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The 1968 United States presidential election in Florida was held on November 5, 1968. Florida voters chose fourteen electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Nixon obtained his support in Central Florida, Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey got his support from Southern Florida, and third-party candidate George Wallace got his support from the Florida Panhandle, or Northern Florida. This was one of the better states for George Wallace, due to the Northern part of the state being against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which Lyndon Johnson had signed into law. This led to Democratic party gains in support from black voters. The party simultaneously lost the great majority of white voters. One exception to this abandonment by white voters came in the Jewish sections of Miami. [1]
45% of white voters supported Nixon, 32% supported Wallace, and 23% supported Humphrey. [2] [3] [4]
Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote | Running mate | |||
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Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
Richard Nixon | Republican | New York | 886,804 | 40.53% | 14 | Spiro Agnew | Maryland | 14 |
Hubert Humphrey | Democratic | Minnesota | 676,794 | 30.93% | 0 | Edmund Muskie | Maine | 0 |
George Wallace | American Independent | Alabama | 624,207 | 28.53% | 0 | Curtis LeMay | California | 0 |
Total | 2,187,805 | 100% | 14 | 14 | ||||
Needed to win | 270 | 270 |
County | Richard Nixon Republican | Hubert Humphrey Democratic | George Wallace American Independent | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Alachua | 9,670 | 34.02% | 10,060 | 35.39% | 8,696 | 30.59% | -390 | -1.37% | 28,426 |
Baker | 294 | 10.72% | 487 | 17.75% | 1,962 | 71.53% | -1,475 [lower-alpha 2] | -53.78% | 2,743 |
Bay | 5,121 | 21.07% | 4,020 | 16.54% | 15,161 | 62.39% | -10,040 [lower-alpha 3] | -41.32% | 24,302 |
Bradford | 718 | 15.18% | 1,173 | 24.79% | 2,840 | 60.03% | -1,667 [lower-alpha 2] | -35.24% | 4,731 |
Brevard | 37,124 | 48.02% | 18,281 | 23.65% | 21,909 | 28.34% | 15,215 [lower-alpha 3] | 19.68% | 77,314 |
Broward | 106,122 | 54.50% | 56,613 | 29.07% | 31,992 | 16.43% | 49,509 | 25.43% | 194,727 |
Calhoun | 356 | 11.38% | 398 | 12.72% | 2,375 | 75.90% | -1,977 [lower-alpha 2] | -63.18% | 3,129 |
Charlotte | 6,056 | 50.58% | 3,647 | 30.46% | 2,270 | 18.96% | 2,409 | 20.12% | 11,973 |
Citrus | 2,767 | 38.71% | 1,775 | 24.83% | 2,606 | 36.46% | 161 [lower-alpha 3] | 2.25% | 7,148 |
Clay | 3,251 | 35.14% | 1,954 | 21.12% | 4,046 | 43.74% | -795 [lower-alpha 3] | -8.60% | 9,251 |
Collier | 5,362 | 50.85% | 2,230 | 21.15% | 2,952 | 28.00% | 2,410 [lower-alpha 3] | 22.85% | 10,544 |
Columbia | 1,553 | 21.13% | 1,750 | 23.81% | 4,046 | 55.06% | -2,296 [lower-alpha 2] | -31.25% | 7,349 |
DeSoto | 1,103 | 26.94% | 937 | 22.89% | 2,054 | 50.17% | -951 [lower-alpha 3] | -23.23% | 4,094 |
Dixie | 217 | 10.39% | 325 | 15.57% | 1,546 | 74.04% | -1,221 [lower-alpha 2] | -58.47% | 2,088 |
Duval | 51,585 | 30.89% | 54,834 | 32.84% | 60,559 | 36.27% | -5,725 [lower-alpha 2] | -3.43% | 166,978 |
Escambia | 15,089 | 22.07% | 16,281 | 23.81% | 37,000 | 54.12% | -20,719 [lower-alpha 2] | -30.31% | 68,370 |
Flagler | 360 | 20.25% | 601 | 33.80% | 817 | 45.95% | -216 [lower-alpha 2] | -12.15% | 1,778 |
Franklin | 529 | 16.86% | 699 | 22.28% | 1,909 | 60.85% | -1,210 [lower-alpha 2] | -38.57% | 3,137 |
Gadsden | 1,337 | 14.76% | 3,274 | 36.15% | 4,446 | 49.09% | -1,172 [lower-alpha 2] | -12.94% | 9,057 |
Gilchrist | 183 | 12.12% | 208 | 13.77% | 1,119 | 74.11% | -911 [lower-alpha 2] | -60.34% | 1,510 |
Glades | 261 | 23.92% | 230 | 21.08% | 600 | 55.00% | -339 [lower-alpha 3] | -31.08% | 1,091 |
Gulf | 364 | 9.58% | 711 | 18.71% | 2,725 | 71.71% | -2,014 [lower-alpha 2] | -53.00% | 3,800 |
Hamilton | 337 | 12.34% | 820 | 30.03% | 1,574 | 57.63% | -754 [lower-alpha 2] | -27.60% | 2,731 |
Hardee | 1,278 | 28.34% | 703 | 15.59% | 2,529 | 56.08% | -1,251 [lower-alpha 3] | -27.74% | 4,510 |
Hendry | 900 | 27.04% | 791 | 23.76% | 1,638 | 49.20% | -738 [lower-alpha 3] | -22.16% | 3,329 |
Hernando | 2,053 | 34.42% | 1,524 | 25.55% | 2,387 | 40.02% | -334 [lower-alpha 3] | -5.60% | 5,964 |
Highlands | 4,560 | 42.95% | 2,582 | 24.32% | 3,475 | 32.73% | 1,085 [lower-alpha 3] | 10.22% | 10,617 |
Hillsborough | 49,441 | 34.77% | 45,848 | 32.24% | 46,913 | 32.99% | 2,528 [lower-alpha 3] | 1.78% | 142,202 |
Holmes | 377 | 7.00% | 312 | 5.79% | 4,700 | 87.21% | -4,323 [lower-alpha 3] | -80.21% | 5,389 |
Indian River | 6,518 | 51.25% | 3,179 | 24.99% | 3,022 | 23.76% | 3,339 | 26.26% | 12,719 |
Jackson | 1,236 | 10.02% | 2,472 | 20.05% | 8,622 | 69.93% | -6,150 [lower-alpha 2] | -49.88% | 12,330 |
Jefferson | 459 | 14.84% | 1,066 | 34.48% | 1,567 | 50.68% | -501 [lower-alpha 2] | -16.20% | 3,092 |
Lafayette | 137 | 9.28% | 215 | 14.56% | 1,125 | 76.17% | -910 [lower-alpha 2] | -61.61% | 1,477 |
Lake | 11,763 | 47.42% | 4,599 | 18.54% | 8,442 | 34.03% | 3,321 [lower-alpha 3] | 13.39% | 24,804 |
Lee | 14,376 | 46.23% | 7,978 | 25.66% | 8,741 | 28.11% | 5,635 [lower-alpha 3] | 18.12% | 31,095 |
Leon | 9,288 | 28.49% | 10,440 | 32.02% | 12,878 | 39.50% | -2,438 [lower-alpha 2] | -7.48% | 32,606 |
Levy | 745 | 18.81% | 767 | 19.36% | 2,449 | 61.83% | -1,682 [lower-alpha 2] | -42.47% | 3,961 |
Liberty | 154 | 8.96% | 242 | 14.09% | 1,322 | 76.95% | -1,080 [lower-alpha 2] | -62.86% | 1,718 |
Madison | 654 | 13.81% | 1,378 | 29.10% | 2,703 | 57.09% | -1,325 [lower-alpha 2] | -27.99% | 4,735 |
Manatee | 18,247 | 52.51% | 8,286 | 23.85% | 8,214 | 23.64% | 9,961 | 28.66% | 34,747 |
Marion | 7,468 | 32.66% | 5,798 | 25.36% | 9,600 | 41.98% | -2,132 [lower-alpha 3] | -9.32% | 22,866 |
Martin | 5,179 | 50.63% | 2,580 | 25.22% | 2,471 | 24.15% | 2,599 | 25.41% | 10,230 |
Miami-Dade | 135,222 | 37.02% | 176,689 | 48.37% | 53,391 | 14.62% | -41,467 | -11.35% | 365,302 |
Monroe | 5,094 | 34.19% | 5,534 | 37.14% | 4,271 | 28.67% | -440 | -2.95% | 14,899 |
Nassau | 1,301 | 19.91% | 1,598 | 24.46% | 3,634 | 55.63% | -2,036 [lower-alpha 2] | -31.17% | 6,533 |
Okaloosa | 5,525 | 26.54% | 3,059 | 14.69% | 12,237 | 58.77% | -6,712 [lower-alpha 3] | -32.23% | 20,821 |
Okeechobee | 862 | 28.66% | 542 | 18.02% | 1,604 | 53.32% | -742 [lower-alpha 3] | -24.66% | 3,008 |
Orange | 50,874 | 50.54% | 22,548 | 22.40% | 27,247 | 27.07% | 23,627 [lower-alpha 3] | 23.47% | 100,669 |
Osceola | 4,172 | 43.90% | 1,870 | 19.68% | 3,462 | 36.43% | 710 [lower-alpha 3] | 7.47% | 9,504 |
Palm Beach | 62,191 | 53.19% | 32,837 | 28.08% | 21,894 | 18.73% | 29,354 | 25.11% | 116,922 |
Pasco | 9,743 | 42.36% | 6,292 | 27.36% | 6,966 | 30.29% | 2,777 [lower-alpha 3] | 12.07% | 23,001 |
Pinellas | 109,235 | 51.71% | 68,209 | 32.29% | 33,814 | 16.01% | 41,026 | 19.42% | 211,258 |
Polk | 27,839 | 36.98% | 15,898 | 21.12% | 31,540 | 41.90% | -3,701 [lower-alpha 3] | -4.92% | 75,277 |
Putnam | 2,955 | 26.80% | 2,920 | 26.49% | 5,150 | 46.71% | -2,195 [lower-alpha 3] | -19.91% | 11,025 |
St. Johns | 3,880 | 34.31% | 2,748 | 24.30% | 4,682 | 41.40% | -802 [lower-alpha 3] | -7.09% | 11,310 |
St. Lucie | 7,281 | 43.02% | 5,232 | 30.92% | 4,410 | 26.06% | 2,049 | 12.10% | 16,923 |
Santa Rosa | 2,567 | 20.19% | 1,600 | 12.58% | 8,549 | 67.23% | -5,982 [lower-alpha 3] | -47.04% | 12,716 |
Sarasota | 30,160 | 63.73% | 10,127 | 21.40% | 7,041 | 14.88% | 20,033 | 42.33% | 47,328 |
Seminole | 10,821 | 44.69% | 6,120 | 25.27% | 7,275 | 30.04% | 3,546 [lower-alpha 3] | 14.65% | 24,216 |
Sumter | 910 | 17.96% | 1,277 | 25.21% | 2,879 | 56.83% | -1,602 [lower-alpha 2] | -31.62% | 5,066 |
Suwannee | 845 | 14.13% | 1,182 | 19.76% | 3,955 | 66.12% | -2,773 [lower-alpha 2] | -46.36% | 5,982 |
Taylor | 794 | 15.71% | 941 | 18.62% | 3,318 | 65.66% | -2,377 [lower-alpha 2] | -47.04% | 5,053 |
Union | 179 | 10.78% | 290 | 17.46% | 1,192 | 71.76% | -902 [lower-alpha 2] | -54.30% | 1,661 |
Volusia | 28,024 | 39.91% | 24,987 | 35.58% | 17,209 | 24.51% | 3,037 | 4.33% | 70,220 |
Wakulla | 247 | 10.49% | 440 | 18.68% | 1,668 | 70.83% | -1,228 [lower-alpha 2] | -52.15% | 2,355 |
Walton | 963 | 13.45% | 1,064 | 14.86% | 5,135 | 71.70% | -4,071 [lower-alpha 2] | -56.84% | 7,162 |
Washington | 528 | 10.71% | 722 | 14.64% | 3,682 | 74.66% | -2,960 [lower-alpha 2] | -60.02% | 4,932 |
Totals | 886,804 | 40.53% | 676,794 | 30.93% | 624,207 | 28.53% | 210,010 | 9.60% | 2,187,805 |
Between the imposition of a poll tax in 1889 and the migration of numerous northerners seeking a hotter climate in the 1940s, [5] Florida had been a one-party Democratic state, lacking any traditional white Republicanism due to the absence of mountains or German "Forty-Eighter" settlements. So late as the landmark court case of Smith v. Allwright (1944), half of Florida's registered Republicans were still black, [6] although very few blacks in Florida had ever voted within the previous fifty-five years. When new migrants from traditionally Republican northern states took up residence in Central Florida and brought with them their Republican voting habits at the presidential level, [7]
1964 saw a complete reversal of the 1950s voting pattern of a largely Republican south and central Florida and continuing Democratic loyalty in the North, with almost zero correlation between 1960 and 1964 county returns. [8] Following his landslide sweep of the northern states, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society at first appeared to be helping him in Florida; [9] however, the relationship soured quickly as the Democratic Party factionalized. In 1966, via a campaign portraying his opponent as a dangerous liberal, Claude R. Kirk defeated Miami Mayor Robert King Hugh to become (alongside Winthrop Rockefeller) the first GOP Governor of any Confederate State since Alfred A. Taylor in 1922. [10]
As of the 2020 presidential election [update] , this is the last election in which Escambia County, Clay County, Okaloosa County, and Santa Rosa County did not support the Republican candidate. [11]
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