ocr: A Close Election. Inl the 1968 presidential election, despite winning the electoralvote by a comfortable margin, Hichard Nixon won the popular vote by just over 500,000 votes. Election results-Nixon: 301 electoral - votes and43.4 percent of the popular vote. Humphrey:191 electoralvotes and42.7percent of the popular vote. wallace:4belectoral votes (North Carolina castone electoral vote for Wallace)and13.5 percent of the popular vote. Other parties:0.3 percent of the popular vote.
