Richard Nixon's Election- The election was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. This was the 46th quadrennial election. Nixon was running against Democrat Hubert Humphrey, and American Independent George Wallace. This was a very tough election because of what was happening all throughout the US. Martin Luther King was just assassinated, along with JFK so the people were all rioting and the Vietnam War was going on. Of course Richard won the election but it was not by very much. Nixon had 43% of the votes and Hubert had 42% on the popular vote. Below is the election results in Shelby County. I think that this was a very important election because some say that he was one of the greatest presidents that we have ever had.
| Shelby | Humphrey | 35.7% | 2,365 | |
| Nixon | 58.6% | 3,886 | ||
| Wallace | 5.0% | 330 | ||
| Other | 0.7% | 45 |
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