Johnson and Humphrey 61.1 %
Goldwater and Miller 38.5%
Johnson and Humphrey 486 electoral
Goldwater and Miller 52
MISCELLANIA
The Democrats won the State by 345,417
votes, losing only the Counties of Dor-
chester and Garrett to the Republicans.
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Nationally, Johnson won by one of the
greatest landslides in American history to
this time. In deciding not to run for another
term, Johnson followed the historic prece-
dent that no accidental president ever had
been twice elected and only two Vice Presi-
dents ever have been twice elected President
- Jefferson and Nixon.
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MEETING-Monday, December 16, 1968
(10 Electoral Votes)
PARTICIPATING POLITICAL
PARTIES IN MARYLAND
Democratic (D)
Republican (R)
American Independent (AI)
VICTORS IN MARYLAND
President & Vice President
Hubert H. Humphrey (D) and
Edmund A. Muskie-10 electoral votes
ELECTORS
Victorine Adams
M. Alice Canoles
Herbert A. Streaker
Annette Helen Wheatley
Marjorie Richter
Peggy Anderson
Joseph E. Bean
Patricia M. Banks
Esther Kominers
Thomas G. Barton
OPPOSING CANDIDATES
President & Vice President
Richard M. Nixon (R) and Spiro T. Agnew
George C. Wallace (AI) and
S. Marvin Griffin
GOVERNOR
Spiro T. Agnew (R)
Secretary of State
C. Stanley Blair
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MARYLAND ELECTION RETURNS
Humphrey and Muskie 538,310
Nixon and Agnew 517,995
Wallace and Griffin 178,734
Humphrey and Muskie 43.6 %
Nixon and Agnew 41.9%
Wallace and Griffin 14.5%
Humphrey and Muskie 10 electoral
Nixon and Agnew
Wallace and Griffin
NATIONAL ELECTION RETURNS
Nixon and Agnew 31,785,480
Humphrey and Muskie 31,275,165
Wallace and Griffin 9,906,473
Nixon and Agnew 43.4 %
Humphrey and Muskie 42.7%
Wallace and Griffin 13.5 %
Nixon and Agnew 301 electoral
Humphrey and Muskie 191
Wallace and Griffin 46
MISCELLANIA
Departing from the national trend, the
Democrats carried the State for Humphrey
by 20,315 votes with Baltimore City, Mont-
gomery and Calvert Counties.
For the second time in history a former Vice
President and an incumbent Vice President
opposed each other. Nixon's victory was
only the second time an incumbent Vice
President, seeking the White House, met
with defeat. Nixon was the first Vice Presi-
dent in more than one hundred years to enter
the Presidency by being elected.
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