{{Infobox election | election_name = 1968 United States presidential election| country = United States | flag_year = 1960 | type = presidential | opinion_polls = Nationwide opinion polling for the 1968 United States presidential election | previous_election = 1964 United States presidential election | previous_year = 1964 | election_date = November 5, 1968 | next_election = 1972 United States presidential election | next_year = 1972 | votes_for_election = 538 members of the Electoral College | needed_votes = 270 electoral | turnout = 62.5% 0.3 pp | image_size = x180px | image1 = Richard Nixon portrait (1).jpg | nominee1 = Richard Nixon| party1 = Republican Party (United States) | home_state1 = New York | running_mate1 = Spiro Agnew| electoral_vote1 = 301| states_carried1 = 32| popular_vote1 = 31,783,783| percentage1 = | image2 = Hubert Humphrey crop.jpg | nominee2 = Hubert Humphrey | party2 = Democratic Party (United States) | home_state2 = Minnesota | running_mate2 = Edmund Muskie | electoral_vote2 = 191 | states_carried2 = 13 + DC | popular_vote2 = 31,271,839 | percentage2 = | image3 = George C Wallace.jpg | nominee3 = George Wallace | party3 = American Independent Party | home_state3 = Alabama | running_mate3 = Curtis LeMay | electoral_vote3 = 46 | states_carried3 = 5 | popular_vote3 = 9,901,118 | percentage3 = | color3 = FF7F00 | map_size = 350px | map = | map_caption = Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Nixon/Agnew, blue denotes those won by Humphrey/Muskie, and orange denotes those won by Wallace/LeMay, including a North Carolina faithless elector. Numbers indicate electoral votes cast by each state. | title = President | before_election = Lyndon B. Johnson | before_party = Democratic Party (United States) | after_election = Richard Nixon | after_party = Republican Party (United States) | ongoing = }} The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated both the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace. Incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson had been the early front-runner for the Democratic Party's nomination, but he withdrew from the race after only narrowly winning the New Hampshire primary. Eugene McCarthy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Humphrey emerged as the three major candidates in the Democratic primaries, until Kennedy was assassinated. His death after midnight on June