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

For six decades up to 1950 South Carolina was a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party.

The Republican Party had been moribund due to the disfranchisement of blacks and the complete absence of other support bases as South Carolina completely lacked upland or German refugee whites opposed to secession.

South Carolina was the only state to swing more Democratic compared to 1964, largely due to Wallace's presence on the ballot.

[7] The result was that Wallace's support in South Carolina plummeted rapidly, although in early September the Alabama governor predicted he would carry the state,[8] an opinion backed up by early polling in mid-September.