page_title: Electoral history of Eugene McCarthy
section_title: 1968 presidential election
hierarchical_section_title: Electoral history of Eugene McCarthy / 1968 presidential election
caption_attribution_description: 1968 Democratic presidential primaries
context_page_description: Electoral history of Eugene McCarthy, United States Senator and Congressman from Minnesota. He was a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
  McCarthy was also a candidate for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination, coming first in the primaries. He later ran for President four times.
context_section_description: New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, 1968:
  Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 27,520 (49.62%)
  Eugene McCarthy - 23,263 (41.94%)
  Richard Nixon - 2,532 (4.57%)
  Robert F. Kennedy - 606 (1.09%)
  Paul C. Fisher - 506 (0.91%)
  Nelson Rockefeller - 249 (0.45%)
  George Wallace - 201 (0.36%)
  New Hampshire Democratic vice presidential primary, 1968:
  Hubert Humphrey (inc.) - 7,622 (56.25%)
  Robert F. Kennedy - 2,833 (20.91%)
  Eugene McCarthy - 1,105 (8.16%)
  Paul C. Fisher - 858 (6.33%)
  Lyndon B. Johnson - 385 (2.84%)
  Claude R. Kirk, Jr. - 339 (2.50%)
  John A. Volpe - 205 (1.51%)
  Richard Nixon - 159 (1.17%)
  George Wallace - 44 (0.33%)
  Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary, 1968:
  Eugene McCarthy - 412,160 (56.23%)
  Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 253,696 (34.61%)
  Robert F. Kennedy - 46,507 (6.35%)
  None of These Candidates - 11,861 (1.62%)
  George Wallace - 4,031 (0.55%)
  Hubert Humphrey - 3,605 (0.49%)
  Scattering - 1,142 (0.16%)
  Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary, 1968:
  Eugene McCarthy - 428,891 (71.49%)
  Robert F. Kennedy - 65,430 (10.91%)
  Hubert Humphrey - 51,998 (8.67%)
  George Wallace - 24,147 (4.03%)
  Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 21,265 (3.54%)
  Richard Nixon - 3,434 (0.57%)
  Others - 2,556 (0.43%)
  Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary, 1968:
  Eugene McCarthy - 122,697 (49.30%)
  Robert F. Kennedy - 68,604 (27.56%)
  Hubert Humphrey - 44,156 (17.74%)
  Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 6,890 (2.77%)
  Nelson Rockefeller - 2,275 (0.91%)
  George Wallace - 1,688 (0.68%)
  Others - 2,593 (1.04%)
  Indiana Democratic presidential primary, 1968:
  Robert F. Kennedy - 328,118 (42.26%)
  Roger D. Branigin - 238,700 (30.74%)
  Eugene McCarthy - 209,695 (27.01%)
  Nebraska Democratic presidential primary, 1968:
  Robert F. Kennedy - 84,102 (51.72%)
  Eugene McCarthy - 50,655 (31.15%)
  Hubert Humphrey - 12,087 (7.43%)
  Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 9,187 (5.65%)
  Richard Nixon - 2,731 (1.68%)
  Ronald Reagan - 1,905 (1.17%)
  George Wallace - 1,298 (0.80%)
  Others - 646 (0.40%)
  Florida Democratic presidential primary, 1968:
  George Smathers - 236,242 (46.11%)
  Eugene McCarthy - 147,216 (28.73%)
  Scott Kelly - 128,899 (25.16%)
  Oregon Democratic presidential primary, 1968:
  Eugene McCarthy - 163,990 (43.96%)
  Robert F. Kennedy - 141,631 (37.96%)
  Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 45,174 (12.11%)
  Hubert Humphrey - 12,421 (3.33%)
  Ronald Reagan - 3,082 (0.83%)
  Richard Nixon - 2,974 (0.80%)
  Nelson Rockefeller - 2,841 (0.76%)
  George Wallace - 957 (0.26%)
  South Dakota Democratic presidential primary, 1968:
  Robert F. Kennedy - 31,826 (49.51%)
  Lyndon B. Johnson - 19,316 (30.05%)
  Eugene McCarthy - 13,145 (20.45%)
  New Jersey Democratic presidential primary, 1968:
  Eugene McCarthy - 9,906 (36.09%)
  Robert F. Kennedy - 8,603 (31.35%)
  Hubert Humphrey - 5,578 (20.32%)
  George Wallace - 1,399 (5.10%)
  Richard Nixon - 1,364 (4.97%)
  Others - 596 (2.17%)
  California Democratic presidential primary, 1968:
  Robert F. Kennedy - 1,472,166 (46.27%)
  Eugene McCarthy - 1,329,301 (41.78%)
  Thomas C. Lynch - 380,286 (11.95%)
  Illinois Democratic presidential primary, 1968:
  Eugene McCarthy - 4,646 (38.59%)
  Ted Kennedy - 4,052 (33.66%)
  Hubert Humphrey - 2,059 (17.10%)
  George Wallace - 768 (6.38%)
  Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 162 (1.35%)
  Others - 351 (2.92%)
  1968 Democratic presidential primaries:
  Eugene McCarthy - 2,914,933 (38.73%)
  Robert F. Kennedy - 2,305,148 (30.63%)
  Stephen M. Young - 549,140 (7.30%)
  Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) - 383,590 (5.10%)
  Thomas C. Lynch - 380,286 (5.05%)
  Roger D. Branigin - 238,700 (3.17%)
  George Smathers - 236,242 (3.14%)
  Hubert Humphrey - 166,463 (2.21%)
  Unpledged - 161,143 (2.14%)
  Scott Kelly - 128,899 (1.71%)
  George Wallace - 34,489 (0.46%)
  1968 Democratic National Convention (presidential tally): 
  Hubert Humphrey - 1,760 (67.43%)
  Eugene McCarthy - 601 (23.03%)
  George McGovern - 147 (5.63%)
  Channing E. Phillips - 68 (2.61%)
  Daniel K. Moore - 18 (0.69%)
  Ted Kennedy - 13 (0.50%)
  Paul Bryant - 1 (0.04%)
  James H. Gray - 1 (0.04%)
  George Wallace - 1 (0.04%)
  1968 Democratic National Convention (vice presidential tally):
  Edmund Muskie - 1,945 (74.01%)
  Abstaining - 605 (23.02%)
  Julian Bond - 49 (1.87%)
  David C.
caption: 1968 Democratic primary results by state
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