Analysts have argued the election of 1968 was a major realigning election as it permanently disrupted the New Deal coalition that had dominated presidential politics since 1932. Incumbent president Lyndon B.
Nixon was the last person to win an election while losing his home state (Nixon lost his home state of New York) until Donald Trump in 2016. ==Historical background== In the election of 1964, incumbent Democrat United States President Lyndon B.
Wallace won five states in the Deep South and ran well in some ethnic enclave industrial districts in the North; he is the most recent third party candidate to win one or more states. This was the first presidential election after passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which had resulted in growing restoration and enforcement of the franchise for racial minorities, especially in the South, where most had been disenfranchised since the turn of the century.
The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968.
Analysts have argued the election of 1968 was a major realigning election as it permanently disrupted the New Deal coalition that had dominated presidential politics since 1932. Incumbent president Lyndon B.
Nixon was the last person to win an election while losing his home state (Nixon lost his home state of New York) until Donald Trump in 2016. ==Historical background== In the election of 1964, incumbent Democrat United States President Lyndon B.
In addition, he became the first non-incumbent vice president to be elected president, a feat that was not repeated until 2020, when Joe Biden was elected president.
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