1968 United States presidential election

Richard Nixon won 301 electoral votes to Hubert Humphrey's 191, with George Wallace's segregationist American Independent campaign taking 46, and Nixon's popular margin over Humphrey was under one percentage point. It came in a year of assassinations, riots and violent clashes at the Democratic convention, and Nixon promised to restore "law and order." Its claim to realignment, which some historians make, is that it broke the New Deal coalition in presidential voting. Many Southern Democrats defected, Wallace hurt the Democrats more than the Republicans, and Republicans won five of the six presidential elections from 1968 through 1988, losing only in 1976. Democrats kept both houses of Congress, so the shift was not total.