Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
1968 United States presidential election in Maryland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
The 1968 United States presidential election in Maryland was held on November 5, 1968, as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Maryland was won by Hubert Humphrey by a margin of 20,315 votes against Richard Nixon and by 359,576 votes against George Wallace.[1]
Maryland was the home state of Republican vice presidential nominee Spiro Agnew, who was the sitting Governor of Maryland at the time of the election. Since Nixon lost his home state of New York, this, along with the 1916 election, is one of two times where the winning presidential and vice-presidential candidates lost both of their home states.
This is one of three elections between 1888 and 2000 in which the state voted for the national loser, along with 1948 and 1980. This was George Wallace's strongest state in which he won no counties, though he did finish ahead of Humphrey in Dorchester County.
In this election, Maryland voted 2.34% to the left of the nation at-large.[2] As of 2025, this is the last election in which the winning candidate lost the home state of their running mate.
Remove ads
Results
Results by county
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
Remove ads
See also
Notes
- Although he was born in California and he served as a U.S. Senator from California, in 1968 Richard Nixon’s official state of residence was New York, because he moved there to practice law after his defeat in the 1962 California gubernatorial election. During his first term as president, Nixon re-established his residency in California. Consequently, most reliable reference books list Nixon's home state as New York in the 1968 election and his home state as California in the 1972 (and 1960) election.
- Though Curtis LeMay was Wallace's official running mate, Griffin's name was on the Maryland ballot.
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads