• Source: 1968 United States presidential election in Virginia

      • The 1968 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 5, 1968. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1968 United States presidential election. Virginia voters chose twelve electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States.
      For over sixty years Virginia had had the most restricted electorate in the United States due to a cumulative poll tax and literacy tests. Virginia would be almost entirely controlled by the conservative Democratic Byrd Organization for four decades, although during the Organization's last twenty years of controlling the state it would direct many Virginia voters away from the national Democratic Party due to opposition to black civil rights and to the fiscal liberalism of the New Deal. After the Twenty-Fourth Amendment and Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections the state's electorate would substantially expand since the lower classes were no longer burdened by poll taxes. At the same time, the postwar Republican trend of the Northeast-aligned Washington D.C. and Richmond suburbs, which had begun as early as 1944, would accelerate and become intensified by the mobilisation of working-class Piedmont whites against a national Democratic Party strongly associated with black interests.


      Campaign


      51% of white voters supported Nixon, 28% supported Wallace, and 21% supported Humphrey. The Virginia Conservative Party, a pro-segregationist political party in a 1967 party convention unanimously named George Wallace as president and Ronald Reagan as vice president. Neither Wallace nor Reagan wanted to be on their ticket. Wallace did not like the idea as he thought it would take away votes from his party and efforts were made to remove them with it eventually being successful but the Conservative Party did support Wallace in the end.


      = Predictions

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      The following newspapers gave these predictions about how Virginia would vote in the 1968 presidential election:


      Analysis


      Virginia was won by Republican nominee and former Vice President Richard Nixon of California with 43.41 percent of the vote, against incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota with 32.53 percent and former Alabama Governor George Wallace who gained 23.55 percent. Nixon also won the national election with 43.42 percent of the vote. Regardless, all candidates had strong regional support in the state; Nixon's votes came mostly from Northern Virginia and the Appalachian Mountain areas, while Humphrey's votes were mainly from the Tidewater region and unionized coal counties in Southwest Virginia, which had both benefited from increased voter registration under the Voting Rights Act and been centres of opposition to the Byrd Organization in previous generations. Wallace received his core support in the Southern Virginia counties, where the core of Byrd machine power had been located.
      As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last occasion when Powhatan County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. It is also the last occasion when Lunenburg County, Mecklenburg County and Pittsylvania County have not voted for the Republican nominee. Essex County would not vote Democratic again until 1996, and James City County would not vote Democratic again until 2020.
      Nixon's victory was the first of ten consecutive Republican victories in the state, as Virginia would not vote for a Democratic candidate again until Barack Obama in 2008. Since 2008, Virginia has consistently voted for the Democratic presidential candidate.


      Results




      = Results by county or independent city

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      Counties and Independent Cities that flipped from Democratic to Republican




      Counties and independent cities that flipped from Republican to Democratic


      Cumberland
      Essex
      Northampton
      Powhatan
      Sussex


      Counties and independent cities that flipped from Democratic to American Independent


      Accomack
      Bedford
      Chesapeake
      Dinwiddie
      Franklin
      Henry
      Isle of Wight
      Southampton


      Counties and independent cities that flipped from Republican to American Independent


      Brunswick
      Buckingham
      Charlotte
      Halifax
      Lunenburg
      Mecklenburg
      Nottoway
      Pittsylvania
      Prince George


      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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