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1968
| Presidential / Vice presidential candidates | Popular votes | Presidential Electoral votes |
| Richard M. Nixon / Spiro T. Agnew (Republican) | 31,710,470 | 301 |
| Hubert H. Humphrey / Edmund S. Muskie (Democratic) | 31,209,677 | 191 |
| George C. Wallace / Curtis E. LeMay (American Independent) | 9,893,952 | 46 |
Democratic vice presidential incumbent Humphrey became presidential nominee only after incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson dropped out of the race and New York senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. Republican Nixon won the nomination on the second ballot.
1972
| Presidential / Vice presidential candidates | Popular votes | Presidential Electoral votes |
| Richard M. Nixon / Spiro T. Agnew (Republican) | 47,108,459 | 520 |
| George S. McGovern / R. Sargent Shriver (Democratic) | 29,084,726 | 17 |
Democrat McGovern won the nomination on the second ballot; Alabama governor George C. Wallace, an early Democratic challenger for the nomination, lost ground after being wounded in an assassination attempt on May 15, 1972.
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