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Election 1968 Results

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1968 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) beat Richard Nixon (Republican) in Pennsylvania in 1968, 47.6% to 44.0%, a margin of 3.6 points and 169,388 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 4.3 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 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 15. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 850,117 votes and went to the Democrat by 32.0 points. The closest was Armstrong, where 211 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 2,259,405 47.6%
Richard Nixon Republican 2,090,017 44.0%
George Wallace American Independent 378,582 8.0%
All other candidates 19,924 0.4%
Total4,747,928

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 525,768 61.8% 254,153 29.9% 70,196 850,117 D+32.0
Allegheny 364,906 51.1% 264,790 37.1% 84,121 713,817 D+14.0
Delaware 106,695 40.0% 133,777 50.2% 25,964 266,436 R+10.2
Montgomery 102,464 39.3% 141,621 54.3% 16,647 260,732 R+15.0
Westmoreland 81,833 55.0% 52,206 35.1% 14,800 148,839 D+19.9
Luzerne 79,040 55.1% 57,044 39.8% 7,296 143,380 D+15.3
Bucks 57,634 40.2% 69,646 48.6% 15,931 143,211 R+8.4
Lackawanna 66,297 58.0% 44,388 38.8% 3,706 114,391 D+19.2
Berks 49,877 45.8% 50,623 46.5% 8,424 108,924 R+0.7
Lancaster 29,870 27.6% 69,953 64.6% 8,484 108,307 R+37.0
Erie 51,604 51.7% 43,134 43.2% 5,109 99,847 D+8.5
Chester 32,606 33.3% 56,073 57.2% 9,372 98,051 R+23.9
Lehigh 44,033 46.2% 47,255 49.5% 4,120 95,408 R+3.4
York 33,328 35.7% 51,631 55.3% 8,412 93,371 R+19.6
Washington 47,805 56.3% 28,023 33.0% 9,140 84,968 D+23.3
Beaver 45,396 55.3% 28,264 34.5% 8,368 82,028 D+20.9
Dauphin 25,480 31.2% 48,394 59.2% 7,914 81,788 R+28.0
Cambria 41,225 52.1% 33,280 42.0% 4,645 79,150 D+10.0
Northampton 42,554 54.5% 32,033 41.0% 3,543 78,130 D+13.5
Schuylkill 34,982 45.6% 37,194 48.5% 4,469 76,645 R+2.9
Fayette 34,340 57.8% 18,921 31.8% 6,189 59,450 D+25.9
Cumberland 15,467 28.9% 32,908 61.5% 5,097 53,472 R+32.6
Mercer 22,814 46.5% 23,131 47.1% 3,160 49,105 R+0.6
Blair 15,803 32.7% 28,780 59.6% 3,713 48,296 R+26.9
Butler 19,415 42.9% 21,618 47.7% 4,258 45,291 R+4.9
Lycoming 16,888 38.8% 23,830 54.7% 2,848 43,566 R+15.9
Lawrence 21,027 48.8% 18,360 42.6% 3,716 43,103 D+6.2
Northumberland 17,013 40.6% 22,366 53.4% 2,520 41,899 R+12.8
Franklin 11,451 32.5% 19,146 54.4% 4,598 35,195 R+21.9
Lebanon 9,529 28.0% 21,832 64.2% 2,664 34,025 R+36.2
Somerset 11,515 37.2% 17,511 56.6% 1,895 30,921 R+19.4
Armstrong 13,921 45.9% 14,132 46.6% 2,300 30,353 R+0.7
Indiana 12,175 41.7% 14,899 51.0% 2,122 29,196 R+9.3
Clearfield 12,369 42.4% 14,471 49.6% 2,323 29,163 R+7.2
Centre 11,163 39.1% 15,865 55.6% 1,499 28,527 R+16.5
Crawford 11,345 40.2% 14,991 53.1% 1,890 28,226 R+12.9
Columbia 8,187 36.8% 12,202 54.9% 1,840 22,229 R+18.1
Venango 8,319 37.9% 12,323 56.1% 1,307 21,949 R+18.2
Carbon 10,634 49.3% 9,954 46.1% 991 21,579 D+3.2
Bradford 6,373 30.3% 13,308 63.2% 1,377 21,058 R+32.9
Adams 5,993 31.7% 11,303 59.8% 1,611 18,907 R+28.1
Jefferson 6,839 37.3% 10,214 55.7% 1,294 18,347 R+18.4
Monroe 6,946 39.1% 9,465 53.3% 1,336 17,747 R+14.2
McKean 6,326 35.9% 10,506 59.7% 775 17,607 R+23.7
Bedford 4,725 28.6% 10,482 63.5% 1,311 16,518 R+34.9
Warren 6,368 39.9% 8,889 55.7% 711 15,968 R+15.8
Mifflin 5,681 38.7% 8,133 55.3% 884 14,698 R+16.7
Clarion 5,341 37.0% 8,077 56.0% 1,005 14,423 R+19.0
Greene 8,198 56.9% 5,099 35.4% 1,104 14,401 D+21.5
Elk 6,886 49.0% 6,193 44.1% 967 14,046 D+4.9
Susquehanna 4,364 31.1% 8,705 62.0% 963 14,032 R+30.9
Tioga 3,488 25.2% 9,298 67.1% 1,077 13,863 R+41.9
Clinton 6,301 46.6% 6,563 48.6% 644 13,508 R+1.9
Huntingdon 4,128 30.8% 8,276 61.8% 984 13,388 R+31.0
Wayne 3,176 26.9% 7,827 66.4% 787 11,790 R+39.4
Perry 2,944 27.1% 6,655 61.3% 1,250 10,849 R+34.2
Snyder 1,993 21.0% 6,784 71.6% 692 9,469 R+50.6
Union 2,178 23.6% 6,422 69.7% 615 9,215 R+46.1
Wyoming 2,366 29.1% 5,207 64.1% 551 8,124 R+35.0
Juniata 2,321 33.8% 4,039 58.8% 514 6,874 R+25.0
Potter 1,860 29.3% 4,019 63.4% 460 6,339 R+34.1
Montour 2,239 37.5% 3,289 55.0% 448 5,976 R+17.6
Pike 1,617 27.9% 3,719 64.2% 454 5,790 R+36.3
Fulton 1,174 29.5% 2,200 55.4% 599 3,973 R+25.8
Cameron 1,104 35.7% 1,822 59.0% 164 3,090 R+23.2
Sullivan 1,035 36.1% 1,629 56.8% 206 2,870 R+20.7
Forest 669 33.9% 1,172 59.4% 132 1,973 R+25.5

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4