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Parents > United States > Pennsylvania > President
Parent RaceUS President - D Primaries
OfficePresident
HonorificPresident - Abbr: President
TypeDemocratic Primary Election
Filing Deadline 00, 1968 - 12:00pm Central
Polls Open April 23, 1968 - 12:00am Central
Polls Close April 23, 1968 - 12:00pm Central
Term Start January 20, 1969 - 12:00pm
Term End January 20, 1973 - 12:00pm
ContributorThomas Walker
Last ModifiedIndyGeorgia November 28, 2010 07:23pm
Data SourcesPennsylvania Manual 1969, p. 665.

The Philadelphia certified numbers give McCarthy 83,217 votes, or 533 more than the Manual credits him with. McCarthy's certified statewide total of 428,259 uses the lower vote for McCarthy.

Kennedy's certified total of 65,430 is 102 more than the sum of his counties.

Reagan's certified total was 322; five votes for him in Chester County were left off the SOS table in the Manual.
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LAST GENERAL ELECTION
  PartyDemocratic Won11/03/1964
NameLyndon B. Johnson Votes3,130,954 (64.92%)
Term01/20/1965 - 01/20/1969 Margin1,457,297 (+30.22%)
NEXT GENERAL ELECTION
  PartyDemocratic Won11/05/1968
NameHubert H. Humphrey, Jr. Votes2,259,405 (47.59%)
Term01/20/1969 - 01/20/1973 Margin169,388 (+3.57%)
NEXT GENERAL ELECTION
RacePA US President 11/05/1968

CANDIDATES
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Name Sen. Eugene J. "Gene" McCarthy (W) Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (W) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. (W) Gov. George C. Wallace (I) (W) President Lyndon B. Johnson (W) Vice President Richard M. Nixon (W) Others
PartyDemocratic Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic Democratic
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Uncertified Votes 428,891 (71.49%) 65,430 (10.91%) 51,998 (8.67%) 24,147 (4.03%) 21,265 (3.54%) 3,434 (0.57%) 2,556 (0.43%)
Margin0 (0.00%) -363,461 (-60.58%) -376,893 (-62.82%) -404,744 (-67.46%) -407,626 (-67.94%) -425,457 (-70.91%) -426,335 (-71.06%)
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Name (W) Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller (W) Gov. Ronald Reagan (W) Gov. Raymond P. Shafer  
PartyDemocratic Democratic Democratic  
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Uncertified Votes 1,897 (0.32%) 327 (0.06%) 21 (0.00%)  
Margin-426,994 (-71.17%) -428,564 (-71.43%) -428,870 (-71.48%)  
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