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Election 1968 Results

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1968 presidential election in Washington

Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) beat Richard Nixon (Republican) in Washington in 1968, 47.2% to 45.1%, a margin of 2.1 points and 27,527 votes.

Washington voted 2.8 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 21 of the 39 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 18. The largest, King, cast 480,654 votes and went to the Democrat by 0.8 points. The closest was Ferry, where 13 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
Hubert Humphrey won	Democratic	616,037	47.2%
Richard Nixon	Republican	588,510	45.1%
George Wallace	American Independent	96,990	7.4%
All other candidates		2,744	0.2%
Total		1,304,281

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	225,476 46.9%	221,644 46.1%	33,534	480,654	D+0.8
Pierce	73,106 53.4%	52,037 38.0%	11,733	136,876	D+15.4
Spokane	49,611 44.6%	53,118 47.7%	8,586	111,315	R+3.2
Snohomish	44,369 50.1%	36,848 41.6%	7,335	88,552	D+8.5
Yakima	19,564 38.0%	27,630 53.7%	4,237	51,431	R+15.7
Clark	23,242 51.6%	19,177 42.6%	2,623	45,042	D+9.0
Kitsap	22,360 55.8%	14,645 36.5%	3,069	40,074	D+19.3
Whatcom	14,088 44.9%	14,806 47.1%	2,514	31,408	R+2.3
Thurston	14,349 46.5%	13,922 45.2%	2,563	30,834	D+1.4
Benton	10,951 37.9%	14,905 51.5%	3,073	28,929	R+13.7
Cowlitz	13,420 51.7%	10,958 42.2%	1,576	25,954	D+9.5
Grays Harbor	13,517 59.3%	7,783 34.2%	1,490	22,790	D+25.2
Skagit	10,574 46.6%	10,420 45.9%	1,717	22,711	D+0.7
Lewis	8,476 45.1%	8,850 47.1%	1,457	18,783	R+2.0
Chelan	6,812 39.3%	9,140 52.8%	1,362	17,314	R+13.4
Walla Walla	5,869 34.4%	10,162 59.5%	1,053	17,084	R+25.1
Grant	5,798 40.1%	7,072 48.9%	1,598	14,468	R+8.8
Clallam	7,059 49.2%	5,996 41.8%	1,296	14,351	D+7.4
Whitman	5,312 38.0%	7,904 56.5%	769	13,985	R+18.5
Okanogan	4,397 43.9%	4,539 45.3%	1,077	10,013	R+1.4
Franklin	4,059 42.1%	4,276 44.3%	1,313	9,648	R+2.2
Kittitas	3,978 45.0%	4,258 48.2%	602	8,838	R+3.2
Mason	4,546 52.7%	3,419 39.6%	658	8,623	D+13.1
Island	3,261 40.3%	4,120 51.0%	703	8,084	R+10.6
Stevens	2,961 40.2%	3,440 46.7%	969	7,370	R+6.5
Douglas	2,766 41.4%	3,245 48.6%	669	6,680	R+7.2
Pacific	3,749 56.6%	2,498 37.7%	378	6,625	D+18.9
Asotin	2,709 49.3%	2,345 42.7%	442	5,496	D+6.6
Klickitat	2,460 47.4%	2,364 45.6%	364	5,188	D+1.9
Lincoln	1,728 34.0%	3,010 59.3%	340	5,078	R+25.2
Jefferson	2,252 49.9%	1,837 40.7%	427	4,516	D+9.2
Adams	1,278 30.8%	2,574 62.0%	299	4,151	R+31.2
Pend Oreille	1,351 49.6%	1,125 41.3%	249	2,725	D+8.3
Skamania	1,227 51.1%	982 40.9%	193	2,402	D+10.2
Columbia	756 35.0%	1,229 56.8%	177	2,162	R+21.9
San Juan	688 34.7%	1,180 59.4%	117	1,985	R+24.8
Wahkiakum	901 53.6%	644 38.3%	137	1,682	D+15.3
Garfield	604 38.0%	842 53.0%	143	1,589	R+15.0
Ferry	596 42.8%	609 43.7%	188	1,393	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.

Washington in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+18.2
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+19.2
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+15.7
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+14.9
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+17.2
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+7.2
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+5.6
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+12.5
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+11.4
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+1.6
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+13.5
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+12.3
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+3.9
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+18.3
1968	Hubert Humphrey (D)	D+2.1
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+24.6
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+2.4
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+8.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+9.6
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+9.8
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+14.6
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+17.6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+36.5
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+23.5
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+35.7
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+42.1
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+34.8
1916	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+4.2
1912	Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+25.8
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+50.6
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+11.7
1896	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+15.1
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+7.6

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