Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Richard Nixon Republican The 1968 United States presidential election in Oklahoma took place on November 5, 1968.
[1] Nixon was the first Republican to ever carry Marshall County.
Wallace’s performance is the second-best by a third-party candidate in Oklahoma,[2] behind Ross Perot in 1992.
Oklahoma was also Wallace's best performance in a state that had not been a part of the Confederacy.
The Wallace pluralities in Atoka and Pushmataha Counties in the southeast marked the only occasion that a third-party candidate has ever carried any Oklahoma county.