The 1968 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 5, 1968. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1968 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Wyoming was won by the Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, running with Governor of Maryland Spiro Agnew. Together they defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and his running mate, Senator Edmund Muskie from Maine.
Nixon carried Wyoming with 55.76% of the vote to Humphrey's 35.51%, a victory margin of 20.25%. This marked a 33.45% swing to the right from 1964, when the state had voted for Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson by 13.2%. Also on the ballot was former and future Alabama Governor George Wallace, running as an Independent in Wyoming. Although Wallace carried five states in the South, he had only modest appeal in Wyoming. His performance was the best by any third-party candidate in Wyoming since Robert La Follette won nearly a third of the vote in 1924, but nonetheless did not equal his vote share in the fellow Western states of Alaska, Idaho and Nevada.
With 55.76 percent of the popular vote, Wyoming would prove to be Nixon's fifth strongest state in the 1968 election after Nebraska, Idaho, Utah and North Dakota.
Results
Results by county CountyRichard NixonRepublicanHubert HumphreyDemocraticGeorge WallaceIndependentMarginTotal votescast # % # % # % # % Albany 4,422 48.71% 4,079 44.93% 578 6.37% 343 3.78% 9,079 Big Horn 2,771 64.07% 1,201 27.77% 353 8.16% 1,570 36.30% 4,325 Campbell 1,694 66.67% 558 21.96% 289 11.37% 1,136 44.71% 2,541 Carbon 2,532 44.77% 2,725 48.18% 399 7.05% -193 -3.41% 5,656 Converse 1,658 69.61% 492 20.65% 232 9.74% 1,166 48.96% 2,382 Crook 1,240 71.55% 318 18.35% 175 10.10% 922 53.20% 1,733 Fremont 5,417 57.64% 3,093 32.91% 888 9.45% 2,324 24.73% 9,398 Goshen 2,719 57.65% 1,529 32.42% 468 9.92% 1,190 25.23% 4,716 Hot Springs 1,273 59.38% 705 32.88% 166 7.74% 568 26.50% 2,144 Johnson 1,737 73.85% 398 16.92% 217 9.23% 1,339 56.93% 2,352 Laramie 9,824 46.80% 9,519 45.35% 1,649 7.86% 305 1.45% 20,992 Lincoln 2,030 57.01% 1,246 34.99% 285 8.00% 784 22.02% 3,561 Natrona 10,679 57.19% 5,900 31.59% 2,095 11.22% 4,779 25.60% 18,674 Niobrara 1,136 76.24% 250 16.78% 104 6.98% 886 59.46% 1,490 Park 4,677 65.56% 1,852 25.96% 605 8.48% 2,825 39.60% 7,134 Platte 1,613 54.36% 1,035 34.88% 319 10.75% 578 19.48% 2,967 Sheridan 5,163 61.22% 2,659 31.53% 612 7.26% 2,504 29.69% 8,434 Sublette 1,152 68.25% 310 18.36% 226 13.39% 842 49.89% 1,688 Sweetwater 2,726 36.60% 4,086 54.85% 637 8.55% -1,360 -18.25% 7,449 Teton 1,419 69.25% 461 22.50% 169 8.25% 958 46.75% 2,049 Uinta 1,510 52.36% 1,199 41.57% 175 6.07% 311 10.79% 2,884 Washakie 2,038 64.01% 948 29.77% 198 6.22% 1,090 34.24% 3,184Weston 1,497 63.08% 610 25.71% 266 11.21% 887 37.37% 2,373Totals70,92755.76%45,17335.51%11,1058.73%25,75420.25%127,205
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
Albany Big Horn Fremont Goshen Hot Springs Laramie Lincoln Natrona Park Platte Sheridan Uinta
See also United States presidential elections in Wyoming
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