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| | Election Name | United States presidential election, 1968 |
| Country | United States |
| Type | presidential |
| Ongoing | no |
| Previous Election | United States presidential election, 1964 |
| Previous Year | 1964 |
| Next Election | United States presidential election, 1972 |
| Next Year | 1972 |
| Election Date | November 5, 1968 |
| Nominee1 | Richard Nixon |
| Party1 | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State1 | California |
| Running Mate1 | Spiro Agnew |
| Electoral Vote1 | 301 |
| States Carried1 | 32 |
| Popular Vote1 | 31,783,783 |
| Percentage1 | 43.4% |
| Nominee2 | Hubert Humphrey |
| Party2 | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State2 | Minnesota |
| Running Mate2 | Edmund Muskie |
| Electoral Vote2 | 191 |
| States Carried2 | 13 + DC |
| Popular Vote2 | 31,271,839 |
| Percentage2 | 42.7% |
| Nominee3 | George Wallace |
| Party3 | American Independent Party |
| Colour3 | ff9955 |
| Home State3 | Alabama |
| Running Mate3 | Curtis LeMay |
| Electoral Vote3 | 46 |
| States Carried3 | 5 |
| Popular Vote3 | 9,901,118 |
| Percentage3 | 13.5% |
| Map Image | ElectoralCollege1968.svg |
| Map Size | 350px |
| Map Caption | Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Nixon/Agnew, Blue denotes those won by Humphrey/Muskie. Orange denotes states won by Wallace/LeMay, as well as a faithless elector from North Carolina who cast his electoral vote for Wallace/LeMay instead of Nixon/Agnew. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. |
| Title | President |
| Before Election | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Before Party | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election | Richard Nixon |
| After Party | Republican Party (United States) |
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The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial United States presidential election. Coming four years after Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson won in a historic landslide, it saw Johnson forced out of the race and Republican Richard Nixon elected. The election was a wrenching national experience, conducted against a backdrop that included the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and subsequent race riots across the nation, the assassination of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, widespread demonstrations against the Vietnam War across American university and college campuses, and violent confrontations between police and anti-war protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention as the Democratic party split again and again.
On November 5, 1968, the Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon won the election over the Democratic nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Nixon ran on a campaign that promised to restore law and order to the nation's cities, torn by riots and crime. The election of 1968 was a realigning election that permanently disrupted the New Deal Coalition that had dominated presidential politics for 36 years.
The election featured a strong third party effort by former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Because Wallace's campaign opposed federal intervention in the South to end school segregation, he proved to be a formidable candidate in the South; no third-party candidate has won an entire state's electoral votes since.
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Notable third party performances in United States elections (At least 5% of the vote)
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