- Source: 1968 United States presidential election in South Carolina
The 1968 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 5, 1968. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1968 United States presidential election. South Carolina voters chose 8 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
For six decades up to 1950 South Carolina was a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party. The Republican Party had been moribund due to the disfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as South Carolina completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession. Between 1900 and 1948, no Republican presidential candidate ever obtained more than seven percent of the total presidential vote – a vote which in 1924 reached as low as 6.6 percent of the total voting-age population or approximately 15 percent of the voting-age white population.
48% of white voters supported Nixon, 41% supported Wallace, and 12% supported Humphrey. South Carolina was the only Deep South state not to support Wallace in this election. South Carolina was the only state to swing more Democratic compared to 1964.
Campaign
Although Nixon ignored the other Deep South states because he knew that he had no chance of competing with George Wallace, in South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, believing Wallace could not win the election and that northeastern urban liberalism would continue to dominate if he endorsed Wallace, took the stump for Nixon in South Carolina. The result was that Wallace's support in South Carolina plummeted rapidly, although in early September the Alabama governor predicted he would carry the state, an opinion backed up by early polling in mid-September. Other polls, however, had the race very close between the three candidates.
Nixon himself campaigned in the state, aided by Thurmond, at the end of September.
= Predictions
=The following newspapers gave these predictions about how South Carolina would vote in the 1968 presidential election:
Results
= Results by county
=Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
Allendale
Bamberg
Beaufort
Berkeley
Calhoun
Chester
Clarendon
Dorchester
Georgetown
Hampton
Jasper
Lee
McCormick
Marion
Orangeburg
Sumter
Williamsburg
Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican
Dillon
Spartanburg
York
Counties that flipped from Democratic to American Independent
Abbeville
Anderson
Cherokee
Chesterfield
Lancaster
Oconee
Union
Counties that flipped from Republican to American Independent
Barnwell
Darlington
Greenwood
Horry
Saluda
= Results by congressional district
=Nixon won three out of six congressional districts while Wallace won two congressional districts and Humphrey won a single congressional district, 6th. Candidates are ranked in which order they performed at nationally.
Notes
References
Works cited
Black, Earl; Black, Merle (1992). The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674941306.
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