President / Vice President, 1968 Election
General
| Date: | November 5, 1968 |
| Cycle: | 1968 |
| Office: | President / Vice President |
| State: | Minnesota |
| District: | Statewide |
| Candidate | Gender | Running mate | Party | Votes | Percent | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hubert H. Humphrey | Man | Edmund Muskie (Man) | Democratic-Farmer-Labor | 857,738 | 54.00 | +12.53 |
| Richard Nixon | Man | Spiro Agnew (Man) | Republican | 658,643 | 41.46 | |
| George Wallace | Man | S. Marvin Griffin (Man) | American | 68,931 | 4.34 | |
| Leroy Eldridge Cleaver | Man | Peggy Terry (Woman) | Peace and Freedom | 935 | 0.06 | |
| Fred Halstead | Man | Paul Boutelle (Man) | Socialist Workers | 808 | 0.05 | |
| Eugene J. McCarthy | Man | Write-In | 585 | 0.04 | ||
| Charlene Mitchell | Woman | Michael Zagarell (Man) | Communist | 415 | 0.03 | |
| Henning Blomen | Man | George Taylor (Man) | Industrial Government | 285 | 0.02 |
Humphrey and Muskie each received Minnesota's 10 Electoral College votes. The 54.00 percent won by Humphrey in his home state was his best showing in the 12-state Midwest region but only his sixth best across the country behind Washington D.C. (81.82 percent), Rhode Island (64.03 percent), Massachusetts (63.01 percent), Hawaii (59.83 percent), and Maine (55.30 percent). The sitting Vice President did not receive a majority of the vote in any other state.
Sources
- State of Minnesota Legislative Manual, 1969-1970 (p. 429, 433). Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 1968 (p. 22).