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Election 1968 Results

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1968 presidential election in Utah

Richard Nixon (Republican) beat Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) in Utah in 1968, 56.5% to 37.1%, a margin of 19.4 points and 82,063 votes.

Utah voted 18.7 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+0.7.

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

Republicans led in 27 of the 29 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 2. The largest, Salt Lake, cast 188,609 votes and went to the Republican by 13.1 points. The closest was Daggett, where 55 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 238,728 56.5%
Hubert Humphrey Democratic 156,665 37.1%
George Wallace American Independent 26,906 6.4%
All other candidates 269 0.1%
Total422,568

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Salt Lake 77,247 41.0% 101,942 54.0% 9,420 188,609 R+13.1
Weber 20,465 40.0% 27,034 52.8% 3,683 51,182 R+12.8
Utah 16,629 33.6% 29,226 59.0% 3,673 49,528 R+25.4
Davis 10,624 31.2% 20,658 60.6% 2,805 34,087 R+29.4
Cache 4,327 25.0% 11,906 68.8% 1,070 17,303 R+43.8
Box Elder 3,093 26.5% 7,680 65.7% 915 11,688 R+39.2
Tooele 4,250 51.4% 3,422 41.4% 595 8,267 D+10.0
Carbon 4,344 60.0% 2,618 36.2% 277 7,239 D+23.8
Sanpete 1,696 31.9% 3,304 62.2% 312 5,312 R+30.3
Iron 1,157 23.1% 3,337 66.6% 517 5,011 R+43.5
Washington 975 19.5% 3,226 64.5% 799 5,000 R+45.0
Sevier 1,167 24.6% 3,190 67.2% 387 4,744 R+42.6
Uintah 1,145 24.8% 3,034 65.6% 443 4,622 R+40.9
Millard 971 27.7% 2,318 66.1% 220 3,509 R+38.4
Summit 961 33.6% 1,782 62.4% 114 2,857 R+28.7
Duchesne 858 30.3% 1,733 61.2% 243 2,834 R+30.9
Wasatch 941 35.6% 1,611 61.0% 91 2,643 R+25.3
Emery 1,019 42.4% 1,223 50.9% 161 2,403 R+8.5
San Juan 680 28.5% 1,393 58.3% 316 2,389 R+29.8
Grand 707 30.0% 1,435 60.9% 215 2,357 R+30.9
Juab 907 40.7% 1,201 54.0% 118 2,226 R+13.2
Beaver 795 40.9% 989 50.9% 160 1,944 R+10.0
Morgan 551 32.4% 1,020 59.9% 132 1,703 R+27.5
Garfield 314 21.1% 1,033 69.5% 140 1,487 R+48.4
Kane 147 13.0% 814 71.7% 174 1,135 R+58.8
Wayne 248 30.5% 511 62.9% 54 813 R+32.3
Rich 183 24.5% 525 70.3% 39 747 R+45.8
Piute 167 26.2% 411 64.4% 60 638 R+38.2
Daggett 97 33.3% 152 52.2% 42 291 R+18.9

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.

Utah in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+21.6
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+20.5
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+18.1
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+48.0
2008 John McCain (R) R+28.2
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+45.5
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+40.5
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+21.1
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+18.7
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+34.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+49.8
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+52.2
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+28.8
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+41.2
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+19.4
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+9.4
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.6
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+29.1
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+17.9
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+9.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.0
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+24.7
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+39.5
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+15.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+7.7
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+19.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+17.1
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+21.0
1912 William Howard Taft (R) R+4.9
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+17.1
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+28.6
1900 William McKinley (R) R+2.3
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+65.5