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Election 1968 Results

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1968 presidential election in West Virginia

Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) beat Richard Nixon (Republican) in West Virginia in 1968, 49.6% to 40.8%, a margin of 8.8 points and 66,536 votes.

West Virginia voted 9.5 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.

Democrats led in 30 of the 55 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 25. The largest, Kanawha, cast 99,886 votes and went to the Democrat by 4.9 points. The closest was Hardy, where 1 vote 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 374,091 49.6%
Richard Nixon Republican 307,555 40.8%
George Wallace American Independent 72,560 9.6%
Total754,206

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Kanawha 46,650 46.7% 41,712 41.8% 11,524 99,886 D+4.9
Cabell 19,018 44.1% 19,418 45.1% 4,666 43,102 R+0.9
Wood 14,293 39.0% 18,960 51.8% 3,379 36,632 R+12.7
Harrison 18,872 54.2% 13,703 39.4% 2,234 34,809 D+14.8
Ohio 15,026 49.7% 13,073 43.2% 2,164 30,263 D+6.5
Raleigh 17,744 60.1% 8,775 29.7% 2,987 29,506 D+30.4
Marion 17,246 58.9% 10,177 34.8% 1,838 29,261 D+24.2
Mercer 12,739 48.8% 9,985 38.3% 3,363 26,087 D+10.6
Monongalia 13,128 54.8% 9,261 38.7% 1,556 23,945 D+16.1
Fayette 14,546 67.0% 5,246 24.1% 1,931 21,723 D+42.8
Logan 13,686 67.4% 4,754 23.4% 1,861 20,301 D+44.0
McDowell 12,842 67.8% 4,020 21.2% 2,075 18,937 D+46.6
Hancock 10,174 54.0% 6,181 32.8% 2,476 18,831 D+21.2
Marshall 8,449 49.5% 7,252 42.5% 1,379 17,080 D+7.0
Wayne 8,227 50.4% 6,004 36.8% 2,088 16,319 D+13.6
Berkeley 4,929 34.1% 7,223 49.9% 2,321 14,473 R+15.9
Mingo 8,677 62.9% 3,988 28.9% 1,133 13,798 D+34.0
Greenbrier 6,318 46.5% 5,559 40.9% 1,722 13,599 D+5.6
Brooke 7,506 57.1% 4,191 31.9% 1,444 13,141 D+25.2
Putnam 5,009 43.2% 5,252 45.3% 1,340 11,601 R+2.1
Wyoming 6,641 57.3% 3,947 34.0% 1,007 11,595 D+23.2
Randolph 5,562 50.7% 4,508 41.1% 897 10,967 D+9.6
Mason 4,549 42.8% 5,208 49.0% 879 10,636 R+6.2
Boone 6,391 62.1% 2,970 28.9% 926 10,287 D+33.3
Preston 4,020 39.3% 5,636 55.2% 561 10,217 R+15.8
Mineral 4,225 42.1% 4,545 45.3% 1,273 10,043 R+3.2
Jackson 3,462 36.1% 5,173 54.0% 947 9,582 R+17.9
Nicholas 4,858 51.8% 3,678 39.2% 841 9,377 D+12.6
Wetzel 4,038 45.1% 4,122 46.1% 789 8,949 R+0.9
Lincoln 4,386 50.8% 3,662 42.4% 583 8,631 D+8.4
Lewis 3,168 40.4% 4,027 51.4% 640 7,835 R+11.0
Upshur 2,319 31.7% 4,565 62.4% 427 7,311 R+30.7
Jefferson 3,129 45.2% 2,718 39.2% 1,082 6,929 D+5.9
Roane 2,639 38.2% 3,851 55.7% 424 6,914 R+17.5
Barbour 3,210 47.3% 3,206 47.3% 365 6,781 D+0.1
Summers 3,521 52.7% 2,305 34.5% 849 6,675 D+18.2
Taylor 2,953 45.9% 3,012 46.8% 466 6,431 R+0.9
Braxton 3,268 54.0% 2,441 40.3% 341 6,050 D+13.7
Monroe 2,412 41.0% 2,925 49.7% 553 5,890 R+8.7
Ritchie 1,281 27.4% 3,106 66.5% 284 4,671 R+39.1
Tyler 1,324 29.2% 2,897 63.9% 313 4,534 R+34.7
Hampshire 1,791 40.3% 1,959 44.1% 694 4,444 R+3.8
Pocahontas 1,948 43.9% 2,040 46.0% 446 4,434 R+2.1
Webster 2,582 62.9% 1,241 30.2% 284 4,107 D+32.7
Hardy 1,767 43.9% 1,768 43.9% 490 4,025 level
Grant 786 19.8% 2,936 73.8% 256 3,978 R+54.0
Clay 1,916 51.2% 1,474 39.4% 349 3,739 D+11.8
Morgan 1,015 27.3% 2,244 60.3% 461 3,720 R+33.0
Pendleton 1,643 45.3% 1,687 46.5% 298 3,628 R+1.2
Calhoun 1,682 46.6% 1,612 44.6% 318 3,612 D+1.9
Tucker 1,758 48.8% 1,511 42.0% 332 3,601 D+6.9
Pleasants 1,522 46.7% 1,534 47.1% 204 3,260 R+0.4
Gilmer 1,582 49.5% 1,401 43.8% 214 3,197 D+5.7
Doddridge 844 29.6% 1,861 65.3% 146 2,851 R+35.7
Wirt 820 40.8% 1,051 52.3% 140 2,011 R+11.5

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.

West Virginia in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+41.9
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+38.9
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+42.1
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+26.8
2008 John McCain (R) R+13.1
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+12.9
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+6.3
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+14.7
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+13.0
1988 Michael Dukakis (D) D+4.7
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+10.5
1980 Jimmy Carter (D) D+4.5
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+16.1
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+27.2
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+8.8
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+35.9
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+5.5
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+8.2
1952 Adlai Stevenson II (D) D+3.8
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+15.1
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+14.2
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+21.4
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+10.0
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+17.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+5.4
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+12.0
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+0.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+21.0
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+10.3
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+13.2
1900 William McKinley (R) R+9.5
1896 William McKinley (R) R+5.4
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) D+2.4
1888 Grover Cleveland (D) D+0.3
1884 Grover Cleveland (D) D+3.2
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock (D) D+9.9
1876 Samuel J. Tilden (D) D+14.6
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+17.6