%	2,551	34,842	R+19.7
Douglas	9,186 35.2%	13,410 51.4%	3,496	26,092	R+16.2
Linn	10,032 41.3%	12,604 51.9%	1,648	24,284	R+10.6
Coos	10,884 52.1%	8,230 39.4%	1,776	20,890	D+12.7
Benton	6,538 34.4%	11,654 61.3%	824	19,016	R+26.9
Klamath	5,629 33.1%	9,604 56.4%	1,784	17,017	R+23.4
Umatilla	6,402 39.1%	8,975 54.8%	1,002	16,379	R+15.7
Josephine	4,351 29.7%	8,456 57.6%	1,864	14,671	R+28.0
Yamhill	5,487 38.4%	7,936 55.6%	862	14,285	R+17.1
Clatsop	6,243 49.0%	5,810 45.6%	685	12,738	D+3.4
Polk	4,961 39.5%	6,997 55.7%	613	12,571	R+16.2
Deschutes	4,859 43.3%	5,599 49.9%	772	11,230	R+6.6
Columbia	6,064 54.9%	4,208 38.1%	775	11,047	D+16.8
Lincoln	5,009 46.8%	5,031 47.0%	659	10,699	R+0.2
Malheur	2,021 24.2%	5,447 65.2%	892	8,360	R+41.0
Wasco	3,918 47.2%	3,842 46.3%	546	8,306	D+0.9
Union	3,409 44.0%	3,796 49.0%	542	7,747	R+5.0
Tillamook	3,609 49.5%	3,261 44.7%	421	7,291	D+4.8
Baker	2,464 39.4%	3,311 52.9%	480	6,255	R+13.5
Hood River	2,385 44.9%	2,597 48.8%	335	5,317	R+4.0
Curry	1,934 40.9%	2,323 49.1%	472	4,729	R+8.2
Crook	1,611 44.7%	1,727 47.9%	269	3,607	R+3.2
Jefferson	1,160 38.4%	1,669 55.3%	191	3,020	R+16.9
Harney	1,036 36.2%	1,617 56.6%	205	2,858	R+20.3
Grant	934 33.2%	1,632 58.0%	248	2,814	R+24.8
Wallowa	1,006 36.7%	1,527 55.7%	209	2,742	R+19.0
Lake	730 29.1%	1,538 61.4%	237	2,505	R+32.3
Morrow	797 40.5%	1,068 54.3%	102	1,967	R+13.8
Gilliam	436 38.9%	619 55.3%	65	1,120	R+16.3
Sherman	384 35.3%	646 59.3%	59	1,089	R+24.1
Wheeler	292 38.3%	443 58.1%	27	762	R+19.8

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.

Oregon in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+14.3
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+16.1
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+11.0
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+12.1
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+16.3
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+4.2
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+0.4
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+8.1
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+10.0
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+4.7
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+12.2
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+9.7
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+0.2
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+10.1
1968	Richard Nixon (R)	R+6.0
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+27.8
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+5.2
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+10.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+21.6
1948	Thomas E. Dewey (R)	R+3.4
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+4.8
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+8.1
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+34.8
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+21.1
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+30.0
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+26.8
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+26.7
1916	Charles Evans Hughes (R)	R+2.6
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+9.0
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+22.1
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+47.6
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+16.1
1896	William McKinley (R)	R+2.1
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+26.4
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+10.9
1884	James G. Blaine (R)	R+4.3
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+1.6
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes (R)	R+3.5
1872	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+20.2
1868	Horatio Seymour (D)	D+0.7

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