Electoral history of George Wallace, 45th governor of Alabama (1963–1967, 1971–1979, 1983–1987), 1968 American Independent Party presidential nominee and candidate for 1964, 1972 and 1976 Democratic Party presidential nomination
Alabama House of Representatives, 1946, Barbour County, Second Representative[1]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Democratic
George Wallace
1,526
100%
Governor of Alabama, 1958, Democratic primary[2]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Democratic
John M. Patterson
196,859
31.8%
Democratic
George Wallace
162,435
26.3%
Democratic
Jimmy Faulkner
91,512
14.8%
Democratic
A. W. Todd
59,240
9.6%
Democratic
Laurie C. Battle
38,955
6.3%
Democratic
George Hawkins
24,332
3.9%
None
Others
45,349
Governor of Alabama, 1958, Democratic primary runoff[3]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Democratic
John M. Patterson
315,353
55.7%
Democratic
George Wallace
250,451
44.3%
Governor of Alabama, 1962, Democratic primary[4]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Democratic
George Wallace
207,062
32.5%
Democratic
Ryan DeGraffenried Sr.
160,704
25.2%
Democratic
Jim Folsom
159,640
25.1%
Democratic
MacDonald Gallion
80,374
12.6%
Democratic
Bull Connor
23,019
3.6%
Democratic
J. Bruce Henderson
3,666
0.6%
Democratic
Wayne Jennings
1,946
0.31
Democratic
Albert Boutwell
862
0.1
Governor of Alabama, 1962, Democratic primary runoff[4]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Democratic
George Wallace
340,730
55.9%
Democratic
Ryan DeGraffenried Sr.
269,122
44.1%
Governor of Alabama, 1962[5]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Democratic
George Wallace
303,987
96.27%
Independent
Frank P. Walls
11,789
3.7%
1964 California Democratic Party presidential primary:[6]
Pat Brown – 1,693,813(27.26%)
Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) – 1,106,999 (17.82%)
Sam Yorty – 798,431 (12.85%)
George Wallace – 672,984 (10.83%)
John W. Reynolds – 522,405 (8.41%)
Albert S. Porter – 493,619 (7.94%)
Matthew E. Welsch – 376,023 (6.05%)
Daniel Brewster – 267,106 (4.30%)
Jennings Randolph – 131,432 (2.12%)
Unpledged delegates – 81,614 (1.31%)
Robert F. Kennedy – 36,258 (0.58%)
Total primaries popular vote
1968 Democratic presidential primaries:[7]
Eugene McCarthy – 2,914,933(38.73%)
Robert F. Kennedy – 2,305,148 (30.63%)
Stephen M. Young – 549,140 (7.30%)
Lyndon B. Johnson (inc.) – 383,590 (5.10%)
Thomas C. Lynch – 380,286 (5.05%)
Roger D. Branigin – 238,700 (3.17%)
George Smathers – 236,242 (3.14%)
Hubert Humphrey – 166,463 (2.21%)
Unpledged delegates – 161,143 (2.14%)
Scott Kelly – 128,899 (1.71%)
George Wallace – 34,489 (0.46%)
1968 Democratic National Convention (presidential tally):[8]
Hubert Humphrey – 1,760(67.43%)
Eugene McCarthy – 601 (23.03%)
George McGovern – 147 (5.63%)
Channing E. Phillips – 68 (2.61%)
Daniel K. Moore – 18 (0.69%)
Ted Kennedy – 13 (0.50%)
Paul Bryant – 1 (0.04%)
James H. Gray – 1 (0.04%)
George Wallace – 1 (0.04%)
1968 United States presidential election
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Republican
Richard Nixon/ Spiro Agnew
31,783,783
43.4%
Democratic
Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie
31,271,839
42.7%
American Independent
George Wallace/Curtis LeMay
9,901,118
13.5%
Independent
Eugene McCarthy
25,634
0%
None
Others
243,258
0.3%
Governor of Alabama, 1970, Democratic primary[9]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Democratic
Albert Brewer (incumbent)
428,146
42.0%
Democratic
George Wallace
416,443
40.8%
Democratic
Charles Woods
149,987
14.7%
Democratic
Asa Carter
15,441
1.5%
Democratic
Jim Folsom
4,123
0.4%
Democratic
Coleman Brown
2,836
0.3%
Democratic
Ralph "Shorty" Price
2,804
0.3%
Governor of Alabama, 1970, Democratic primary runoff[10]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Democratic
George Wallace
559,832
51.6%
Democratic
Albert Brewer (incumbent)
525,951
48.4%
Governor of Alabama, 1970[11]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Democratic
George Wallace
637,046
74.5%
National Democratic (Ala.)
John Cashin
125,491
14.7%
Independent
A.C. Walker
75,679
8.9%
Prohibition
Jerome B. Couch
9,705
1.14%
Independent
Menter G. Walker
3,534
0.4%
Whig
John Watts
3,497
0.4%
Total primaries popular vote
1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries:[12]
Hubert Humphrey – 4,121,372(25.77%)
George McGovern – 4,053,451 (25.34%)
George Wallace – 3,755,424 (23.48%)
Edmund Muskie – 1,840,217 (11.51%)
Eugene McCarthy – 553,990 (3.46%)
Henry M. Jackson – 505,198 (3.16%)
Shirley Chisholm – 430,703 (2.69%)
Terry Sanford – 331,415 (2.07%)
John V. Lindsay – 196,406 (1.23%)
Sam Yorty – 79,446 (0.50%)
Wilbur Mills – 37,401 (0.23%)
Walter Fauntroy – 21,217 (0.13%)
Unpledged delegates – 19,533 (0.12%)
Ted Kennedy – 16,693 (0.10%)
Vance Hartke – 11,798 (0.07%)
Patsy Mink – 8,286 (0.05%)
1972 Democratic National Convention (presidential tally):[13]
George McGovern – 1,729(57.37%)
Henry M. Jackson – 525 (17.42%)
George Wallace – 382 (12.67%)
Shirley Chisholm – 152 (5.04%)
Terry Sanford – 78 (2.59%)
Hubert Humphrey – 67 (2.22%)
Wilbur Mills – 34 (1.13%)
Edmund Muskie – 25 (0.83%)
Ted Kennedy – 13 (0.43%)
Wayne L. Hays – 5 (0.17%)
Eugene McCarthy – 2 (0.07%)
Ramsey Clark – 1 (0.03%)
Walter Mondale – 1 (0.03%)
1972 Democratic National Convention (vice presidential tally):[14]
Thomas Eagleton – 1,742(59.07%)
Frances Farenthold – 405 (13.73%)
Mike Gravel – 226 (7.66%)
Endicott Peabody – 108 (3.66%)
Clay Smothers – 74 (2.51%)
Birch Bayh – 62 (2.10%)
Peter Rodino – 57 (1.93%)
Jimmy Carter – 30 (1.02%)
Shirley Chisholm – 20 (0.68%)
Moon Landrieu – 19 (0.64%)
Edward T. Breathitt – 18 (0.61%)
Ted Kennedy – 15 (0.51%)
Fred R. Harris – 14 (0.48%)
Richard G. Hatcher – 11 (0.37%)
Harold E. Hughes – 10 (0.34%)
Joseph M. Montoya – 9 (0.31%)
William L. Guy – 8 (0.27%)
Adlai Stevenson III – 8 (0.27%)
Robert Bergland – 5 (0.17%)
Hodding Carter – 5 (0.17%)
Cesar Chavez – 5 (0.17%)
Wilbur Mills – 5 (0.17%)
Wendell Anderson – 4 (0.14%)
Stanley Arnold – 4 (0.14%)
Ron Dellums – 4 (0.14%)
John J. Houlihan – 4 (0.14%)
Roberto A. Mondragon – 4 (0.14%)
Reubin O'Donovan Askew – 3 (0.10%)
Herman Badillo – 3 (0.10%)
Eugene McCarthy – 3 (0.10%)
Claiborne Pell – 3 (0.10%)
Terry Sanford – 3 (0.10%)
Ramsey Clark – 2 (0.07%)
Richard J. Daley – 2 (0.07%)
John DeCarlo – 2 (0.07%)
Ernest Gruening – 2 (0.07%)
Roger Mudd – 2 (0.07%)
Edmund Muskie – 2 (0.07%)
Claude Pepper – 2 (0.07%)
Abraham Ribicoff – 2 (0.07%)
Pat Taylor – 2 (0.07%)
Leonard F. Woodcock – 2 (0.07%)
Bruno Agnoli – 2 (0.07%)
Ernest Albright – 1 (0.03%)
William A. Barrett – 1 (0.03%)
Daniel Berrigan – 1 (0.03%)
Phillip Berrigan – 1 (0.03%)
Julian Bond – 1 (0.03%)
Hargrove Bowles – 1 (0.03%)
Archibald Burton – 1 (0.03%)
Phillip Burton – 1 (0.03%)
William Chappell – 1 (0.03%)
Lawton Chiles – 1 (0.03%)
Frank Church – 1 (0.03%)
Robert Drinan – 1 (0.03%)
Nick Galifianakis – 1 (0.03%)
John Goodrich – 1 (0.03%)
Michael Griffin – 1 (0.03%)
Martha Griffiths – 1 (0.03%)
Charles Hamilton – 1 (0.03%)
Patricia Harris – 1 (0.03%)
Jim Hunt – 1 (0.03%)
Daniel Inouye – 1 (0.03%)
Henry M. Jackson – 1 (0.03%)
Robery Kariss – 1 (0.03%)
Allard K. Lowenstein – 1 (0.03%)
Mao Zedong – 1 (0.03%)
Eleanor McGovern – 1 (0.03%)
Martha Mitchell – 1 (0.03%)
Ralph Nader – 1 (0.03%)
George Norcross – 1 (0.03%)
Jerry Rubin – 1 (0.03%)
Fred Seaman – 1 (0.03%)
Joe Smith – 1 (0.03%)
Benjamin Spock – 1 (0.03%)
Patrick Tavolacci – 1 (0.03%)
George Wallace – 1 (0.03%)
American Independent Party National Convention, 1972 (presidential tally):[15]
John G. Schmitz – 330(71.74%)
George L. Garfield – 56 (12.17%)
Allen Grear – 26 (5.65%)
Thomas J. Anderson – 24 (5.22%)
Richard B. Kay – 16 (3.48%)
George Wallace – 8 (1.74%)
Governor of Alabama, 1974, Democratic primary[16]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Democratic
George Wallace (incumbent)
536,235
64.8%
Democratic
Gene McLain
249,035
30.1%
Democratic
Jim Folsom
24,821
3%
Democratic
Ralph "Shorty" Price
9,834
1.19%
Democratic
Thomas Robinson
7,726
0.9%
Governor of Alabama, 1974[17]
Party
Candidate
Votes
%
Democratic
George Wallace (incumbent)
497,574
83.2%
Republican
Elvin McCary
88,381
14.8%
Prohibition
Jim Partain
12,350
2.1%
1976 Democratic presidential primaries:[18]
Jimmy Carter – 6,235,609(39.19%)
Jerry Brown – 2,449,374 (15.39%)
George Wallace – 1,955,388 (12.29%)
Mo Udall – 1,611,754 (10.13%)
Henry M. Jackson – 1,134,375 (7.13%)
Frank Church – 830,818 (5.22%)
Robert Byrd – 340,309 (2.14%)
Sargent Shriver – 304,399 (1.91%)
Unpledged delegates – 283,437 (1.78%)
Ellen McCormack – 238,027 (1.50%)
Fred R. Harris – 234,568 (1.47%)
Milton Shapp – 88,254 (0.56%)
Birch Bayh – 86,438 (0.54%)
Hubert Humphrey – 61,992 (0.39%)
Ted Kennedy – 19,805 (0.12%)
Arthur O. Blessitt – 8,717 (0.06%)
Lloyd Bentsen – 4,046 (0.03%)
1976 Democratic National Convention (presidential tally):[19]
Jimmy Carter – 2,239(74.48%)
Mo Udall – 330 (10.98%)
Jerry Brown – 301 (10.01%)
George Wallace – 57 (1.90%)
Ellen McCormack – 22 (0.73%)
Frank Church – 19 (0.63%)
Hubert Humphrey – 10 (0.33%)
Henry M. Jackson – 10 (0.33%)
Fred R. Harris – 9 (0.30%)
Milton Shapp – 2 (0.07%)
Robert Byrd – 1 (0.03%)
Cesar Chavez – 1 (0.03%)
Leon Jaworski – 1 (0.03%)
Barbara Jordan – 1 (0.03%)
Ted Kennedy – 1 (0.03%)
Jennings Randolph – 1 (0.03%)
Fred Stover – 1 (0.03%)
1976 Democratic National Convention (vice presidential tally):[20]
Walter Mondale – 2,817(94.28%)
Carl Albert – 36 (1.21%)
Barbara Jordan – 25 (0.84%)
Ron Dellums – 20 (0.67%)
Henry M. Jackson – 16 (0.54%)
Gary Benoit – 12 (0.40%)
Frank Church – 11 (0.37%)
Fritz Efaw – 11 (0.37%)
Peter Flaherty – 11 (0.37%)
George Wallace – 6 (0.20%)
Allard Lowenstein – 5 (0.17%)
Edmund Muskie – 4 (0.13%)
Philip Hart – 2 (0.07%)
Thomas E. Morgan – 2 (0.07%)
Mo Udall – 2 (0.07%)
Wendell Anderson – 1 (0.03%)
Al Castro – 1 (0.03%)
Fred R. Harris – 1 (0.03%)
Ernest Hollings – 1 (0.03%)
Peter Rodino – 1 (0.03%)
Daniel Schorr – 1 (0.03%)
Josephnie Smith – 1 (0.03%)
Hunter S. Thompson – 1 (0.03%)
Democratic primary for Governor of Alabama, 1982:[21]
George Wallace – 425,469(42.53%)
George McMillan – 296,271(29.62%)
Joe McCorquodale – 250,614 (25.05%)
Jim Folsom – 17,333 (1.73%)
Reuben McKinley – 10,617 (1.06%)
Democratic primary for Governor of Alabama runoff, 1982:[22]
George Wallace – 512,203(51.19%)
George McMillan – 488,444 (48.81%)
1982 Alabama gubernatorial election:[23]
George Wallace(D) – 650,538(57.64%)
Emory M. Folmar (R) – 440,815 (39.06%)
Leo Suiter (Alabama Conservative) – 17,936 (1.59%)
Henry Klingler (LBT) – 7,671 (0.68%)
John Jackson (Alabama National Democrat) – 4,693 (0.42%)
John Dyer (Prohibition) – 4,364 (0.39%)
Martin J. Boyers (Socialist Workers) – 2,578 (0.23%)
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