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Elections in South Dakota |
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The 1968 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Voters chose four [2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
South Dakota was won by former Vice President Richard Nixon ( R– New York), with 53.27 percent of the popular vote, against Vice President Hubert Humphrey ( D– Minnesota), with 41.96 percent of the popular vote. Independent candidate George Wallace would carry five Southern states, but finished with a mere 4.76 percent of South Dakota's popular vote. [3] [4] Although the West River region of South Dakota possessed powerful racial conflicts akin to Wallace's native South – although between Whites and Native Americans rather than between Whites and Blacks – significant anti-Southern feeling amongst its Yankee descendants limited Wallace's appeal even there, [5] and in the East River with fewer Native Americans and a strong Scandinavian-American influence, [6] Wallace possessed generally insignificant appeal. Although he performed reasonably in some West River counties, within the more populous East River Wallace cracked half his national percentage (6.75%) only in Hyde and Sully Counties. Consequently, South Dakota proved Wallace's eighth-weakest state nationally.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Richard Nixon | 149,841 | 53.27% | |
Democratic | Hubert Humphrey | 118,023 | 41.96% | |
Independent | George Wallace | 13,400 | 4.76% | |
Total votes | 281,264 | 100% |
County [7] | Richard Milhous Nixon Republican |
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Democratic |
George Corley Wallace Independent |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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Aurora | 1,043 | 46.71% | 1,060 | 47.47% | 130 | 5.82% | -17 | -0.76% | 2,233 |
Beadle | 4,214 | 42.66% | 5,357 | 54.23% | 307 | 3.11% | -1,143 | -11.57% | 9,878 |
Bennett | 665 | 53.93% | 457 | 37.06% | 111 | 9.00% | 208 | 16.87% | 1,233 |
Bon Homme | 2,411 | 55.01% | 1,773 | 40.45% | 199 | 4.54% | 638 | 14.56% | 4,383 |
Brookings | 4,674 | 57.84% | 3,202 | 39.62% | 205 | 2.54% | 1,472 | 18.22% | 8,081 |
Brown | 6,685 | 45.95% | 7,302 | 50.20% | 560 | 3.85% | -617 | -4.24% | 14,547 |
Brule | 1,237 | 43.94% | 1,425 | 50.62% | 153 | 5.44% | -188 | -6.68% | 2,815 |
Buffalo | 261 | 47.11% | 265 | 47.83% | 28 | 5.05% | -4 | -0.72% | 554 |
Butte | 2,090 | 63.28% | 1,017 | 30.79% | 196 | 5.93% | 1,073 | 32.49% | 3,303 |
Campbell | 1,216 | 79.27% | 245 | 15.97% | 73 | 4.76% | 971 | 63.30% | 1,534 |
Charles Mix | 2,093 | 44.77% | 2,369 | 50.67% | 213 | 4.56% | -276 | -5.90% | 4,675 |
Clark | 1,596 | 52.50% | 1,325 | 43.59% | 119 | 3.91% | 271 | 8.91% | 3,040 |
Clay | 2,249 | 51.28% | 2,006 | 45.74% | 131 | 2.99% | 243 | 5.54% | 4,386 |
Codington | 3,929 | 46.49% | 4,235 | 50.11% | 288 | 3.41% | -306 | -3.62% | 8,452 |
Corson | 1,108 | 55.15% | 821 | 40.87% | 80 | 3.98% | 287 | 14.29% | 2,009 |
Custer | 1,143 | 55.38% | 727 | 35.22% | 194 | 9.40% | 416 | 20.16% | 2,064 |
Davison | 3,869 | 50.12% | 3,585 | 46.44% | 265 | 3.43% | 284 | 3.68% | 7,719 |
Day | 2,062 | 43.81% | 2,463 | 52.33% | 182 | 3.87% | -401 | -8.52% | 4,707 |
Deuel | 1,398 | 53.26% | 1,076 | 40.99% | 151 | 5.75% | 322 | 12.27% | 2,625 |
Dewey | 941 | 52.72% | 721 | 40.39% | 123 | 6.89% | 220 | 12.32% | 1,785 |
Douglas | 1,613 | 70.68% | 592 | 25.94% | 77 | 3.37% | 1,021 | 44.74% | 2,282 |
Edmunds | 1,534 | 52.18% | 1,225 | 41.67% | 181 | 6.16% | 309 | 10.51% | 2,940 |
Fall River | 1,843 | 59.57% | 965 | 31.19% | 286 | 9.24% | 878 | 28.38% | 3,094 |
Faulk | 997 | 49.48% | 819 | 40.65% | 199 | 9.88% | 178 | 8.83% | 2,015 |
Grant | 2,259 | 51.81% | 1,890 | 43.35% | 211 | 4.84% | 369 | 8.46% | 4,360 |
Gregory | 1,810 | 54.40% | 1,266 | 38.05% | 251 | 7.54% | 544 | 16.35% | 3,327 |
Haakon | 759 | 60.96% | 377 | 30.28% | 109 | 8.76% | 382 | 30.68% | 1,245 |
Hamlin | 1,649 | 56.36% | 1,149 | 39.27% | 128 | 4.37% | 500 | 17.09% | 2,926 |
Hand | 1,650 | 54.78% | 1,136 | 37.72% | 226 | 7.50% | 514 | 17.07% | 3,012 |
Hanson | 901 | 50.08% | 826 | 45.91% | 72 | 4.00% | 75 | 4.17% | 1,799 |
Harding | 564 | 63.02% | 266 | 29.72% | 65 | 7.26% | 298 | 33.30% | 895 |
Hughes | 3,204 | 61.46% | 1,666 | 31.96% | 343 | 6.58% | 1,538 | 29.50% | 5,213 |
Hutchinson | 3,544 | 69.07% | 1,412 | 27.52% | 175 | 3.41% | 2,132 | 41.55% | 5,131 |
Hyde | 713 | 53.81% | 499 | 37.66% | 113 | 8.53% | 214 | 16.15% | 1,325 |
Jackson | 480 | 56.80% | 267 | 31.60% | 98 | 11.60% | 213 | 25.21% | 845 |
Jerauld | 1,002 | 55.57% | 745 | 41.32% | 56 | 3.11% | 257 | 14.25% | 1,803 |
Jones | 562 | 55.75% | 358 | 35.52% | 88 | 8.73% | 204 | 20.24% | 1,008 |
Kingsbury | 2,300 | 58.42% | 1,491 | 37.87% | 146 | 3.71% | 809 | 20.55% | 3,937 |
Lake | 2,876 | 53.68% | 2,294 | 42.81% | 188 | 3.51% | 582 | 10.86% | 5,358 |
Lawrence | 4,185 | 60.23% | 2,425 | 34.90% | 338 | 4.86% | 1,760 | 25.33% | 6,948 |
Lincoln | 3,259 | 59.89% | 1,961 | 36.03% | 222 | 4.08% | 1,298 | 23.85% | 5,442 |
Lyman | 1,063 | 57.87% | 643 | 35.00% | 131 | 7.13% | 420 | 22.86% | 1,837 |
Marshall | 1,471 | 47.01% | 1,518 | 48.51% | 140 | 4.47% | -47 | -1.50% | 3,129 |
McCook | 1,959 | 51.55% | 1,653 | 43.50% | 188 | 4.95% | 306 | 8.05% | 3,800 |
McPherson | 2,105 | 80.34% | 389 | 14.85% | 126 | 4.81% | 1,716 | 65.50% | 2,620 |
Meade | 2,392 | 56.19% | 1,522 | 35.75% | 343 | 8.06% | 870 | 20.44% | 4,257 |
Mellette | 611 | 55.70% | 407 | 37.10% | 79 | 7.20% | 204 | 18.60% | 1,097 |
Miner | 1,045 | 43.69% | 1,255 | 52.47% | 92 | 3.85% | -210 | -8.78% | 2,392 |
Minnehaha | 20,141 | 53.31% | 16,462 | 43.57% | 1,177 | 3.12% | 3,679 | 9.74% | 37,780 |
Moody | 1,689 | 48.87% | 1,614 | 46.70% | 153 | 4.43% | 75 | 2.17% | 3,456 |
Pennington | 9,671 | 53.29% | 7,303 | 40.24% | 1,174 | 6.47% | 2,368 | 13.05% | 18,148 |
Perkins | 1,498 | 60.38% | 869 | 35.03% | 114 | 4.59% | 629 | 25.35% | 2,481 |
Potter | 1,273 | 57.81% | 780 | 35.42% | 149 | 6.77% | 493 | 22.39% | 2,202 |
Roberts | 2,225 | 42.68% | 2,651 | 50.85% | 337 | 6.46% | -426 | -8.17% | 5,213 |
Sanborn | 1,024 | 49.71% | 956 | 46.41% | 80 | 3.88% | 68 | 3.30% | 2,060 |
Shannon | 533 | 29.68% | 1,202 | 66.93% | 61 | 3.40% | -669 | -37.25% | 1,796 |
Spink | 2,068 | 42.08% | 2,669 | 54.30% | 178 | 3.62% | -601 | -12.23% | 4,915 |
Stanley | 572 | 51.58% | 439 | 39.59% | 98 | 8.84% | 133 | 11.99% | 1,109 |
Sully | 676 | 60.09% | 356 | 31.64% | 93 | 8.27% | 320 | 28.44% | 1,125 |
Todd | 683 | 38.78% | 987 | 56.05% | 91 | 5.17% | -304 | -17.26% | 1,761 |
Tripp | 2,242 | 58.25% | 1,362 | 35.39% | 245 | 6.37% | 880 | 22.86% | 3,849 |
Turner | 3,246 | 67.61% | 1,350 | 28.12% | 205 | 4.27% | 1,896 | 39.49% | 4,801 |
Union | 2,212 | 49.70% | 2,014 | 45.25% | 225 | 5.06% | 198 | 4.45% | 4,451 |
Walworth | 2,204 | 60.19% | 1,276 | 34.84% | 182 | 4.97% | 928 | 25.34% | 3,662 |
Washabaugh | 224 | 49.89% | 203 | 45.21% | 22 | 4.90% | 21 | 4.68% | 449 |
Yankton | 3,977 | 56.08% | 2,733 | 38.54% | 382 | 5.39% | 1,244 | 17.54% | 7,092 |
Ziebach | 449 | 52.58% | 350 | 40.98% | 55 | 6.44% | 99 | 11.59% | 854 |
Totals | 149,841 | 53.27% | 118,023 | 41.96% | 13,400 | 4.76% | 31,818 | 11.31% | 281,264 |
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The 1968 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Voters chose four [2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
South Dakota was won by former Vice President Richard Nixon ( R– New York), with 53.27 percent of the popular vote, against Vice President Hubert Humphrey ( D– Minnesota), with 41.96 percent of the popular vote. Independent candidate George Wallace would carry five Southern states, but finished with a mere 4.76 percent of South Dakota's popular vote. [3] [4] Although the West River region of South Dakota possessed powerful racial conflicts akin to Wallace's native South – although between Whites and Native Americans rather than between Whites and Blacks – significant anti-Southern feeling amongst its Yankee descendants limited Wallace's appeal even there, [5] and in the East River with fewer Native Americans and a strong Scandinavian-American influence, [6] Wallace possessed generally insignificant appeal. Although he performed reasonably in some West River counties, within the more populous East River Wallace cracked half his national percentage (6.75%) only in Hyde and Sully Counties. Consequently, South Dakota proved Wallace's eighth-weakest state nationally.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Richard Nixon | 149,841 | 53.27% | |
Democratic | Hubert Humphrey | 118,023 | 41.96% | |
Independent | George Wallace | 13,400 | 4.76% | |
Total votes | 281,264 | 100% |
County [7] | Richard Milhous Nixon Republican |
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Democratic |
George Corley Wallace Independent |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Aurora | 1,043 | 46.71% | 1,060 | 47.47% | 130 | 5.82% | -17 | -0.76% | 2,233 |
Beadle | 4,214 | 42.66% | 5,357 | 54.23% | 307 | 3.11% | -1,143 | -11.57% | 9,878 |
Bennett | 665 | 53.93% | 457 | 37.06% | 111 | 9.00% | 208 | 16.87% | 1,233 |
Bon Homme | 2,411 | 55.01% | 1,773 | 40.45% | 199 | 4.54% | 638 | 14.56% | 4,383 |
Brookings | 4,674 | 57.84% | 3,202 | 39.62% | 205 | 2.54% | 1,472 | 18.22% | 8,081 |
Brown | 6,685 | 45.95% | 7,302 | 50.20% | 560 | 3.85% | -617 | -4.24% | 14,547 |
Brule | 1,237 | 43.94% | 1,425 | 50.62% | 153 | 5.44% | -188 | -6.68% | 2,815 |
Buffalo | 261 | 47.11% | 265 | 47.83% | 28 | 5.05% | -4 | -0.72% | 554 |
Butte | 2,090 | 63.28% | 1,017 | 30.79% | 196 | 5.93% | 1,073 | 32.49% | 3,303 |
Campbell | 1,216 | 79.27% | 245 | 15.97% | 73 | 4.76% | 971 | 63.30% | 1,534 |
Charles Mix | 2,093 | 44.77% | 2,369 | 50.67% | 213 | 4.56% | -276 | -5.90% | 4,675 |
Clark | 1,596 | 52.50% | 1,325 | 43.59% | 119 | 3.91% | 271 | 8.91% | 3,040 |
Clay | 2,249 | 51.28% | 2,006 | 45.74% | 131 | 2.99% | 243 | 5.54% | 4,386 |
Codington | 3,929 | 46.49% | 4,235 | 50.11% | 288 | 3.41% | -306 | -3.62% | 8,452 |
Corson | 1,108 | 55.15% | 821 | 40.87% | 80 | 3.98% | 287 | 14.29% | 2,009 |
Custer | 1,143 | 55.38% | 727 | 35.22% | 194 | 9.40% | 416 | 20.16% | 2,064 |
Davison | 3,869 | 50.12% | 3,585 | 46.44% | 265 | 3.43% | 284 | 3.68% | 7,719 |
Day | 2,062 | 43.81% | 2,463 | 52.33% | 182 | 3.87% | -401 | -8.52% | 4,707 |
Deuel | 1,398 | 53.26% | 1,076 | 40.99% | 151 | 5.75% | 322 | 12.27% | 2,625 |
Dewey | 941 | 52.72% | 721 | 40.39% | 123 | 6.89% | 220 | 12.32% | 1,785 |
Douglas | 1,613 | 70.68% | 592 | 25.94% | 77 | 3.37% | 1,021 | 44.74% | 2,282 |
Edmunds | 1,534 | 52.18% | 1,225 | 41.67% | 181 | 6.16% | 309 | 10.51% | 2,940 |
Fall River | 1,843 | 59.57% | 965 | 31.19% | 286 | 9.24% | 878 | 28.38% | 3,094 |
Faulk | 997 | 49.48% | 819 | 40.65% | 199 | 9.88% | 178 | 8.83% | 2,015 |
Grant | 2,259 | 51.81% | 1,890 | 43.35% | 211 | 4.84% | 369 | 8.46% | 4,360 |
Gregory | 1,810 | 54.40% | 1,266 | 38.05% | 251 | 7.54% | 544 | 16.35% | 3,327 |
Haakon | 759 | 60.96% | 377 | 30.28% | 109 | 8.76% | 382 | 30.68% | 1,245 |
Hamlin | 1,649 | 56.36% | 1,149 | 39.27% | 128 | 4.37% | 500 | 17.09% | 2,926 |
Hand | 1,650 | 54.78% | 1,136 | 37.72% | 226 | 7.50% | 514 | 17.07% | 3,012 |
Hanson | 901 | 50.08% | 826 | 45.91% | 72 | 4.00% | 75 | 4.17% | 1,799 |
Harding | 564 | 63.02% | 266 | 29.72% | 65 | 7.26% | 298 | 33.30% | 895 |
Hughes | 3,204 | 61.46% | 1,666 | 31.96% | 343 | 6.58% | 1,538 | 29.50% | 5,213 |
Hutchinson | 3,544 | 69.07% | 1,412 | 27.52% | 175 | 3.41% | 2,132 | 41.55% | 5,131 |
Hyde | 713 | 53.81% | 499 | 37.66% | 113 | 8.53% | 214 | 16.15% | 1,325 |
Jackson | 480 | 56.80% | 267 | 31.60% | 98 | 11.60% | 213 | 25.21% | 845 |
Jerauld | 1,002 | 55.57% | 745 | 41.32% | 56 | 3.11% | 257 | 14.25% | 1,803 |
Jones | 562 | 55.75% | 358 | 35.52% | 88 | 8.73% | 204 | 20.24% | 1,008 |
Kingsbury | 2,300 | 58.42% | 1,491 | 37.87% | 146 | 3.71% | 809 | 20.55% | 3,937 |
Lake | 2,876 | 53.68% | 2,294 | 42.81% | 188 | 3.51% | 582 | 10.86% | 5,358 |
Lawrence | 4,185 | 60.23% | 2,425 | 34.90% | 338 | 4.86% | 1,760 | 25.33% | 6,948 |
Lincoln | 3,259 | 59.89% | 1,961 | 36.03% | 222 | 4.08% | 1,298 | 23.85% | 5,442 |
Lyman | 1,063 | 57.87% | 643 | 35.00% | 131 | 7.13% | 420 | 22.86% | 1,837 |
Marshall | 1,471 | 47.01% | 1,518 | 48.51% | 140 | 4.47% | -47 | -1.50% | 3,129 |
McCook | 1,959 | 51.55% | 1,653 | 43.50% | 188 | 4.95% | 306 | 8.05% | 3,800 |
McPherson | 2,105 | 80.34% | 389 | 14.85% | 126 | 4.81% | 1,716 | 65.50% | 2,620 |
Meade | 2,392 | 56.19% | 1,522 | 35.75% | 343 | 8.06% | 870 | 20.44% | 4,257 |
Mellette | 611 | 55.70% | 407 | 37.10% | 79 | 7.20% | 204 | 18.60% | 1,097 |
Miner | 1,045 | 43.69% | 1,255 | 52.47% | 92 | 3.85% | -210 | -8.78% | 2,392 |
Minnehaha | 20,141 | 53.31% | 16,462 | 43.57% | 1,177 | 3.12% | 3,679 | 9.74% | 37,780 |
Moody | 1,689 | 48.87% | 1,614 | 46.70% | 153 | 4.43% | 75 | 2.17% | 3,456 |
Pennington | 9,671 | 53.29% | 7,303 | 40.24% | 1,174 | 6.47% | 2,368 | 13.05% | 18,148 |
Perkins | 1,498 | 60.38% | 869 | 35.03% | 114 | 4.59% | 629 | 25.35% | 2,481 |
Potter | 1,273 | 57.81% | 780 | 35.42% | 149 | 6.77% | 493 | 22.39% | 2,202 |
Roberts | 2,225 | 42.68% | 2,651 | 50.85% | 337 | 6.46% | -426 | -8.17% | 5,213 |
Sanborn | 1,024 | 49.71% | 956 | 46.41% | 80 | 3.88% | 68 | 3.30% | 2,060 |
Shannon | 533 | 29.68% | 1,202 | 66.93% | 61 | 3.40% | -669 | -37.25% | 1,796 |
Spink | 2,068 | 42.08% | 2,669 | 54.30% | 178 | 3.62% | -601 | -12.23% | 4,915 |
Stanley | 572 | 51.58% | 439 | 39.59% | 98 | 8.84% | 133 | 11.99% | 1,109 |
Sully | 676 | 60.09% | 356 | 31.64% | 93 | 8.27% | 320 | 28.44% | 1,125 |
Todd | 683 | 38.78% | 987 | 56.05% | 91 | 5.17% | -304 | -17.26% | 1,761 |
Tripp | 2,242 | 58.25% | 1,362 | 35.39% | 245 | 6.37% | 880 | 22.86% | 3,849 |
Turner | 3,246 | 67.61% | 1,350 | 28.12% | 205 | 4.27% | 1,896 | 39.49% | 4,801 |
Union | 2,212 | 49.70% | 2,014 | 45.25% | 225 | 5.06% | 198 | 4.45% | 4,451 |
Walworth | 2,204 | 60.19% | 1,276 | 34.84% | 182 | 4.97% | 928 | 25.34% | 3,662 |
Washabaugh | 224 | 49.89% | 203 | 45.21% | 22 | 4.90% | 21 | 4.68% | 449 |
Yankton | 3,977 | 56.08% | 2,733 | 38.54% | 382 | 5.39% | 1,244 | 17.54% | 7,092 |
Ziebach | 449 | 52.58% | 350 | 40.98% | 55 | 6.44% | 99 | 11.59% | 854 |
Totals | 149,841 | 53.27% | 118,023 | 41.96% | 13,400 | 4.76% | 31,818 | 11.31% | 281,264 |