1968 United States elections

1968 United States elections
← electoral votes won by each candidate.
Senate elections
Overall control	Democratic hold
Seats contested	34 of 100 seats
Net seat change	Republican +5
	1968 Senate results Democratic gain Democratic hold; Republican gain Republican hold
House elections
Overall control	Democratic hold
Seats contested	All 435 voting members
Popular vote margin	Democratic +1.7%
Net seat change	Republican +5
	1968 House of Representatives results Democratic gain Democratic hold; Republican gain Republican hold
Gubernatorial elections
Seats contested	22 (21 states, 1 territory)
Net seat change	Republican +5
	1968 gubernatorial election results; Territorial races not shown Democratic gain Democratic hold; Republican gain Republican hold

The 1968 United States elections were held on November 5, and elected members of the

assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, and the protests of 1968. The Republican Party won control of the presidency, and picked up seats in the House and Senate, although the Democratic Party retained control of Congress.^[1]

In the presidential election, Republican former

Democratic nomination over Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy and South Dakota Senator George McGovern at the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention. Nixon won the Republican nomination over New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and California Governor Ronald Reagan. As of 2022, Wallace is the most recent third-party candidate to win a state's entire share of electoral votes. Nixon became the first former (non-sitting) vice president to win a presidential election; he was the only person to achieve that until former Vice President Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election

The Republican Party won a net gain of five seats in both the House and the Senate. However, the Democratic Party retained strong majorities in both houses of Congress. In the gubernatorial elections, the Republican Party picked up a net gain of five governorships. This was the second consecutive election where the winning presidential party had coattails in both houses of Congress and the first for Republicans since 1952.

This was the first of two times since 1889 that a newly elected President's party failed to control either house of Congress.

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