Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Richard Nixon Republican The 1968 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the 1968 United States presidential election.

Minnesota was won by the Democratic Party candidate, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the home-state favorite, won the state over former Vice President Richard Nixon by 199,095 votes, giving him one of his fourteen victories in the election (13 states plus D.C.).

The American candidate, former Alabama governor George Wallace, failed to make a substantial impact in Minnesota, as his base of support was primarily in the Deep South.

The election permanently disrupted the New Deal Coalition, which had been dominant in presidential politics since 1932.

Until 2016, this was the last presidential election in Minnesota where any county was won with over seventy percent of the popular vote.