1968 United States presidential election in Louisiana

The 1968 United States presidential election in Louisiana was held on November 5, 1968. Along with four other contiguous southern states, former and future Alabama Governor George Wallace won the state for the American Party by a large margin against Democrat Hubert Humphrey and Republican Richard Nixon.[1] As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Jefferson Parish, St. Tammany Parish, Lafayette Parish, Ouachita Parish, Bossier Parish, Union Parish, and LaSalle Parish did not vote for the Republican presidential candidate.[2]

1968 United States presidential election in Louisiana

November 5, 1968

Nominee George Wallace Hubert Humphrey Richard Nixon Party American Independent Democratic Republican Home state Alabama Minnesota New York[lower-alpha 1] Running mate Curtis LeMay Edmund Muskie Spiro Agnew Electoral vote 10 0 0 Popular vote 530,300 309,615 257,535 Percentage 48.32% 28.21% 23.47%

Parish Results Wallace   30-40%   40-50%   50-60%   60-70%   70-80%   80-90% Humphrey   40-50%

President before election Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Elected President Richard Nixon Republican

With 48.32% of the popular vote, Louisiana would prove to be Wallace's third strongest state after Alabama and Mississippi.[3] This marked the most recent election cycle in which a Republican would win the presidency without carrying Louisiana.

Results

Presidential Candidate	Running Mate	Party	Electoral Vote (EV)	Popular Vote (PV)
George Wallace of Alabama	Curtis LeMay	American	10	530,300	48.32%
Hubert Humphrey	Edmund Muskie	Democratic	0	309,615	28.21%
Richard Nixon	Spiro Agnew	Republican	0	257,535	23.47%

Results by parish

Parish	Hubert Horatio Humphrey Democratic		Richard Milhous Nixon Republican		George Corley Wallace American		Margin[lower-alpha 2]		Total votes cast[4]
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Acadia	4,098	24.12%	3,178	18.70%	9,715	57.18%	-5,617	-33.06%	16,991
Allen	2,026	27.91%	1,004	13.83%	4,229	58.26%	-2,203	-30.35%	7,259
Ascension	3,203	30.37%	1,338	12.69%	6,004	56.94%	-2,801	-26.56%	10,545
Assumption	2,085	33.60%	1,222	19.69%	2,898	46.70%	-813	-13.10%	6,205
Avoyelles	2,793	23.25%	2,459	20.47%	6,760	56.28%	-3,967	-33.03%	12,012
Beauregard	1,569	21.70%	1,615	22.33%	4,048	55.97%	-2,433[lower-alpha 3]	-33.64%	7,232
Bienville	1,768	28.63%	941	15.24%	3,466	56.13%	-1,698	-27.50%	6,175
Bossier	2,782	17.63%	3,745	23.74%	9,249	58.63%	-5,504[lower-alpha 3]	-34.89%	15,776
Caddo	17,675	26.24%	21,224	31.51%	28,463	42.25%	-7,239[lower-alpha 3]	-10.75%	67,362
Calcasieu	14,593	32.89%	9,520	21.46%	20,250	45.65%	-5,657	-12.75%	44,363
Caldwell	973	26.19%	490	13.19%	2,252	60.62%	-1,279	-34.43%	3,715
Cameron	533	20.56%	405	15.62%	1,655	63.83%	-1,122	-43.27%	2,593
Catahoula	769	18.31%	755	17.97%	2,677	63.72%	-1,908	-45.42%	4,201
Claiborne	1,545	25.87%	1,117	18.70%	3,311	55.43%	-1,766	-29.57%	5,973
Concordia	1,983	26.44%	974	12.99%	4,542	60.57%	-2,559	-34.12%	7,499
De Soto	3,400	39.70%	974	11.37%	4,190	48.93%	-790	-9.22%	8,564
East Baton Rouge	21,770	27.67%	21,661	27.53%	35,250	44.80%	-13,480	-17.13%	78,681
East Carroll	1,926	45.66%	586	13.89%	1,706	40.45%	220	5.22%	4,218
East Feliciana	1,409	34.44%	457	11.17%	2,225	54.39%	-816	-19.95%	4,091
Evangeline	2,647	22.90%	1,549	13.40%	7,362	63.70%	-4,715	-40.79%	11,558
Franklin	681	9.56%	1,052	14.76%	5,394	75.68%	-4,342[lower-alpha 3]	-60.92%	7,127
Grant	932	16.90%	1,113	20.18%	3,470	62.92%	-2,357[lower-alpha 3]	-42.74%	5,515
Iberia	5,510	28.96%	5,448	28.63%	8,071	42.41%	-2,561	-13.46%	19,029
Iberville	4,084	41.73%	1,413	14.44%	4,290	43.83%	-206	-2.10%	9,787
Jackson	1,525	23.21%	1,104	16.80%	3,941	59.98%	-2,416	-36.77%	6,570
Jefferson	20,193	22.05%	29,478	32.19%	41,902	45.76%	-12,424[lower-alpha 3]	-13.57%	91,573
Jefferson Davis	2,641	27.08%	2,213	22.70%	4,897	50.22%	-2,256	-23.14%	9,751
Lafayette	7,983	26.28%	10,669	35.12%	11,723	38.59%	-1,054[lower-alpha 3]	-3.47%	30,375
Lafourche	5,516	25.99%	4,797	22.60%	10,910	51.41%	-5,394	-25.42%	21,223
LaSalle	710	12.15%	1,258	21.52%	3,878	66.34%	-2,620[lower-alpha 3]	-44.82%	5,846
Lincoln	2,009	22.63%	2,643	29.77%	4,225	47.59%	-1,582[lower-alpha 3]	-17.82%	8,877
Livingston	1,400	11.42%	947	7.73%	9,907	80.85%	-8,507	-69.42%	12,254
Madison	2,569	45.89%	649	11.59%	2,380	42.52%	189	3.38%	5,598
Morehouse	1,793	20.16%	1,722	19.37%	5,377	60.47%	-3,584	-40.31%	8,892
Natchitoches	3,945	33.43%	2,352	19.93%	5,505	46.64%	-1,560	-13.22%	11,802
Orleans	72,451	40.55%	47,728	26.71%	58,489	32.74%	13,962	7.81%	178,668
Ouachita	6,470	20.41%	10,089	31.82%	15,145	47.77%	-5,056[lower-alpha 3]	-15.95%	31,704
Plaquemines	1,144	13.39%	968	11.33%	6,430	75.28%	-5,286	-61.88%	8,542
Pointe Coupee	3,139	41.87%	850	11.34%	3,508	46.79%	-369	-4.92%	7,497
Rapides	8,793	24.96%	10,199	28.95%	16,239	46.09%	-6,040[lower-alpha 3]	-17.14%	35,231
Red River	914	24.24%	380	10.08%	2,477	65.69%	-1,563	-41.45%	3,771
Richland	1,017	15.74%	1,031	15.95%	4,415	68.31%	-3,384[lower-alpha 3]	-52.36%	6,463
Sabine	1,159	17.02%	1,125	16.52%	4,526	66.46%	-3,367	-49.44%	6,810
Saint Bernard	2,485	13.06%	3,486	18.32%	13,056	68.62%	-9,570[lower-alpha 3]	-50.30%	19,027
Saint Charles	3,070	33.63%	1,675	18.35%	4,383	48.02%	-1,313	-14.38%	9,128
Saint Helena	1,351	40.09%	219	6.50%	1,800	53.41%	-449	-13.32%	3,370
Saint James	2,987	45.74%	778	11.91%	2,765	42.34%	222	3.40%	6,530
Saint John the Baptist	3,245	43.67%	940	12.65%	3,246	43.68%	-1	-0.01%	7,431
Saint Landry	9,075	36.60%	3,058	12.33%	12,659	51.06%	-3,584	-14.46%	24,792
Saint Martin	3,321	34.22%	1,625	16.74%	4,759	49.04%	-1,438	-14.82%	9,705
Saint Mary	5,312	31.89%	4,586	27.53%	6,761	40.58%	-1,449	-8.70%	16,659
Saint Tammany	4,445	21.41%	4,846	23.34%	11,470	55.25%	-6,624[lower-alpha 3]	-31.91%	20,761
Tangipahoa	4,983	23.75%	2,907	13.86%	13,088	62.39%	-8,105	-38.64%	20,978
Tensas	845	32.03%	503	19.07%	1,290	48.90%	-445	-16.87%	2,638
Terrebonne	4,627	24.77%	5,214	27.92%	8,836	47.31%	-3,622[lower-alpha 3]	-19.39%	18,677
Union	1,336	19.80%	1,113	16.50%	4,297	63.70%	-2,961	-43.89%	6,746
Vermilion	3,806	25.03%	3,278	21.55%	8,124	53.42%	-4,318	-28.39%	15,208
Vernon	1,496	17.38%	1,574	18.29%	5,536	64.33%	-3,962[lower-alpha 3]	-46.04%	8,606
Washington	3,021	19.22%	1,695	10.78%	11,002	70.00%	-7,981	-50.78%	15,718
Webster	2,871	20.49%	2,496	17.81%	8,646	61.70%	-5,775	-41.21%	14,013
West Baton Rouge	2,016	38.37%	669	12.73%	2,569	48.90%	-553	-10.53%	5,254
West Carroll	395	8.67%	585	12.85%	3,574	78.48%	-2,989[lower-alpha 3]	-65.63%	4,554
West Feliciana	1,303	48.76%	296	11.08%	1,073	40.16%	230	8.61%	2,672
Winn	1,230	19.54%	1,050	16.68%	4,015	63.78%	-2,785	-44.24%	6,295
Totals	309,615	28.21%	257,535	23.47%	530,300	48.32%	-220,685	-20.11%	1,097,450

Notes

1. 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.
2. Because Wallace finished first in Louisiana as a whole and Humphrey was the highest-polling statewide major party nominee in the state as a whole, all margins and percentage margins shown are Humphrey minus Wallace unless otherwise stated.
3. In this parish where Nixon ran second ahead of Humphrey, margin given is Nixon vote minus Wallace vote and percentage margin is Nixon percentage minus Wallace percentage.

References

1. Leip, David. "1968 Presidential General Election Results – Louisiana". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2017-04-24.
2. Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
3. "1968 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
4. "LA US President Race, November 05, 1968". Our Campaigns.