Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Richard Nixon Republican The 1968 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 5, 1968.

Voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.

Wallace's strongest support came from the Missouri Bootheel, with its significant rural black population and powerful cultural and geographic ties to Kentucky's Jackson Purchase, the Arkansas Delta and West Tennessee.

[1] He carried the state's southeasternmost county, Pemiscot, and ran second ahead of Nixon in two others nearby.

Nixon overcame Humphrey's 85,000-vote margin in St. Louis by dominating the state's interior and holding his deficit to Humphrey in Jackson County, where most of Kansas City is located, to 21,000 votes.